Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Commerce Building [PAGE 10]

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On the second floor are located the offices of the professors of railway administration and commerce* a large lecture room, seating about one hundred, and equipped with a lantern for the special use of the courses in commercial subjects, and two smaller class rooms for the use of advanced classes in business administration. The statistics and commerce laboratories and the commerce reading-room are also located on this floor. The statistics laboratory is being equipped with the machines, apparatus, and books necessary for the most advanced statistical investigation along all lines. The commerce laboratory is furnished with an extensive collection of commercial products, maps, charts, etc. In the readingroom, current financial and trade newspapers and periodicals, as well as general reference works in commerce, will be kept on file. On the third floor are the accountancy rooms, additional class rooms, and the offices of the professors of industry and accountancy and of the instructors in the business courses. The rooms for the use of the courses in accountancy consist of a laboratory and a machine room. The accountancy laboratory, about eighty feet long and thirty feet wide, is the largest room in the building. It is furnished with large drafting tables for the use of students in designing accounting forms and handling the books used in the accounting courses. Eventually, the accountancy machine room will be more fully equipped with the various machines used in business and accounting offices. Many of these machines are electrically operated and the necessary connections have been installed in the room. As a whole, the building is substantially constructed, simple in plan, and convenient and well adapted to the purpose for which it is intended.

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