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Title: Annual catalogue of Swarthmore College
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Swarthmore College
Subjects: Swarthmore College -- Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia: Lippincott
Contributing Library: Swarthmore College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nding country for manymiles. 77/1? Principal College Building is a massive stone structure 348feet long. It consists of a central building, five stories high, con-taining public rooms, such as lecture-rooms, museum, library, reading-rooms, parlors, dining-hall, etc. Fire-proof compartments separatethis building from the two wings. The latter are each four stories-high. The ground-floors are devoted to lecture and recitation-rooms ;the remaining floors in the east wing contain the dormitories of theyoung women, and in the west wing those of the young men. A num-ber of the instructors reside in the same building with the students,and the relations between them are such that there is comparative free-dom from the dangers and temptations ordinarily incident to collegelife. The buildings are heated throughout by steam, lighted by gas,and thoroughly ventilated. The Science Hall is constructed of stone, in the most durablemanner, and was planned with special reference to the work of stu-(18)
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w U o 3^ o C/3 I SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. 19 dents in Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry. It has a frontage of130 feet, and a depth of 64 feet. The basement contains the testinglaboratory, the wood-working shop, the blacksmith shop, and thefoundry of the engineering department, and store-rooms. On thefirst floor are the machine shop and engineering lecture-room, and thechemical and physical laboratories, and on the second floor are thedraughting-rooms and the chemical lecture-room. The Astronomical Observato)y is especially arranged for purposesof instruction. The plan embraces a central building supporting thedome, and two wings. There are four rooms: a transit-room, inwhich is placed an instrument of three-inch aperture, also the mean-time clock ; a pier-room, at present utilized as a sidereal-clock room ;a work-room, in which is placed a small library of reference books,,the chronograph and chronometer; and the dome, containing theequatorial of six-inch aperture. In connection with thi

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