OPENING OF THE YEAR AT YALE.

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brick, with terra cotta trimmings. In architectural features it corresponds closely to Winchester Hall, next which it stands. The so-called "mill construction" is used as a precaution against fire.

The frontage of the building is 72 and its depth 129 feet. The front part contains the lecture and smaller laboratory rooms, while the rear contains the large laboratories, one on each of the three main floors. The basement is used also for experiments, as well as a storeroom, and the upper story is fitted up as a dormitory for the instructors and their assistants. The largest laboratory, and that for the freshmen, is on the third floor and accommodates eighty-eight. There are laboratory accommodations for as many more, and two rooms have been reserved for libraries of a technical nature, the main one being on the first floor.