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Alice B. Ricker, Class of 1894

Westbrook Seminary, Campus Engraving, 1886

Westbrook Seminary, Campus Engraving, 1886

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Abplanalp Library, UNE

A small library was located in the Seminary Building. Library fees were 25 cents per term.

Frost Library, so named because George Frost had donated his books, contained nearly 3000 volumes, and Reading Rooms within Goddard and Hersey were well supplied with periodicals.

Monthlies included Century, Scribners, New England Magazine and Ladies' Home Journal. Weeklies included Harper's Weekly, Scientific American, Sunday Times, and Life, and daily papers included the Portland Press, Eastern Argus, Lewiston Journal, Boston Journal, and Boston Herald.