State Collegian.
Vol. 111, No 23
New Chemicai Laboratory
The proposed new building lor
chemistry will occupy a plot o£
ground two hundred and fitty feet
square and, unless present p’ans are
changed, will be an H-shaped
structuie, the cross-bar of the “H”
being the portion ct the building.
The main building will be tbiee
stories high above the basement,
while the four wings, which consti
tute the two parallel li ies of the “H,”
will have only two floors each.
The main building will pioviae, fiist,
a commodious lectuic hall, accom
modating five hundred poisons and
equipped with all the modem con
veniences for demolish a:ions of
every chaiacter. It will piovide
also for several smaller lectine hails
and recitation room;; a must.urn of
chemical indusciy, some lorn 01 five
times as laige as the preient one, ail
growth of which was con J led to
cease when the limits of its capacity
were exceeded beany ten yams ayo;
a laboratory foi is analysis; a
laboratory for eleclroc'iemiatiy, a
subject now almost u,le;!y ntyLcted
because of inadequate spacv.; la jo.a
tories for water analysis, autoclave
and calorimeter work, comevotions,
and
spcciio-copic
microscopic:,
polariscopic inveshgado's, --i a
depailmenl library and w ".icnce
room; numeious supply ioo.:a on
different floois, comicc.td oy eleva
tor and stairs, but so located that
one central source of supplies will
accommodate all the vaiious labora
tories and lecture rooms; also, in
dividual laboratories for students en
gaged in advanced chemical re
search; finally, all the necessary of
fices, private laboratories and as
sistants’ rooms, shops, etc.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., MARCH 21, 1907
The wings of the buildings will
provide commodious laboratories for
qualitative and quantitative analysis,
organic and applied chemistry and
preparations. The qualitative lab
oratories will be either two in num
ber of some two hundied and fifty
by forty feel, or more likely, four
in number, of the same width but
only half that length, in either case
pioviding for three hundred or more
students at one time in the beginneis’
work in aualilative analysis. Each
will be piovided with adjacent quiz
rooms, preparation rooms, and
apartments for work with disagreea
ble gases. The most modern sys
tems of ventilation, hoods for
noxious fumes, and distribution of
cas. warns, steam, exhaust, electiic
ily, drainage, etc. are contemplated.
Two quantitative laboratories,
each about eighty by forty feet are
included, likewise equipped with
correct hoods and other conven
iences, and the necessary adjacent
quiz looms, balance 100 ms, etc.
Some one bund-ed and twenty stu
dents will be piovided for in these
laboiami ies. The organic lab
oiatoiy for applied chemistiy will
accommodate from fifty to sixty
men each
The bill now before the legisla
ting asks for one-fouith of this build
ing at once, wiih a view towaids the
lest of it later on. It ought to ask
lor the entiie building now, for the
department needs at once three
times as much space as it possesses.
Professor Pond has been duplicat
ing his lectures in general elementary
chemistry for years, and is now
obliged to deliver them three times
over, with all the attendant disad-
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Price Five Cents.
Thespians
To-night the Thespians will give
their first performance of “The
Brixton Burglary’ ’ in the Auditorium.
The men have been practicing for
some time, and Mrs. Hirley, who
has been instructing the men in their
parts, expresses herself as being
well pleased with the work.
The play is an English three-act,
farce comedy, and calls for some
very clever acting.
All those who saw the Thespians’
production last year will know what
may be expected of Partridge
in the leading part as Septimus
Pontifex. Dunkle, Newton and Ro
mig are playing practically the same
parts as last year, those of detec
tive, soubrette and fussy old woman,
respectively. Leilzell, Ruder, Hast
ings, Heckel,Thompson and Meckley
are the new members of the club and
hence have nor been weighed in the
balance as yet; but judging from
their work in practice, it may be said
that they will not be found wanting.
“Tommy’’ Thompson, in the part
of an English dude, will surely
“makegood.” It is to be hoped
that a large audience will greet our
“actor men” when the curtain goes
up this evening.
Prof. Rebel' to Inspect Capitol
Ventilation
Prof. Reber has been retained by
the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings to make a thorough in
vestigation of the system by which
the State capitol building is venti
lated, and to devise ways and means
for relief. He is given carte blanche
in his woik.
A fool may be lonely, but it seems
impossible.