Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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12 ALBION COLLEGE L. Gassette. The building is designated Lottie L. Gassette Memorial Library and is both an ornamental and useful ad- dition to our facilities. Pour Fraternity Halls have been erected on the east portion 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. CHARACTER OF THE SCHOOL The institution is a college of Liberal Arts, It is not a theo- logical 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 exercises 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 11 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 Mathematics 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 com- puting room, a room for portable instruments, and a room con- taining the Astronomical and Meteorological 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 54 feet, and is 92 feet in depth, surmounted with a gothic roof to pro- vide sufficient height. The McMillan Chemical Laboratory was erected in 1893, the gift of Hon. James McMillan, of Detroit. It is a substantial and modern building, three stories in height above the base- ment. The basement contains the Portland cement laboratory, the assaying room, the mineralogical collections and the furnace room. In the first story, which is 13 feet high, there is the organic laboratory, 27x30 feet, containing tables for 24 students, with 29 feet of hoods, also wall tables, cases for chemicals, etc. Ad- jacent to this are the quantitative laboratory, 22x30 feet, 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, etc. The balance room, 9x11, 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 accomodate 82 students, the seat- ing being arranged in rising tiers of chairs. The third story is 10 feet high and contains the laboratory of Physics, and also the collections of Paleontology and Lith- olgy. Mrs. Charlotte T. Cassette, of Albion, has erected a beauti- ful building in memory of her deceased daughter, Miss Lottie

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LIBRARIES, LABORATORIES AND OBSERVATOY LIBRARIES The Library Building, the gift of Mrs. Charlotte T. Gassette, of Albion, Michigan, is a substantial new brick structure, well equipped, well heated, well lighted, containing 21,000 volumes, besides unbound volumes and pamphlets. The Reading Room, ample and attractive, is abundantly supplied with encyclopedia, dictionaries, lexicons, and general works of reference, together with such books as are temporarily assigned by members of the Faculty for reference work and col- lateral reading. A generous supply of papers and leading maga- zines of the day is provided. The contents of periodicals are made available by the use of Poole ' s Index and its supplements and the Reader ' s Guide to Periodical Literature. The Dewey system of classification is used and a new card catalogue makes the books easily accessible. Free access to the shelves is allowed, and in addition to their use in the Library building, books, with some restrictions may be drawn for home use. The Library is open on school days from 8:00 a. m. to 12:00 m.; from 2:00 p. m. to 5:30 p. m., and three evenings in the week from 6:30 to 8:30; Saturday from 8:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF ASTRONOMY In Astronomy, the facilities offered by the College are ex- cellent. The equipment is fully adequate for purposes of instruction or research. The Epuatorial Telescope is of eight inches clear aperture, made and mounted by Alvan Clark Sons. It is pro- vided with circles, coarse and fine, driving clock, filar micromet- er, 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 ascension and de- clination, levels, sensitive to one second of arc and verticle circles reading to single seconds by micrometer microscopes. The Sidereal Clock and Chonograph are by the same makers. All of the instruments are in electrical connection. PROVISIONS FOR THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY The Biological Department occupies the new Biological