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Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, present) Catalogs, etc.) 1909 Trinity College Bulletin, July 1909 Trinity College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin Recommended Citation Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, July 1909" (1909). Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present). 22. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/22 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, Catalogs, etc.) at Trinity College Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present) by an authorized administrator of Trinity College Digital Repository. TRINITY COLLEGE BULLETIN (NEW SERIES) VOLUME VI. NUMBER 3 ADMINISTRATIVE NUMBER HARTfORD, CONNECTICUT JULY, 1909 TRINITY COLLEGE BULLETIN Issued quarterly by the College. Entered January 1!, 1904, at Hartford, Conn., as second class matter, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. The Bulletin includes in its issues: the College Catalogue, Reports of the Pr&ident, Treasurer, and Librarian; Announcements and Circulars of Information. REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE HARTFORD, CONN. JULY, 1909 The Reverend F . S. Luther, LL.D., President, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Sir :-In accordance with Title XV., Section 3, of the Statutes, I beg to submit herewith the annual report of the work and progress of the College Library, and the · tenth which it has been my privilege to make. · No event of striking or unusual importance has marked the work of the year. Our activity has, as usual, been of a quiet, busy, effective nature, and largely and necessarily of a routine character. The Library has endeavored, to the best of its ability, to supplement the work of all depart­ ments of instruction, and to play its own especial part in contributing to the general education of the students, and in assisting them to cultivate a clean and discriminating taste in the spheres of life and letters. The attendance again shows a considerable increase over the preceding year. That this increase is not spasmodic or dne to unusual causes is evidenced by the fact that with two exceptions each month's attendance has been greater than that of the corresponding month last year. The attendance for Iovember 1908 was eight less than that of Iovember 1907, and in February 1909, eighty­ one less fhan in February 1908. The following tables exhibit in detail the record of attendance, which is here equivalent to use: ATTENDANCE, CLASSIFIED. 1908-1909 Faculty Students Others Day Eve. Total June, 399 66 465 September,1 r6· 147 rs6 7 !63 October, III 1324 12 II97 255 1452 November, 94 1226 17 1040 297 1337 December,2 68 9II 13 824 r68 992 January,a 77 IIOO 13 973 279' February, 79 893 IS 8r6 171 I~~ March, II9 1491 22 !296 336 1632 ApriJ,4 70 931 19 775 245 !020 May, !05 !287 I7 !056 353 1409 8,532 2,177 10,709 1 Five days. 2 Nineteen days. 3 Twenty-seven days. 4 Nineteen days. 4 ATTENDANCE, MONTHLY. June Sept. Oct, Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. April May 1907-19o8 79 1270 1345 922 II40 1o68 1410 767 n61 19o8-1909 465 163 1452 1337 992 1252 987 1632 1020 1409 Total, 1907-1908, 9,162 Total, 19o8-1909, 10,709 ATTENDANCE, ANNUAL SUMMARY. r899-oo. 1900-01. 1901-02. 1902-03. 1903-04. Day, 1,844 3,074 3,141 3.413 3,328 Evening, 239 685 293 494 Total, 1,844 3,313 3,826 3.7o6 3,822 1904-05. 1905-00. 1900-07. 1907-o8. 19o8-09. Day, 3,855 3,928 4.405 7,510 8,532 Evening, 840 700 1,II2 1,652 2,177 'Total, 4.695 4.634 5,517 9,162 10,709 INCREASE OF TH;E LIBRARY. There have been added to · the · collection a total of 1685 volumes, 1304 pamphlets, and 5 maps. Of these, 553 completed volumes were purchased, and 1132 volumes, 1304 pamphlets, 5 maps were presented. Among the more important or expensive works acquired by purchase were the following: Album Palaeographicum. Tabulae Selectae LIV. 1908. Aldrich, T. B. Complete Works. 10 vols. 1908. · Bliss, W. D. P. (Ed.) New Encyclopaedia of Social Reform. rgo8. ' British Museum. Catalogue of books printed in the 15th ce):ltury. Pt. I. 1908. Cervantes. Don Quijote. Tercentenary ed. v. 1-3. Cervantes. Don Quijote. Primera edicion critica * * * por C. Cortej6n. v. 1-3. 1905-1907. Darwin, Sir G. H. Scientific Papers. v. 1-2. 1907-1go8. Hastings, J. (Ed.) Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics. v. I. 1908. Journal of Hygiene. v. 1-7. Cambridge, Eng., I9QI-7- Lafontaine, J. de Oeuvres. 12 v. 1883-1897· (Les grands ecrivains de Ia France.) 5 Le Soudier,- H. Bibliographie Franc;aise. 2 erne serie. v. 1. 