PHYSICAL LABORATORY

The Wilder Laboratory, the gift of the late Mr. Charles T. Wilder, of Wellesley, Mass., has been occupied since its completion in the summer of 1899 by the department of Physics. The building has a frontage of one hundred and seven feet, and a depth of fifty-six feet, and a rear projection of fifty-five by thirty-five feet.

The laboratories, lecture, and recitation rooms occupy three stories and a basement. The basement contains a well-equipped workshop and a dynamo room, magnetic and electrical laboratories, a storagebattery room, and a laboratory for constant-temperature experiments. A large lecture room (seating 200 persons), arranged for lantern projection, and equipped with many conveniences for the purpose of general lectures in physics, is on the first floor. The floor is further divided into offices for the members of the department, two recitation rooms, an electrical laboratory, and an apparatus room. The general laboratory provided for students in the first course in practical physics occupies a section of the second and third floors. The remainder of these floors is given up to the departmental libraries in physics and astronomy, two apparatus rooms, a chemical kitchen, two suites of rooms for assistants in the department, an unpacking room, and eleven laboratories planned with reference to special work in optics, spectrometry, photometry, photography, acoustics, electric waves, and the heat spectrum.

The building is heated by steam (both direct and indirect radiation) and lighted by electricity. It is supplied, throughout, with water, illuminating gas, and air under pressure; and a part of the building is provided with connections for oxygen and hydrogen gases. The laboratories and lecture rooms are connected by separate circuits with a large switchboard in the basement, so that the electrical power of the generators and storage battery is accessible to all parts of the building. Each room is further provided with a separate signal circuit connecting it with a telephone switchboard on the second floor so that time signals may be sent, and other electric communication is easily possible between different parts of the building.

The equipment of the department with instruments and apparatus is being carried forward by the income from funds left the department by Mr. Wilder. The present equipment is adequate for the

needs of the lectures in general physics, the junior course in practical physics, and for the advanced courses which are offered.

The nearness of the physical laboratory to the astronomical observatory affords to either department the resources of the other.

OBSERVATORY

The Shattuck Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory is used for the purposes of instruction. It is provided with a telescope by Clark, having an aperture of 9.4 inches, and a focal length of 12 feet, a spectroscope, a four-inch meridian circle, a three-inch transit and zenith telescope by Saegmuller, sextants, clocks, chronograph, and level-trier.

CHEMICAL LABORATORY

The chemical Laboratories are on the first and second floors of Culver Hall. The first floor is occupied by the lecture room, storerooms, and the laboratory for elementary chemistry and qualitative analysis. This floor has been entirely reconstructed during the past year, giving a large and convenient laboratory, forty feet by sixty feet, containing eighty-four tables, each with double lockers, giving also the accessory store and reagent rooms, an instructors' office, and an entirely new lecture room. The whole is equipped with the most modern furniture and appliances.

The large northeast room on the second floor is a well-equipped quantitative laboratory, and adjoining rooms are used for balances and library. The large southeast room has recently been fitted up to meet the modern requirements of an organic laboratory, including complete equipment for organic analysis.

In all the courses chemistry is taught by laboratory work, enforced by informal lectures, demonstrations, and short recitations.

CHANDLER HALL

Through the bequest of the late Frank Willis Daniels, of the Class of 1868, Chandler Hall, recently known as Moor Hall, has been purchased, reconstructed, and enlarged, and fitted for the special uses of the departments of Mathematics and Graphics. The first floor furnishes a large lecture room, accommodating over two hundred persons, and rooms for the elementary courses in engineering; the second floor

provides four well-arranged rooms for recitation work in mathematics, with private offices for the instructors; the third floor furnishes rooms for recitations, and two large rooms for mechanical drawing, with lighting from above.

The basement is devoted to testing and experimental work in the department of Engineering.

GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD

The Gymnasium is open daily for the use of the students, and during the winter season a regular exercise is required of all members of the Freshman class, and voluntary divisions are formed among members of the other classes. The aim is to reach the large body of students who do not enter into athletic contests, rather than to train athletes.

Through the generous contributions of many of the alumni, an admirable athletic field, with modern improvements, has been laid out near the College buildings. It is provided with all the necessary facilities for base-ball, foot-ball, track athletics, and tennis; including a grand-stand seating six hundred spectators and containing dressing rooms and shower-baths for the use of the students.

