The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . -, DexterHall, named in honor of one of the schools greatest benefactors, H. Dexter of this city. The Kingsley Laboratories, named in honor of another of thebenefactors of the school. Honorable Chester W. Kingsley, of Cam- *See sketch in Biographical DANIEL W. ABERCROMBIE. The Worcester of 1898. 179 bridge, have been recently completed, and make possible instructionin the sciences on the most improved plans. The great building is achaster of seven groups of laboratories for as many distinct sciences,
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . -, DexterHall, named in honor of one of the schools greatest benefactors, H. Dexter of this city. The Kingsley Laboratories, named in honor of another of thebenefactors of the school. Honorable Chester W. Kingsley, of Cam- *See sketch in Biographical DANIEL W. ABERCROMBIE. The Worcester of 1898. 179 bridge, have been recently completed, and make possible instructionin the sciences on the most improved plans. The great building is achaster of seven groups of laboratories for as many distinct sciences,with ample provision, besides, for instruction in mechanical drawingand in manual training. Elementary and advanced chemistrv, elemen-tary and advanced physics, physiography, zoology, botany, meteor-ology, anatomy and physiology have their respective laboratories,stock-rooms and lecture-rooms. All of these sciences ai^e taught onthe laboratory plan, and have a full equipment of the most practicalapparatus. The erection of the Kingsley Laboratories marks the firmand equal establishment in this school of the scientific with the classicalside of instruction, and gives the Worcester Academy an equipmentfor teaching natural science probably unequaled among secondaryschools. The instruction remains as the founders of the school stipulated it
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