TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY.
interesting History of It From 1858
to ttie Present Time.
PREPARED BY LIBRARIAN BREELOYE.
1
The Account of the Beginning of One
of the Largest College Libraries
in the South, Showing Its Gradual
(From the Trinity Chionicle)
Dining die past week there has
been in ..ession at Greensboro the
annual meeting of the North Car
olina Library Association. Trini
ty was represented by Librarian
J. P. Breedlove. The meeting
proved most interesting and val
uable and showed a remarkable
revival of interest among library
workers. The history ot variou
libraries in the State was a lea 1
inj,' feature of the meeting. Tuc
following account of thegrowt,
of Trinity's libraiy was prepared
bv Librarian Hreedlove, and is
very interesting:
The library ol Trinity College
began, as did nearly every other
college library in the South, with
the consolidation of the libraries
of the literary and other societies
of the institution. The literary
societies of Normal College which
became Trinity College in 1858
h.ii their libraries, but the first
statement of the existence of a
College library appeared in the
catalogue fur : 860 61. In this a
summary of the books accessible
tu students is given: The Colum
bian Literary Society library
2.:uo volumes; the Hesperian
l iterary Society library, 2,200
volumes; the College litrary, 650
otumcs.
At this jertod the Civil War
Iroke out and if the catalogues of
the College for the years 1S62 to
is' 7 were published they are not
i:s the files of this library now.
Had they been issued and could
now je examined, they would
how that the library had made
but small progress.
1 hiring the college year 1SS7.
VS the libraries of the Columbian
mi Hesperian Literary Societies
ii ! the library ot the Theolvgi
'' Society were consolidated
With the mall College library
'n.ler one management. ICach of
the literal y society libraries con
tained 4,000 voluuus and the
Theological Society library scv
er,! hundrvtt. A tncm'x-r of the
.'acuity, assiistrd by student librar
ians elected from each of the lit
" societies, had charge of the
i:tury. This was kept open
u t Wtdnr lay and Saturday
afternoon.
I'r.der the progressive adutinis
Sut ott uf President Crotll it
s thought nic to remove the
c " Hge from its Mat in Randolph
c "-:v to a city where it would
t :. in contact with a larger
The trustees and the North
'"lin.t Conference having
to move the college ac-
I I the ofler of the business
!:" " of Durham to place the col
n their midst. In Septem
!" ' JH92, the college opened its
-essioii m the new plant at
titam. The library dnting
f!i. M VWJ1 of planning for the
ttisov.it of the college had in
f it, number of volumes,
!,;:? 't growth had not been
J':ked. After the eolUge had
! removed to its present site
t!lr library wat placcit in the l.ir
K" s-toom in the Duke building.
H t s were made and place I,
ni the books were put upon
t "l Neither was .in accession
' kept nor a system of d issi
tf,!,,i adopted. In 189; the
ihruy eommiltc unwilling to cn
n'iU' y longer the disafiangi
i if f t,c I,,,;, classified them
' i In J., ,,f ( t. stU'letst Si
'" tiilo a jkUttl jgittatel
by themselves. A card catalogue
was begun and cards nn hw o,,
size of a postal -card were used."
lhe cataloguing was kept up un.
til the books needed for parallel
reading and reference work were
in good shape for use. In Feb
ruary, 1899, the books in the
library room weie counted, an accession-book
was bought, and the
work of registering the books in
it begun This work was con
tinued every day until the books
in the library room were resris-
tred except the public documents
and some books not much us-d.
A paid librarian was employed
in the fall cf 1897 and the library
was kept open six hours per day.
While the library grew rapidly in
look of New York in an editorial
called the formal opening of this
library "a really notable event in
the development of higher educa
tion in the South."
The library contains more than
37,000 bound volumes including
its collection ot Public Documents
and 15,000 pamphlets. These
Documents are put in order ac
cording to the serial numbers.
