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MONTGOMERY, ALA. :
THE BROWN PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS.
1894.
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TRUSTEES.
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His Excellency, Thomas G. Jones, President Ex-Officio
J. G. Harris, Superintendent of Education . . Ex-Officio
I. F. Culver (term expires 1899) . . Union Springs.
J. C. Rich. (term expires 1899) Mobile.
H. Clay Armstrong. . (term expires 1899) Auburn.
R. H. Duggar (term expires 1899) Gallion.
J. G. Gilchrist (term expires 1897) Hope Hull.
Wm. Smaw (term expires 1897) . .Boligee.
C. C. Harris (term expires 1897) Decatur.
Jonathan Haralson — 'term expires 1895) Selma.
R. F. Ligon (term expires 1895) • Tuskegee.
J. A. Bilbro (term expires 1895) : . . Gadsden.
E. T. Glenn, Treasurer.
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BARKSDACE
FACULTY AND OFFICERS.
Wm. LbROYBROUN.M. A..LL. D.,
President and Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
OTIS D. SMITH, A. M.,
Professor of Mathematics .
P. H. MELL,M. E.,Ph,D., \/
Professor of Botany and Geology .
JAMES H. LANE,C. E.,A. M.,LL. D.,
Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.
OHAELES . TH ACH, A.M.,
Professor of English and Political Economy.
GEORGE PETRIE, M . A . , Ph . D . ,
Professor of History and Latin .
Lieut. J. H. WILLS, 22nd Infantry, U. S. A. (West Point),
Commandant and Professor of Military Science .
A. J. BONDURANT,A. M.,
Professor of Agriculture.
A. F. McKISSICK,A. M.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering.
J. M. STEDMAN, B. S.,
Professor of Biology .
B. B. ROSS,M. So.,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.
CHARLES H. ROSS,C. E.,Ph. D.,
Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages and English.
J. J. WILMORE,M. E.,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Laboratory.
C. A. CARY, B. Sc.,D. V. M.,
Professor of Physiology and Veterinary Science.
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B. H CRENSHAW, M. E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts.
A St. C. DUNSTAN,M. E., C. E ,
Instructor in Physics.
R. E. NOBLE, M.Sc,
Instructor in Chemical Laboratory.
— R. J. TRAMMELL, C. E., ^
Assistant Instructor in Mechanic Arts.
L. W. PAYNE, M. Sc.,
Assistant Librarian and Secretary.
R. L. Bivins, B. Sc , Assistant in Botany.
MR. Burton, B. Sc Assistant in Civil Engineering.
C. W. Daugette, B. Sc Assistant in Agriculture.
J. H. Holt, B. Sc Assistant in Mechanic Arts.
T. L. Kennedy, B. Sc Assistant in Mathematics.
N. B. Marks, B. Sc Assistant in Library.
H. K. Miller, B. Sc Assistant in Chemistry.
A. L. Quaintance, B. A. Sc Assistant in Biology.
W. M. Riggs, B. Sc Assistant in English.
J. F. Webb, B. Sc Assistant in English and Mathematics.
J. H. Drake, M. D Surgeon.
C . C . Th ach . . Librarian and Recording Secretary .
. D . Smith Corresponding Secretary .
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OFFICERS
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AGRieai2TaRAl2 EXPERIMENT STATI0N.
^oBOARD OF VISITORS.*^
COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION.
I. F. Culver Union Springs.
J. O. Gilchrist : Hope Hull.
H . Clay Armstrong Auburn .
ABOARD OF DIRECTION. (s^e
Wm. LkRoy Broun President.
A. J. Bondurant ...Agriculturist.
B. B. Ross Chemist.
P. H . Mell Botanist.
J. M. Stedman Biologist.
C. A. Cary Veterinarian.
_~».«4. ASSISTANTS. $>-«>.—
J. T. Anderson, Ph. D First Assistant Chemist.
R. E. Noble, M. Sc Second Assistant Chemist.
C. L. Hare, M. Sc Third Assistant Chemist.
R. L. Bivins, B. Sc Station Sec'y, and Assistant Botanist.
T. U. Culver Superintendent of Farm.
W. B. Frazer : , Farm Clerk.
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OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE,
The leading object of the College, in conformity with the
act of Congress and the acts of the State Legislature, is to
teach the principles and the applications of science.
In its course of instruction it gives prominence to the
sciences and their applications, especially to those that re-
late to agriculture and the mechanic arts ; and at the same
time the discipline obtained by the study of languages and
other sciences is not neglected.
All students are required to study the English language.
The Latin, French and German languages are also taught,
and opportunity for their study is offered to students in any
course.
The special or technical instruction given is thus based
on a sound, general education.
The College, in fact, is a distinctive school of industrial
science — or Polytechnic Institute— a title which by reso-
lution of the Trustees is permitted to be inscribed on the
catalogue, — and work of great value to the youth of the
State is now being accomplished by fitting them by a thor-
ough science-discipline, in which manual training in the
lower classes is made a prominent feature, for the success-
ful and honorable performance of the responsible duties of
life.
While every attention is given to the mental discipline of
the students in endeavoring to train them to habits of accu-
rate scientific thought, and thus to qualify them for the
duties of life, their moral and Christian training will always
constitute the prominent care and thought of the Faculty.
8 Agricultural ami Mechanical College,
LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES FOR INSTRUG
TION.
The College now possesses facilities for giving laboratory
instruction in applied science in the following depart-
ments :
I. — IN AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.
The farm contains 226 acres and is supplied with illus-
trative specimens of stock of select varieties.
The agricultural experiment station, established in con-
nection with the College, where experiments and scientific
investigations relating to agriculture are daily made, affords
unusual opportunities to students to become familiar with
agriculture, its defects and remedies.
The students of agriculture accompany the professor in
the field, garden, conservatory, stock-yard, etc., where lec-
tures are delivered in the presence of the objects discussed,
and during the year exercises in practical agriculture of an
educational character are given the students who enter upon
this course of study.
II. —IN MECHANIC ARTS.
The laboratory of mechanic arts is used as an auxiliary
in industrial education, as a school in manual training in the
arts that constitute the foundation of various industrial
pursuits. The work performed by the students is instruct-
ive m character, as in any other laboratory, and the classes
are taught m sections by a series of graded lessons under
the supervision of the professor. In the lower classes of
the College each student enters this school, and is assigned
three exercises a week, each exercise being two hours
The object of this laboratory is not to teach a trade, but
well Z« d : S 7 lme / nd trab the <*" «* the hand, a
well as the^ mind, and thus by associating manual Ind
mental training, to educate thoroughly the student for the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
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duties of life, whatever his vocation may be. There is no
attempt to teach students special skill in constructing arti-
cles of commercial value, but all the exercises are systemat-
ically arranged and designed for purposes of education.
The wood department is located in a commodious hall,
90 x 50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horse-power
Corliss engine, a planer, circular saw, hand-saw, two scroll
saws, a buzz planer, twenty-four stands each with a lathe
and a full set of tools, and thirty benches for carpenter work
with the tools requisite for construction.
A brick building, 30 x 87 feet with two rooms, has been
constructed especially for instruction in working iron.
One room is equipped with sixteen forges and tools re-
quired for a forge department, and the other with a cupola
furnace, having a capacity of 1000 pounds per hour, a core
oven, a brass furnace, moulding benches, a 2000-pound
hoist, and special tools for use in a foundry.
The forge and foundry rooms are furnished with a Stur-
tevant fan and exhauster, supplied with power from a ten
horse-power engine, constructed by the students in me-
chanic arts.
The machine department occupies a brick building,
30 x 50 feet, and is equipped with ten engine lathes, one
speed lathe, one 20-inch drill press, one 10-inch sensitive
drill, one post drill, one 16-inch shaper, one 5-foot planer,
one universal milling machine, a corundum tool grinder, a
small emery grinder, a universal cutter and reamer grinder,
a No. 1 Brown & Sharpe universal grinding machine, and a
power hack saw.
The chipping and filing department is arranged with
benches, vises and tools for twelve students.
The tool room is well supplied with special tools for use
in instruction, including a machine for grinding twist drills.
The rooms are lighted with electricity whenever necessary.
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III.— IN PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.
The chemical laboratory is supplied with modern appar-
atus, and in its equipment affords excellent facilities for
instruction in practical chemistry and for investigation.
The investigations that are undertaken in this laboratory
by scientific experts, in connection with the work of the
agricultural experiment station, are of especial value to ad-
vanced students, and afford them unusual opportunities to
learn the methods of scientific research. The building con-
tains a large general laboratory that will accommodate sixty
students, a lecture room with capacity for one hundred
seats, and nine other rooms, all appropriated to instruction
^ and research in chemistry.
IV.— IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
The electrical laboratory is well supplied with modern
appliances for instruction in electrical engineering. It oc-
with many fine instruments of precision : Kelvin deka-
ampere balance Kelvin graded current and potential
galvanometers, Cardew voltmeter, Weston nflSJtoSd
ammeter, Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter and am Iter
Thomson watt-meter, Hartman and Braun voltmete" Koh 1
rausch ammeter, Wood ammeter, and many o her S '
Edison compound 12 kilo-watt generator ™
Houston 150 light 110 volt dynamo W^ton l^TZ
ampere dynamo, Crocker-Wheeler o! T V ° U 25
Brush six arc-light dynamo wi h la "T * ^ r8 t P0Wer motor >
and 500 volt 20 1 mp/re vJ^£^^
also m connection with this department at^w£^
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motor (made by students) at the experiment station one
thousand yards from the College, which is operated by the
500 volt generator in the dynamo room.
v. — IN PHYSICS.
In the College building provision is made for laboratory
work in the department of physics. Special rooms in the
basement are appropriated for this purpose, and are
equipped with the necessary appliances for instruction in
practical physics.
VI. — IN MINERALOGY.
This laboratory occupies a convenient room in the base-
ment, and is provided with tables and appliances to accom-
modate thirty students, with an excellent collection of
minerals.
VII. — IN BOTANY.
In the work of the agricultural experiment station there
is a botanical garden under the charge of the professor of
botany, investigations in botany are given special attention,
and opportunities are offered advanced students for practical
work in a laboratory especially fitted with microscopes,
tables, a dark room for photographic work, and appliances
needed for instruction and research. This department is
provided with Auzoux's clastic models of seeds and flowers
for teaching botany.
VIII. — IN BIOLOGY.
The laboratory in this department adjoins the lecture
room of the professor, and is furnished with tables, excel-
lent microscopes and appliances for investigation. Each
student of the class works under the supervision of the pro-
fessor.
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IX.— IN ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING.
The necessary apparatus for field work, including transits
levels, plane table, models of bridges, etc., is provided for
the use of the students, and the customary exercises in the
field are given.
X.— IN DRAWING.
All the students in the lower classes are required to take
drawing, a study which tends to discipline the mind, as well
as to train the eye and hand to accuracy of observation and
execution. A large, well-lighted drawing room, that will
accommodate fifty students, is provided with tables, lock
boxes, etc.
XL— IN PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.
Recently there has been constructed for the veterinary
laboratory a new and separate two-story building with nine
rooms. It is provided with lecture room, office, working
and operating rooms for clinical practice, and museum
with skeletons of the domestic animals for instruction. Free
clinics are given every Saturday for the benefit of the stu-
dents m veterinary science.
MILITARY TACTICS.
a means of enforcinc discfalin.^ 7 ? '" " Md os
prompts and reJLriTin 7k r^"™ 8 g ° ocI 0rder '
duties. re g»lanty ,„ tte performance of academic
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CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
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COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
The frontispiece is a representation of the main College building.
It is 160 by 71 feet, and contains forty-five rooms. This building is
not used for dormitories for students, but is appropriated to purposes
of instruction and investigation.
It contains the lecture rooms and offices of the professors, labor-
atories, library, museum, armory, etc.
LANGDON HALL.
This is a two-story building, ninety by fifty feet. The second story
is the audience hall, used for commencement and other public occa-
sions.
The first story is appropriated to the laboratory of mechanic arts.
THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY,
As shown on the opposite page, is a handsome two-story structure,
40 by 60 feet, with a rear projection, 35 by 60 feet, of one-story and
basement, and contains eight rooms. The exterior is of pressed brick,
with cut stone trimmings and terra-cotta ornamentation.
In the basement are ample accommodations for assaying and
storage.
The main laboratory will accommodate sixty students, and contains
improved working tables, with water, gas and every necessary appli-
ance for chemical work.
The second story contains a lecture room and room for gas analysis.
Around this lecture room are cases containingcru.de and manufac-
tured products, illustrating . the subjects of agricultural and indus-
trial chemistry, which are prominent subjects taught in this institu-
tion.
GRADUATES IN 1893.
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CLASS OF 1893.
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HONOR GRADUATES.
COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Robert Lee Bivins Lee .
COURSE IN CIYIL ENGINEERING.
Thomas Litchfield Kennedy Lee.
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
Walter Merritt Riggs South Carolina.
GENERAL COURSE.
Joel Franklin Webb Coosa.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.
Lee Ashcraft .Lauderdale.
Wallace Reverdy Bishop Talladega.
Robert Lee Bivins Lee
Francis Marshall Boykin Montgomery.
Massey Robart Burton Lee
Walter Scott Crump gt ci a j r
Clarence William Daugette Lee
Joel Dumas Wilcox
Daniel B. Edwards Dallas
Thomas Gardner Foster .Montgomery
John Henry Holt Georgia.
Thomas Litchfield Kennedy Lee
James Monroe Little Lee
James Berry Loveless [[" Marshall
Nicholas Barnett Marks Kentucky
EdwardBaker Mell Georgia
Hamilton Knox Miller Talladega.
Walter Merntt Riggs South Carolina.
John Shelton Robinson Jefferso
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Charles Henry Smith Georgia.
Henry Hamilton Smith Montgomery .
Linton Sparks Smith Georgia .
Sheldon Lynn Toomer Lee.
Joel Franklin Webb Coosa.
Thomas Felton Wimberly Lee.
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MASTER OF SCIENCE.
Raleigh Frederick Hare Lee .
Louis Philip Heyman k\ Georgia.
Leonidas Warren Payne Lee.
Walter Evan Richards Chambers .
Edward Broadus Smith Lee .
CIVIL ENGINEER.
Charles Allen Brown Sumter .
George Samuel Clark Montgomery .
Robert Jefferson Trammell. /. Lee.
MINING ENGINEER.
William Francis Feagin Barbour.
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
Frank McLemore Moseley Montgomery .
DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS
AWARDED CERTIFICATES IN 1893.
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Students who receive a grade above 90 in three studies in the
Freshman Class, in four in the Sophomore, in five in the
Junior, and in six in the Senior, are distinguished
for excellence in scholarship,
and are awarded
HONOR CERTIFICATES.
The following students received honor certificates in 1893:
SENIOR CLASS.
Robert Lee Bivins •. Lee.
Massey Robart Burton Lee
Walter Scott Crump St. Clair.
Clarence William Daugette Lee.
Joel Dumas v Wilcox.
Daniel B. Edwards Dallas.
John Henry Holt Georgia.
Thomas Litchfield Kennedy Lee.
James Monroe Little Lee .
Nicholas Barnett Marks Kentucky.
Edward Baker Mell Georgia.
Hampton Knox Miller Talladega.
Walter Merritt Riggs. South Carolina .
Charles Henry Smith Georgia.
Margaret Kate Teague Lee .
Joel Franklin Webb Coosa.
Thomas Felton Wimberly Lee.
HONOR STUDENTS IN JUNIOR CLASS!
COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Champe Seabury Andrews Tennessee.
COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.
James Archibald Duncan Pike.
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COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
Ogden Ellery Edwards Calhoun.
GENERAL COURSE.
Paul Pratt McKeown Florida.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Champe Seabury Andrews Tennessee
Kate Conway Broun Lee .
Robert Park Clower Lee.
Charles Gordon Greene — Lee
Jesse Drewry Lane. Randolph.
Willie Gertrude Little Lee.
William Washington Moore Blount.
Peter Preer Georgia.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Henry Clay Burr Georgia.
William Wallace Bussey Georgia.
James Claude Thomason Randolph
FRESHMAN CLASS.
William James Beeson Etowah.
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DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS
AWARDED CERTIFICATES IN 1893.
Students who receive a grade above 90 in three studies in the
Freshman Class, in four in the Sophomore, in five in the
Junior, and in six in the Senior, are distinguished
for excellence in scholarship,
and are awarded
HONOR CERTIFICATES.
The following students received honor certificates in 1893:
SENIOR CLASS.
Robert Lee Bivins .• .Lee.
Massey Robart Burton Lee .
Walter Scott Crump St. Clair.
Clarence William Daugette Lee .
Joel Dumas Wilcox.
Daniel B. Edwards Dallas.
John Henry Holt Georgia.
Thomas Litchfield Kennedy Lee.
James Monroe Little Lee
Nicholas Barnett Marks Kentucky
Edward Baker Mell Georgia
Hampton Knox Miller Talladega.
Walter Merritt Riggs S out h Carolina.
Charles Henry Smith Georgia.
Margaret Kate Teague L ee
Joel Franklin Webb Coosa.
Thomas Felton Wimberly L ee
HONOR STUDENTS IN JUNIOR CLASS.
COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Champe Seabury Andrews .Tennessee.
COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.
James Archibald Duncan p i j ce
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COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
Ogden Ellery Edwards Calhoun.
GENERAL COURSE.
Paul Pratt McKeown Florida.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Champe Seabury Andrews Tennessee.
Kate Conway Broun Lee
Robert Park Clower Lee.
Charles Gordon Greene Lee .
Jesse Drewry Lane. . Randolph.
Willie Gertrude Little. : Lee.
William Washington Moore Blount.
Peter Preer Georgia.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Henry Clay Burr. Georgia.
William Wallace Bussey Georgia.
James Claude Thomason . . .Randolph.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
William James Beeson Etowah.
CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS.
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FOR THE SESSION OF 1893-94.
Graduate Students.
[Residence is Alabama when State is not named.]
NAME « residence.
Leigh Stafford Boyd Lee.
Frank Marshall Boykin Montgomery.
Robert Lee Bivins . .Lee.
Massey Robart Burton Lee.
Clarence William Daugette Lee.
_jJaraes Buhrman Espy Henry.
John Henry Holt ' '^Georgia.
Thomas Litchfield Kennedy Lee.
^Nicholas Barnett Marks ..*...„ '.'.'.' .Kentucky.
Hampton Knox Miller Talladega.
Altie L. Quaintance Florida
^Walter Merritt Riggs [[[[[[[ South Carolina
Henry Hamilton Smith Montgomery.
Joel Frankhn Webb Coosa b 7
Undergraduate Students.
Senior Class.
George Smith Anderson j jee
Champe Seabury Andrews Te
Kate Conway Broun T
James Vandiver Brown p .
John Morgan Burns pm?^'
Greene Watley Carlisle \\ \\ \\ \\\ " " " " ^
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William DeLamar Clayton Lee.
Boseberry Covington Conner Macon.
t Palmer Payne Daugette Lee.
Bufus Thomas Dorsey Georgia.
Waverly Goode Duggar Hale.
James Archibald Duncan Pike.
Julius Confree Dunham Montgomery.
Charles Dunlap Madison.
James Dunlap Madison.
Ogden Ellery Edwards Calhoun.
Thomas Preston Flanagan Lee.
Bobert Cherry Foy Barbour.
Frederic Almet Fulghum Jefferson.
Charles Gordon Greene Lee.
Crosland Clarence Hare Lee.
Augustus J. Harris Morgan.
Arthur William Holstun Chambers.
Jesse Drewry Lane . Bandolph.
Sydney Leach. Tuscaloosa.
Willie Gertrude Little/. . .Lee.
Paul Pratt McKeown Florida.
Herman Meislahn Florida.
Lauriston Greene Moore. Lee.
Peyton HerndonMoore .Blount.
William Washington Moore Blount.
Peter Preer Georgia.
Samuel Arthur Bedding Georgia.
John Presley Slaton ., Macon.
Margaret Kate Teague Arkansas.
Jack Thorington , Montgomery.
Graham Golson Yaughan . Dallas.
Frank Atkinson Vernon Chambers.
Binaldo Greene Williams Lee.
Arthur Zachariah Wright Lee.
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Junior Class.
Robert Higgins Adams Pike.
Daniel Spigener Anderson Lee.
Walter Scott Askew Chambers.
Hugh Bickerstaff., Russell. '
George Perkins Bondurant Lee.
Frank Asbury Boykin .« Lee.
William Wallace Bussey, . Georgia.
Gordon Flewellen Chambers Russell.
LeVert Coleman Madison.
Solon Lycurgus Coleman Perry.
William Wherton Fulghum Jefferson.
Langdon Bowie Gammon Georgia.
Benjamin Browning Haralson Dallas.
George Oliver Janney Montgomery.
Benjamin Glenn Jennings Russell.
John Whitfield Kelly. Georgia.
Henry Hearst Kyser Talladega.
CharlesLinn Jefferson.
James Neal McLean Montgomery.
William Cunningham McMillan. Talladega.
James Newsom Georgia.
Henry Hinds Peevey Madison.
Tilden Hendricks Phipps Georgia
Walter Russell Shafer Pei JJ
Harry Howell Smith. ]]'" Lee J ;
Percy Hilton Smith Georgia
James Adger Smythe / gouth CaroKna .
Herbert Warren Taylor ^ Q t
James Claude Thomason Randol ^h**'
Robert Edward Lee Weathers ...... . ...."" Randolph
Andrew Hearne Whitman ' ' ' L
Frank Lewis Whitman t
John Adams Wills T
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Sophomore Class.
Albert Lea Alexander Georgia.
Charles Nutting Alford Marshall.
Andrew Beirne Andrews Tennessee.
John Bigham Barnett Pike.
William James Beeson , Etowah.
John Simeon Bennett Lee.
Sidney Josiah Bross Coosa.
