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PHYSICS.

This subject is connected, in the professorship, with the foregoing; hence introduced in this place.

THE LABORATORY.

The apparatus has cost about five thousand dollars. Much of it is adapted for investigation, rather than illustration. The room is over the chapel, and like it is 60 feet by 80 feet; a transverse partition divides it equally. The northern part is used as a lecture room, and is capable of seating 350 persons, if necessary. The southern room is the laboratory, a beautiful apartment, having abundant light from the east, south and west. In the center of this room a case for apparatus has been enclosed, 16 by 20 feet, the upper part being made useful by a gallery. This case is glazed on three sides; the lower part affords abundant dpportunity for the display of pieces of interest, while the gallery gives place for many things not less useful, though less attractive. Between the apparatus room and the lecture room is a space designed, primarily, as an ante-room for the lecture room, and having its floor on a level with the lecture platform. This room communicates, both above and below, with the apparatus room in its rear, and by ample sliding doors with the lecture room in front. Even if the lecture room is occupied, preparation may be made in the ante-room for a succeeding exercise, and at the time for change the required apparatus may be transferred in an instant, through the broad doorway. The ante-room, when closed, becomes a dark room, admirably adapted to such experiments as require total absence or perfect control of light. The ante-room and apparatus room occupy the center and on one side of the laboratory, leaving a space on the remaining three sides in which 50 students could work together, if occasion should require. Here are arranged the several forms of apparatus required for the experiments. 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.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSE.

Required for the Degree of B. S.> in School of Mechanical

FIKST YEAK.

Engineering.

1. Trigonometry; Projection Drawing; Shop Practice; French or German, 2. Analytical Geometry; Descriptive Geometry or Lettering; Shop Practice; French or German. 3. Calculus; Free Hand Drawing; Shop Practice; French or German.