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 AUGUSTANA BULLETIN 
 
 Issued Quarterly by Augustana College and Theological Seminary, Rock Island, Illinois 
 SERIES VIII. MARCH J, J9J2. No. I 
 
 
 Augustana Olulkg^ 
 anb ulli^olngtral ^^mtuarg 
 
 Entered April 18, 1905, at Rock Island, Illinois, as second class matter under 
 act of Congress of July 16, 1894
 
 Corner Stone Lairing and 
 Dedication 
 
 of the 
 
 Denkmann Memorial Librarp 
 
 Augustana College and Theological Seminarg 
 Rock Island, III, 1911 
 
 ROCK ISLAND, ILL. 
 
 AUGUSTANA BOOK CONCERN, PRINTERS AND BINDERS 
 
 1912
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 By PitEsiDiiNT GusTAV Anduken. 
 
 The Dciikinnnn Memorial Lil)rary stands as a noble monnmcnt 
 to the public spirit and generosity of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. 
 Denkniann and their children, whose memory will ever be cher- 
 ished as trne friends and n}>l)uilders of our community. In 1860, 
 the same year that saw the beginning of Augustana College, Mr. 
 Denkniann laid the foundations of the great business enterprise 
 in Kock Island, with whicli his name is associated. With great 
 interest did these neighbors of Augustana follow the struggle 
 and the advance of our educational work. The energy and far- 
 sightedness whicli lirought Mr. Denkniann success was ever coupled 
 with a keen interest in the public weal. How to do something for 
 the general good of the community was an oft-recurring subject 
 of discussion in the Denkinann home, a tiait of character which 
 the parents have left as tlie best heritage to their children and 
 to their posterity. After the death of IMr. Denkniann in 1905, 
 the mother frequently discussed witli lu'r cliildien Itotli tlie best 
 way of doing something substantial Jnr a -ciicral cause worthy 
 of suppoit, and also what institution s^hoiild he .made the bene- 
 ficiary of such assistance. Her eyes turned kijidiy toward Augus- 
 tana College and Theological Seminary, in whose struggles and 
 successes even then she was more deeply interested than the author- 
 ities of the institution were aware of. In the expressed wishes and 
 hopes of the mother — all honor to lier memory I — the home insti- 
 tution won the day. Persistent and devoted effort in the upbuild- 
 ing of God's kingdom on earth to the benefit of one's fellow-men
 
 1)i:m<m.\nx :\rKM()i;iAT. i.ii!i:ai;y 
 
 will ever attract the attention and the intei'est of nol)]c hearts, and 
 liiiiii;- results beyond tlie fondest hopes of the laborers. 
 
 W bell, therefore, the representatives of Angnstana, ^Er. A. T. 
 Eklibid and the ])resident of the institution, approac-licd the sons 
 and (laiii:btiM-s of ^Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. Denkmann in order to 
 lay tbc wDik of Angnstana before them, the hearts of these were, 
 — as the writer desires to put it, by the guidance of God — ah'eady 
 prepared for our request, as they were already deeply interested 
 in the advancement of our institution. In an interview with us 
 ]\[r. Fred. C. Denkmann as the representative of the family ex- 
 pressed their intentioir of giving Angnstana something which it 
 Avas exceedingly in need of, namely a lilirar}- building, where tlie 
 educational work of our institution would find both a liome and 
 a center. But these friends, as was their right and their duty, 
 asked to be assured that the interest of the supporters of Angnstana 
 throughout our country was general and strong, that the roots of 
 our institution were deep and widespread in a soil that would 
 support and insure future growth and sturdy development. They 
 were Mdlling to base their judgment in this respect both on present 
 achievements and on the promise of success in the movement for 
 strengthening the hands of the central institution of our Synod 
 at its approaching fiftieth anniversary. And it filled the hearts 
 of the Denkmann family with joy and with confidence, as they 
 saw how the fi lends of Angnstana, east and west, north and south, 
 rallied to its sup})oit in the successful gathering of the jubilee fund 
 as a pieparation for the semi-centennial celebration. 
 
 On January 28, 1909, the children of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. 
 Denkmann were gathered at a family reunion in "the old home- 
 stead," built Ijy the parents at the foot of Fourth avenue in Bock 
 Island. At this gathering the final plans were laid for a donation 
 to Angnstana College in the form of a memorial liln'ary building 
 to be dedicated to the memory of the parents. A representative of 
 Angnstana was called in to receive the formal announcement, and 
 as the happy news was communicated to him his own emotion 
 made it impossible for him to give expression to the gratitude 
 which welled forth from his heart. The announcement also stated 
 that the proposed building Avould be erected at a cost of not less
 
 |)KNk:\[ax.\ :mi:.moi!IAL liijuaRy 
 
 tlian ono ]i inn I red thousand dollars. In tlio evening of the day 
 when this aniioiuuement was made public the student body, "deliri- 
 ous witb joy,"' as the jiress stated it, with an ardor wliicli the heavy 
 downpour of rain eould not quench, formed a torchlight procession 
 and visited the homes of the donors to express their overflowing 
 gratitude. 
 
 The donors selected Messrs. Patton & Miller of Chicago as the 
 architects of this building, and the preliminary work was soon 
 under way. At the request of Mr. F. C. Denkmann a committee 
 was also appointed by the institution to make a study of the inner 
 arrangement of the library and to co-operate with the architects 
 in the effort to secure the best possible results. Numerous libraries 
 were visited, the advice of librarians and others was received, who 
 pointed out the excellences and the shortcomings of existing library 
 buildings, plans were discussed and suggestions made. The manner 
 in which the architects solved the problem of erecting a perfect 
 library building, and the manner in which the builders, Messrs. 
 Jobst & Son of Peoria, 111., accomplislied the work, will redound 
 to their lasting honor. 
 
 The location selected for the new library was on the College 
 grounds at the corner of 35th street and Seventh avenue, now made 
 into a beautiful boulevard connecting the cities of Eock Island and 
 Moline. From this point the spectator has a splendid view of the 
 Mississippi valley and the Eock Island Arsenal directly in front 
 of him, and he looks down upon a scene of rare beauty and one 
 instinct with the life of industry. 
 
 On September 16, 1909, ground was broken and the work of 
 clearing away the soil for the foundation of the new library was 
 begun. No small difficulty was experienced, as the earth at this 
 spot had been filled in of late years, and one had to go deep to 
 find a basis for the solid concrete foundation ; in one place more 
 tlian thi]ty feet of earth had to be removed liefore "old Illinois 
 soil'" was reached. But the problem was speedily solved, cave-ins 
 were successfully avoided, and soon the massive concrete founda- 
 tion was ready to support the base of granite rock. Above this 
 the successive tiers of grey stone from Cartilage, Missouri, began 
 to rise. The cornerstone was laid on January 21, 1910. At the
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH 9 
 
 •liihilcG celebration in Juno, 1910, the thousands of visitors who 
 had come here from tlie ends of onr country, looked wiih the 
 keenest interest and joy upon the outlines of the spleiuhd l)uihhng 
 with its still greater promise. 
 
 The dedication of the monumental Iniilding, the program of 
 which dedication is detailed in this volume, took place on May 31, > 
 1911. 
 
 Immediately upon the completion of the building, the librarian, 
 the president and the treasurer of the institution took up their 
 permanent quarters in the commodious office-rooms provided for 
 their use, and when the students returned in the following Sep- 
 tember they joyfully took possession of the reading-room, the most 
 beautiful home for study at any college in America. 
 
 It has been a rare privilege for the authorities at Augustana 
 to have a hand in the planning of a building, when they did. not 
 need to worry about the cost or the bills. It is the first experience 
 of its kind in our history. \\'hen there was some hesitancy about 
 suggesting the grand and decorative pillars for the reading-room, 
 Mr. Denkmann on behalf of the family said, "Put them in !" 
 When he heard that the stack-room space possil)ly should be in- 
 creased, he ordered the rear of the building to be made larger. 
 And when the building was formally turned over to the College, 
 the donors had had the grounds graded and sodded, had built the 
 stone-wall around the grounds and even laid the sidewalks on the 
 adjoining streets. The final cost of the noble edifice, as reported ^ 
 
 to the Board of Directors, is over two hundred and seven thousand k 2. / 
 dollars. Who can hear of this generosity without a quickening of 
 the heart-beats, and a strengthening of deep and lasting gratitude ! 
 
 The building gives an impression of symmetry and beauty as 
 well as of dignity and strength. The memorial elements appear 
 in its massiveness of construction ; the solid masonry of the corners 
 of the building, the large arched windows of the library floor, in 
 front bordered by the four solid pillars of the same material as the 
 building, the decorative projecting entablature with the tile roof 
 above, combine to produce a monumental effect of rare attractive- 
 ness. The main part, or front, is 120 feet in length with a depth ' 
 of 96 feet. As one views it from a side angle, where comparison
 
 10 DKNK.MAW MKMOIUAL LIIiKAliY 
 
 willi the (itluT iniiic oidiitarv dimonsions of tlie way ])art can he 
 made, lilt' i'loiil especially appears in its full ami uiaiid ])roporti()iis. 
 At the main eiiliance witli its frame of delic-atelv carved ornamoii- 
 tation. vo\i pass tliiouii'li the larii'e Inonze doors into the spacions 
 memorial hall lint'd with marhle imported from quarries, famous 
 even in ancient times, of ("arrara, Ital_y. On this floor are the 
 administration olhces of the institution, also a leeture-hall, com- 
 mittee rooms and cloak-rooms. The doors and window-frames are 
 all of the best oak and the donors have also put into the offices and 
 the reading room the very best furniture of quarter sawed oak. The 
 floors in the memorial hall and all the office rooms have borders 
 of inlaid mosaic, the other parts of the floor being made of chipped 
 marble of different colors which has been worked into the concrete 
 mass and polished with emory. In the office is placed a large 
 master clock which regulates the clocks in the library building and 
 the main building and also the ringing of the bells in all the build- 
 ings. At the end of the hall oi^posite the entrance, the bronze 
 memorial tablet, erected by the Board of Directors, stands out 
 against the marble background. Two highly artistic marble stair- 
 cases lead to the reading room on the floor above. The reading 
 room having a dimension of 116x48 feet, with its pillars and panels, 
 its grand aiched windows, its oaken furniture and ample book 
 space, its electric lights, and withal its perfect proportions, is one 
 of the most impressive and inspiring features of the whole edifice. 
 At one end of the room is ample space for reference books, at the 
 other cases are placed for periodicals and magazines. At the 
 eighteen tables ample opportunity is given for the students to study. 
 The whole floor of the reading room is covered Avith battleship 
 linoleum, so that perfect quiet is assured. Al)Ove the h^an desk at 
 the middle of the south wall is one of the large clocks set in the 
 midst of attractive architectural design, with inscriptions on the 
 panels. Back of this is the light-well with the dome which con- 
 stitutes one of the most beautiful architectural features of the 
 building. This entrance leads to the various offices connected with 
 the library, the catalogue room, the four stories of stacks for books. 
 The shelves here are all of metal and the floors of glass, with an 
 electric elevator connectinff all the floors. Below the stacks are
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH 11 
 
 ciglit soiiiinar rooms; on this iloor ni(> also Idilct rooms with a lai'^'o 
 lost room foi" tlie lad}' students, janitoi's rixnii and store i-dom 
 space. In the store room is placed the engine of the vaciuiin ilcaner 
 which is connected with every part of the huilding. Ahove the 
 stacks is room with good space for storing the arehives and the 
 newspaper collections of the library. Aljove the reading room on 
 the fonrth floor is the musenm, the size of which (llGx48) always 
 suiprises the visitors, as the outside view of the lihrary does not 
 suggest the existence of this room. Tliis museum receives ample 
 light from a sky-light extending the whole length of the room. The 
 floors are all of concrete construction so that the l)uilding is ahso- 
 lutely fireproof. The fixtures of the building including the electric 
 lights and the hardware of the doors are all of special design. 
 
 The new libraiy ])uilding now stands complete, a triumph of 
 architectural ait. Its beautiful outlines and artistic details will be 
 a potent factor in the education of the esthetic sense of uncounted 
 student generations, who are to study within its walls, as well as 
 of each one who beholds its noble features. Above all, it will 
 develop and strengthen our appreciation of moral beauty, as we 
 contemplate the motives back of this great gift in the noble lives 
 and impulses of sturdy pioneers, and of the gi'ateful aiTectiDU of 
 their children.
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 Bv ]>i;. K. F. Baktiiolomkw 
 
 When on the second day of March, 1905, the spirit of Frederick 
 C. A. Denkmann passed from earth to its eternal rest there was 
 completed a life singularly rich in experience, symmetrical in 
 manly qualities, and beautiful in its simplicity — a life nurtiired 
 in difficulties and noteworthy for its steadfastness of purpose, its 
 energy of execution, its sterling worth, its heroic devotion to duty, 
 -^nd its quiet, modest self-respect — a life that may well serve as 
 an inspiration to every American youth Iiotli of this and of succeed- 
 ing generations. Of such a one it may be said as of one of old, 
 "He being dead, yet speaketh." Such a life is a legacy of in- 
 estimable value to the Avorld on account of its lessons of wisdom 
 and encouragement to those who are in the midst of the struggle. 
 
 Frederick C. A. Denkmann sprang from stiirdy German stock. 
 The sole inheritance from his ancestors was a clear head reinforced 
 by rugged strength and a more than ordinary endowment of com- 
 mon sense. Frederick, commonly called (*arl. was born April 8, 
 1822, at Salzwedel, the ancient capital of Prussia, being the 
 youngest son of his father Diedrich Denkmann. His father was a 
 successful nmnufacturer, a man of propeity and of standing in his 
 native German city. But the Napoleonic wars, then devastating the 
 blooming fields of Germany, destroyed his business and swept away 
 all his accumulated wealth. The shock was too great for his 
 strength. Disheartened and feeling tliat the loss which he had 
 suffered could not be restored, Diedrich Denkmann died, and his 
 little Carl was left to the care of his mother.
 
 lUoCltArillCAL SKETCH 13 
 
 Ciiounistances prevented young Carl from enjoyino- pucli ad- 
 vantages of training as his widowed motlier would gladly have 
 given him. She could do no more than provide liim with the mere 
 rudiments of an cthication, hoping that his iiati\c strength of 
 character and his fund of good sense woidd. in the school of experi- 
 ence, convert his very limitations into advantages, as also the case 
 proved to be. His school days ended at the age of fourteen, when 
 he was placed as an apprentice in a machine shoj), theiehy preparing 
 himself for the task of bread winning in the ycais io come. With 
 characteristic German thoroughness and with an undaunted am- 
 bition to succeed, Carl soon mastered the details of his trade. 
 Thus in the years of his youth and early manhood this strong and 
 thorough-going young artisan was unconsciously laying the founda- 
 tion of the great foituiu' which was awaiting him across the waters. 
 
 In the troublous days of 1S48 the thoughts of many in Mr. 
 Denkmann's home city Avere turned to America. Jn their view this 
 was the land of (i|i|mii iunil\- and of ricli n-ward for efforts spent, 
 the land of promise and of freedom. Their friends and neighbors 
 who had previously journeyed to this hind of inspiring prospects 
 wrote back of the advantages Avliich this new counti-v held out for 
 those who had been trained in thiifty (ierman homes. And so 
 with his small savings and witli something far more valualjle, 
 namely, a ihoiough knowledge of his craft and a determination to 
 succeed, Mr. Denkmann in the year 184!) joined the throng of 
 emigrants seeking homes in the new world. He had Init little 
 capital to bring with him save a strong and vigorous body, a dis- 
 cerning mind, an indomitable will, and aii aident desire for civil 
 liberty and for better industrial conditions. 
 
