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GENERAL LIST OF SUBJECTS.

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2. Investigations and Thesis.—For students who select a geological thesis guidance and facilities will be afforded for individual investigations in the field and laboratory. Winter and spring terms, full

study. Professor ROLFE.

Required: Geology i. 3. Engineering Geology.—It is the object of this course to bring together those parts of geology which will be of the greatest practical benefit to an engineer. The course will deal mainly with subjects connected with the origin, classification, and transformation of rocks, with the principles which govern the deposition and structure of rock masses; with the conditions under which the useful rocks and minerals occur, and the conditions which make them more or less valuable. The instruction is given by lectures and by demonstrations in the laboratory. Spring term, full study. Professor ROLFE. 4. General Geology, Minor Course.—This course includes a selection of such geological facts and theories as should be known to every intelligent person, with such discusssion of them as the time will permit. The subjects treated will be fully illustrated, and opportunity will be afforded for some study of rocks and fossils, Winter term, full

study. Professor ROLFE.

GERMAN. There are four years of instruction given in German. Thefirstis devoted to the study of grammar supplemented by readers. In the second a select course of reading is followed with exercises in composition and conversation. In the third the study is conducted in German; the history of literature is studied from a manual and by lectures, accompanied by critical reading of classic and latest authors. The fourth year is primarily intended for graduate work and devoted to the study of Ancient German, the Gothic, Old High German, and Middle High German, with lectures on the literature of these periods, and study of the history of the language. 1. For Students in College of Literature.—Joynes-Meissner's German Grammar; Joynes's German Reader. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full study. Professor SNYDER and Assistant Professor ELIZABETH

C. COOLEY.

2. For Students in College of Literature. —Reading, composition, and conversation. Harris's German Composition, White's German Prose, and a selection of Classics. Goethe's Iphigenie, or Hetmann