UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES IN DETAIL.

MINERALOGY.

The first term is devoted to crystallography, blow pipe analysis and the general properties of minerals; the other two terms are devoted entirely to the determination of minerals. The student is required to determine each mineral by means of the pocket knife, lens and streak plate if possible. In case these are insufficient, he has recourse to the blow pipe and specific gravity balance.

In the examination of minerals that exhibit no distinctive physical properties, the blow pipe is the only quick and sure means of determination and is of great value in practice. For this reason it is freely used in the work in mineralogy. This department is now provided with an excellent collection of minerals and has the necessary facilities for doing good work.

SURVEYING.

The course in surveying is thorough, and besides general land surveying, leveling, etc., it embraces a course in city surveying, mining surveying, roads and earthwork.

Students are required to do sufficient field work to render them entirely familiar with it. Each operation considered in the class room must be actually performed in the field.

ASSAYING.

The course in assaying embraces the fire assay of ores of gold, silver and lead of all kinds. After the first term the student is required to use his own judgment in treating each ore. Iron and copper are treated by the volumetric methods. The work is done almost entirely without the use of text-books.

METALLURGY.

Instruction in this branch is given chiefly by lectures.

First Term-Properties of metals and alloys, fuel, furnaces, etc. Second Term-Metallurgy of lead, copper and iron. Especial attention is devoted to the smelting of lead and copper in both reverberatory and shaft furnaces.

Third and Fourth Terms-Metallurgy of gold and silver, including milling processes, concentration, etc. Smelting of silver lead ores, especially the methods employed in Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Montana. Separation of lead and silver, extraction of gold by chlorine gas; construction and care of milling machinery, etc.

MINING.

The course consists of four terms' work.

First Term-Ore deposits, including beds and mineral veins, irregu

larities, faults, occurrence and association of ores. Prospecting and mining law.

Second Term-Excavation, tunneling, timbering, spiling, shaft sinking and timbering, hand and machine drilling, transportation of ore, tramways and wire rope transportation.

Third Term-Mining machinery and mine drainage; ventilation and hydraulic mining.

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

The course in agriculture provides for a liberal education in the sciences underlying and closely related to the arts of agriculture and horticulture, and is so arranged as to give great assistance to students and broaden the views of farm life. The course in agriculture, like a course in mining, music or languages, so far as the class-room work is concerned, cannot do everything for the student. As with any work in life, a liking for the calling is necessary for the highest success. Individual ability, experience before entering the course, application during school years, will be very prominent factors in deciding how much of value is received, and how successful will be the application of its principles in after life. The instruction in agriculture is given by lectures and the use of standard text books. As the live stock interests of Nevada rank among the foremost interests of this State, liberal attention is given to the subject of stock feeding, stock breeding and dairying.

In the subject of forestry, the utility of forest areas is discussed, the extent and character of forest legislation and the value of the various species for different uses is considered. This subject is taught by lectures and text book.

Meteorology is taught by lecture and text book, discussing atmospheric phenomena, and by practice in taking observations.

Veterinary science is taught by the use of Law's Farmer's Veterinary Adviser and by means of lectures, five exercises a week being given to this subject during the third term of the Senior year. The subject of horticulture and landscape gardening, five exercises per week during the third term of the Senior year, is taught by lectures and the use of Henderson's Gardening for Profit, Kemp, and Bailey's Field Notes on Apple Culture.

Field work consists of actual work in the preparation of the soil, planting and cultivating of farm and garden crops and the care of fruit trees. The rhetoricals for the course consist of declamations and essays for the Freshmen, and the same for the Sophomores, with the addition of debates-debates with the subject given, and with the subject given after the contestants take the platform. During the Junior and Senior years one oration is required each term, no oration to take less than five minutes, and to be delivered in the assembly room, all students and the public invited.

NEVADA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

FIRST YEAR.

FIRST TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-Fitch's Theory and Practice of Teaching. Fitness, Training and Responsibility of the Teacher.

MATHEMATICS 5-Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry commenced.
ENGLISH 3-Harvey's Revised English Grammar commenced.
HISTORY 3-Eggleston's U. S. History commenced.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 4-Appleton's Physical Geography completed.

SECOND TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-Hailman's History of Pedagogy.

MATHEMATICS 5-Plane Geometry completed; Arithmetic commenced; Robinson's Higher Progressive Arithmetic; Review; Percent

age.

ENGLISH 3-Harvey's Grammar completed; Composition work.

HISTORY 3-Eggleston's completed.

ZOOLOGY 7-Text, Packard and Colton; 1 Recitation and 6 Laboratory.

THIRD TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4- -Hailman's History of the Kindergarten.

MATHEMATICS 5-Arithmetic completed.

ENGLISH 3-Composition work.

CIVIL GOVERNMENT 3-Thorpe's Government of the American People completed.

ZOOLOGY 7-Continued.

SECOND YEAR.

FIRST TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-Brook's Normal Methods of Teaching commenced.
MATHEMATICS 5-Well's Higher Algebra commenced.

ENGLISH LITERATURE 3-English Authors and Manuals.

GEOLOGY 4-LeConte's Compend of Geology completed. Text and lec

tures.

DRAWING 2-Freehand.

BOOKKEEPING--First Lessons in Bookkeeping, Williams & Rogers', completed.

SECOND TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-Brook's Normal Methods continued.

MATHEMATICS 5-Algebra continued.

ENGLISH LITERATURE 3-History of the English Language; Study of Words; Shakespeare, one play.

BOTANY 5.

DRAWING 2-Freehand.

BOOKKEEPING-Williams & Rogers' New Introductive Bookkeeping. January, February, March, September and October sets completed.

THIRD TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-Brook's Normal methods completed.
MATHEMATICS 5-Algebra completed.

English LITERATURE 3-English Authors; Essays in Literary Criticism.
BOTANY 5.

DRAWING 2.

BOOKKEEPING-November, December and January (single entry) sets completed.

THIRD YEAR.

FIRST TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-Rosenkranz's Science of Education commenced.

RHETORIC 4-Principles of Expression; Letter Writing; Discussion; Description.

HISTORY 3-Myers' General History; Eastern Nations and Grecian History.

CHEMISTRY 4-Shepard's Elements of Inorganic Chemistry, illustrated by experiments and lectures.

PHYSIOLOGY 7-6 Laboratory; 1 Recitation; Martin's Human Body, Briefer Course.

SECOND TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-Rosenkranz's Science of Education completed.

RHETORIC 4-Style; Essay; Oration.

HISTORY 3-Continued; Roman History.

PHYSICS 4-Gage's Elements, illustrated by lectures and experiments. PHYSIOLOGY 6-Recitation 3 and Laboratory 3.

THIRD TERM.

PEDAGOGICS 4-School Law of Nevada, General Statutes of Nevada as a

reference.

RHETORIC 4-American Poets.

HISTORY 3-Myer's General History completed.

PHYSICS 4-Gage's Elements completed.

PSYCHOLOGY 6-Recitation 3; Laboratory 3; Ladd's Outlines of Physiological Psychology; Preparation of Thesis.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE NORMAL SCHOOL.

Applicants must be fifteen years of age.

Candidates for advanced standing must pass satisfactory examinations in all work completed by the class they wish to enter.

Graduates of accredited high schools will be admitted without examination, upon presentation of diplomas of graduation from such institutions.

Applicants will be examined in spelling, English grammar, reading, penmanship, descriptive geography, arithmetic through percentage, algebra to equations, geometry to the third book.