Show v I student life parallel with the course in Mechanical Engineering The third jear will contain more of Mathematics and less of Physics and Machine Work and Designing than the course in Mechanical Engineering” “The fourth year will include Surveying and Sanitary Engineering Mechanical Drawing Analytical and Graphical Statics Steam Engine Stereotomy Principles of Mechanics Hoads and Pavements Engineering Geodesy and other technical work also Astronomy and Political Economy” Satisfactory completion of these courses lead to the degrees M E and C E respectively “Examinations for admission to full college courses will cover Arithmetic Elements of Grammar Geographj' and the elementary branches taught in our common schools” Jacob M Sholl is announced as Professor of Mechanic Arts and Mathematics The professor of Civil Engineering was not appointed until the opening of the third year It should be noted that during the freshman and sophomore years engineering students in common with all others were given regular courses in English Mathematics Physics Chemistry utre Agriculture Forestry Botany g and German or French For the following year the courses in Engineering are less pretentious All the Agricultural and Horticultural work as well as French is dropped out and German is made an alternative with “Music Elocution Business Ethics or a Course in Reading” and two terms of Calculus is added in the Junior year The degrees were changed from M E and C E to B M E and B C E respectively The catalogue for 1893-- 4 announces Samuel Fortier as Professor of Civil Engineering Several changes in arrangement name and order of subjects offered were made Music and Ger- man both dropped out and Elocution was made a required subject through the freshman year but the general grade or standard so far as the technical work is concerned remained the same It is interesting to note that under “Equipment” in the catalogue we have for engineering thirty-liv- e benches ten lathes circular and hand saws twenty-fou- r power-blaforges Bee-keepi- Book-keepin- st ng two engine iron planer 20 inch crank-shaplathes drill press sensitive drill tool grinder etc and special tools such as standard gauges” also an 8 in x 25 in Harris Corlis experimental engine The special point of interest is that a considerable portion of this equipment notasensitive drill standard bly the crank-shapgauges and experimental engine weie never had The probable explanation is that the men who had this work in charge had not yet learned to keep their hopes out of print ur til they had beed fully realized Thus it is observed that the engineering courses as at tirst outlined were very general there being but very little really distinctive work offered The standard from the standpoint of entrance requirements was very low i e four years from the common school to the engineers’ degree and as a whole very compreIn 1894 hensive but lacking in intensity Pres Sanborn resigned and was suceeded by J II Paul J W Mayo was elected as instructor in shop work and drawing The Mining Engineering course was dropped from the statement of courses offered without comment The courses of Mechanical and Irrigation Engineering each offered one year of work The following year Prof Sholl resigned and Jos Jenson was elected as 'Brofessor of The Thysics and Mechanical Engineering schedules of studies for Freshman and Sophomore years were common to all courses and consequently no engineering work offered in these years except Surveying two terms ten weeks in Sophomore year German was in the schedules of engineering courses Calculus was cut down to full work for fourteen and two hoars per week for ten weeks The two courses in engineering were almost identical the distinctive work of each course amounting to about one subject for each of the Junior and Senior yc?rs In 18W Pres Paul was succeeded by J M The engineering courses were Tanner strengthened in mathematics by means of er er post-gradua- te re-instal- m-creas- ing the entrance requirements cutting Arith out of the courses and in the engineering courses running Algebra and Geometry as parallel courses through part of the freshman |