Chemistry Building

Regardless of what the present legislature may do with the university requests for new buildings in the next two years one structure is assured, a new home for the school of chemistry. as the desired appropriation was voted two years ago. The design prepared by the architect for the state board of control, is held to call for a building with a little less external plainness and severity than the new structures on the lower campus. The ground dimensions are 200 feet by 190 feet the building is to be brick, three stories, with basement and subbasement. An appropriation of $405,000 is available. While it had been hoped to have construction completed in time to permit use by students at the opening of the fall semester it is said that occupancy can hardly be expected before the first of next year because of delays in starting. According to Dean Frankforter of the school of chemistry there are 1,360 students in the university taking work in chemistry and about 100 enrolled in the school of chemistry, specializing in that subject.

The dean in his annual report to the president of the university in December called attention to the facilities offered by the chemistry school for instruction in photography. He said that no other university in the United States had better equipment for the teaching of this subject. The work in photochemistry, photoengraving, photoshopping and color photography is under the direction of Dr. Francis C. Frarv. A new apparatus for making motion picture films is a recent addition to the equipment. The course in photochemistry includes a discussion of the general principles of photochemistry and their application to dry plate Photography and the ordinary printing processes. Instruction in the elements of photoengraving bears on the preparation of wet plates, zinc etchings and heliogravures, while the instruction in advanced photoengraving includes the preparation of screen negatives and copper half tones. Thus far the university has not offered a course in commercial photography, one that would be directly vocational. Dean Frankforter says that the time may come when such a course may be offered.

Minneapolis Tribune- March 2nd,1913