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College Libraries.

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The number of volumes in a library is not always a criterion of its value to the student, but it is interesting to know the extent to which the colleges of the United States have accumulated libraries and their comparative sizes. We append a list showing the number of bound volumes in the libraries of the principal colleges of the United States:-

Harvard. 340,000 U. of Va. 40,000

Yale. 200,000 Vanderbilt. 15,000

Lehigh. 67,000 Swarthmore. 20,000

Hamilton. 25,000 Bowdoin. 48,000

U. S. Car' lina 30,000 Dickinson. 33,000

Boston Un. 5,700 Syracuse. 75,000

Brown. 66,000 Madison. 18,000

Colby. 21,000 Cornell. 150,000

U. of Verm't 36,000 Union. 36,000

U. of Calif. 38,000 Columbia. 90,000

Col. City. NY 25,000 Dartmouth. 68,500

Ohio Univ. 8,000 Tufts. 25,000

Williams. 25,500 Penn'vania. 21,500

Rutgers. 30,000 Allegheny. 12,500

Maryville. 10,000 Lafayette. 22,000

Roanoke. 16,000 Sewanee. 80,000

Wooster. 12,000 Wesleyan. 35,000

U N Car'lina 25,000 Oberlin. 18,800

Bates. 14,326 Hobart. 21,750

Bucknell. 10,600 Mt. Union. 5,000

Uof Toronto 30,000 Vassar. 16,000

U Nashville 15,000 Wellesley. 40,000

Princeton. 63,000 Rochester. 23,000

Adelbert. 22,800 U. of Tenn. 6,000

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