Lafayette College : Some pages of its past, pictures of its present, and forecasts of its future . to the sameobject. This income has been expended almost wholly inbooks immediately connected with the studies of the course,with a view to buying all the working books needed fororiginal investigation in the special direction in which eachprofessor has wished to push his work. The departments in which it is strongest are Anglo-Saxon,early French, early and dialectic English, Christian Greekand Latin, American History, Natural History, Chemistry,and Mining. A suitable home for these books has been
Lafayette College : Some pages of its past, pictures of its present, and forecasts of its future . to the sameobject. This income has been expended almost wholly inbooks immediately connected with the studies of the course,with a view to buying all the working books needed fororiginal investigation in the special direction in which eachprofessor has wished to push his work. The departments in which it is strongest are Anglo-Saxon,early French, early and dialectic English, Christian Greekand Latin, American History, Natural History, Chemistry,and Mining. A suitable home for these books has been oneof the wants of the College for many years. This want hasnow been happily supplied by a legacy of $30,000 devoted tothis very purpose by the will of Augustus S. Van Wickle,of Hazleton, Pa., who died on June 8th, 1898. The Van Wickle Memorial Library stands east of thegymnasium, a modest gem of architecture, consisting of acentral structure of two stories flanked by wings of a singlestory, with provision for extension northward whenever thegrowth of the library demands more room for 43 It consists of a high basement cellar of light stone, and astory and a half of old gold mottled Pompeian brick, withornamental terra-cotta trimmings, and roof of red east wing is fireproof, and contains the book stacks, withroom for something more than 50,000 volumes. The westwing is the reading room, finished in Flemish oak withwainscot and paneled ceilings. A beautitul feature here isthe exquisite west window, a further memorial of Mr. VanWickle. The central part contains offices and certain specialrooms, and in the north recess a reference department withworking tables, where dictionaries, cyclopedias, historical,scientific, and literary serials, and other works of reference offrequent use are kept accessible to all. The Washington and Franklin Literary Societies have inaddition well-selected libraries, aggregating about 6000 vol-umes, making in all a collection of 30,000
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