Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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18 ALBION COLLEGE The chemical lecture room on the second floor has seat- ing for eighty students and is thoroughly furnished with a large demonstration lecture table containing pneumatic cis- tern, oxygen 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 having a sink hood, water faucets, gas, reagent bottles. From the adjacent dispensing room may be obtained all chemicals or apparatus required in their work. The advanced courses are conducted on the first floor and in the basement where is located laboratories for Quan- titative, 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 Cement 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 assay of ores and also crushing, pulverizing and sampling apparatus, tensile strength machines, specific grav- ity apparatus and all the regular equipment used in the prac- tical handling of cements and ores. A complete laboratory for Gas Analysis, with special reference to its application in the manufacture of illuminat- ing gas, has been installed. In the private laboratory of the instructor there is con- stantly carried on outside work in the examination of raw materials 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 1 7 been greatly strengthened by the recent purchase of a con siderable amount of well-selected modern physical apparatus. Among the instruments now available for class illustration and laboratory work are the following: Vernier calipers, micrometer gauges, microscope, telescopes, spherometer, Jolly ' s balance, Hawkes-Atwood ' s machine, Toepler-Voss self- charging electrical machine, diffraction grating, optical bench with accessories, photometric apparatus, Geneva spectrometer, highly polished prisms, laboratory clock with sweep second hand, bending apparatus with telephone attachment, Boyle ' s law apparatus, Mohr ' s specific gravity balance, laboratory recorder for vibrations of tuning forks, simple pendulum ap- paratus with sounder for time work, pyknometers, moment of inertia apparatus, Kundt ' s apparatus for velocity of sound in metals, specific heat apparatus, heat of vaporization appara- tus, micrometer cathetometer, rheostat, commutators, electric motors, turning lathes with tools, magnets, lenses, tor- sional apparatus, linear expansion apparatus, fountain in vacuum apparatus, Madgeburg hemispheres, batteries of vari- ous kinds, Rhumkorff induction coil, resistance boxes, Weston voltmeter, Weston ammeter, wireless telegraphy outfit, single valued and subdivided multiple condensers, direct reading D ' Arsonval galvanometer, tangent galvanometer, Rowland D ' Arsonville reflecting galvanometers with telescopes and scales, astatic galvanometer, earth inductor and other elec- trical measuring instruments, PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF CHEMISTRY. The department occupies the spacious McMillan Chemical Laboratory with ample space for its lecture rooms and labo- ratories and every convenience is provided for both the in- structors and students pursuing general or special courses. There are eight separate working laboratories all fully supplied with apparatus and chemicals and equipped with gas, water, ventilating hoods, desks and lockers for each student. These are located on the first and second floors and the basement.

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CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Students are admitted to this department at any stage of the course. They must confer with the Director of the de- partment to determine what work they can properly carry. They will be assigned to such grade as their requirements in- dicate. Term tickets must be procured before entering upon the work. SCHOOL OF PAINTING. Before commencing work in the studio, art students must procure tickets for the same, and talk with the head of the department as to plans of work and proficiency — if any — already gained. The order and kind of work must be subject to the judgment of the professor in charge. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. The literary attainments of students entering this depart- ment vary greatly, and hence they must be treated according to individual qualifications. The Principal must, therefore, be acquainted with the fitness of each on entering. This can only be done by full and free conference with him. PREPARATORY SCHOOL. The College maintains a preparatory school for several reasons : — 1. Many young people desire to fit themselves for col-