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It may be considered a long jump from boarding facilities to library equipments and a d v a n t a g e s , but it is not difficult to show the connection. If there is any one thing of material kind by which the rank' and value of a modern university can be determined, t h a t one thing is the library. The last legislature included in the a p p r o p r i a t i o n s 85,000 a year for the purchase of books and periodicals. This is five times as much as was annually allowed by t h e two previous legislatures and it may seem to be a large amount. lint for no other purpose here is there a more urgent call for a half million dollars t h a n for a proper library building and for books. Mere t e x t book recitations or class room lectures are no longer tolerated in instruction of t h e grade to which we aspire. S t u d e n t s ought to be trained in college to work as t h e y afterward must work when t h e y get out into tht world. The scholar must not only know history, but must know where and how t h e materials of history are found. The scientist must know w h a t others know and w h a t others are doin,y or he will make poor progress in his specialty. A library should be a veritable work shop with all the accessories at hand for ready and a b u n d a n t gains. It should In >pen all day and until late in the evening and every encouragement should be given t h e s t u d e n t s to spend much of their time in it. Here then is the connection between books and boarding. Our p r e s e n t l i b r a r y might be open evenings to a d v a n t a g e were it not for t h e fact that the distance from the living rooms of s t u d e n t s practically prohibits their use oi it. Various seminaries and special clubs and societies

ould be favored by the near residence of students and pro

b-ssors. T h e work in practical astronomy is nighl work. J u s t here lei it be said, in parentheses, that some one with

lo.ono to spare can have an admirable opportunity o{ per Jietuating his name and memory by establishing and equip Intf an ast ronomi* .il obsei \ atory, [t can now be excellently