Joseph Quarterman Burton Lee.
Henry Bozier Casey Jefferson.
William Oliver Chears . . . Georgia.
Cyrus Henry Coleman Lowndes.
Albert Bedell Clower Lee.
James Washington Culver Lee.
Walter Ernest Culver Lee.
William Kozier Daughtry Lee.
Oba DeVan Dumas. .Wilcox.
Jesse B. Edwards Talladega.
John Cuthbert Farley . Lee.
Clifton Henry Feagin , Barbour.
Bobert Louis Gaines Chambers.
Malcolm Luther Gillis ...... Georgia.
John Louis Glenn Butler.
John Fletcher Heard Lee.
Walter Erwin Henley Jefferson.
Thomas Ismay Hewlett Montgomery.
Charles Wads worth Hill Greene.
George Michael Holley Georgia.
Bobert Campbell Holley South Carolina.
Daniel Thornton Hudmon Lee.
Bichard Sparks Jackson • Jefferson.
Arthur Daniel Johnson .Madison.
Claude Bertram Johnson Georgia.
William Berrian Kelly Georgia.
Charles Lee King .Georgia.
Garry Devon King Georgia.
Samuel William Lane Randolph.
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William Henry Lawson Montgomery.
Earle Foster Lee ^ee.
Fuller McLaren Longley Georgia.
Hubert Johnston Magruder Florida.
Francis Morrissette Hale.
James Louis Molder • Georgia.
Julian Berry Oglesby Georgia.
John Alvin Beeves, : Montgomery.
Englehardt Gustave Kike Montgomery.
Walter Marvin Koss Lee.
Oliver John Semmes Mobile.
William Henry Shanks Butler.
Edward Baxter Sloss Jefferson.
Douglas Taylor Madison.
Reynolds Walker Tichenor Georgia.
William Abner Tippin Florida.
William Henry Harrison Trammell Lee.
Richard Wilde Walker Tennessee.
Augustus Robinson Wilkerson Georgia.
William Martin Williams Georgia.
Bryce Hewitt Wilson Franklin.
Charles Wilson Franklin.
Darwin Stearnes Wright Georgia.
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Paul Otey Anderson Lee.
William Kirk Armstrong Lee.
Bayard Mcintosh Atwood Georgia.
George Doan Borup. . Montgomery.
Walter Marion Carter Montgomery.
Edge worth Stephens Casey Jefferson.
Alexander Humphreys Clark Montgomery.
Peyton Graves Clark Montgomery.
Benjamin Calloway Condon. L ee#
Thomas Ganaway Conner Macon.
Alfred Morrison Davidson Dallas
Mortimer Varner DeBardeleben Macon.
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James Allen Durham Jefferson.
Yincent Martin Elmore Montgomery.
George Dudley Glass .. Lee.
Charles Edwin Goulding Florida.
Terry Tilden Greil .Montgomery.
Robert Justin Griffin . Georgia.
Jule Alf ord Haigler Montgomery.
Terry Reese Hardaway Montgomery.
Francis Williams Hare Lee.
Fletcher Dumas Harvey Russell.
Ernest William Heck Illinois.
Harry Herzfeld Tallapoosa.
Joseph Herzfeld Tallapoosa.
Robert Edwin Lee Hudson Lee.
Leslie Kilshaw Irwin . Mobile.
Edwin Bryce Joseph Montgomery.
Leon Joseph Jefferson.
Ray Knight Calhoun.
William Jay Leinkauf . . Mobile.
Warren Horton McBryde Mobile.
William Jones McLeod. Coosa.
James Meager . . . : . Jefferson.
Wade Hampton Negus . . .Mississippi.
Charles Johnson Nelson Dallas.
Samuel Noble Calhoun.
LeRoy Elliot O'Neal . . . ., Madison.
William Clifford Paden . . . Etowah.
Foster Mitchell Payne. Lee. '
William Henry Patterson Georgia.
Nathan Snow Perkins Calhoun.
James Robert Prince Mississippi.
John Purifoy . . Montgomery.
Adolph Philip Schweizer Dallas.
Frank Duncan Scott .Montgomery.
Rufus George Shanks Butler.
Frank Hartwell Thomas Georgia.
Leonard Alvie Thomas Lee.
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Merrick Dowdell Thomas Chambers.
Sidney Johnson Vann DeKalb.
James Marvin Wallace Elmore.
William Wren Mobile.
George Wrigley . . . Georgia.
Special and Irregular Students.
James Bardia Cuba.
Samuel Aydelotte Billing .Montgomery.
Lula Marcia Bondurant Lee.
Morris Jefferson Burts Georgia.
Thomas Spyker Cowan Lee.
Adam Charles Exnicios Louisiana.
Milton Tucker Floyd. Chambers.
Elmore Wynn Gray Georgia.
Richard Hackley Goulding Florida.
James Robert Haigler Montgomery.
Charles Leitner Howard _ Georgia.
Claud Holstun Chambers.
Frank Thomas Jackson Mobile.
Jeremiah Jackson L ee
Edward Camot Janney \\ .Montgomery.
Alphonso Rinaldo Jones Coosa.
Welborn V. Jones. L ee
John Furniss Knowlen Dallas
John Phineas Lee '..../ Randol 1
Edward Sallust McCurdy \\\\\ ' ' ' \ \ \ ' Lownde^ '
Cary Park McElhaney -^
William Edwin McEwen Ge *
Oscar Leonidas McKinstry Pick
Edwin McKay t> i
Edward Charles Mandy J ff
Josiah Thomas Mangum t
Thomas James Middleton ^ ' .
George Emmet Pace P*!^ ^
Samuel James Shivers -p. «:
Bedford Forest Sledge ....'. \',\\\\ \\\\" ' ' ' Sumter
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William Cary Slocumb Lee.
Alexander Clitherall Taylor Montgomery.
Benjamin Asbury Taylor Autauga.
Wiley Wesley Thomas Talladega.
John Alexander Wadsworth . . . . ^ Autauga.
William Dunbar Wills Lee.
Sub-Freshman Class.
Willam Raiford Affleck Georgia.
Harry Boland Jefferson.
Lewis Edward Bvrum N. Carolina.
William Thomas Cammack Wilcox.
Francis Robert Charles . . ... Montgomery.
George Graham Cobb . . .Lee.
Louie Jones DeArman Calhoun.
Arnold Frederick Glass Mobile.
Charles William Glass. .Mobile.
Ramesus Alfonzo Hammack . ....... . . .Dale.
Absalom Jackson Mobile.
Thomas Alexander Means Montgomery.
Edward Thompson Merrick Louisiana.
George- McElhaney Moore Lee.
John St. Clair Paden Etowah.
George Healy Randolph Calhoun.
Charles Elisha Thomas Lee.
James Leonard Thomas Lee.
Hugh McCoy Vann DeKalb.
Jesse T. Webb Cherokee.
Summary.
Graduates 14
Senior Class ! 40
Junior Class 33
Sophomore Class 59
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Freshman Class 54
Special and Irregular Students 36
Total in College Classes 236
Sub-Freshman Class 20
Total
256
NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.
English
History
French
vxerman
Latin
Mental Science
Political Economy
Mathematics
Chemistry
Chemical Laboratory . . .
Agriculture
Physics
Botany
240 Geology 43
152 Civil Engineering 7
28 Electrical Engineering . 38
34 Mechanical Engineering 31
76 Biology 17
29 Drawing 154
39 Mechanic Arts 168
199 Military Tactics 250
111 Photography 14
51 Mineralogy 2
135 Physical Laboratory ... 22
106 Physiology 67
68 Veterinary Science . v . . 27
Military Organization,
1893-94,
President :
W. L. Broun.
Commandant:
John H.
Wills, 1st. Lt. 22nd Infantry.
Surgeon:
J. H. Drake, M. D.
Major:
L. W. Payne.
Battalion Staff:
Cadet 1st Lieutenant C. J. Dunlap, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant J. 0. Dunham, Quartermaster.
Cadet Sergeant 8
. L. Coleman, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant J
. A. Wills, Quartermaster Sergeant.
Cadet Captains:
1.
P. P. McKeown,
3. R. T. Dorrey,
2.
C. S. Andrews,
4. J. Thorington.
Cadet 1st Lieutenants:
1.
G. S. Anderson,
5. C. G. Greene,
2.
W. W. Moore,
6. R. G. Williams,
3.
R. C. Conner,
7. S. A. Redding,
4.
P. Preer,
8. G. G. Vaughan.
Cadet 2nd Lieutenants:
1.
S. Leach,
3. J. A. Duncan,
2.
P. H. Moore,
4. J. D. Lane.
Cadet 1st Sergeants:
1.
H. H. Peevey,
3. W. W. Fulghum,
2.
H. H. Smith,
4. L. B. Gammon.
Cadet Sergeants:
1.
B. B. Haralson,
8. H.W.Taylor,
2.
W. C. McMillan,
9. C. Linn,
3.
R. H. Adams,
10. J. Newsom,
4.
J. A. Smythe,
11. W. S. Askew,
5.
H. H. Kyser,
12. J. C. Thomason,
6.
G. P. BONDURANT,
13. T. H. Phipps,
7.
G. F. Chambers,
14. H. BlOKERSTAFP,
15. W. R. SlIAFER.
Cadet Corporals:
1.
W. A.Tippin,
9. A.D.Johnson,
2.
A. R. Wilkerson,
10. A. L. Alexander,
3.
H. R. Casey,
11. W. M. William*,
4.
C. W. Hill,
12. W. E. Culver,
5.
F. M. LONGLEY,
13, R. L. Gaines,
6.
R. C. HOLLEY,
14. F. Morrissette,
7.
G. M. HOLLEY,
15. J. W. Culver,
8.
J. A. Reeves,
16. W. E. Henley.
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REQUIKEMENTS FOR ADMISSION.
Applicants for admission must be of good moral character.
To enter the freshman class the applicant must be not less
than fifteen years of age, and should be qualified to pass a
satisfactory examination on the following subjects :
1. Geography, and History of the United States.
2. English — (a) An examination upon sentences contain-
ing incorrect English, (b) A composition giving evidence
of satisfactory proficiency in spelling, punctuation, gram-
mar and division into paragraphs.
The composition in 1894 will be upon subjects drawn from one or
more of the following works : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Merchant
of Venice, Longfellow's Evangeline, Irving's Sketch Book, Scott's
Marmion, Hughes's Tom Brown at Rugby, Dickens's David Copper-
field, Scott's Ivanhoe, Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.
3. Mathematics — (a) Arithmetic, including fundamental
operations ; common and decimal fractions ; denominate
numbers ; the metric system ; percentage, including interest
and discount; proportion; extraction of square and cube
roots, (b) Algebra, to quadratic equations.
Those applicants who desire to continue the study of Latin should
be qualified to pass a satisfactory examination in Latin grammar and
the first two books of Csesar, in addition to the above subjects.
For admission to the higher classes, students should be prepared to
stand a satisfactory examination on all the studies of the lower classes,
as shown in the courses of study. Where opportunity has not been
offered to pursue special studies required at this College, the system
of equivalents will be adopted, and studies which denote an equiva-
lent amount of discipline and training will be accepted as satisfac-
tory
ADMISSION OF YOUNG WOMEN.
The privilege of becoming students in this College is
granted by the Trustees to young women of mature mind
and character, on the following conditions :
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The applicant must be eighteen years of age and be able
to pass a "satisfactory examination in two of the following
subjects, one of which must be Mathematics :
(a) In English— Proficiency in spelling and punctuation ;
Grammar (Whitney's Essentials of English); Bhetoric
(Lockwood, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, Genung) ;
Scudder's American Prose Selections ; Scudder's American
Poems.
(b) In History— Macy's Our Government; Johnston's
History of the United States ; Myers's General History.
(c) In Mathematics,— Arithmetic ; Algebra, including
quadratic equations, logarithms and series ; Plane and Solid
Geometry; Plane and Analytical Trigonometry, as in Went-
worth.
(d) In Latin — Grammar, including the forms and syntax ;
Jones's Latin Prose Composition ; Translations of selections
from Caesar, Nepos, Virgil, Cicero's Orations, Cicero's Let-
ters, or the equivalent.
The equivalents of these subjects, as in above text-books, may
be substituted.
If the applicant is a candidate for a degree, she will be
required to pass a satisfactory examination in each of the
four subjects named.
Certificates will be granted to those who are not candidates for a
degree upon the satisfactory completion of any subject as pursued
by the senior class.
When admitted, upon complying with the conditions above stated,
they can enter upon the study of any subjects taught in the College,
join any class, for which, upon examination, they may be found qual-
fied. The only condition imposed will be that they engage in earnest
study, and attend the exercises regularly. They will board in the
village with private families, and attend College only at the hours of
their exercises.
There will be no charge for tuition. The incidental fees, amount-
ing to $12.00 per year, will be paid, $6.00 on entrance, and $6.00 on
February 1st.
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ENTBANCE EXAMINATIONS.
Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday, the
12th of September, the day on which the session opens.
Candidates will also be examined during the session, when
application is made for admission.
Applicants who are not prepared to stand the entrance
examinatiQns fox full admission to the freshman class are
admitted to the sub-college department.
They will be advanced to full admission to the freshman
class when they are qualified to pass satisfactorily the
required examinations.
Students upon their arrival at Auburn will report immediately to
the President. No student will be admitted to a recitation in any
class previous to matriculation .
NUMBER OF EXERCISES REQUIRED.
All students are required to have not less than fifteen recitations
per week, or their equivalent, in addition to the exercises in labora-
tory work, drawing, and military drill. These additional exercises
occupy not less than twelve hours per week and in all give twenty-
seven exercises per week required.
Special and Ibregular Students.
The privilege of electing studies in the lower classes is
not granted to young students nor to their parents. The
faculty will assign a student on admission to that class of
a prescribed course for which he is qualified ; but for special
reasons, approved by the faculty, he may be permitted to
become irregular.
Students qualified to prosecute the studies of the junior
class, and those over twenty-one years of age that are not
candidates for a degree, are permitted to take, with the
advice of the faculty, the subjects of study for which they
may be qualified.
Regular students who fail to pass satisfactory final examinations in
any one study become special students. They will be classed as re-
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pass the examinations in those subjects in which they were found
deficient.
Students, candidates for a degree, who are not in full standing in
all the prescribed studies of a class, rank in the military department
with that class in which they have the greatest number of studies, and
their names are so placed in the catalogue.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
The courses of study include the Physical, Chemical and
Natural Sciences, with their applications ; Agriculture, Biol-
ogy, Mechanics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Drawing ; Civil,
Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering; Physiology, and
Veterinary Science ; English, French, German, and Latin
Languages ; History, Political Economy, Mental and Moral
Sciences.
These studies are arranged in regular courses so as to
offer a liberal and practical education as a preparation for
the active pursuits of life.
There are four degree courses for undergraduates, each
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) and
requiring four years for its completion :
I. Course in Chemistry and Agriculture.
II. Course in Mechanics and Civil Engineering.
III. Course in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
IV. General Course.
There are also two partial courses, each requiring two
years for its completion :
V. Two- Year Course in Agriculture.
VI. Two- Year Course in Mechanic Arts.
Course I includes theoretical and practical instruction in
those branches that relate to chemistry and agriculture, and
is especially adapted to those who propose to devote them-
selves to agriculture or chemical pursuits.
Course II includes the principles and applications of the
sciences that directly relate to civil engineering, and is
adapted to those who expect to enter that profession.
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Course III includes, besides the general principles and
applications of the sciences, a special course in the applica-
tions of electricity and mechanics, and is arranged for the
profession of electrical and mechanical engineering.
Course IV has been arranged to give a general and less
technical education in subjects of science and language, to
meet the wants of those students who have selected no defi-
nite vocation in life, as well as of those who propose ulti-
mately to engage in teaching, or in some commercial or man-
ufacturing business. *
Courses V and VI have been arranged for the benefit of
those students who, for reasons satisfactory to themselves,
are unable to continue at college four years and to take one
of the regular degree courses.
Students who complete either of these two-year courses
will, on passing a satisfactory examination, receive certifi-
cates indicating their attainments.
Those who have completed the general course in each de-
partment of the school of mechanic arts, and are qualified,
can enter upon a more extended technical course in mechan-
ical engineering.
Preparatory Course in Pharmacy and Medicine.
Students who look to pharmacy or medicine as a pro-
fession, and are qualified, can enter upon a special course
in chemistry, botany, physiology and biology, and occupy
their time with great profit in the laboratories of these de-
partments under the immediate direction of the professors.
With the very excellent facilities offered in these labora-
tories scientific training and preparation of great value can
be obtained.
COUESE IN MINING ENGINEERING.
Students who have received the degree of B. Sc. in engi-
neering, or who have prosecuted an equivalent course of
study, can enter upon a special course of mining engineer-
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ing, which includes the following subjects of study, and Will
require a residence of one year :
"Industrial Chemistry, Assaying, Reduction of Ores, Min-
eralogy, Economic Geology, Mining Machinery, Drifting,
Tunnelling, Timbering, Ore Dressing, and the various opera-
tions connected with the exploitation of mines.
This course of study will be under the charge of the pro-
fessors of chemistry, engineering, botany and geology.
SPECIAL ONE-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.
Young men over twenty-one years of age who desire to study agri-
culture will be permitted, without examination, to enter any class
under thep rofessor of agriculture, and will be excused from reciting
in any other class, from military duty, and from all other college
duties ; but will be under the general college regulations, and will be
required to have their time fully occupied.
They can attend the lectures in agriculture in all the classes and
engage in the practical work at the experiment station, in the field,
stock-yard, dairy, garden, orchard, vineyard, etc., and may thus, in
one year, acquire valuable practical knowledge of scientific agri-
culture.
LABOEATOBY INSTRUCTION.
Laboratory instruction constitutes an important feature
in the courses of education provided for the students of
this College, and as far as possible all students are required
to enter upon laboratory work in some one department.
Laboratory instruction and practical work are given in
the following departments :
I. — Chemistry.
II. — Engineering, Field Work, Surveying, etc.
III. — Agriculture.
IV. — Botany.
V. — Mineralogy.
YL — Biology.
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VIL — Technical Drawing.
VIII.— Mechanic Arts.
IX.— Physics.
X.— Electrical Engineering.
XI. — Physiology and Veterinary Science.
Note— Special work in English or History may be taken by
students in the General Course as a substitute for laboratory work.
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L— COUBSE IN CHEMISTEY AND AGKICULTURE.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
First Term.
Second Term.
Third Term.
5. English.
5. English.
5. English.
2. History.
2. History.
3. -History .
5. Mathematics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics.
3. Elementary Physics.
2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing.
3. Drawing.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Labor^
.6. Mechanic Art Labo'ry
. 6. Mechanic Art Labo'ry .
3. Military Drill.
3. Military Drill .
3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS
t
First ferm.
Second Term.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. English.
2. English.
3. History.
3. History. .
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. General Chemistry.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture.
2. Agriculture.
2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing.
2. Drawing.
2. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Labo'ry
.6. Mechanic Art Labo'ry
.6. Mechanic Art Labo'ry.
2. Practical Agriculture
.2. Physiology.
2. Physiology.
3. Military Drill.
3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
Second Term.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. English.*
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Physics.
3. Physics.
3. Industrial Chemistry
.3. Industrial Chemistry
.3. Industrial Chemistry.
2. Agriculture.
2. Agriculture.
2. Agriculture.
4. Botany (Lab'y).
4. Botany (Lab'y).
4. Botany (Lab'y).
1. Military Tactics .
1. Military Tactics.
1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Laboratory
.9. Chemical Laboratory
.9. Chemical Laboratory.
2. Veterinary Science.
2; Veterinary Science.
2. Veterinary Science.
3. Military Drill.
3. Military Dill.
2. Military Drill.
(a) Begins March 1st.
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F'mt Term,
2. English Literature. 2.
2. Mental Science. 2.
2. Physics. 2.
2. Geology. 2.
5. Biology. 5.
2. Agriculture Ch'm'try.2.
1. Military Science. 1.
9. Chemical Laboratory . 9.
2. Practical Agriculture. 2.
SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
Political Economy .
Mental Science.
Astronomy .
Geology.
Biology.
Agricultur'l Chem'try
Military Science.
Chemical Laboratory
Veterinary Science.
Third Term.
2. Political Economy .
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.
2. Agriculture Chem'try
1. Military Science.
9. Chemical Laboratory
2. Veterinary Science .
H— COUESE IN MECHANICS AND CIVIL
ENGINEERING.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week*
FRESHMAN CLASS.
First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics.
8. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
3. English.
8. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
(a) Begins March 1st
(b) For Agriculture may
Second Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Second Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y .
3. Military Drill .
Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botany (a) .
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b),
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
be substituted Physical Laboratory.
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First Term.
3. English, French, or
German .
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
3. English, French, or
German .
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
Third Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
J. Military Tactics.
4. Lab'y, Mineralogy (a). 4. Lab'y, Mineralogy (a). 6. Field W'rk,Engin'g(a).
4. Field Work, Engin'g. 4. Field Work, Engin'g. 3. Military Drill.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Term. Second Term. Thud Term.
2. English Literature(b). 2. Political Economy(b). 2. Political Economy(b).
2. Physics
2. Geology.
3. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Science.
Field W'rk, Engin'g
2, Astronomy.
2. Geology.
3. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering
5. Drawing.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
3. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Science.
1. Military Science .
Field W'rk, Engin'g. Field W'rk, Engin'g
III— COUBSE IN ELECTEICAL AND MECHANICAL
ENGINEEEING.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
In freshman and sophomore classes same as in course in mechanics
and civil engineering.
JUNIOR CLASS.
First Term.
3. English, French, or
German .
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Electrical Engin'g.
2. Mech. Engineering
Second Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Electrical Engin'g.
Third Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Electrical Engin'g.
2. Mech. Engineering.
2. Mech. Engineering.
4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing.
