APRIL, 1914 
 
 Bulletin of the University of Georgia 
 
 Volume XIV 
 
 Number 7b 
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 Entered at the Post Office at Athens, Ga., as Second Class Matter, August 31,1905, 
 under Act of Congress of July 16th, 1904. Issued Monthly by the University. 
 
 Serial Number 223 
 
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 Extract from the Minutes of the Alumni Society 
 
 The following resolution offered by T. W. Seed, was adopted: 
 “Realizing the need of a more thorough equipment of the Uni¬ 
 versity of Georgia library with books covering every department 
 of study and research, and looking forward to days when great¬ 
 er and greater additions to its shelves must be made, if the young 
 men of Georgia are to be furnished the library facilities their 
 educational training will demand: 
 
 ‘‘Be it resolved, by the Alumni Society of the University of 
 Georgia that a committee of five members be appointed by the 
 president, charged with the duty of securing donations from 
 alumni and friends of the institution to a fund to be known as 
 the Alumni Library Fund, said donations to be turned over as 
 fast as received to the treasurer of the University and by him 
 invested in some safe security, preferably state, county, or muni¬ 
 cipal bonds, the principal of said fund to remain forever intact 
 and the interest only to be used for the purchase of books for the 
 library, under the direction of the Librarian, with the approval 
 of the Chancellor, or in such manner as the Board of Trustees 
 of the University may determine, should that body see fit to 
 change the method of purchasing books in the future.” 
 
 The above is a copy of a resolution offered by T. W. Reed, 
 Esquire, at the last annual meeting of the Alumni Society and 
 adopted by the Society. Pursuant to this resolution the presi¬ 
 dent appointed the following committee: 
 
 M. G. Michael, Athens, Ga., Chairman. 
 
 T. W. Reed, Athens, Ga., Secretarjr. 
 
 E. M. Mitchell, Atlanta, Ga, 
 
 W. A. Harris, Macon, Ga. 
 
 J. A. Davison, Camden, S. C. 
 
 The object of the resolution and the duties of your Committee 
 are manifest. The purpose of this Bulletin is to inform the So¬ 
 ciety concerning the Committee’s plans and to appeal to the 
 Alumni for their support. 
 
 I shall not dwell upon the need for such a fund as the resolu¬ 
 tion contemplates, or upon the advantages, which the University 
 
will derive therefrom. These are either apparent or will become 
 so upon a consideration of the resolution and the comments upon 
 it by the gentlemen of this Committee, who are most familiar 
 with the library’s needs and its deficiencies. 
 
 Your Committee firmly believes that all Alumni who really de¬ 
 sire to assist the University and to give to Alma Mater in return 
 for that which has been received, will find no more acceptable 
 and worthy means than a contribution to the Library Fund. An 
 opportunity for great good is afforded every son of Georgia, and 
 we are of the opinion that the response to our appeal will be 
 generous and liberal. 
 
 It must be observed that only the interest derived from this 
 fund is to be used in the purchase of books; the principal remain¬ 
 ing forever intact as a memorial of the love of this body for the 
 University. It is therefore imperative that each man of us 
 should give as much as he possibly can, else the purpose of this 
 resolution must fail. With this in mind your Committee has 
 deemed it wise to permit all contributions to be paid in five an¬ 
 nual instalments in the hope that the fund will be five times as 
 large as it would be otherwise. 
 
 The rate of interest yielded by the class of securities in which 
 the fund is to be invested is small. Often ten thousand dollars 
 will earn only about four hundred dollars, and certainly we must 
 have at least that amount, if the Alumni would make this Alumni 
 Library Fund worthy of the University. That it will be even 
 larger, your Committee does not doubt. The resolution was 
 unanimously adopted and we expect the same unanimity in its 
 support. The younger of our brothers are wont to speak of 
 the “ Georgia Spirit.” All of us, however, have this spirit, the 
 spirit of generous, loyal, devoted service, and this is a sufficient 
 guarantee of a large and useful Alumni Library Fund. 
 
