New Bedford Institute of Technology - Fabricator Yearbook (New Bedford, MA)

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19 2 8 THE FABRICATOR Present Building A number of changes which had been needed for a long time was made at this time. Locker and toilet rooms were provided on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. A shower bath room was connected with locker and toilet room on 3rd floor; a dra wing-in room was fitted up on 2nd floor; a cotton classing room with north- ern exposure and sky-light on 3rd floor. Also a small testing laboratory on 3rd floor. The original building contained 1 1 rooms with about 20,000 square feet of floor space. The present buildings contain 50 rooms with over 100,000 square feet of floor space. All departments are equipped with up-to-date machinery, especially designed for instruction purposes. The total value of the present equipment is over $275,000. About one half of the equipment has either been donated or loaned. The number of students attending the first year 1899- 1900 was: Day Students 11 Evening Students 183 The number of students 1927- 1928 was: Day Students 96 Attending 1576 -€(23 h-

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THE FABRICATOR 19 2 8 This addition was three stories with full basement and was used by the chemistry department, mechanical department, design department, a large audi- torium on the 3rd floor, an exhibition room on 2nd floor, class rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors. This called for another general rearrangement of departments and equip- ment, the carding and spinning department taking the whole of the first floor of building 1-2 and 3 and the weaving the second floor of building 1-2 and 3, the knitting department rooms 2 and 3 of the 3rd floor. At this time a cotton classing room was fitted up on the 3rd floor. This arrangement was carried along until 1922 when the 4th addition was built. The Maxfield Street building was carried west to the line of the original building. This building was three stories without basement. The first floor was taken by the spinning department, the second floor weaving and the 3rd floor for a gymnasium. 22 )§►-

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THEFABRICATOR 1928 HISTORY OF THE CHEMISTRY CLASS TIME! ! beating out the March of minutes has kept mankind advancing, battling, conquering, or failing. Yes--three years have passed, it seems, in an instant. We have advanced; met that which was set before us to master and are now taking up a new advance, fully prepared to conquer the new ob- stacles which will confront us during life. Three years have changed us from bashful green freshmen to the dig- nified Chemistry Class of 1928. Let us go back and see what we have been doing -- besides that necessary routine of study. September 1925: Ten bashful freshmen crossed the threshold of The Lab and were captured by the instructors and assigned to hard study for three years. After a few days, one pupil, (it must have been Adelsohn) , was caught whispering so we finally dared to get acquainted with each other and many other things in or in the vicinity of The Lab. How quickly we learned — where the acid cellar was, where Rock ' s Variety Store was and what Murphy and Burt had boiling in the dye pans every day. On Blue Mondays, Red Lawrence and Heck Rocha would strike up I Never Knew and what a mean duet they would sing. Skull caps, large bow ties, the call of the paddle and we were either a Delta Kappa Phi or a Phi Psi fraternity man. Cold weather -- Textile called her sons out to do or die on the basketball court. Bob Brickley, our dyeing instructor, took over the coaching job and the final cut found George Schofield and Fred and Fran Tripp on the first team. In baseball, Ed Waring held up the honors for our class. September 1926: Back at dear old Tech again. Red Lawrence and Heck Rocha were not with us and how we did miss those two songbirds! Studies became harder this term but we conquered all that opposed us. The small Lab was now the scene of our battle for knowledge and also -- for our life. By this time we had learned that there was CjH.-,OH in gingerale that H2O was good to drink and that HC1 was not hydrolic acid. Borden ' s Cafe succeeded Murphy and Burt and how well Doc kept Sully from talking, Rad from swearing and Adelsohn from jarring the bottle off of the shelves. While Joe Norris was arguing with Professor Brickley about the various secret formulas, such as KuP, one of us would go out and see Rock. On the basketball floor Schofield and the Tripp Twins kept the Chemistry Class on the map. Ed Waring and Fran Tripp played on the Varsity base- ball nine and Sully played on the golf team. -4 24 %»