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could be added to the elementary laboratory. This construction was permissible
since the doors to the offices were made to open in and traffic through the corridor
was calculated to be light—there being never more than 28 students (the capacity
of the laboratory) and a few casual visitors on the floor at one and the same time.
(b) Laboratory. The laboratory (Room 205) has entrances at each end of the
floor. It contains 17 rooms: an office (205B) for the instructor in charge, a large
lecture room, an apparatus room (205A) and 14 small (6x9 ft.) experimental
rooms.
The experimental rooms (Rooms 1-14) are each furnished with a table, two
chairs, and double, steel lockers. The upper parts of the doors to these rooms are
glazed that the instructor may, without entering the rooms, observe the students
working within them.
The laboratory students, who work in pairs, draw the apparatus and supplies
needed for the particular experiment they are undertaking from the laboratory
supply room (205A) and retire to one of the experimental rooms to perform it.
Two of these small laboratory rooms (Rooms 1 and 2) are equipped for special
work in vision. Their ceilings are completely filled with 12 pairs of 40-w. fluorescent
tubes which may be turned on singly or in any combination.
(c) Seminary. The seminary room (Room 201) is furnished with two large tables,
40 well upholstered chairs, and book cases which extend around the room and
cover all the walls except the north one, which carries a blackboard. The book
shelves contain The American Journal of Psychology’s exchanges and the Depart
ment’s collection of offprints which are alphabetized by author.
A well-appointed, modern kitchen (Room 201A) with electric range and re
frigerator, and amply supplied with dishes, flatware, and kitchen utensils, adjoins the
seminary.
(d) Auxiliary classrooms. A hall opens from the corridor of the second floor,
near the elevator, up a half-story flight of stairs to three classrooms (large, medium,
and small) above the auditorium. These rooms may be shared by psychology when
and as the need and occasion arise.
Third floor. The third floor contains (a) offices, (b) the clinical labora¬
tory, two class rooms, a seminary, an experimental room and rest rooms
for men and for women (see Fig. 5).
(a) Offices. There are eight offices on the third floor, only one of which is used
at present by psychology. This office (Room 313) is occupied by the instructor in
charge of the clinical laboratories that he may be near them. The other offices on
this floor are occupied by the Department of Philosophy.
When the building was being planned, the Department of Psychology was too
small to lay claim to all the space within it. Though the Department's growth since
then has been rapid, it was not enough to fill the entire building. Sharing the
space with another Department was, therefore, indicated. (This is one building at
least that was not outgrown by the Department for which it was planned during
the process of its construction ! ) Since the building had to be shared, Philosophy was
selected, from among the Departments of a size to occupy the free space, as the
other occupant of this floor. This choice was made for historical reasons. Psychology
and Philosophy were at one time in the history of the University conjoined. More-