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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Letters have been sent out by the Committee of the Overseers to visit the Chemical Laboratories and by the Department of Chemistry asking for contributions for the erection of new buildings. For the construction of the first building, $53,000 has already been pledged, which will be available provided $47,000 more is collected before January 1, 1910. All contributions should be sent to the treasurer of the University, C. F. Adams, 2nd, 50 State street, Boston...
...committee was appointed from the Board of Overseers to examine the Chemical Laboratories. The report returned was that the accommodations for chemical classes were inadequate, unsanitary, uncomfortable, and generally bad. The committee also rejected a plan for the renovation of the Boylston and Dane Hall laboratories, and recommended new buildings...
...project is to erect a group of five new buildings. A central or administrative building will contain the lecture halls, offices, libraries, and the chemical museum. The other four will be laboratories, each devoted to one of the four branches of the science: organic and industrial chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, qualitative and quantitative analysis. Such a plan will require $500,000 for the construction of the group of buildings, and the same amount for the endowment. The $100,000 now being raised will be used for the first building, which it is proposed to name after the late Professor...
...expectation of new buildings for the chemistry department which the present movement holds out is good news for Harvard men. The inadequacy of the existing accommodations has long been a vexation to students and instructors who have been obliged to work in the Boylston and Dane laboratories, and has been disagreeably apparent to others by the odors which have emanated from those places. The prospect of relief from these unsavory conditions is welcome...
...best features of the plan announced is that it allows the construction of the new buildings one at a time as the funds become available and as the growth of the chemistry department makes more room necessary. Though the complete plant may not be ready for some years, the work of getting it will be distributed, and will be less of a strain on the men who collect the funds and on those who give...