 ]\rr. Denkmann's iiist abiding place in .\merica was Ei'ic, 
 Pennsylvania, where he soon found employment, and adapting 
 himself to the conditions of Amci'ican life and citizenship he en- 
 joyed a reasonable degree of i)i'ospcrity. it is related of Mi-. l)eid<- 
 mann that when he first applied for work in Erie, the foreman nf 
 the shop asked him what he could do, and with characteristic fi'aid\- 
 ness he replied, "What those three men over there are doing." 
 On the ninth day of December, 1841), he established his own fireside 
 by his marriage to j\Iiss Cathei'iiie Bloedel who had also coni(> fi-oni
 
 F REDE RICK C. A. DEXKMAXN'
 
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 (Jcriiiany, liciiii;- a iiafi\e of Niedersaulht'ini. a \illa,i;v in Uw valU'V 
 of tlie liliiiic 'i'liis was an important step, for the eomj^aiiioii of 
 his ehoico prowd a tiiie liel])niato throughout his long and pros- 
 [)ei()us career witliout whose aid lie p)ol)al)ly never could have 
 achieved A\hat lie diiL ll marked ihe heginning of a new period 
 in his life when fon-cs which had })ieviously lain dormant in his 
 nature were quickened into vigorous activity by his companionship 
 with a congenial s|)irit. Through her stimulating influence he 
 quickly came to a realization of himself, she supplying those quali- 
 ties which he lacked. Slie completely identified herself with his 
 interest-! and smight to promote his welfare. Tie had a keen appre- 
 ciation of her woitli and esteemed her very highly. In matters of 
 business as well as in all otlier things he leaned upon her judgment 
 and tlirougliout his life was deeply influenced by her counsel and 
 examjjle. She was a haul worker and a wise and economical house- 
 wife as well as a congenial, sympathetic companion. In harmony 
 of mind and heait t!iey walked together and matured those plans 
 which in due time hi ought tlieui success, wealth, and fame. 
 
 For two years after their maniage the young couple were con- 
 tent in their new home, and then the flattering advantages of the 
 West lined them to the banks of the ^lississippi, whither, as by 
 the hand of de>tiny, they were directed to find their fortune and 
 to enter into the fame that awaited them. 
 
 We first find them ;'t Aloline, Ilk, where they leinained oiilv 
 a short while. Mere the tii^t great sorrow came into their young 
 lives by the death of their infant (iist-horn. \n the midst of 
 stiangers, with no lixed place of abode, and with none of their own 
 people to sym])athize with them, this al'lliction -was a aciv great 
 trial to tbeni, but with iciiewed courage and with unfaltering trust 
 in the goodness of an all-wise I'ldxideiice they continued on the 
 journey of life. After a hiicf lesidence in Aloline they iiio\c'(| to 
 lioc-k Island which liecame their Ikuiic for more than (iftv yeai's 
 until the time of Mv. Deiikmaiiirs death in I'.Kl.l. In the familv 
 residence ]\Irs. Denkmann. (he widow and life-long companion, 
 continued t(» li\c until daiuiary (ifteeiith. llMi;. when she j'oIiumI 
 her hushand in i he home beyond. 
 
 During the tiist \eais cd' his lesidei'je in IJock Island .Mr.
 
 16 DEXKMAX.N -M KMOUIA I, MIUiAItY 
 
 J)c'iikni;iiiii woikcil ,•;! his ti'ade and all()\vc(l his savings to accumu- 
 late after the thrifty German numner. Then he established him- 
 self in a modest grocery business which bore an important relation 
 to his subsequent career of distinguished success and of fame. 
 A small capital was gradually accumulated which made subsequent 
 sawmill ownership a possibility. When he placed his name above 
 liis modest grocery store the same careful attention to details and 
 the same unceasing energy that had made him superior in his 
 earlier calling now showed themselves in the new business enter- 
 prise and became the talisman of his success. It is always so that 
 wise and energetic management of a modest business leads to 
 something greater. In lesser things men receive their training for 
 greater things. He that is faithful in little things makes himself 
 master of great enterprises. And so it came about that in 1860 
 Mr. Denkmann formed with his brother-in-law. ]\Ir. Frederick 
 Weyerhaeuser, that partnership in the lumljcr business which 
 achieved such monumental success that their names became known 
 all over the country Avherever logs and lumber were bought and sold. 
 Up to the time when the firm of Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann 
 began operations on a scale that made them famous in the lumber 
 world, Mr. Denkmann's life had been a quiet one, unmarked by 
 incidents that would attract attention. He had lived a peaceful 
 home life, working with energy and intelligence, but in lines which 
 do not ordinarily lead to wealth and renown. Hitherto his sphere 
 of activity had been circumscribed. He was scarcely known beyond 
 the limits of his home town where he lived for his family and 
 enjoyed the respect of his circle of friends. With the founding 
 of the great lumber firm his manner of life was changed as his 
 opportunities and responsibilities were broadened. He seemed to 
 have become a favorite of Fortune upon whom she showered her 
 blessings in rich profusion. When the tide of prosperity set in, 
 it found him no novice, but by previous training he had prepared 
 himself for the new conditions of his life. Schooled in poverty 
 during his boyhood and by strict discipline, he was now prepared 
 to enter into the fulfilment of his dreams of success in his mature 
 manhood. He was almost forty years old when he began his career 
 of lumber making, and when the path to greater achievements,
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 17 
 
 wider influence, and iiiglier iif^efiiliiess to the eoniniiiniiy opened 
 before him. 
 
 Frederick Weyerliaeuser, his partner, had l)een in the employ 
 of Mead, S'nith and Marsh conducting a retail lumber j^ard in 
 Coal Yalley, 111. This luml)er firm had been compelled to go out 
 of business. There Avas an opportunity to purchase their sawmill 
 and business in Rock Island at small cost and on easy terms. 
 Having carefully looked over this property and having considered 
 their chances for the future, the members of the AA'eyerhaouser and 
 Denkmann firm entered into partnership and took over the prop- 
 erty offered for sale. As a matter of fact, there was never any 
 chance of failure in such a combination. They were both remark- 
 able men — men of rugged strength, ceaseless energy, and heroic 
 courage. Mr. Denkmann's peculiar abilities were supplemented 
 by those of ]\Ir. Weyerhaeuser. The latter, trained in the handling 
 of lumber, looked after the sales and the log supply. j\Ir. Denk- 
 mann, skilled as a machinist and established in habits of old woi'ld 
 thoroughness, took charge of the manufacturing processes. I^udei' 
 his skilful management the saws began to hum a new tune. As 
 might be expected, the new superintendent was fertile in devices 
 for improving the mechanical side of the business. He worked 
 longer hours than any other man on the payroll. At the organiza- 
 tion of the Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann company ]\Ir. Denkmann 
 was elected president, and this position of honor and responsibility 
 he held till the day of his deatli. One of the later projects of ]\[r. 
 Denkmann was the purchase and improvement of a mill in Daven- 
 port, Iowa, just across the river fi'om the other mills operated by Hie 
 firm. This mill was fitted up in the most approved manner of llu' 
 iiiodci'u u])-to-date mill. ''I'he business was prospering, when on 
 July 25, 1901, the plant was completely destroyed by a great lire. 
 This was the first serious loss the firm had been called upon to bear 
 during its more than forty years of prosperous business. 
 
 Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann were great lundoer manufac- 
 turers. The manner in which tlicy conducted tlieir affairs gave 
 them the rank of masters among llic captains of industry, whose 
 fame and infiuence i'xti'iidcd (lii-oiiglioiit the length and breadth 
 of the country. To plan and successfully carry out such gigantic- 
 
 Augustana Bulletin. 2.
 
 18 l)K.\K.\I.\.\.\ Mi:.\H)l!I.\L Ml!i:.\l!Y 
 
 enterprises as those in uliicli llie}' \\eie eiiiiagcd, rc(juire(I a more 
 tliaii ordiiiai'v endowment of talent and genius. They seem never 
 to have made any serious mistakes, and if a mistake was made 
 they had the rare power of organizing mistakes of jiT-Vment into 
 elements of strength and success. In writing of Mr. Denkmann 
 it is natural to think of him as the moving spirit that directed 
 the vast and varied manufacturing processes of his firm. It was 
 no accident that he was put at the head of these different industries ; 
 it was according to the fitness of things; .for this office of oversight 
 which he maintained as long as he lived he was prepared in his 
 early life. In that line he excelled others, and his superiority was 
 due to his remarkal)le insight into everything where machinery 
 was concerned. 
 
 No less remarkable was his executive ability — he knew not 
 only how to manage machines, he knew also how to manage men 
 and affairs. For this also he had received his training in early 
 life by his close attention to details. While he was serving his 
 apprenticeship in the German machine shop the discipline was 
 perhaps at times painfully exacting, Init it was the making of the 
 man. The lial)its wliich lie there formed gained for him the con- 
 trol of his resources which made him afterwards a great captain 
 of industry. As the business grew and the mills multiplied arid 
 operations became more diversified there was developed a kind and 
 a degree of executive power which was no less a manifestation of 
 genius than his machanical skill and his insight into things. He 
 knew what a day's work for a man or a team or a steamboat or a 
 sawmill ought to be. When an honist day's work was done he was 
 satislied, and the confidence and liigli respect on the part of his 
 army of employees was won by his fairness and his appreciation 
 of their co-operation in furthering the interests of the business. 
 His expectations of his employees were high, but not l^eyond reason. 
 He never ]e(|uiri_'d of thcni the hours and efforts which he himself 
 put into his business, and when any of his men showed a disposition 
 to make some sacrifice for their common interests he knew how to 
 reward their efforts. He was a leader and not a driver of men. 
 l)y his hdncst and plain ()])('ii dealing, l)y his a])ility to do things, 
 l>y his foresight iind excellent judgment, by his promptness in the
 
 niOC.RAl'HlCAL SKETCH 19 
 
 porforinance of every duly lie won the confidence of all with whom 
 he had any business relations. It is therefore not remarkahlo lliat 
 he was an efficient executive oliicer and manager. Such men always 
 come into positions of leadership. The office seeks the men, and 
 by natural affinity they drift into the places for which they aj'e 
 fitted. Mr. Denkmann never sought promotion and never schemed 
 to further his own interests, Init promotion came to him by neces- 
 sity and as a matter of natural consequence his best interests 
 financially and socially were always being advanced. 
 
 ]\rr. Denkmann lived to see his early hopes and desires more 
 than realized. Few men have enjoyed such an uninteri'upted 
 career of prosperity, all of which was not the gift of a fickle 
 fortune but the natural result of careful planning and hard labor. 
 At the age of eighty-two he laid down the responsibilities and 
 pleasures of a long business life. The cares of his later years were 
 lightened by his sons, Frederick C. and Edward P. Denkmann, 
 who by practical experience from early boyhood had been schooled 
 in the intricacies of the lumber business. They have shown great 
 adaptability to their work and give promise of a success worthy 
 of their distinguished father. The oversight and management of 
 the business were so gradually shifted from the aging father to 
 the sons that the change was scarcely perceived. 
 
 The wife and mother, IMrs. Catherine Denkmann, who survived 
 her husband till January 15, 1907, was to him always his greatest 
 inspiration to effort, and much of his success was due to her influ- 
 ence. He sought her advice and found her judgment sound on all 
 business matters. She on her part kept in touch with her husband's 
 business. Their home life was ideal. Mr. Denkmann, after busi- 
 ness cares were over, delighted to spend his leisure houis at home 
 with his family. He was a great reader, and would read aloud to 
 his family throughout the happy evenings which they were ])er- 
 mitted to spend together. IMrs. Denkmann was a woman of 
 benevolent impulses and it was a source of great satisfaction botli 
 to her and to her husband that there were ample means at hand 
 with which to gratify their l)enevolent inclinations. But their 
 benevolences were bestowed quietly so that, according to the biblical 
 rule, the right hand did not know what the left hand was doing.
 
 MRS. CATIIEKIXE DKXKMANN
 
 I!I()(;i;ai'iiical sketch 21 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Denkinniin were the parents of six dniiiiliters and 
 five sons, one daughter and tlirce sons having died in early child- 
 hood. The surviving members of the family are Marie Antoinette, 
 ■wife of John J. Eeimers, of Fort Wortli, Texas; Apollonia Ade- 
 laide, Avife of Thomas B. Davis, of Rock Island; Frederick C. 
 Denkmann, of Eock Island; Elsie Augusta, wife of William II. 
 Marshall, of Eock Island; (Catherine, wife of Edward S. Went- 
 worth, of New York; Edward P. Denkmann, of Eock Island: and 
 >Susanne C, wife of John H. Hauberg, who reside in Eock Island. 
 
 Those who were intimately associated with Frederick C. A. 
 Denkmann and Avho knew him well, tell of his forceful but unob- 
 tnisive life, his active interest in matters of which lu; said but 
 little. He was modest and unassuming and believed the doctrine 
 tluit the praise of others is better than self-praise. He understood 
 the secret of making and keeping friends, namely, to show himself 
 friendly to others. His life was Ijcautiful in its simplicily and in 
 its transparent honesty. He ke])t his own counsel, and he would 
 neither invite nor take counsel of others. He was a man of ]iowei'- 
 ful personality which every one who ciune in contact with him was 
 made to feel. He was a man of few words; with him (k'cds spoke 
 louder than words. He had a large and generous heart, and his 
 beneficence was often experienced by those who never knew who 
 had befriended them. This method of bestowing his benefactions 
 upon worthy persons was not a mere caprice with him, he preferred 
 to have it so, it was the natural expression of his inner real char- 
 acter. He was a good neighbor, an exemplaiy imblie-spiiited 
 citizen, who quietly bore his part in building up and lieautifying 
 his city. His great wealth was fairly won in the open field of 
 l)usiness, and he deserved whnte\-ei' rewards it brought. 
 
 During the last years of j\lr. and Mrs. Denkmann the matter 
 of making a liberal donation to some worthy cause was fre(|uently 
 talked over in the family and definile ])lans wore slowly maturing. 
 The parents realized Hint, though jlieii- ]i]'incely fortune had been 
 honestly earned by hard work and judicious management, they 
 were still only stewards, and. like lionest stewards, they were re- 
 quired to give an accouid of their stewardsliip. It was not in 
 their thought to hoard their wealth nor to spend it for selfish ends.
 
 22 DEXKMAXX MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 With this idoa tlie othiT iiiomljcrs of the family heartily concurred. 
 And so from time to time the plan of devoting a part of the 
 estate to henevolent purposes gradually took shape. Among the 
 various ohjects deserving financial aid, Augustana College and 
 Theological Seminary especially appealed to them. Before the 
 death of Mrs. Denkmann and with her hearty approval the family 
 luid decided to bestow their beneficence upon this institution. So 
 that what was finally agreed upon was thus a carrying out of the 
 wishes of the parents at the same time that it is a monument to 
 their memory and to their noble generosity. 
 