Every department in the college
curriculum is now well represent
ed in the library by a supply of
books for class reference. Espec
ially so are the departments of
English and literature, History,
Political Economy, and Biblical
literature. The library has sev
eral special collections represent
fliciency after the employment ! large rifts to the librarv bv friends
. r ' ' ' '
01 a permanent librarian, vet its ot the college
great future was not assured until
June, 1900, when President Kilgo
j announced that Mr. James l.
uuke had given a sum of monev
The Avera Bible collection was
established by Mrs. E. B. McCul
lers, of Johnston county in mem-
orv nf Mr W II A ti.:.
for the erection of a library build-1 collection has grown to be a large
. " v a "" K'--w one. It is endowed and additions
in this enterprise and in accord- to hs number of volumes win be
ance with his desire to do things made steadi,y in the ,ut
... ...,u F( up a onuains, l ,898 Mr. T. L. Clingman I A notable gift of 241 volumes to
commensurate with the dignity . and Mi,s Jane A. Clingman, of the law library came from Judge
the Anne Koney Shakespeare
Collection.
In the summer of 1903 Dr. and
Mrs. Dred Peacock, of High
Point, gave to the library a valua
ble collection of books as a mem
orial to their daughter, Ethe
Carr Peacock. This collection
contains 7,049 volumes. Special
stacks are reserved for its accom
modation. Memorial plates are
pasted in these volumes. This
collection is especially rich in
XNortn Carolina history
A Law School was founded at
Trinity in the summer of 1904
by Messrs. B. N. and J. B. DuV e.
The founding of this school
made a law library a necessity.
Appropriations were made and a
large number of books were or
dered annually. It now contains
beside the newest encyclopedias,
dictionaries, and text-books; com
plete sets of "Lawers Reports
Annotated," and Reports of the
following Supreme Courts; United
States, Massachusetts, New York,
New Jersey, Wisconsin, Ohio,
Michigan, and North Carolina
and influence of the college he ! Farillini)tn,v v r .:
gave the means for finishing and brary a valuable collection of 423
furnishing the building at a cost voiumes 0f Public Documents,
of J55,ooo. He was not content Among them are several volumes
to house the books in an excel-, 0f -.American State Papers"
lent budding for in 1901 he gave; oAmerican ArchiveSfn nearly a
$10,000 for the purchase of books. comnW Sf.t nf '.inniuffv
This amount was expended for:grcss," and ' Congressional De
books m every department of the hnte " Th. .r, cu
. - "w.v. u yam ui wc
college curriculum. !Jlhrarv nf . T
J vjvi.w.m x "Minos i.
I he new building was com-i ri;n,,man aH -r aa
Itl m 1-tbri.ary, ,903, and on ,,,e ,ibrar). as mtmotUA to him.
prayer, Judge Arm.stead Burwell, and doliars to bc expnded for Messrs. Guy Baldwin, of the
of Charlotte, made the address of boots on Shakespeare. This is! class of 1906, W. R. Grant, ex-'oS,
presentation. President Kilgo onc of thc b Shakespeare col-' and L. G. White, of the class of
tue ao-urcss ot acceptance, and,lections south of Baltimore- 1 90S, are all employed by the
. ... .uc. vi -cw ioric, Thcse books have special plate i Norfolk & Southern Railroad in
uie ueaicatory address. The Out- pasted m them and are known as ; Norfolk, Va
Jeremiah Smith, Dean ot the Law
School of Harvard University,
and Jeremiah Smith, Jr., of B s
ton in 1905. Among these vol
umes is a set of "American Re
ports." In 1907 Mr. J. A. Long, of
Roxboro, gave a piece of property
to the college from which was
realized S500.00. This amount
was expended for books in the
department of Political Economy.
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In lower abdominal or
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IrreguUtr or painful periods, with or with
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Neglotod or badly treated and such
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woman s peculiar ailments enter Into Its
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list of its Ingredients printed on each
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In any condition of the female system,
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Is to strengthen, invigorate and regulate
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much must not be expected of this "Fa
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