a C43UEKL “y rT gph- Che University of Chicago FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER The Laying of the Corner Stone William Rainey Harper Memorial Library Ten o'clock June Fourteenth, Nineteen Hundred Ten Hebraic-minded in Teutonic frame, Great toiler, builder great, and greater friend, Creative hope, aspiring like a flame, Wielder of power to power’s most noble end, Live! live in us, brave spirit, teaching still The broader vision and the braver act. And in that valley of the staff and rod, Teach us the hero's will, Who smiles from lips by human anguish racked, And dies firm-trusting in a human God. —E. H. Lewis, Ph.D.’94 WA 1 heyy se uh 1+ ey ¢ ‘ 4 a, i? AD wut Vis ee ee The Procession Introductory Statement The President Official Record of the Articles Placed within the Corner Stone Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, D.D., Secretary of the Board of Trustees The Laying of the Corner Stone Mrs. William Rainey Harper The Corner Stone Addresses Clement Walker Andrews, A.M., Librarian of the John Crerar Library Ernest DeWitt Burton, D.D., Professor and Head of the Department of New Testament Literature and Interpretation The Prayer Charles Richmond Henderson, Ph.D., D.D., University Chaplain The Recession With the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library will be connected on the level of the top or reading room floor the buildings to the west for Classics and Modern Languages, those to the east for History and Philosophy, and by stone bridges those to the north, Haskell and Law. The building, 246 feet long and 60 feet wide, consists of a central section flanked on the east and west by rectangular towers, each approximately 60 by 50 feet and about 20 feet higher than Mitchell Tower. The towers will be occupied by stack rooms in the basement and first floors, and above by read- ing rooms, offices, and special rooms of various kinds. Eventually the central section will have four floors of stacks, one floor of library offices. The top floor will be devoted exclusively to the great reading room, approximately 54 by 160 feet. There will be a suite of rest rooms for women on the second floor, and a conversation and smoking room for men in the east tower. The ultimate book capacity will be approximately one million volumes... On the first floor will be a beautiful lecture room, to be called the Harper Assembly Room. Just north of the library will be a statue of Presi- dent Harper. The Seventy-fifth Convocation will be held in the Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium at eleven o'clock. The address will be delivered by the Reverend Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, D.D., LL.D., President of the Armour Institute of Technology. Subject: “A Great Library.” : > ‘ ; - | ‘ * 4 ) ; VB) are ‘ i ; 0 Wiis si 7 i ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ » nt “ ‘ * ‘ 4 i ‘ ‘ ‘ i ¢ ; r *% L vm pie he ba 2) ; x ‘ ; ly ' J i ] ‘ t A ‘ ites j f A