1900-1904. Paris, 1908. Livingston, L. S. (Ed.) Auction Prices of Books. 4 vols. 1905· Piersol, G. A. (Ed.) Human anatomy. 1907. Poncelet, J. V. Traite des proprietes projectives des figures. 2 ed. 2 vols. 1865-1866. Racine, J. Oeuvres. 9 v. 1885-1890. (Les grands ecrivains de Ia France.) Revue Philosophique. 4 vols. 1907-1908. Sartorius, A. Der moderne Socialismus in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 1890. Stimson, F. J. Law of the Federal and State constitutions of the United States. 1908. Tacitus. Opera quae supersunt. · Rec. J. G. Orellius. Ed. altera. 2 vots. 1859-1877. Tacitu . Lexicon Taciteum. A. Gerber et A. Greef. 1903. Wimperis, H. E. Internal combustion engine. 1908. Wundt, W. Volkerpsychologie. Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mythus, und Sittt;!. 5 vols. 1904-19o8. A number of interesting and useful works were re­ ceived by donation, but the gift which makes the year a memorable one is that of the beautiful and extremely val­ uable collection of books on natural history bequeathed to the Library by Dr. Gurdon W. Russell, '34, for many years our honored oldest alumnus. As, at this writing, the books have been in the Library less than a week, it is not possible to give here an adequate description of their scientific value, bibliographical rarity, and the beauty of their bindings. Dr. Russell was most fastidious in his requirements as to the "condition" of a copy of a .book which he des(red to add to this collection. The result is seen in a spotl.ess and most unusual array of the classic illustrated works on British and North American flora, ornithology, ichthyology, etc. I would respectfully suggest that in the near future a de criptive catalogue of these two hundred and seventy- 6 five volumes be prepared and printed as a number of the College Bulletin. It was Dr. Russell's wish that this collection be always kept by itself in special bookcases, that the volumes should not circulate or be used outside the Library, and that the large folios ought as a rule, to be handl ~ d and shown to readers or visitors by a library attendant. He wished his books to be used and to be a delight and pleasure to all interested; but his almost personal affection for them led him to desire, very naturally, that they be not treated as common working tools, or as ordinary books are usually handled and treated. These conditions were accepted and agreed to by the President and the Librarian in July 1901. Mrs. Russell generously presented the bookcases in which the collection stood in Dr. Russell's study, so that they now stand in the Library of his Alma Mater just as he was accustomed to see them in his own home. Other gifts deserving of particular mention are: A set of the Collections of the New York Historical So0iety, thirty-nine volumes; from Archer M. Huntington, Esq., of New York City. The Panchatantra, critically edited in the original Sanskrit by Dr. Johannes Hertel; from Harvard University. Little Journeys, 10 vols., and The Philistine, 6 vols.,; from Miss E. St. John, of Hartford, Ct. Twenty-four volumes on American· botany from the library of the Rev. J. H. Barbour, '73; from Mrs. ]. H. Barbour. American Journal of Archaeology, 1909; American Philological Association, Transaction , v. 38; ]. R. Illing­ worth's Doctrine of the Trinity; J . R. Illingworth's Reason and Revelation; Campagne's W oordenboek der Hoogduitsche en N ederlandsche Taal; from the Rev. Professor I. T. Beckwith, Ph.D. Seven volumes of Russian and .Hebrew literature; from Mr. Noah Levine of the Class of 1912. Ninety-eight volumes of history, travel, and literature, among them a partial set of a fine edition-de-luxe of Sir 7 Walter Scott's works, 23 vols.; a set of Hudson's edition of Shakespeare, 20 vols.; Works of Henry George, 10 vols.; from Mr. Wm. D. McCrackan, '85. The ensuing table shows the present total extent of the Library, and its annual growth ~uring the past decade. Purchased Given Annual Increase Total in Library Year Vols. Vols. Pphs. Vols. Pphs. Vols. Pphs rSgg-1900 173 724 335 897 335 40,736 26,3.35 1900-1901 491 1,421 755 1,912 755 42,648 27,090 1901-1902 483 1,999 1,095 2,482 1,095 45,130 . 28,185 1902-1903 307 1,223 912 1,530 912 46,66o 29,097 1903-1904 703 922 654 1,625 655 48,285 29,7s2 1904-1905 635 910 1,446 1,519 1,446 49,8o4 31,1!)8 190$-1g00 672 1,()()8 1,248 1,770 1,248 51,574 32,4,46 1g00-1907 8oo 2,6o2 1,312 3-402 1,312 54.976 33.758 1907-1go8 833 727 1,186 1,56o 1,186 s6,536 34,944 1go8-1909 553 1,132 1,304 1,685 1,304 58,221 36,248 CATALOGUING.
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