The Library, Trinity Ivy, 1916
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Trinity College has long been noted, among other things, for its library, and now, in addition, it is noted for its library building, which, through the munificence of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, trustee, benefactor, and friend of the College, was completed last fall and was duly dedicated as a memorial to the late Bishop Williams on November the first.
From the first Trinity has been conducted with the ideal of turning out men that should not only be fitted for the business world but who should be well educated in the best and broadest sense of that word. To attain this high end a fine library was necessary, and we find in the catalogue soon after 1826 the statement that a valuable library had been obtained, and under Dr. Wheaton, 1831-1837, many new and valuable books were added. From that time on the library continued to grow, and Bishop Williams, by his tireless energy and great insight brought the collection into the first rank of American college libraries. That place it has since held and at the present time it contains the best of the more recent works upon all the subjects in the college curriculum as well as all the important authoritative and indispensable older books, and includes many individual works of great rarity and value. During the past year over 1,800 volumes and 2,000 pamphlets were added to the collection apart from the generous and important gift by Mr. John H. S. Quick, '58, of his valuable library of between 8,000 and I 0,000 volumes.
In its new home in the Williams Memorial the library with all its departments is readily accessible to all the students, and with its convenience as a place of reference and its attractiveness as a place for study it embodies the highest ideals of the twentieth century college library, and is a worthy monument to the greatness of the donor as well as to that of the man whose name it bears.