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Caption: Course Catalog - 1877-1878 Version B
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College of Engineering. 21 COLLEGE OP ENGINEERING. THE REGENT, PROFESSOR SHATTUCK, PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROF. ROBINSON, Dean. PROFESSOR WEBER, I. O. BAKER, WEBB, RICKER, PROFESSOR BAUMGRAS, J. C. LEWELLIN. SCXXOOXIS. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MINING ENGINEERING, ADMISSION. CIVIL ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE. Applicants should be at least eighteen years of age. None are admitted under fifteen. The requirements for admission embrace the common school branches and the studies of the preliminary year. (See page 12.) The examinations in Mathematics are especially thorough. Those who will make further preparation than is required before entering, can make their courses more extensive and profitable. The following suggestions are offered to such as wish to make thorough work : French and German, are pursued at least one year each. Some preparation in Latin will be of great assistance in these languages. The engineer and architect should be adepts in the various departments of drawing, and some previous study of this branch will be of great advantage ; "Warren's Draughting Instruments" may be used as a text-book, and the drawings made on smooth paper, eight by ten inches. REGULATION PAPER. The following sizes and qualities of paper will be required in all the College Exercises : For manuscript and unimportant drawings, a heavy flat-cap paper. For ordinary drawings, not colored, a heavy, first quality, smooth drawing paper. For drawings finished in colors, the best Whatman's paper. For topographical and right-line drawings, and lettering, the best three-sheet Bristol board. SIZES. For Problems, Exercises, Vacation Journals, Lecture Notes, Theses and other Manuscripts, and for Geometrical Projection, Topographical, Railroad, Typographical and Construction Drawings, paper 8x11^ inches, the size of the plate being 8x10 with ^
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