 And now as a grand finale, we may be allowed to add, how 
 better could their children commemorate the virtues of their illus- 
 trious parents and perpetuate the blessings of their lives to the 
 generations to come than Ijy the munificent gift of the Denkmann 
 ]\remorial Library to Augustana College and Theological Seminary, 
 a beautiful and appropriate monument forever to all that is greatest 
 and noblest and best in human lives !
 
 Laying of the Corner Stone 
 
 of the 
 
 Denkmann Memorial Library 
 
 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE and 
 THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 
 
 ROCK ISLAND :: ILLINOIS 
 
 January 21, 1910, 2:30 P. M.
 
 CORNER STONE LAYING 
 
 PROGRAM 
 
 1. Procession Led by Augustana Military Band 
 
 2. Selection Augustana Military Band 
 
 3. Introductory Address President Gustav Andreen 
 
 4. Sciptures and Invocation .... Rev. W. H. Blancke, D. D. 
 
 5. Selection Wennerberg Male Chorus 
 
 6. Corner Stone Laying" Ceremony 
 
 . . .Rev. L. A. Jolmston, D. D., Pres. Board of Directors 
 
 7. Address Rev. W. S. Marquis, D. D 
 
 8. Selection Wennerberg Male Chorus 
 
 9. Benediction 
 
 10. Postlude Augustana Military Band 
 
 "Let there be light."
 
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 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS: "WHAT MEAN 
 THESE STONES?" 
 
 By Presidext Gustav A. Axdreex, Pit. D. 
 
 In the book of Joshua we read that stones were to be lolaced by 
 the river Jordan, which should be a memorial unto the nation 
 forever, and when future generations should ask, "What mean 
 these stones ?"' the answer would tell of the guidance of the mighty 
 hand of God, so that all hearts might be filled with the fear of the 
 Lord. 
 
 What mean these stones around which we are now gathered? 
 They mean that a new civilization is springing up on territory 
 which even within the memory of men yet living had lain fallow 
 for ages. On these bluffs less than a century ago the Indians fol- 
 lowed the chase and their canoes skimmed the surface of the father 
 of waters, glistening at our feet. Our forefathers from this or 
 yon side of the Atlantic shores heard the call of the Avilderness and 
 hither they came to found new homes, to win the richest valley of 
 the globe for civilization, and to take part in building up the mighty 
 commonwealth of our country. Their prosperity is made manifest 
 before our very eyes by the homes they have built, by the mighty 
 monuments they have raised to industry as well as to the spiritual 
 and ideal promptings of religion and of learning. 
 
 These stones have not come hither of themselves, but they speak 
 of much previous labor and preparation. Just as the rocks were 
 slowly formed in the bosom of the earth, and as much exertion 
 has been required to exhume, to shape, and to bring them hither, 
 as well as to plan the structure of which we now see the foundation.
 
 28 I IK .\ KM A NX .MI'.MOKIAI. I.IIJlIAIiV 
 
 po iinu'li Inlior. oTcat exeitioii and nrdtMit prayers must belong to 
 the history oi' an institution before a development of this kind be- 
 comes even ])ossible. Some years ago one of the donors of the 
 building expressed to me a pregnant word wliieli with its impoi't 
 has bnrned itself deep into my heart, "If you and your people and 
 the friends of Augustana are in earnest with reference to the ad- 
 vancement of the institution, a library building will come to yon."' 
 On this day, at the beginning of the 50th year of our history, I can 
 testify that the friends of Augustana have been in earnest in their 
 efforts for its upbuilding. Few and poor were the founders half 
 a century ago, poor in everything except faith and hope in God 
 and the future, in high ideals, in willingness to sacrifice, — in these 
 respects they were rich indeed. Their work has attracted the 
 attention and commanded the respect of all who have beheld it. 
 And in common effort for strengthening the hands of Augustana 
 at its semicentennial jubilee, the children of the old pioneers have 
 shown that they, too, are in earnest, filled with the zeal engendered 
 by the fear of God and the love of learning. 
 
 These stones have for us to-day a peculiar and touching signifi- 
 cance in that they bear testimony now and ever to the noble lives 
 of parents, to whom not alone the children yield the glad tribute 
 of filial love and reverence, l)ut whose memory is warmly cherished 
 I)y the community, they with signal grace and success helped to 
 upbuild, and whose names are mentioned to-day by grateful hearts 
 in ten thousand homes from ocean to ocean. These stones speak 
 to us of jMr. and Mrs. F. C. A. Denkmann, whose mortal remains 
 rest in yonder Chippiannock; yet their deeds live after them 
 as a continued blessing from generation to generation. The for- 
 bears of Mr. Denkmann lived in Altmark's ancient capital, the 
 nucleus around which grew np Brandenl)urg and Prussia, and a 
 united Germany. Soon 300 years ago his ancestors stood shoulder 
 to shoulder with the men from the noith, reddening the water of 
 the Elbe with their heart's blood in a common struggle for liberty 
 and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of one's 
 conscience. Shortly after his arrival in this country, Mr. Denk- 
 mann founded his home in Eoek Island. If he were alive to-day, he, 
 too, would celebrate a fiftieth anniversary; for during this year it
 
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 will bo just half a century ago since ^Mr. Dcnkiiiaiin began the 
 great work with which we associate his name. He made the very 
 ]\[ississippi carry trilnite to our liome town. Well did he plan and 
 build in the work that was his. These stones testify especially to 
 the idealism which flamed in the hearts both of Mr. and ]\Irs. 
 Denkmann, leading them ever to deeds of generosit}^ and kindli- 
 ness. This quality of heart has come to the heirs as the most 
 precious heritage. This heaven-born idealism gives life and signifi- 
 cance to these stones, joining them together to rear a temple to the 
 jMost High where knowledge of him and his creation may ever be 
 disseminated. With thanksgiving do we to-day lay the cornerstone 
 of this bnilding dedicated to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. 
 Denkmann. 
 
 Dnring the days of his activity, Mr. Denkmann w^as a near 
 neighbor of our institution; exceeding joy and ardent gratitude 
 fill the hearts of us all at the thought, that the sons and daughters 
 have decided to join the 50th anniversary of the great life-work 
 of the father with the semicentennial celebration of Augustana, 
 and have forever united the names of beloved parents to our home 
 of learning. Unborn generations shall arise to bless their memory. 
 
 "What mean these stones?'' There is one more answer that 
 comes to our lips from holy writ itself: these stones shall teach 
 us to know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty, that we may 
 fear the Lord God forever. We thank God for his guidance in 
 the past, for the blessings which through Christ are bestowed upon 
 us now, and pray that his Spirit may al)idc with us from generation 
 to generation. 
 
 1^ 

 
 ADDRESS: THE MISSION OF A LIBRARY 
 
 By Rev. W. S. I\rAKQUis. D. I). 
 
 We are here to-day to lay the Corner Stone of a Liljrary. Upon 
 this foundation will rise a noble and beautiful structure to be the 
 home of the books which this growing institution will gather into 
 it. Here will come to dwell the mightiest and best spirits of the 
 past and present. From the dust heaps, which bury the glory of 
 ancient Babylon, from the royal archives of Amenophis IV at Tel 
 el Amarna, from the jialaces of Persepolis and the temples of 
 hundred gated Thcl)es, will come priests and poets and potentates 
 to tell us the story of the long ago in the dawn of civilization. 
 
 From the shadows of the inimitable Acropolis, will come Solon 
 and Socrates, Plato and Pericles, Aristides and Aristotle, with 
 many lesser lights. Eome will send her Virgil and Horace, her 
 Seneca and Cicero and versatile Caesar, to weave around our minds 
 the fascinations of the Mistress of the World. 
 
 And we will not be satisfied with all these. Germany and 
 France, Sweden, Denmark, I^orway and Merrie old England must 
 scud us the clioicest spirits they have produced : — their Goethe and 
 Schiller, their Victor Hugo and Montaigne, their Hans Andersen, 
 Bjornson, Shakespeare, Bacon, Macaulay, Tennyson : — and we 
 will here introduce them to the familiar worthies of our own land. 
 and here they will all abide, we trust, for contui-ies, and live their 
 fruitful lives over again in each new generation. 
 
 This Library will be more, therefore, than an elegant store- 
 house for dead things called books. It will be a home for the im- 
 mortal spirits of the elect of all ages, where you and 1 may meet
 
 32 DK.NK.MAX.X MK.MOKIAI, I.IKUAItV 
 
 tln'iu ;iii(l Iidld convor^c with tlu'iii. it will be a seliool with tlio 
 largest and ii()1)lest of faculties. The first college in this land 
 was founded upon the library donated by Kev. John Harv^ard, and 
 every institution of higher learning since has been gathered about 
 a library. 
 
 Books are not dead things, tliey are the product of life, the 
 record of life, and are instinct with that divinest form of life 
 whicli we call thought. When you open a book there is a resurrec- 
 tion, and the soul of a man, perhaps of an age or people, looks 
 out and s})caks to you. "In its simplest meaning,'' says Bishop 
 Brooks, "A book is a life standing between two other lives and 
 putting them into association; an intellect translating a truth 
 which lies behind it into character or pleasure, or action in the 
 man who stands before it." Every nation produces its noblest lit- 
 erature out of its life. Libraries do not appear until men have 
 done deeds wtnthy to record. Sargon I Avas proud of the achieve- 
 ments of liis nation, and therefore founded his great library in 
 Babylon. Darius I had been victorious in many wars l^efore he 
 chiseled the l)oastful record on the rocks at Behistun. Homer did 
 not sing until there were heroes to sing about. The Clolden Age 
 of Augustus was the flower of the rugged life which won for Eome 
 her name and power, and the valor of prince and peasant, from 
 King Arthur down, luade possible the brilliant literature of the 
 Elizabethan period, which still nourishes the intellect and imagina- 
 tion of the English speaking race. 
 
 Tlie library which this institution is gatiiering, and which will 
 be housed in this splendid building provided l)y the munificence 
 of its friends, will contain the Ijest of human life through 4,000 
 years. It will jiiake this whole community as well as the students 
 in this college ''the heirs of all the ages." "All that mankind has 
 done, thought or been will lie as in magic preservation in the pages 
 of these books," Carlyle said, and fortunate are they who have the 
 taste and take the time to enrich mind and heart with the treasure. 
 
 President Porter of Harvard once said that a savage visiting 
 London with Livingstone, could appreciate everything but her 
 libraries. 'J'he city teeming with life was only an improved and 
 enlarged African village, the great ships at the docks were only big
 
 MEMORIAL JLAJ.L .VXD COIIK I Doi; 
 
 AD.MIXISTI.'ATJUX OFFlCK 
 
 Augastana Bulletin. 3.
 
 34 DENK.MAXX .M i: M< IIM A I, I.IliliAKY 
 
 eanocs, tlio palaco of Parliainoiit had its counterpart for him in 
 the coiiiic'il hall of his chief. Even the great cathedrals and their 
 solemn services were not altoaether strange, for he too was a 
 worshipper. J)ut the lil)i'aiy at tlic British ^luseum, with its rows 
 npon rows, and tier ahove tier of mysterious things called books; 
 the students poring over black symbols upon the white pages so 
 (piietly. and with such intense inteiest. now smiling, now frown- 
 ing or weeping, — what could it mean? He had never seen any- 
 thing like this in his primitive life. 
 
 And can we wonder at this awe in the breast of the savage? 
 What intelligent man does not feel the same awe creeping into his 
 heart when he stands in that great British Museum? It is the 
 consummate flower of all literatuie. and that means of all civiliza- 
 tion. It contains, as perhaps no other institution in the world, 
 to-day, the best of all that remains to us out of the great libraries 
 of the past, and the cream of human thought in the present. There 
 you find clay cylinders from the jjalace of Sargon, the winged 
 bulls from the temple gates of Nineveh, the black Obelisk of Shal- 
 nianezer, and thousands of tablets from Babylon. There you may 
 look upon the fragile and priceless papyri from the tombs and 
 temples of Egypt, and also upon the Eosetta Stone by which their 
 strange hieroglyphics Avere deciphered for a puzzled and waiting 
 world. If it was true, as Xapoleon said to his soldiers under the 
 shadow of the great Pyramid, "Forty Centuries look down upon 
 you," how nuich more truly may one who stands in the British 
 ]\Iuseum say, "Foity centuries welcome you to their fellowship 
 and instruction. ETere they wait to teach you their wisdom, and 
 warn you of their follies." 
 
 And the thing in which wo may rejoice to-day is, that by the 
 magic of the printer's art. all these treasures of the British Muse- 
 lun may become ours in this library for which the new home is 
 being provided. This artist of the press will put in our hands 
 a fac simile of these cylinders and tal)lets with history translation 
 and commentary so that Ave can drink in the thought of those 
 past ages just as though their great men rose from the dead to 
 teach us. 
 
 The A'allc}' of the Tigris and the ]']ii})hrates and the Valley of
 
 36 DKNK.MANX M KMOI! I A I. LIMUAKY 
 
 tlio SWv \]vvv ill this liKrai'v oll'cr io Icacli the A'allev of the Miss- 
 issippi how to beeonie rich and a'l'eal. and how to avoid the mistakes 
 wliich phmced tliem into desolation. 
 
 It is \\()nderrul to think how tliis lihiaiy will stand here, as we 
 fondh' believe, centurv after century, like the A'atican and the 
 Louvre and the Bodleian, doing its work of instruction and inspira- 
 tion, crystallizing the life of the land and at the same time feeding 
 it with fresh thought. Generations will come and go: — they will 
 each draw upon this fountain of learning, and yet it Avill never 
 be diminished; rather it will grow, for it will cpiickcn other in- 
 tellects and they will return to it the product of their own thought. 
 In this lil)rary will lie latent seeds of scientific knowledge which 
 will spring to life in some man's brain and produce gi-eat practi- 
 cal inventions to bless the world. Here will come yonths whose 
 horizon has been limited to the village or the farm, and when 
 they have conversed for a few years with these masters, they will 
 go forth citizens of the world, and men of trained and inspired 
 intellect. 
 
 Here another Harriet Beecher Stowe, her heart burning with 
 sympath}' for the oppressed, may learn to Avield her pen and pro- 
 duce another I^ncle Tom's Cabin to help right some great wrong 
 in modern society. Here some iinely tuned soul will take lessons 
 of Scott, or of Longfellow and learn how to preserve in some great 
 novel or epic the life of the aborigines of this valley. They will 
 gather up aiound the fascinating figure of the noble Black Hawk 
 the legends and songs, the folk-lore and all the pathetic history 
 of the Red Man in his struggle with the White Man, and future 
 ages will linger over the pages as they now do over '"The Heart 
 of ]\Iidlothian,'" and "Hiawatha."' 
 
