Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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16 ALBION COLLEGE tories and every convenience is provided for both the instructor and students pursuing general or special courses. There are eight separate working laboratories all fully sup- plied with apparatus and chemicals and equipped with gas, water, ventilation hoods, desks and lockers for each student. These are located on the first and second floors and the base- ment. The chemical lecture room on the second floor has seating for eighty students and is thoroughly furnished with a large demonstrating lecture table containing pneumatic cistern, oxy- gen tanks, exhaust, gas, water, sinks, battery, with ventilating hood in rear. Each floor is provided with a capacious dispensing room where chemicals and apparatus are stored to be issued to the student as required. The General and Qualitative Chemical Laboratory on the second floor is equipped with ninety working tables, each hav- ing a sink, hood, water faucets, gas, reagent bottles. Prom the adjacent room may be obtained all chemical apparatus required in their work. The advanced courses are conducted on the first floor and in the basement where are located laboratories for Quantitative, Organic and Technical Chemistry. Every facility is afforded for thorough work. Attached to the laboratories on the second floor is a thoroughly equipped weighing room containing accurate bal- ances, specific gravity apparatus, etc. In the basement is located the Laboratory for Portland Ce- ment and Assaying, providing all the necessary apparatus for the physical testing of cement and the assaying of ores. Here are crucible and muffle furnaces, both coal and gas, for the fire assays of ores and also crushing, pulverizing and sampling ap- paratus, tensile strength machines, specific gravity apparatus and all the regular equipment used in the practical handling of ce- ments and ores. A complete laboratory for Gas Analysis, with special refer- ence to its application in the manufacture of illuminating gas, has been installed. In the private laboratory of the instructor there is con- stantly carried on outside work in the examination of raw ma- terials for manufacturing purposes, such as clays, marls, peat, coal, gold and silver ores, iron and steel, sanitary and mineral waters.

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YEAR BOOK 16 chase as well as by the collections made by the department and friends of the college. The study and private laboratory of the professor in charge is on the first floor, adjacent to the Zoological Laboratory, where he may be constantly consulted by those having need of his assistance. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OP PHYSICS The laboratory work in the department of Physics has been greatly strengthened during the past few years by the acquisi- tion of a considerable amount of modern physical apparatus. Among the instruments now a vailable for class illustration and laboratory work are the following: Vernier calipers, mi- crometer gauges, microscopes, telescopes, spherometers. Jolly ' s balance, Hawkes-Atwood ' s machine, Toepler-Voss self-charging electrical machine, diffraction grating, optical bench with ac- cessories, photometric apparatus, Geneva spectrometer, highly polished prisms, laboratory clock with sweep second hand, bend- ing apparatus with telephone attachment, Boyle ' s law appar- atus, Mohr ' s specific gravity balance, laboratory recorder for vibrations of tuning forks, simple pendulum apparatus with sounder for time work, pyknometers, moment of inertia appar- atus, Kundt ' s apparatus for velocity of sounds in metals, spe- cific heat apparatus, heat of vaporization apparatus, micrometer cathetometer, rheostats, commutators, electric motors, turning lathe with tools, torsional apparatus, linear expansion apparatus batteries of various kinds, Rhumkorff induction coil, resistance boxes, Weston voltmeters, Weston ammeters, wireless telegraph outfit, single valued and subdivided multiple condensers, di- rect reading D ' Arsonval galvanometer, tangent galvanometer, Rowland D ' Arsonval reflecting galvanometer with telescopes and scales, astatic galvanometer, earth inductor, ballistic galva- nometer, new Woulff polentiometer, Clark, Carhart-Clark, and Cadmium standard cells, ballistic pendulum, constant volume air themometer, air pump with accessories, barometers, Melde ' s apparatus, Young ' s modulus apparatus with optical lever at- tachment, dilatometers, vapor pressure apparatus, melting point and heat of fusion apparatus, standard thermometers, vol- tameters, surface tension apparatus, simple rigidity apparatus, thermopile, and other measuring instruments. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF CHEMISTRY. The department occupies the spacious McMillan Chemical Laboratory with ample space for its lecture rooms and labora-

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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT In harmony with the progressive movement of educational affairs, Albion College will confer he degree of Bachelor of Arts upon all persons who come with suitable preparation and who complete in a satisfactory manner a sufficient number of courses to credit them with 120 hours of college work, subject to such limitations of selection as are set forth under the head- ing Grouping of elective work. ' An hour of college work is understood to mean one hour of recitation or lecture work per week through one semester. Graduates of accredited high schools will be admitted to our Collegiate department without examination, and, in addition to our required work in English, will be permitted to enter any of our courses for which they are fitted, due regard being had to the necessary sequence of courses. Each Professor, in his own department, will prescribe the order in which his courses must be taken. Students of college rank who fail in any study because of in- adequate preparation will be allowed to make up their prepar- atory work in our Academic department, but such work will not be counted to their credit upon collegiate courses. More detailed information concerning entrance require- ments will be found on page 71.