 | The Cavalier daily. Monday, March 17, 1969 |  |
Old, Dirty and Deserted
Gives Way To Modern,
Shiny and Functioning
Photos by frank blechman
Cobb Chemical Laboratory, once shiny, new, and full of students,
stood more solitary than ever one cold, wet day last week. Named after
John Blackwell Cobb, the building was dedicated "to the uses of
chemical science and industry."
Next year the
Medical School will
move in. But this year,
after fifty years of use
by students, Cobb
Chem Building stands
as a collection of
desolate classrooms,
disheveled laboratories,
and dusty hallways.
Students have taken their vials and bottles and petri dishes and
retorts; left behind are empty cabinets, rusty pipes, dirty floors,
boring lectures and forgotten equations.
Now they sit in the plastic splendor of the new chemistry
building (which gleams and shines even on a rainy day), not realizing
that one day dust will collect where they once sat.
| The Cavalier daily. Monday, March 17, 1969 | |