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16. Students crowding to the Physics Theatre, Earlsfort Terrace. Circulation in the College is frequently difficult, as the halls and corridors were designed for about one-fifth of the present numbers.

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[ Photo. Davis.

17. The Science Buildings, Upper Merrioin Street. here are housed Engineering and all the Science departments except Experimental Physics. Since the College took over this building, numbers in Engineering have increased very greatly, and the Faculty is now made up of four brances (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical). The machines are closely packed together, so that for engine tests the classes frequently have to be split into as many as ten sections, each repeating the smae experiment. Space formerly devoted to research in Engineering has been given over to teaching.

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Courtesy: Independent Newspapers.

18. At the opening of the new Cheistry Laboratory (see 15 above), November 1958; Mr. De Valera, Toaiseach and Chancellor of the National University, Dr. Tierney, President of the College, and Professor Wheeler, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Science. Mr. De Valera, now President of Ireland, has been Chancellor of the University since 1921, and head of the Irish government for most of the time. At the opening of the new Laboratory he spoke of the necessity of devoting more money to Science.

This and the next pictures (21-30) wil show how the College has been providing for its growth by temporary work at Earlsfort Terrace, Merrion Street, and Belfield.