All candidates for the Athletic Teams must be examined by the Professor of Physical Culture before they can be accepted as members of a team, and each team is under medical supervision during the period in which it is engaged in sports.

The Professor of Physical Culture who is also Director of the Gymnasium takes the measurement of all students entering College, and conducts the Gymnastic exercises for the Freshman Class during the winter months. The Gymnasium and Athletic Field are in his charge.

The general supervision of athletics in the College is committed to an Athletic Council, consisting of three non-resident alumni, three members of the Faculty, and three undergraduates.

Students are admitted to golf and tennis privileges of the Hanover Country Club at moderate rates by the month or season.

WATER SUPPLY

A system of waterworks, established in 1893 at an expense of $65,000, furnishes, in connection with the aqueduct before in use, an

ample supply of water for all purposes. In 1903 the whole area of 1200 acres included within the water-shed was purchased to insure the purity of the water supply. The precinct is supplied with a thorough system of sewers.

HEATING AND LIGHTING PLANT

In 1898 the College adopted the method of heating its buildings from a central station, and constructed a plant on the most approved plan at a cost of $60,000; twenty-five of its buildings, dormitories, and recitation halls are heated in this way, ensuring a nearly equable temperature.

During the present year an electrical plant has been added for lighting all the buildings of the College through its own service, and also for power when motors are needed.

HOSPITAL

In case of illness, the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, constructed upon the latest modern plans, and widely known, since its opening in 1893, as one of the best cottage hospitals in the country, furnishes the students such care and comfort as is seldom found outside of the larger cities. Through the kindness of William E. Barrett, of Boston, Mass., of the Class of 1880, provision has been made for the care of students, who are unable to meet the Hospital expenses.

The Hospital is under the management of physicians and surgeons who are connected with the Dartmouth Medical School, and students who enter the Hospital are in charge of members of the Hospital Staff. In the case of students whose parents would prefer to have them treated exclusively by the family physician, the College has made arrangements through which suitable rooms can be secured where the family friends or physician can be in attendance.

All the College buildings are under the direct care and inspection of Dr. Howard Nelson Kingsford, the Medical Director, and every case of illness among the students reported to him receives immediate attention.

ISOLATION HOSPITAL

An Isolation Hospital of twelve beds has recently been furnished and equipped by the College with all the necessities and conveniences

for the care of infectious and contagious diseases. This is for the use of the students only, and is entirely under the control of the Medical Director, in whose hands it adds materially to the efficiency with which the health of the student body may be controlled.

COLLEGE SANITATION

All College buildings are under a thorough system of inspection conducted by Dr. H. N. Kingsford, the Medical Director, with a view to the prevention of infectious diseases. Cultures are taken through a corps of medical students at frequent times from all recitation rooms and dormitories. The sources of milk supply for the Commons and the dining clubs are inspected from time to time. Apart from the College buildings, houses in the village where students room are under the inspection of the Medical Director.

THE COLLEGE INN

The Trustees have entirely reconstructed and refurnished the College Inn, known as The Hanover Inn, for the entertainment of alumni, and friends of the students. The Inn is under the management of Mr. Arthur P. Fairfield, of the Class of 1900. Circulars giving all information in regard to location of rooms, prices, etc., can be obtained from him. The Inn is open during the entire year.

RAILROAD CONNECTIONS

The railroad station is known as Norwich and Hanover, on the Passumpsic Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. White River Junction, four miles south of Hanover, is the centre of four lines of railroads: the Concord Division (Boston and Maine system), making connection with Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Lowell, and Boston (four hours and forty minutes to Boston); the Central Vermont Railroad and the Connecticut River Division (B. and M. R. R.), making connection with Springfield, Hartford, New Haven, and New York (eight hours to New York); and also connecting at Greenfield (B. and M. R. R.) and Springfield (Boston and Albany R. R.) for the West; the Central Vermont Railroad, making connection with Montpelier, Burlington, and the West (thirty hours to Chicago); the Passumpsic Division (B. and M. R. R.), making connection with Wells River, St. Johnsbury, Montreal, and Quebec (eight hours to Montreal).