hen it
was completed in 1916, is built upon the unit system, and consists
essentially of concrete piers, whose uniform spacing divides the rooms
and laboratories into equal units, or multiples, with practically the
total width between piers opening into windows. This is, in effect, a
modern adaptation of the old Gothic principle, though it emphasizes the
horizontal and lacks entirely the buttresses and pinnacles which gave
the medieval church builders their inspiration. It marks, however, a new
era in laboratory construction, for not only are the laboratories
flooded with light, but they are carefully designed for the purpose for
which they are to be used. It is also to be noted that each department
is installed in a complete section of four floors, from basement to top.
The building, which cost $375,000, has about 155,000 square feet of
floor space and like the neighboring Chemistry Building is built about
an open court. The same principle of construction has also been followed
as far as practicable in the new Library Building.

Other buildings on the Campus which have not been mentioned elsewhere
are the Physics Laboratory, the Museum, and Tappan Hall. The Physics
Laboratory was built in 1886-87. Within twenty years it proved
inadequate and in 1905 an addition costing $45,000 became necessary,
which contains among other features a well-equipped lecture room
accommodating four hundred students. Until the completion of the larger
lecture room in the Natural Science Building this was in great demand
for many University lectures. Tappan Hall, a class-room building, in a
portion of which the Department of Education now has its headquarters,
was erected in 1894-95 and stands near the southwest corner of the
Campus just at the rear of Alumni Memorial Hall.

The University Museum was erected in 1881 and stands between University
Hall and Alumni Memorial Hall. It is far from being the most successful
of the University Buildings architecturally, and as it has been for some
time entirely inadequate for the collections it houses, it will not be
many years before the need for a new museum will be presented to the
Legislature. In addition to the offices of the Curator, Professor A.G.
Ruthven, Morningside, '03, and his staff, the building contains the
University's zooelogical and anthropological collections, very popular
with casual visitors to the Campus. The former includes a fine exhibit
of mounted mammals and some 1,600 birds,