BAKER LIBRARY CORNERSTONE BOX PUT IN PLACE
The cornerstone box of the Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library was put in place September 2. The cornerstone of Dartmouth's new library is located on the east side of the main entrance to the building. Professor Charles N. Haskins, chairman of the faculty committee on the library, was in charge of the installation and in the presence of the architect, Jens Fredrick Larson, the treasurer of the College, Halsey C. Egerton 'O6, representatives of the administration and members of the HegemanHarris Construction Company, sealed the box in a crevice beneath the cornerstone.
The box, which was made of copper about 18 inches long by 10 inches wide by 5 inches deep, contains the following:
Descriptive history of the Library's development.
The Growth and the Use of the Library by Charles N. Haskins. (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, March, 1926.)
Report of the Advisory Council on Plans for a new Library Building, submitted to the President of the College, June 5, 1915.
Preliminary Report of the Committee on the Library to the President of the College on Plans for a new Library Building, submitted February 14, 1922.
Memorandum Report on Plans for a Library Building for Dartmouth College, submitted by the Faculty Committee on the Library to the President of the College, June 5, 1925.
Clippings from "The Dartmouth" relative to the new Library Building, November, 1925-January, 1926.
Excerpts from the Records of the Trustees of Dartmouth College relating to the Library of the College, 1773-1926.
Excerpts from the Records of the Faculty of Dartmouth College relating to the Library of the College, 1832-1923.
History of the Dartmouth College Library, 1769-1876, from original Ms. in Archives of the Library.
History of Dartmouth College Library, 1769-1895, by J. T. Gerould. Architect's Memoranda.
Sketch of the Development of the Plan for the Baker Memorial Library of Dartmouth College, by Charles N. Haskins, Chairman Faculty Committee on the Library.
Staff of Hegeman-Harris Company engaged on construction of Baker Mem orial Library.
Sketch of the life of Fisher Ames Baker.
Sketch of the life of George F. Baker.
Set of plans by photostatic process.
College catalogue, 1926-27.
One coin of present date.
Alumni Magazines containing articles on the Library:
August, 1926—The New Building for the Library of Dartmouth College: An Interpretation of the Plans, by Nathaniel L. Goodrich, Librarian of the College.
February, 1927—The Entrance Hall in the New Library, by Nathaniel L. Goodrich.
March, 1927—A Weathervane for the Library Tower, by Nathaniel L. Goodrich.
April, 1927—The Plans for the New Library, by Nathaniel L. Goodrich.
Stamps commemorating the Burgoyne and Bennington Sesquicentennials.