6. Electrical Laboratory . 6. Electrical Laboratory . 6. Electrical Laboratory .
6. Mech . Art Lab'y . 6. Mech . Art Lab'y . 6. Mech . Art Lab'y .
1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
(a) Or Mechanic Arts.
(b; For Eng. Lit. and Pol. Econ. may be substituted French or German.
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First Term.
2. English Literature(b).2.
2, Physics. 2.
2. Geology. 2.
3. Mathematics. 3.
5. Electrical Engineer'g. 5.
5. Mech. Engineering. 5.
2. Electrical Designing. 2.
6. Electrical Laboratory. 6.
1. Military Science. 1.
SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
Political Economy (b). 2.
Astronomy. 2.
Geology. 2.
Mathematics. 3.
Electrical Engineer'g. 5.
Mech. Engineering. 5.
Electrical Designing. 2.
Electrical Laboratory. 6.
Military Science. 1.
Third Term.
Political Economy(b).
Astronomy.
Geology.
Mathematics.
Electrical Engineer'g.
Mech. Engineering.
Electrical Designing.
Electrical Laboratory.
Military Science.
IV.— GENERAL COUESE.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
' FRESHMAN CLASS.
First Term.
3. English.
2. History.
5. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
Second, Term.
3. English.
2. History.
5. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. History.
3. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 2. Agriculture.
3. Military Drill. 6. Mechanic Arts.
3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Firs*, Term.
5. Latin,
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
Second Term
5. Latin.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
5. Latin.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
(a) Begins March 1st.
(b) French or German may be substituted.
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First Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
6. Laboratory Work (b)
3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second 'Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
6. Laboratory Work (b)
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French .
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
.6. Laboratory Work (b).
3. Military Drill .
SENIOR CLASS.
First Term.
2. English Literature .
2. Mental Science.
2. Physics.
2. Geology.
3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.
2.
2.
2.
2.
3.
3.
2.
1.
Second Term.
Political Economy
Mental Science.
Astronomy .
Geology .
French .
German .
Latin .
Military Science.
6. Laboratory Work (b).6. Laboratory Work
Third Term.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy .
2. Geology.
3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.
(b)6. Laboratory Work (b).
(b) The student may elect the laboratory of any department for which he may be
qualified.
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V.— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS.
First Term.
5. English. 5.
2. History. 2.
5. Mathematics. 5.
3. Elementary Physics. 3.
3. Drawing. 3.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y . 6.
3. Military Drill. 3.
FIRST' YEAR
Second Term.
English .
History .
Mathematics.
Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.
Drawing. 3. Drawing,
Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
Military Drill . 3 . Military Drill .
First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
8. Physics. s
3. Drawing.
SECOND YEAR.
Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.
3. Drawing.
12. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 12. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 12. Mechanic Art Lab'y
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill
VI.-TWO-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.
First Term.
5. English. 5.
2. History. 2.
5. Mathematics. 5.
3. Elementary Physics. 3.
3. Drawing. 3.
4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4.
3. Military Drill. 3.
2. Practical Agriculture. 2.
FIRST YEAR.
Second Term.
English. 5
History. 3
Mathematics. 5,
Elementary Physics. 2
Drawing. 3
Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4.
Military Drill. 3.
Practical Agriculture. 2.
SECOND YEAR.
third Term.
English .
History .
Mathematics.
Agriculture .
Drawing .
Mechanic Art Lab'y.
Military Dill.
Practical Agriculture
First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
4. Agriculture.
2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricult're
3. Military Drill.
Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
5. Agriculture.
2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agriculture. 12
3. Military Drill. 3
3
5
3
4.
2.
Third Term.
English.
Mathematics.
General Chemistry.
Agriculture.
Veterinary Science.
Practical Agricult're
Military Drill.
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SCHEDULE OF EXEECISES.
HOURS
MONDAY.
TUESDAY.
WEDNESDAY.
THURSDAY.
Friday.
SATURDAY.
L
3.
Physiology.
3. Physiology.
4.
Algebra.
4.
Geometry.
4.
Algebra.
4. Geometry.
4.
Algebra.
3.
Latin.
3.
Latin.
3.
Latin.
3. Latin.
3.
Latin
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2.
German.
2. German.
1 and 2 Drawing.
1 and 2 Drawing.
1
and 2 Drawing.
I and 2 Drawing.
1 and 2 Drawing.
Exerc's. in Elocution
•
1.
Elec. EnginVg.
2.
Botany.
1.
Vet. Science.
2. Botany.
1.
Vetin'y. Sci.
2.
Mech. EngnVg.
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1.
1.
Mental Science.
Elec. EngnVg.
1.
Elec. EnginVg.
L. Mental Science.
1. Elec. EnginVg.
1.
Elec. EnginVg.
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4.
English.
4.
History.
4.
English.
4. History.
4.
English.
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3.
Chemistry.
3.
Agriculture.
3.
Chemistry.
3. Agriculture.
3.
Chemistry.
2.
Engineering.
2.
Engineering.
2.
Engineering.
2. Engineering.
2.
Engineering.
9-10
2.
Latin.
2.
Botany.
2.
Latin. #
2. Botany.
2.
Latin.
1.
Calculus.
L.
Physics.
1.
Calculus.
1. Physics
L
Biology.
Military Drill.
2.
Elec. EnginVg.
2.
Vet. Science.
2. Elec EnginVg.
1.
Calculus.
. _.
2.
Elec. EngnVg.
2.
Elec. EnginVg
2.
2.
Elec. EngVn'g.
Vet. Science.
3.
English.
3.
History (1.2).
3.
English (1.2).
3. History 1.2).
3.
English.
Mechanic Arts.
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Physics.
3.
Botany (2.3*.
3.
Botany (2.3).
3. Botany (2.3).
2.
Physics
Chemical Lab'rat'ry,
m.
1.
German.
1.
Biology.
2.
Physics.
1. Engineering.
1.
German.
Electrical Lab'rat'ry
1.
Engineering.
Biology.
1.
Engineering.
L.
German.
4. English.
1.
Engineering.
Physical Laboratory
10-11
1.
4.
English.
1.
Engineering.
Biology.
1. Mech. Bngi'n'g.
1.
Biology.
Veterinary Clinics.
3.
Botany (2. 3).
1.
Mech. EngnVg.
1.
2. French.
4.
History (3).
Biologic'l Lab'rat'ry
1.
Mech. EngnVg.
2.
French.
1.
Mech. EngnVg.
1.
Mech. EngiVg.
Field Engineering.
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MONDAY.
4. Physics (1.2).
4. Agriculture (3)
4. Latin (1.2).
3. Drawing.
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
1. English '1).
1. Polit.Econ.(2 3)
4. Mech. Arts.
4. Drawing.
3. Mathematics.
2. English.
4. Mech. Arts.
. Elec. Designing
TUESDAY.
4. Latin.
3. Drawing.
2. Agriculture.
2. Mathematics
1. Chemistry.
1. French.
3. Mathematics
2. English.
1. Geology.
P. M.
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4. Mech. Arts.
3. Field W'rk,Agr.
II & 2 Laboratory,
Chem.
1 & 2 Field Work,
Eng.
1 & 2 Mach. Work.
Elec. Lab'y Work.
Physical Lab'y.
WEDNESDAY .
4. Physics (1.2).
4. Latin (3;.
3. History (1.2).
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
1. English (1).
1 . Political Econ
omy (2.3)
4. Mech. Arts.
3. Mech. Arts.
2. Mineralogy
Laboratory.
Military Drill (*).
3. Mach. Work.
Elec. Lab'y Work.
1 & 2 History.
4. Drawing.
3. Mathematics.
1. Latin. 9
4. Mech. Arts.
2. Mch.Eng'ng.
2. German.
1 . Elec. Designi'g.
THUR8DAY.
4. Latin.
\
2
2
1
3
1
Agriculture.
Mathematics.
Chemistry.
Physiology (3)
French .
4. Mech. Arts.
3. Field W'rk Agr.
I & 2. Laboratory.
Chem.
1&2. Field Work,
Eng'ng
1 & 2. Mach. Work
Exer's in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Lab'y.
3
2
1
Mathematics.
English.
Geology .
4. Physics (1.2).
4. Agriculture (3)
4. Latin (1.2).
3. Drawing.
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
1. Military Sci.
4. Mechanic Arts.
3. Mech. Arts.
2. Mineralogy
Laboratory .
Military Drill (*)
3. Machine Work.
Elec. Lab'ry Work
1 & 2 History.
FRIDAY.
SATURDAY.
&
1 . French .
3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Lab'y.
Electrical Lab r y .
Physical Lab'y .
Veterinary Clinics
Biological Lab'y.
Field Engineering.
4. Drawing.
3. Mathematics.
1. Latin.
4. Mech. Arts.
1. Elec. Designing
2. Milit'ry Tactics
4. Mech. Arts.
3. Field W'rk,Agr.
1&2. Lab, Chem.
1&2. Field Work,
Eng'ng.
1&2. Mach. Work.
Exer's in Elocut'n.
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Lab'y.
Chapel services daily at 7:50 a. m.
^umbers prefixed denote classes,— 1 denotes senior, 2 Junior, etc. Numbers affixed—H), (2), (3\ denote terms,
♦From 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.
2. French.
3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Lab'y .
Electrical Lab'y.
Physical Lab'y.
Veterinary Clinics
Biological Lab'y .
Field Engineering
DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION,
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PHYSICS AND ASTBONOMY.
PRESIDENT BROUN.
The instruction is given by recitations from text-books
and lectures, illustrated by experiments. The first part of
the course is occupied with elementary rational mechanics,
treated graphically.
This is followed by a full discussion of molecular me-
chanics ; while due prominence is given to principles, fre-
quent reference is made to the applications of science.
The studies of the junior class include the properties of
matter, units of measure, force, work, energy, kinematics,
kinetics, mechanic powers, friction, pendulum, molecular
forces of solids, liquids and gases, theory of undulations,
heat, electricity, magnetism, etc.
The studies of the senior class include optics and as-
tronomy.
Post- Graduate Course. This includes the study of ana-
lytical mechanics, and requires a knowledge of differential
and integral calculus.
PHYSICAL LABOBATOBY.
Instructor A. St. C. Dunstan has charge of the classes in
elementary physics and of the physical laboratory. In ele-
mentary physics the students are taught mechanics, solving
problems by the elements of graphical statics, and are re-
quired to do such work in the physical laboratory as is
adapted to their attainments. A part of their time is given
to learning practical telegraphy by the use of instruments
provided for that purpose.
44 Agricultural and Mechanical College.
The physical laboratory is equipped with a number of instruments
of foreign and American manufacture. It contains a standard metre
bar, a horizontal comparator, a Kater reversion pendulum, a cathome-
ter with micrometer, a spectrometer furnished with prisms, crystal
holder and flat diffraction grating, made by the Societe Genevoise, a
spectroscope by Browning, with a large amount of spectrum appara-
tus, a Riehle Brothers' 35,000 lb. testing machine tensile compression
and transverse strain, a Carre's ice machine, Becker's balances, a
small dividing engine and a vertical comparator, both the latter
made at the College in the laboratory of mechanic arts, the com-
parator measuring to 1.2000th millimetre. There is also a large
amount of minor apparatus, thermometers, barometers, calorimeters,
and apparatus for experimentally determining the parallelogram of
forces, for determining rolling and sliding friction, torsion and flex-
ure, specific gravity, etc.
The student in this laboratory is required to ascertain
experimentally various physical laws, hence in all exercises
there is something to measure. From these measures he is
required to find the law connecting the quantities involved.
Results of experiments are required to be entered, in tabular
form, together with diagrams, etc., in a laboratory note-book.
MATHEMATICS.
PROF. SMITH.
The general course for the first two years embraces the
first year, algebra and geometry, six books ; second year,
solid geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, survey-
ing, mensuration.
Two objects are sought to be attained : first, mental dis-
cipline ; second, a thorough knowledge of the principles of
pure mathematics and their practical applications.
Theoretical and practical instruction is given to the
sophomore class in farm, town, and government land sur-
veying, dividing land, mapping, plotting, and computing
areas, etc. ; also in the theory, adjustment and use of instru-
ments.
The class, in sections of six or eight, devote three after-
noons a week during the second and third terms to field
practice.
Agricultural ami Meclianical College.
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Mensuration includes an extended course in measurements
of heights and distances, plane, rectilinear and curvilinear
figures, surfaces and volumes.
The completion of this course, common to all students,
lays the foundation for the pure and applied mathematics
of the mechanical and engineering courses. Analytical
geometry, descriptive geometry, and calculus are pursued
in the mechanical and engineering courses. Especial atten-
tion is given to their practical applications.
During the entire course, instruction in text-books is sup-
plemented by lectures. Solutions of original practical prob-
lems are required of the student, to make him familiar with
the application of principles and formulae.
Text-Books.
Wentworth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometry, Wentworth's Trigo-
nometry and Surveying, Wentworth's Analytical Geometry, Faunce's
Descriptive Geometry, Taylor's Calculus.
BOTANY AND GEOLOGY.
PROF. MELL.
Geology, — This subject is studied in the senior class, and
extends through the entire session. Special attention is
given to the geology of Alabama, and many illustrations are
drawn from the coal and iron fields and other natural deposits
of minerals in the State. The origin of ore deposits, min-
eral springs and geological relations of soils are carefully-
studied.
There is also a course of advanced work in practical geol-
ogy for post-graduate students. This subject is pursued
by applicants for degrees of master of science and mining
engineer.
The junior class in engineering spends two terms in min-
eralogy and blow-pipe work.
Botany. — The students of the sophomore class begin the
study of botany the first of March and continue it through
the session. Analytical^work is made an important feature.
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Agricultural and Mechanical College.
This class is provided with plants from the fields, and taugh t
how to determine their specific names. The work is suffi-
ciently exhaustive to enable the student, after completing
the course, to name any of the ordinary weeds and grasses
that he will encounter in this section.
in the junior class, in the course of chemistry and agri-
culture, an amount of time is devoted to systematic and
structural botany, and to advanced laboratory work with the
microscope in the preparation of specimens showing plant
structure ; this work is sufficient to familiarize the students
with the methods of plant building and cellular organiza-
tion. Excellent microscopes of the most improved patterns,
and all the necessary chemicals and apparatus for preparing
and mounting vegetable tissues, are used by the students.
A dark room is attached to this laboratory for photo-
micrography.
Text-Books.
LeConte's Geology, Gray's Botany, Dana's Mineralogy, Goodale's
Physiological Botany, Nelson's Herbarium and Plant Descriptions
Williams's Practical Geology, and the Professor's Notes.
CIVIL ENGINEEKING AND DRAWING.
PROF. LANE.
I CIVIL ENGINEERING.
The special studies of this department begin in the junior
class, and require a good knowledge of algebra, geometry,
trigonometry and analytical mechanics. They are as fol-
lows: J
J™h claS8 7 Sim P le > expound, reversed and parabolic
sl^lTet ^ Cr0SSiDg8 ' *** "■*»£ «***
JESUIT- wiu be f id in this class to the locatio *>
reconstruction, drainage and maintenance of country roads :
bemor class-Classification, appearances, .defects, sea-
Agricultural and Mechanical College. 47
soning, durability and preservation of timber, classification
and description of natural building stones ; bricks and con-
cretes ; cast and wrought iron, steel and other metals ; limes,
cements, mortars and their manufacture ; paints and other
preservatives ; classification of strains and a general mathe-
matical discussion of same ; joints and fastenings ; solid and
open built beams ; classification, construction and mechanics
of masonry; foundations on land and in water; bridges and
roofs of different kinds ; their construction and strains de-
termined mathematically and graphically; common roads,
their coverings, location and construction ; location and con-
struction of railroads; navigable, irrigation, and drainage
canals ; river and sea-coast improvements.
Theory and practice are combined in both classes.
Text-Books.
Junior class. — Henck's Field Book for Railway Engineers and
Byrne's Highway Construction.
Senior class.— Wheeler's Civil Engineering and Von Ott's Graphic
Statics.
DRAWING.
All of the students of the freshman and sophomore
classes are required to take drawing ; but only the students
in mechanics and civil engineering in the junior and senior
classes.
The freshman class is taught linear and free-hand draw-
ing. The sophomore class is instructed in the principles of
orthographic and isometric projections, shade and shadows,
perspective and tinting. In the junior class the instruction
embraces a more extended course in orthographic and isom-
etric drawing, perspective, shades and shadows, and tinting ;
also sketches of tools and machines, plans, elevations and
cross-sections of buildings, and blue prints. The senior
class make topographical drawings, and drawings of ma-
chines, roofs, bridges, etc., to different scales, and blue prints.
Plans, profiles and sections of railroad surveys complete the
instruction in this department.
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Text-Books.
*
Freshman class.— Kitchener's Geometrical Note Book, Thome's
Junior Course in Mechanical Drawing, and Davidson's Model Draw-
ing.
Sophomore class.- Davidson's Projections, Davidson's Practical
Perspective, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.
Junior class.- Davidson's Building Construction, Davidson's Draw-
ing for Mechanics and Engineers, Plates belonging to the College,
Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.
Senior class.— French, English and American Plates belonging to
the College, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.
ENGLISH AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
PBOF. THACH.
OBJECTS AND METHODS.
In this department the students pursue a systematic
course in the English language and literature.
Language is the avenue of approach to all knowledge- the
interpretation of words is the fundamental process in edu-
cation of whatsoever kind. A full course of English is
therefore, considered especially important in the technical
courses of study that do not include the ancient classics
Accordingly, the course of English is continued throughout
the four years of the College curriculum, three hours a
week and is made obligatory upon all students, with the
exception of those pursuing the first two years of the course
U renf ln /l P ^Vf nded driU in the «"mmar and litera-
ture of the English language, the endeavor is made to afford
^T^z^r^ to the ordinary - — *
_ Li view of the ill preparation in languages especiallv in
ab,, *» the 8 ahe j Jlf Zfc.tT £££ -£
Srst year to groandiag , U ch stadenta in tlufSnk. of
grammar. Farther, with the idea that an SSTE^
and wnte correct., Eng lis h oI the Jg£%£
Agricultural and Mechanical College. 49
the literary excellencies of standard authors, is more desir-
able than training in the philological curiosities and literary
crudities of Anglo-Saxon literature, the course of study in
this institution is confined exclusively to the literature of
modern English.
Especial attention is given to the study of the writings,
themselves, of leading English authors, since direct contact
with literature is considered more profitable than informa-
tion merely about literature.
COURSE OF STUDY.
Freshman class.— Five hours a week ; study of grammar, the prin-
ciples of special and general composition, with frequent brief papers
illustrating the laws studied; study of American authors: Irving,
Hawthorne, Holme, Poe, Bryants, Longfellow.
Whitney's Essentials, Lockwood's Rhetoric, Seudder's American
Poems, Scudder's American Prose.
Sophomore class. — Three hours a week ; study of style, analysis of
selections of prose and poetry, frequent essays on historic and literary
themes.
Genung's Rhetoric, Genung's Rhetorical Analysis, Hales's Longer
English Poems, Beers's Century of American Literature.
Junior class. — Three hours a week ; lectures on the history of Eng-
lish literature, critical study of English classics, essays.
Stopford Brooke's History of English Literature, Palgrave's Golden
Treasury ; Minto's English Prose, Garnett's English Prose from
Elizabeth to Victoria; Dryden, Tennyson.
Senior class. — Two hours a week, first term. Principles of Criti-
cism, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Hamlet, etc.
ESSAYS AND ORATIONS.
Theory without practice is as fruitless in the study of English as
in any other department of study. Practical work is indispensable
to the successful teaching of English.
Besides numerous brief papers, illustrative of the subject matter of
the text-books, set essays or orations are required of all students :
for the freshman class, ten essays a year ; ten for the sophomore ; for
the senior and junior classes, three orations each.
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DECLAMATION.
The old practice of committing pieces to memory for "speaking" is
cultivated as a means, both of training in the art of thinking on the
feet, and of storing the mind with the diction of finished specimens
of English style.
The sophomore class is heard weekly throughout the year in sec-
tions of ten, once for an hour and a half in rehearsal, afterwards in
the study hall before the body of students.
Ihe senior and junior classes also deliver their orations in public.
PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
The entire senior class pursues the study of intellectual
science, twice a week, through the year ; and political econ-
omy twice a week, during the last two terms. The instruc-
tion in this department is by lectures in combination with
text-books.
Intellectual Science—Psychology defined. Value in relation to
moral culture, education, and Natural Sciences. The Eelations of
the Soul to matter. The arguments of the Materialist. Counter ar-
guments. The Faculties of the Soul. The nature of Consciousness.
Sense Perception. Memory, its nature, development, education.
Fancy. Imagination. Nature of conceptions. Language. Judgment.
Reasoning. Deduction. Induction, etc. Porter's, Intellectual Science.
Political Economy.— Value ; production of wealth; land; labor;
capital; division of labor; distribution of wealth; wages ;' trades-
union ; co-operation ; money; credit; functions of government ; taxa.
tion; tariff; education, etc. F.A. Walker's Advanced Political Econ-
omy. Lectures by Professor.
A Post-graduate Course has been established in Political Economy
Topics are assigned for research by the student, who is facilitated in
his labor by a well chosen library, including mot of the standard
works on political economy and government.
A Post-graduate Course has also been established in English The
course is as follows: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Mer-
S^Jdin 611108 LlkeIt, ^^ IV " Part *' Richard Itt "
REFERENCE BOOKS.
ri^rtn,?w k "T^V , FUrne88 ' 8 Vari ° rUm ; Hud8on ' 8 Shakespeare ;
p art HaK PhH, ^ y? 8 ,°' 8hake8 W **«* Shake-'
WWte'sL,feTEl P nu f Shakes P eare ! R^hard Grant
White s Life of Shakespeare ; Collier's Annals of the Stage ; J. A.