 Of one thing Ave may he quite sure, this library will drive men 
 to action. There was a day when book-lovers liuried themselves 
 in monasteries. They simply devoured books for their own pleasure 
 and profit. This age has little patience with such a '"Bookworm." 
 It demands that our reading and thinking shall be coined into 
 conduct. The youth who is permitted to light his torch from the 
 torch of a Gladstone or a l^incoln, is expected to give his country 
 the light of a patriotism as pui-c and self-sacrificing as theirs.
 
 rilK MISSIOX OF A LIRRARY 37 
 
 If any young man or wmiiaii ciiicis this libiary and coinniunos 
 for a little while wilh Andulion, or Agassiz, or liunouglis. they 
 will be led afield to sec whal these high priests of nature have 
 seen and worshipped. \\]\n ran read Van Dyke's "Tliree ]{ivers" 
 and not want to wander tliiough the wilds? Much of tlio literature 
 of our day is "purpose" literature. It is written to set men into 
 action. Euskin Avrote not simply as an art critic, but to teach the 
 eternal verities embodied in form and propoition and color. Ife la- 
 bored to bring the inspiration of these divine truths down to merce- 
 nary Manchester and toiling East London. Our New hhigland au- 
 thors — Bancroft, Irving, Whittier, Longfellow^ Lowell, and llolines 
 — wrote not simply as literary artists, but as the sons of the nation- 
 l)uilders, who had a part to play in carrying forward the work, 
 and their influence to-da}' is of inestimable woith in carrying us 
 liark to the ideals of the founders, and kindling in our In'easts 
 a ])urpose to stand for them. A nation can never ])crish while it 
 pi'oduces authors capable of holding up her ideals in the inother 
 tongue. Give us a neAV galaxy of poets and historians and novelists 
 to catch the vision of the best, the vision of the ideals, and set them 
 as stars in the literature of our countiy to guide us. Your literati 
 and your scholars are nation-lniilders, reformers and dcfcndei'S as 
 M'ell as the law-givers, statesmen, and soldiers. 
 
 This library will be, therefore, not simply a fountain of leai'u- 
 ing, but of life. There Avill ncvci' bo a more important and influ- 
 ential institution, business or factory in tliese Tri-Cities. It will 
 be a producer of thought and of tliiidving ]iower: — that which lies 
 behind and creates your steam i)o\vcr. and electrical jtower, and 
 your ambitious commerce and making (if things. 
 
 And Ave rejoice in the conviclion thai its inlhieiicc will be 
 pure and wholesome, because it is a lihrary dominated by the 
 Book of Books, — the Bible. This Book is a lihiaiy in itself, and 
 it has produced vast libraries. It is ]n-egnant wi(h (he most potent 
 influences to fashion tlie thoughi and chaiaciei' and conduct of 
 men. It is at once the hook of history, the hook of law. and ihe 
 book of influence. It appeals to facts, and to authority, ami to the 
 love and fear and hope of our hearts; and best of all, it gathers 
 all of these agencies up in one i-egal character — Jesus Christ.
 
 38 DENKMANN MEMORIAI, LTHRARY 
 
 Tilt' ])ili]r is a purpose Book: — It aims to mould uieu iuto tlie 
 likeness of Clii'ist and lifts tlicm up into followslii|) willi the eternal 
 Father. 
 
 This Jiation wns founded l)y those who sought for Bil)le-inspired 
 lihertv. ]t has heen developed hy Bible-taught leaders, and its 
 eulture has been sanctified by Bible-loving scholars. We are now 
 confrcuited with the question, How can we continue to be a Bible- 
 guided nation? Many answers may be returned, but among them 
 all none is more important than this : — 
 
 "Maintain the Christian College, and the Christian Library as 
 the fountain of Christian life and literature. Give us, from these 
 institutions, trained Christian leaders for commerce, legislation, 
 education, and religion. If Christianity can only furnish the 
 leaders, she can dominate the life and determine the destiny of 
 the nation." 
 
 Therefore, we thank God for the establishment of this sturdy 
 Christian institution in the midst of these growing cities. We 
 rejoice in the munificent gift of these sons and daughters, which 
 builds here a memorial worthy of a beloved, father and mother, 
 worthy of their own love for the city of their birth, and worthy 
 of the cause of Christian culture. 
 
 It was the piide of every A^enitian in the days of old to return 
 from voyages and battles in the world, with a precious marble 
 as a gift to adorn some public building in his beloved city. They 
 have long since finished their work and gone to their reward, but 
 their. gifts still bless the city with beauty and preserve their names 
 in honor. 
 
 So may the noble building which shall rise upon this Corner 
 Stone stand through centuries to adorn our city, to bless the youth 
 of this whole valley, to nourish piety and patriotism, to kindle 
 emulation of the thrift, the industry and the public-spirited benev- 
 olence which reared its walls, and to perpetuate in loving memory 
 the names of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. A. Denkmann, and their 
 worthy sons and daughters.
 
 Dedication of the Denkmann 
 
 Memorial Library 
 O 
 
 Augustana College and Theological 
 Seminary 
 
 ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS 
 
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 Wednesday, Mai; 31st, 1911
 
 PROGRAM AND ORDER OF SERVICE 
 Wednesdaip, May 31, 1911 
 
 Di;. S. (J. ^'orxGEitT. Olficor of tlie D;iv 
 
 First Session, 10 A. M Dr. C. E. Lindberg", presiding 
 
 Selections {o\\ College \x\\\\) Augustana MilitaiT l^and 
 
 Organ Voluntary Prof. P. Johnson 
 
 Hymn, No. 1 5 1 
 
 Blessed Jesus, at Thy word 
 
 We are gathered all to hear Thee; 
 Let our hearts and souls be stirred 
 Now to seek and love and fear 
 Thee; 
 By Thy teachings sweet and holy 
 Drawn from earth to love Thee 
 solely. 
 
 All our knowledge, sense, and sight 
 Lie in deepest darkness shrouded. 
 
 Till Thy Spirit breaks our night 
 With the beams of truth unclou- 
 ded. 
 
 Thou a'one to God canst win us. 
 Thou must work all good within 
 
 us. 
 
 Glorious Lord. Thyself impart I 
 Light of light, from God pro- 
 ceeding. 
 Open Thou our ears and heart. 
 Help us by Thy Spirit's plead- 
 ing. 
 Hear the cry Thy people raises. 
 Heir and bless our prayers and 
 praises. 
 
 Reading of Scripture and Prayer Rev. F. O. Hanson 
 
 Song Octet 
 
 Greetings from the Institution. . .C. L. Hsbjorn, Vice President 
 
 Greetings from the City of Rock Island 
 
 Mayor Marry M. Schriver 
 
 Duet T^gci and "\'ngve Jiu-anson
 
 42 DEXKMAXX MEMOUIAI, LIBRARY 
 
 Address Rev. Edward T. Horn, D. D., LL. D. 
 
 Subject: 'I'he Library in a Cluirch School. 
 Announcements 
 Hymn, No. 104 
 
 Come, oh, come. Thou quickening Lead me to green pastures, lead me 
 Spirit, By the true and living way, 
 Thou forever art divine; Shield me from each strong temp- 
 Let Thy power never fail me, tation 
 
 Always fill this heart of mine; That might draw my heart 
 
 Thus shall grace, and truth, and astray; 
 
 light And if e'er my feet should turn. 
 
 Dissipate the gloom of night. For each error let me mourn. 
 
 Urant my mind and my affections Holy Spirit, strong and mighty. 
 
 Wisdom, coun'^el, purity; Thou who makest all things new. 
 
 That I may be ever seeking Make Thy work within me per- 
 
 Naught but that which pleases feet, 
 
 Thee. Help me by Thy Word so true. 
 
 Let Thy knowledge spread and Arm me with that Sword of Thine, 
 
 grow. And the victory shall be mine. 
 Working error's overthrow. 
 
 Benediction Rev. F. O. Hanson 
 
 Second Session, 2:30 P. M. Dedicatory Exercises 
 
 PART 1. At Denkmann Memorial Library 
 
 Dr. N. Forsander, presiding 
 
 Selections (on College lawn) Augustana Military Band 
 
 Procession 
 
 Liturgy 
 
 Hymn, No. 120 
 
 We'll crowd Thy gates with thank- Wide as the world is Thy com- 
 
 ful songs, mand. 
 
 High as the heavens our voices Vast as eternity Thy love; 
 
 raise; Firm as a rock Thy truth must 
 
 And earth, with her ten thousand stand, 
 
 tongues, When rolling years shall cease to 
 
 Shall fill Thy courts with sound- move, 
 ing praise.
 
 44 DKNKMANN MKMoKiAI, I.II!i:Ai;Y 
 
 The Collect 
 
 O Lord, Thou art the source of lighl and knowledge, Who hast blessed 
 us abundantly; we magnify Thy name for the temple of learning which 
 is to be dedicated to Thy glory and for the advancement of education: 
 direct and support the work to be done in this building and bless us 
 evermore; Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Delivery of the Keys to the Donors. . . N. S. Patton, Architect 
 Transfer of the Building and Delivery of the Keys to Augus- 
 
 tana College and Theological Seminary. , . F. C. Denkmann 
 Acceptance of the Building 
 
 . . . .Dr. L. A. Johnston, President of the Board of Directors 
 Bible Selections to be read by clerical members of the Faculty. 
 
 1. "Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, 
 in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation." 
 
 2. "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all of them that 
 have pleasure therein." 
 
 3. "He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered. The Lord 
 is gracious and full of compassion." 
 
 4. "The works of his hands are verity and judgement; all his com- 
 mandments are sure." 
 
 -5. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good under- 
 standing have all they that do his commandments; his praise endui'eth 
 forever." 
 
 6. "Wisdom hath builded her home; she hath hewn out her seven 
 pillars." 
 
 7. "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, 
 if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world 
 could not contain the books that should be written." 
 
 8. "And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book 
 written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals." 
 
 9. "And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again 
 and said. Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the 
 angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth." 
 
 The Prepideiit of the Synod shall then say: 
 
 May the Lord grant us grace faithfully to keep his words in our 
 hearts.
 
 DEDICATION im!()(;i;a:\i 45 
 
 'J'lirii llir i'rc'siiU'nt of til!' Sviiod sliall (k'llicate llic huililiiiL:'. 
 saying : 
 
 And now, by vii'tue of the aulliorily vested in me as President of the 
 Augustana Synod, I do set apart and dedicate this library building in 
 memory of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. A. Denkmann to the service of 
 Augustana College and Theological Seminary, to the advancement of 
 learning, and to the honor and glory of God. In the name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 Selection Wennerberg- Mule Cliorus 
 
 I'lic President of tlie Synod shall say: 
 
 Let us now in united prayer invoke the divine blessing upon this 
 temple of learning. 
 
 Praise be to Thee, omniscient and allwise Lord, the God of the 
 fathers and children: Thou who hast endowed us with wisdom from 
 above and hast provided means, facilities and storehouses of knowledge, 
 by which we may penetrate deeper into the mysteries of nature and 
 revelation. Do Thou let Thy presence be felt by all who seek light 
 from the wisdom in the books of this library that all may know Thee 
 as Thou hast revealed Thyself in all departments of truth, and may 
 we by Thy Spirit know Thy Son as the way, the truth and the life, 
 and understand that eternal life is to know Thee and Thy son, Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Bless, O Lord, the donors of this building and all who in the future 
 will enrich this library with treasures of intellectual wealth and the 
 necessary means for its support. And now, may this house of books 
 be consecrated to Thy service and be a blessing to our school, to the 
 conmiunity and Thy Church; Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Our Father, who art in heaven; Hallowed be Thy Name; Thy king- 
 dom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; Give us this 
 day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive, those 
 who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver 
 us from evil; For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 
 forever. Amen. 
 
 Doxology 
 
 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; 
 Praise Him, all creatures here below; 
 Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; 
 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
 benediction 
 
 Return Procession
 
 46 
 
 DKXK.MAN.N JIEMOKIAL LIliKAKY 
 
 Second Session, 3;00 P. M. 
 
 PART II. In Colleiie Chapel. Dr. E. F. Bartholomew, presiding 
 
 Organ Voluntary Prof. P. Johnson 
 
 Hymn, No. 191 
 
 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Blessings abound where'er He 
 
 Does his successive journeys run; reigns; 
 
 His kingdom stretch from shore The prisoner leaps to lose his 
 
 to shore chains; 
 
 Till moons shall wax and wane no The weary find eternal rest, 
 
 more. And all the sons of want are blest. 
 
 For Him shall endless prayer be Let every creature rise and bring 
 
 made. Peculiar honors to our King; 
 
 And endless praises crown His , , j , -^i 
 
 Angels descend with songs again, 
 head; 
 
 His name, like sweet perfume, ^"^ ^^'''^' ^^P"^^ "le loud Amen. 
 
 shall rise 
 
 With every morning sacrifice. 
 
 Address 
 
 . .Prof. W. McM. Smith, Librarian University of Wisconsin 
 Subject: The Library and the College. 
 
 Song Wennerberg Male Chorus 
 
 Address President Gustav Andreen 
 
 Greetings (8-minute speeches) : 
 
 Prof. P. L. Windsor — Librarian' University of Illinois 
 Prof. F. M. Austin, Illinois Wesleyan University 
 C. G. Wallenius, Swedish Historical Society of America 
 Dr. C. O. Granere — Librarian Aug. Coll. and Theol. Sem. 
 Rev. Theo. Ekblad — Representing the Alumni of College 
 and Seminary 
 
 Hymn, No. 158 
 
 Days are dawning, days are flying! Joy thou in that Holy Word 
 
 Hold thou fast the Word of God: Which of old on earth was heard, 
 
 "Lamp unto my feet", still crying, For man's peace and comfort given, 
 
 "Light unto my dreary road!" Only guide from earth to heaven.
 
 DEDICATION PKOCiUAM 47 
 
 Bless us, Father, and protect us, Let Thy (.ountenance on us shine, 
 Be our souls' sure hiding-place, Fill us all with peace divine. 
 
 Let Thy wisdom still direct us. Praise the Father, Son, and Spirit, 
 Light our darkness with Thy Praise Him all that life inherit! 
 grace! 
 
 Benediction Dr. M. C. Ranseen 
 
 8 — 10, P. M. — Reception in Denkniann Memorial Library 
 Torch Light Procession 
 
 ei't
 
 GREETINGS FROM THE INSTITUTION 
 
 By (\ L. Esiijuux, \'ich ruESiDi-ixT. 
 
 l.iidii's and (ic'iilk'iUL'n : — 
 
 1 ]ia\'e l)oeii iciiuestcd hv llu' IMo^idi'iit to speak a h'w words of 
 greeting and general intrcxhiction npon this oeeasion. AVe are 
 assembled here to-day to eelelirate an event unique in the history 
 of our institution, and prophetic, as we believe, of great and glori- 
 ous things for its future. This day sees the realization of a long 
 cherished thought, a hope, a dream by generations of Augustana's 
 sons and daughters, a realization far more splendid, indeed, than 
 these our seers of visions and dreamers of dreams had dared to 
 hope for or believe possible. 
 
 Thei'e stands upon our campus to-day a library ball such as 
 any college or university in the land might well be pi'oud to call 
 its own — a palace of Ijooks, for the Ijuilding of which the domains 
 of industry, art, and science have been laid under unsparing con- 
 tribution. We of Augustana have seen it gradually rise and take 
 sliape, and now it stands liefore us completed, a thing of beauty, 
 a truly royal tieasure house of knowledge, a jewel casket fit to 
 coiiiain the woibhs most precious gems — the record of the good 
 and great things thought and said. Yonder in viigin purity it 
 stands a gleaming temple of jMinerva, a jMusos' shrine, or — 
 shall I say? — -a ])aiitheon. not of the gods of old, but of the 
 cboice and mnslei- spirits of all time. And to-day the kej'^s of 
 ibis splendid sliiiclurc are to !)(_■ delixcrcd over to Augustana 
 College and Tbeoloiiical Sviiiiiiar\-. To-daN' llie Denkmann Memo-
 
 Auiiustana Bulletin.
 