 M. G. Michael, (Class of 1878.) 
 
The Alumni Library Fund 
 
 Nothing adds more to the dignity and prestige of a college 
 than the possession of a great library. It is not merely necessary 
 to have an adequate and commodious building but it is even 
 more important to have a large number of books. The Universi¬ 
 ty of Georgia has a suitable library building and an excellent li¬ 
 brary of books but the number of these is by no means propor¬ 
 tioned to the greatness of this time-honored institution of learn¬ 
 ing. It ought to be possible for the Faculty, the undergraduates 
 and the public to find in the library of the University of Georgia 
 every standard authority in every branch of learning. The cir¬ 
 culating library of the ordinary Carnegie type in our cities and 
 towns must necessarily devote its efforts to satisfying the tastes 
 of the greater number of the reading public and its funds for the 
 purchase of books must perforce be used mainly in the purchase 
 of the lighter and perishable literature demanded by its patrons. 
 The function of the University Library is different. Its duty 
 is to supply that more solid literature required by the student, 
 the investigator and the writer while not neglecting entirely 
 works of a lighter character. 
 
 It ought to be the ambition of the University of Georgia to 
 build up one of the great libraries of the world. Why not? Is 
 he too much of an optimist who anticipates in the course of a few 
 generations a population in Georgia equal to that of many of the 
 countries of the old world and that the South will rival in pop¬ 
 ulation and wealth the great Empires of Europe? The Univer¬ 
 sity of Georgia is located at the educational center of Georgia 
 and of the Southeastern States. There there ought to be not 
 merely an ordinary college library but an institution which in the 
 number and value of its books, would rank with the greatest 
 national libraries. Along with the increase in our population 
 and wealth there ought to be a corresponding increase in edu¬ 
 cational facilities. The University is not merely building for a 
 day but for the ages to come. 
 
 The Alumni Library Fund has been started and all who re¬ 
 ceived their education at Athens ought to deem it a pleasant 
 privilege to contribute to this fund and help build up an institu¬ 
 tion which is already an ornament to our State and which will 
 in the future years help to spread the fame of Old Georgia. 
 
 Eugene M. Mitchell, (Class of 1885). 
 
Benefits That Will Last 
 
 There are few ways, if any, in which a man may more surely 
 project his influence across the centuries than by writing a meri¬ 
 torious book, but the genius necessary to the writing of such a 
 book is given to comparatively few. Hence, if the great majori¬ 
 ty of men would do great service to the generations coming after 
 them they can do no better than by placing in the hands of the 
 youth of their respective communities the books contributed to 
 the world by the master intellects of all ages. 
 
 There are thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of 
 thousands of such books. The University of Georgia has a splen¬ 
 did library building in which they may be kept for use. The 
 State of Georgia furnishes over six hundred young men who are 
 the recipients of such benefits as may be bestowed by the educa¬ 
 tional training in this institute. But the books are not here. We 
 have a fairly good library, but not such as it should be. With the 
 limited funds available, the best possible has been done. This 
 movement of the Alumni Society is for the purpose of providing 
 a steady income for the library with which many of the best 
 books may be purchased each year. 
 
 The attention of the alumni is called to the fact that the do¬ 
 nations made will work in perpetuity. The principal of the 
 fund can never be used. Every donation will yield income every 
 year so long as the University of Georgia exists. Those who give 
 to this fund will some day pass from the scenes of life, but their 
 gifts will continue to do good. Such monuments are worth build¬ 
 ing. 
 
 A workman cannot build a piece of complicated machinery 
 without the proper tools. The finished structure of a human life 
 cannot be erected without the proper tools. Among the essen¬ 
 tial tools are good books. Our young men are building for Geor¬ 
 gia magnificent temples of character and efficiency. Let us fur¬ 
 nish them with the necessary tools to be used in this work. 
 
 The great big questions of life are grappled with and settled 
 by the scholar. The scholar cannot reach his highest efficiency 
 without much research work. That kind of work calls for much 
 reading. That reading cannot be accomplished if the books are 
 not at hand. 
 
