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residence was remodeled for the purpose. This proved inadequate almost
before completion and in 1902 the construction of the present
Engineering Building was authorized. Standing across the southeast
corner of the Campus and with the diagonal walk carried through it under
a picturesque archway, this is one of the University's largest buildings
and forms, with its two wings, and the Engineering Shops and the old
Heating Plant, a square known as the Engineering Quadrangle. It was
completed in 1904, but a further addition was necessitated in 1909, so
that it now has a floor space of about 136,000 square feet, and cost
with equipment about $400,000. In the basement of the long wing which
extends down East University Avenue is the naval experimental tank, 300
feet long and 22 feet wide, in which models of various types of ships
are tested by the Department of Marine Engineering. The only other tank
of this character in the United States is at the Washington Navy Yard,
and the facilities of the University's tank, therefore, were used
extensively by the Government during the late war.

The development of the College of Pharmacy, actually the fourth separate
department in the University, is closely interwoven with that of the
Department of Chemistry. Its history has already been in part suggested
in the references to the growth of the Chemical Laboratory and the
appointment of Dr. Prescott as the first Dean of the Department, or
later, College, of Pharmacy. At first the study of chemistry was
presented only in lectures and a few simple demonstrations. Dr. Douglas,
however, was among the pioneers in this country in realizing that the
way to teach the subject was to help the students perform their own
experiments, and accordingly he established a small laboratory for
special students in the Medical Building. From this grew the idea of a
laboratory building which was finally completed in October, 1857, at a
cost of $3,450, the first building erected in America for this purpose,
with facilities which were, in President Tappan's words, "unsurpassed by
anything of the kind in the country." Even then it proved almost at once
too small, and a long series of enlargements came at intervals of about
five years, until finally the new Chemistry Building was completed in
1910.

All the work in chemistry in the different Departments was, from the
first, provided for in this building, with no distinction between
academic and profes