THE COLLEGE 



AS IT WILL BE IN OPERATION NEXT YEAR, 1863. 



The main college building is a stately and substantial 

 edifice constructed of a silicious magnesian limestone of ex- 

 cellent quality for building purposes. It consists of a cen- 

 tral part and two wings connected with the latter by cur- 

 tains. The central part and the wings facing on the same 

 line, 234 feet long in front, and the central part resting on 

 54 feet of the front line, and extending back 130 feet, the 

 two wings each resting on 42 feet of the front line, and ex- 

 tending back 81 feet. "While the two curtains each occupy 

 48 feet on a line parallel to the front line, but ten feet 

 back from it, the curtains extend back 56 feet. The 

 building has five stories above a commodious basement. 

 Each story has a large hall running from one end to the 

 other, parallel with the front line, and extending through 

 the middle of the curtains. From this hall, and at right 

 angles with it, three halls extend back, one on the middle 

 line of the central part, and one in each end wing; on each 

 side of these halls, doors opens into dormitories, recitation- 

 rooms, museums, &c. The entire building embraces 165 

 dormitories, ten by eighteen square and nine to eleven feet 

 high ; a library room, twenty-four by forty-six; geological and 

 mineralogical museum, twenty- four by forty-six ; anatomical 

 museum, twenty-six by thirty-six; museum of agricultural 

 productions, twenty-four by twenty; chemical laboratory 

 for beginners, in basement twenty-four by fifty-six, and two 

 laboratories on the first story, each twenty by forty, for more 

 advanced students ; two lecture rooms, each twenty-six by 

 thirty-four feet; four recitation rooms, each twenty by 

 thirty-four feet; and several smaller rooms for apparatus for 

 special scientific investigations, and for store rooms; also a 

 large room eighty feet long and twenty-eight feet wide for 



