Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-13
Colby's Many Courses
Liberal in Scope
Equipment Extensive

eral and general training of ANAL
round education. Every year courses
are offered in Greek, Latin, German,
languages, rhetoric, English
literature, philosophy. history and
economies. These courses have been
offered for many years but recently
the courses in science have become
more, important due to the increasing
for men and women who
have had special training. Up to
within few years Colby has been a
listers and missionaries have been
the graduates rather than the scien-
fist and the doctor. These courses
in science can be taken in connec-
ton with the general courses so
that the student gets more culture
than the one who enters the techni-
cal school from High school.
AT the present time the department
of chemistry is the largest of the
science departments. The entire first
floor and basement of Chemical hall
is occupied by laboratories and
equipment. There are IL rooms de-
voted to tho work of chemistry. The
chemical lecture room on the first
floor has a seating capacity of 100
and this year there We're more than
100 student applicants for entrance
into first year chemistry. Across the
hall is the large laboratory for gen.
eral chemistry, with 40 individual
desks. equipped so that there can be
two divisions. The advanced quaint
tative laboratory is also on the first
floor and here there are 10 desks.
besides many delicate instruments
for use in this work. In the base
laboratories. All of these rooms are
equipped with desk lights. running
water. hoods and gas. All the rooms
are connected by a department tele-
phone.
Eighteen semester courses are Of
fcred in chemistry by George Free
man Parmenter Phi. d., head of the
department, Herman Thompson
-Briseo, instructor and Ralph c.
HuM instructor.
The physics department has been
much improved since Nathaniel Err
nest Wheeler was made head of the
department in 1920, and Winthrop
Hamor Stanley, assistant professor.
The physics laboratories are located
at the northern end of the Colby
campus in Shannon observatory at
the top of which is an astronomical
observatory. On the first floor of the
building is located the electrical lab
oratory, with equipment for four
semester courses in electricity and
wireless telegraphy. The electrical
engineering laboratory is also located
on this floor and is we'll equipped
for studying the standard forms of
alternating and direct current mach
inery. The current is Supplied by a
motor generator that takes the city
current and changes it to direct cur
rent. The entire second floor of the
building is taken up by the lecture
room, offices and general laboratory.
The general laboratory also contains
instruments that may be used in the
advanced courses in mechanics, heat,
sound and optics. A new wireless
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and an aerial stretched between CO.
burn hall and the observatory. This
wireless set has been ARRANGED on a
large table in one of the tower rooms
and experimental as we'll as theoreti-
cal work is now offered the student
taking the advanced electricity
courses.
The Geology and Biology depart
ments are located in Coburn hall on
the first and second floors respective
ly. The department of Geology is a
very popular one and 1T is with con-
siderable difficulty that the students
are accommodated in the lecture
room on the first floor. This room
contains seating and bench space for
80 pupils; it is equipped with wall
maps, gas, running water and
specimen cabinet. From one side
opens a store room where most OF
the rocks for laboratory work are
kept in catalogued drawers. Other
rooms adjoining are the office of
Professor Edward Az Perkins, head
of the department of Geology. and
a small museum which contains
many curious rock and fossil speci-
mems as we'll as some quite valuable
minerals. A modern mineralogicaI
laboratory has recently been built
in the basement, with a storeroom
adjoining. Many relief maps and
models have been provided for the
work in photography. while for the
meteorological side of the department
the work instruments are provided
for making weather observations.
This department has over 100 care
fully labeled minerals from all parts
Of the world that are available to the
student and give wonderful equip
ment for one interested in mineral
logical and Photographed work.
The reason why there are so many
specimens is that at one time much
more advanced work was carried on
in geology at Colby.
The Biology department is effec-
lively carried on by Professor Web
ster Chester. The s1nain room on
the second floor is large enough so
that it is used for lecture room and
the two divisions of elementary
laboratory. On this floor is a large
office. store room. and dark rooml
The laboratory for Gross Anatomy
is on the first floor. All students who
expect to go into the medical profess
sion take all the courses offered by
this department. The laboratories
are fully equipped with compound