Evening star., 1902-03-03
ITS ANNUAL REUNION
COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY ASS0
CIATIoN HOLDS A MEETING.
Business Session Succeeded by Social
Hour - Addresses by Retiring
President and the Dean.

A pleasant reunion and an event of much
social endowment occurred Saturday even
ing, in which the members of the Alumni
Association of Columbian University par
ticipated. The occasion was the annuai
business meeting, which was held at the
university building.
There were suggestive and stimulating
addresses by Mr.. w. Bruce King, the re-
tirng president, and Dean II. l.. Hodg-
kins but the greater portion OF the evening
was spent in social intercourse
In the course Of his address, Dean Hodg-
klns said
In general, one of the greatest needs
at this time in all schools Of the university
is more room. The medical and dental
schools have SO outgrown their buildings,
enlarged though they have been at three
different times within the past fifteen years,
that now the trustees are arranging for
new and larger buildings, to cover mucn
additional space, the construction Of which
is made possible by the broad-minded, self
sacrificing spirit of the medical faculty.
The schools of law and diplomacy, though
housed in their new building for less than
four years, find the rooms already too
small and too few.
THE scientific school outgrew this main
building years ago, and because or lack OF
room has been much hampered In It's
work. Laboratory methods and require
rnents have changed during the brief
eighteen years since this building was
erected that what was then satisfactory Is
row inadequate, and. in part, antiquated.
Additional Building Needed.
"Tc accommodate properly the classes of
the law and scientific schools we need an
additional building as large as the present
main building. This means, for building
alone, an expenditure of more than 100000,
and fully much more for the land.
Another present and urgent need is a
library. A library is the center of univer-
sity life. a large element in the success Of
university teaching. Books are the every
day tools of the student. In Washington.
with it's great government libraries in all
lines of investigation. there is no need of
the large university library that is neces-
sary at other university centers. But we
need, and we need now, few thousand
of the most common reference books in
every line of work. Ten thousand dollars
spent on the library at once would stimu-
late our work no other expenditure of a
like sum could. And to that immediate
expenditure should be Joined provision for
the addition to the library each year Of
standard books in every line and of new
books that are appearing from time to
time, and knowledge Of which and about
which must be had by the progressive stu
dent.
Also. there should be a fund for period
icals of at the least several hundred dol
lars year. The reading room of the IL
brary should be provided with current
magazines and papers for the literary rec
reation of the students, and the reference
library should receive and keep on file the
most important Of the more technical and
learned periodicals that are the message
bearers from scholar to scholar in home
and foreign lands.
Our laboratories need enlargement and
better equipment Ten years ago DR.. Wei
ling estimated that the scientific school
needed 100000 to be expended at once for
equipment. The need still exists, and the
estimate is none too large