 50 l)i:.\K.MAX.\ MKMOIilAL I.IMKARV 
 
 1-i.il l.ihj'aiy, tlic gift of tlie Denkmaiiii fnniily, becomes ours. 
 Tiuly, a nohJe gift — iiol)lo in tlie pentiiuciit wliicli inspired the 
 givers, noI)le in its own ricli ami )ai(' hcaiity oi' foim, and color, 
 and materia], no1)le in the pnrpose to which we are to-day to 
 dedicate it. Trnly, a greal, gift — great not only from the financier's 
 and the architect's point of view, great above all in its promise and 
 its possibilities as a center of influence, as an agency for the dissem- 
 ination of truth, beauty, and goodness, as a tool in the hands of 
 Providence for the service of man. A far-loohing and a far- 
 reaching gift, a gift not to us and to our day alone, a gift to our 
 children's children, to ages and geneiations still sleeping in the 
 womb of time. 
 
 Is it any wonder that Augustana considers this a proud day in 
 her history? Is it any wonder that she has invited her sons and 
 daughters, her friends and patrons from near and far, from our 
 own land and from lands beyond the sea, to gather at her hearth- 
 stone and rejoice with her on this her day of gladness ? "Es ist so 
 traurig, sich allein zu frcuen," says a good old writer. 'Tis so. 
 Joy is expansive. Its first and fundamental law is that of radia- 
 tion. To be complete, it must be shared, must be communicated. 
 So, kind friends, we have invited you to be with us this day, that 
 you may rejoice with us, and that thus also our joy may be full. 
 We are glad and grateful that you are here, and we extend to you 
 our hands in a clasp of hearty welcome. We would have you feel 
 that here you are at home, that Augustana is yours to-day. Of the 
 "feast of reason*' which the Alma Mater has prepared for your en- 
 tertainment, I have the honor to bid you now partake. Again, in 
 Augustana's name, I bid you welcome.
 
 GREETINGS FROM THE CITY OF ROCK ISLAND 
 
 By ^[ayok IIakry M. ScnravER. 
 
 It is eminently iitting that \\g meet here to-day to dedicate this 
 magnificent building, known as the Denkmann Memorial Library. 
 
 We who reside in this community think Ave live in one of the 
 favored spots of the globe ; we are proud of our city ; we are proud 
 of the great Father of Waters that sweeps by our doors. We ai'e 
 proud of our manufacturing industries and tlie Eock Island 
 Arsenal, one of the greatest in the world. We are proud of our 
 educational institutions, and we are more than proud of the one 
 that stands head and shoulders above them all in this vicinity — 
 Augustana College; and we are also proud of the president of this 
 institution and his splendid corps of efficient instructors, who have 
 done so much to put this college in the front rank as an educational 
 institution and the addition of this magnificent gift will add 
 impetus to the rank already reached. 
 
 While this Library is a gift to this College, indirectly it is a 
 gift to Eock Island, because anything that helps this College, helps 
 Eock Island and vice versa. And so on behalf of the City on one 
 hand I sincerely thank the donors, and on the other, I sincerely 
 congratulate the donees. 
 
 This day crowns a work of great inip(U'tance. The dedication 
 of this beautiful structure for the spread of knowledge marks a new 
 era in the history of this institution, and may this gift stand as 
 a marble monument through storm and sunshine for time eternal, 
 in memory of the generosity of the members of the Denkmann 
 family. May it be the means of spreading knowledge not only to
 
 52 DENKMANN MK.MOHIAI, I,I1!I!AUY 
 
 ilic sIikIl'hIs ui' tliis collegf, luit to tlie people of this eoiuinimity 
 as wcll^ and at the same time put old Augustana on a plane she 
 has never readied hefore. 
 
 And now. my friends, on liehalf of the City of Eock Island, 
 I bid you welcome to the best city in the State of Illinois. I am 
 sorry you don't all live here, and I feel sure if you would only 
 visit around in this vicinity for a couple of weeks, the majority of 
 you would make up your minds to spend the balance of your 
 natural lives in Eock Island. 
 
 This vicinity contains the greatest factories for the manufac- 
 turing of agricultural implements in the world. On the north, 
 midway between this city and Davenpoit, we have the Eock Island 
 Arsenal, the greatest manufacturing arsenal in the United States 
 with its miles of beautiful and scenic diiveways and sylvan shade; 
 historic, on account of its being a rebel prison during the Civil War. 
 In the city proper, we have several beautiful parks, and on the 
 south, we have a summer resort called Black Hawk's Watch Tower, 
 rich in Indian lore and history and named after a noted Indian 
 chief. It is situated on a very high hill with Eock Eiver in view 
 for miles, wending its way at your very feet, while the beautiful 
 verdure-covered valley is in view as far as the eye can carry. The 
 scenery cannot be surpassed in this State and is indeed picturestpie 
 and beautiful. 
 
 And now, my friends, again I bid you welcome. 
 
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 P}^P ^^P ®^^ P]^S S^P P5^^ K^S P]^^ 
 
 ADDRESS: THE LIBRARY IN A CHURCH SCHOOL 
 
 By Rev. Edward T. Horn, D. D., LL. D. 
 
 It is with sincere pleasure that I congratulate you upon the 
 great institution you have built up as the centre of the Swedish 
 Lutheran Church in America. This assembly and the concourse 
 which celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of the i\.ugustana Synod 
 show what this school and its sister-schools have accomplished; and 
 the magnificent building we are about to dedicate shows that the 
 College and Seminary have but begun their work, and gives prom- 
 ise of the future. 
 
 I am the more ready to congratulate you as a representative 
 of another bod}- of great co-religionists, who came to America long 
 ago^ and who, though perhaps with less conscious recognition of 
 the sacredness of the traditions which belonged to their blood and 
 speech, have struggled to maintain their peculiar character and to 
 impress it upon the American character which has been in process 
 of formation. With all American pride and confidence in the power 
 of education, I cannot but think of the fact that this is the work of 
 Swedish men, and compare it sympathetically with the work and 
 calling of the Pennsylvania Germans of whom I am one. You 
 have accomplished in fifty years what it has taken us two hundred 
 to effect. It is true that our forefathers came in little groups. 
 They were for the most part poor and unlettered men. Many of 
 them were sold into temporary bondage to repay their passage- 
 money. They were without pastors and teachers, without organiza- 
 tion, without unity. They depended on the patronage of kings 
 of an alien realm. They had to clear the forests and make the
 
 56 DEXKMAXX .MKMOIIIAL LIBRARY 
 
 fields, wliilc tlicv fouplit for llie lives of the colonists against un- 
 Inmod Indians. And llicir progress was hindered, sometimes 
 blocked, hy their tongue, a mere dialect, without a literature 
 and forbid(h'ii utterance in scliool or -worship. But in these 
 two hundicd yt'ars their hlood lias ])roved stronger than that of 
 those thev lived anmng. They have preserved their identity and 
 their peculiarity and now their language is dying out and they are 
 merging into this great Ameiican people, which owes so much to 
 other elements than the Anglo-Saxon, though it claims to include 
 them all. You brought your pastors along; you came into a country 
 with larger opportunities; you arrived on the crest of a great immi- 
 gration; and you had leaders who united with a deep piety towards 
 the faith and country of your fathers a clear insight, a wide out- 
 look, and a skilful mastery of the future. So, I say, in a half- 
 century you have arrived at the stage which it took us two hundred 
 years to attain. 
 
 One thing has marked you and us alike ; we never have been con- 
 tent to cast aside that which Avas our own — our inherited character, 
 — the traditions and faith of our fathers. Our whole past history, 
 yours and ours alike, has been devoted to the consolidation of our 
 people, to the recovery of our own treasures, to the cultivation of 
 and fidelity to that which makes us to differ from other people. 
 
 The stage which our educational work has reached betokens the 
 conception of this jareparation and our emergence into the national 
 life of the American people as a distinct and responsible element. 
 It is signalized by the erection and dedication of this great library. 
 It is noteworthy that at our own principal school of theology we 
 have recently dedicated a great library, which already has begun 
 to revolutionize our method of training. A library is a storehouse 
 of the thought of all times, and a clearinghouse for the thought of 
 our own time. Before this our method was the use of approved 
 textbooks. We dictated to our students a system of belief. In the 
 library our students will become independent investigators. When 
 we add these libraries to our schools, and make them central in 
 them, we put our thinkers into touch with the entire intellectual 
 life of our time, and we bid them fearlessly examine it, to use it, 
 to criticise it, to resist it, to direct, to control it. The tone of the
 
 58 DENKilANN iMKMOUIAl, I.lliltAKV 
 
 intellectual life (if our time is mil in liai'iiioin- willi the ti'aditional 
 character of our people or our Church. The intellectual life of our 
 time is very like that of the Eenaissance, from which the Eeforma- 
 tion saved tlie pet)ples of Europe. It is influenced hy heathen phi- 
 losophy and what is called the scientific spirit, which measures and 
 limits eveiything by experiment. It aims at the kingdom of Man 
 over against the Kingdom of God. The burden of modern univer- 
 sity teaching and modern literature is Naturalism. It is fearless 
 in inquiry, and no reverence hinders it from uttering its whole 
 thought. 
 
 The spirit of Lutherans is devoutly conservative. It is historical. 
 It reveres that which has come down to us from the past. Our be- 
 liefs, usages, ideals are more precious because they were our fathers' 
 and because they received them at the hand of their fathers from 
 the earliest ages of the Church. Our spirit is positive. The peculiar- 
 ities of our church life were developed under monarchical govern- 
 ment. Our spirit is biblical. But happily it is not Judaic. We 
 hold the beliefs and piinciples of Christianity as they were recog- 
 nized by Teutonic men. In an essential particular we differ from 
 that conception of religion which has had so great a part in shaping 
 the earlier periods of American history, but seems to have yielded 
 completely to the tendencies of the present age; and it is a great 
 advantage to us, as we come into the arena, that Christianity, the 
 gospel, never has been conceived by Lutherans as Law. 
 
 The main problems we shall have to meet are exegetical and 
 practical, — the estimation and interpretation of the Word of God 
 in the light of the present day; and the application of the Word of 
 God to new pressing needs in the life of men. We are compelled 
 to examine our system of belief in the light of modern discovery 
 and with improved methods of illustration and proof. Our Bible 
 may not be a dictionary of prooftexts. We must find in it a revela- 
 tion. Beyond the formulas and definitions by which our old mas- 
 ters anatomized the truth we must hear and bear witness to the 
 living Christ who speaks in the gospel, that we may make men 
 hear that voice and live. 
 
 Lutheian teachers have not been unfruitful in the field of 
 Ethics. But, doubtless, they have been in large measure conserva-
 
 THE LIBRARY IX A CIIURCTI SCHOOL 59 
 
 tive apologists for the social arrangements of Germany. We have 
 to meet not only those processes of social dissolution which are 
 peculiar to a new country, but those forces, which, under the im- 
 pulse of "the new learning," are sweeping over the whole world. 
 Old forms do not avail to hold the effervescence of the new spirit. 
 Religion is decried as Hebraism. Men spread out their arms in 
 the air of a new freedom, and bask in the indulgence of eye and 
 ear and sense. Conscience is confused. The family was the 
 unit of the former ethics; but the family seems to be doomed. 
 S'ocialism is proclaimed as the new gospel, and promises an earthly 
 happiness, and claims to say the final word in the development of 
 society. Are we able to stand against the tide? 
 
 Our faith is more than a theology. It has been described as the 
 theologia crucis. Paul preached a crucified Christ; and so have 
 we learned him. The atonement, more than the incarnation, has 
 been the focus of our religion; the Saviour giving himself for the 
 sins of the world even more than the king seated at the right 
 hand of God. And as ours is the theology of the Cross, may we 
 not have an answer to all the questions of the time in the Ethics 
 of the Cross, the mind that was in Christ Jesus? There we find 
 the sanction of Eighteousness, the supremacy of obedience, the 
 unity of man, the grace of God. In the conflict of labor and 
 capital, of wealth and persons, the angry debate of those who 
 clamour for an equal division, for an average of happiness, for a 
 general level of condition and opportunity, may we not teach how 
 to bear one another's burdens and to fulfil the Law of Christ ? 
 
 It is in the hope that our faith is real enough and deep enough 
 to bear the strain, with a sense of the responsibility that is upon 
 us, with ardent confidence in the calling of the American people, 
 and with entire dependence on Christ with us, that I congratulate 
 you that you and we have taken up the battle.
 
 DELIVERY OF THE KEYS TO THE DONORS 
 
 On delivering tlie keys of tlie Imildino- to ]\Ir. F. C. Denkmann, 
 tlie representative of the Denkmann ramily. ^Er. Normancl S. 
 Fatten^ on behalf of the firm of Fatton and Miller, architects, 
 said : — 
 
 1'lie vital part of a college education is the personal contact of 
 ]in])il witli teacher. This does not mean, however, that the teacher 
 is to thrust his personal ideas and idiosyncrasies ujion his pupils. 
 It means that a teacher must, himself, first of all, Ije a scholar, 
 and acquaint himself with the best thought of all countries and 
 all ages. And he must come before his classes only after he has 
 made this thought his own. Augustana College will accept none 
 but scholarly men as its teachers. 
 
 College buildings, in the matter of design, should be considered 
 as being silent and yet expressive teachers of art. A college build- 
 ing, and especially a college libi-ary, is no place for an architect to 
 intrude his personality upon the institution, unless, like the teach- 
 er, he makes his own expression to harmonize with the best art of 
 the ages. 
 
 If yon would seek for the origin of the art expressed in this 
 building, you must go back to tlie early dawn of civilization, in 
 Greece, when Homer was singing of the siege of Tro}^ You must 
 follow the evolution of Grecian ait down through the centuries 
 to that classic age of Fericles, when the gold and ivorj^ statue of 
 Pallas Athenae stood npon the acropolis of Athens, surrounded by 
 that marvelous group of buildings; for there is Greek art in the 
 building we are dedicating. Yet the building is not Greek. 
 
 Grecian art had taken root in the soil of Eome, when Caesar 
 was conquering Gaul, Cicero delivering his orations and Virgil
 
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 62 DENKMANN MKMOIUAL LIHIJARY 
 
 \\ritiiig his poems. The architecture of Eome reached a marvelous 
 development under the reigns of tlie Cffisars^ and the Denkmann 
 Memorial Lihiary shows the influence of that art. Yet it is not 
 a Eoman huilding. 
 
 During the middle ages there was evolved, as an expression of 
 religious art, the marvelous Gothic style. But, in the Fifteenth 
 Century, at the time of the Eenaissance of classic literature, there 
 was also a revival of the Eoman architecture. And there come to 
 our minds names of such architects as Bramante, who laid the 
 foundation of St. Peters at Eome, and Michael Angelo, a great 
 painter and a great sculptor, as well as a great architect, who com- 
 pleted the dome of the same. There is Italian thought in this 
 building; and yet the building is not Italian. 
 
 In our own day, the French nation has laid the world under 
 obligation by its development of architecture, especially of those 
 forms of Greek and Eoman origin. There is French thought in this 
 building to such an extent that some art critics might tell you that 
 it is designed in the French Eenaissance style; yet, this building 
 is not French. 
 
 All of ns here came from European ancestry and yet we call 
 ourselves, not Europeans, but Americans. Various styles of 
 European architecture have been transplanted to this country, and 
 have taken root on American soil. And we have as much right 
 to call them American styles, as we have to call ourselves Amer- 
 icans. 
 
