Excerpt from Order of Exercises and Addresses at the Dedication of the Carnegie Library of Beloit College: Beloit, Wisconsin, January 5, 1905
The report of the Library Construction Committee can be made very brief as several causes have conspired to lighten the task usually falling to such a Committee.
First and greatest of these, - no long and depressing solicitation of funds. The generous and ample gift of the donor lifted that portion of the burden before its weight could be felt.
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