Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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12 ALBION COLLEGE 54 feet, and is 92 feet in depth, surmounted with a gothic roof to provide sufficient height. The McMillan Chemical Laboratory was erected in 1893, the gift of Hon. James McMillan, of Detroit. It is a sub- stantial and modern building, three stories in height above the basement. In the first story, which is 13 feet high, there is the or- ganic laboratory, 27x30 feet, containing tables for 24 students, with 29 feet of hoods, also wall tables, cases for chemicals, etc. Adjacent to this are the quantitative laboratory, 22x30 feet, with tables for 20 students, hoods, wall tables, etc.; a combustion room, 10x17 feet, and dispensing room, 10x21. On the other side of the hall is the instructor ' s study. Off this is a private laboratory, with large table, hoods, wall tables, cases, etc. The balance room, 9x21, and a research room, 15x30 feet, complete the equipment of this floor. The second story is also 13 feet high and contains the quali- tative laboratory, 40x49 feet, with tables for 80 students, with seven hoods, wall tables, cases, etc. The lecture room, also on this floor, 30x37 feet, will accommodate 82 students, the seating being arranged in rising tiers of chairs. The third story is 10 feet high and contains a Chemical Museum and a Museum of Mineralogy, which is especially rich in ores and rare minerals, together with a valuable collection of marbles and granite, and also the Museums of Palaeontology and Lithology. Mrs. Charlotte T. Gassette, of Albion, has erected a beautiful and commodious building in memory of her de- ceased daughter, Miss Lottie L. Gassette. The building is designated Lottie L. Gassette Memorial Library, and is both an ornamental and useful addition to our facilities. Four Fraternity Halls have been erected on the east por- tion of the college grounds, the institution having granted leases of sites for a period of years. The Winter-Lau Athletic Field, less than two blocks from the College, presents one of the best equipped athletic fields in the West.

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GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. The College Campus contains eighteen acres. The Central Building is the name applied to the first col- lege structure, designated central as it now stands between two other structures erected at a somewhat later day. It is rectangular in form, 40x100 feet, and four stories in height. This building contains lecture rooms for the College of Liberal Arts, the Biological Laboratory and the Zoological Museum. The North Building, situated just north of the foregoing, is 80 feet long, 50 feet wide and three stories in height. It contains four lecture rooms, quarters for the Commercial School, the Art Studio and two Literary Societies. The Chapel Building stands directly south of the Central Building, and is three stories high, 80 feet long and 50 feet wide. The second and third stories are wholly devoted to chapel purposes. The first story is devoted to the work of the Conservatory of Music and the Secretary ' s office. The Astronomical Observatory was erected in 1883, is two stories high, with a round tower which rises to three stories and is surmounted by a dome. On the lower floor are the lecture rooms of the departments of Astronomy and Mathe- matics, and the pier-room, through which pass the brick supports for the fixed instruments. On the second floor are the transit room, containing the Transit Circle, Clock and Chronograph, a computing room, a room for portable instru- ments, and a room containing the Astronomical and Meteoro- logical Library. In the round tower is placed the Equatorial. The Gymnasium was completed in 1892. The first story is of field stone; above this the building consists of a heavy frame inclosed with brick. The building has a frontage of

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CHARACTER OF THE SCHOOL. The institution is a college of Liberal Arts. It is not a theological school. There are a few Biblical studies, but no chair of theology. There are no theological tests and no religious exactions beyond regular attendance at chapel ex- ercises during school days and attendance at church on the Sabbath, giving the students their choice of place of worship.