 It is in this American style of the Twentieth Century, tracing 
 its lineage back through France, Italy and Greece, that this build- 
 ing has been planned. It is not meant to be a specimen of foreign 
 or ancient art, dug up out of a dead past. But, although based 
 upon the art of the past, it is meant to be an expression of the art 
 of to-day, suitable to be a monument to the memory of the man, 
 whose name it bears, and to be adapted to the needs of Augustana 
 College of to-day and the years to come. 
 
 It is a long trip from Athens to Augustana, from Eome to 
 Eock Island, and it is Avith a sense of relief, at the completion of 
 this trip, that I deliver to you, Mr. Denkmann, the keys of the 
 completed building.
 
 TRANSFER OF BUILDING TO AUGUSTANA COL- 
 LEGE AND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
 
 Mr. F. C. Denkmann, representing the Denkmann family, on 
 tendering the keys of the building to Dr. L. A. Johnston, President 
 of the Board of Directors, made the following remarks : — 
 
 Mr. President and Members of the Board of Trustees : 
 
 On this happy occasion, marked as it is by the presence of so 
 many friends of Augustana, it becomes my pleasant duty to ten- 
 der to you the keys of this building, erected as a Memorial to their 
 parents by the children of the late Mr. and IMrs. F. C. A. Denk- 
 mann. 
 
 It is their hope that its beauty and usability may ever be an 
 inspiration to present and future generations of officers, teachers 
 and students of Augustana College and Seminary to loftier ideals 
 of true education and culture. 
 
 They also have the hope that the College may ever grow in use- 
 fulness and greatness until, in duo course of time, it shall have 
 taken its place in the first rank and l)e numbered among the great 
 schools of the world, and thus continue to reflect credit upon that 
 brave, noble and honorable people, our Swedish American friends, 
 wdiom the College so fittingly represents, and for which they have 
 made so many sacrifices. 
 
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 ACCEPTANCE OF THE BUILDING 
 
 Eev. L. A. Johnston, D. D., President of the Board of Directors 
 of Augustana College and Theological Seminary, on accciiting the 
 keys of the huilding, said : — 
 
 With greatest joy I accept the keys to this huilding on hehalf 
 of the Board of Directors of Angustana College and Theological 
 Seminary at Eock Island, and at the same time I do express onr 
 hearty thanks to yon, the generous donors, for this munificent gift. 
 
 On the 28th of January, 1909, it was officially announced at the 
 college, that the heirs of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. Denkmann, 
 Eock Island, 111., had promised as a donation to Augustana College 
 and Theological Seminary to erect upon its campus a lihrary build- 
 ing at a cost of not less than $100,000, to be known as the Denk- 
 mann ^Memorial Library, as a lasting tribute to the memory of their 
 departed parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. Denkmann. The announce- 
 ment of this splendid donation caused great joy, not only in the 
 Augustana Synod, but all through the Lutheran Church and among 
 the friends of education in general. 
 
 After thoughtful care, minute planning and constant aiiplica- 
 tion on the part of the donors, the architects, the builders and 
 their craftsmen, who have given their best skill and experience, 
 this memorial library l)uilding is now completed at a cost far ex- 
 ceeding $100,000. 
 
 This has been given without provision or limitation, and will 
 now be administered under 11 le care and direction of this institu- 
 tion, in memor}'' of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. A. Denkmann. in the in- 
 terest of true education and for the glory of God. And what 
 
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 66 IIKNKMANX .Mi:\I()i;iAI. I.lint.VUY 
 
 nobler memorial could consecrated wealth have than this? "What 
 grander investment could it have made? 
 
 A library is an essential adjunct to a college and a theological 
 seminary. It throws aljout the young an atmosphere, which in- 
 vigorates the intellectual life. And with the ever increasing facil- 
 ities it offers to the faculties and the students, it will quicken and 
 nourish the noblest gifts of God for a future age. In this place 
 are now to be gathered the treasures of knowledge upon the greatest 
 themes. 
 
 But this building is more than a museum. It will do more 
 than simply preserve the memory of the past. This building is a 
 tower on the walls of Zion. From these gates shall go forth able 
 defenders of the faith and faithful laborers in the vineyard of the 
 Lord. AYe hope that in the years to come this liln-ary may become 
 a great center of learning, and that to this magnificent library will 
 turn the future scholars of the church and state for material. 
 
 To us has been committed a sacred trust. We live and move 
 and have our being in the midst of a civilization which is the legiti- 
 mate offspring of the Christian religion. But do we adequately 
 realize our favored situation? The blessings resulting from our 
 Christian civilization are poured out so regularly and so abundantly 
 on the intellectual, moral, and social world, like the sunlight and 
 the air of heaven and the fruits of the earth, that they have ceased 
 to excite and surprise except in those who visit lands where the re- 
 ligion of Christ is little known. 
 
 Our Christian colleges are the fountains of moral and spiritual 
 power. The Christian college is a nursery of highminded, high- 
 principled, well-taught, well-trained citizens fitted to fill grace- 
 fullv the puldic offices or enter honorably the professional, com- 
 mercial, industrial, and agricultural life. What better service can 
 the Church render the republic than the careful nurture of those 
 who are to guide its destinies and lead its progress? And we are 
 glad to know that men of practical devotion and large benevolence 
 are coming to the front and adding to the resources of our denom- 
 inational schools, and providing more adequate facilities for their 
 work. 
 
 This day is a dav of sfeat rejoicing and gratitude. We have a
 
 ONE OF THE SEMINAR ROOMS 
 
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 68 
 
 DEXKMANN MEMORIAL LIBKAUY 
 
 inagiiiliceiit liln'iU'v Iniildiii^- here, far nio]-o than equal to all the 
 requirements of the present. It will also meet all the needs of the 
 future. And we have now met with, joyful hearts on this lovely 
 spot and accepted this building, which will now be dedicated for the 
 purpose it has been given in the name of tlie Triune God, by whose 
 favor and blessing all has been accomplished. 
 
 ^DENKMANN^ 
 
 MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 OFFICIAL BOOK PLATE
 
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 ADDRESS: THE LIBRARY AND THE COLLEGE 
 
 By Walter ]\r. S:\riTir. Librariax University of Wisroxsix. 
 
 Xo event in the history of a college can be more significant than 
 the dedication of a beantiful and well-equipped library bnildiug — 
 such a structure as Augustana College dedicates to-day — and it is 
 both a privilege and a pleasure to bring to you on this occasion the 
 hearty congratulations of the colleges and universities of the 
 sister state of Wisconsin. That this fine building comes to you 
 as a gift, and yet not as a gift from the giver universal of libraries, 
 is a distinction Avorthy of further congratulation. 
 
 There is no one other gift which can mean so much to a college 
 as such a library building, as in the library all college interests 
 unite. It concerns all departments equally, and for all, from 
 president to freshman, it should ever be the intellectual center of 
 the institution. Fortunate then is your college in receiving such 
 a noble gift, happv those whose privilege it has been to erect such 
 a noble memorial. 
 
 When a college lihraiy bids farewell to crowded quarters in a 
 recitation hall and proudly takes possession of a new home, it en- 
 ters on a new era of usefulness and responsibility. Hence it is a 
 time, not only for felicitation, but for serious thought as well. One 
 is led to reflect on the vital relations between the library and the 
 college. What is the proper position and function of the library 
 in modern education? How far has it realized its possibilities and 
 what does it promise for the future? These are not merely a 
 librarian's c[uestions. They are of interest and import to all who 
 are interested in higher education, and hence I feel justified in
 
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 taking tliein as a point of (le[(aitin'o i'oi' my sliare in the exercises 
 of the day. 
 
 Statistics have made ns all more or less familiar with the great 
 growth in higher cdncation during the last few decades, a growth 
 Avhich. to the critical, seems sometimes more remarkable on the 
 quantitative than on the cpalitative side. If, however, we turn our 
 attention to only one feature of this growth, viz., the college library, 
 and view its advance in the last half century, there is great reason 
 for satisfaction. In 1860 the college libraries of the country were 
 small and generally of inferior character. Only Harvard and Yale 
 then had libraries of over fifty thousand volumes. Colleges of such 
 standing as Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams possessed book 
 collections of less than ten thousand volumes each. The smaller 
 and younger institutions of the south and middle west had libraries 
 ranging all the way from a few hundred to three or four thousand 
 volumes. Harvard University alone probably possesses to-day more 
 volmnes than were to be found in all the college libraries of 
 America fifty years ago. Nor were the college libraries of those 
 days more remarkable for character than for size. In his famous 
 report on American libraries published in 1851, Dr. Jewett wrote, 
 "Our colleges are mostly eleemosynary institutions. Their libraries 
 are frequently the chance aggregations of the gifts of charity, too 
 many of them discarded, as well-nigh worthless, from the shelves 
 of the donors." 
 
 Naturally such collections were not well-housed or greatly used. 
 Any attic or basement on the campus was a good enough place for 
 the library, and it was sufficient if the library was open an hour 
 or so a week, at the convenience of some overAVorked professor who 
 added to the duties of his chair those of college librarian. A former 
 neighbor of mine, an old graduate of a New England college, used 
 to tell how the library of his college would freeze up in the winter 
 months, because the poor college could not afford to heat the library 
 rooms. One feels that the easy familiarity of the modern college 
 teacher and student Avith ample book collections leads occasionally 
 to a contemptuous carelessness in their use. That was less likely 
 to happen when the book-loving student was shut off from his 
 treasures until they were unlocked to him again by a spring thaw.
 
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 These eoiulitions meant of course a use of college libraries for 
 circulation ])nrposes only. The large use for general reference 
 and in connection with regular college courses came much later 
 ■with changed methods of instruction. But even circulation in 
 those days appears to have been very meager and not greatly 
 encouraged. The story still lingers at Harvard of a former 
 librarian, who, crossing the college yard on the way to a professor's 
 house, mentioned gleefully that there were but two books out of 
 the library and he was just stepping across to get those — a story 
 which, however apocryphal, is perhaps typical of those ancient days. 
 Books were made to be preserved, rather than to be used, in the 
 eyes of the ancient librarian. 
 
 How greatly all these conditions have changed need not be 
 ■I told to any college audience. The college library of to-day is 
 generally the l)est building on the campus, and within are well- 
 ■ stocked shelves and experienced librarians. The librar\' building 
 is the first to open in the morning and the last to close at night. 
 It shares its holidays with the student body and is often oblivious 
 of any distinction between term-time and vacations. Its motto is 
 "service" and it freely offers its hospitality to any whom it can help. 
 
 But all these changes have not come to college libraries without 
 preceding causal changes in the colleges themselves, chiefly the 
 changes in college courses and methods of instruction. Wherever 
 to-day you see a strong and developing college or university, there 
 you will generally see a growing and intelligently administered 
 library. To ask the modern instructor and student to do his work 
 without an ample supply of books is to ask for bricks' without 
 straws. It is now a good many years since Carlyle said, "The true 
 university of these days is a collection of books." Like many of 
 the other aphorisms of the sage of Chelsea, this is perhaps only 
 a half-truth, but we may at least say that any true university is 
 to-day i)rovided with an ample Avorking collection of books. Give 
 to a college an able and devoted faculty, Avell-equipped laboratories 
 and a sufficient library, and that college Avill have a successful 
 career even if it be housed in humble l)uildings and does not 
 possess a winning football team. 
 
 Undoubtedlv college lil)raries have been helped largely, espe-
 
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 cially as to methods and spirit, by the modern lilirary movement 
 which has done and is doing so much for the entertainment, general 
 education, and inspiration of all the people, but in any given 
 college the fundamental improvement in library conditions has 
 generally come from an urgent demand on the part of a live faculty 
 and the securing of sufficient means to carry ideals into effect. 
 Unfortunately most of the good things of life cost money, and a 
 good live college librar}- cannot come into being without a continu- 
 ing stretun of money for books and the cost of efficient administra- 
 tion. 
 
 The college library, however, a good Avorking library for a 
 college of liberal arts, is fortunately quite inexpensive as compared 
 with the great modern university or general reference library, 
 covering in a comprehensive way the whole field of knowledge. 
 The college professor must of course be provided with a moderate 
 amount of material for his advanced work in addition to that 
 needed for ordinary undergraduate instruction, but beyond this, 
 for help in special problems, he must turn to the larger reference 
 and university liliraries. Happily this is made possible by the 
 modern system of iuterlibrary loans. The M'orker at Augustana 
 can turn for help, in Illinois, to the library of the University of 
 niinois and the great libraries at Chicago, and, outside the state, 
 to practically all the larger puljlic, reference, and university 
 libraries of the country. We at Wisconsin, who are obliged to turn 
 so often to eastern libraries for help, are most glad when in turn 
 our growing collections can be of service to serious workers in 
 other institutions. 
 
 The sight of the pleasant and well-appointed lil)rary Iniikling 
 which is dedicated here to-day, makes one realize anew one of the 
 great advantages possessed by the college library as compared with 
 the larger university library. You can safely and easily give all 
 3'our students access to all of your books. In sucli an institution 
 as the one with which I am connected, with o\er live thousand 
 students and a third of a million volumes on our library slielves. 
 it is found necessary to limit such privileges to a small fraction of 
 our students. When I remember the pleasure I had in browsing 
 in the much smaller liln-ary of my own. college days, the joy of
 
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 cliscoverhig for myself some book wliieli opened new vistas of 
 thonght and e.\])erienee, I sometimes rebel at the rules whicli it is 
 now my duty to enforce and di'eam of an extension to onr building 
 in which oven freslniien may have free access to a collection oL" at 
 least fifty thousand volumes. It is rather curious and significant 
 that with the extension of the open shelf in practically all our 
 public libraries, the larger university libraries have found it neces- 
 sary to put up the barriers. Ts our selected college public less to be 
 trusted than the general public? If this be so, it is a sad com- 
 mentary on education ! 
 
 In addition to the freedom which can be accorded to all, there 
 is in the college library, as in all the work of the college as opposed 
 to the larger numbers of the university, the possibility of closer 
 personal touch and the resulting more effective work. In spite 
 of all efforts to counteract it. the mere pressure of numbers in our 
 larger institutions tends to make the general library work mechan- 
 ical. Only by the building up of special college or course book 
 collections, with special assistants for the work, are the larger 
 institutions ahle to get back for their students some of the library 
 advantages which have been lost through mere size. 
 
 I have spoken already of the depressing condition of American 
 libraries of a half centuiy ago, but I am not sure but that the 
 college student of twenty or thirty years ago was a better read 
 person in general literature and more of a genuine book lover 
 than the average undergraduate of to-day. It has sometimes 
 seemed to me that if present conditions continue, Ave shall be 
 sending into the world each commencement a body of very illiterate 
 young men and women. I formerly thought that this was an 
 especial failing of the larger institutions of the west. l)ut the more 
 I learn of conditions of student life in eastern colleges, the more 
 I am convinced that the symptoms are national and not sectional. 
 One might think it due to the greater distractions — athletic, 
 dramatic, social — in the larger institutions. A professor from 
 one of the smaller New England colleges — one which I supposed 
 had remained a reading college — assured me a few days ago that 
 the conditions we deplore at Wisconsin are the same at Bowdoin. 
 He said that at the smaller college the student body felt that it
 
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 must have all the undergraduate "stunts'^ of the large university, 
 with the result that the average student had as many or even more 
 distractions. Be the causes what they may, the fact remains that 
 too many of our students never use the college library except when 
 sent by an instructor to do a definite stint of assigned reading. 
 
