Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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ADELPHI COLLEGE. 33 EQUIPMENT. I. Buildings.—The group of buildings now occupied by the College and the Academy fills the entire end of the block between Lafayette avenue and Clifton place, upon St. James place. Adelphi College is the name of the new building whose main entrance is on Clifton place. This handsome structure was erected in 1887-88, through the generosity of the late Mr. Charles Pratt, who was then President of the corporation. The central building is an assembly hall, 50x72 feet, with sittings for about a thousand persons. In the basement, extending across the whole block, is the gym- nasium, occupying three large rooms and covering a space 200 x 50 feet. Convenient access to the buildings is provided by the Brooklyn Union Elevated R. R. (DeKalb or Greene Avenue Stations), or by the Greene, DeKalb, Franklin, Vanderbilt and Fulton electric cars. The ventilation of all the buildings is complete and perfect. A large fan is placed in the upper part of each building, discharging air from a reservoir which receives ventilating flues from all the rooms. These fans are driven by electric motors from a dynamo connected with a forty horse- power engine. By this means the air in both buildings can be completely renewed at least once every half hour in the most unfavorable weather. The principal room in the gymnasium opens directly into the outer air by means of large skylights in the roof, so that these rooms are especially well lighted and ventilated. The Adelphi provides accommodation for the clothing of pupils, and takes due precaution for the security of such articles, but it cannot be res- ponsible for their safety. II. The Library and Reading Room.—The Library now contains about seven thousand volumes. The librarian is in constant attendance, and there is a complete card catalog. Both library and reading-room are at the service of the students in all departments. Among the principal periodicals on file in the reading-room are the following: The American Agriculturist, Anthony’s Photographic Bulletin, Popular Astronomy, The Atlantic Monthly, The Book Buyer, The Century Magazine, Child Garden, The Congressional Record, The Contemporary Review, The Cosmopolitan, Education, The Educational Review, The Fortnightly Review, The Forum, The Geographical Journal, Harper’s Magazine, Harper’s Weekly, Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, The Illustrated London News, The Journal of Education, The Kindergarten Magazine, Kindergarten News, The Magazine of Art, The Nineteenth Century, Outing, The Popular Science Monthly, Power, The Review of Reviews, The School Bulletin, The School Review, Science, The Scientific American and Supplement, Scribner’s Mag- azine, The Yale Review, The Youth’s Companion. 3

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Lecture Room, Department of Chemistry.

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34 ADELPHI COLLEGE. III. The Gymnasium and Playing Field.—The gymnasium is in charge of a Director, who is a physician, and of a lady assistant, who is especially charged with the conduct of the girls’ classes. The calisthenium is a spacious room provided with a piano, and with the usual equipment of wands, clubs and bells. The remaining space, besides dressing-rooms, bath- room and offices, contains two large rooms well supplied with all modern apparatus. In these rooms are found hand-ball courts and a basket-ball field; chest weights, back and loin attachments; intercostal machines, traveling parallels and a quarter circle; a set of Swedish apparatus and of climbing apparatus; twelve-pound shots and hammers, with vaulting apparatus ; a full equipment for anthropometric work, and all the best appli- ances for gymnastic exercises, including rings, bars, horses, parallels, ladders, mattresses and trapeze. The playing field, which is now in the possession of the Academy, is situated near Classon Avenue, between Park Place and Prospect Place. It is near the Franklin Avenue, Bergen Street and Vanderbilt Avenue line of cars, and is about twelve minutes’ walk from the Academy. It contains ball fields, tennis courts, running tracks and a grand stand, with seats for two hundred and fifty persons. Underneath the grand stand are dressing-rooms, with lockers and bath-rooms. The carriage entrance to the field is on Pros- pect Place. The ordinary entrance is on Park Place, near Classon Avenue. IV. The Chemical Lecture Room and Laboratories.—The Chemical Depart?nent occupies nearly all of the fourth floor of the College Building, and in completeness of equipment ranks with the best among the higher edu- cational institutions of the State. The Lecture Roo7n is large and well lighted, and has seats for eighty students. It is provided with a complete system of electric lighting and means for using the electric current for many lecture experiments. One of the important features of the equipment is a specially constructed electric projecting lantern of 2,000 candle-power, with attachments for horizontal, vertical and side projection and special apparatus for the projection of microscopic objects. Adjoining the lecture room is the processo?''s office and cabinets for storing the apparatus used in the lectures, as well as the more delicate and accurate analytic apparatus, among which may be mentioned complete apparatus for the rapid analysis of gases, graduated apparatus for volumetric analysis, platinum and silverware for quantitative analysis, and special glassware for organic analysis. The Main Laboratory provides separate desks for seventy- two students, each desk supplied with gas and running water, and a full set of chemicals and apparatus for experimental work. All experiments involving the production of disagreeable gases or fumes are performed in closets directly connected with the main ventilating flues of the building, and in addition to this, each laboratory is ventilated by independent electric fans. Two small dark rooms equipped for spectroscopic analysis form a part