STEELE CHEMISTRY BUILDING FORMALLY DEDICATED OCT. 29
One of the most distinguished gatherings ever assembled in Hanover save for major celebrations such as an inauguration, or commencement exercises, witnessed the dedication exercises of the Steele Chemistry Building, the newest and finest addition to the equipment of Dartmouth College, October 29. The assembly included Governor A. O. Brown, of New Hampshire, former Governor Pingree, of Vermont, Dean Henry P. Talbott, of the Chemistry Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. William H. Nichols, former president of the General Chemical Company, members of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, and a number of the most prominent chemists of New England, members of the OuroboruS Club which held its annual fall meeting in Hanover at this time.
President E. M. Hopkins presided at the exercises and in his introductory remarks outlined the history of the Chemistry Department at Dartmouth. Professor L. B. Richardson, present chairman of the department, accepted the building for the department and thanked the trustees of the College for the whole-hearted support which had made the building possible. President Hopkins then introduced Dr. W. H. Nichols, President of the American Chemical Society and former President of the General Chemical Company, who spoke of his reminiscences as the life long friend and business associate of Sanford H. Steele. Dean Talbott, the final speaker of the occasion, reviewed the outstanding achievements in the field of Chemistry during the last 50 years.
The Steele Chemistry Building, which has just been completed at a cost of half a million dollars, is considered one of the most completely equipped and finest of such college buildings in the country and embodies the best features of over a score of laboratories inspected by the architects and members of the Dartmouth chemistry department. Much of the apparatus of its equipment has been specially constructed according to designs of the Dartmouth chemists.
Nine laboratory rooms are contained in the building, varying from the large laboratory for beginners, which will accommodate 144 men working at one time, to the laboratory for advanced organic chemistry, which will accommodate about 15 men. Laboratories for qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, physiological chemistry, physical chemistry and advanced courses in each of these studies are included. The new building also contains many offices and laboratory suites for instructors and professors, as well as a large library, lecture rooms, balance rooms, and conductivity rooms. Specially designed and constructed systems for ventilation, and distribution of gas, electricity, compressed air, and distilled water have been installed. The building is of the Georgian type, to harmonize with other Dartmouth buildings. It was designed by Larson and Wells of Hanover and erected by the Cummings Construction Co. of Ware, Mass.
Guests present at the dedication exercises included Professors Talbott, Norris, Moore, Williams, Smith and Lewis of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kohler and Lamb of Harvard, Jennings and Zinn of Worcester, Hopkins, Doughty and Scatchard of Amherst, Chamberlain and Morse of Massachusetts Agricultural College, Mears of Williams, Johnston of Yale, Hoover of Wesleyan and Bartlett, Bolser and Richardson of Dartmouth. Other distinguished guests were, General Frank S. Streeter of Concord, N. H., Harry N. Blunt of Nashua, N. H., C. B. Little of Bismarck, N. D., Henry L. Moore of Minneapolis, Minn., and Senator Lewis Parkhurst of Boston, all trustees of Dartmouth College. Members of the Steele family, including Mrs. Sanford H. Steele, Porter Steele, Miss Mary Steele, Mr. and Mrs. William Steele Pingree and Mrs. Samuel Pingree, were also present.
