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...Chemical Laboratory will be begun very soon. The building, which is to be two stories high besides the basement, and entirely fire proof, will be situated on Nassau street. It is to contain two lecture rooms, two laboratories, and private rooms and laboratories for assistants; also a room for a mineral collection and a reading room. Besides these there will be a laboratory for assaying, another for chemical physics, and a third for advanced work and special research. The School of Science is at present so overcrowded that the relief that the new laboratory will afford, by granting ample accommodations...
...plans for the new Yale gymnasium are completed. In the basement, which will be the heaviest ever built in New Haven, will be situated two rowing tanks, each 24 x 52 feet, and the swimming tank, 25 x 50 feet. Three bowling alleys, twelve bath rooms, and the steam heating apparatus will occupy the rest of the basement. On the first floor will be the large vestibule, trophy room, rooms fitted with shower baths, and a massage room. The main gymnasium room will be on the second floor, and the running track will be suspended between this floor...
...expected that at the beginning of the next term the new building on Trinity place will be ready for the students. The mechanical and civil courses will occupy it, and the work of moving in is being carried on as rapidly as possible. The mining department will occupy the basement of the Rogers building, which was formerly the mechanical engineering laboratory. In the new mechanical engineering laboratory there will be a new triple expansion Corliss engine and other improvements...
...building. Hitherto the largest part of the work has been done in outside gymnasiums, but owing to the change in using the house of the former president for college purposes the crew will be enabled to train at the college. The trustees have appropriated some money towards making the basement of the house a sort of gymnasium headquarters, and the necessary changes were made at the end of the year. The small rooms have been turned into three or four large ones, and bathing facilities and about one hundred lockers have been provided. The boat club will occupy...
...hall is by far the finest recitation building at Yale. The various rooms have a total seating capacity of 1450, almost equal to the present number of students; the large lecture rooms will seat nearly three hundred men each. The lighting arrangements are excellent, the small basement rooms being better lighted than most of the college buildings. The heating and ventilating system is perfect; in the cellar an enormous fan changes the air in every room in the building once in ten minutes, while the electric system makes the temperature self-regulating...