Roanoke College - Rawenoch Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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REAR VIEW OF LIBRAIQV

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Drpher who Spent twenty-Eve of the most useful years of his life to make Roanoke College what it is today. There were many valuable works received as memorial offer- ings, among which might be mentioned, bound volumes of the New York Dzzzb 79'Z.bJL7ZL' and the Draw' fieraffl during the Civil VVar period. These are probably the only bound volumes of these papers in any Southern College. i ' l 4 The hrst addition of any importance to the Library in its new ction which Dr. Bittle made, consisting of 3,000 volumes, one of which was VValton's P0Qgg'!0! Bfbfe, now regarded as a work of great value. There was a committee, of which Dr. Yonce was chairman, to secure funds for this purchase. This collection consisted quarters was a colle principally of theological and historical works. It was mainly through Dr. Dreher's efforts that the Annex was built to the main building. The library building is a brick structure covered with slate. It Q5 feet long and 72 feet wide through the wings of the Annex. This Annex is used for a reference library and reading room and is open all the forenoon of each day in the week, except Sunday. This reading room is becoming more and more pop- ular every year, and is daily filled with students. There is to be found here forty of the leading mon thlies: as the ffIllc?7'Z.f!77Z Rczfieru gf Iewzkfws, Nazftk Azzzeffzkmz, W01f!d'.r lfV01'k, fllzuzscy, Iyvzzzk Lcsfzk, etc., several weekliesg as Lzfcrffzfjf Dzlgzzvf, Ozzilfmk, ffzrfrybcfzzzfwzf, etc.g about eighty daily and weekly papers, secular, religious, literary, educational, scien- tihc, and humorous. The Annex also contains the chief encyclopedias-I5'1'1'!z'1zm'm, Affzcfdczzzz, Azzfzmzl, Pcfyifelv, Ckfizzzbcrfv, and a number of others. Here are found the latest editions of such dictionaries as, the Cwzfmjq Siafzzifzrfzi, W2'6szfezf'5, Hf01'fes!e1 .r, also classical lexicons, of Greek and Roman antiquities, of scientific and commercial terms. Here are to be found two thousand bound volumes of magazines and reviews, includ- ing all the magazines up to this last year. There are four volumes of Poole's fzzriex to P67'Z.0Kfl.flZ! .Z,I.fl'7'l?fZZ7'c' which makes these magazines easily accessible to the use of the student, in addition to these there is an fzzdex fo Gezzenzf Lz'z'e1'zzz'm'c' and one to f1I1!C'7'I'fl7ll H1kf0lj'. There is to be found here, XVarner's .L1'dI'lI7ll' nf Mc IfV07'fl?flS Best Lz'z'e1'zzz'm'c, in thirty volumes, C5zz'zw'.rfz! C!a.fy1'r.v Lfbrafjf, in thirty volumes, Stedman and I-Iutchinson's Lz'61'a111' of ffll!U7'I'l'll7l Z.I.Ild'l'lZfI!l'U, in twelve volumes, Lz'!w'az!zWe ryffl!! A'Qzf1'011.v, in ten volumes, The NaZz'01zaZ Qfrlopeffzrc cy' AllZ67'liftZ7Z f?1'qg1'fzjShj', a fifzlvfwjf fu- 13511051 Ieqkffefzce mm' Topica! RCHIf7.7Z'Q', and two hundred volumes-of biogra- phy, including the Azizefifazz and E7ZS fI.Vf1 flifwz QfLf1'!c1'.v series. T There are a number of rare books in the main library, among which is a Latin Bible printed at Nuremburg. Germanv, fifteen years

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before Columbus discovered America. Tl1iS lJO0l4 is ill CXCfillCI1t Con- dition the type being as plain as if it were printed only tive years ago. Here is also to be found a copy of the flzzwbzzffg' Lb1gfQssz'01z, printed in 1531, The oldest in London in 1579 . I l ' l lthouwh Jrinted in 1588, IS still so well preserved EnO'li'sh book is a f1z'.v!0f'2'c ry' Gzz2'6rm7'rz'z'1L printed vb . Another valuable work is a Greek Lexicon in four volumes. W11c1, 21 1 in the original vellum binding that the tracery and Lat1n inscriptions may be Seen clearly on the back. There are a number of other pon- derous volumes, in Latin, English and German, printed in the sixteenth and first half ofthe seventeenth centuries. I There are a number of Chinese, japanese and Korean books presented to the library by students or representatives of these nations at VVashington. re a number of illustrated books, as: Studer's Birds There a gf Noffffz Amefffm, Woods Afzfzmzie CI7'6'lZfZi0IZ, Allen's The Crm! Gzlbe- dwzfs dike lflfiuffd, fr01z0f,g'1'ap!z2'r 1'r!0perz'z'fz and V on I7alke's Hellas rmzi Rome. Space forbids that we should go further into detail, so we will have to mention merely tlte different departments. There are a num- ber of old and new theological and philosophical works, Then there are works on history, biography, poetry, fiction, Latin and Greek, French and German classicsg works on political econemy, metaphysics, natural science, law, books on travel and adventureg miscellaneous works not easily classihedg and in addition to the twenty-two thousand volumes, all the Congressional Records for a number of years back, as well as other government publications. In the Library is to be found the photographs of all the classes that have graduated since 1871. These photographs are always of interest to old students who come to visit their .f-Ifum fl-falfr. There are also three large portraits which deserve mention. The lirst is that of Dr. Bittle, the hrst president ot' the College, under which hangs an enlarged picture of the College when it was at Mt. Tabor. as the Yir ginia Collegiate Institute. The second is that ofCol. G. B. Iioard, for- merly president of the Board of Trustees, and the third is that of Mr. Isl. Steere, of Rhode Island, a generous benefactor of the College. On the visitors' register ofthe Library may be found the names gli-mmggylxiisgtiiilgiiglijcdrlgisitors, alumni, former students and friends ' - C C.