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lion. In it isoarn. • the cl wo\ • th »a partments of civil (Mi-ineerin n »b»nioal <-i o -r; including railway engineerin tri d in municipal ami sanitary on-ineerin The departm architecture and archil tural enginf.-rin . u] floor. It has h. n in char of Pro! >R r r i irly thirty years, and his scholarly industry ha n-ult 1 ii % collection of architectural plat* and m al value. The department of physit ish.-i il , Imi y needs a building of its own, and the engin rin I pari mente need the room it occupie The departi tography has its quarters here as"« 11. The rine rinj shops and laboratories are housed in a r six n r < brick structures north of the Engineerii Building. W will walk through them, just glancing her* ind th n\ lest

you t i r e o u t and leave us before we are half wav tin

TESTING LABORATORY.

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The first is the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics r Testing Laboratory. Here all manner building materials, iron, stone, brick, cement, are i I for strength

and d u r a b i l i t y . This is this nexto n e is t h e W a t e r all the w a t e r it us 3 from t h i n g like 140,000 gallons

HEAT, LIGHT AND POWKR.

the H y d r a u l i c Lai rat >r\\ a 1 Stat ion. The Qnivei y pumps d e e p wells, and r |uii each day.

We will go out of this back door and into th

door of t h e boiler room of tho h e a t , Ugh1 and power p l a n t . H e r e we have 1,100 horse power in boilers, which f u n :i h e a t and light and power to all University build in .. \\\ pipes and wires are c a r r i e d t h r o u g h mason-w rk.

ground tunnels which are six feet, six inches in the up right diameter, and have already attained a length 8,000 fool, more than half a mile. The whole Bystem was

laid out and constructed by Profe880r l m v k o n r i d - v .

II I U LAUOKATOKN

This highly attractive building in front sheltei

eleetri tl and st im laboratories. flu uvhit< tin U

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