Pacific Lutheran College Bulletin Published quarterly by Pacific Lutheran College at Tacoma and Parkland, Wash ington. Entered as second-class matter April 26, 1927, at the postoffice at Tacoma, Washingo t n, under the Act of August 24, 1912.
January, FEBRUARY, March, 1940
VOL. XIX
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THE PACIFIC LUTHERAN COLLECE LIBRARY Report oj Progress
I. th summer and fall of 1936, in response to urgent need, C!llzen, of Greater Tacoma a nd Pierce County, with a few other friends of the cause, pledged slightly more than 100.000 to ward the erection of a Library·Classroom Building on the campus of Pacifi� Lutheran College. The pledges wpre, with a few e...xecptions. to 1)(' paid within three years. This issue of the Paciiic Lutheran College Bulletin reports th
5plendid r 'pon,"
in terms of payment of tl;ese pledges. (See the com ment in connection with the li5t f paid-up pledges,)
The second floor of the beautiful new building was taken into partial use on �1ay ne picture in this Bulletin shows the reading room in use' anoth er ,hm,', the librarian, Professor J. U. Xavier, at his desk in his crowded quarters. A third picture shows the unfinished condition of the first floor (the classroom part) in February, 1940; and the fourth picture, on page Gfteen of this BlIllt:tin. ,howb the front exposure of the building. Construction has progressed Dilly as the mono', h,," eome in, and it is the intention to continue this p olicy. h is evident to all ob servers that the speediest possibJ completion of the building, including Ih classroom;; and the staeka, is urgently needed.
1, 1939.