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Symonds's Shakespeare's Predecessors; Hudson's Art, Life, etc., of
Shakespeare; Giles's Human Life in Shakespeare; Mrs. Jameson's
Woman in Shakespeare ; Dowden's Shakespeare's Art.
CHEMISTRY.
PROF. B. B. ROSS.
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Instruction in this department* embraces —
1. A course of lectures in general chemistry.
2. A course of lectures in industrial chemistry.
3. A course of lectures in agricultural chemistry.
4 Systematic laboratory work in connection with each
course of lectures, for the practice of chemical analysis and
chemical research.
1. Course in general chemistry: This consists of a
series of lectures (three per week) extending throughout the
entire session, and includes a discussion of the fundamental
principles of chemical philosophy in connection with the
history, preparation, properties and compounds of the me-
tallic and non-metallic elements, with the main facts and
principles of organic hemistry. In this course the more
common applications of chemistry to the arts and manu-
factures are discussed. The apparatus used for experimental
illustration is extensive, containing the newest and most
approved instruments necessary for presenting the subject
in the most attractive and instructive form.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Roscoe & Schorlemmer, Fownes, Frankland, Itemsen, Cooks's
Chemical Philosophy, Chemical Journals.
2. The lectures on industrial chemistry (three per week)
extend throughout the session, and include a discussion in
detail of the processes and chemical principles involved in
the most important applications of chemistry in the arts
and manufactures to the reduction of ores, the preparation
of materials for food and drink, for clothing, shelter, illum-
ination, cleansing, purifying, writing, printing, etc.
These lectures are amply illustrated by means of suitable
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specimens of raw materials and manufacturing products,
together with models and diagrams.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Wagner's Chemical Technology, Muspratt's Chemistry as applied
to Arts and Manufacturing, Ure's Dictionary, Watt's Dictionary, Rich-
ardson and Watt's Chemical Technology, Percy's Metallurgy, Sadt-
ler's Industrial Organic Chemistry.
3. Course in agricultural chemistry : This consists of
lectures on chemistry in its applications to agriculture (two
per week), and includes a thorough discussion of the origin,
composition and classification of soils, the composition and
growth of plants, the sources of plant food and how obtained,
the improvement of soils, the manufacture and use of fertil-
izers, the chemical principles involved in the rotation of
crops, the feeding of live stock, and the various operations
carried on by the intelligent and successful agriculturist.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Johnson's How Crops Grow and How Crops Feed, Lupton's Elemen-
tary Principles of Scientific Agriculture, Johnson and Cameron's
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Storer's Agriculture in relation
with Chemistry, scientific journals, reports of the United States
Department of Agriculture, and the bulletins and reports of the va-
rious home and foreign agricultural departments and stations.
4. The course of systematic laboratory work: This
course of practical work in the laboratory is carried on in
connection with each course of lectures, and embraces the
practical operation of chemical analysis and synthesis, be-
ing varied somewhat to suit the individual object of the
student.
The laboratories, which are open from 9 a. m. to 5 r. m., during six
days in the week, are amply su plied with everything necessary for
instruction in chemical manipulation, in the qualitative and quantita-
tive analysis of soils, fertilizers, feed stuffs, sugar products, minerals,
mineral waters, technical products, etc., and in the method of prose-
cuting chemical researches. Unusual facilities are offered to stu-
dents who wish to devote their time to the special study of practical
chemistry. t *
Each student on entering the chemical laboratory is furnished
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with a work table, a set of re-agent bottles, and the common re-agents
and apparatus used in qualitative and quantitative analysis. At the
close of the session he will be credited with such articles as may be
returned in good order; the value of those which have been injured
or destroyed will be deducted from the deposit.
In addition to the analytical work above described, it is designed
to introduce during the next session a short course in elecro-plating.
Practical instruction in the electro-deposition of nickel, silver,gold,
etc., upon other metals will be given, and, in addition, the applica-
tions of electrolysis to chemical analysis will be studied both theo-
retically and practically.
BOOKS USED.
In qualitative analysis— Jones, Fresenius, Plattner.
In quantitative analysis— Fresenius, Sutton, Rose, Bunsen, Rick-
ett's Notes on Assaying, Mitchell's Manual of Practical Assaying.
In Agricultural chemical analysis— Official methods of the Associa-
tion of Agricultural Chemists.
Wiley's Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis.
CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
[For description of the building see page 13.J
The chemical apparatus recently purchased for the laboratory
consists of a full supply of the most approved instruments for practi-
cal work and investigation. The building is supplied with water and
gas and every appliance required to meet the demands of modern
scientific instruction and research. In addition to the apparatus
usually supplied to first-class laboratories, there have been imported
a new and improved Schmidt and Hensch's polariscope, four short-
arm Becker Balances of latest pattern, Bunsen spectroscope, Zeiss
microscope, and other instruments for delicate and accurate work.
BIOLOGY.
Prof. Stedman.
Practical Biology. — This subject is presented by lectures
and laboratory work to the senior students in agriculture
and chemistry. The first part of the year will be devoted
to the study of zoology and entomology with special re-
ference to practical agriculture. This will be followed by
the study of bacteriology and mycology giving prominence
to the causes of diseases of cultivated plants. Special at-
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tention will be given to methods employed in combatting
the attacks of fungi and insects upon plants. The lectures
will be illustrated as far as possible by actual specimens,
and by the use of the stereopticon and oxy-hydrogen light
for micro-projection, and also by the use of several hundred
lantern slides specially prepared for these lectures. The
biological museum is primarily for the illustration of the
lectures and contains several hundred marine invertebrates
as well as representations of nearly all orders of animals.
The reference books will be announced to the classes.
The department contains a carefully selected library of the
standard works on mycology and many rare and valuable
works, besides current periodicals adapted to aid in the
special investigations carried on in the laboratory.
Especial opportunities are offered to graduate students
who desire to pursue advanced work and engage in original
investigations.
Facilities for Work.
At present three rooms are occupied by the department-an office
lecture room, and laboratory. The office contains the cabinet of fun-
gi, the technical library for the department, slate table with a Zeiss
microscope, re-agents, gas and water fittings. The work in the office
consists of the examination, identification and cataloguing of the
specimens, beside the special work peculiar to such an office. The
cab.net » provided with tight drawers, for receiving the mounted
specimens of fungi and insects. mounted
LABORA-roKY.-Five slate top tables are devoted to the use of stu-
dents, there being 10 Leitz microscopes set apart for them
Two small culture rooms contain the plate and test tube cultures
of fung, and bacteria which are being studied in relation tothe plan
diseases they cause. Here they can be handled and stud/ed wUh
little danger of contamination from the dust of the laboratory In
for maintaining constant temperatures * thermor ^Mor
it A «2£f 5w5o h Y*£rJ" A the examinati0D of cultures -
geneous immersion Jens ll a Td^ 4 h T-' WpIe r6V ° Iver ' hom °-
oculars 1, 3 and 5, tl It^''^**™ ** 3 ^ ^ ? '
A Winkel microscope is also kent »™ »i, , .
like the former, exceot th* i u u the Use of the students,
er, except the 1-24 homogeneous immersion lens.
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The other piece of apparatus are follows :
Steam sterilizer, dry sterilizer, domestic still, instantaneous water
heater, Pasteur filter, fine and common balances, apparatus for dem-
onstrating intramolecular breathing of yeast, the Brendel models of
parasitic and sapro-phytic fungi, bacteria and yeast plants, automat-
ic device for rolling culture tubes of nutrient agar agar, microtomes
and paraffine water bath.
There are also cases containing a large quantity of the various
glass vessels, paper, dry and liquid dyes- and re-agents, culture media,
etc., required in modern investigation.
The laboratory is well lighted from southern and western exposure.
All the rooms are well fitted with gas and water supply.
A phytopathological laboratory has recently been fitted up for con-
ducting investigations on the diseases of plants. While this con-
stitutes part of the equipment for the biologist in experiment sta-
tion work, it will be at the disposal of the department for instruction.
HISTOEY AND LATIN.
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Prof. Petrie.
HISTORY.
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In this department the aim is not so much to memorize
facts as to understand them. Strong emphasis is laid on
the fact that history is not a succession of isolated facts
but a progressive whole, each event being at once the cause
and the effect of other events. The students are taught to
investigate the growth of ideas and institutions, the rise and
progress of great historical movements and the reciprocal
influence of men and circumstances. Frequent use is made
of diagrams, photographs, charts and maps, with which the
department is well equipped. Constant practice in map
drawing is insisted on in order to give precision to the
geographical knowledge acquired. Instruction is given by
text-books, lectures and class discussion, but a constant
effort is made to stimulate to wider reading and research
in the library.
In the freshman class, the subjects studied are the United
States and England. The first term (two hours per week)
is devoted to the history of the United States, the second
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term (two hours per week) to its government, and the third
term (three hours per week) to the history of England.
Text-Books.
Chambers's Larger History of the United States,Macy's Our Govern-
ment, Montgomery's English History.
In the sophomore class (three hours per week until March)
the subject studied is general history.
Text-Book : Myers's General History.
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In the junior and senior classes (six hours each per week)
opportunity for special historical work is given to those
students in the general course who wish to elect it instead
of laboratory work. Each student investigates under the
direction of the professor selected topics, reports the results
of his research to the class, and a general discussion follows.
Thoroughness is insisted on. The trend of the work is
toward a comparative study of government, but wide liberty
of choice is allowed.
During the last term a cource of lectures is given on the
government of the leading nations of Europe.
A prominent feature of the work is frequent talks from
men who are experts in some field of present or past history,
on the institutions and customs of some country, or upon
some geographical topic. These talks are informal and are
followed by general discussion.
Some of the topics studied have been—
In the History of Government: The Origin of Govern-
ment, The Growth and Influence of Eoman Law, The Devel-
opment of the English Parliament, The Present Govern-
ments of England and of France, Methods of Electing Presi-
dents, The Australian Federation, Peculiarities of South
American Kepublics.
In Great Movements: The Fall of the Reman Empire,
The Rise of Mohammedanism, The Crusades, Feudalism,
Ihe Renaissance, Formation of the German Empire.
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In Biography : Pericles, Caesar, Charlemagne, Edward I,
Elizabeth, Cromwell, Napoleon III, Gladstone, Bismarck.
In Contemporary Topics : Home Rule for Ireland, Rebel-
lion in Brazil, Norway and Sweden, The House of Lords.
Textbook: Woodrow Wilson's State.
LATIN.
In this department two objects are kept in view : a knowl-
edge of the language, and an appreciation of the literature.
In teaching the language the following methods are used :
A systematic course is given in etymology and syntax.
These are taught both deductively from a text-book on
grammar and inductively from the Latin text read. Latin
texts are translated, sometimes at sight, sometimes after
being assigned for preparation. English passages based on
a familiar author or illustrative of special constructions are
translated into Latin orally and on the blackboard. Simple
conversation is carried on in Latin.
Special emphasis is laid upon the subject of Latin litera-
ture. In connection with each author studied in class there
is prescribed a course of reading in English descriptive of
his life, writings and times. The artistic value of his writ-
ings is carefully studied and discussed, and frequent com-
parisons are made with modern writers.
Text-Books.
Freshman class— Nepos, Virgil, Sallust, Grammar, Composition.
Sophomore class.— Cicero's Orations and Letters, Jones's Latin
Prose Composition.
Junior class— Livy, Tacitus, Horace, Wilkins's Latin Literature,
Collar's Practical Latin Composition, Miller's Latin Composition.
Senior class— Cicero's De Natura Deorum, Plautus, Terence.
AGKICULTUBE.
PBOF. BONDURANT.
The course of instruction in this department embraces :
I, Soils ; II, Plants ; III, Domestic Animals.
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nunciation, together with facility in translating ordinary
French. Reading is begun at an early stage, and the prin-
ciples of grammar are illustrated and impressed by frequent
exercises in rendering English into French.
Second Year : Three recitations a week. During this
year, almost the same line of work is pursued as that begun
in the previous year. More difficult and varied French is
read, and careful instruction is given upon the laws of gram-
mar, the construction of the language, and the history of the
literature.
German — Two Years: Three recitations a week the first
year, three a week the second year. In this course the aim
and the methods are similar to those in French.
Post-graduate courses in French and German are offered.
That in French during the past year consisted of a study of
Moliere ; that in German of a study of Heine and Lessing.
Text-Books.
French— First Year: Whitney's Brief French Grammar and Intro-
ductory French Reader, Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff, Sand's
La Mare au Diable, Lamartine's Jeanne d'Arc.
Second Year: Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Corneille's
Le Cid, Sainte Beuve's Causeries duLundi,Feuillet's Le Roman d'un
Jeune Homme Pauvre, Bowen's Modern French Lyrics, Hugo's Her-
nani, Saintsbury's Primer of French Literature.
Post-graduate Course: Les Precieuses Ridicules, Le Medecin Mal-
gre Lui, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Tartuffe, L'Avare, Les
Femmes Savantes, Le Misanthrope, L'Ecole des Femmes, La Malade
Imaginaire, Les Fourberies de Scapin ; Oliphant's Moliere ; Saints-
bury's Short History of French Literature.
German— First Year: Otis's Elementary German, Grimm's Kin-
der-und Haus-Maerchen, Hauff's Das Kalte Herz, Germnnia
Second Year: Schiller's Ballads, Heine's Prosa, Goethe's Her-
mann und Dorothea, Lectures on German literature.
Post-Graduate Course: Heine's Gedichte, Die Romantische Schule,
and Englische Fragmente; Sharp's Heine, Stigand's Heine; Les-
sing's Minna von Barnhelm, Nathan der Weise, and Laokoon ; Rol-
leston's Lessing; Scherer's History of German Literature.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
PROF. MCKIS8ICK.
The students in this course will study English, French, or
German, physics, mathematics, &c, as now prescribed for
the course of civil engineering in the junior and senior
years ; and in addition thereto, will prosecute their studies
in electricity and mechanics, as herein prescribed.
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
JUNIOR YEAR.
Five hours a week for the entire session are devoted to the
study of the principles bi electricity and magnetism. The
student is made familiar with the theoretical principles by
experiments, illustrations, recitations, and lectures.
Laboratory Work.— Six hours per week are given to work
in the laboratory. This includes management of batteries,
construction of instruments, electrical measurements, veri-
fication of the principles upon which the measurements of
currents, electromotive force and resistance are based, etc.
Text-Books.
Avrton's Practical Electricity, Desmond's Electricity for Engineers,
S. P Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism, Stewart and Gee's Prac-
tical Physics.
SENIOR YEAR.
In the senior year five hours per week are devoted to
theoretical instruction in electricity and magnetism, supple-
mented by a course of lectures and practical demonstrations
on the applications of electricity to lighting, electrical trans-
mission of energy, electrical welding, telegraphy and tele-
phony.
Encouragement is offered to advanced students for conducting
orfdnSesTrgations.and opportunity is taken to stimulate a sp.r.t
^ fcir^uiry. Courses of reading are suggested to such stu-
dents in connection with their experimental work.
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Laboratory Work.— Six hours per week are devoted to
practical laboratory work, including construction of instru-
ments, electrical measurements, electrolysis, and relation of
electrical currents to heat and mechanical work, care and
tests of dynamo, the adjustment and calibration of voltme-
ters and ammeters, electric lighting, management and care
of accumulators, energy consumed in lamps, adjustment and
care of arc lamps, proper wiring of buildings, the applica-
tion of electricity to street railways, magnetic measurements,
tests of transformers and motors.
Drawing and Construction.— Five hours per week in the
senior year are devoted to the design and construction of
electrical machinery. The student is required to make
original designs of dynamos, motors, transformers, galvano-
meters, etc.
Text-Books.
Slingo and Broker's Electrical Engineering, Thompson's Dy
ectnc Machinery, Fleming's Alternate Current Transforms
Electric
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REFERENCE BOOKS.
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vols. I and II, by Gordon •
Electricity and Magnetism, by Clerk Maxwell ; Emtage's Introduc-
tion to the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism •
Kempe's Electrical Testing; Dredge's Electric Illumination, Vols I
and II ; Dynamo Electric Machinery, by Carl Hering j The Electro-
Motor and its Applications, by Wetzler and Martin ; Electric Trans-
mission by Kapp; Electric Lighting, by Atkinson; Electric Light
Installations.by Salomons; Alternating Currents of Electricity by
of mTorP : dCn E,ect j5 ian ; P-ceedings of American Instftute
of Electrical Engineers ; Thompson's Electro-Magnet.
EQUIPMENT.
The electrical laboratory has a complete line of batteries, call-
bells, annunciators, telegraph sounders, relays, keys, magnets and all
apparatus necessary for first year students l'eleltricTeu g ne^
The equipmen comprises many fine instruments of precision : sfr
Wm. Thomson's standard 100 ampere balance (either for direct or al-
ternating currents) j Sir Wm. Thomson's graded current galvanome-
S 1 600 Z* 7T : El r hlS gFaded POtential galvanometer,
reading to 600 volts, Cardew voltmeter (for direct or alternating cur-
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rents), reading to 150 volts; Weston's standard ammeter and volt-
meter, box of resistance coils ; Queen/s magnetic vane voltmeter, and
ammeter, standard % micro-farad condenser and Sabine key ; Thomp-
son watt-meter ballistic reflecting galvanometer, mirror galvanome-
ter, Fein ammeter and voltmeter, Ayston & Perry ammeter, Kohl's
solenoid ammeter, Wood ammeter, Deprez ammeter, Hartman &
Braun voltmeter, D'Arsonval galvanometer, Hughe's induction bal-
ance, tasimeter, microphone, telephones, electrolytic apparatus and
several minor and other galvanometers for first year students. A
battery of fifty-five Julien accumulators has been installed in the
laboratory, and a like battery in the department of botany and
geology.
In the dynamo room the following are installed: One Weston 150
volt, 20 ampere dynamo, with rheostat ; one Brush 6 arc-light dynamo,
with regulator and six lamps; one Edison compound wound 12 kilo-
watt generator ; a Thompson-Houston 110 volt, 75 ampere generator ;
a Crocker-Wheeler one-horse power motor and rheostat, and one
alternator, and 500 volt generator, made by special students, furnish
current to laboratory, and light up the different buildings.
The dynamos occupy a separate brick building, 50 x 32 feet, and are
operated by a 35 horse-power Westinghouse vertical engine, and a 25
horse-power Atlas engine.
This department, being provided with Sir Wm Thomson's standard
electrical instruments for exact measurements, will calibrate, free of
expense, any ammeter or voltmeter that may be sent to the College.
An glectro-motor made by students, supplied with current from a
generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press, silo
cutter and feed cutter at the experiment station farm. This motor
not only subserves a useful purpose in the operation of these ma-
chines, but is an excellent illustration of the electric transmission of
power
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANIC
AETS.
Prof. Wilmobe.
B. H. CBENSHAW, I ASS i S TANT8.
B. J. TBAMMELL, )
The course in manual training covers three years as fol-
lows • First year, wood-working-carpentry and turning ;
second year, pattern-making and foundry and forge work-
moulding, casting and smithing ; third year, machine shop
—chipping and filing and machine work in metals.
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This course is obligatory upon the students of the three
lower classes. For satisfactory reasons a student may be
excused from this laboratory work by the faculty.
The full work of each class is six hours per week, in three
exercises of two hours each.
The power for running the apparatus in this department is derived
from a twenty-five horse-power Harris- Corliss automatic engine,
which is supplied with steam by a thirty horse-power steel horizontal
tubular boiler. A steam pump and a heater for the feed water form
a part of the steam apparatus. For the steam plant a substantial
brick boiler-house and chimney have been erected.
The eqipment for the wood-working shop comprises the following:
30 wood-working benches, each with complete set of carpenter's tools ;
24 turning-lathes, 10 inch swing, each with complete set of tools ; 1
double circular saw; 1 hand saw; 1 board-planing machine; 1 buzz
planer; 2 scroll saws (power; ; 1 large pattern-maker's lathe, 16-inch
swing; 1 36-inch grindstone. In addition to these, the toolroom is
supplied with a variety of extra hand-tools for special work,
The equipment for the foundry consists of moulding-benches for 18
students, each supplied with a complete set of moulder's tools ; a 14-
inch cupola, with all modern improvements, capable of melting 1,000
pounds of iron per hour; a brass furnace in which can be melted 100
pounds of brass at a heat, with a set of crucible tongs, etc. Also a
full supply of ladles, large and small moulding flasks, special tools,
etc . '
The forge shop equipment consists of 16 hand forges of new pattern
each with asetof smith's tools, anvil, etc. The blast for all the forges
is supplied by a No. 3 Sturtevant steel pressure blower (which also
furnishes blast for the foundry cupola), and a No 15 Sturtevant ex-
haust blower draws the smoke from fires into the smoke-flues and
forces it out through the chimney.
The machine department occupies a brick building, 30 x 50 feet
and is equipped with 6 engine lathes (screw-cutting^ 14-inch swing
6-foot bed; 2 engine-lathes, 16-inch swing (one with taper attach-
ment) ; 1 engine-lathe, ls-inch swing, with compound rest and taper
attachment; 1 screw cutting lathe, 12-inch swing ; 1 speed lathe, 10-
inch swing ; 1 20-inch drill press (power-feed; ; 1 10-inch sensitive
drill; 1 15-inchshaper; 1 22-inch x 22-inch x 5 foot friction planer;
1 universal milling machine ; 1 corundum tool-grinder (14-inch wheel) ;
1 bench grinder; 1 post drill press Clinch); 1 Brown & Sharpe
universal grinding machine ; 1 power hack saw. A part of this room
is set apart for vise-work, chipping and filing; and benches for 12
students are provided, each with vise and sets of files, chisels, ham-
mers, etc . In the tool-room is to be found a good supply of machinists'
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tools for general shop use, such as lathe and drill chucks, drills,
reamers, taps, dies, gauges, files, cutting and measuring tools, and
special appliances for machine work, with machine for grinding twist
drills.
