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instruction during the two years have been: More clearly defining its limits; 

 adding to the course of study; providing for additional instruction ; making 

 the essay work of rlietorical exercises a part of some regular study wlierever it 

 is practicable ; and giving credit for rhetorical work at the close of every term, 

 the same as other work. 



THE CC-LLEGE LIBRARY. 



Two rooms are assigned to the library in the Library and Museum Building, 

 just completed; tlie book-room, 40x;')0 feet, with 16-fcet ceiling, and the 

 reading-room 17x31 feet, with 14-feet ceiling. The book-room occupies the 

 first floor of the back part of the building. It is at tlie end of the main 

 entrance. Open cases 8 feet high and 13 feet long, built at righc angles 

 to the north and south walls, form alcoves 10x13 feet, and afford shelving for 

 about 10,000 volumes. These cases will be extended to the ceiling when 

 needed, and galleries made about them, thus doubling the shelving capacity 

 of the library. The alcoves are furnished with neat reading tables and chairs, 

 and are each lighted by a high, broad window. A projection in the rear of 

 the building forms a large alcove, the walls of which are shelved to the ceil- 

 ing. The alcove at the left of the entrance, which is a Utile larger than the 

 others, and contains a grate, is to be finished for Librarian's office. The 

 middle of the room, 14x50 feet, contains double desks. The Librarian's 

 counter is near the front entrance at the right, and commands a view of both 

 book-room and reading-room. The latter is in front and to the right of the 

 general room, and is entered from the front hall, or through a passage, 11 

 feet wide, from the largo room. It is lighted bv large windows on the east 

 and south. It is provided with one large reading table and one large double 

 desk, and comfortable seats. The entire west wall is given to cases of pigeon- 

 holes for current periodicals. A few modest pictures hang on the walls, and 

 above the mantel-piece is an elegant life-size oil portrait of the President of the 

 State Board of Agriculture. Chandeliers and bracket lamps afford suitablo 

 light in the evening. 



The following report of the condition, care and oversight of the Library 

 covers two years and one month, from Sept. 1, 1880, to Oct. 1, 1882: The 

 Library contains, exclusive of about 400 volumes of duplicate reports and 

 public documents, 6,135 bound volumes, valued at a little more than $15,000, 

 and 800 pamphlets and unbound volumes worth, perhaps, SlOO (exclusive of 

 catalogues of schools, museums, publications, etc.). 



During the period covered by this report there have been added, by pur- 

 chase, at a cost of about $1,950, 9G4 bound volumes; by binding, at a cost, 

 including subscription, of $550, 275 volumes; by donations, valued at $234, 

 234 volumes, making a total increase of 1,472 bound volumes, worth $2,734. 

 In addition to this tiiere are now on hand, or nearing completion, nearly ICO 

 volumes of periodicals to be bound, worth about $200. 



The expenditures of the Library have been, iu exact figures, exclusive of 

 new furniture for the new library : 



Books $1,948 09 



Period icals 467 21 



Freight and express 50 99 



Printing and binding ?32 69 



Stationary and postage 56 51 



Labor...' 187 51 



