Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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YEAR BOOK 17 The balance room, 9 by 11 feet, and a research room, 15 by 30 feet, complete the equipment of this floor. The second story is also 13 feet high and contains the quali- tative laboratory, 40 by 49 feet, with tables for 80 students, with seven hoods, wall tables, cases, etc. The lecture room, also on this floor, 30 by 37 feet, will accommodate 82 students, the seating being arranged in rising tiers of chairs. The third story is 10 feet high and contains the laboratories of Physics and the Physics Lecture Room. There are eight separate working laboratories all fully supplied with apparatus and chemicals and equipped with gas, water, venti- lation hoods, desks and lockers for each student. These are located on the first and second floors and the basement. The chemical lecture room on the second floor has seating for 80 students and is thoroughly furnished with a large demonstrating lecture table containing pneumatic 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 80 working tables, each having a sink, hood, water faucets, gas, reagent bottles. From the adjacent room may be obtained all chemical apparatus required by the students in their work. The advanced courses are conducted on the first floor and in the basement where are located laboratories for Quantitative, Or- ganic 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. Tn 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 assays 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 illuminating gas, has been installed.

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16 ALBION COLLEGE the instruments now available for class illustration and laboratory work are the following : Vernier calipers, micrometer gauges, microscopes, telescopes, spherometers, Jolly ' s balance, Hawkes- Atwood ' s machine, Toepler-Voss self-charging electrical machine, diffraction grating, optical bench with accessories, photometric ap- paratus, 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 apparatus with sounder for time work, pyknometers, moment of inertia apparatus, Kundt ' s apparatus for velocity of sounds in metals, specific heat apparatus, heat of vaporization apparatus, mic- rometer cathetometer, rheostats, commutators, torsional apparatus, linear expansion apparatus, batteries of various kinds, RhumkorfT induction coil, resistance boxes, Weston voltmeters, Weston am- meters, wireless telegraph outfit, single valued and subdivided mul- tiple condensers, direct reading D ' Arsonval galvanometer, tangent galvanometer, Rowland D ' Arsonval reflecting galvanometer with telescopes and scales, astatic galvanometer, earth inductor, ballistic galvanometer, new Woulff potentiometer, Clark, Carhart-Clark, and Cadmium standard cells, ballistic pendulum, constant volume air thermometer, air pump with accessories, barometers, Melde ' s ap- paratus, Young ' s modulus apparatus with optical lever attachment, dilatometers, vapor pressure apparatus, melting point and heat of fusion apparatus, standard thermometers, voltameters, surface ten- sion apparatus, simple rigidity apparatus, thermopile, and other measuring instruments. CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT. The department occupies the spacious McMillan Chemical 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. 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, 27 by 30 feet, containing tables for 24 students, with 29 feet o f hoods, also wall tables, cases for chemicals, etc. Adjacent to this are the quantitative laboratory, 22 by 30 feet, tables for 20 students, hoods, wall tables, etc., a combustion room, 10 by 17 feet, and dispensing room, 10 by 21 feet. 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.

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IS ALBION OOLLSOhB In the private laboratory of the instructor there is constantly 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. GROUPING OF COLLEGE WORK 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 permitted to enter any of our courses for which they are fitted, due regard being had to the necessary sequence of courses. Each department will prescribe the order in which courses must be taken. Detailed information concerning entrance requirements will be found on page 60. In harmony with the progressive movement of educational affairs, Albion College will confer the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon all persons who come with suitable preparation and who complete in a manner satisfactory to the faculty a sufficient number of courses to credit them with 120 hours of college work, together with 240 points (see page 55), subject to such limitations of selec- tion as stated below. An hour of college work is understood to mean one hour of recitation or lecture work per week throughout one semester. While the Faculty of Albion College approves the elective system, it has seemed wise to somewhat restrict elections until the student has come fully in touch with his surroundings and has gained some maturity of mind. Freshmen and Sophomores are therefore required to make their election according to the following plan: English I. — Three hours throughout the year. Required of all Freshmen. English II.— Two hours throughout the year. Required of all Sophomores. English Bible— Two hours throughout one year. Required for graduation.