Excerpt from Catalogue of Marietta College Library, 1857 The Library of Marietta College contains upward of volumes. It had its origin in the donation of a few volumes in the infancy of the institution, and at one time consisted mostly of text-books, the gift in part, of the students of Amherst and Yale. The first consid crable addition by purchase, was a choice collection of philological works, selected in Europe in 1837, by President, then Professor, Smith. With this accession the Library numbered volumes, and soon after the first Catalogue, prepared by Tutor Adkins, was published. In 1852 President Smith again visited Europe and pro cured the larger and more valuable part of the present Library, embracing many rare and costly works. In the departments of Natural Science, in Philology, Metaphysics, Theology and Biblical Literature, probably no College Library at the West is so well sup plied; while any deficiency in works of general literature is met by the well selected and rapidly increasing Libraries of the Literary Societies. From the subscribed before the recent purchases, there remains an income to the Library of over $300 a year, which is further increased by students' fees. It is to be hoped, however, that this is but the beginning of Marietta College Library. A Library edifice is much needed for the security, better arrangement and growth of the several libraries connected with the College, which already make an aggregate of over volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.