ment was to have a large part of the building, through an oversight, had not been informed of the occasion and missed it. Incensed, he had an angry interview with the President with whom he already had differed over raising funds for the building.*Its location, too, had been controversial and as decided upon made it the first in the closed north quadrangle of the upper campus. The architects were Harding and Seaver of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the cost about $90,000. Built of stone from the University quarry, it was a three-story structure with a basement, and provided ample lecture rooms, laboratories, and display areas for the museum collections of geological and biological specimens. The building which was named for the recently deceased Rev. Edward. Lathrop, Class of 1839, who had been a Trustee for nearly thirty-four years and the oldest living alumnus, was dedicated at commencement 1906.
*Herman T.R. Aude, Recollections of Colgate Years, 1901-05, part H, 5.
