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or oak. In the reading and college rooni.s the parijuctry is eov^ered 

 with corticine. 

 The above remarks apply also to the following three buildings: 



2. The building for ph^'sics, astronomy, mechanics, English, and 

 rhetoric (Fayerweather Flail) is 155 feet long and 6i) feet wide. On 

 the two basement floors, and on the lirst and second stories, physics 

 is taught, the large lectui-e room having a capacity for 152; on the third 

 floor is the section for English language and rhetoric with a lecture 

 room for llO students, and four rooms for 60 each, and the fourth is 

 devoted to astronomy and mechanics, with one lecture room for 100, 

 and three for 50 each. 



3. The building for chemistry and architecture (HaA^eraeyer Hall) is 

 215 feet long and 85 feet wide. On the two basement floors, metallurgy 

 is taught; on the tirst to the third stories, chemistry (the lecture room 

 for 325); on the fourth, architecture, with a large drawing room for 

 about 150 students and a library, nmseum, lecture rooms, and special 

 study rooms. 



4. The technical building (engineering building) is 155 feet long and 

 60 feet wide, with museums, laboratories, workshops, lecture rooms, 

 the largest for 146, drawing room, etc. The fourth story is almost 

 entirely occupied by a large room for drawing, containing 78 tables. 

 The workshops in the neighl)oring Teachers' College are also utilized 

 by the students of the mechanical section. 



These buildings cost between 1300,000 and $600,000 each, altogether 

 about 11,750,000. Three of them bear the names of their founders. 

 Eight similar ones are still to be erected; among them, one each for 

 the law faculty, for philosophy and pedagogics, for history and polit- 

 ical economy, and for philology. There will also ])e a college building, 

 costing $312,500. Between these structures, to the east and west of the 

 library, a chapel will be built, for which quite recently an anonymous 

 patron donated $100,000, and a student's clubhouse, which is already 

 in course of construction." Two older buildings. West Hall and Col- 

 lege Hall, erected in 1878 and 1882, formerly used for different uni- 

 versity and college purposes, than at present, will be torn down as 

 soon as they can be replaced by buildings provided for in the plan. 

 It would, therefore, not be worth while to describe them more minutely. 



Finally, the gymnasium under University Hall is especially worth 

 seeing, on account of its fltness and elegance. It has, perhaps, hardly 

 an equal of its kind. Manly sport plays a still greater part in America 

 than in England. The main room, which occupies two-thirds of the 

 building in the rear, is of apse form and measures 35 feet in height, 

 168 feet in length, and 134 feet in width, with an area of 16,000 square 

 feet, vv^here athletic, gymnastic, and calisthenic exercises may be con- 



«The chapel and clubhouse were completed in 1903. 



