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...with that idea, or feels himself gravitating towards it as a "sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these things show pretty much pure gold the vein will soon be worked out. There is no eight hour day in teaching; there are no flesh pots. The high importance of the calling demands high endeavor and sacrifice...
...weeks is a short time in which to prepare for the day of judgment, but the University has done it countless times before and can do it again. At any rate, it is better to assay and fail than to lie supine and helpless before the onslaught...
...Refrigeration plant at the Medical School. The electrical equipment includes dynamo, research, high tension, photometric, and standardizing laboratories. In addition are several chemical and physics workshops, as well as a laboratory of sanitary engineering, the Cruft Laboratory for radio-telegraphic engineering, the Simpkins ore-dressing laboratory, the Simpkins assay laboratory, and the laboratory of metallurgy...
...assay laboratory to be known as the "Simpkins Assay Laboratory" has been fitted up in a large room in the new addition on the east side of the building. It is equipped with nine double muffle soft coal furnaces and all apparatus necessary for assaying. It will accommodate a class of fifty men, while the former assay laboratory would not accommodate more than a quarter of that number...
...Department. The building will be a brick shell with a flat roof and will have a smoke-stack 50 feet high. It will be 79 feet long and 40 feet wide. The southern half will be fitted u with appliances for fire-work and will also have the new assay furnaces. In the northern half there will be a Reverberatory roasting furnace, a cupola furnace and a Bruckner revolving roaster, besides some gas furnaces and melting furnaces for illustrating the metallurgy of steel...