TRUSTEES' REPORT. RUTGERS COLLEGE, } NEW BRUNSWICK, December 14th, 1888. To His Excellency Robert S. Green, Governor of the State of New Jersey: SIR-In compliance with the act of Congress, approved July 2d, 1862, and the act of the Legislature of New Jersey, approved April 4th, 1864, I beg leave to submit, on behalf of the Trustees of Rutgers College, the twenty-fourth annual report of Rutgers Scientific School. I. THE FACULTY. The Faculty of the institution is now constituted as follows: Merrill Edwards Gates, Ph.D., LL.D., L.H.D., President, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. George H. Cook, Ph.D., LL.D., Vice President, and Professor of Geology and Agriculture. Rev. Theodore S. Doolittle, D.D., Professor of Rhetoric, Logic and Mental Philosophy. Rev. Carl Meyer, D.D., Professor of French and German. Francis C. Van Dyck, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Experimental Mechanics. Edward A. Bowser, C.E., LL.D., Professor of Mathematics and Engineering. George B. Merriman, A.M., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Peter Townsend Austen, Ph.D., F.C.S., Professor of General and Applied Chemistry. Francis A. Wilber, M.S., Adjunct Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Austin Scott, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of History, Political Economy and Constitutional Law. Louis Bevier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Modern Languages. John Thomas Honeycutt, 1st Lieut. U. S. Artillery, Professor of Military Science and Tactics.* Alfred Alexander Titsworth, M.S., C.E., Professor of Graphics and Mathe matics. Until October 1st, 1888. Horace Bushnell Patton, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Chemical Geology and Mineralogy, and their Application in Agriculture. (Experiment Station.) Julius Nelson, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, and its Applications in Developing Food-Products. (Experiment Station.) Samuel Ewing Smiley, 2d Lieut. 8th U. S. Infantry, Professor of Military Science and Tactics.* Byron D. Halsted, Sc.D., Professor of Botany and Horticulture. (Experiment Station.) Harry Belknap Boice, M.D., Instructor in Gymnastics. Irving Strong Upson, A.M., Librarian. II. COURSES OF STUDY AND DEGREES. The courses of study in the Scientific School are as follows: 3. A course of four years in Electricity and its Applications to the Mechanic Arts. 4. A special course of two years in Agriculture. The two principal courses cover a period of four years each. The studies for the first year are the same in both courses. At the end of the first year students elect whether to pursue the course in Civil Engineering and Mechanics, that in Chemistry and Agriculture, or that in Electricity, and for the remaining three years their studies are directed with particular reference to the choice made. Some studies which go to the equipment of the intelligent citizen, whatever his occupation, such as History, English Literature, Political Economy, Moral Philosophy, Political Ethics and others, are interspersed throughout the entire four years, in order that students may not only acquire a thorough preparation for their special pursuits in life, but may at the same time receive a liberal training which will fit them to discharge wisely and usefully the duties of good citizenship. Students completing either of the four years' courses receive the degree of Bachelor of Science. The degree of Master of Science is no longer conferred, in course, upon all graduates of three years' standing; but only on examination or for work done. The degrees of Civil Engineer and Doctor of Philosophy are con •After October 1st, 1888. ferred for distinguished professional or practical success, or on examination in prescribed subjects. The conditions on which the degrees are given will be found fully explained in the catalogue of Rutgers College. THE SPECIAL COURSE IN AGRICULTURE affords young men an opportunity of acquiring, in the shortest time, the scientific knowledge necessary to success in practical farming. Students who pass their regular examination in the required subjects will, at the close of their course, receive certificates of their attainments. And at the end of two or more years further, if they shall have pursued practical agriculture on a farm, and shall then pass satisfactory examinations in prescribed subjects on Agricultural Principles and Practice, before a Board of Examiners of the Scientific School, they may receive Diplomas in Agriculture. Provision is also made for SPECIAL STUDENTS, who may enter at any time, and elect, under the advice and direction of the Faculty, such studies as they may be found qualified to pursue with classes already formed. Such students are subject to the general regulations and discipline of the institution. They are required to have their time fully occupied, and to pass such examinations as may be prescribed in each case. On leaving, they receive certificates stating the studies pursued and the amount of work performed in each. A schedule of the several courses of study accompanies this report. III. POST-GRADUATE STUDIES. In addition to these courses of study for the under-graduates, postgraduate courses are arranged for students who desire, after graduation, to pursue special lines of training and research. IN CHEMISTRY, students pursue special studies and investigations in the Chemical Laboratory, under the direction of a Professor, upon subjects connected with industrial or professional life. IN GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY, the large collections in Geological Hall are available for extended courses of study, and can be used, under the direction of a Professor, for special study in Geology, Mining, Metallurgy and the various branches of Engineering. IN AGRICULTURE, the well-equipped farm and laboratories give unusual opportunities for advanced studies in this department, and every facility will be afforded for their use. IN MATHEMATICS, instruction will be given in any of the following subjects: Geodesy, with practice; Higher Mathematics (pure); Theoretical and Practical Astronomy; the use of Physical Apparatus. