Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1899-1900 [PAGE 83]

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INSTRUCTION —EQUIPMENT

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in clear order and to write and speak effectively. Professional success depends upon this power far more than is commonly supposed. 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. A large and most valuable portion 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 hot less than one-half his time must be given to purely technical training and to the acquirement of a professional capital or stock of information and knowledge of details, together with extensive practice in the attack and solution of problems and difficulties. 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 mentioned:'