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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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168 THE UNIVERSITY FINDS ITSELF and the State more closely to the University. To establish these schools required of Draper not only tireless energy, but great tact, patience, and wisdom. The lesser of the new departures, the divisions of music and of library science, were the first to be definitely organized. In the year that Draper began his administration steps concerned with the former were taken, and the next autumn a department of music was opened under Walter Howe Jones, who was paid $700 a year and half the fees in excess of that sum. The department was successful at first chiefly in stimulating general musical interest at the University. Instruction in vocal music was offered without extra charge, and a special scholarship given one senior who had talent enough to train the military band to unprecedented efficiency. Three years after its founding the department had been reorganized as a school, and though still badly housed, had a faculty of nine and offered diplomas in music. The library school, the fourth in the country and the first opened west of the Alleghenies, was founded when in 1897 the nascent State Library School was taken over from Armour Institute, and placed under the charge of the aggressive Miss Katharine L. Sharp, a graduate of the New York State library school. During the summer she succeeded Percy Bickriell as librarian, and she was given two assistants. Admission to the school was on the basis of two years of college work, and the two years' course led to the degree of B. L. S. The library when Dr. Draper came contained but 26,000 volumes, some utterly worthless, and the President labored steadily to build it up, asking in 1897 for $20,000 a year, and continuing to demand large sums. By 1904 there were some 65,000 volumes and 15,000 pamphlets. The special equipment of the library
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