University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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QHTS BUILDING

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The humanities are housed in a medium sized, unobtrusive building behind the cafeteria. The building consists almost entirely of faculty offices and lecture rooms, owing to the fact that no special apparatus is required for teaching the humanities. The two-storey edifice centres around Arts 100, a lecture room capable of seating over 200 students. In addition there are smaller lecture rooms and offices. Crowded conditions have forced the humanities to expand into temporary war-time huts, which are regarded as both ugly and inefficient. Plans have already been laid for a new, larger Arts Building, which will be erected under the post-war building program as soon as funds are available. During lunch hour the lecture rooms serve as a meeting place for campus clubs, and are often requisitioned for visiting speakers. Included under the heading of humanities,' are such subjects as Anthropology, Economics, English, French and other foreign languages, classical languages, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Slavonic Studies and Sociology. Photographs show girls in a study room, the notice board, which is used for club announcements and posting of exam schedules, and a crowded lecture in Arts 100.

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Research with radioactive material obtained from the Canadian Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River is being carried on in the hot labn of UBC's Chemistry Building. This and similar projects are typical of the fascinating but little-publicized experimental work done at UBC. The impressive pseudo-collegiate Gothic Chemistry Building contains about eighteen offices, 50 research labs, fifteen undergraduate labs and four lecture rooms, as well as the Chemical Engineering labs, which come under the Faculty of Applied Science. Half of the top floor is at present used by the Department of Bacteriology. Completed in 1922 it is one of the few permanent buildings on. the campus. Up until 1948 it was used jointly by Physics and Chemistry students. The mass spectrometer, one of the first of its kind in Western Canada, was supplied- to the university by the Defense Research Board for study of the oxidation of hydrocarbons used for rocket propellents. Special work is being done on the chemistry of wood and natural gums in order to find new uses. Photographs show scenes from the Bacteriology Lab, the Chemistry Balance Lab, and Chemistry 200.