Here is an opportunity for the alumni of the University of 
 Georgia to build an enduring monument. We believe that each 
 alumnus will he glad to furnish some of the material with which 
 it is to be built. 
 
 T. W. Reed, (Class of 1888). 
 
 The Library and the College 
 
 Books are absolutely necessary to higher education. The 
 function of the University of Georgia is to promote this higher 
 education. Therefore, it must have books to do its work and a 
 plenty of them. Books represent the best of the world’s thoughts, 
 the highest contribution which the greatest characters can make 
 to the development of life. The function of education is to en¬ 
 rich life. The master minds of every era have made it a habit 
 to associate with the greatest characters of the world’s history 
 through what they have written for the purpose of reaping the 
 benefit of their experimental insight into life’sessentials. With 
 reference to the work, our Alma Mater is doing to develop the 
 lives of the best young manhood of the State of Georgia, the con¬ 
 clusion is inevitable that our University library should be en¬ 
 dowed with adequate funds, not only to keep its shelves filled 
 with what has been written in the past, but also to provide for 
 its students the opportunity of coming in contact with the ful¬ 
 ness of modern thoughts in every phase of its rich development. 
 
 The handicap of inadequate library facilities, at present, con¬ 
 stitutes a serious problem to those who are trying to lead out to 
 bigger things in their development of the life of our State to its 
 highest capacity. In the light of the facts that have been pre¬ 
 sented by the Chancellor and the University Librarian it is 
 hardly necessary to say that every man who considers himself 
 an alumnus of the Old University will respond readily to the 
 appeal of Mr. Michael and the Alumni Library Fund Committee 
 for cooperation in a commendable effort to remove this handicap. 
 All of us are going to respond. The spirit of gratitude for the 
 new grasp upon life, which those years at college furnished, 
 prompts our hearts. And when our hearts are prompted our 
 hands go with them to lay hold on the tasks of the hour. 
 
 John A. Davison, (Class of 1908). 
 
In April, 1902, during the Southern Educational Conference 
 in this city, the announcement was made from the chapel stage 
 that a friend of the University of Georgia had given the sum of 
 fifty thousand dollars for a library building. As the result of 
 that splendid gift the University now has a library building of 
 which its alumni and friends are justly proud. 
 
 The friend who so generously gave this building to the Univer¬ 
 sity was Dr. George Foster Peabody, a native of Georgia and a 
 distinguished and successful citizen of New York. This gift was 
 but one of many made by this generous Georgian to those worthy 
 institutions whose work appealed to his judgment and his desire 
 to do good for humanity. 
 
 Nor did his interest in this institution pass with the making 
 of this donation. Every advance movement by the University 
 has had his loyal support, financially and otherwise. He justly 
 ranks as one of our greatest benefactors. 
 
 His interest in the University library is manifested each year 
 by the gift of scores of books, selected with care and with an eye 
 to their usefulness. 
 
 Through the generosity of this distinguished friend, the Uni¬ 
 versity of Georgia has the necessary library building. But the 
 books on its shelves are not in keeping with the structure. The 
 University has a fairly good library, but not such as it should 
 have. The Alumni Society, through its committee, is endeavor¬ 
 ing to raise a fund, from the interest on which a large number 
 of books may be added to the library each year. 
 
 The Alumni of the institution can show their appreciation of 
 the Peabody Library Building in ,no better way than by filling 
 its shelves to overflowing with the best books. 
 
George Foster Peabody 
 
A Word from the Chancellor 
 
 It is with pleasure and grateful pride that I note the effort 
 of the Alumni to raise an endowment fund for the library. 
 
 Already we have evidence, 
 in the magnificent domain of 
 more than 900 acres extend¬ 
 ing from the centre of Ath¬ 
 ens far beyond the limits of 
 the city, of that which can 
 be accomplished when the 
 Alumni of the University, 
 with purpose of heart, set 
 themselves to a task. 
 
