It has been stated on competent authority that a truly sound-proof
room cannot be built except under ground. This has not been
attempted, but the laboratory contains one room (no. 17) which is
virtually sound-proof. A double door separates it from the adjoining
experimenter's room, and double doors also separate this from the
main hall. The wall between these two rooms consists of two layers of
plaster with special deadening material inserted between. Two small
tubes, ordinarily stuffed with felt, connect these rooms. When the
acoustical stimulus is a tuning-fork, it is placed in a distant room,
connected with one of the _b_ circuits of the sound-proof room, and
then with a telephone receiver near the subject's ear.
The photographic-room contains the ordinary sink, red lights, shelves,
etc. The indirect entrance is light-tight when the door is not closed,
so that the experimenter may pass in and out even when developing is
going on. This room, like all the others which have no window (except
the sound-proof room), has forced ventilation.
The class-room is designed for the experimental training-courses. It
has eight of the regular delivery-boards, ten tables, instrument-case,
blackboard, and sink.
The lecture-room for specialized courses in comparative and
experimental psychology seats eighty students. It is provided with
two Bausch and Lomb electric projection-lanterns, horizontal and
vertical microscope attachments, and attachment for the projection of
opaque objects. On the lecturer's platform, besides the blackboard,
projection-screen, and chart-racks (capable of holding twenty charts),
is a large demonstration-table provided with a delivery-board, water,
gas, sixteen chart-drawers, two other drawers, and three cupboards.
As has been said before, the general psychology course of the
University is not given on the laboratory floor, but downstairs
in the large lecture-hall with about 400 seats. A number of large
demonstration instruments of the laboratory serve the special purpose
of this course; this hall too has its own stereopticons.
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