Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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:wo thou To the loom for a bindery and a prmting eijuipment should the L niversity ever set up a press. The offices and work rooms occup and feet on the main floor to the north of the m close relation to the stacks and reading room, south of the lobby are the cloak and conversation rooms, the latter devoted to ' syndicate lessons and the cnrrent newspapers. In the lobby itself are hung the portraits in oil of the University ' s notables. It IS estimated that the new liuilding will lie adequate tor t«eiit years of library growth, but wlio knows? oughly corrected by a sight of tlie north elevation or a visit to the interior. The fortunate slope of the site toward the .lordaii has permitted the necessarily high stack house to be placed on the low ground, concealed behind the south front with its pleasant one story effect. As a result of the buildiii}. plan developed from the site, two stories practically above ground are secured on the north, that a re represented on the south by the basement only. And so the New Library building in total floor area the largest structure on the campus, seems from the front one of the smallest. Among the most important features of the building is the great reading room with its abundant and well dis- tributed light, its pleasant brown woodwork and its gener- ous provision for two hundred readers. The stack house, directly to the north, has a capacity with full installation of shelving of a quarter of a million volumes. Over half as many more may be shelved in other parts of the build- ing. The seminar rooms now in use are directly beneath the reading room and an additional eight thousand square feet of floor area is available in the second story for future subdivision for the same purpose. In the subbasement is

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household word in our family for years Di Swam ha often been pointed out to me as another Dr lordui And Dr. Bryan ' s ability displajs itself dail This man was an obsei er Vie all realize that the e things are so, but we realize them so aguel that the never take tangible form m our minds Indiana University has always been fortunate in hiv ing not only an able man at her head, but a large numlier of men de oted to her interests. Since the founding of the institution in 1820, its destinies have been guided liy 5 the ■ondar J mankind in general. This has been true in recent years as well as in the past. Since the time when the Reverend Bayard R. Hall served as director of the Indiana Seminary and also acted as professor of Latin and Greek, registrar, treasurer, com- mittee on student atfairs and janitor, the affairs of the institution have prospered. Today there is a total enrollment of tHO thousand. There are eleven magnificent buildings, on the most beau- tiful campus in this country. The curriculum has been enlarged by the addition of a School of Journalism, a School of Music and a Medical School which rivals the best in the country. Every county in the state is represented in the student body. Twenty states of the union are represented. And there are students enrolled from five foreign countries . Indiana University has stepped forward with giant strides. So great are the improvements from year to year that even the undergraduates have a hard time keeping apace with them. When Indiana University celebrated her eighty-eiglitli liirthday this year she found herself newly clothed . The Law School was housed in new quarters all its own. in Maxwell Hall. The campus had been adorned with deco- latne electiit light posts And the Neii Iihriny was rom- pltted Ml W F lenkins, lihiaiian dcsciibes the new hbran below ' little building with a big interior is very fre- luently the substance of comment upon the new home of the hbriry The simple regulai outline the boldly framed loofs, the large scale of the west wing contnmng the main reading loom contributt to form the impression of a small

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