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A GREATER GETTYSBURG By relying on the College catalogue for information, one could get a completely erroneous understanding of the condition of the museum which had once been a valuable and valued part of the material equipment of the institution. Every catalogue, including the one published early in 1926, featured a descriptive paragraph identical with the one which appeared in 1904 and which claimed that the collection was "freely used in instruction." Every catalogue identified Professor Breidenbaugh as its curator. Presumably the only reason this misinformation disappeared from the 1927 catalogue was because Breidenbaugh died in 1926. As early as 1911, the faculty attempted to deal with the increasing neglect of the museum, which even then continued receiving a few gifts, by entrusting its care to the recently inaugurated Student Council. Three years later a student was named assistant curator and instructed to maintain a schedule of hours. In the same year the faculty converted part of the museum space into a classroom and office for the philosophy department. When the assistant curator was graduated in 1917 no successor was appointed. Untended, the collection went from bad to worse. The U.L.C.A. survey team thought that the "discarded, moth-eaten wrecks of animals and birds . . . cannot possibly be of any value and certainly should be burned."242 In an editorial on October 10, 1928, the Gettysburgian called the attention of the students to "several dirty rooms" on the third floor of Glatfelter Hall which had an accumulation of six years of dust hiding "the collections of a good museum," one about to "become wholly worthless." It was "an opportunity for some honorary organization seeking to do the college some good." Unfortunately, no such organization stepped forward and, when Glatfelter Hall was renovated in 1929, most of what still remained of the museum collection was placed in the attic of Breidenbaugh Hall, where it gathered even more dust. In the 1930s some of the pieces were placed in the hobby room in Weidensall Hall while others were auctioned off in 1942 to raise money for the Student Christian Association.243 From Admission to Commencement The 1904-1905 academic year at Gettysburg began on Thursday, September 15, 1904. It consisted of three terms, the first of which ended before Christmas, the second at the end of March, and the third early in June. Commencement was held on the morning of 242Ibid., 1:204. 243Gettysburgian, October 18, 1934; March 11, 1937; and March 18, 1937. 58