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THE first section of the new buildings of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College was formally opened on Thursday, December 21, by the Right Hon. John Sinclair, M.P., Secretary for Scotland. The opening ceremony took place in the examination hall, and was attended by a large and representative assembly. The chairman of the governors, Mr. Wm. Robertson Copland, presided, and in introducing Mr. Sinclair gave several details that are of general interest. The part of the building now completed and occupied represented about 70 per cent. of the whole scheme, and even in its uncompleted state was the largest of the kind in Great Britain. The floor area of the completed part extended to more than 187,000 square feet, or about four and one-third acres; the corridors in the building measured more than a mile in length;. and there were 828 windows which required one acre and one-third of glass to fill them. The cost of the completed part was 211,743l., and was fully met by subscriptions already paid or by sums about to fall in. Although all the principal classes were now accommodated in the new buildings, there were still several industriar classes—for decoration, furniture design, printing, lithographing, and the like—that would have to be conducted in rooms outside the college. It was also pointed out that since the demand for new buildings became clamant about ten years ago, the increase in the number of day and evening students combined had been about 50 per cent. last session, 1904–5, the day students numbered 530 and the evening students 4490.
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G., G. New Buildings of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College . Nature 73, 208–209 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073208b0
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