Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 28]

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UNIVBESITT OP ILLINOIS

north from the center of the foundry, containing core ovens, rattler, and cupola. The forge shop adjoins the foundry, at the eastern end of the building. Military Hall, 100 by 150 feet in one grand hall, gives ample space for company and battalion manoeuvers and for large audiences upon special occasions. It is also used as a gymnasium, for which purpose there are dressing rooms with lockers. A bath room is provided. Natural History Hall is a handsome building, 134 by 94 feet, with basement, two main stories, and an attic. It is occupied by the departments of botany, zoology, physiology, mineralogy., and geology, for each of which there are laboratories, lecture rooms and offices ; it also contains the office and equipments of the State Laboratory of Natural History, and of the State Entomologist, .as well as the office and library of the Agricultural Experiment Station. There are six laboratory rooms on each of the main floors—sufficient altogether to accommodate two hundred students, besides offering abundant facilities for the private work of the instructors. University Hall occupies three sides of a quadrangle, measuring 214 feet in front and 122 feet upon the wings. Besides numerous class rooms it contains the office of the President, the museum, the library, and the art gallery. There are, in addition to these buildings, a veterinary hall, an astronomical observatory, four dwellings, two large barns, and a greenhouse. ART GALLERY The University art gallery was the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana. It occupies a room'61 by 79 feet in University Hall, and the large display of art objects has surprised and delighted all visitors. In sculpture it embraces thirteen full-size casts of celebrated statues, including the Laoco5n group, the Venus of Milo, etc., forty statues of reduced size, and a large number of busts, ancient and modern, bas reliefs, etc., making over four hundred pieces in all. It includes also hundreds of large autotypes, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the great masterpieces of painting of nearly all the modern schools ; also a gallery of historical portraits, mostly large French lithographs of peculiar