Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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LIBRARIES, LABORATORIES AND OBSERVATORY LIBRARY. The Library, the gift of Mrs. Charlotte T. Gassette, of Albion, Michigan, is a substantial new brick structure, well equipped, well heated, well lighted, containing 16,000 volumes, besides a large number of unbound volumes and pamphlets. The Reading Room, ample and attractive, is abundantly supplied with encyclopedias, dictionaries, lexicons and general works of reference. There is also a full supply of papers and all the leading magazines of the day. Three indexes are supplied, Poole ' s, Readers ' Guide to Periodical Literature, and the Annual, guiding readers to needed information contained in bound volumes of period- icals. The Dewey, or Decimal, system of classification is used, and a new card catalogue makes the books easily accessible to all. Free access to book shelves is given to all, and in addition to their use in Library building, books, with some necessary restrictions, may be drawn for home use. The Library is open from 7 :30 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 :15 p. m. to 4 :30 p. m., except on Saturdays, when it is open from 8:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF ASTRONOMY. In Astronomy, the facilities offered by the College are excellent. The equipment is fully adequate for purposes of instruc- tion or research. The Equatorial Telescope is of eight inches clear aperture, made and mounted by Alvan Clark Sons.

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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.

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YEAR BOOK 15 It is provided with circles, coarse and fine, driving clock, filar micrometer with field and side illumination and eye pieces giving range from a low-power comet-seeker to eight hundred diameters. The Transit Circle, by Fauth Co., is of a four- inch aperture and is provided with micrometers in right ascen- sion and declination, levels sensitive to one second of arc and vertical circles reading to single seconds by micrometer mi- croscopes. The Sidereal Clock and Chronograph are by the same makers. All of the instruments are in electrical con- nection. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY. With the opening of the next year the Biological de- partment will occupy the new Biological Laboratory, erected as an addition to Robinson Hall. This addition will be 45 by 60 feet, and will be three stories high, above the base- ment. It will contain large laboratories for the classes in Zoology and Botany, accommodating respectively 60 and 40 students, with commodious lecture rooms adjoining each. Beside these laboratories, there will be smaller laboratories for more advanced classes. The main supply room, in the basement, is 13 by 31 feet, while above this and connecting with it by elevator, are smaller supply rooms for the classes in Zoology and Botany, 11 by 13 and 13 by 17 feet. Ad- joining the Botanical Laboratory will be a Botanical Working Museum, 20 by 23 feet. In the basement will be, beside the above, a meeting room for the Biological Club, 18 by 20 feet, and two rooms, one 20 by 22, the other 18 by 31, both well lighted, for other purposes. On the third floor will be the Museum Workroom and taxidermic workshop. The remain- der of this floor will be given to photographic purposes. The Biological Department is well supplied with such apparatus as is needed for its work, including over sixty compound microscopes, rocking and sliding microtomes, in- cubator, aquaria, embedding apparatus, and a collection of several thousand mounted slides. The Botanical Working