Grounds and Buildings

CAMPUS AND FARM.-The College grounds occupy about 1,122 acres of land, including the campus, sites of buildings and residences, grounds for military drill and outdoor athletics, the College farm, and the Experiment Station grounds. The campus, including about 200 acres, is laid out in walks, drives and lawns, and is shaded by a beautiful grove of native forest trees. The campus has been greatly improved during session 1904-1905, under the supervision of Mr. G. A. Parker, Vice-President of Parks and Public Reservations of the American Civic Association.

The Main Building, Barracks, Etc.

THE MAIN BUILDING is a three-story brick structure, 130 by 140 feet, trimmed with gray sandstone. It contains twenty-two rooms, including recitation rooms, library and reading room, literary society and Y. M. C. A. Hall, physical laboratory, besides the offices of the President, the Commandant, the Treasurer, and the Secretary of the Board of Fertilizer Control. Adjoining this building is Memorial Hall, the College chapel, which has a seating capacity of about 1,000. It is used for religious services and as an assembly room. The building is provided with steam heat and electric lights.

THE CADET BARRACKS comprise two large brick buildings. One is three stories high and contains one hundred and forty-seven rooms for students, a dining hall 134 by 44 feet, and a kitchen 50 by 37 feet. The other building is 199 by 42 feet, and contains 104 rooms. These buildings are heated by steam and lighted by electricity, and have an abundant supply of pure spring water. The rooms in the barracks are furnished with single width iron cots and other necessary appointments. The dining hall is well supplied

with table linen, silver ware, and china, and the kitchen is furnished with modern culinary appliances.

The bath rooms and closets are located in brick buildings apart from the barracks and connected with them by covered gangways.

THE HOSPITAL, located about a quarter of a mile from the barracks, is a wooden building, especially designed for the purpose. It is lighted by electricity, and has a thorough sewerage system. The hospital is in the immediate charge of the Surgeon, who is assisted by an experienced matron and nurses, thus ensuring the best personal attention to each patient.

THE LAUNDRY is a brick building specially constructed and fitted with the improved machinery of a modern steam laundry, and is operated exclusively for students.

Agricultural Buildings

THE AGRICULTURAL HALL is a building 146 by 94 feet, in colonial style, and constructed of red side-cut brick, with columns and trimmings of oolitic limestone. It is furnished with a complete system of electric lights, water and sewer connections, and steam heat; and provides class-rooms and laboratories for instruction in agriculture, horticulture, soil physics, botany and bacteriology, zoology and entomology, veterinary science, dairying and animal industry, geology and mineralogy, and offices for the Experiment Station. It also contains a room 40 by 60 feet, with a gallery, for a natural history museum, and a gymnasium hall of the same dimensions below.

THE HORTICULTURAL GROUNDS embrace an area of thirty acres. Eight acres are devoted to apples for experiment purposes, six acres to peaches, two acres to grapes, two acres