Roanoke College - Rawenoch Yearbook (Salem, VA)

Page 23 text:

INTEQIOI2 OF LIBRFIQV. E-1-:K -4.f il -J - ff, --f-fe..-u--

Page 22 text:

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.

Page 24 text:

OHN ALFRED lVlORF.HF,A'D, President of Roanoke College, was born near Dublin, Pulaski county, Virginia Feb. 4, 1867, one of five brothers, all alumni of Roanoke College. He entered Roanoke in 1886 and graduated with honor in 1889, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1894 and Doctor of Divinity in 1902. After teaching in the college during the session of ISSQ-,9O, he enteredhllflt. Airy Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1892. In October of that year he married Nellie V. Fisher, of XfVythe county, Virginia. He served the Lutheran congregation in Burke's Garden, Va., for two years and a half and was then called to Richmond, where he remained for four years of successful ministerial work. ln 1898 he accepted the position of President of the Theological Seminary of the United Synod at Mt. Pleasant, near Charleston, S. C., in which position his services were very efficient and greatly appreciated. The advantage of travel and study abroad in IQOI-V02 strengthened him both for his work in the Seminary and for the work he is now acceptably prosecuting as Presi- dent of Roanoke College. He assumed the ofhcial duties of his pres- ent position in the college in September, IQO3, and is already indelibly stamping his influence upon the institution and its patrons.