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on which the sun strikes are provided with white roller-shades in addition to the 

 brown ones furnishing all the other windows. These permit an agreeable light 

 in spite of the sun, and on dark days our electric light plant renders work possible. 



Although one of the rooms is at the opposite end of the building from the 

 other two, communication is easy and quick between these and other rooms and 

 the office by a system of auto-telephones. In addition to three stairways, two 

 elevators carry students to and from the second floor. 



The larger botany room has a conservatory adjoining in which plants are kept 

 for experiment and observation, but each room has a supply of plants in the win- 

 dows and on tables — collected mostly by the teachers. There is gas and water 



ZOOLOGY ROOM. 



connection in each room, with especial fittings in the zoology laboratory for aqua- 

 ria, and a set of basins, in this room and in one of the botany rooms, furnished 

 with hot and cold water. 



During school hours — 8:30 to 1:10 — fresh air and heat are supplied by a 

 system of blowers, and at other times the rooms are heated by steam. On 

 account of the plants, and germination and seedling experiments carried on dur- 

 ing the cold weather, the steam heat is important. Yet it is not impossible to do 

 this work without. 



The ceilings are white and the walls gray, reflecting an agreeable light. The 

 latter are broken below by slate blackboards that entirely surround all rooms, 

 and in no well regulated laboratory are they idle. The rooms measure, respec- 