The nature of the work in each department is as follows : _
First Year.
I. A course of carpentry (hand work covering the first
two terms and part of the third, or about five months).
The lessons include instruction on the nature and use of
tools, instruction and practice in shop drawing, elementary
work with plane, saw, chisel, different kinds of joints, tim-
ber-splices, cross joints, mortise and tenon, mitre and frame
work, dovetail work, comprising different kinds of joints
used in cabinet making, light cabinet work, examples in
building, framing, roof-trusses, etc.
II. A course in turning, extending through the third
term. The lessons comprise nature and use of lathe and
tools, plain straight turning caliper work to different diame-
ters and lengths, simple and compound curves, screw plate
and chuck work, hollow and spherical turning.
Second Year.
I. A course in pattern-making, covering the first term.
The work includes a variety of examples of whole and split
patterns, core work, etc., giving the students familiarity with
the use of patterns for general moulding.
II A course in moulding and casting in iron and brass
occupying six weeks. The work consists for the most part
of small articles, such as light machine parts, but a suffi-
cient variety of forms are introduced for the student to ac-
quire a good general and practical knowledge of the usua
methods and appliances used in light foundry work. Most
of the work is in green sand in two part flasks ; core work
is also given, and some three part flask and some dry sand
work is introduced.
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The same patterns that have been previously made by
students are used, besides special patterns for occasional
larger or more complicated work. Instruction and practice
is given in working the cupola, each student in turn taking
charge of a melting.
III. A course in forge work in iron and steel, occupying 1
the remainder of the year. The lessons are arranged so
that the students, in making the series of objects, become
familiar with the nature of the metals and the successive
steps in working them by hand into simple and complex
forms, as drawing, upsetting, bending, cutting, punching,
welding by various methods, tool-forging, tempering, hard-
ening, etc.
In connection with this second year work, a series of lec-
tures is given on the metallurgy and working of the metals
used in the industrial arts, cast and wrought iron, steel,
brass, etc.
Third Year.
I. A course of chipping and filing, covering ten weeks
of the first term. The lessons comprise work on cast and
wrought iron ; chipping to line on flat and curved surfaces,
key-seating, etc. ; filing and finishing to line (straight and
curved), surface filing and finishing, fitting, slotting, dove-
tail work, sliding and tight fits, sawing, pin, screw and key
filing, surface finishing with scraps, etc.
II. Machine work occupying the 'remainder of the year.
The work includes cast and wrought iron, . j ^nd brass ;
turning to various diameters and lengths, taper turning,
facing with chuck and face plate, drilling— both in lathe and
drill press,— reaming, boring, screw-cutting in lathe and
with taps and dies, planing, slotting, etc., with planer m<
shaper, milling various forms with milling machine, includ-
ing exercises in making taps, reainers, etc., fitting, grinding,
polishing, etc.
Lectures are also given during the year on various subjects con-
nected with machine work in metals, such as forms, construction and
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use of the various machines, cutting tools, gearing, gauges, screw
threads, etc. During the last term some piece of construction work
is given the classes.
Instruction is generally given, first, by blackboard drawings or
sketches which the student copies, with dimensions in note-book,
with which each one provides himself; thus each one works from his
own notes. This is supplemented, whenever necessary, by the actual
co atruction of the lesson by the instructor before the class, second
by inspection and direction at the bench by the instructor. The con-
struction work is made from blue prints, the work of the class in
drawing.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
PROF. WILMORE.
JUNIOR YEAR.
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To receive the degree of B. Sc. in electrical and me-
ch inical engineering the student must complete the course
of mechanical engineering as here described.
Principles of Mechanism. — Two recitations per week during
the year are are devoted to this subject. Under this head
machines are analyzed and their elementary combinations
of mechanism studied. The communication of motion by
gear-wheels, belts, cams, screws and link-work, the different
ways of obtaining definite velocity ratios and definite
changes of velocity, parallel motions and quick return mo-
tions as well as the designing of trains of mechanism for
various purposes, together with the theoretical forms of
teeth for gear-wheels to transmit the motion through these
trains, are investigated under this subject. The text-book
work is illustrated by the study and examination of the ma-
chines in the laboratory.
Mechanical Draining. — During the first term the students
make drawings, to exact scale, of some of the simpler ma-
chines. The student takes his own measurements and
makes his own sketches from which to produce the finished
drawing.
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the work in mechanism. Involute and epicycloidal gear
wheels, bevel wheels and endless screws are designed and
drawn to scale from data given by the instructor. During
the last term* each student will make working drawings of
some machine in the laboratory with instruction in the
making of tracings and the art of blue-printing.
Laboratory Work. — The laboratory work will consist of
hand work in iron and machine work in iron, as given in the
course in mechanic arts in the third year.
SENIOR YEAR.
Steam Engine. — One-half the year will be given to the
study of the theory and efficiency of the steam engine, with
discussions of the effects of condensation in cylinder^ action
of, fly-wheels, effects of jacketing, etc. Simple and com-
pound engines, various valves and cut-off motions, and the
principal types of modern engines are studied. Special at-
tention is given to the steam engine indicator, and the stu-
dent is expected to become familiar with its application
and uses.
Machine Design. — In the last half of the year the subject
of machine design will be taken up and carried on in con-
nection with the strength of materials, the latter being
studied mainly from actual experiments made on the testing
machine. In the former simple machines are given to work
under specified conditions, the motions being laid out and
the proportion of parts found by calculation.
Laboratory Wort— The laboratory work will consist of
making tests of engines under varying conditions of load
and speed. These results will be carefully recorded/
tabulated and filed away for future reference. Also of
making tests of the strength of the different materials
of construction, stone, wood, cast and wrought iron, steel
etc. These will be tested for transverse, tensional and
compressional strains, and all results recorded and tabu-
lated.
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POST-GRADUATE COURSE.
Students sufficiently qualified that desire post-graduate
work, can be accomodated to the extent of thG appliances
at hand. They will be expected to study up the history and
development of mechanics and engineering, take more in
detail the theory and structure of the steam engine, and
solve problems in general engineering, such as designing
shops for special lines of work, making drawings and speci-
fications showing the most economical arrangement of ma-
chines and transmission machinery.
TESTING APPARATUS.
For the experimental work in mechanical engineering the follow-
ing apparatus has been provided :
A testing machine, capable of exerting compressional, tensional
and transverse strains up to 35,000.
A steam engine indicator, planimeter, micrometer and other imple-
ments for steam engine testing.
A Harris-Corliss twenty-five horse-power engine, a Westinghouse
thirty-five horse-power engine, a steam pump, steam boilers, and the
use of the laboratory for special work.
TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS.
Stahl and Wood, Elementary Mechanism; Goodeve, Steam En-
gine; Busbridge, Engineering Drawing Copies; Barr, Treatise on
High Pressure Steam Boilers ; Brown & Sharpe, Treatise on Gearing ;
Davidson, Practical Perspective ; Grant, Odontics; Hemenway, Indi-
cator Practice and Steam Engine Economy ; Klein, Machine Design ;
MacCord, Treatise on the Slide Valve ; Pray, Twenty Years with the
Indicator; Rose, Mechanical Drawing Self-taught; Rose, Modern
Steam Engines ; Thurston, Manual of the Steam Engine ; Appleton's
Cyclopaedia of AppliedJMechanics.
MILITAET SCIENCE AND TACTICS.
LIEUT. J. H. WILLS, U. S. AKMY, COMMANDANT.
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Military science and tactics are required by law to be
taught in this institution. This law is faithfully carried out
by imparting to^each student, not physically incapacitated
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to bear arms, practical instruction in the school of the
soldier, of the company and of the battalion ; also in guard
mountings, inspections, dress parades, reviews, etc.
Under section 1225, U. S. Revised Statutes, the College
is provided with modern cadet rifles and accoutrements and
two pieces of field artillery. Ammunition for practice firing
is used under the direction of an experienced officer. The
exercises in target practice and artillery drill begin the first
day of the third term, March 27th.
The following uniform of standard cadet gray cloth has
been prescribed for dress, viz. : Coats and pants as worn at
West Point, with sack coat for fatigue, dark blue cadet cap.
A neat and serviceable uniform can be obtained here at $17
to $18. This is less expensive than the usual clothing. All
students are required to wear this uniform during the ses-
sion.
The entire body of students is divided into companies.
The officers are selected for proficiency in drill, deportment,
and studies. Each company is officered by one captain, two
1st lieutenants, one 2d lieutenant, and with a proper num-
ber of non-commissioned officers. The officers and non-
commissioned officers are distinguished by appropriate in-
signia of rank. These appointments are confirmed by the
President on nomination of the Commandant.
The junior class recites once a week in the United States
Infantry Tactics.
The senior class recites once a week in "Notes on Milita-
ry Science."
PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.
PBOFESSOB CABY.
PHYSIOLOGY.
The sophomore class during the second and third terms
study human physiology.
It is the aim of the department to familiarize the student
with the gross anatomy and the functions of the various
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parts of the human body ; moreover, due attention is given
to the laws of health or conditions most favorable to a
healthy action of the organs of the human body.
Instruction is given by lectures which are illustrated by
charts, drawings, models of the organs of the body and by a
human skeleton.
The department is now supplied with rooms where the
students can dissect some of the smaller animals and thus
see the organs, tissues and regions as exhibited in a few of
the lower animals.
VETEKINARY SCIENCE AND ART.
During the entire junior and senior years the students in
the agricultural and chemical course of stiidy devote to this
work two hours per week in the class room and three to
five hours per week in clinical practice.
The lectures are arranged with special reference to the
students who are interested in horses or other domestic an-
imals; also to those students who contemplate studying
human or veterinary medicine. While it is not the aim to
give a complete course in veterinary medicine, we attempt
to present the general principles of comparative medicine
with such special applications as are adapted to the condi-
tions and wants of the students.
Special attention is given to the exterior anatomy of the horse, while
comparative anatomy is presented mainly in connection with the
study of the diseases of the different apparatus of the horse or other
domestic animals.
Lameness in the horse, minor surgery, the actions and uses of the
most common medicines, the principles and practice of comparative
medicine, the methods of meat inspection, and the ways of protecting
the health of man and domestic animals, are considered in as plain
and practical manner as the time allotted to such subject will permit.
Post mortem examinations and the dissection of domestic animals
are used as object lessons in the study of general pathology and ana-
tomy.
To the post-graduate student this department furnishes
work in bacteriology and pathology.
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The department of physiology and veterinary science is now located
in a new building which consists of a two-story portion, containing
four laboratory rooms on the second floor and a lecture room, mus-
eum and office on the lower floor; and a one-story part which con-
tains an operating room and a hospital ward with two box stalls and
four open single stalls .
The building is supplied with water. The museum contains the
skeletons of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the hog, and a human
skeleton . It also contains anatomical models of the various parts and
organs of the human body and models of many parts of the horse,
the ox, and the other domestic animals . It also contains a collection
of pathological and anatomical specimens, and one of animal para-
sites.
The cases for clinical work have been numerous. During 1893 there
were two hundred and eighty-seven cases handled by the depart-
ment.
POST-GEADUATE DEGEEES.
The Post-graduate Degrees are— Master of Science, Mining En-
gineer, Civil Engineer, and Electrical and
Mechanical Engineer.
A post-graduate degree may be obtained by a graduate
of this College, or of any other institution of equal grade,
by one year's residence at the College, spent in the success-
ful prosecution of a course of study approved by the faculty.
Candidates must also present to the faculty a satisfactory thesis,
showing independent investigation upon some subject pertaining to
their course, and must pass an examination at the close of each term
on the course of study prescribed, in which he must attain a grade of
75 per cent. The examination is written, and also oral in the presence
of the faculty.
Applicants for post-graduate degrees are, by order of the trustees,
permitted to matriculate without payment of fees
They are subject to the general regulations as other students, but
are exempt from all military duty.
Resident graduates that are not candidates for a degree, are per-
mitted to matriculate and prosecute the studies in any department
of the College, without payment of regular fees.
The following courses are prescribed for the degrees named :
Mining Engineer.— Geology, Civil Engineering, Chemistry.
Civil Engineer.— Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Analytical Me-
chanics.
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Electrical and Mechanical Engineer.— Electrical Engineering, Me-
chanical Engineering, Analytical Mechanics or Mathematics.
Master of Science. — Studies in three departments, in two of which
the candidate must have previously completed the full course of the
senior class.
A certificate of proficiency will be given when any one subject of
a post-graduate course is satisfactorily completed.
DISTINCTIONS.
Distinctions are awarded in the different subjects of each class to
those students whose grade for the entire year is above 90 per cent.
Certificates of Distinction are awarded in public on commencement
day to those who obtain an average of 90 per cent in all the prescribed
studies of a regular class ; and also to those who obtain three distinc-
tions in the freshman class, four in the sophomore class, five in the
junior class, and six in the senior class, provided they have satisfac-
torily passed all the regular examinations of that session, and have
not received forty demerits during the year.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
During the first term there will be given by Professor Mell a course
of twelve lectures on photography. This course will be elective, and
the instruction will be open to any student that may desire to learn
how to make pictures. It will be necessary for each student to pro-
vide himself with an outfit that will cost from $11.50 to $16.00.
RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.
Daily records of the various exercises of the classes are kept by the
officers of instruction.
From the record a monthly circular, or statement, is sent to the
parent or guardian.
EXAMINATIONS.
Written monthly examinations on the studies of the month are held
by each professor.
At the end of each term written examinations, or written and oral,
are held on the studies passed over during that term
Special examinations are held only by order of the faculty, and in
no case will private examinations be permitted.
Students falling below the minimum grade at the final examination,
can be promoted to full standing in the next higher class, only on
satisfactory examinations at the opening of the next session.
It is required that every student who enters the College shall re-
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main through the examinations at the end of the term. Leaves of
absence and honorable discharges will, therefore, not be granted
within three weeks of the examination, except in extreme cases.
LIBRARY.
The library occupies an elegant, well-lighted room in the main
building, and also two smaller adjacent rooms. It contains about
8,000 volumes, including valuable reference and scientific books, with
select editions of standard authors, and others suitable for students
carefully and recently selected. It is kept open eight hours daily for
the use of students as a reading-room, and is thus made an important
educational feature
MUSEUM.
The museum occupies a large room in the third story. It is pro-
vided with suitable cases and is gradually becoming equipped with
valuable specimens and models of an instructive character.
DISCIPLINE.
The government of the College is administered by the President
and faculty, in accordance with the code of laws and regulations en-
acted by the trustees.
Attention to study and punctuality in attendance on recitations
and all other duties, are required of every student. Students are
prohibited from having in their possession arms or weapons not issued
for the performance of military duty, and also from using, or causing
to be brought into the College limits, intoxicating liquors.
MILITARY DRILL.
There are three regular military drills each week, and all under-
graduate students, not physically incapacitated to bear arms, are
required to engage in these exercises.
The drills are short, and the duty involves no hardships. The mili-
tary drill is a health-giving exercise, and its good effects in the de-
velopment of the phyaique and improvement of the carriage of the
cadet are manifest.
Privates of the senior class who are candidates for graduation may
be excused by the President from all military drills, and also students
over twenty-one years of age at the time of entering College that
are permitted to devote their time to one special study, as chemistry,
agriculture, etc.
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RELIGIOUS SERVICE. >
Religious services are held every morning in the chapel.
All students are required to attend these exercises, and also to at-
tend the church of their choice at least once on Sunday.
Opportunities are also offered for attending Bible classes every
Sunday.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
This Association is regularly organized, and through its weekly
meetings exerts a wholesome Christian influence among the students
of the College. ^
The first week of the session the trains will be met by a committee
of the Association, whose business will be to give information to, or
assist in any way it can, the students entering College for the first
time. The Association is commended to all the students.
The following are the officers :
J. A. Duncan, President.
H. H. Smith, Vice-President.
W. H. McBryde, Recording Secretary.
S. L. Coleman, Corresponding Secretary.
W. D. Clayton, Treasurer.
GYMNASIUM.
The fourth floor of the main building is one large attic room, well
lighted and ventilated. It has been supplied with a number of such
appliances as are used in a gymnasium, and is used for athletic exer-
cises by the students, in the afternoon, under prescribed regulations
LOCATION.
The College is situated in the town of Auburn, fifty-nine miles east
of Montgomery, on the line of the Western Railroad.
The region is high and healthful, noted for its general good health
and freedom from malaria, having an elevation of eight hundred and
twenty-six feet above tide water. By statute of the State, the sale of
spirituous liquors and keeping saloons of any kind are forbidden.
BOAKDING.
The College has no barracks or dormitories, and the
students board with families in the town of Auburn, and
thus enjoy all the protecting and beneficial influences of the
family circle.
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For each house an inspector is appointed, whose duty it
is to report those who, without permission, leave their
rooms after "call to quarters," or are guilty of any vio-
lation of order. The report of the inspector is made to the
Commandant on alternate days of the week.
Students, after selecting their boarding-houses, are not
permitted to. make changes without obtaining permission
from the President, and this permission is given only at the
close of a term, except for special reasons.
EXPENSES.
Incidental fee, per half session $ 2 50
Library fee, per half session. ........ 1 00
Surgeon's fee, per half session 2 50
Board, per month, with fuel and lights $12 to 15 00
These fees are payable, $6.00 on matriculation and $6.00
on February 1st. By order of the trustees no fees can be re-
mitted
There is no charge for tuition.
For students entering after January 1st, the fees for a half
session only are required.
EXPENSES FOR COLLEGE YEAR.
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Fees $ 12 00 to $ 12 00
Board, lodging, fuel and lights 108 00 to 135 00
Washing 9 00 to 9 00
Books, etc., say. . . . 8 00 to 15 00
Total $137 00 $171 00
UNIFORM.
A uniform of cadet gray cloth is prescribed, which all undergrad-
uate students are required to wear during the session . The uniforms
are made by a contractor of excellent cloth manufactured at the
Charlottesville mills. The suit, including cap, costs about $18 00 It
is neat and serviceable, and less expensive than ordinary clothing '
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CONTINGENT FEE.
A contingent fee of five dollars is required to be deposited
by each student on matriculation, to cover any special or
general damage to college property for which he may be
liable.
At the close of the session the whole of the contingent
fee, or the unexpended balance, is refunded* to the stu-
dent.
AMOUNT OF DEPOSIT.
Each student on entering College should deposit with the
Treasurer not less than $50.00, to pay the expenses of fees,
one month's board, uniform, books, etc.
FUNDS OF STUDENTS.
Parents and guardians are advised to deposit with the Treasurer of
the College all funds desired for sons or wards, whether for regular
charges of College fees or board, or for any other purpose. It is the
duty of this officer to keep safely all funds placed in his hands, and to
pay all expenses incurred by the students, including board, uniform,
books, etc., when approved.
When funds are deposited, checks are drawn on the Treasurer of
the College by the cadet to pay his necessary expenses. These checks
are paid only when approved by the President. This approval is given
only for necessary expenses, as stated in the catalogue, unless spe-
cially requested in writing by the parent.
The College cannot be held responsible for the expenses of a stu-
dent, unless the funds are deposited with the Treasurer. No student
should be permitted to have a large amount of pocket money, as it
brings only trouble and encourages idleness.
THESIS.
Each applicant for a degree is required to write and submit to the
faculty an essay or oration and read or deliver the same at com-
mencement, if required by the faculty .
It must be given to the Professor of English by the first of May.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
There are two literary societies connected with the Col-
lege—the Wirt and the Websterian. Each has a hall in the
main building.
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These societies hold celebrations on tlie evenings of
Thanksgiving Day and 22nd of February, and also during
commencement week. They elect annually, with the ap-
proval of the faculty, an orator to represent them at the
close of the year.
EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION.
On every Saturday morning, immediately after chapel services,
oratorical exercises in declamation and in original orations are con-
ducted by the Professor of English, in presence of the faculty and
students.
The first and second terms the students of the junior and sophomore
classes are exercised in original orations and declamation.
The second and third terms the members of the senior class read
essays or deliver original orations.
SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI.
The annual alumni oration, is delivered by a member of the soci-
ety, in Langdon Hall, on Alumni Day, Tuesday of commencement
week . The following are the officers of the society :
T. D. Samford, President.
C. H. Ross, Vice-President.
C. C. Thach, Treasurer and Secretary.
J. W. Morgan, Orator for 1894.
SURGEON.
The Surgeon is required to be present at the College
daily, to visit at their quarters the cadets that are reported
sick, and to give all requisite medical attention without
other charge than the regular surgeon's fee, paid on enter-
ing College.
ACADEMIC YEAR.
The academic year for 1894^95 commences on Wednes-
day, 12th September, 1894, (second Wednesday after first
Monday), and ends on Wednesday, 12th June, 1895, (the
second Wednesday after the first Monday), which is com-
mencement day.
It is divided into three terms. The first term extends
from the opening of the session to the 21st of December ;
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the second term begins January 1st, and ends March 23d ;
the third term continues from March the 25th to the close
of the session.
EESOLUTION OF THE TRUSTEES.
The following resolution was adopted by the trustees:
That in view of increased facilities for instruction in agriculture
and the technical departments of education now possessed by this
College, especially in the department of mechanic arts, made possible
by the recent donation from the State, the faculty are authorized, in
addition to the legal name of this College, to print on the catalogue
the words ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, as significant
of the expanded system of practical instruction in industrial science
in the course of education now provided for.
DONATIONS TO LIBRARY.
P. H. Mell— Mell's Manual for Parliamentary Practice. t
Miss Kate Lupton — Fenelon : Education of Girls.
Miss Kate Lupton— N. T. Lupton: Elementary Principles of Sci-
entific Agriculture.
C. H. Ross-C. H. Ross: Absolute Participle in Middle and Mod-
ern English.
Westinghouse Electric Co.— F. L. Pope: Evolution of the Electric
Incandescent Lamp.
