IMPORTANT TRUSTEE MEETING

On October 21 the board of trustees met in their room in the Parkhurst Building. The President presented a detailed report of the growth and resulting congestion of the College. This report, a condensed tabulation of which appears below, led to the following resolution upon which comment has been made in the editorial columns:

Whereas, with the entrance of the present freshman class of about 425 men, every room in the college dormitories and practically every available room outside is occupied, and it will be impossible with existing accommodations to provide a year hence for an entering class of similar size or even approximately such a number within 75 or 100 men, and

Whereas, the Trustees of the College feel that a duty rests upon them, in the administration of the great trust committed to their care, to meet so far as possible in the future as in the past the demands of its constituency in the way of the advanced educational opportunities which the College was created to provide, and that moreover, no method of arbitrary restriction of its members is apparent which will not injuriously react upon the usefulness of the College in other respects:

Be it resolved that in view of such situation, the Committee on Business Administration be authorized to erect an additional dormitory of fireproof construction to accommodate not less than one hundred men and not to exceed in cost $125,000, upon plans and a site to be approved by said Committee and to be ready for occupancy at the opening of the next college year, and, furthermore, that said Committee and the proper officers of the College be authorized to secure funds for that purpose to an amount not exceeding the above sum, by borrowing the same and executing the obligations of the College, to be secured if and so far as necessary by mortgage upon the said dormitory and land appurtenant thereto.

At the same meeting the question of the remodelling of Went- worth Hall for use as a recitation hall was referred to the Committee on Business Administration with power. To this committee also was left the question as to the advisability of enlarging Rollins Chapel to accommodate 300 more students, by extending the transepts twenty feet each.

It was also voted to add $10,000 to the loan already made to the Building Committee of the New Gymnasium for work on the interior of the building.

Nathaniel Louis Goodrich was appointed librarian of the College. Mr. Goodrich was born in Concord, N. H., in 1880. He took the degree of A.B. from Amherst in 1901, and for a year thereafter was a reporter on the UticaPress. From 1902-04 he was a student in the New York State Library School, where he received the degree of B.L.S. From 1904-07 he served on the staff of the New York State Library, where he was in charge of the department of purchase, exchanges, and binding. From 1907-09 he was librarian of the West Virginia University, and since September 1909 at the University of Texas, where his chief work was the planning and superintendence of the construction of a new library building costing $275,000.