The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-09-24

college Also. the halls of Grass
mount are being painted and new
lavatory is being installed on the
third floor.
An improvement which will mean
much to the systematic carrying on of
college work during the coming year
is new standard electric time clock,
which will give automatic service to
all the university buildings. Work
on the installation Of this new clock
was begun Saturday and it will be
ready for use when college opens on
Wednesday, The work of installation
is being done by II. j. Patterson, an
expert employed by the Standard
Electric Tine company of Springfield
Mass, from which the new equipment
was purchased.
This equipment consists first of a
master clock, constructed Of quartered
oak, Sc inches long and finished to
correspond with the woodwork Of the
room, which will be placed in the
presidents Office. This is 60-beat
clock, guaranteed to run with 80 sec
onds variation a month.
A pre- gram clock which automati
cally controls the bells for calling and
Diminishing classes throughout the uni
yersity. has been placed in the Office
of the superintendent of buildings.
This clock is controlled by the master
clock in the presidents Office, and in
turn controls the five secondary
clocks of the system, which will be
placed in the medical building the
engineering building, the Old Mill,
the Science Hall and Morrill, Hall,
thus reaching all the buildings where
classes are ordinarily held. In each
of these buildings the secondary clock
will be placed in the corridors where
the bells for opening and closing the
periods can be heard all over the
building.
This electric time clock will be set
for 80 minute periods, which are now
the rule at the University, but it may
be changed to conform with any pro-
gram which the university may desire
to adept. The system is so arranged
that it automatically shuts off Satur-
day. Sundays and nights.
The secondary clocks in the various
college buildings run automatically
with the master clock, keeping exact
time with this clock to the split-sec-
ond. The system is being so install
ed that it may be added to at any
fip,a with triHfpu avnepca
The current for running the system
is taken from the electric light wires
N the buildings and controlled by a
reetifer transformer, automatic
charger and storage battery, placed in
the basement of the medical building
The wiring is being done by the Bur
lington Light & Power company.
This system is said to be the latest
word in electric clock equipment. 1t
gives absolute accuracy and uniformi-
ty throughout. Many of the leading
colleges in the country, including
Smith, Mount Holyoke, Harvard, Sim
monds, Syracuse, University Of Cali
fornia, Massachusetts, Institute OF Tech
nology, and others, have already in.
stalled this system, and others are
planning to do so.
A number of other improvements
have been made upon the buildings
and equipment of the university dur
ing the vacation period. The Campus
House has been renovated and paint
ed, and basement rehnished, the heat
ing plant changed, and new toilets,
laundry and hot water heating plant
inctalled.
Professor G. G. Croats room in the
Old Mill, y North College, has been
refinished The gymnasium will
have 200 new folding chairs, New
electric lights, of the indirect lighting
type have been installed in the main
hall, the chemistry department and
the large assembly hall of the Science
building, SO take the place of the old
fashioned chandeliers. New cement
sidewalks have been placed in trent
of the medical building and Morrill,
Hall.