Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1909-11-29
NEW LIBRARY
FOR COLLEGE BOYS
Old Kappa Alpha Home Being
Made Ready for Delaware
Boys Use

The Delaware College boys are proud I
Of their real library" as they call the |
institution since II graduated this fall /
from two recitation rooms into the build
ing formerly rented by the college 10 the
Kappa Alpha fraternity.
This colonial brick building on the edge
OF the campus, once the property OF the
Evans sisters, was purchased by the col
lege half a dozen years ago. This sum
mer the Kappa Alpha moved 70 new
home, and the building was freshened up
with yellow plaster and a white-columncd
portico on the outside; and numerous
changes were made on the inside.
Ono Floor Competed.
The FIRST floor Is all that is completed
as yet. There is a comfortable reading
room with rather unique picture decora-
ton consisting solely OF three pictures OF
Shakespeare. IN a wide white collar, over
the fireplace. A freshman studied The
group very earnestly for about three
minutes aud then remarked that he
didn't see how Shakespeare ever got into
that collar. The room has one set OF
shelves containing popular magazines. EVIL
IDENTIFY Of great assistance to the young
men in their studies. On the opposite side
Is a bookcase OF neatly-kept scientific
magazines; the only light reading on
these shelves were the Wilmington news
papers.
The ball is finished In dark red. and
lined with book-shelves holding bound
volumes OF magazines. Particularly in
teresting to the collegians are the bound
volumes OF the college paper for many
years back. The remaining room is the
library proper. with the office. There
are no works OF fiction. not even his
torical novels; only learned expositlons
Of the fine arts and the sciences.
There was only one exception 10 the
general severity OF this room. and that
was a table heaped with pamphlets which
looked as II a couple Of healthy Young
college yells had played a game OF tag
among them. The papers proved to be
every style and color OF college maya
zine from all over the country.
A query as TO what was upstairs
brought most genial invitation from
the hospitable colege-boys TO come
up"
There we're two upper floors with a
penetrating smell OF fresh paint and ala
bastine. The walls were lined with book
cases in process Of construction. The
floor was piled with huge tones. These
rooms will be used as store-rooms and
for the less-freouently used reference
books" explained the librarian. when
they will come in handy will be when we
are chamming for college debates. We
don't often use this sort OF a book.
! pointing 10 a volume two feet long by
three feet wide, but when we do w
want Il bad
g The upper hall contained pile Of pic
= lures to be placed on the walls. and Their
. was some more Shakespeare among
them. There were also three busts. rath
-. detected looking as II they missed thei
. accustomed pedestals and thought tn
hall too dark. There was no mistakinl
the well-known features OF the immorta
I Washington. and after some discussion
. as to whether the second was a woman
: or a man in a pig-tail. the piece o
= sculpture was positively Identified as
Joan OF Arc. opinion as TO the identit,
: Of the third bust was diverse. ranging al
the way from Socrates TO Gladstone.
Room For Trophies.
The room most dear TO the heart o.
the Delaware College boys Is reserve,
blue walls, but It Is to contain g.as.
cases in which will be exhibited thu
' school trophies. There has never been I
l definite place for exhibiting lie trophies
, and in consequence they have been scat
tered all over the college. and manl
l. owners have been reluctant 10 part Will
. them. Not even President Harter know
. just how many there are. but there Il
y quite a collection OF hags, cups. medals
d etc. Among the trophies are flags woi
v by the agricultural school. the silver cul
n won several years ago at Franklin
! Field track-meet. the faculty cup. and tn
r cup presented by DR.. Harter which is e
= become the permanent property OF tn
4 class winning It for three years.
l. The boys hope the trophy room vii
% eventually become too small TO hold al
J. the spells they have won. President Hsr
II ter says the building Is already too SINAI
% to hold all the books owned by the col
, Iora