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manufacture, and by purchase from abroad. It includes many of Riggs' models, and others from the celebrated manufactory,of J. Schroeder, of Darmstadt, Germany. About two hundred valuable models from the United States Patent Office are also included in the Cabinet. The State has provided a large Mechanical Laboratory and Workshop. The Pattern Shop is furnished with complete sets of tools, benches aad vises for Pattern-makers. In a separate building are forges, a moulder's bench with sand,' and brass and iron furnaces sufficient for the castings ordinarily required. Additional sets of tools are provided for the special use of students in the shop-practice classes.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSE.

Required for Degree of B. S. in School of Mechanical Engineering.

FIRST YEAR.

1. Plane Trigonometry, Algebra and Adv. Geometry; Projection Drawing; French. 2. Analytical Geometry; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering-; Shop Practice; French. 3. Calculus; Free Hand Drawing, Shdp Practice; French.

SECOND YEAR.

1. Designing and Construction of Machines; Advanced Algebra and Analytical Geometry; German. a. Advanced Calculus; Designing and Construction of Machines; German. 3. Advanced Calculus; Astronomy; German.

THIRD YEAR.

1. Mechanism and Mechanical Laboratory; Advanced Descriptive Geometry; Chemistry and Laboratory Practice. 2. Analytical Mechanics ; Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Physics. 3. Analytical Mechanics; Modern History; Physics.

FOURTH YEAR.

1. Resistance of Materials and Hydraulics; Geology; Mental Science, z. Prime Movers ; Constitutional History; Construction Drawing. 3. Mill Work; Designing and Laboratory Practice; Political Economy; GraduatingThesis.