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College Engineering.

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staking out, drawings, computations of earthwork, etc. The preliminary survey will consist in an examination of the locality, and in running tangent lines, with leveling and topographical sketching. The location will consist in running the line over the route decided upon, with all the necessary measurement and calculations for establishing the grade, setting slope stakes, etc. The drawings will include alignment, profile, plans, etc. A project in geodesy or higher engineering, will be executed during the fall term of the senior year. During this term the students have exercises in practical astronomy.

APPARATUS.

For Field Practice—The school is well provided with the instruments necessary for the different branches of engineering field practice, which includes chains, tapes, compasses, plane-tables, stadias, transits, levels, barometer for barometrical leveling, base rods and comparing apparatus, sextants, engineer's transits arranged for astronomical observations, and an astronomical observatory, which is provided with an equatorial telescope, an astronomical transit, with an attachment for zenith telescope work, a chronometer, and a set of meteorological instruments. A portable altitude and azimuth instrument of the latest and best form has lately been received from the celebrated makers, Troughton & Simms, of London. It is read by micrometer microscopes to single seconds, both of altitude and of azimuth. This instrument will be used for instruction in Geodesy and Practical Astronomy. To facilitate practice in trigonometrical and land surveying, an area has been specially prepared in which the difficulties of plane surveying are presented to the beginner as he is able to meet them, and where he is taught practical methods of overcoming them. For the Lecture Room.—The school has numerous models for illustrating its specialities, including descriptive geometry and astronomy; models of bridges, roofs, joints, and connections; a large collection of drawings, photographs, and photo-lithographs of bridges, roofs, and engineering structures; it has access to the cabinet of the college of engineering, which contains models illustrating wood, stone, and metal construction and a complete set of lithographs of the lectures and drawings used in the government Polytechnic Schools of France. The library is well supplied with the latest and best periodicals and books upon engineering subjects.