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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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106 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE EQUIPMENT The equipment of the astronomical department consists of a students' astronomical observatory, containing the following instruments: An equatorial telescope of 12 inches aperture, the optical parts of which are by Brashear. The instrument was built and mounted by Warner & Swasey. It is provided with graduated circles, driving clock, filar micrometer, a complete set of positive and negative eyepieces, and a dial for setting in right ascension. The construction of the telescope is such that spectroscopic, or photographic, apparatus may be attached without further work on the mechanician's part; a new 4-inch equatorial by Saegmiiller with graduated circles, driving clock, and eyepieces, and an old 4-inch equatorial by Newton & Co., to be used in photometric eye estimates; a combined transit and zenith telescope by Warner & Swasey, with the usual micrometer and a number of smaller instruments, such as chronometers, a Riefler clock, an altazimuth, two chronographs, two sextants with mercurial horizons, two small astronomical transits, one of 21 inches focal length and i-J inches aperture, by Saegmiiller, and one of 24 inches focal length and 2 inches aperture, by Newton & Co.; a Green barometer and thermometers, a mier mark, and half a dozen masonry piers for portable instruments for the use of students in practical astronomy. MATHEMATICS The courses offered in pure mathematics are so arranged as to meet the needs (a) of those who desire such mathematical knowledge as is necessary to carry on investigation in some line of applied mathematics, and (b) of those who wish to make mathematics a specialty. The instruction is given, for the most part, by the aid of textbooks, but several of the advanced courses are given by lectures with collateral reading. To cultivate a spirit of independent investigation, all senior and graduate students who make mathematics their major, are required to take in
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