EQUIPMENT.
The teaching staff numbers one hundred and twenty-three, of whom sixty-nine
are of professorial grade. The general and departmental libraries contain
about one hundred and four thousand volumes. The value of the
grounds, buildings, and equipment owned by the University is $2,357,460.22.
The University holds productive funds to the amount of $2,211,472.25. In
addition to the income from endowment, student's fees, dormitories, etc.,
it receives from the States annually $102,500. The expenditures for the session
of 1914-15 were $355,002.36.
The Leander McCormick Observatory, the Rouss Physical Laboratory, the
Chemical Laboratory, the Geological Laboratory, the Engineering Laboratories,
the Power, Light, and Heating Plant, the Lewis Brooks Museum of Natural
History, the Biological Laboratory, the Anatomical Laboratory, the laboratories
of Histology, Embryology, Pharmacology and Pathology, the Physiological
Laboratory, and the Hospital buildings and laboratories offer large and modern
facilities for the study of Pure and Applied Science. The Department of Law
and the School of Education are housed in buildings which have been recently
completed.