 Another evidence of their 
 devotion is found in the 
 gymnasium which while it is 
 but a part of the building 
 which the Alumni propose 
 to construct, has been given 
 by the Alumni and friends 
 of the University. 
 
 The Alumni have now 
 turned their thought and 
 effort to the heart of the 
 University, for all know that 
 the library is the heart of an 
 institution of learning. 
 
 As we were fortunate in the leaders of the former undertak¬ 
 ings, we are equally favored in the devoted alumnus and thorough¬ 
 going gentleman who has consented to serve as chairman of the 
 committee in charge of this undertaking. 
 
 We await with confidence the outcome of this new effort of 
 the Alumni. 
 
 D. C. Barrow, (Class of 1874). 
 
Some Library Statistics 
 
 Statistics of the size and annual book funds of a number of 
 state university libraries should be interesting. Note that the lar¬ 
 gest of them are in states whose wealth does not greatly exceed 
 that of Georgia; hardly equal in potential wealth. Note the 
 amount that comparatively poor states, such as Idaho, Montana, 
 Oklahoma, the Dakotas, etc., are spending. These institutions are 
 new, all their books are ‘ ‘ live, ’’ they are all asking for more mon¬ 
 ey to meet needs—and getting it. Note the amount the progressive 
 southern libraries in this list are receiving, and especially the 
 size of the library and the annual book fund (which has hardly 
 fallen below $5,500, and usually exceeded this amount during 
 the last ten years) of our nearest progressive competitor, the 
 University of North Carolina library. The statistics of this 
 library are peculiarly interesting because of the considerable 
 amount of its funds derived from alumni endowments. 
 
 STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 
 
 Minnesota 
 
 Illinois 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 Ohio 
 
 Kansas 
 
 Iowa 
 
 Oregon & Oregon Agr’l 
 California 
 
 VOLUMES 
 
 ANNUAL BOOK FUNDS 
 
 160,000 
 
 $ 32,000 
 
 223,000 
 
 32,000 
 
 288,000 
 
 30,000 
 
 175,000 
 
 26,000 
 
 123,000 
 
 20,000 
 
 282,000 
 
 14,000 
 
 94,000 
 
 13,500 
 
 63,000 
 
 12,000 
 
 238,000 
 
 10,000 
 
 Texas 
 
 Washington 
 
 Indiana 
 
 North Carolina 
 
 Maine 
 
 North Dakota 
 
 South Dakota 
 
 Arizona 
 
 Montana 
 
 Idaho 
 
 Oklahoma 
 
 West Virginia 
 
 Georgia 
 
 72,500 
 
 9,500 
 
 51,600 
 
 9,200 
 
 87,000 
 
 9,000 
 
 65,000 
 
 5,500 
 
 47,700 
 
 4,200 
 
 44,000 
 
 4,200 
 
 19,000 
 
 4,000 
 
 17,300 
 
 3,500 
 
 14,500 
 
 3,100 
 
 25,000 
 
 3,000 
 
 20,000 
 
 3,000 
 
 45,000 
 
 3,000 
 
 38,000* 
 
 1,700 
 
 ♦Only 15,000 really useful books. 
 
University Library 
 (Gift of George Poster Peabody) 
 
The Library and the Alumni 
 
 PAST AND For the benefit of older alumni whose recollections of 
 FUTURE. the part that the library played in their college work 
 and recreation may be somewhat humorous, and for 
 those younger members among Georgia’s graduates who were in 
 college during the transition period of library affairs, there is here 
 set down as briefly as possible a little of history, a little of the present 
 position of the library in University life and work, and a prophecy 
 of possibilities of service. 
 
