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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882
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34 COLLEGE OF NATUBAL SCIENCE. SFECLATJ FACULTY. The EEOENT, I Professor TAFT, Professor WEBER, Dean, I SCHOOLS. Professor PRENTICE, Professor BURRILL, Mr. J. E, ARMSTRONG. School of Chemistry.* School of Natural History. SCHOOL OP CHEMISTEY. This School aims to enable the student to related arts, and to fit the practical business chemist. impart such knowledge of Chemistry as will apply the principles of the science to the him for the field of original research, or for of the druggist, pharmacist and practical INSTRUCTION. Text-book instruction in the principles of Chemistry and Chemical Physics occupy six weeks of the first term of the first year. Afterward the recitations alternated with laboratory practice. During the next three years each student is expected to work two hours daily in the laboratory, five days in the week. In order to graduate, each is required, at the close of his course, to make an original investigation, and present a thesis. Students who pursue Chemistry as a part of other courses work at least two consecutive hours daily during such time as their specialty may require. The special Chemical course requires for its completion four years of study. Associated with this there have been established a four years' course in Pharmacy and three years' courses in Agricultural Chemistry and Metallurgy. APPARATUS. The facilities offered for obtaining a practical knowledge of Chemistry are believed to be unsurpassed by those of any other institution in the West. A large laboratory building 75x120 feet, and four stories in height, was erected 1877-8, at an expense, including furniture, of $40,000. It is excellently lighted, heated and ventilated and contains the following apartments: One large lecture room, with seating capacity for two hundred students; one small lecture room for advanced students; a large laboratory for qualitative analysis, containing one hundred and four desks; a large laboratory for quantitative analysis, etc., containing sixty-four desks; a pharmacy, with
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