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Caption: Course Catalog - 1870-1871
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32 have already been honored with positions on the Coast Survey, and on important Rail Roads. APPARATUS. This school is provided with a good Engineer's transit, a compass, an English level, two leveling rods, two brazed-link steel chains, Gunther's and Engineers', instruments for Stadia surveying, adopted in the Government Surveys. It has also a model truss bridge 20 feet in length, with moveable braces, and other apparatus for practical illustration. The course of studies recommended is as, follows : FIRST YEAR. First j*erm.—Geometry, Drawing, English or Latin; History, two lectures a week. Second Term.-—Geometry and Algebra, Descriptive Geometry, English or Latin. History. Third Term.-— Botany, Algebra, English or Latin. SECOND YEAR. First Term.—Trigonometry, Surveying, Chemistry. Second Term.—Analytical Geometry, Analytical Chemistry or Rhetoric, Shades, Shadows, and Perspective. Third Term.—Calculus, Topographical Surveying and Drawing, Mineralogy and Lithology. THIRD YEAR. First Term.—Calculus, Roads, Railroads, and Mapping, French or German. Second Term.—Analytical Mechanics, Physics, French or German. Third Term.—(3 year students, Mahan's Engineering.) Mechanics and Astronomy, Physics. French or German, History. FOURTH YEAR. First Term.—Hydraulics and Practical Astronomy, Strength of Materials and Frames, Geology. Second Term.—Stability of Structures, Drawing of existing constructions; History of Civilization and Logic. Third Term.—Stone Cutting and Geodesic Surveying, Drawings and Estimates, Political Philosophy and Constitutional Law, Political Economy, Inductive Logic. 3 —SCHOOL OP MINING ENGINEERING. The course for Mining Engineers differs from that of the Civil Engineering, only in the substitution of Mine Surveys and Constructions, Metallurgy, and Assaying, for Roads and Rail Roads, Topographical and Geodesic Surveying, and stone cutting. 4.—SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. The course in Architecture corresponds nearly with the course in Civil Engineering, adding to it the course in Architectural Drawing, Styles of Architecture, and the study of public buildings. COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY FACULTY. THE REGENT. A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Professor of Agricultural Chemistry. ROBT. B. WARDER, Assistant in Laboratory. The object of this College is the education of professional Chemists.
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