SCHEDULE OF THE COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

FIRST YEAR.

First term.-Solid geometry; algebra; French; projections, theory; projections, drawing; freehand drawing; plane problems; elements of drawing; pen topography.

Second term.-Trigonometry; physics; French; surveying, theory; surveying, practice; colored topography; bridge drawing.

A thesis must be written during the summer vacation.

SECOND YEAR.

First term.-Physics; logic; descriptive geometry, theory; descriptive geometry, drawing; analytical geometry; surveying, theory; surveying, practice; physical experiments.

Second term.-Chemistry, theory; chemistry, lectures; differential calculus; surveying, theory; shades and shadows, theory; shades and shadows, drawing; perspective, theory; perspective, drawing; freehand drawing, lettering.

A thesis must be written during the summer vacation. A four weeks' course in surveying during the month of June is required.

THIRD YEAR.

First term.-Integral calculus; rational mechanics; geodesy; highway engineering: chemistry, qualitative analysis; mineralogy; electricity and magnetism; map drawing.

Second term.-Rational mechanics; structures; railroad engineering, theory; astronomy; machine construction, theory; machine construction, plates; chemistry, blowpipe analysis; assaying.

A thesis must be written during the summer vacation. A four weeks' course in railroad engineering during the month of June is required.

FOURTH YEAR.

First term.-Machines; resistance of materials; hydraulics; sewerage; bridges and roofs; economic theory of railroad location; practical astronomy, theory; practical astronomy, observations; metallurgy; physical laboratory work.

Second term.-Bridge design; hydraulics; hydraulic motors; thermodynamics; steam engineering; stonecutting, theory; stonecutting, plates; electrical engineering; physical laboratory work; geology; law of contracts.

A graduating thesis must be presented.

SCHEDULE OF THE COURSE IN NATURAL SCIENCE.

The studies of the course in natural science are identical with those in civil engineering during the first two years.

THIRD YEAR.

First term.-Calculus; electricity and magnetism; mineralogy, petrography; map drawing; chemistry, qualitative analysis, elementary quantitative analysis. Second term.-Astronomy; geology, lithology; histology; chemistry, organic; blowpipe analysis: assaying.

A thesis must be written during the summer vacation.

FOURTH YEAR.

First term.-Metallurgy, general metallurgy, iron metallurgy; chemistry, quantitative analysis, analysis of commercial and industrial products; physical laboratory work.

Second term.-Physical laboratory work; paleontology; mineralogy, determinative; petrography; chemistry, quantitative analysis, volumetric and gravimetric analysis; law of contracts.

A graduating thesis must be presented.

MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY.

The aim of the department is to give each student a thorough working knowledge of the several subjects taught. The courses are made to bear as directly as possibly upon the training of the engineer. During the first year thorough instruction is given in solid geometry, higher algebra, and trigonometry. These are followed by analytical geometry and differential calculus in the second year, and by integral calculus in the third. Lectures on the theory and various forms of the slide rule are also delivered. In all these subjects examples of a practical nature are constantly given. The text-books used are supplemented by notes prepared by the instructors.

A course in descriptive astronomy is given in the third year, and that in spherical and practical astronomy in the fourth. In the latter are considered the adjustment and use of portable instruments, correction of observations, determination of time, latitude, longitude, and the meridian, the method of least squares, and similar subjects. The theory is supplemented by work in the observatory, where the use of the sextant, chronograph, transit instrument, etc., is taught.

DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY AND STEREOTOMY.

In this department careful and thorough instruction is given in freehand drawing, lettering, the use of drawing instruments, tinting, shading, isometric and orthographic projections, tracing and making blue prints, the theory and practice of shades, shadows and perspective, machine construction and drawing, including gearing and the slide valve, and stonecutting. In all these subjects a great amount of time is spent in the drawing room under the immediate supervision of the instructor, and original work sufficient to fix the principles is required. In descriptive geometry, for instance, although a lesson is assigned for each day from the text-book, the student is seldom given a problem found there, but is required to prove an original one illustrating the same principles. Besides the drawing required in the course in stone-cutting, plaster of paris models of arches, stairways, etc., are constructed by the students.

CHEMISTRY.

The course in chemistry, which is obligatory for all students, consists of daily lectures during the last part of the second year upon

general inorganic chemistry. These are accompanied by daily recitations, including the solution of chemical problems.

The course in qualitative analysis extends over the first half of the third year, with laboratory work five days in each week. During this course the student acquires ability to examine analytically all the ordinary materials likely to be presented to his attention during his professional engineering practice. He is, as far as possible, given charge of outside questions which come to the laboratory for solution. Blowpipe analysis and assaying extend over part of the second term of the third year, particular attention being given to the assay of gold and silver and to the recognition of such ores of the heavy metals as may be met with in the mining regions of this country.

Quantitative analysis and organic chemistry are not given to candidates for the degree of civil engineer. Courses in these subjects are given to candidates for the degree of bachelor of science, to postgraduates, and to special students. Very complete arrangements make these courses especially thorough.

MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, AND METALLURGY.

These subjects are taught by means of lectures and recitations. An unusually fine collection of rocks, minerals, and designs for iron and steel works adds greatly to the value of the courses.

PHYSICS.

The course of physics begins in the last term of the first year with the mechanics of solids, liquids, and gases, and acoustics. Optics and heat are studied during the first term of the second year, and electricity and magnetism during the first term of the third year. These subjects are developed by daily lectures. The student uses a textbook, and is held strictly accountable for an exact knowledge of its contents, but much instruction is given additionally in the lectures, accompanied with full experimental illustrations. He is required to take notes during the course of the lectures and to copy others which have been put upon the blackboards. In the course of daily recitations problems are frequently assigned, and upon these, as well as on demonstrations of theory, the student is required to give both oral and written explanations. During the first term of the second year a course of laboratory work is conducted in which the student is introduced to the methods of quantitative measurement, and he thus acquires some familiarity with the use of physical instruments. For each exercise due preparation is made by appropriate reading, and a report is written which is examined by the instructor. During the first and second terms of the fourth year laboratory practice is continued, prominence being given to methods in electrical and magnetic measurement.

During the second term of the fourth year a course in thermodynamics is given, and this is followed by lectures on the elements of