Pfahler Hall, opened in 1932
Pfahler, originally called "Science Hall," represented a quantum leap in its facilities. Yost comments:
To appreciate [the improvement], one must recall that faculty and students were moving from three laboratories ..., almost antediluvian in design, to a four story building containing thirteen teaching laboratories, two research laboratories, nine professors' laboratories, six classrooms, a lecture hall seating almost four hundred, a library, temperature rooms, a balance room, a dark room, storage rooms which alone equaled the old laboratories in size, and all the necessary ancillary areas.
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