 Changed methods of instiiiction — collateral reading and the 
 preparation of topics — have of course been a prime factor in the 
 development and increased use of the college library. But like so 
 many other good things, this has not always proved an unmixed 
 blessing. There sometimes seems to l^e a mad competition between 
 instructors as to who can exact the largest amount of assigned 
 reading. The faithful student who has elected many such courses, 
 suffering now and again from the imposition of graduate methods 
 on an undergraduate class, spends many weary hours in the library 
 in a frantic yet hopeless effort to accomplish a respectable fraction 
 of the assigned work. What wonder that such courses bring on 
 severe attacks of acute mental indigestion and that small taste is 
 left for general cultural reading, even if any time remained. I 
 once expressed the situation to the dean of our college of letters 
 and science in these words, "Our poor students have so much 
 reading to do that they have no time for reading." 
 
 To a sceptic it may seem that I am complaining of the very 
 thing I am asking for our college students. But there is reading 
 and reading, and I am quite confident that the surfeit of assigned 
 reading through which a student begins on the 23rd line of page 32 
 and continues to the 16th line of page 37 of Vol. I of one authority 
 before passing on madly to another equally fragmentary reference 
 is not the sort of reading that with ordinary human nature leads 
 to a love of books and reading which the student carries away with 
 him as a pleasure and a solace in after life. One trouble is that 
 he is dealing too largely ordinarily with the literature of knowledge 
 as opposed to the literature of power. 
 
 Do 3'ou remember the passage in De Quincey's essay on Pope 
 in which he discriminates between the literature of knowledge and 
 the literature of power? "The function of the first is," he saj^s, 
 "to teach ; the function of the second is, to move : the first is a 
 rudder, the second an oar or sail. The first speaks to the mere
 
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 discursive understanding; . the second speaks ultimately, it may 
 happen, to the higher understanding of reason, but always through 
 affections of pleasure and sympathy." He illustrates the difference 
 by comparing Milton's masterpiece with the latest cook book. 
 "What do you learn from Paradise Lost? Xothing at all. What 
 do you learn from a cookery-book? Something new, sometliing 
 that you did not kudw before, in every paragTaph. But would you 
 therefore put the wretched cookery-book on a higher level of esti- 
 mation than the divine poem ? What you owe to Milton is not any 
 knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million 
 of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe, is 
 power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity 
 of sympathy with the infinite, where every pulse and each separate 
 influx is a step upwards — a step ascending as upon a Jacob's ladder 
 from earth to mysterious altitudes above the earth. All the steps 
 of knowledge, from first to last, carry you further on the same 
 plane, but could never carry you one foot above your ancient level 
 of earth; whereas, the very first step in power is a flight — is an 
 ascending into another element where earth is fogotten." And 
 because of this quality, De Quincey would award the palm to the 
 literature of power and demand for it from us the higher attention. 
 
 Both kinds of books have their places in this world, but the 
 literature of knowledge, under modern conditions, needs no de- 
 fender. What we all need to take away with us from our college 
 life is a love of the literature of power, so that we may ever find 
 pleasure, help, and inspiration in the best books, both of the past 
 and of the present. It is so easy to neglect this sort of reading 
 and to fall into the habit of finding our mental pabulum in the 
 last issue of the latest success in popular fifteen cent magazinedom. 
 
 Please do not infer from what I have said that I would have 
 the college student over-serious, spending all of his spare moments 
 in the reading of Dante, or Shakespeare, or Goethe. Wo cannot 
 be on the heights all the time. We live in a workaday world and 
 it is our business as well to be in touch Avith the living problems of 
 that world. ]\Iiich of the good we take fnnii (•i»lK\go with us comes 
 from healthy intercourse with our fellows, and the friendships 
 there formed are among the precious things of life. But I do feel
 
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 that the student who leaves college walls without carrying with 
 liiiii an ahiding love of good books and reading has missed one of 
 the most helpful things to be obtained therein — and we, college 
 teachers and college librarians, have failed in our duty if we have 
 lost any opportunities to inculcate such a love in our pupils and 
 friends. Of course it is Ijest when this taste can be formed before 
 college years, in the home and the elementary and secondary 
 schools, and the splendid work now being done in many places by 
 co-operation of schools and public libraries ought to bear fruit in 
 the oncoming generations. 
 
 Education is nothing if not experimental in this land of ours. 
 Society is never saved, but let us have faith that it is ever being 
 saved, so long as it is not stagnant. From so much patient study 
 of so many earnest workers in the whole field of education, im- 
 provements must sooner or later result. A healthy discontent with 
 methods and results characterizes our best colleges to-day. Perhaps 
 our students suffer from too much prepared and predigested food 
 in college classroom and college library. Our colleges were origi- 
 nally in pedagogical method an evolution of the New England 
 district school. Upon this was superimposed the lecture system of 
 the German university, from which we are now emerging. Perhaps 
 our next evolution will include the borrowing of the best features 
 of the English university system, and there may result a more self- 
 reliant undergraduate, spending proportionately less time in class 
 rooms and more in laboratories, working up for himself results to 
 be tested by examinations. If this should come, the undergTaduate 
 of the future will need not less help, but assistance of a different 
 character from college teachers and college librarians. Sufficient 
 work is it for the college librarian of to-day to render the library 
 of the highest possible service to all, faculty, students, and general 
 public, and to properly care for and l)uild up for the future the 
 book collections entrusted to him. 
 
 In all the various ways in whicli a library can serve a college, 
 the Denkmann Memorial Library will prove for years to come a 
 great blessing to Augustana College. Your collection of books will 
 undoubtedly grow more rapidly in the future. Let us hope that 
 some other benefactors of the college will grasp the opportunity
 
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 of providing an adequate endowment for the library. It is oui' 
 American -way. A suitable library building is first provided and 
 then the books come. At Wisconsin our university library has 
 more than tripled in the decade since we moved into a new build- 
 ing. It is a pleasure to know that your valuable historical collec- 
 tions and archives will iind a suitable home in your new library 
 building. For the reference use of your faculty and students and 
 as a help to the work of the class room, this library will be an 
 invaluable adjunct from the very outset. Yet I shall consider this 
 its most valuable service to your college, if its pleasant halls and 
 well-stocked shelves shall develop in generation after generation 
 of Augustana students a deeper love for good books and the higher 
 pleasures and satisfactions of reading. 
 
 --"^S^"2^"^
 
 GREETINGS 
 Words of greeting were spoken bu the following guests: 
 
 BY PEOFESSOK P. L. WIXDS'OE, 
 
 LIBRARIAN" UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 Mr. CJiairinan, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 
 
 The University of Illinois has a double interest in this occasion ; 
 a personal one, for yon sent one of your own young men to our 
 Library School to fit himself for work in this new library. ]\Ir. 
 Skarstedt has proved to be one of the best in his class, and naturally 
 we will follow his career and the develo]nnent of this library with 
 more than usual attention. Added to this personal interest the 
 University is glad to present to you, a sister institution, greetings 
 and congratulations on the completion of this notable addition to 
 your material equipment. It is no new thing for us to praise the 
 thorough training Augustana College gives her students, and we 
 wish you continued and increased growth and prosperity. 
 
 Shall we not believe that your success has been due largely to 
 the spiritual in ,vou? To your zeal and faithfulness in following 
 the ideals of your founders and the vision of the leaders among 
 you? For there is no great accomplishment without vision, a far- 
 sighted imagination which figures for the inner eye an end — beau- 
 tiful, noble, fitting, vivid — an end toward which effort shall l)e 
 turned. Vision belongs not only to prophets and to those we call 
 creative artists, but to leaders of every sort : Moses, Paul, Luther, 
 Lincoln, Edison, Pasteur, to name a few at random. History is the
 
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 record of vision and of strivings. Ho who formulates a course and 
 teaches a college class must, if he be a true teacher, see beyond the 
 callowness of youth to a fair, well rounded maturity ; he who would 
 develop a college campus must see and provide for the growth and 
 changes of many years ; he who plans for the college a single build- 
 ing must first share the dreams of the master builder of the institu- 
 tion, must not only see the Imilding as an architectural unit, but 
 must see it in ever expanding service to college generation after 
 college generation. Some seer of visions like this, some man or 
 group of men, whether president or faculty or generous benefactor, 
 or loyal alumnus or friend, or all of these united must have worked 
 with the architect of this building, else it would be no college library 
 worthy your name and fitting into your vision of a better college, 
 but a mere building, a pleasing pile of stone and steel and mortar. 
 
 To-day, then, we meet to celebrate the fulfilment of a dream, 
 the materialization of a vision. Fulfilment? No; only the begin- 
 ning: for they who planned, saw the lil)rary in daily, ever expand- 
 ing use and this can now begin. 
 
 It is not given to many of us to keep our vision fresh and un- 
 impaired through the heat and burden of the day. For those of us 
 who work with libraries, for example, the endless problems of 
 routine, the ever recurrent perplexities of finance, of bookselection 
 and of daily administration, these and many other ever present 
 matters of petty detail often induce a spiritual myopia which blurs 
 the more distant but larger objects and sometimes ends in all but 
 blindness to them. An occasion like this is good medicine for such 
 dimmed eyes, for we look up from the things that daily press upon 
 us and are forced again to remember that the greatest thing in all 
 our work is our vision. 
 
 And so I give l)ack to you the message you have given me: 
 \ Cling to your own large vision of what your Library shall be. It 
 is easy to forget, as I have said, and thus to lose the power of far 
 sight. Eemember that the real library is now an heritage given to 
 3^ou in trust; it is yours to cherish the vision of the few, to teach 
 others that they too may see it, to pass it on to new college genera- 
 tions until all — faculty, students, alumni and friends — have the 
 revelation of what their librarv may become, what it iras in the
 
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 vision of the few; until all see this beautiful, dignified, aui})le libra- 
 ry building, already convenient and fitted to its uses, filled with a 
 growing and well ordered collection of books so administered as to 
 satisf}^ the needs of each student and professor; to satisfy, and yet 
 to create new needs; those in turn to be satisfied and to recreate. 
 So the vision grows, flitting ahead just beyond the reach of fulfil- 
 ment. So it is with vision. It grows, it deepens, it widens, or else 
 it dies. 
 
 GREETINGS BY PROFESSOE F. M. AUSTIX, 
 
 ILLIXOIS AVESLEYAX UNIVERSITY 
 
 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 
 It afi'ords me great pleasure to have the honor of bringing to you 
 on this occasion the greetings of a sister institution. The Illinois 
 Wesleyan Universit}^, located at Bloomington, in the heart of the 
 corn-belt of this great state. 
 
 I also bring congratulations to the faculty and students of 
 Augustana College on being the possessors of such a fine library 
 building. And I extend hearty congratulations to the donors, that 
 the good Lord ever gave them the means and the disposition to 
 erect that splendid structure as a memorial to their honored parents. 
 
 A noble example of architecture has been called "frozen music." 
 That building yonder is music. Already it has sent a thrill through 
 my very being, as I have viewed it from without, and studied its 
 exquisite finish within. The Denkmann Memorial Library has 
 struck a key-note, — a high note for Augustana College, with which 
 all other future buildings erected here will be made to accord. Such 
 buildings tend to arouse and quicken the nobler qualities of our 
 natures. 
 
 If one wei'e to ask me what was the best thing my college life 
 as a student afforded me, I would not say that it was the knowledge 
 of Latin, or Greek, or mathematics, or philosophy, or the natural 
 sciences, however much I prized that knowledge, small though it 
 was; but I would say that it was "atmosphere" — the atmosphere
 
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 crciitx'd ])}' i^'ofessors of lii.uli moral and Christian eliaracter ; by 
 students of manly lives and scholarly habits; by college biiildinfis of 
 impressive and noble architecture. So will it be here. That build- 
 ing has ali'oady changed the atmosphere of this institution, and 
 teachers and students now and in future years will come under the 
 spell of its uplifting influence. 
 
 I have a vision of other Iniildings rising on these slopes, noble 
 in outline, magnificent in proportions, and made to hanuonize with 
 this library building whose dedication we celebrate this afternoon. 
 
 Who can estimate the good which such a gift as this, when 
 properly endowed and made the receptacle of all that is best in 
 books, will do to those whose privilege it is, and will be, to enjoy its 
 bounties ? 
 
 All praise and honor to the donors, and renewed congratulations 
 to faculty, students and friends of Augustana College and Theologi- 
 cal S'eminary! 
 
 GEEETIN'GS BY C. G. WALLENIUS, 
 
 SV^EDISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 
 
 Ml'. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 
 I am under great obligation to the Council of the Swedish His- 
 torical Society of America for the privilege it has granted me to 
 be its representative at this important occasion and to. President 
 Andreen for his permission to bring a few words of greeting. 
 
 The Swedish Historical Society of America was organized six 
 years ago for the purpose of collecting and preserving for future 
 generations a library of books and manuscripts relating to Swedish 
 men and institutions on the American continent and a museum 
 containing objects of interest on account of their associations with 
 immigrants of Sweden or their descendants. In this brief time we 
 have already collected more than two thousand books and pamph- 
 lets relating to Svedish American life and history, and on the 
 shelves of our library are filed from week to week the greater num- 
 ber of Swedish American newspapers and other periodical publica- 
 tions that are being published.
 
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 DKXKMANX MEMOIUAL IJBRAKY 
 
 An organization of tliis l<iii(l must natni'ally stand in a very 
 friendly relation to all institutions of learning, c-ulture and religion 
 in which our countrymen are interested both here and in the old 
 fatherland. We therefore look with feelings of justifiable pride 
 upon the rapid growth and development of our Swedish American 
 colleges, academies and seminaries during the last fifty years. But 
 to-day we bring to Augustana College and Theological Seminary 
 our most heartfelt felicitations upon this new step in its develop- 
 ment, this magnificent library, which will stand as a monument 
 of the munificent liberality of the donors and an ornament to the 
 institution that has been deemed worthy of receiving it. Augustana 
 College and Theological Seminary is the mother of all our institu- 
 tions of learning, and it is perfectly proper that she should have 
 the best equipped library as an adjunct in doing her important 
 work. Therefore, let every true Swedish American, on this memor- 
 able day, arise and congratulate her upon her success, and let us 
 hope that her growth will not cease until she has attained an hon- 
 orable place among the greatest schools of the land. 
 
 ;Mr. President, let me assure you that of all the greetings which 
 have come to you this day none is more sincere or well meant than 
 the one I have the honor to bring you from the Council of the 
 Swedish Historical Society of America. 
 
 REMINISCENCES 
 
 By Dr. C. 0. Granere, Librarian Augustana College and 
 Theological S'eminary. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 
 The few minutes I shall have the honor of addressing you upon 
 this joyful occasion, I shall endeavor to recount briefly some of my 
 reminiscences relative to the first pul^lic announcement of the 
 Denkmann donation to Augustana. 
 
 The day on Avhich that announcement was made, namely, the 
 28th dav of January, 1909, a day indellibly inscribed in the annals 
 of this institution, was what we generally call a gloomy and dis- 
 agreeable day. For a drenching rain was falling, without notice-
 
 GREETINGS S7 
 
 able interruption, all day ]on<i'. making us feel rather uncomfortable, 
 that is to say, before the announcement of the donation. This out- 
 ward disagi'eeableness of the day may be conceived of as emblematic 
 of the wretched situation and unfortunate condition of our library 
 affairs, as these were immediately before the Denkmann donation 
 and up to the present time, causing us more worry and uneasiness 
 than I could ever begin to tell. For our library accommodations 
 at that time had more and more become inadequate. The location 
 of the library did not afford sufficient facilities for good order, much 
 less the necessary space for a reasonable growth. 
 
