two student assistants tried to accommodate the needs of readers and borrowers. Detailed regulations provided, among other things, that the library rooms should be open at least two hours every week-day during term time, and that no ink be used there. No student was to withdraw more than two books at a time and for failure to return them at the end of two weeks was to be fined 12 1/2 cents a volume for each week’s delay.
Never has Colgate had an abler, more energetic, or devoted faculty than in the 1830’s and ’40’s. Their marked scholarship, careful planning of the curriculum, and thorough and inspired teaching made this period an Augustan age in the history of the institution.