Secretary of Interior— Senate Executive Documents, House Execu-
tive Documents, Senate Miscellaneous Documents, House Mis-
cellaneous Documents, Congressional Record, Memorial Ad-
dresses, etc.,— 47 volumes .
Hon. W. C. Oates— War of the Rebellion Reports, 4 volumes.
DONATIONS TO ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL DE-
PARTMENTS.
Hornberger Electric Co . , Elkhart, Ind -Transformer
Garton-Daniels Electric Co . , Keokuk, Iowa-Lightning arrester .
Acme Oil Filter Co., St. Louis, Mo- Oil Filter.
Pemberthy Injector Co., Detroit, Mich— Injectors.
Eugene Munsell & Co., New York, N . Y-Samples of micanite.
Ingersoll-Sargent Rock Drill Co., New York— Rock drill.
Hancock Inspirator Co., Boston, Mass-Hancock inspirators.
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William Jessop & Sons, New York-Samples of steel.
Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pittsburg, Pa -Air pump.
Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pittsburg, Pa. -Air brake and triple
valve.
PERIODICALS.
The following periodicals are regularly received in the
library and are accessible to students.
LITERARY.
Economic Journal.
Edinburgh Review.
Political Science Quarterly.
Atlantic Monthly.
Blackwood's Magazine.
Century Magazine.
Contemporary Review.
Cosmopolitan.
Eclectic Monthly.
Education.
Educational Review.
Academy.
Athenseum.
Harper's Weekly
QUARTERLY.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Quarterly Review.
Sewanee Review .
MONTHLY.
Fortnightly Review.
Forum.
Harper's Monthly.
Nineteenth Century.
North American Review.
Popular Science Monthly.
Review of Reviews,
Scribner's Magazine.
WEEKLY.
Nation.
Saturday Review.
Spectator.
SCIENTIFIC.
American Journal of Science.
American Naturalist.
Annals des Sciences Naturelles.
Annals of Mathematics.
Around the World.
Comptes Rendus.
Engraver and Printer.
Journal of Franklin Institute.
Natural Science.
Nature .
Philosophical Magazine.
Physical Review.
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Proceedings of Academy of Natural Sciences and of Philosophy.
Science.
American Geologist.
Journal of Geology .
American Microscopical Journal .
Anatomisches Anzeiger.
Archives de Biologie.
Archives de Zoologie Experimentale.
Archives fuer Mikroskopische Anatomic
Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie .
Der Hufschimeal.
Fleming's Veterinary Journal.
Journal de L'Anatomie et de la Phisiologie.
Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics.
Journal of Morphology .
Journal of New York Microscopical Society.
Journal of Royal Microscopical Society.
Monthly Microscopical Journal.
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Society
Zeitschrift fuer Fleisch und Milch Hygenie.
Zeitschrift fuer Thiermedicin .
Zeitschrift fuer Vergleichende Augenheilkunde.
'Zoologische Jahrbuecher.
Zoologisches Anzeiger.
Annals de Chemie et Physique.
Berichte des Deutsches Chemisehen Gesellschaft.
Chemical News.
Journal of American Chemical Society.
Journal of Chemical Society of England.
Journal of Society of Chemical Industry .
The Analyst.
Zeitschrift fuer Analytische Chemie.
American Machinist.
Builder and Woodworker.
Cassier's Magazine .
Electrician.
Electrical Engineer.
Electrical Review.
Electrical World .
Engineering.
Engineering and Mining Journal.
Engineering News. •
Sibley Journal of Engineering.
Annals of Botany.
Botanical Gazette.
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, Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club.
Garden and Forest.
Journal of Botany.
Mehan'8 Monthly.
Memoirs of Torrey Botanical Club.
Pharmaceutical Journal.
Scientific American.
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CALENDAR 1B94-95.
Session begins Wednesday, Sept. 12, 1894
Examination for admission Wednesday, Sept. 12, 1894
First term begins Wednesday, Sept. 12, 1894
First term ends Friday, Dec. 21, 1894
Second term begins Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1895
Second term ends Saturday. March 23, 1895
Third term begins Monday, March 25, 1895
Sophomore class exercises Wednesday, May 1, 1895
Final examinations begin Wednesday, May 29, 1895
Commencement sermon Sunday, June 9, 1895
Annual meeting of Trustees ■ Monday,June 10,1895
Junior class celebration, 10 a. m. Monday, June 10,1895
Military exercises, 4 p. m : . . Monday, June 10, 1895
Celebration of Literary .Societies, 8 p. m Monday, June 10, 1895
Alumni day : Tuesday, June 11, 1895
Military exercises, 5p.m Tuesday, June 11, 1895
Address before Literary Societies, 8 p. m Tuesday, June 11, 1895
Commencement day Wednesday, June 12, 1895
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TRUSTEES.
His Excellency Wm. C. Gates, President Ex officio .
J. O. Turner, Superintendent of Education Ex-officio.
Jonathan Haralson... (term expires 1901) Selma.
Thos Williams (term expires 1901) Wetumpka.
J. A. Bilbro (term expires 1901) ..Gadsden.
I. F. Culver (term expires 1899) Union Springs.
J. C. Rich (term expires 1899) Mobile.
H. Clay Armstrong., (term expires 1899) ... .. Auburn.
R.H. Duggar ( r erm expires 1899) Gallion.
J. G. Gilchrist (term expires 1 897) Hope Hull.
Wm. Smaw (term expires 1897) .Boligee.
C. C. Harris (term expires 1897) Decatur.
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Wm . LeROY BROUN, M . A , LL. D.,
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OTIS D. SMITH, A. M.,
Professor of Mathematics.
P. H. MELL, M. E., Ph. D.,
Professor of Botany and Geology.
JAMES H. LANE, C. E, A. M., LL. D.,
Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.
CHARLES C. THACH, A. M. f
Professor of English and Political Economy,
GEORGE PETRIE, M. A., Ph. D.,
Professor of History and Latin.
Lieut. J. H. WILLS, 22nd Infantry, U. S. A. (West Point),
Commandant and Professor of Military Science.
A. J. BONDURANT, A. M.,
Professor of Agriculture.
A. F. McKISSICK, A. M.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering.
J. M. STEDMAN,B. S.,
Professor of Biology.
B. B. ROSS, M. Sc,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.
CHARLES H. ROSS, C. E., Ph.' D„
Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages and English.
J. J. WILMORE, M. E.,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Laboratory.
C. A. CARY, B. Sc. x D. V. M.,
Professor of Physiology and Veterinary Science.
B. H. CRENSHAW, M. E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts.
R. E. NOBLE, M. Sc,
Instructor in Chemical Laboratory.
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R. J. TRAMMELL, C. E.,
Assistant Instructor in Mechanic Arts.
L.W.PAYNE, Jr., M. Sc,
Assistant Librarian.
W. M. RIGGS, E. & M. E,
Instructor Physical Laboratory.
J. V. Brown, B. Sc./ Assistant in English and Mathematics.
R. C. Conner, B. Sc Assistant in English.
J A Duncan, B. Sc...... Assistant in Mathematics.
C. G. Greene, B. Sc .Assistant in Botany and Biology.
W. W. Moore, B. Sc Assistant in Mechanic Arts.
J. P. Slaton, B. Sc. . . . Ass't in Civil Engineering and Drawing.
R . G . Williams, B . Sc Assistant in Chemistry.
L, S. Boyd, B. Sc .Secretary and Assistant in Physics.
J. H. Drake, M. D Surgeon
C. C. Thach ... Librarian and Recording Secretary
°- D Sm,th Corresponding Secretary.
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OFFICERS
OF THE
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.
COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION.
I. F. Culver Union Springs.
J.G.Gilchrist Hope.Hull.
H. Clay Armstrong Auburn.
STATION COUNCIL.
Wm. LeRoy Broun President.
A.J. Bondurant Agriculturist.
B. B. Ross Chemist.
P. H. Mell Botanist.
J. M. Stedman Biologist.
C . A . Gary Veterinarian .
ASSISTANTS.
J . T . Anderson, Ph . D First Assistant Chemist .
R E. Noble, M . Sc Second Assistant Chemist .
C. L . Hare, M . Sc Third Assistant Chemist .
T. U. Culver Superintendent of Farm .
W. B. Frazer. Farm Clerk.
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OBJECT OF THE SOLLEGE.
The leading object of the College, in conformity with the
act of Congress and the acts of the State Legislature, is to
teach the principles and the applications of science.
In its course of instruction it gives prominence to the
sciences and their applications, especially to those that re-
late to agriculture and the mechanic arts; and at the same
time the discipline obtained by the study of languages and
other sciences is not neglected.
All students are required to study the English language.
The Latin, French and German languages are also taught,
and opportunity for their study is offered to students in
any course.
The special or technical instruction given is thus based
on a sound, general education.
The College, in fact, is a distinctive school of industrial
science — or Polytechnic Institute — a title which by reso-
lution of the Trustees is permitted to be inscribed on the
catalogue, — and work of great value to the youth of the
State is now being accomplished by fitting them by a
thorough science-discipline, in which manual training in
the lower classes is made a prominent feature, for the suc-
cessful and honorable performance of the responsible
duties of life.
While every attention is given to the mental discipline
of the students in endeavoring to train them to habits of
accurate scientific thought, and thus to qualify them for
the duties of life, their moral and Christian training will
always constitute the prominent care and thought of the
Faculty.
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LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES FOR INSTRUC-
TION.
The College now possesses facilities for giving labora-
tory instruction in applied science in the following depart-
ments:
I — IN AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.
The farm contains 226 acres, and is supplied with illus-
trative specimens of stock of select varieties.
The agricultural experiment station, established in con-
nection with the College, where experiments and scientific
investigations relating to agriculture are daily made, affords
unusual opportunities to students to become familiar with
agriculture, its defects and remedies.
The students of agriculture accompany the professor in
the field, garden, conservatory, stock-yard, etc., where lec-
tures are delivered in the presence of the objects discussed,
and during the year exercises in practical agriculture of an
educational character are given the students who enter
upon this course of study. •
II — IN MECHANIC ARTS.
The laboratory of mechanic arts is used as an auxiliary
in industrial education, and as a school in manual training in
the arts that constitute the foundation of various industrial
pursuits. The work performed by the students is instruct-
ive in character, as in any other laboratory, and the classes
are taught in sections by a series of graded lessons under
the supervision of the professor. In the lower classes of
the College each student enters this school, and is assigned
three exercises a week, each exercise being two hours
long.
The object of this laboratory is not to teach a trade, but
to educate, to discipline and train the eye and the hand, as
well as the mind, and thus by associating manual and
mental training, to educate thoroughly the student for the
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duties of life, whatever his vocation may be. There is no
attempt to teach students special skill in constructing
articles of commercial value, but all the exercises are
systematically arranged and designed for purposes of
education.
The wood department is located in a commodious hall,
90 x 50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horse-power
Corliss engine, a planer, circular saw, band-saw, two scroll
saws, a buzz planer, twenty-four stands each with a lathe
and a full set of tools, and thirty benches for carpentry
work with the tools requisite for construction.
A brick building, 30 x 87 feet with two rooms, has been
constructed especially for instruction in working iron.
One room is equipped with sixteen forges and tools re-
quired for a forge department, and the other with a cupola
furnace, having a capacity of 1,000 pounds per hour, a core
oven, a brass furnace, moulding benches, a 2000-pound
hoist, and special tools for use in a foundry.
The forge and foundry rooms are furnished with a Stur-
tevant fan and exhauster, supplied with power from a ten
horse-power engine, constructed by the students in me-
chanic arts.
The machine department occupies a brick building,
30 x 50 fe<jt, and is equipped with ten engine lathes, one
speed lathe, one 20-inch drill press, one 10-inch sensitive
drill, one post drill, one 16-inch shaper, one 5-foot planer,
one univeral milling machine, a corundum tool grinder, a
small emery grinder, a universal cutter and reamer grinder,
a No. 1 Brown & Sharpe universal grinding machine, and
a power hack saw.
The chipping and filing department is arranged with
benches, vises and tools for twelve students.
The tool room is well supplied with special tools for use
in instruction, including a machine for grinding twist
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drills. The rooms are lighted with electricity whenever
necessary.
Ill — IN PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.
The chemical laboratory is supplied with modern appa-
ratus, and in its equipment affords excellent facilities for
instruction in practical chemistry and for investigation.
The investigations that are undertaken in this laboratory
by scientific experts, iu connection with the work of the
agricultural experiment station, are of especial value to
advanced students, and afford them unusual opportunities
to learn the methods of scientific research. The building
contains a large general laboratory that will accommodate
sixty students, a lecture room with capacity for one hun-
dred seats, and nine other rooms, all appropriated to in-
struction and research in chemistry.
IV. — IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. •
The electrical laboratory is well supplied with modern
appliances for instruction in electrical engineering. It
occupies two large rooms in the basement, and is equipped
with many fine instruments of precision: Kelvin deka-
ampere balance, Kelvin graded current and potential
galvanometers, Cardew voltmeter, Weston voltmeters and
ammeter, Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter and ammeter,
Thomson watt-meter, Hartman and Braun voltmeter,
Kohlrausch ammeter, Wood ammeter, Weston alternating
current voltmeter, Weston direct reading watt-meter,
Queen's "Acme" testing set, Kelvin electrostatic voltmeter,
and many other current-measuring instruments, resistance
boxes, Wheatstone bridges, condensers, telephones, bat-
teries, magnets, etc. '
The dynamos occupy a separate building and are opera-
ted by a twenty-five horse-power Atlas engine, and a
thirty-five horse-power Westinghouse engine. In this
building are installed the following dynamos:
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Edison compound 12 kilo-watt generator, Thomson-
Houston 150 light 110 volt dynamo, Weston 150 volt 25
ampere dynamo, Crocker-Wheeler one-horBe power motor,
Brush six arc-light dynamo with lamps, two-phase alternator
and 500 volt 20 ampere generator, made by students.
There is also in connection with this department a ten
horse-power motor, made by students, at the experiment
station, one thousand yards from the College, which is op-
erated by the 500 volt generator in the dynamo room.
V. — IN PHYSICS.
In the College building provision is made for elementary
laboratory work in the department of physics. Special
rooms in the basement are appropriated for this purpose,
and are equipped with the necessary appliances for instruc-
tion in practical physics.
VI. — IN MINERALOGY.
This laboratory occupies a convenient room in the base-
ment, and is provided with tables and appliances to accom-
modate thirty students, with an excellent collection of
minerals.
VII. — IN BOTANY.
In the work of the agricultural experiment station there
is a botanical garden under the charge of the professor of
botany, investigations in botany are given special atten-
tion, and opportunities are offered advanced students for
practical work in a laboratory especially fitted with micro-
scopes, tables, a dark room for photographic work, and
appliances needed for instruction and research. This de-
partment is provided with Auzoux's clastic models of seeds
and flowers for teaching botany.
VIII. — IN BIOLOGY.
The laboratory in this department adjoins the lecture
room of the professor, and is furnished with tables, excel-
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lent microscopes and appliances for investigation. Each
student of the class works under the supervision of the
professor.
IX. — IN ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING.
The necessary apparatus for field work, including tran-
sits, levels, plane table, models of bridges, etc., is provided
for the use of the students, and the customary exercises in
the field are given.
X. — IN DRAWING.
All students in the lower classes are required to t^ke
drawing, a study which tends to discipline the mind, as
well as to train the eye and band to accuracy of observation
and execution. A large, well-lighted drawing room, that
will accommodate fifty students, is provided with tables,
lock boxes, etc.
XI — IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
The mechanical course has been extended to include a
fairly thorough course of experimental work in mechanical
engineering.
The apparatus available for this instruction is as follows:
a 25-horse power Harris-Corliss engine, a 35-horse power
Westinghouse engine, a 25-horse power Atlas engine, two
9-horse power engines constructed by students in the shops,
the boilers belonging to the regular power plant, a small
engine and boiler for the special purpose of making efficiency
tests, a Dean duplex steam pump, an Ericsson hot air en-
gine, a Westinghouse air pump, four steam engine indica-
tors, a separating calorimeter, thermometers, a pyrometer,
scales, a standard steam gauge with apparatus for testing
steam gauges, a Crosby dead weight tester with weights
for correcting the standard gauge, a 35,000-pound testing
machine, and a Heuning micrometer extensometer.
No suitable place has as yet been provided for a testing
laboratory, and the work is carried on, partly in a room in
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the basement of the main building, partly in the dynamo
house, and partly in the shops. The work is thoroughly
practical, and it is desired to extend it as rapidly as the
funds available for the purchase of apparatus will allow.
XII — IN PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.
There has been constructed for the veterinary laboratory
a new and separate two-story building with nine rooms.
It is provided with lecture room, office, w.orking and op-
erating rooms for clinical practice, and museum with skele-
tons of the domestic animals for instruction. Free clinics
are given every Saturday for the benefit of the students in
veterinary science.
MILITARY TACTICS.
Instruction in this department is given in conformity
with the act of Congress. Students receive the benefit of
regular military drill, and in addition the military system
is used as a means of enforcing discipline and securing
good order, promptness and regularity in the performance
of academic duties.
This department is under the charge of Lieut. J. H. Wills,
22nd Infantry, U. S. A.
It is supplied with new cadet muskets and accoutrements
for the corps, and for artillery practice, with two three-
inch rifle guns, carriages and limbers.
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COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
The frontispiece is a representation of the main College build-
ing. It is i6oby 71 feet, and contains forty -five rooms. This
building is not used for dormitories for students, but is appro-
priated to purposes of instruction and investigation.
It contains the lecture rooms and offices of the professors,
labc ratories, library, museum, armory, etc.
> LANGDON HALL.
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This is a two-story building, ninety by fifty feet. The second
story is the audience hall, used for commencement and other pub-
lic occasions.
The first story is appropriated to the laboratory of mechanic arts.
THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY,
As shown on the opposite page, is a two-story structure, 40 by
60 feet, with a rear projection, 35 by 60 feet, of one-story and
basement, and contains eight rooms. The exterior is of pressed
brick, with cut stone trimmings and terra-cotta ornamentation .
In the basement are ample accommodations for assaying and
storage.
The main laboratory will accommodate sixty students, and con-
tains improved working tables, with water, gas and every necessary
appliance for chemical work.
The second story contains a lecture room and room for gas
analysis. Around this lecture room are cases containing crude
and manufactured products, illustrating the subjects of agricultural
and industrial chemistry, which are prominent subjects taught in
this institution.
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GRADUATES IN 1894
CLASS OK 1894.
HONOR GRADUATES.
COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Champe Seabury Andrews .Tennessee.
COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.
James Archibald Duncan Pike.
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
Ogden Ellery Edwards .Calhoun.
GENERAL COURSE. *
Peyton Herndon Moore ,,,,,'. , .Blount,
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE:
George Smith Anderson Lee.
Champe Seabury Andrews Tenness.ee. , ,
Kate Conway Broun , „ .Lee,.
James Vandivqr Brown ,. Georgia.
John Morgan Burns Dallas.
Greene Watley Carlisle Lee.
William DeLamar Clayton , f Lee.
Roseberry. Covington Conner Macon.
Palmer Payne Daugette. »*> .Lee.
Rufus Thomas Dorsey Georgia.
Waverly Goode Duggar Hale.
James Archibald Duncan Pike.
Julius Confree-Dunham *.-.... Montgomery. -
Charles Dunlap Madison.
James Dunlap Madison.
Ogden Ellery Edwards Calhoun,
Robert Cherry Toy ,. .Barbour,
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Frederic Almet Fulghum .Jefferson.
Charles Gordon Greene Lee.
Crosland Clarence Hare Lee,
Augustus J . Harris Morgan
Arthur William Holstun Chambers
Jesse Drewry Lane Randolph.
Sydney Leach . Tiucaloosa.
Willie Gertrude Little Lee.
Paul Pratt McKeown Florida
Herman Meislahn Florida
Lauriston Greene Moore Lee
Peyton Herndon Moore Blount
William Washington Moore # Blount
PeterPreer • '.....Georgia.
Samuel Arthur Redding ; # Georgia
John Presley Slaton . . ; Macon '
Margaret Kate Teague ; Arkansas.
Jack Thonngton Montgomery.
Graham Golson Vaughan ' ; .Dallas
• Frank Atki »son Vernon . . .'.'.' .'.'.Chambers.
Rinaldo Greene Williams ■ Lee
Arthur Zdchariah Wright \[ \ Lee
MASTER OF SCIENCE.
Robert Lee Bivins .....Lee.
Clarence William Daugette Lee
Henry.
James Buhrman Espy
Thomas Litchfield Kennedy Lee'
Nicholas Barnett Marks ' '.'.'.'.'. ]]]]' " Kentucky
Hampton Knox Miller Tallade a
Altie L Quaintance. . . . V"- Vl *, ***'
T , « ,,. Florida.
Joel tranklin Webb. r>
Coosa.
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CIVIL ENGINEER.
Massey Robart Burton.... T
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Henry Hamilton Smith... . A/f ,
Montgomery .
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
John Henry Holt...
Walter MerrittRiggs,;;; ' ^°Tr r
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DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS.
Students who receive a grade above 90 in three studies in the
Freshman Class, in four in the Sophomore, in five in
the Junior, aid in six in the Senior, are
distinguished for excellence in schol-
arship, and are awarded
HONOR CERTIFICATES.
The following students received honor certificates in 1894:
SENIOR CLASS.
Champe Seabury Andrews Tennessee.
Kate Conway Broun Lee.
Roseberry Covington Conner Macon .
James Archibald Duncan Pike. m
Ogden Ellery Edwards Calhoun.
Charles Gordon Greene Lee.
Arthur William Holstun Chambers.
Jesse Drewry Lane .. .Randolph.
Willie Gertrude Little . . . Lee.
Paul Pratt McKeown Florida.
Peyton Herndon Moore Blount.
William Washington Moore Blount.
Rinaldo Greene Williams Lee.
HONOR STUDENTS IN JUNIOR CLASS.
COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Solon Lycurgus Coleman Perry
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
James Claude Thomason Randolph
GENERAL COURSE.
LeVert Coleman • Madison
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JUNIOR CLASS.
LeVert; Colemanf.,. L j .;. j .;. ; . f .j .:.j. [. j ; . .j.j. > i #l j .j. JM|adi's<J>n j
Solon Lycurgus Coleman Perry.
Langdon Bowie Gammon Georgia .
Henry Hearst Kyser , Talladega.
James Newsom i. .. . Georgia.
Harry Howell Smith, '. , .Lee.
Herbert Warren Taylor . . . . 1 Montgomery,
James Claude Thomason Randolph.
John Adams Wills. . .. ! ' * L ee
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Albert Lea Alexander , Georgia
Charles Nutting Alford .Marshall.
Andrew Beirne Andrews. :..'.;. :'. '.:.'. f? Tennessee
William James ,Beeson , Etowah.
James Washington Culver Lee.
George Michael Holley !!!!!!! ^Georgia. , !,'
Garry Devon King Georgia.
Francis Morrissette ^ u «Halei».t
James Louis Molder r*
; lr . n . iw^iucr % .Georgia. • r.
William Abner Tinoin tti • j
....... uppin... „.vr. Florida.
William .Henry .Harrison Trammell JLee. „ ,
Augustus Robiason Wilkerson ...Georgia,. ....
William Mania Williams Georgia< , , ,
Bryce Hewitt Wilson ^JjJpJ, _ ,
FRESHMAN CLASS.' -
Alexander Humphreys Clark .............. '.'. . . Montgomery.
Peyton Graves 'ClarTc: 1 //'' -' "• ™„. T . ?1 ,.., "*..., /?,
Ernest WillUm Heck M>nt£6mery.
p . • t, - - :•••......... . ... . . Illinois.
r-dwin Bryce JoseDh "" "' «V"
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Warren Horton McBryde .... • • m «k;u • ■■•; • ■
JohnPurifoy ...Mobile,
Frank Har&if'^£; '"'"^ ' ''' ' ' -^ finery.
George Wrigley.. J* 01 *"-
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Leigh Sjft$$g £oyd . ................. ,. ..... Mtffc* 1 1
James f j^$y$r Brown . . ..... . . „ . y* j rf „ prfWff vP e ^Si?^
Rosebfl^y^p^jngton Conner.. -V# .^„ri*r///-r^M*WW n
James ^f^jl?a]d Duncan ...... v . . ... ,,?*,,►},!*//•£&& I I waibitA
Julius "Qjpfr^e punham .../... v : . .>«..•.;*. f«f.mfi.iWQntg()ni9raf M ;
Charles Gonjoif Greene.. ...... .-,...,•... v.-. •.•.•^- Hi Ive^uuib A h
Crosland Clarence Hare Lee.
Lauriston Greene Hoax*??*:™. &WA Lee.
Williarn ^4&kft)gtpn Mppre ,***<•«%«««%*• «*&« KxBkniaU mdl /
Walter. (MflWtt/lRiggs. . ..... .............. ........ .1. f*>i I/. .S^uth/CaiOliiaiai
John /P$$%l£Jf"»Sl3tQn .•«%«.,.%% ..,...,.,.,.,. v.v^iiwj.AMiaciofii. wrrbn /
Rinaldo. Q itfattf Williarn^ ....................... ,. jV.uvw^iLe^of noiiM
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NAME, , , .COUNTY, OR STATE, ,
Robert, Rigginf Adams .... ....,-,. .......... T .„... ?ik^ : j v .. 1 1
Daniel Sj^g£n£r Anderson . . . . ......... tm*htmfeptei<l A v<»H -j [
Walter Scott ,4*kew . . .,.,** f ;Qh[a9i^r^
Hugh Bicker^ta fij*.*jj„j«'ij>* : v « '^\\if^ri^^^lU^i^ ^ I
George Perkjnsj Bondurant ...... . .......... s3YkK$4fern3 i
Frank. A$WfP> PPJ kin . .............. . n $ f , , m $ f. Iy^ ( 1 1 A 3i i ;
William ^fal^c^e Bussey . . . . . . ;-*xnQ&°W9'.rt
Gordqiv^weljen Chambers . . .......... ^ivJ^VW^.-M
LeVert Colen^an ^ v ij^a4wQft. ) n rf<
Solon Lycurgp? Coleman . . . ..... . . « rff , t(f ..>j. | w ^Ma^A6P^
Langdoii.Rowi^ Gammon. .......... , . . , &][\& .^prgi^
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Benjamin Browning Haralson .Dallas.
Benjamin Glenn Jennings Russell
Henry Hearst Kyser Talladega.
Charles Linn Jefferson.
James Neil McLean Montgomery.
William Cunningham McMillan Talladega
James Newsom Georgia.
Henry Hinds Peevey Madison.
Tilden Hendricks Phipps Georgia
Walter Russell Shafer Montgomery.
Harry Howell Smith L ee
Percy Hilton Smith Georgia
Herbert Warren Taylor \\[ Montgomery.
James Claude Thomason Randolph.
Robe rt Edward Lee Weathers Randolph
Andrew Hearne Whitman Lowndes.
Frank Lewis Whitman t ^„,.^
lttU • * Lowndes.
John Adams Wills Lce
JUNIOR CLASS.
/'Albert Lea Alexander. Georgia
Charles Nutting Alford \\ Marshall
Andrew Beirne Andrews '....Tennessee.
Manon Joseph Bancroft ■ Mobile
? Wilham James Beeson Etowah
>. John Simeon Bennett t
Sidney Josiah Bross .'..**...'... Coosa
jr Joseph Quarterman Burton... Lee
* T H T y R 17 T ^ Sey ''•'•'• • ••••••• • • • Jefferson .
LeRoy Abda Christian ..... «,,.,.
Albert Bedell dower ,Jw.'.'~ '.'. '.'.'.'.[ Ut
t* James Washington Culver T
/-Walter Ernest Culver .". £
^Hubert Alberto Drennen . '. ' T #'
ObaDeVan Dumas... ^ erS °"-
h Jesse B. Edwards. .. . "'If ° *'
/.John Cuthbert Farley *'"" T ? lladega.
A Walter Lynnewood Fleming'.'.'.'. ^L
Malcolm Luther Gillis ,][ \Z Z^^.
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John Louis Glenn Butler.
^ Annie Florence Heard Lee.
p John Fletcher Heard \ . Lee.
^ Hampton Sanders Henderson Talladega.
Walter Erwin Henley Jefferson .
Charles Wadsworth Hill Greene .
^ Robert Campbell Holley South Carolina.
Charles Leitner Howard Georgia.
Daniel Thornton Hudmon Lee.
Frank Thomas Jackson Mobile.
Homer Virgil Jackson Georgia.
/* Richard Sparks J ackson Jefferson .
^ George Coates Kelley Jefferson.
h William Berrian Kelly Montgomery.
^•Charles Lee King '. . .Georgia.
h Garry Devon King Georgia.
Francis Morrissette i Hale.
^ James Louis Molder .Georgia.
Julian Berry Oglesby Georgia.
John Albin Reeves Montgomery.
Frank Alva Robertson Calhoun .
^ Oliver John Semmes . Mobile .
William Henry Shanks , . . Butler.
Ir Benjamin Asbury Taylor Autauga.
Wade Douglas Taylor Madison.
t Walker Reynolds Tichenor Georgia. '*
fr> William Abner Tippin Florida .
^ William Henry Harrison Trammell Lee.
Richard Wilde Walker Tennessee.
t William Martin Williams Georgia.
Bryce Hewitt Wilson Franklin.
Cary Oscar Wright Lee.
^ Darwin StearneS Wright Georgia.
fr Estelle Love Whitaker. Lee.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Emile Glines Abbott Georgia.
William Kirk Armstrong , Lee.
Harry Boland !.!'.! 1 ! J f fferson t
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George Dpa^.Borup. ...... . .' . ..,^gp^ery.,
Lewis Edwajd jBjrruin . . ............... .fet^M.JJj^ Qpplipa.
Walter Marian , Carter ...... . .tmsfHftta:
Edgeworth Stephens Casey. .... ..^,^5 .... • je^rsfln.
Alexander Humphreys Clark ... . .... . . .,. ...... .fttoufgopery. „
Peyton Graves ,Clark.. ..... ............ [Mi'^Sm^^^Y- j
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Duncan Patterson Dixon T alladega*
Andrew Denny DuBose Lee.
Clifford Lamar Edwards Lee.
Robert Clark Fenton Connecticut.
Frank R n ese Frazer Lee.
Shelton Charles Frederic Mobile.
Arnold Frederic Glass Mobile.
Charles William Glass Mobile.
John Ross Glenn Lee.
John Lemial Gonce Tennes c ee.
Benjamin Fortson Griffin Texas.
William Emery Guy Coosa.
Francis Williams Hare .... j Lee.
Charles Edward Harrison Florida.
Henry E. Harvey Lee.
William Thomas Hearn Sumter.
Harry Streety Houghton Jefferson.
Marshall Hill Hurt Macon .
Absalom Jackson Mobile.
David Kahn Montgomery.
William Anderson Kline . ' . . . . . Lee.
William Earle Lay Etowah.
Josiah Thomas Mangum Lee.
John Richard McCalla Lee.
George Bulger McDonald . .Coosa.
Peter Mastin Mclntyre , Montgomery.
John Calvin McLeod • Lee.
Edwin Thomas Merrick Louisiana.
James Williamson Minis Calhoun .
Benjamin Otey Minge. . . ! /.'. !".'.'.' Marengo*.
Chad wick Wiley Minge.; Marengo.
John Nelson Mixon Conecuh.
George McElhaney Moore Lee
Berrien Tyrel Morgan ...*/.'.!'...!'.'.'.'. Georgia.
Howard Crawford Motley ... Lee
John St. Clair Paden . JZ.! * ' ' ' ' ! ' ' ' E towar,
Robert Stewart Parker Sumten
Harry John Pettus Montgomery,
James Ware Ray E]mQ ^
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John Robbins Dallas.
Benjamin David Stabler Wilcox.
William Livingston Stewart Montgomery.
William Bee Stokes Marion.
Cecil Pitts Stowe Lee.
Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe Louisiana.
Alexander Clitherall Taylor Montgomery.
Felix Stanley Thomas . . Lee.
James Leonard Thomas Lee.
William Alexander Thomason Lee
Robert Caldwell Whiting Montgomery.
John Wesley Williams Lee.
Richard Morris Williamson Montgomery.
SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.
John Arrington Montgomery.
Bayard Mcintosh Atwood Georgia.
Lovie Irene Fielder Elmore.
Charles Edwin Goulding .Florida.
Richard Hackley Goulding Florida.
James Alston Groves Dallas.
Ramesus Alfonso Hammack Dale.
Charles Hays . ...Greene.
Joshua Copeland Hill Pike.
Perry Nance Hill.. Georgia.
George Reese Irwin Georgia.
Alphonso Rinaldo Jones . Coosa.
Ray Nathaniel Knight Calhoun.
Earle Foster Lee • • • • Lee.
Robert Mosley Lewis South Carolina.
Edward Sallust McCurdy Lowndes.
Cary Park McElhaney . . . ..... ..Lee.
William Edwin McEwen .Georgia.
Andrew Hammill Milstead Elmore.
Fred William Nardin South Carolina.
Samuel Noble Calhoun.
Harry Allen Orr .. .South Carolina.
John Paschal Russell.
William Henry Patterson Georgia.
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Marguerite Persons e -
Leonard Alvie Thomas Lee.
Westley Park Weathers Marengo.
SUB FRESHMAN CLASS
Isaac Abraham Montgomery.
Albert Martin Ayres.... ; Marshall.
John LeRoy Bryan Washington.
Leo Pogue DuBose Lee -
Walter Alexander Jones Lee -
Crawford Motley Jackson Elmore.
John Warmock Giddens Crenshaw.
Robert Wesley Lockhart Jefferson.
Henry Loeb Montgomery.
James Charner Samuel McGehee . Montgomery.
Robert Hugh Reid V-, Barbour.
August Daniel Rheiner Texas.
terdie John Rheiner Texas.,
Horatio Seymour '. Sumter.
Joseph Marshall Smith Coosa.
Clifford West Stewart Montgomery.
Andrew Barnett Terrell - • • • • Elmore.
Burns Michel Wert • • • • .Morgan.
Albert Edward Woodall Sumter.
Summary.
Graduates >....... >>" l 3
Senior Class '••••• 2 9
Junior Class .....53
Sophomore Class ; 6l
Freshman Class. . ...... • 6 9
Special and Irregular Students.... 2 ?
Total in College Classes. . . . . 2 5 2
Sub-Freshman Class l 9
Total.. .•••• 2? 1
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NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN
English ... .f4eH*f KW^'SJtO
History 144
French 3-2 •
German 28
Latin 103
Mental Science 15
Political Ecot omy —29-
Mathematics 227
Chemistry ... ..... , . ^ . joq.
Chemical Laboratory 45
Agriculture.. ...149
Physics ...116
Botany 76
EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.
'"Qeotpgy #'. h .• n- 1 •! 31
Civil Engineering 10
-Electrical Engineering. ... 39
Mechanical Engineering ... 35
Biology 9
Drawing . . . . 205
Mechanic Arts .157
Military Tactics 252
Mineralogy.. ... ,..,.« 6
Physical Laboratory 34
Physiology 32
Veterinary Science 32
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Military Organization.
1894-5
1. S. L. Coleman,
President,
W. L BROUN.
Commandant,
JOHN H. WILLS, 1st Lieut. 22nd Infantry.
Surgeon,
J. H. DRAKE, M. D.
Battalion Staff.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant H. H. Kysrr Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant J A. Wills, Q iart*r master
Cadet Sergeant W. M. Williams, Serjeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant 0. J. Semmes, Qaartermaster Sergeant.
Cadet Captains.
2. H. H. Smith,
Cadet First Lieutenants.
1. W. C. McMillan,
4. W. S. Askew,
1. W. A. Tippin,
1. F. MORRISETTE,
4. J. A. Reeves,
8 B A. Taylor,
11 G. B. Kelley,
14 J. Q. Burton,
V W H. McBrydk,
4. A H. MlLSTEAD,
7. B L Fcott,
10. E. B. Joseph,
*COLOR SERGEANT.
3. L. B Gammon.
2. R. H. Adams,
5. J. C. Thomabon,
Cadet First Sergeants.
2. fl. R. Casey,
Cadet Sergeants.
2. J. W. Culver *
5 W R. TlCHENOR
9 J. S. Bennett,
12. G. D. King,
15. H. A. Drennen,
Corporals.
2. W T. Warren,
5. W. H Nf.gus,
8. C. J. Nelson,
11. G. P. KY8ER,
3 James Newsom,
6 H. Bickerstaff.
3. A. L. Alexander.
3. W. J Beeson,
6 J. L. Glenn
10. W. E Culver
13. D T. Hudmon,
16. W. L. Fleming
3. John Purifoy,
6. B. M Atwo d,
9. W. C. Paden,
12. L. E. Byrum.
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.
Applicants for admission must be of good moral char-
acter. To enter the freshman class the applicant must be
not less than fifteen years of age, and should be qualified
to pass a satisfactory examination on the following subjects:
1. Geography, and History of the United States.
2. English — (a) An examination upon sentences con-
taining incorrect English, (b) A composition giving evi-
dence of satisfactory proficiency in spelling, punctuation,
grammar and division into paragraphs.
The composition in 1895 will be upon subjects drawn from one
or more of the following works: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and
Merchant of Venice, Longfellow's Evangeline, Irving's Sketch
Book, Scott's Marmion, Hughes's Tom Brown at Rugby, Dickins's
David Copperfield, Scott's Ivanhoe, Hawthorne's House of the
Seven Gables.
3. Mathematics — (a) Arithmetic, includingfundamental
operations; common and decimal fractions; denominate
numbers; the metric system; percentage, including interest
and discount; proportion; extraction of square and cube
roots, (b) Algebra, to quadratic equations.
Those applicants who desire to continue the study of Latin
should be qualified to pass a satisfactory examination in Latin
grammar and the first two books of Caesar, in addition to the
above subjects.
For admission to the higher classes, students should be prepared
to stand a satisfactory examination on all the studies of the lower
classes, as shown in the courses of study. Where opportunity has
not been offered to pursue special studies required at this College,
the system of equivalents will be adopted, and studies which
denote and equivalent amount of discipline and training will be
accepted as satisfactory.
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ADMISSION OF YOUNG FOMEN-
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The privilege of becoming students in .this College is
granted by the Trustees to young women .of .mature mipd
and character, on the following conditions:, , ,
The applicant must be eighteen years of ags> and if a
candidate for a degree, be* able- to pass a satisfactory
examination,^, each, of the, four subjects as named belom
If the applicant is a cauflidate for admission as a special
or irregular student she must; !?$ able to pass a satisfactory
examination in two of the subjects named.
(a) In English— Proficiency in spelling and punctua-
tion; Grammar (Whitney's Essentials of English); Rhetoric
(Lockwood,* Abbott's How to Write Clearly, Genung);
Scudder's American Prose Selections; Scudder's American
Poems.
(b) In History— Macy's Our Government; Chambers's
History of the United States; Myers's General fiistoiy.
(c) In Mathematics— Arithmetic; Algebra, including
quadratic equations, logarithms and series; Plane and Solid
Geometry; Plane and Analytical Trigonometry, as in Went-
worth.
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(d) In Latin — Grammar, including the forms and
syntax; . Jones's Latin Prose Composition; Translation
of selections from Caesar, Nepos, Virgil, Cicero's Orations,
Cicero's Letters, or the equivalent.
The equivalents of these subjects, as in above text-books, may
be substituted. » « , t
Certificates will be granted to those who are not candidates for
a degree upon the satisfactory completion of any subject as pursued
by the senior class.
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When admitted, upon complying with the conditions above
stated, they may enter upon the study of any subject taught in the
College, and join any class, for which upon examination, they may
be found qualified. The only condition imposed will be that they
engage in earnest study, and attend the exercises regularly. They
will board in the town with private families, and attend College
only at the hours of their exercises.
The Trustees authorize the faculty to admit a candidate for a
degree who is able to comply with all the requirements, at the
age of seventeen, if the application meets with their approval.
There will be no charge for tuition. The incidental fees,
amounting to $12.00 per year, will be paid, $6.00 on entrance,
and $6.00 on February 1st.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.
Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday, the
11th of September, the day 011 which the session opens.
Candidates will also be examined during the session, when
application is made for admission.
Applicants who are not prepared to stand the entrance
examinations for full admission to the freshman class are
admitted to the sub-college department.
They will be advanced to full admission to the freshman
class when they are qualified to pass satisfactorily the
required examinations.
Students upon their arrival at Auburn will report immediately
to the President. No student will be admitted to a recitation in
any class previous to matriculation.
NUMBER OF EXKRCISES REQUIRED.
All students are required to have not less than fifteen recitations
per week, or their equivalent, in addition to the exercises in labora-
tory work, drawing, and military drill . These additional exercises
occupy not less than twelve hours per week and in all give twenty-
seven to thirty hours per week required in College exercises .
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Special and Irregular Students.
The privilege of electing studies in the lower classes is
not granted to young students nor to their parents. The
faculty will assign a student on admission to that class of
a prescribed course for which he is qualified; but for special
reasons, approved by the faculty, he may be permitted to
become irregular.
Students qualified to prosecute the studies of the junior
class, and those over twenty-one years of age that are not
candidates for a degree, are permitted to take, with the
advice of the faculty, the subjects of study for which they
may be qualified.
Regular students who fail to pass satisfactory final examinations
in any one study become special students. They will be classed
as regular students pursuing a course for a degree, whenever they
can pa* the examinations in those subjects in which they were
fotind deficient.
Students, candidates for a degree, who are not in full standing
in all the prescribed studies of a class, rank in the military depart-
ment with that class in which they have the greatest number
of studies, and their names are so placed in the catalogue.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
The courses of study include the Physical, Chemical and
Natural Sciences, with their applications; Agriculture,
Biology, Mechanics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Drawing;
Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering; Physiology,
and Veterinary Science; English, French, German, and
Latin Languages; History, Political Economy, Mental and
Moral Sciences.
These studies are arranged in regular courses so as to
offer a liberal and practical education as a preparation for
the active pursuits of life.
There are four degree courses for undergraduates, each
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science \B. Sc.) and
requiring four years for its completion:
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I. Course in Chemistry and Agriculture.
II. Course in Mechanics and Civil Engineering.
III. Course in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
IV. General Course.
There are also two partial courses, each requiring two
years for its completion:
V. Two-Year Course in Agriculture.
VI. Two- Year Course in Mechanic Arts.
Course I includes theoretical and practical instruction
in those branches that relate to chemistry and agriculture,
and is especially adapted to those who propose to devote
themselves to agriculture or chemical pursuits.
Course II includes the principles and applications of the
sciences that directly relate to civil engineering, and is
adapted to those who expect to enter that profession.
Course III includes, besides the general principles and
applications of the sciences, a special course in the applica-
tions of electricity and mechanics, and is arranged for the
profession of electrical and mechanical engineering.
Course IV has been arranged to give a general and less
technical education in subjects of science and language to
meet the wants of those students who have selected no
definite vocation in life, as well as of those who propose
ultimately to engage in teaching, or in some commercial
or manufacturing business.
Courses V and VI have been arranged for the benefit of
those students who, for reasons satisfactory to themselves,
are unable to continue at college four years and to take one
of the regular degree courses.
Students who complete either of these two-year
courses will, on passing a satisfactory examination, receive
certificates indicating their attainments.
Those who have completed the general course in each
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department of the school of mechanic -arts, and are qual-
fied, can enter upon a mere extended technical course in
mechanical engineering.
Preparatory Course in Pharmacy and Medicine.
