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characterized all new University buildings since the erection of the Alumni Memorial in 1924. This addition provided nearly five times the original floor space and made possible most of the facilities which the Library affords today. Most used of the Library ' s extraordinary facilities is the Browsing room. It reposes underneath the west wing of the main reading room, where stu- dents may wander at any time during the school day to while away an extra hour with the finest works of literature, both past and present, that man has produced. Other men, wearied by the endless toil of learning, find the easy, overstuffed armchairs there an excellent place for an inter-class nap. The Browsing room is supervised at all times by a student who is responsible for the contents of the room. The books there are not circulating, but are duplicated in most cases in the general stacks. In addition, the Library contains the very popular Art gallery, just above the main reading room ' s west wing. A monthly exhibition of collections by artists both nationally and locally known attracts many students. The ex- hibits are arranged by Garth A. Howland, head of the department of fine arts. The Treasure room contains old and rare volumes which have come to the Library and which form a valuable collection from an historical point of view. This room is open at various hours throughout the year and presents an opportunity for learning something of the lore and the ancient art of bookmaking. The Lehigh collection contains books, articles and papers by faculty, students and alumni. Complete files of all student publications, in- cluding the Epitome, Brown and White, Burr, and Review, are on hand. Most familiar to the students and faculty are the circulation desk at- tendants, Mrs. Myrtle Helms Easton and Miss Jean Riegel. It is they who are responsible for circulated books and who sign books in and out. Theirs is an endless job of tracing lost books, sending notices of Library fines to delin- quent borrowers, collecting such fines (when possible), and tracing more lost books. Seldom noticed are the cataloguers who must file and keep track of all volumes, both new and otherwise, contained in the entire Library. Their task has not been lightened by the fact that in the first years of the Library ' s existence none of its contents had been catalogued. Ever since the year when the present system of cataloguing was introduced the staff has been working every spare moment in order to file these old volumes in the correct manner. Miss Mary Wheatley, head cataloguer, estimates that many months will be needed before the work will be finished. She is assisted by the Misses Muriel Kemp and Ruth Hall. 17
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The Packer Memorial church is the scene of the religious and much of the musical life of the University. It was erected in 1887 when Mrs. Mary Packer Cummings, daughter of the founder, Asa Packer, made a gift to the Univer- sity in her father ' s memory to be used in building a chapel. It was one of the earliest buildings to be built by the University. Until 1937 there were chapel services of one sort or another in a certain percentage of which attendance was compulsory for all students. The meet- ings were held at various times, one year in the morning, another at noon, another at a different hour. However, in the year in which those who are now graduating were freshmen, the system of chapel services was abolished and in its stead a non-credit, compulsory lecture course in moral and re- ligious philosophy was instituted under the direction of the chaplain. Since then there have been no regular chapel exercises, although services of a re- ligious nature are conducted from time to time during the school year. Each May the annual Bethlehem Bach Festival is held in the chapel and attracts many thousands of music lovers from far and near. This year the thirty-fourth performance was rendered before an overflow crowd in a pro- gram that lasted two days. A new type of special amplification was intro- duced a year ago in order that accommodations could be provided for the overflow in Packard auditorium, but with this added convenience there were still many who were forced to remain outside. The largest special event in the chapel was Lehigh ' s first Christmas pro- gram in recent years. It was sponsored by the Combined Musical clubs and Tone and was presented by the glee clubs of Lehigh and the Moravian Semi- nary for Women. The auditorium was packed and an offering of over $100 was received for buying vestments for the Lehigh Glee club. Dr. T. Edgar Shields, director of music, was in charge of the musical arrangements. Chaplain of the University and head of the department of moral and religious philosophy is Claude Gillette Beardslee, graduate of Yale, Southern Califor- nia, and Brown universities. He came to Lehigh in his present capacity in the school year 1930-31 after receiving his doctorate from Brown, and during the years that have followed he has made a niche for himself in student esteem, becoming secretary of Omicron Delta Kappa, and faculty adviser to Arcadia and the various living group councils. Until 1937 he conducted the regular daily chapel services, in addition to his classes in moral and religious philoso- phy. It was in that year that the chapel service was discontinued and the M. R. Phil, lecture courses substituted in its stead. Since then Dr. Beardslee has propounded the philosophies of both the ancients and the moderns to every freshman in order that he might find a method for organizing his religious belief. 18
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