DEDICATORY EXERCISES. 



The dedication of Barney Memorial Science Hall occurred June 

 i3di, 1894. The following account of the exercises is taken from the 

 press notice in the Granville Times of June 14th : 



"The dedicatory exercises of Barney Memorial Hall occurred on 

 Wednesday morning at a quarter past nine o'clock. As the cases had 

 not yet been placed in the Museum a platform was erected in its east 

 end for the speakers and the main floor and gallery, with all the avail- 

 able space in the adjoining hall, was crowded with visitors eager to par- 

 ticipate in celebrating the completion of a building which means so 

 much for the future of Denison in the field of scientific investigation. 



" All regretted the absence of Mr. Barney, through whose liber- 

 ality the building was erected, but the ceremony of turning over the 

 keys to the Board of Trustees was fittingly performed by the Chairman 

 of the Building Committee, Mr. Albert Thresher. Dr Colby, the Pres- 

 ident of the Board whose remarks at the laying of the corner stone are 

 remembered by many, accepted the keys with a graceful recognition of 

 the faithful manner in which the committee had discharged its trust, 

 and presented them in turn to President Purinton. 



" In the remarks made by Dr. Purinton special stress was placed 

 upon the recognition of the great truths of the Christian religion in all the 

 scientific work of the University. Attention was also called to the rec- 

 ognition of the work of the Denison laboratories of leading scientists 

 throughout the civilized world as shown by the exchange of the publi- 

 cations of learned societies in all lands for the bulletins of our labora- 

 tories and the Journal of Neurology. 



" At the close of the President's remarks an earnest and touching- 

 dedicatory prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Lounsbury, of Dayton, pas- 

 tor of the church with which Mr. Barney is connected. 



" The President then introduced the principal speaker of the oc- 

 casion, Prof. J. J. Stevenson, of New York. 



" The leading feature of the exercises as a whole was the assur- 

 ance given that Denison is not to make the vital mistake, in entering 

 upon a broader career of scientific investigation of nature's facts and 

 laws, of leaving out of consideration the divine mind of which these 

 facts and laws are but the outward expression." 



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