 First Library Building, 1821-1823 
 
 On the 27th of Nov. 1800, the day the first president was elected 
 and before a single building was begun on this campus the Senatus 
 Academicus ordered a considerable list of books “for the use of the 
 students at intervals when not engaged in their academical studies” 
 (from the list, the august body evidently did not propose that the 
 students’ leisure moments should be lighter moments). Where the 
 library was first located is somewhat uncertain; most probably in 
 the President’s house. Records show that it occupied the second 
 floor of the old Agricultural Building, once known as Philosophical 
 Hall, in the early twenties, and was transferred to New College in 
 1823 when that building was completed. It must have been largely 
 destroyed in the fire which consumed New College in 1830. The 
 records seem to speak of entire destruction. Older alumni will 
 remember the Ivy Building. This arose at the same time that New 
 College was rebuilt and was used as the library and museum for 
 thirty years. Their recollections will hardly extend back to its use 
 for that purpose however, since for the forty-five years previous 
 to the erection of the new building the library occupied the beautiful 
 
and dignified old room in the then “Library Building” to which the 
 recollections of the majority of the University’s living alumni carry 
 them. 
 
 D. C. BARROW, The centennial year, 1876, marks the birth of the 
 LIBRARIAN. great modern library movement, as American an 
 institution as the state university. But so tardy 
 was its effect on most of our educational institutions that in very 
 recent times many college libraries were still a joke. The story of 
 the Harvard man telling the visitor he did not know where the 
 library was as he was a student, may be apocryphal, but hardly 
 exaggerated the situation. The best of college libraries were open 
 but from one to three or four half hours a week not so long ago; 
 often through volunteer Services of some professor with a special 
 sympathy for students. At Georgia Chancellor Barrow comes under 
 this indictment. For some years, as many will recall, he opened 
 
 Ivy Building 
 
 (Library and museum for 30 years) 
 
 the library three hours each week in a service of this sort. Previous 
 to the present administration the library was presided over by the 
 lady whose memory will be ever dear and green to those who as 
 students made her life a burden, or as alumni proudly wore the 
 colors she pinned upon their coats. The gift of the present building 
 made an increase in the library staff imperative, and since Miss 
 Frierson, on account of increasing age, wished to be relieved of the 
 chief responsibility, the present librarian was appointed to undertake 
 the reorganization made necessary by the move, along modern lines. 
 Some may not know that largely through the efforts of the donor of 
 the present building, Miss Frierson spent the last three years of her 
 life in a happy leisure free from financial care. She was the first 
 pensioner in Georgia on the Carnegie Foundation, and as Librarian 
 Emeritus at commencement time used to move as “the chief among 
 us.” 
 
THE DOORS A few of the more obvious indications of the present 
 ARE OPEN. part the library takes in university life and work 
 may be noted. They are not exceptional, but as far 
 as statistics can be relied upon appear to be up to the average of 
 modern college libraries. The library is open for eleven hours daily. 
 It is closed but one entire day during the college year, Washington’s 
 birthday. On all other holidays it is open for five hours, and on 
 Sunday afternoons also for recreative reading. The amount of books 
 used both inside and outside of the building has increased over four 
 times as fast as the student body in the last ten years. In the 
 academic year of 1912-13 the average daily attendance for eight 
 months was between 170 and 240, averaged by months. The library 
 is not a cold weather refuge as the daily average of the spring months 
 does not fall below the winter: 268 men used the library on a warm 
 April day of last year, the record thus far. During the morning the 
 library usually plays to capacity houses, and where ten years ago 
 in the afternoon might be found one student languidly scanning a 
 paper from a poise of easy equilibrium upon the last vertebra in his 
 neck, an alumnus entering on any afternoon will hardly find less 
 than twenty men quietly at work. The afternoon average is much 
 higher; rather more than sixty. The evening and Sunday hours also 
 attract a good sized patronage. 
 
 MINDING HIS Recent years have seen a decided change in the 
 BOOK THEN manner of teaching of a large percentage of the 
 AND NOW. college courses. Previously the student’s knowledge 
 of his subject was confined to lessons conned from 
 a text-book only, with such additional information as his teacher 
 saw fit to give him in classroom or lecture. Now he is asked to read 
 and digest for himself what both great and recent authorities have 
 to say on these subjects in many volumes, periodicals, and publica¬ 
 tions of societies. Obviously he cannot buy one hundredth part of 
 the literature to which he is referred, and as a direct result his 
 college library becomes a vastly more important factor in his studies, 
 than in the older days. 
 
