Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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tic C lapel (fijiltUtu , The Chapel Building is four storms high. The fiord contains si . large lecture looms with offices adjoining, lour of which are used by the department c.r Biology ‘or Icctuie rooms, laboratories, end a biological museum. The biological laboratory is 32 25 feet, has ten large windows and has north, west and south exposures. It is therefore excep- tionally well situated for successful microscopic war». There are 'octets for ’arty-eight students,, fifteen high-grade compound microscopes, modem biological charts,, an ex- tensive collection of permanent slide mounts for vegetal and animal histology, a large number of dried and preserved specimens, microtome, reference library, skele- tons, models,, manikins, etc. Smaller laboratories are used for special and private work. The geological museum is also in this building. In the rear of the Chapel Building is the chapel, a fine auditorium, capable of sealing eight hundred people. In the tear of the chapel and connected with it is the college library, —Catalog of 1901-1904,

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The mom budding is (our stones high and contains thirty-four rooms, It was built at « cost of $100,000. The walls arc unusually thick, the material and woikmanship first class throughout, In this building is the President's residence, his office and reception room, lecture rooms for the departments of Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Chem- istry, and the Bible, the geological museum and store room, the chemical laboratories, apparatus rooms and the literary society halls and libraries. —Catalog of 1899-1900.

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carnegie library) The ne library budding, made possible by Mr. Andrew Carnegie s gift of twenty-five thousand dollars, is now completed and -n use. It is built of brick and Indiana limestone and stands at the head of the campus, facing the interior of the quadrangle. The first floor is devoted to the library; it consists pi a large vestibule w ih reading rooms on cither srdc, the librarian s room, cataloguing room, and the delivery desk, back of which is the stack room with a capacity of sixty to seventy-five thousand volumes Two flights of stairs, near the mam enhance, lead from this floor to the upper story. Here are the two halls for the Cicercnan and the Phi Delta Literary Societies. Special provision has been made for ex- cellent lighting facilities. ' —Catalog of 1908-1909, (HARDMAN LIBRARY) The new Hardman Library, with a capacity of eighty-five thousand volumes, now contains more than twenty-five thousand volumes- Substantial additions to the number of books have been made during the last two yeais and mere than five thousand dollars will be expended during the current year. The whole building is fireproof. and is equipped with steel stacks, a vault foi the safe-keeping of rare books and valuable documents, and reference and periodical reading rooms outfitted with the most up-to-date furniture, —Catalog of 1937-1938,