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GENERAL LIST OF SUBJECTS.

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course 1. Second term, same as in course 1, except that special attention is given to drawing details of machinery and chemical apparatus. Fall and winter terms, full study. Professor FREDERICK. 6. For students in College of Literature and Arts.—The work in this course is the same as course 1, as far as time will allow. One or two years, full study. Professor FREDERICK. 7. Course in the History of Art.—Lectures with collateral reading. Selections from Ruskin, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Viollet le Due, Day's Work on Ornament, Penot and Chipiez' and Reber's histories of art, and other works relating to the history and methods of painting, sculpture, and architecture. These lectures are illustrated by several hundred lantern slides, and are open to all students of the department. Oneyear, once a week. Professor FREDERICK. ASTRONOMY. 1. CELESTIAL MECHANICS.—This course will include a study in detail of some of the principles and laws of analytical mechanics as applied to the solution of astronomical problems. More specifically, it will consider the following and other similar subjects: motion of a particle in space under the action of central forces; determination of paths when the laws of force are given; determination of orbits, masses, etc., of the heavenly bodies. So far as is possible all computations are based upon data taken by the

student. Watson's Theoretical Astronomy. Assistant Professor MYERS. Winter term, full study.

Required: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1.

2. DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY.—For students of the College of

Engineering. This course comprises the subject matter of course 1, and, in addition, some of the fundamental principles of celestial mechanics. Astronomy is here taught with a view to its utility rather than as a matter of general information. Students are required to work out problems in latitude and longitude, to deduce from the principles of mechanics formulae for weighing the masses of the heavenly bodies against one another, to solve problems involving corrections for parallax, refraction, dip of the horizon, and to determine mathematically the distances, dimensions, and orbits qf the bodies of the solar system. When weather permits, the equatorial telescope is in use by students, and time is spent in the location and study of the con-