 This class of reading the student does largely in the library where 
 the books referred to in many 'different courses are reserved on 
 special shelves for this purpose. At the University this class of 
 work has increased rapidly in the last three or four years. The 
 development of this “collateral” reading is but coextensive with the 
 general reference use of the library. Over 40,000 volumes used in 
 the building were returned to their places by library assistants. 
 As more readers replace books used in the library on the shelves 
 than leave them on the tables, an estimate of a hundred thousand 
 volumes consulted for reference use last year is probably conserva¬ 
 tive. The library has about 15,000 live books. These were used 
 in the building at least the estimated number of times. Though an 
 increasingly important amount of the student’s use of library books 
 is done in the building, another index of increased usage is the 
 
ten years record of outside loans. In 1903-04 the ouside circula¬ 
 tion was 800 in round numbers. In 1912 it was 6470, and this 
 year is running at a rate that will bring it close to the ten thou¬ 
 sand mark, or at least ten times ten years ago. In this same period 
 the student body has not more than doubled, a considerable portion 
 of which is presumed to get an appreciable percentage of their 
 reading from the Agricultural Reading Room. 
 
 MR. DEBATER, Younger alumni will recall the elaborate bibliog- 
 ET AL. raphies prepared every year for the Class, Cham¬ 
 
 pion, and Intercollegiate debates. This feature 
 of the library’s services to the students has not decreased in impor¬ 
 tance or the extent 
 of time given to it. 
 In addition, lists of 
 books are frequently 
 posted on current top¬ 
 ics or subjects calcu¬ 
 lated to widen the 
 student’s interest. 
 These bulletins are 
 usually attractively 
 illustrated to help 
 bring to the eye of 
 the student reading 
 that should bring 
 pleasure as well as 
 profit. 
 
 The above short 
 description of some of 
 the activities of your 
 University Library 
 coupled with the 
 statement that its de¬ 
 velopment has been 
 up to the average may 
 lead you to think 
 library matters are 
 prosperous enough 
 without a stir being made for library endowment. But bear in 
 mind that you have a description of the increase in library activities 
 and not of money or books. This latter “is quite another story.” 
 
 THE BOOK The University Library had its beginning in 
 
 AND THE DOLLAR, the first year of the nineteenth century. That 
 century saw a widening of the fields of 
 knowledge, learning and research, possibly best expressed for our 
 purposes in the resultant increased output of the printing press. 
 The first year of the twentieth century saw over 7,000 different 
 works printed in the United States: more than had been printed in 
 
the entire period preceding the library’s foundation. Ten years 
 later the American production of new books had nearly doubled, for 
 in 1911 over 13,000 new works were printed. Libraries of learned 
 institutions can by no means confine their purchases to the book 
 production of America and though the acquisition of books printed 
 in England and in the principal foreign languages is not so exten¬ 
 sive, it is by no means unimportant. The three principal book pro¬ 
 ducing countries printed five times as many new books in 1911 as 
 the United States. 
 
 PERIODICALS The output of the periodical press has increased 
 
 AND DITTO. in a nearly equal ratio. We all know how the 
 
 popular periodicals occupy our attention. Teach¬ 
 ers and students of historical, social, economic or scientific subjects 
 are equally dependent upon the periodicals in these fields. How 
 increasingly important the popular and learned periodicals are to 
 university libraries may be judged from the fact that one western 
 university is now expending the income from three quarters of a 
 million dollars upon periodical subscriptions and is, with this income 
 in hand, hunting the book markets of the world for the earlier 
 volumes of learned periodical publications. There are indexes pub¬ 
 lished covering all the great fields of periodical publications so that 
 a student, in this library for instance, working on an oration or a 
 debate, finds reference after reference on his subject to periodicals 
 not on our shelves or subscription list. The engineering student 
 often in five minutes will find scores of references that he cannot 
 make use of on some important problem because the library has 
 not had the money to subscribe as yet for many of the most im¬ 
 portant engineering periodicals to which our indexes constantly refer. 
 
