502 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



Since 1893 the library has been temporarily installed in a nonfire- 

 ])roof building," situated in the northeast corner of the universitj'^ 

 grounds. This is entirely insufficient and extraordinarily crowded, so 

 that the building of a second temporary building was contemplated 

 when J. D. Rockefeller, on Christmas eve, 1900, made a preliminary 

 donation of $100,000 for a new structure. The university had already, 

 ill 1891. bought for about $17,000 the Calvary secondhand bookstore 

 in Berlin, which was estimated to contain 280.000 volumes and 120,000 

 pamphlets, but was indeed much less and not as valuable as was 

 expected; and it had also obtained in 1891 the entire library of the 

 Baptist Union Theological Seminary, of Chicago, in 40,000 volumes. 

 In 1899 the entire number of books possessed by the university 

 amounted to 325,000 volumes'' and 1.50,000 pamphlets (estimated), 

 71,235 volumes of which were in the 25 departmental libraries of the 

 various institutes and seminaries, where, however, they are adminis- 

 tered from the central library by a superintendent, an inspector, and 

 four assistants. These reference libraries are completely catalogued 

 according to authors and partially according to subjects. They con- 

 tained in gross, in 1900, the following numbers of volumes: Theolog}", 

 9,350; biology, 7,(585; political economy, 6,181; English, 5,432; his- 

 tory. 5,433; German, 4,920; Latin, 4,415; geology, 4,260; sociology, 

 3,703; philosophy, 2,914; romance languages, 2,905; political science, 

 2,651; and mathematics, 2,503. 



COBB LECTURE HALL. 



The Cobb Lecture Hall (tig. 78) was founded in 1892 by S. B. Cobb, 

 at a cost of $225,000. A structure for a lecture hall was alread}' in 

 process of erection, so that on October 1 of that year the official open- 

 ing of the universit}' was celebrated in it, and it has remained its 

 central point. It is 170 feet long, 82 feet wide, and 55 feet high, up to 

 the roof. There are 23 lecture halls that hold a total of 800 persons — the 

 largest, 7S by 45 feet, holding 40() persons; the second in size, 45 by 33 

 feet — besides the offices of the university. It is aboutto be united with 

 the central heating plant. 



GYMNASIUM. 



The gymnasium is a temporary structure that in 1892 was built on 

 the north, near the l)uilt-up portion of the university grounds, at an 

 expense of about $18,000. The portion for men is 220 feet long and 

 55 feet wide, the hall 154 feet long by 55 feet wide; 420 lockers serve 

 for depositing clothing. There is a miming track 440 feet long, laid 

 with linoleum. The portion for Avomen is 100 feet long and 55 feet 



« Only 20,000 of the most valuable volumes are stored in a fireproof room, 

 f'ln 1903, .3()7,442 volumes. 



