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are kept, in addition to the city dailies, the county papers which tell the news from home. There are at least a hundred of these, one from almost every county in the state. Near the paper racks stands a double case for scientific periodicals and magazines. Here are also kept the exchanges of the Kansas University Quarterly. In the corner behind the door are the papers and magazines relating to music and art. Along the west wall of the reading room is the periodical case for magazines of language and literature. Here are magazines of all kinds and grades, from Scribner's and Harper's up to the Journal of Philology. Over in the northeast corner "under the clock" are the papers and periodicals more suited to the students of sociology and history.
Thus it will be seen that within the reading room alone is matter enough to keep one busy "keeping up with the times" without his going into the next room to catch up with the past.
But before passing out of the reading room it is well to stop and examine the card catalogue, an index by means of which any author or subject may be found, and the number and position containing the desired matter may be ascertained.
Passing into the "book room" we come first to the bound periodicals, such as Harper's North American Review, and others. Then on our left we come to alcoves containing books relating to philosophy, religion, political economy, sociology, and philology, while on our right are works on mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, botany, entomology, and the other "ologies." Passing next into the third room, we come to the books on pharmacy and engineering. Then to those on music and art; American and English literature; German and French literature; and history. In the farthest case are the folios, books in all departments which are too large to stand in the regular shelves.
The library now consists of 20,000 volumes and many unbound pamphlets and papers. All these books are for the use of all students and can be obtained by asking the librarian.
NEW BUILDINGS.
Provision has been made for the erection of three new buildings during the present academic year. One of these, the Chancellor's residence, is already completed and was occupied on December 30th. This, together with the new library, is built by means of the Spooner gift, the bequest of William B. Spooner, of Boston.
The new library building, to be known as "The Spooner Library," will be a monument in the West to the generosity of a man in the East. It is being built of native limestone, trimmed with red sandstone from South Dakota. This building will be completed by the first of September, 1894. The capacity of the book-stack is to be 100,000 volumes. The main reading room will be used exclusively for the reading of books. Adjoining it, however, will be a periodical and newspaper room. On the basement floor and also on the reading-room floor are to be seminar rooms, rooms devoted entirely to the work in some one department.
Upon the upper floor is to be a large hall or reception room. Here, it is intended, will be held such gatherings as are too small for the University hall and too large for any of the other rooms. This building when completed will add much to the beauty of the group of University buildings, and also to the material equipment of the University.
The new physics building, for which the excavating is now completed, will not be fairly started until spring. In it will be placed all the laboratories of the physics and electrical engineering departments.
With these three new buildings the University of Kansas will have an equipment second to no state university. With their completion it is hoped will begin another era of prosperity.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
The Kansas State University has taken an active interest in this great movement for the bringing of the University education within the reach of business men and women. To those who are too busy to come to the University the University goes through the individual