 AND SO We could truly say, with the above facts in mind and 
 IT GOES, remembering the present intimate and vital relation of 
 college work to the library and its dependency for 
 efficiency upon not only the best but the latest things in print, that 
 it is more difficult to meet the needs of one year with the money 
 the University library now has to expend than it would have been 
 in 1801 to use the same sum in selecting a library from all that 
 the printing press had produced up to that time. 
 
 No great library can possibly be an omnium gatherum. Rigid 
 selection is a necessity with the greatest. They are all forced to 
 specialize; university libraries are in fact highly specialized, institu¬ 
 tions. But rigid selection being the rule it is still interesting to 
 notice the annual expenditures of some of our greater university libra¬ 
 ries; as for instance, of Harvard, $54,000, Yale, $35,000, Chicago, 
 $35,000, Minnesota, $32,000, Wisconsin, $26,000. These institu¬ 
 tions are of course giving instruction in many more subjects and 
 in more advanced ways than we are here, but we are attempting 
 instruction in many more lines and on more advanced problems than 
 the library can cope with at present. Heavy pressure is brought 
 for the establishment of a new chair, let us say for instance of 
 
Business Economics. The University trustees somehow manage to 
 raise money to pay the salary of the professor holding this new 
 chair; the best they can do. Our new professor arrives; makes a 
 bee-line for the library (this never fails). He finds that in the 
 literature of his subject we are non-existent. With greatly over¬ 
 burdened funds we try to piece out so that he can have a few books 
 and a periodical or two with which to begin work with his students. 
 Three or four thousand dollars would have been but a moderate sum 
 with which to make a start collecting the material he really needs; 
 with our present income we can’t spend that amount on his work 
 in twenty years. This is a typical instance. 
 
 When there is a general enough demand that instruction in some 
 new field or subject be given at the State University, the State you 
 will say should see such instruction' properly provided for. Pro¬ 
 gressive institutions elsewhere make liberal initial appropriations 
 for new work and provide additional funds thereafter to meet the 
 increased current demands on their libraries. If this is so, the 
 State you will say should enable our Trustees to do so here. 
 Undoubtedly true: let it be hoped that the time will come and 
 come quickly. 
 
 THE ALUMNI But were our funds now adequate to meet the 
 
 AND needs of work now being carried on on this 
 
 THE LIBRARY, campus (a conservative estimate is an annual sum 
 about three times our present resources) such a 
 move as was started last June by the appointment of your Commit¬ 
 tee on an Alumni Library Fund would be equally welcome. The 
 library lacks thousands of dollars worth of books which may be 
 conveniently termed cultural reading, of sets of periodicals, etc. 
 needed by debaters and for reading for purely student activities. 
 Each year are received hundreds of catalogues offering these books 
 and sets at prices at a third to a fifth of their original values. Funds 
 to an indefinite amount can be expended in this way; in fact, there 
 is no way in which the alumni can interest themselves, where dollar 
 for dollar money will go so far or be "so generally helpful as in the 
 manner now proposed. 
 
 All of our larger institutions and many of the smaller, derive no 
 mean part of their library fund from such sources. Endowments 
 from individual alumni, from classes, or from associations are numer¬ 
 ous. Buildings may crumble and fall or outlive their usefulness, 
 and other memorials however costly disappear in the lapse of time, 
 but so long as funds draw interest these library endowments, however 
 big or small, will be memorials to their donors. 
 
! 
 
 The University extends a cordial welcome 
 to all educational, agricultural, commercial, 
 manufacturing, financial and industrial bodies, 
 and bodies of like character, having for their 
 object the welfare of the state, to use on 
 special occasions, free of rent, such public 
 buildings of the University as the Chancellor 
 and President of the Agricultural College may 
 approve.