THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY..

OFFICERS.

EBEN ALEXANDER, PH.D., LL.D., SUPERVISOR.

LOUIS ROUND WILSON, A.B., Librarian.

HENRY MORING ROBINS, Assistant.

CHARLES METCALFE BYRNES, Assistant.

The University Library numbers thirty-two thousand five hundred volumes and about twelve thousand five hundred pamplets. The collection of books is being re-classified and re catalogued according to the Dewey, or decimal system.

The Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies have made a donation of their valuable collection of twenty thousand volumes to the Library, and provided for its perpetual endowment. The official title of the Library is now THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ENDOWED BY THE DIALECTIC AND PHILANTHROPIC LITERARY SOCIETIES.

The funds available for the increase of the Library are expended semiannually under the direction of the Supervisor, the Librarian and Library Committee, with special reference to the instruction given in the University. The annual increase from purchase, bequests and exchanges averages about one thousand five hundred volumes. The books are carefully classified and catalogued by author, subject, and title.

Extensive improvements in the arrangement and administration of the Library have been made in the direction of better light, more room and greater efficiency and comfort. The librarian and his assistants are in attendance to give help in any line of research or reading. The reading room is supplied with the best foreign and American periodicals and the leading newspapers of the State and Nation. The students of the University are allowed access, under necessary limitations, to the book-shelves. The Library and the Reading-room are open every week day from 9 A. M. to 1:15 P. M., and from 2 to 5 P. M.

The Library has received from Mr. J. S. Pierson, of New York City, fifty volumes of recent works on Missions. Through the kindness of Mr. H. G. Chatham, of Elkin, Mr. J. Q. Gant, of Burlington, Hon. W. W. Kitchin, of Roxboro, and Gen. T. F. Toon, of Raleigh, the Library has been enabled to offer two reading prizes to members of the class of 1904.

The University acknowledges gifts to the Library during the past year from F. Acker, Eben Alexander, J. P. Anderson, S. G. Ayers, K. P. Battle, W. R. Bond, Mrs. Bridgers, E. McN. Carr, J. O. Carr, J. S. Carr, Sr., Walter Clark, W. C. Conant, Baron Pierre de Couhertin, D. A. Tompkins, A. E. Frye, L. S. Holt, Sr., J. W. Jones, W. Kirshbaum, Longmans, Green & Co., M. A. McLauchlin, J. P. McLean, C. H. Mebane, Nash Bros., J. T. Pullen, Putnam's Sons, C. L. Raper, Rumford & Co., Scribners, W. A. Shepherd, M. O. Sherrill, Benj. Sledd, S. W. Stockard, C. H. Swan, Trustees of Slater fund, D. H. Tuttle, H. G Waldin, Admiral Walker, G. T. Winston, F. P. Venable, Asso. Amer. Med. Colleges, Cambria Steel Co., Chicago B'd of Education, Indiana Hist. Society, John Crerar Library, N. C. B'd of Health, N. C. B’d. of Public Charities, N. C. Bureau of Labor and Printing, N. C. Geological Survey, N. C. Society of Colonial Dames, N. C. State Government through the Secretary of State and other officials, N. J. Hist. Society, Ohio Hist. Society, Philosophical Society of Washington, S. C. State Government, Smithsonian Institution, State B'd of Charities of Mass., State Library of N. J., State Library of N. Y., Supt., Public Instruction of Michigan, Supt. Pub. Documents, U. S. Government through various Bureaus, Union Club, Y. M. C. A. of U. of N. C., Yale Corporation, Advocate of Peace, Alamance Gleaner, American Debater, American Economist, Asheville Citizen, Asheville Gazette, Atlantic Educational Journal, Bulletin of University of Virginia, Carolina Medical Journal, Case and Comment, Caucasian, Chapel Hill News, Charity and Children, Charlotte News, Chatham Record, Christian Advocate, Church Standard, Cleveland Star, Columbia University Quarterly, Commonwealth, Confederate Veteran, Democratic Banner, Duplin Journal, Everybody's Magazine, Exchanges of University of North Carolina Magazine, Fayetteville Observer, Fisherman and Farmer, Franklin Times, Gospel Messenger, Green County Standard, Greensboro Telegram, Henderson Times, Homiletic Review, King's Weekly, Lenoir Topic, Manufacturer's Record, Mooresville Enterprise, Music Life, N. C. Law Journal, Newton Enterprise,

Normal Instructor, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Polk County News, Presbyterian Standard, Progressive Farmer, Raleigh Times, Red Springs Banner, Reidsville Review, Religious Herald, Richmond Times, Roanoke-Chowan Times, Salvation, Smithfield Herald, Sound Currency, Southern Presbyterian, Statesville Landmark, Statesville Mascot, Sunset, Technology Review, Texas Quarterly, Trinity Archives, Twin-City Daily Sentinel, Virginian Pilot, Waynesville Courier, Webster's Weekly, Weekly Times, Williamston Enterprise, Wilmington Messenger, Wilmington Star, Wilson Times, Windsor Ledger, Missionary Review and N. C. Corporation Committee.

THE GYMNASIUM.

EDWARD VON DEN STEINEN, Instructor in Physical Culture.

Memorial Hall is used as the University Gymnasium, affording a practically unlimited supply of air, light and space for all sorts of gymnastic exercises. Inside of the hall is a running track one sixteenth of a mile long and there is an abundant supply of improved gymnastic apparatus. Exercise in the Gymnasium is required three hours a week of all the members in College except Seniors. A thorough physical examination of each student is made in the fall, and, in case the student desires it, another in the spring. The measurements are indicated in a Prescription of Exercise pamphlet and are furnished to the students free of charge in the fall term. This book contains directions for the developing of every part of the body as well as suggestions on hygiene and personal care of the body; it is free from technicalities and confusing terms. Too much importance cannot be attached to the physical examinations, since it enables the student to work intelligently and economize his time. The physical examination is designed to aid the student by pointing out defects, and causing him to direct his efforts toward the correction of them.