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I Ai IS I i»R FRESH Ml N

95

The LABORATORY OF IMJYSICS (16) is located i it of F.ngineerii Mall on the corner of Green Street and Mathex. Aventu It is devoted entirely to work in the dep rtment of physics, The offices of the head of the dej rtment of physic are on the second tloor. The large I turc room on the first floor is the meeting place of the University S nate Along the paved alley-way between Engineering Hall and

the Physic 1 boratory are the various buildings comprising the p r and heating plant of the University, together with th pumping station (14) and the fire department station The main building of the power plant (7) is on Mathews Avenue just south of the street car line. In this building is the offi • of the Superintendent of Buildings, which is the central office for workmen employed by the University. The small stream which (lows through this part of the campus is the Boneyard, a stream of many traditions. On the north bank of this stream and fronting east on Mathews Wenue is the M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G L A B O R A T O R Y ( 8 ) . This building contains a major part of the exrimental equipment for the departments of civil engineering and mechanical engineering. The office of the head of tin department of mechanical engineering is in this building.

The TRANSPORTATION BUILDING (45) is located

j t across Mathews Avenue from the Mechanical Kngincering Lab rat ry, T h e first and second iloors are 0< Upi 1 by the depar nentS of railway and mining engineerin The offi< of tl head of the department of railway engineering

is on the first floor; the office of the head of the departmen

I mining engineering is on the second floor. The entii third floor i, occupi I by the department of 1 neral engiin r

ing di in I of the Transportation Building toward the ir ! s i the LOCOMOTIVE TKS'I IN<; l VBOR \ n >R\ < 'Ibis building < ntains complet equipment ( test in the I; -t 1 ilw \cx motive nth the 1 emotive Testing Laboral i\ is tl I Bl > \'K >RY ( K>), In t R building are

1 '1 II of the i < • n a t i o n i MM . and laboi atoi t USed