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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE The Library Completed in 1929. approach to the Carnegie Foundation, he announced to the trustees in January 1927 that one of their colleagues, Henry H. Weber, was changing his bequest of $50,000 for an endowed professorship, announced in 1922, to one of $75,000 for a library to be named in memory of his recently deceased wife, M. Emma Weber. How long it might take for this gift to become available no one then knew, but about eighteen months later Weber sought to move things along by offering the College a judgment note, payable upon his death, which it could then use in securing a bank loan. By the time the members of the board, polled individually in September 1928, approved this arrangement, some of them with understandably serious misgivings, building plans were already well-advanced. The site on which Cottage Hall then stood had already been chosen for the new facility; the old structure was sold at public auction and removed in the fall. A new College architect, J. Alfred Hamme (1897-1965), of the class of 1918, drew up plans for a building whose exterior harmonized with the Georgian design of all four buildings erected during the previous decade. In October Paul 52