University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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rooms on the north side are devoted to photography, which has become a very valuable adjunct to modern scientific investigation. Two store rooms for the use of the station laboratories fill out the north-west corner. Finally you may slip into the cozy office of the Professor of Chemistry just round the corner of the staircase landing and receive a cordial welcome. What the compledon of the new Chemistry Building means to the University can only be appreciated by those intimately associated with University needs. For several years the laboratory facilities in chemistry have been inadequate to the demands. Two to three students to every desk in a room without proper vendlanon; water supplies stored in barrels, and drainage pipes liable to cough and choke at any moment — these conditions have made lite a burden to the Professor of Chemistry and his assistants. Now all this is changed. The Department of ' ■ Chemistry is fittingly housed for manv years to come. The Students ' Hospital is a departure in style and purpose from the traditional college - ' - ' - building. It is cottage-like, built of pressed brick, with exterior wood work pamted ivory white. The windows and doors are unusually large, on the theory that abundance of air and sunshine is an important element in the cure of disease and in restoration to health. The sheltered veranda sag- a gests outdoor cheer for the invalid. The indoor sitting room with open wood fire-place speaks of ■ ■ - - ll . fo- comfort for the convalescent. The two wards upon the east side belong to the young women. ,,,. , % Five to ten panents can be taken care of in these wards. On the west side are two similar wards ■ « for young men. The bath rooms, toilets and kitchen provide suitable conveniences for the care of ffr.,. .• ■ - ' -i the sick. Here the truly sick will be nursed back to health and study privileges by Grand- ' , mother Elkins, who is a good nurse and knowing physician and petting mother all in one to her , , students. Here will be sent the too-sick- to-go-to-rccitation students, who will be put to bed for the rest cure. Thev will not be permitted to talk or read. They will just rest, rest, rest, undl they find that to study and go to classes is a divine privilege. Here the good physician will come at call to see with keen eye the hidden fortress of disease, and then with skilled hand to break in the fevered gates and let nature ' s blessed life-restoring forces cleanse and build anew. 17

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gray stone of the walls looks cool and restful under the brilliant light of our long summer days, and warm and comfortable under the dark clouds and the thunderous rush of the mountain storms. The massive stone walls are also a pleasing contrast to the brick, vhich has hitherto held with unvarying preeminence the first claim upon all the University buildings. It is to the interior plan and equipment of the Chemical Building that the teacher and student will turn with lively interest. It is as a workshop for the student and scholar in the practically important science of chemistry that this sturdy building will make its deepest impres- sion, for the department of chemistry is the handmaid to all the technical schools of the University— Agriculture, Mines, Mechanical Engin- eering, Civil Engineering— as well as to the schools of liberal discipline, such as the schools of Liberal Arts, General Science, Education and Domestic Science. The entrance doors open into a moderately spacious vestibule, within which a double stairway leads to the platform which breaks the ascent to the second floor. On the right of the vestibule as you enter is the roomy, airy, well-arranged Qualitative Laboratory containing desks for about sixty students. On the left is the Quantitative ' ' M Laboratory admirably equipped and having desk room for about thirtv students. Be- - tween the two laboratories is a store room for chemical equipment and supplies. ' ■ ■ ' 3 From the vestibule is the stairway to the basement, which is well lighted and has cement floor. The basement has two rooms, one used for the grinding and prepara- tion of samples, the other containing the steam boiler which provides heat for the building and steam and hot water for the laboratories. The drainage pipe system is thought to be of the best kind. On the second floor facing the stairway is the lecture room. The lecture desk is equipped with water, gas, electric light and power for use in lecture demonstrations and experiments. The floor rises by a series of graded platforms from the lecture desk to the vest wall of the room. Each platform has a single row of lecture chairs. The usual seating capacity of the lecture room is sixty -five. The south half ot the second floor is wholly occupied by the chemistry laboratories of the Agricultural Experiment Station. There are three of these labora- tories, each one suitably arranged and equipped for original investigation, viz: the analytical, the nitrogen and the dairv laboratorv. Two i6

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Here in quiet moments the convalescent will dream and dream until he will understand what the Hoosier Poet means as he sings: When our souls are cramped with youth, Happiness seems far awa v In the future, while, in truth. We look back on it to-day. As I turn to the subject ot College Athletics, I am reminded that the average industrious man wonders whv college men professors, graduates and students — develop so much enthusiasm for and in athletic sports. Many men too of high standing in business and professional Hfe are asking critical questions of college faculties as to the effect of college athletics upon the morals and scholarship of the average student. It must be admitted that the President and Professors of the Nevada State University have co-operated in a verv efficient way with the students in the development of such sports as football, basketball and track events. Without this co-operation our students would have had little opportunity to prove themselves capable of meering successfully the students of the Universities of California and Utah, and ot the Stanford University, upon the athletic field, and of winning rec- ognition among the college athletes of the Pacific Coast. Onlv by the spirit ot earnest, sympathetic cooperation between the students and the tacultv in all college enterprises will Our Universitv be able to maintain its present standing in college athletics, or, what is more to the point, be able to make satisfactory progress in discipline and winning power from vear to vear. I am inclined U) the opinion that the chief obstacle to such thorough-going co-operation lies in the inability ot the student mind to grasp the importance and desirability of the kind of co-operation which is here suggested. Yet it must be accomplished, it we aspire to place our college athletics upon a high plane and if we mean to compete with distinction upon the fields of Calitornia and Stanford. The Faculties ot Colleges and Universities approve college field sports and take a vigorous interest in them because thev think that field sports among college men do contribute to the achievement of the substantial aims of college lite. Knowledge and training in technical