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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880
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24 INSTRUCTION. The study of physics occupies two college terms, in which there are each week five recitations from a text-book, one lecture, and four hours of laboratory practice. In the latter, a series of about forty experiments are performed by each student, two working together according to a programme arranged for the purpose. Besides the written directions for the method of procedure, the student has the aid of the Professor and his assistants, when needful. Careful notes and calculated results are required, on paper of a given size. Professor Peabody, now in charge of this work, speaks as follows of its needs: The new laboratory leaves little to be desired as to convenience of arrangement,—and convenience means an increased product, as every manufacturer knows. It is, however, matter of great regret, and a serious want in our facilities of instruction, that this department has not received the entire time of one competent professor. There is no place where the genius of a fertile brain has greater scope to exert itself, in developing and applying old methods, and inventing new ones; there is no place where we may do so much honest and needful work, and have so little to show for it. A lecture of an hour may mean unremitting labor for a week; it always means many hours of preparation and other hours of removal. It takes the housewife hours to prepare a dinner that is eaten in half an hour, and she spends hours more in placing her utensils in order for the next time of need. The help of a competent assistant is also beyond value. SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEEBING. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL. The School is designed to furnish a course of theoretical instruction, accompanied and illustrated by a large amount of practice, which will enable students to enter intelligently upon the various and important duties of the engineer. INSTRUCTION. The instruction is given by lectures, text-books and reading, to which are added numerous problems and practical exercises, as serving best to explain completely subjects and fix them in the mind. Models and instruments are continually used, both in lectures and by the students themselves. COURSE OF STUDIES. The studies taught in this School, as belonging specially to it, are as follows: Projection Drawing, Ornamental Drawing and Lettering, Topographical Drawing and Mapping, Descriptive Geometry, Land
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