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BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 69
importance of contributing to the advancement of science and thus
to the intellectual and material welfare of mankind, but also because
research work adds vitality to the educational work of the Institute
and develops originality and creativeness in its students.
(8) In order that the policies already stated may be made fully
effective as quickly as possible, and in order that the available funds
may not be consumed merely by increase in the student body, the
registration of students at any period shall be strictly limited to that
number which can be satisfactorily provided for with the facilities
and funds available. And students shall be admitted, not on the basis
of priority of application, but on that of a careful study of the merits
of individual applicants, so that the limitation may have the highly
important result of giving a select body of students of more than
ordinary ability. A standard of scholarship shall also be maintained
which rapidly eliminates from the Institute those who, from lack of
ability or industry, are not fitted to pursue its work to the best
advantage.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
THROOP HALL, 1910.
The administration building; erected with funds supplied by a large
number of donors, and named for the Honorable Amos G. Throop,
founder of Throop Polytechnic Institute, from which the California
Institute developed.
GATES AND CRELLIN LABORATORIES OF CHEMISTRY: first unit, 1917;
second unit, 1927; third unit, 1937.
The first two units were the gift of the late Messrs. C. W. Gates
and P. G. Gates, of Pasadena; the third unit was the gift of Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. Crellin, of Pasadena.
CULBERTSON HALL, 1922.
The Institute auditorium; named in honor of the late Mr. James A.
Culbertson, trustee of the Institute and Vice-President of the Board
1908-1915.