. Catalogue of the Athens School, 1912. sday Chapel Talks,and in some of the departments the lecture constitutes a part ofthe regular class work. We have heard this year: President Race. Vice-President Bovard. The Rev. Dr. R. J. Cooke. The Rev. Dr. Theodore S. Henderson. Dr. John A. Patten. i ! The Rev. Chas. A. Myers. ! • i ? i ? Prof. S. H, Thompson. Bishop W. F. Anderson. ^ LABOEATOEIES. The laboratories of the school, through the generosity and es-pecial interest in Science of Mr. John W. Fisher, of the Board ofTrustees, are well equipped. The Chemical laboratory is fur-nished with twenty-
. Catalogue of the Athens School, 1912. sday Chapel Talks,and in some of the departments the lecture constitutes a part ofthe regular class work. We have heard this year: President Race. Vice-President Bovard. The Rev. Dr. R. J. Cooke. The Rev. Dr. Theodore S. Henderson. Dr. John A. Patten. i ! The Rev. Chas. A. Myers. ! • i ? i ? Prof. S. H, Thompson. Bishop W. F. Anderson. ^ LABOEATOEIES. The laboratories of the school, through the generosity and es-pecial interest in Science of Mr. John W. Fisher, of the Board ofTrustees, are well equipped. The Chemical laboratory is fur-nished with twenty-four desks for individual student use, eachfitted with running water and sink and supplied with a fullcomplement of reagents and qualitative and quantitative analysis^and among articles of general use contains Sartorius Analyticalbalances, platinum crucibles, burettes, drying ovens, apparatus fordistilling water, and cases well stocked with chemicals and ap-paratus. The physical laboratory is equipped with flat-topped tables hav-. THE ATHENS SCHOOL 19 ing suspension frames for supporting purposes and with cases con-taining apparatus not only adapted to demonstrate the principlesof the science, such as barometers, air pump electric machines,X-Eay and wireless telegraphy, etc., but also enabling the studentto make quantitative experiments demanded in Freshman andSophomore college courses, such as calipers, Millikens modifica-tion of Atwoods machine, calorimeters, photometers, DArson-vals galvonometer, etc. The Biological laboratory and museum contain cases of min-erals and rocks, a collection of birds eggs, skeletons of vertebrates,alcoholic specimens of invertebrates, Kny-Scherer models of thehuman body, fivd Bausch and Lomb compound microscopes, eachwith 1-6 and 2-3 objectives, microtomes, dissecting trays and muchaccessory apparatus enabling the instruction in Biology, Physi-ology and Geology to be accompanied with practical courses requir-ing individual laboratory work. EEL
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