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, provision is made for instruction in an advanced course in Political Economy; in the Constitutional History and Jurisprudence of the United States; in the History of the English Constitution, and in the elements of Roman Law. IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, the instruction given in theory and in the use of electrical apparatus of all kinds has been found most advantageous. Many recent graduates occupy positions of prominence in electrical works in this State and in other States. Students completing a full course of two years, in any two of the departments, will be entitled to the degree of Doctor of Science. IV. TERMS OF ADMISSION. Every applicant for admission must be at least sixteen years of age, and must submit to the President proper testimonials of a good moral character. If an applicant for a State Scholarship, he must also present to the President a certificate of appointment from the County Superintendent. Examinations for admission will be held on the same days as for the Classical Department, viz., on the Monday and Tuesday preceding Commencement, June 17th and 18th, 1889, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M., on Monday. Applicants for admission may also be examined on Tuesday before College opens on September 17th, 1889, at the same hour and place; but all students who can conveniently do so, are advised to be present in June. Students may enter an advanced class either at the beginning of the College year or at other times, on condition that they sustain a satisfactory examination both on the preliminary studies and on those already passed over by the class which they propose to enter. Provision is made for such students as wish to devote themselves to special subjects, if they are prepared to study profitably with the regular classes in those subjects. The following are the subjects in which those desiring to enter the Freshman Class of the Scientific Department are examined. As they are all such as can be acquired in our better common schools, it is insisted that the preparation in them shall be thorough and complete: 1. ARITHMETIC.-Fundamental Operations; Common and Decimal Fractions; Denominate Numbers, including the Metric System; Percentage, including Interest and Discount; Proportion; Square and Cube Root. 2. ALGEBRA through Arithmetic, Geometric, and Harmonic Progressions, or the first seventeen chapters of Bowser's College Algebra. 3. PLANE GEOMETRY.-The whole of Plane Geometry will be required. 4. ENGLISH GRAMMAR-including Spelling. 5. DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY. 6. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 7. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.-Johnston's History of the United States, or its equivalent. Students often lack thorough or recent preparation in this subject. A more accurate knowledge of American History has become necessary as preliminary to the systematic instruction now given on the duties and relations of American citizenship. 8. Such a knowledge of Elementary PHYSICS and CHEMISTRY as may be obtained from Peck's Ganot's Physics, or Wells's Natural Philosophy, and Valentine's Twenty Lessons in Chemistry, or Cooley's or Steele's Chemistry, is required for admission. 9. A short ENGLISH ESSAY is also required, to be written at the examination, on some theme drawn from books announced in advance; the essay to be correct in spelling, punctuation, division into paragraphs, grammar and expression. In June and September, 1889, the themes will be drawn from these books, which all students who apply for admission then should have read carefully: Irving's Sketch Book; Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar; Tennyson's In Memoriam; Scott's Ivanhoe. In preparing the student for this course, it is recommended that he be drilled thoroughly in Arithmetic, as a clear understanding of its simple elementary and practical principles is essential to a good Mathematician. His preparation in Algebra should be very thorough. In addition to understanding the PRINCIPLES of the science, he must fix them in his memory, and learn their bearing and utility, and for this reason he should pay great attention to the solution of practical examples. What is needed is ability to solve ordinary examples with facility and to explain them thoroughly. Attention is specially called to the solution of Simultaneous Quadratic Equations, and of Equations of Higher Degrees than the Second, which may be reduced to the quadratic form, and then solved by the methods of solving quadratics. V. STUDENTS. Six students, graduates of Rutgers or other colleges, are pursuing post-graduate studies at the College. Of the four classes now in the institution, which will be graduated in June, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892, respectively, the Senior Class consists of nine students, the Junior Class of eleven, the Sophomore Class of twenty-one, and the Freshman Class of thirty-three. There are also twelve special students, making a total of eighty-six now in attendance. Under the law of New Jersey designating this institution as "The State College for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," forty students from this State are entitled to free tuition for the entire course. These students are admitted to examination on the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools in each county. The scholarships are distributed among the counties in proportion to their representation in the Legislature. In filling these State scholarships the Trustees have, from the first, adopted the most liberal interpretation of the law; and, in fact, have gone far beyond its requirements. |