Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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18 ALBION COLLEGE student. These are located on the first and second floors and the basement. The chemical lecture room on the second floor has seating for eighty students and is thoroughly furnished with a large demonstration lecture table containing pneu- matic cistern, 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 bot- tles. 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 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 balances, specific gravity apparatus, etc. In the basement is located the Laboratory for Port- land Cement and Assaying, providing all the necessary apparatus for the physical testing of cement and the as- saying 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 gravity apparatus and all the regular equipment used in the practical handling of cements and ores. A complete laboratory for Gas Analysis, with special reference to its application in the manufacture of illum- inating gas, has been installed. In the private laboratory of the instructor there is constantly carried on outside work in the examination of raw materials for ma nufacturing purposes, such as clays, marls, peat, coal, gold and silver ores, iron and steel, sanitary and mineral waters.

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YEAR BOOK 17 chine, diffraction grating, optical bench with accessories, photometric apparatus, Geneva spectrometer, highly pol- ished 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 apparatus with sounder for time work, pyknometers, moment o,f inertia apparatus, Kundt ' s apparatus for veloc- ity of sound in metals, specific heat apparatus, heat of vaporization apparatus, micrometer cathetometer, rheo- stats, commutators, electric motors, turning lathe with tools, torsional apparatus, linear expansion apparatus, batteries of various kinds, Rhumkorff induction coil, re- sistance boxes, Weston voltmeters, Weston ammeters, wireless telegraph outfit, single valued and subdivided multiple condensers, direct reading D ' Arsonval galvanom- eter, tangent galvanometer, Rowland D ' Arsonval reflecting galvanometers with telescopes and scales, astatic galva- nometer, earth inductor, ballistic galvanometer, new Woulff polentiometer, Clark, Carhart-Clark, and Cad- mium standard cells, ballistic pendulum, constant volume air thermometer, air pump with accessories, barometers, Melde ' s apparatus, Young ' s modulus apparatus with opti- cal lever attachment, dilatometers, vapor pressure appa- ratus, melting point and heat of fusion apparatus, stand- ard thermometers, voltameter, surface tension apparatus, simple rigidity apparatus, thermopile, and other measur- ing instruments. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OP CHEMISTRY. The department occupies the spacious McMillan Chem- ical Laboratory with ample space for its lecture rooms and laboratories and every convenience is provided for both the instructors 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

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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT In harmony with the progressive movement of educa- tional affairs, Albion College will confer the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon all persons who come to us with suitable preparation and who complete in a satisfactory- manner a sufficient number of courses to credit them with 120 hours of collegiate work, subject to such limitations of selection as are set forth under the heading 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 per- mitted 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 collegiate rank who fail in any study be- cause of inadequate preparation will be allowed to make up their preparatory work in our Academic department, but such work will not be counted to their credit upon collegiate courses. More detailed information concerning entrance re- quirements will be found on page 71.