University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Right SIGN HERE , says the manager of the garage as the editor of The Wildcat prepares to take out a university cor on university business. Ten sedans are maintained for use by fac- ulty and students on official business. Trucks and busses and miscellaneous equipment com- plete the automotive stock. Left EXCURSIONS AND TRIPS keep the university busses busy As the garage is self-sustaining, a charge is made to the depart- ment which uses the automobile, based on mileage and number of passengers earned. Right SERVICING AND REPAIR of the university automotive equipment is all done in the campus garage. The fleet of cars, stored in the building off Mountain avenue, is kept con- stantly busy, so that upkeep is a full-time job- (291 :il yijf.

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' ■. m (Right: FIRST-AID TREATMENT and preven- tive core furnishes the bulk of the work at the student health service, where Doctors Andes and Palmer are assisted by one to three nurses. Facilities at the infirmry include x-ray and diathermy equipment, isolotion words and general wards with a capacity of thirty beds. Students may receive core for non-chronic ailments except where extended hospitolizotion is necessary. Hundreds of physical examinations are given every year, and countless cold tablets and gargle pills are dispensed along with many other every- day remedies. (Leftj THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS come in through the windows at the business office in the form of fees and receipts for university activities. Loans to students are handled through the office, as ore all salaries paid to students employed on the campus. iLefti COMPTROLLER HARRY T. HEALY has the prodigious |ob of keeping tab on the more than $2,000,000 spent each year by the university. So well ore the books kept in balance with the budget estimates that year ' s end shows a difference of less than half dozen dollars. (28J

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iLeft) GREENHOUSE LABORATORY is this unusual class room, one of the university greenhouses located back of the chemistry-physics build- ing. Here students study actual growing conditions for such courses as plant pathology. (Lefti THOUSANDS OF CHICKS con be hatched from this incu- bator on the university poultry farm. All breeds of chickens are raised for study by classes, a work employing two men and eight student helpers. Surplus eggs and the meat of chickens killed goes onto the local pro- duce market. (Left) BOOKS AND SUPPLIES for every student need are found on the shelves of the bookstore in the recreational center. Like the rec hall, the bookstore is run from the fund of the associated students and employs student help. (301