Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Mj 'Sherwood Hall, a dormitory named tor Adicl Sherwood, the spiritual founder of Mercer University, it a three-story buck with stone trimmings. It has seventy rooms for students, with steam heat, baths, electric lights and modem conveniences,' —Catalog of 1922-1923. , , . The Law School, with its library, lecture rooms, and offices, is located in this building. —Catalog of 1923 1924,

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carnegie library) The ne library budding, made possible by Mr. Andrew Carnegie s gift of twenty-five thousand dollars, is now completed and -n use. It is built of brick and Indiana limestone and stands at the head of the campus, facing the interior of the quadrangle. The first floor is devoted to the library; it consists pi a large vestibule w ih reading rooms on cither srdc, the librarian s room, cataloguing room, and the delivery desk, back of which is the stack room with a capacity of sixty to seventy-five thousand volumes Two flights of stairs, near the mam enhance, lead from this floor to the upper story. Here are the two halls for the Cicercnan and the Phi Delta Literary Societies. Special provision has been made for ex- cellent lighting facilities. ' —Catalog of 1908-1909, (HARDMAN LIBRARY) The new Hardman Library, with a capacity of eighty-five thousand volumes, now contains more than twenty-five thousand volumes- Substantial additions to the number of books have been made during the last two yeais and mere than five thousand dollars will be expended during the current year. The whole building is fireproof. and is equipped with steel stacks, a vault foi the safe-keeping of rare books and valuable documents, and reference and periodical reading rooms outfitted with the most up-to-date furniture, —Catalog of 1937-1938,

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Mrs, Steed obo Furnished and equipped the circular room »r? the rear of the chapel to» the use of the school. For several years the classes were regularly held in this »otsm. It wa the best recitation room on the campus, Mrs. Steed spent, some $1.5430 in beautifying and making the room attractive. For the Fust lime, the Law School had a home of its own. . . After 1922,, no night classes weic held, all the work being done in Ihc day, the ease system was new inaugurated. The library was increased to 7 000 volumes. Class rooms, hb»a»y and offices for the school were fitted up m Sherwood Hall.' —Dedication Ceremonies, 1930, 'Construction of u new building for the new Law School will begirt in June and ihE building will be ready for occupancy ■n the fall of 1929. The building will be n two story structure In Collegiate Gothic style and wilt be completely fireproof. It wil conta-n three class rooms, a moot court room, and an assembly hall which will seat 300 people, The library will be on the second floor and Will Have a capacity for (5,000 volumes. The building will, in all respects, conform to the most approved -tylir of modern law buildings and will provide adequately For a student body of from 175 to 200 students. It will occupy a prominent position an the campus, possibly vjdioinmg ihc University library. 'This building has been made possible by gifts from the law alumni and the close friends of the Law School. —Law School Catalog, 1929-1930,