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LATER BUILDINGS OF THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY 425 two dollars and eighty-two cents were given by upward of two thousand differ- ent friends of the University, including members of the Board of Trustees and of the faculties, students, alumni, and many others. The remainder of the total amount came mostly from the accretion of interest. The final figures showed that the total amount of the fund was one million, forty-five thousand, five hundred and fifty- two dollars. The cost of construction and furnishing was eight hundred and fifteen thousand, five hundred and six dollars. Deducting some incidental expenses, two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars remained in the maintenance fund. The building was dedicated with elaborate ceremonies on June 10 and n, 1912, in connection with the eighty- third Convocation. On the evening of June 10, the Library was thrown open for the President's reception. Four thousand or more people thronged the spacious edifice and were shown about the building and the quadrangles by about two hundred guides. The dedicatory exercises were held on the morning of June n in the open air on the north front of the building in the presence of more than four thousand people. Addresses were delivered by President Judson, Dean A. W. Small, Donald R. Richberg, speaking for the alumni, Henry Edward Legler, of the Chicago Public Library, Charles A. Coolidge of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, the architects, and by the venerable President Emeritus of the University of Michigan, James B. Angell. Dr. E. H. Lewis of the Lewis Institute and author of the "Alma Mater" recited a dedication poem: " House of the Word," written for the occasion. Following the addresses the President of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Ryerson, presented to President Judson the keys of the new building, saying in part: This building is dedicated to the memory of a man whose career is worthy of being commemorated in the most notable manner. The importance of his services to our University and to the cause of education in general cannot be too fully recognized and the magnitude of his monument is still within the measure of our estimate of his life work. We have wrought as largely and as beautifully as we could in order to express, not only our appreciation of this work, but also the affection and esteem in which his memory is held by the members of the University and by the thousands who have contributed to the fund devoted to the erection of his monument What we have here,