State
Vol. 1, No. 9. STATE COLLEGE, PA., DEC. 1, 1904—SUPPLEMENT Price Five Cents
PENNSYLVANIA DAY
Celebrated with Suitable Ceremonies at The Pennsylvania State
DEDICATION OF THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY
Addresses were made by Governor Pennypacker, Mr. Chas. M,
Schwab, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, and Others
Published by Courtesy of Pennsylvania Grit.
Friday Nov. 18th, was a gala day
for State College. It was the oc
casion of the dedication of the
magnificent. Carnegie Library and
also Pennsylvania Day. Mr. and
Mrs. Carnegie, Mr. and Mrs.
Schwab, Governor Pennypacker,
Deputy Attorney General Fleitz and
State Librarian Montgomery were
among the notable guests in atten
dance. Coming by way of Lemont,
on Thursday evening, in Mr.
Schwab’s special car “Loretto” the
party were driven up and were met
Published in the Interest of the students of The Pennsylvania State College
College, including the
THIS CARNEGIE LIBRARY
by the cadet battalion at Centre
Furnace and escorted to Dr. Ather
ton’s residence.
After dinner most of the distin
guished guests retired to their rooms,
but quite a few visited the various
fraternity houses where dancing was
in full swing.
The exercises commenced prompt
ly at 9.30 a. m. in the Auditorium
on Friday with the Invocation by
Dr. Gill. Mr. Thos L. Mont
gomery, State Librarian, then de
livered a very eloquent address on
Coll
egian.
“Pennsylvania Libraries and their
Relation to Education.” Owing to
unavoidable delay in returning the
manuscript we are not able to re
produce either Mr. Montgomery’s
speech or Mr. Fleitz’s very able ad
dress on “Pennsylvania” which di
rectly followed Mr. Montgomery’s.
In introducing Governor Penny
packer President Atherton spoke as
follows: —
“We have the great honor of hav-
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MR. ANDIiEW CARNEGIE
ing present witli us this morning
one whom we all respect lor his
high official position as well as for
his personal character.
"The Governor of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania occupies a
position of more influence, in some
respects, than did the President of
the United States at the time when
the constitution of the United
States was framed in Phiklelphia.
The state of Pennsylvania alone
lias much more than twice the num
ber of inhabitants that all the thir
teen colonies then had; it has many
times more wealth ; it has a variety
of industries that were then un
known, it has thousands of inultifar-