 Then there was the danger of fire, a danger that three times 
 already, once in Paxton and twice in Eock Island, had threatened 
 our library with destruction, and a danger so much more annoying 
 as some of our library possessions, if destroyed, could by no amount 
 either of effort or money be restored. And besides this danger of 
 fire there was another danger, not less annoying, namely, the possi- 
 bility of snapping of the joists of the library floor. For this floor, 
 though a very strong one, was never intended, when built, to l^ear 
 up the tremendous weight of, say, 30,000 volumes. And often, 
 when strong winds were blowing, I had felt the floor vibrate and 
 heard the joists creak as if ready to snap asunder. 
 
 The prospect thus repeatedly held out to us was to have the 
 whole library, librarian, reading room, visitors and all, suddenly 
 some day, with an aAvful crash, go flying three stories down, crush- 
 ing everybody and everything in the way, and finally landing in 
 the furnace room to be devoured by greedy flames, or scalded by 
 hot steam. Now that we are out of the danger, it seems amusing 
 to think of it. 
 
 It is plainly to be seen then that our most crying need at the 
 time was a new, commodious and fire-proof library building. But 
 how to get such a building, that was the troublesome question. 
 We were at the time collecting, to be sure, quite a large so-called 
 jubilee fund; but that was wholly needed for other purposes. And 
 to ask our people for contributions both to the jubilee fund and 
 for a new library building we could hardly do at the same time 
 with any hope of success. What in the world were we going to do 
 then? For the situation was such that we had to do or die.
 
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 Then, in these ])erplexing' circumstances, the Denkmann dona- 
 tion came. — not as a clap of thnnder from a clear sky, although 
 entirel}' unexpected, no; hut as a very pleasant and refreshing 
 summer shower upon the dry soil of the earth, penetrating to the 
 roots of the half dead plants, reviving them and causing them to 
 grow vigorously. 
 
 Are wc not right then in regarding the Denkmann donation as 
 a great providential l)lessing? And was it to he wondered at that 
 President Andreen, who was the first one to receive information of 
 that donation, was so overjoyed hy the glad tidings, that, when he 
 came to tell the rest of us about it, he broke down and was unable 
 for some time to control his emotions ? 
 
 Thus we come then to a few particulars as to how the first 
 public announcement of the Denkmann donation was made. 
 
 In the morning of the clay of the announcement President 
 Andreen had gone to Chicago there to continue his work for the 
 jubilee fund. But later in the day we learned that he, all of a 
 sudden, had returned home, and, not knowing why, we were some- 
 what puzzled about it. The reason of it was that he by telegram 
 had been invited to a conference with the Denkmann heirs here at 
 Rock Island, and therefore had hastened home. And that he did 
 so he, surely, is not likely ever to regret. For it was at that con- 
 ference he first received information of the intended donation. 
 
 About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the day of the announce- 
 ment we received a kind of hurried and mysterious call to gether 
 in the chapel at -i o'clock for a meeting with the president. Imme- 
 diately thereupon questions began to make their rounds about the 
 halls and class rooms and everywhere as to w^hat was up ; what had 
 happened; what was the object of the meeting, and so forth. Xo- 
 body knew. But some one, who had seen the president hurriedly 
 pass by and enter his otfice, ventured to remark, "Whatever is up, 
 it can't he anything very pleasant, the way the president looked 
 when I saw him a moment ago." "How did he look ?'' was asked. 
 "Oh, kind of grouchy and grave," was answered. And thus, by 
 one thing after another, now impetus was given to our constantly 
 growing curiosity. Soon, however, the bell rang 4 o'clock, and we 
 immediately set out for the chapel. While we were assembling the
 
 90 DEXKMAXX MEMORIAL LIBKAUY 
 
 president came in, entered the platform and sat down. ■"The ■way 
 he looked," seemed immediately to become a matter of general 
 even though mute inquiry; for at once the eyes of all were search- 
 ingly upon him. And something was evidently the matter; there 
 was no denying it. For if he did not look "grouchy" exactly, he 
 certainly looked agitated after a sort, occasionally trying as if to 
 swallow something, we did not know what it was. The president's 
 appearance, therefore, was not calculated to allay, but, on the con- 
 trary, to rouse our curiosity even more than anything else that, 
 so far, had transpired. 
 
 When all had arrived, he requested us to sing some stanzas of a 
 hymn, probably because he wanted more time to compose himself. 
 After the singing he rose slowly and began some preliminary 
 remarks which seemed to us too tedious; for our eagerness to learn 
 what really was the matter had by this time become intense. 
 Finally he came to it and said that he, that very day, had met the 
 Denkmann heirs and been informed that they had resolved to 
 donate to Augustana College and Theological Seminary a new, sub- 
 stantial library building to cost at least $100,000, and maybe more. 
 Just for a moment we sat as if stunned, but the next moment 
 there was an outburst, the like of which, as far as I know, was 
 never before witnessed in this place. We cheered, applauded, 
 laughed and yelled like madmen. But we were not mad : we were 
 only exceedingly rejoiced and happy. 
 
 Later in the evening a crowd of our best singers at the time 
 among the students donned their overcoats, seized their umbrellas 
 and started out to hunt up the Denkmann heirs in their homes; 
 for they wanted to sing them to sleep that night, and by means of 
 hearty cheers and other expressions of appreciation predispose, as 
 it were, their minds to sweet repose, pleasant dreams and other 
 enjoyable feelings from on high. To what extent our enthusiastic 
 singers succeeded in accomplishing their good intentions, I do not 
 know. But I do know that we, the happy recipients of the munifi- 
 cent Denlvmann donation, have ever since its first announcement 
 slept better at nights and dreamed more pleasant dreams both night 
 and day than we did immediately before. And this happy condi- 
 tion of affairs still continues.
 
 GREETINGS 91 
 
 GEEETINGS- BY EEY. A. THEO. EKBl.AD, 
 
 PILGRIM LUTHEEAN CHURCH, SUPERIOR, WIS. 
 
 The 50tli anniversary of Augiistana College and Theological 
 Seminary was of historical moment to her sons and daughters. But, 
 the 31st of May, 1911, on which the Denkmann Memorial Library 
 has been set aside for the purposes intended, is of 'equal importance 
 in the history of our beloved Alma Mater. The magnificent struc- 
 ture, erected by the Denkmann heirs, is ready for occupancy. Its 
 splendid appointments will serve to facilitate the efforts of those 
 who are privileged to make use of same. 
 
 The Denkmann Memorial Library will henceforth be the study, 
 the inviting work-room, of that youth which from time to time 
 will make use of the opportunities offered at this our institution. 
 
 It may be true that, "the springs of life do not flow from the 
 dust of libraries," but it is equally true that the life of the individ- 
 ual is made more worth the while by reason of his or her having 
 come in contact with the life stored in the libraries. What are the 
 treasured pages in the books worth the while but records of thought 
 life as it has matured in the school of life? Books are not dead 
 things. They are living forces, storage batteries, to make use of by 
 the living. Carlyle says, "In books lies the soul of the whole past 
 time. All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been, is lying 
 as in magic preservation in the pages of books." 
 
 We are enabled to appreciate and understand the present better 
 if we are brought in touch with the thoughts which have swayed 
 the world in the past. It is therefore our duty to enter the thought- 
 world of the past and of the present with fearlessness. ISTo realm of 
 thought is too sacred for honest and thorough research. That which 
 in the past was tabooed at the behest of ignorant fear, is to-day 
 fully understood — thanks to the untiring efforts of inquiring though 
 oft misjudged souls. 
 
 We need have no fear in making full use of our thought heritage. 
 Our one sole care ought to be to conscientiously cull the truth. It 
 is our duty to obseiwe the testimony of history in all things, but 
 it is not our duty to be merely the dust catchers of antiquity. In 
 all our efforts we should beware of the tourist route. Seek the real
 
 92 IIK.NKMA.W MK.MOIilAL LIBUAUY 
 
 and the true. Be it at the expense of exacting toil and cruel heart- 
 ache. Never mind the cost if only the finalities will serve to lead 
 all on toAvards the all in all Truth. 
 
 I rejoice to know, that our teachers are not required to suljmit 
 their lectures to some church dignitary for their approval e're they 
 venture to deliver them in our classrooms. I rejoice to know that 
 our young men and young women are never Ijarred from reading 
 the best available in their chosen lines. 
 
 "We stand on the basis of truth, the most plausible, and conse- 
 quently we have no fears of any imagined losses, but we are ever 
 confident of positive gains. 
 
 Whate'er the field — that which cannot stand the test of time 
 is always reverently laid aside. Science, philosophy or theology 
 serves the best interests of man when clad in roljes of life. 
 
 We the sons and daughters of Augustana College and Theologi- 
 cal Seminary — scattered throughout the world — in India, in China, 
 in Turkey, in Sweden, in Mexico, in South America, in Canada, in 
 the various States of our Union, — hail this day as the greatest day 
 so far, in the annals of our Alma Mater. 
 
 "We rejoice to-day Avith those who are to have the good fortune of 
 enjoying bettered advantages while here in training for their life's 
 work. 
 
 To the donors, who so generously have come to our aid in the 
 upbuilding of our Augustana, we cannot but pledge our earnest 
 efforts in a common cause, to make this our Denkmann Memorial 
 Library a repository of the best that has been produced, that in the 
 future may be produced in the various fields of human thought. 
 
 This stored thought-life will serve to mature the thought lives 
 of mimbers untold and thus bring a wholesome influence to bear 
 on the generations yet to come. 
 
 We the sons and daughters of Augustana thank you for your 
 kindness. Our posterity will bless you. The Denkmann Memorial 
 Librarv will, for as:es to come, be the verv heart of our AiTo-nstana.
 
 HHHBBBHB 
 
 TELEGRAMS AND LETTERS 
 
 were received irom the lollowing persons: 
 
 President William H. Taft, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Charles S. Deneen, Governor of Illinois, Springfield, 111. 
 
 A. 0. Eberhart, Governor of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 K. H. G. von Seheele, Bishop of Visby, Visby, Sweden. 
 
 E. H. Eodhe, Bishop of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. 
 
 Axel Kock, President University of Lund, Lund, Sweden. 
 
 Iv. F. Soderwall, Professor University of Lund, Lund, Sweden. 
 
 Bernhard Lundstedt, Librarian Eoyal Library, Stockholm, Sweden. 
 
 L. N". B3^gden. Chief Librarian University of Uppsala, Uppsala, 
 Sweden. 
 
 Aksel Anderson, Librarian L'niversity of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. 
 
 J. Bergstedt, Librarian Eoyal Society of Sciences, Stockholm, 
 Sweden. 
 
 L. Wahlin, Librarian University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 
 Sweden. 
 
 Evald Ljunggren, Librarian L'niversity of Lund, Lund, Sweden. 
 
 Edmund J. James, President University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 
 
 A. W. Harris, President Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. 
 
 John S. Nollen, President Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, 111. 
 
 Geo. E. MacLean, President State University of Iowa, Iowa City, 
 Iowa. 
 
 E. F. Weidner, President Theological Lutheran Seminary, May- 
 wood, 111. 
 
 E. G. Burritt, President Greenville College, Greenville, Penna. 
 
 A. C. Gray, Acting President Eureka College, Eureka, 111. 
 
 Ernest Pihlblad, President Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kans.
 
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 Frank Nelson, President Minnesota College, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 David H. Bauslin, Dean Hamma Divinity School, Springfield, Ohio. 
 
 S. N. Hagen, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Charles H. Graves, Minister to Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden. 
 
 Knut William Bagge, Acting Vice Consul of Sweden, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Count Ehrenswiird, Minister Plenipotentiary of Sweden, Washing- 
 ton, D. C. 
 
 Eichard Akerman, Generaldirektor, Stockholm, Sweden. 
 
 C. A. Smith, Consul, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 G. N. Swan, Vice Consul, Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 C. The. Crona, Director of Music, Uddevalla, Sweden. 
 
 N. G. Dyberg, Pastor, Uddevalla, Sweden. 
 
 Per Pehrsson, Eector Carl Johan Congregation, Gothenburg, 
 Sweden. 
 
 Aug. Weenaas, Ness Parsonage, Eomerike, Norway. - 
 
 Mrs. Maria Ekman, Widow of Consul Ekman, Stockholm, Sweden. 
 
 S'elma Lagerlof, Falun, Sweden. 
 
 Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Dean Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. 
 
 H. A. Weld, Eepresenting Oberlin College, Ohio, Eock Island, 111. 
 
 Count Lage Gdransson Posse, Portland, .Oregon. 
 
 Bishop Marmaduke Hare, Trinity Cathedral, Davenport, Iowa.
 
 COMMITTEES 
 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
 Rev. Dr. E. Norelius, Rev. Johan Torell 
 
 President of Synod, ex officio Rev. C. P. Edblom 
 
 Rev. Dr. Gustav A. Andreen, 
 
 President of the Institution, 
 
 ex officio 
 Rev. Dr. L. A. Johnston, 
 
 President of the Board 
 Rev. Dr. J. A. Kvantz 
 Rev. Dr. L. G. Abrahamson 
 Rev. Joseph A. Anderson, 
 
 Secretary of the Board 
 Rev. C. J. Sodergren. 
 
 *Rev. N. P. Sjostrom 
 Dr. A. Theo. Larson 
 Dr. C. G. Johnson 
 Dr. Andrew Johnson 
 Consul G. N. Swan 
 Consul L. L. Malm 
 Mr. A. G. Anderson 
 Mr. John A. Benson 
 Mr. N. A. Nelson 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 Rev. Dr. L. A. Johnston, President Mr. A. G. Anderson, Secretary 
 Rev. Dr. G. A. Andreen, ex officio Prof. Andrew Kempe, 
 Rev. Dr. L. G. Abrahamson Treasurer, ex officio 
 
 *Rev. N. P. Sjostrom 
 
 LIBRARY BUILDING COMMITTEE 
 Rev. Dr. L. A. Johnston Prof. C. L. Esbjorn 
 
 Rev. Dr. G. A. Andreen Rev. A. T. Ekblad 
 
 Rev. Dr. C. E. Lindberg Rev. Dr. C. O. Granere 
 
 Rev. Dr. N. Forsander Dr. J. A. Udden 
 
 COMMITTEE ON CORNER STONE LAYING 
 President G. A. Andreen Dr. S. G. Youngert 
 
 Dr. C. E. Lindberg Dr. E. F. Bartholomew, Sec'y 
 
 Dr N. Forsander Prof. A. W. Kjellstrand 
 
 DEDICATION COMMITTEE 
 
 President G. A. Andreen 
 Dr. L. A. Johnston, 
 
 President of the Board 
 Dr. C. O. Granere, Librarian 
 Dr. N. Forsander 
 Dr. C. E. Lindberg 
 
 Dr. S. G. Youngert 
 
 Dr. C. W. Foss 
 
 Dr. E. F. Bartholomew 
 
 Dr. J. A. Udden 
 
 Prof. C. L. Esbjorn, Sec'y 
 
 ARCHITECTS: Patton and Miller, Chicago. 111. 
 BUILDERS: Jobst and Sous, Peoria, 111. 
 
 Deceased.
 
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