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GENERAL LIST OF SUBJECTS.

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the level. Two weeks' time is given to practice in running railroad curves. The department is provided with the instruments necessary for the different branches of engineering field practice, including chains, tapes, compasses, plane tables, stadias, transits, levels, barometers, sextants, and solar transits. These instruments are in constant use by the students whenever the weather will permit. This and course 2 must be taken together.

Baker's Engineers' Surveying Instruments. full study. Assistant Professor PENCE. Winter and spring term,

Required: Math. 4; General Engineering Drawing 1, 2, 3. 4; Civil Engineering 1. 4. RAILROAD ENGINEERING.—In the field practice the class makes preliminary and location surveys of a line of railroad of sufficient length to secure familiarity with the methods of actual practice. Each student makes a complete set of notes, maps, profiles, calculations, and estimates. In addition to the mathematical theory of curves, turnouts, crossings, and the calculations of earth work, instruction is given by means of text books, assigned reading, and lectures on the principles of economic location, particularly the effect of distance, grade, and curve upon operation and maintenance, and of methods of construction, equipment, and maintenance of way. Godwin's Railroad Engineer's Field-Book. Fall term, full study; winter term, half

study. Assistant Professor PENCE. Required: Math. 4; General Engineering Drawing 1, 2, 3, 4; Civil Engineering 1, 2, 3.

5. MASONRY CONSTRUCTION.—Requirements and methods of

testing stone, brick, cement, and lime; composition, preparation, and strength of mortar and concrete; classification, construction, strength, cost of stone and brick masonry; foundations under water; theory of stability, cost, etc., of dams, retaining walls, bridge piers, bridge abutments, culverts, and arches. The students have experiments in the masonry laboratory, in testing cement, mortar, stone, and brick. Baker's Masonry Construction. Fdll term, full study. Professor BAKER. Required: Math. 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1, 2; General Engineering Drawing 1, 2, 3, 4. 6. GEODESY.—Geodesy is taught by lectures and assigned reading. Studies are made of the instruments and methods employed inspirit, barometrical, and trigonometrical leveling; the apparatus and methods used in measuring base lines; the loca-