The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-18
CAMPUS MEMORIAL.
PORTION OF $s50, 900 LEGACY
 RECEIVED BY TALE.


 of '52, to be Used to Commemorate
 Memory of Dr. Jared LinsIey, '2e, n
 Benefactor of Mir. Ross.
 A portion of the legacy of s250, ,000 lately received by Yale university from the estate of William B. Ross '52 will be used as a campus memorial of Dr. Jared Linsley '26. benefactor of MT. Ross, and will in all probability go to- ward the construction of new library building. It is the plan to retain as much of the old library as is feasible, but rather extensive changes will prob ably have to be made
 At this time when there is such a change being discussed the following outline of the Yale ibrarys history, made by one who is well qualified to treat of the subject, will be of interest.
 At the foundation of the college in the year 1701 forty folio volumes were collected which then constituted the nucleus of what was to be come Yale university. These volumes mostly treat led of theological and philosophical subjects. Within the next few years about 700 volumes were collected in England, by the Connecticut agent, and shipped to the new college. Among the contributors to this collection were Sir Isaac Newton and Richard Steel. Sir John Davy and afterward Governor Elihu Yale presented the college with books from their own libraries
 This library which soon numbered some 1,200 volumes was at first house at the rectory in Saybrook. Tn 1718 after the college was finally established in New Haven a demond was sent to the son of the former rector to deliver the books, but objections were raised and 1t was only after a sheriff had been secur- ed that the valuable collection was fin- ally loaded on an OK cart and started for New Haven. As 1t was, more than a fifth of the books were either retained Tor lost. The library was first put upon the shelves of an apartment in College hall, which building was used for chapel, recitation rooms and dormitory at that time. Tn 1733 Bishop Berkeley added to the library valuable collec- tion of SS0 books from England.
 'In the year 1761 the library was mov- led to the chapel which had been put up in the meantime. In remained there until 1761, when the ney Lyceum afford led it better quarters. The societies, Li- nonia and Brothers in Unity, kept their libraries at first in Sheffield hall, and A |tions were formed for debates and dis- cussion of current topics, so that their libraries were largely made up of cur rent literature. It is from them that the present 'Jlinania and Brothers" li- brary is descended.
 'In 1924 the main college library was again moved to the chapel where it oc- |cupied spare room in the attic. Condi- tions became so unsatisfactory, how lever, that finally in 1S42 distinctive library building was projected. Sub- scriptions were raised among the alum mi, which finally amounted to $13,000. The proposed library was the first among the college buildings that could Hay any claims to architectural beauty. Before it was finished, hard times came so that nothing but the bare roof and walls could be done. It was thought better to have just this much done rather than to narrow the scale of the structure. A temporary room was fitted up in the building which was used to store the books until the entire interior |could be completed. This was done in 1S46-7.
 'The main wing of the building was then devoted to the college library, while the north and. south wings were