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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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EQUIPMENT 69 There is an ever increasing fund of general and scientific knowledge with which every educated man is expected to be conversant, if he desires to retain the esteem of his associates and clients. Much of the most valuable of this knowledge is still locked up in foreign languages, and these must be acquired by patient study and practice. It might appear that this general training would be sufficient to demand the entire attention of the student during his whole course, but not less than one-half his time must be given to purely technical training and to the acquirement of a professional capital or a stock of information and knowledge of details. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION Whenever suitable text-books can be found, they are employed, because their use saves much time in acquiring facts and data, and because such books become doubly valuable for later reference when enriched by notes and additions. But to arouse most fully the enthusiasm of the student, discussions and formal lectures are necessary, and they must be fully illustrated by sketches, diagrams, drawings, and photographs of executed work. In all courses of study offered by this College, drawing, in its manifold forms and uses, is made a special feature, both in its applications and its modes of execution. EQUIPMENT The equipment of the various departments is described under appropriate heads. In addition to this, the College has a good reference library and some valuable apparatus of a general character. The most important portion consists of a collection of machines and apparatus for abbreviating computations, and especially for use in the calculation of tables. The principal instruments are here described: (T) A Thomas ten-place arithmometer, the largest size manufactured, imported especially for the University, and giving products of numbers to twenty places. (2) Two
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