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Show PAGE 12 WEBER ACADEMY departments; the second by the Library, the Study Hall, Physical Laboratory, Commercial Department and Athletic Room. The new building is a beautiful brick structure adjoining the old building on the west. It is seventy-six feet wide by one hundred feet in length, with two stories and a basement. On the first floor is located the principal's office, waiting room and seven class rooms, the largest of which is twenty-eight by forty feet and the smallest eighteen by twenty-two. The basement contains the Manual Training rooms and the Biology and Chemistry laboratories and the Art room. The second floor is occupied by two class rooms, the Band room, the Orchestra room, the Acorn office, and the large lecture hall with a seating capacity of fifteen hundred. LIBRARY The library adjoins the large Study Hall and reading room. It contains valuable books on philosophy, religion, sociology, philology, natural science, useful arts, literature, and history. A carefully selected list of books is added each year by purchase, and many others are contributed by friends of the school. These are classified and catalogued according to the Dewey system. The reading room is furnished with individual desks accommodating about 200 students. EQUIPMENT Chemistry The chemical laboratory occupies a large, well-ventilated room on the first floor of the new building, and is thoroughly equipped for experimental work in general chemistry. Large double desks are WEBER ACADEMY PAGE 13 provided, each of which has adequate drawer and shelf space, and an entire set of apparatus and reagent bottles. One gas connection with a Bunsen burner is conveniently arranged for the use of each student at his desk. Sinks and water connections are also provided. Two chemical balances with weights of precision are among the more costly apparatus. The department has at its disposal a stock of glass tubing, beakers, test tubes, porcelain ware, laboratory hardware and a complete supply of chemicals. PhysicsThe physical laboratory is fairly well supplied with the apparatus necessary to demonstrate the work offered in the course. The more important items are a Wimhurst electrical machine, Ruhmkorff coil, movable coils, electric motor, Wheatstone bridge, rheostat, Geissler tubes, air pump, lifting and force pumps, adjustable inclined plane, galvanometer, electromagnet, sonometer, lenses, thermometers, variety of galvanic cells and a set of apparatus for students' use in the laboratory. GeologyThere is provided for the work in geology a representative collection of specimens. The collection includes typical specimens of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks; and samples of the more common lead, silver, gold, copper and iron ores collected in Utah and adjoining states. During the past six years the collection has been increased by the addition of a variety of specimens collected in the Wasatch range near Ogden, and by seventy-five speci-mens secured through purchase. The specimens are labeled in separate trays, and are classified with respect to origin and composition. |