isua-isnscatalog-1891-1892-071

Description:	70 ANNUAL CATALOGUE.Seventh Term.—A general survey of English Literature, showing how it developed under the rhythm of national life, includingsome special study of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Bacon, Swift,Addison, Pope, Burns, Byron, Scott, Thackeray, Dickens,George Eliot, Ruskin and Carlysle.It is well before the student begins the terms work, for him tohave some acquaintance with the foregoing authors.Arnold Tompkins,Head of Department.THE LIBRARY.The Library at present contains nearly eight thousand volumes. The old library having been entirely destroyed, thebooks we have are new and carefully selected with reference tothe special needs of our school, so that the number alone givesno real conception of its working capacity. A special fundenables us to buy such books as are needed, and the Library willhave a yearly increase of about fifteen hundred volumes. Besides bound books, there are kept on file some twenty currentAmerican and English magazines and as many papers, partlypurchased and partly presented, to which the students havefree access during all except study hours. As fast as volumesof periodicals are completed they are bound and properly classified the same as other books. These are placed in good, substantial oak cases, and the top shelves are not so high but thata person of moderate size may reach the books without the useof a ladder. Study tables of the same material, and chairs areconveniently situated. The room is large, well lighted andcheerful the floor neatly carpeted and the walls adorned withappropriate pictures.RULES AND REGULATIONS.Commencing at 8 oclock A. M., with an hours intermissionat noon, the library is open each of the week-days about eight •hours, excepting Saturdays, when it is opened at 9 oclock andclosed at noon.Free access to books and periodicals is given during all hoursin which the library is open, and by the proper filling out of
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