Students who look to pharmacy or medicine as a pro-
fession, and are qualified, can enter upon a special course
in chemistry, botany, physiology and biology, and occupy
their time with great profit in the laboratories of these de-
partments under the immediate direction of the professors.
With the very excellent facilities offered in these labora-
tories scientific training and preparation ot great value can
be obtained.
COURSE IN MINING ENGINEERING.
Students who have received the degree of B. Sc. in en-
gineering, or who have prosecuted an equivalent course of
study, can enter upon a special course of mining Engineer-
ing, which includes the following subjects of study, and
will require a residence of one year:
Industrial Chemistry, Assaying, Reduction of Ores, Min-
eralogy, Economic Geology, Mining Machinery, Drifting,
Tunnelling, Timbering, Ore Dressing, and the various
operations connected with the exploitation of mines.
This course of study will be under the charge of the pro-
fessors of chemistry, engineering, and geology.
SPECIAL ONE-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.
Young men over twenty-one years of age who desire to study
agriculture will be permitted, without examination, to enter any
class under the professor of agriculture, and will be excused from
reciting in any other class, from military duty, and from all other
college duties; but will be under the general college regulations,
and will be required to have their time fully occupied.
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They can attend the lectures in agriculture in all the classes and
engage in the practical, work at the experiment station, in the
field, stock-yard, dairy, garden, orchard, vineyard, etc., and may
thus in one year, acquire valuable practical knowledge of scientific
agriculture.
LABORATORY INSTRUCTION.
Laboratory instruction constitutes an important feature
in the courses of education provided for the students of
this College, and as far as possible all students are required
to enter upon laboratory work in some one department.
Laboratory instruction and practical work are given in
the following departments:
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
Note-
students
Chemistry. /
Engineering, Field Work, Surveying, etc.
Agriculture.
Botany.
Mineralogy.
Biology.
Technical Drawing.
Mechanic Arts.
Physics. '
Electrical Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering.
Physiology and Veterinary Science.
-Special work in English or History may be taken by
in the General Course as i. substitute for laboratory work.
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I.— COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
The Numerals opposite tbe subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
Second Term,
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics
3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Labor'y.6. Mechanic Art Labor'y.6. Mechanic Art Labor'y
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLA.SS.
First Term.
5. English.
2, History.
5 Mathematics.
3. Elementary Pbytics.
3. Drawing.
Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
2. Agriculture.
3 Drawing.
First Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing.
Second Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3 General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
3. Drawing.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Labor'y.6. Mechanic Art Labor'y.6. Mechanic Art Labor'y
2. Practical Agriculture. 2. Physiology. 2. Physiology.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
First Term.
Second Term.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. English.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Physics.
3. Physics.
3. Industrial Chemistry.
3. Industrial Chemistry.
3. Industrial Chemistry.
2. Agriculture.
2. Agriculture.
2. Agriculture.
4. Botany (Lab'y).
4. Botany (Lab'y).
4. Botany (Lab'y).
1.' Military Tactics.
1. Military Tactics.
1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Laboratory.
9. Chemical Laboratory.
9. Chemical Laboratory.
2. Veterinary Science.
2 Veterinary Science.
2. Veterinary Science.
3. Military Drill.
3. Military Drill.
2. Military Drill .
SENIOR CLASS.
FIB8T TERM.
SECOND TERM.
THIRD TERM.
2. English Literature.
2. Political Economy.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. Mental Science.
2. Mental Science.
2. Physics.
2. Astronomy.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
2. Geology.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.
5. Biology.
5. Biology.
2. Agricultur'l Ch'm'try
.2. Agricultur'l Ch'm'try.2. Agricultur'l Ch'm'try
1. Military Science.
1. Military Science.
1. Military Science.
9. Chemical Laboratory.
9. Chemical Laboratory.
9. Chemical Laboratory .
2. Practical Agriculture
2. Veterinary Science
2 Veterinary Science.
(a) Begirs March 1st.
(b; Also Practical Agriculture.
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ENGINEERING.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
FRE8HMAN CLA8S.
FIRST TERM.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
3 E'ementary Physics
3. Drawing
SECOND TERM.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics
3. Elementary Physics
THIRD TERM.
5 English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
2. Agriculture.
3 Drawing.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Dall. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
FIRST TERM.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
FIR8T TERM.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
SECOND TERM.
3. English.
3. IJistory.
5. Mathematics.
3 General Chemistry.
2 Agriculture (b).
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
THIRD TERM.
3. English.
8. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3 General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLAJ3S.
SECOND TERM.
3 Eoglish, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
3. Military Drill.
THIRD TERM.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
1. Military Tactics.
6 Lab'yTMech. Arts(c). 6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts(c) 6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c).
2 Field Work, Eogin'g. 2. Field Work, Engin'g. 2. Field Work, Eo»
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
FIRST TERM. SECOND TERM. THIRD TERM.
2. Eoglish Literature (d) 2. Political Economy (d). 2. Political Economy (d
2 Physics. 2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.
2. Geology. 2. Geology. 2. Geology.
3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics.
(b) For Agriculture may be substituted Physical Laboratory.
(d) For^nl^Lufliid Pol. Boon, may be substituted French or German.
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6. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering,
s! Drawing. 5. Drawing. 5. DrawiDg.
1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.
4. Mech. Eng., L%b'y. 4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y. 4 Mech. Eng , Lab'y.
Field Work, Engin'g. Field Work, Engin'g. Field Work, Engin'g.
Ill— COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHAN-
ICAL ENGINEERING.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
In Freshman and Sophomore classes same as in course in mechanics
and civil engineering.
FIRST TERM.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
4. Electrical Engin'g.
3. Mech. Engineering.
JUNIOR CLASS.
SECOND TERM.
3. English, French; or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
4. Electrical Engin'g.
THIRD TERM.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
4. Electrical Engin'g.
3 Mech. Engineering.
3. Mech, Engineering
4. Mechanical Drawing. 4 Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing.
4. Electrical Laboratory. 4. Electrical Laboratory. 4 Electrical Laboratory.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y. 6. Mech. Art Lab'y. 6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Term. Second Term.
2. English Literature (b). 2. Political Economy (b) 2.
2. Physics. 2. Astronomy. 2.
2. Geology. 2. Geology. 2.
3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics. 3.
5. glectricsl Eogineer'g. 5. Electrical Engineer'g 5.
5. Mech. Engineering. 5. Mech. Engineering. 5.
2. Electrical Designing. 2. Electrical Designing. 2.
6. Electrical Laboratory. 6. Electrical Laboratory.6.
4. Mech. Eng. Lab'y. 4. Mech. Eng. Lab'y. 4.
1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1.
Third Term.
Political Economy (b).
Astronomy.
Geology.
Mathematics.
Electrical Engineer'g.
Mech. Engineering.
Electrical Designing.
Electrical Laboratory.
Mech. Eng. Lab'y.
Military Science.
(b) French or German may be substituted.
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The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
Second Term.
3 English.
2. History.
5 Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Ar. Lib'y. 2. Agriculture.
3 Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 6. Mechanic Arts.
3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
First Term.
3. English.
2. History.
5 Latin.
5. Mathematics
3. Drawing.
Third Term.
3 English.
3. His^ry.
3 Latin.
5 Mathematics.
3 Drawing.
First Ttrm.
5. Latin.
3. History.
5 Mathematics.
3. General Cnemistry.
3. Drawing.
Second Term.
5. L«*tin.
3. Hisory.
5 Mathematics.
3 General Chemistry.
Third Term.
5. Latin.-
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.
3. Drawing
6 Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Dri 1. 3 Military Drill.
First Ttrm.
3. English.
3. Phys ; c8.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
3 English.
H. Physics.
3. Mathematics
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
1. Military Tactics.
6 Laboratory Work (b). 6. Laboratory Work (b). 6. Laborato y Work (b).
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Term.
2. EngUsh Literature
2 Mental Scierce.
2. Physics.
2. Geology.
3 French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science
Second Term.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. As'ronomy.
2 Geology.
3 French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.
Third Term.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.
6. Laborato ry Work (b) 6. Laboratory Work (b). 6. Laboratory Work (b)
(a) Begins March 1st. ...v .
(b) The student may elect the laboratory of any department for which he may be
qualified.
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V.— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS.
First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.
12. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
FIRST YEAR.
Second Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics.
3 Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
SECOND YEAR.
Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.
12. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
2. Agriculture,
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.
12. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
VI— TWO-YEAR COURSE m AGRICULTURE.
Fi+tt Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
FIRST YEAR.
^Second Term.
5. English.
Third Term.
5. English .
2. History. 3. History.
5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing. 3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.
4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
* Military Drill . 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
2. Practical Agriculture. 2. Practical Agriculture. 2. Practical Agriculture.
SECOND YEAR.
Second Term,
3. English.
First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
4. Agriculture.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
4. Agriculture.
Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry,
4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.
2. Physiology.
t Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science. 2 Veterina°ry" Science.
12^Practical Agr culture 12. Practical Agriculture.12. Practical Agriculture
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.
HOU
RSI
I.
8-9
II.
910
III.
10-11
MONDAY.
4. Algebra.
1 and 2 Drawing.
1 Elec. Engineer' g.
2. Mecb. Engineer'g
4. English.
3 Chemistry.
2. Engineering.
2. Latin.
1. Calculus.
2. Elec. Engineer'g.
TUESDAY.
3. Physiology.
4. Geometry.
3. Latin.
2 German.
1 and 2 Drawing.
2. Botany.
L_
LlElec. .ungineer'g.
WEDNESDAY.
4. Algebra.
gpLatin 4
1 and 2 Drawing.
1. Erei^Engineer'g.
3 English.
2. Physics.
1. German .
1. Engineering.
1. Biology.
1. Mech. Engineer'g
4. History.
3. Agriculture.
2. Engineering.
2. Botany.
. Elec. En
4 Englisb.
3 Chemistry.
• 2. Engineering.
2. Latin
1 Calculus
ngineer'g.'2. Vet. Science.
J 2. Elec. EDgineer'g
3. History (1. 2),
3. Botany (2. 3)
1. Biolo
1. fingiTreering.
4. English.
1. Mech. Engineer'g
2. French.
3. Englisb (1. 2).
2. Physics.
1 German.
1. Engineering.
I. Biology.
I. H Ei
THURSDAY.
3. Physiology.
4. Geometry.
3 Latin.
2 German.
1 and 2 Drawing.
2 Botany.
1. Mental Science.
1. ETfiC. Engineer^
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4 Algebra.
3. Latin.
1 and 2 Drawing.
1. ET TnSSr g
ire.
4. History.
3. Aju^m^u
2 Engineering.
2. Botany.
1. P bvBirs
2. HJiec JUngineer'g
ogineer'g
3. History (1. 2)
3. Botany (2. 3)
I. EMgTrteering.
4. English.
1. Mech. Engineer'g
2. French.
FRIDAY.
4. English.
3. Chemistry.
2. Engineering.
2. Latin.
1. CarcuTu>.
2. Mech Engineer'g
2 Vet. Science.
SATURDAY.
Exerc's in Elocution.
Military Di ill.
3. English.
2. Physics.
1. German.
1. Engineering.
1. Birjloay.
4. HTstoTy (3).
1. Mecb. Engineer'g
Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laboratory.
Field Engineering.
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HOUKS
IV.
1M2
MONDAY.
4. Physics (1. 2).
V.
12-1
4. Agriculture (3).
4. Latin (1. 2).
3 Drawing.
2 Mathematics.
2 Chemistry.
l. EnzUshJL). .
1. rrjnfTEcon. (2 3)
4. Mechanic Arts .
P.M.
VI. VII.
2-4
4. Drawing.
3. Mathematics.
2. English.
4. Mechanic Arts.
1. Elec. Designing.
TUESDAY.
±. Latin „
3. Drawing.
2 Agriculture.
2. Mathematics,
i. Chemi sts
i. Frencl
3. Mathematics.
2 English.
L. Geolog y.
4. Mechanic Arts.
3 Field W'rk, Agr.
1 & 2 L
1 <fe 2 Field wor
... Engineer'g.
1 & 2 Mach. Work.
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor' tory
3. Mechanic Arts.
2 Miueralogy
Laboratory.
WEDNESDAY.
4. Physics (1. 2)
4. Latin (3)
3. History (1.2).
3. Botany (2 3).
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry .
1 English (1).
1. Political Econ-
THTJRSDAY.
4. Latin.
4. Mechanic Arts.
4 Drawing.
3. Mathematics.
1. Latin.
4. Mechanic Arts.
2. Mecb. Engineer'g
2 German.
1. E ec. Designing.
4 Mechanic Arts.
3. Field W'rk, Agr.
L & 2 Laboratory,
Military Drill (*). *• ^^^52 fen.
1 & 2 Field \ff>rP
3 Mech. Libor'tory
Elec Lab'y Work.
1 and 2 History.
Eagineer'g
l&2Mach. Work
Ex'cis in Elocution
Elec. Lab Work.
Physical Labor' tory
2.
1
1.
3
1.
Agriculture.
Mathematics.
FnySTolog]
French.
ogy (3)
FRIDAY.
4. Physics (1. 2).*
4. Agriculture (3).
4. Latin (1 2).
3 Drawii g.
2 Mathematics.
2, Chemistry.
3. Mathematics.
2 English.
L
fieoijjg^
3 M chanicArts.
2 Mineralogy
Laboratory.
Military Drill (*)
3 Mech. Labor' tory
Elec. Lab'y Work
1. and 2 History.
4
3.
I
4
1.
D awing.
Maih"matics.
La ti n
Mechanic Arts.
Eleo Designing
2. Military Tactics.
SATURDAY.
I. French.
3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Labora»ory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics
Biological Labor' tory.
Field Engineering.
2 French.
3. Mechanic Arts
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Bioloeica' Labor' tory.
Field Engineering.
4. Mechanic Arts.
3. Field W'rk, Agr.
Ltfe 2 La]x, Cjjp™ .
Jfe 2 5leTd Work.
^ Engineer'g
1 & 2 Mach. Work.
Ex'cis in Elocution
Elec Lab Work.
Phvgical L**bnr'cory
Chapel services daily at 7:45 a. m.
Numbers prefixed denote classes— 1 denotes senior, 2 junior, etc. Numbers affixed— (1), (2), (3), denote terms.
*From 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.
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DEPARTMENTS OF INST^USTION.
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY.
PRESIDENT BROUN.
The instruction is given by recitations from text-
books and lectures, illustrated by experiments. The first
part or the course is occupied with elementary rational
mechanics, treated graphically.
This is followed by a full discussion of molecular me-
chanics; while due prominence is given to principles,
frequent reference is made to the applications of science.
The studies of the junior class include the properties of
matter, units of measure, force, work, energy, kinematics,
kinetics, mechanic powers, friction, pendulum, molecular
forces of solids, liquids and gases, theory of undulations,
heat, electricity, magnetism, etc.
The studies of the senior class include optics and
astronomy.
Post- Graduate Course. This includes the study of ana-
lytical mechanics, and requires a knowledge of differential
and integral calculus.
PHYSICAL LABORATORY. .
Instructor W. M. Rig^s has charge of the classes in ele-
mentary physics, and of the physical laboratory. In
elementary physics the students are taught mechanics,
solving problems by the elements of graphical statics, and
are required to do such work in the physical laboratory as
is adapted to their attainments. A part of their time is
given to learning practical telegraphy by the use of instru-
ments provided for that purpose.
The physical laboratory is equipped with a number of instru-
ments pf foreign qn<} American manufacture. It contains a
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standard metre bar, a horizontal comparator, a Kater reversion
pendulum, a cathetometer with micrometer, a spectrometer fur-
nished with prisms, crystal holder and flat diffraction grating,
made by the Societe Genevoise, a spectroscope by Browning, with
a large amount of spectrum apparatus, Carre's ice machine,
Backer's balances, a small dividing engine and a vertical
comparator, both the latter nude at the College in the laboratory
of mechanic arts. There is also a large amount of minor
apparatus, thermometers, barometers, calorimeters, and apparatus
for experimentally determining the parallelogram of forces, for
determining rolling and sliding friction, torsion and flexure, spe-
cific gravity, etc.
The student in this laboratory is required to ascertain
experimentally various physical laws, hence in all exercises
there is something to measure. From these measures he
is required to find the law connecting the- quantities in-
volved. Results of experiments are required to be entered,
in tabular form, together with diagrams, etc., in a labora-
tory note-book.
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MATHEMATICS.
PROF. SMITH.
The general course for the first two years embraces the
first year, algebra and geometry, six books ; second year,
solid geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, survey-
ing, mensuration.
Two objects are sought to be attained: first, mental dis-
cipline; second, a thorough knowledge of the principles of
pure mathematics and their practical applications.
Theoretical and practical instruction is given to the
sophomore class in farm, town, and government land sur-
veying, dividing land, mapping, plotting, and computing
areas, etc.; also in the theory, adjustment and use of instru-
ments.
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The claps, in sections of six or eight, devote three after-
noons a week during the second and third terms to field
practice.
Mensuration includes an extended course in measure-
ments of heights and distances, plane, rectilinear and
curvilinear figures, surfaces and volumes.
The completion of this course, common to all students,
lays the foundation for the pure and applied mathematics
of the mechanical and engineering courses. Analytical
geometry, descriptive geometry, and calculus are pursued
in the mechanical and engineering courses. Especial at-
tention is given to their practical applications.
During the entire course, instruction in text-books is
supplemented by lectures. Solutions of original practical
problems are required of the student, to make him familiar
with the application of principles and formulae.
.Text-Books.
Wentworth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometry, Wentworth's
Trigonometry and Surveying, Wentworth's Analytical Geometry,
Faunce's Descriptive Geometry, Taylor's Calculus, Johnson's
Differential Equations, Osborne's Problems, Peck's Determi-
nants.
BOTANY AND GEOLOGY.
PROF. MELL.
Geology.— This subject is studied in the senior class, and
extends through the entire session. Special attention is
given to the geology of Alabama, and many illustrations
are drawn from the coal and iron fields and other natural
deposits of minerals in the State. The origin of ore de-
posits, mineral springs and geological relations of soils are
carefully studied.
There is also a course of advanced work in practical
geology tor post-graduate students. This subject is pur-
sued by applicants for degrees of master of science and
mining engineer.
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The junior class in engineering spends two terms in
mineralogy and blow-pipe work.
Botany. — The students of the sophomore class begin the
study of botany the first of March and continue it through
the session. Analytical work is made an important feature.
This class is provided with plants from the fields, and j
taught how to determine their specific names. The work
is sufficiently exhaustive to enable the student, after com-
pleting the course, to name any of the ordinary weeds and
grasses that he will encounter in this section.
In the junior class, in the course of chemistry and agri-
culture, an amount of time is devoted to systematic and
structural botany, and to advanced laboratory work with
the microscope in the preparation of specimens showing
plant structure; this work is sufficient to familiarize the
students with the methods of plant building and cellular
organization. Excellent microscopes of the most improved
patterns, and all the necessary chemicals and apparatus for
preparing and mounting vegetable tissues, are used by the
students.
FACILITIES FOR WORK.
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Geology. — The department is equipped with models of Mount
Shasta, the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals for teach-
ing crystallography; charts and maps of the geology of America
and Europe ; Colt's lantern complete with oil, oxy-hydrogen and
automatic electric lamps ; a large assortment of fine lantern slides
representing geological formations in this country and abroad; a
well equipped mineralogical laboratory for thirty students, and
supplied with collection of representative minerals.
Botany. — The facilites for teaching this subject are as follows :
Auzoux's clastic models of seeds and flowers ; a la/ge collection
of pressed plants of Alabama and other sections, mounted and
catalogued. There is also a laboratory for practical work in
Botany equipped with slate topped tables for twenty students ;
dissecting and compound microscopes by Zeiss, Leitz and
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Bausch & Lomb ; projection microscopic apparatus ; microtomes
by King and Bausch & Lomb ; all the necessary glass ware and
smaller dissecting instruments lequired in a well equipped labora-
tory. The Zeiss compound microscope used by the professor for
experiment work in connection with the Station is supplied wkh
Abbe's illuminating apparatus, slid*? changers, Abbe's camera
lucida, polarizers, "apochromatic objectives (16 mm, 8 mm, 4 mm,
and homogeneous immersion), oculars (2, 3, 6, 8, it, 18 and
photographic), eye- piece with micrometer. This laboratory is
well lighted with gas and electricity and with a good exposure for
ample sunlight.
In connection with the department there is a photographic
dark room and an excellent photographic outfit consisting of
cameras varying in size from 4 x 5 to 6}4 x S*4 inches ; Bausch
& Lomb's Professional photo-micro camera extending to eight
feet ; Zeiss' anastigmat photographic lens 6j4 x S'}4 fitted with
Baush & Lomb's diaphragm shutter, and Zeiss' wide angle lens
6}& x Sj4 t all mounted in aluminium ; Clark's lens fitted with dia-
phragm shutter ; Darlot lens 4x5; the accessory apparatus and
chemicals required for first class work in photography.
The students have access to the Botanical Garden where ex-
periments in grass culture and many other plants of interest to
the farmer are conducted by the professor.
Text Books.
LeConte's Geology, William's Practical Geology, Tarr's
Economic Geology, Dana's Mineralogy, Gray's Botany, Nelson's
Herbarium and Plant Descriptions, Laboratory Guide.
CJVIL ENGINEERING AND DRAWING.
PROF. LANE.
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
The special studies of this department begin in the junior
class, and require good knowledge of algebra, geometry,
trigonometry and analytical mechanics. They are as fol-
lows:
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Junior class. — Simple, compound, reversed and parabolic
curves, turnouts and crossings, leveling, gradients, setting
slope stakes, etc.
Special attention will be paid in this class to the loca-
tion, reconstruction, drainage and maintenance of country
roads; and the various pavements and foundations for the
same. f
Senior class. — Classification, appearances, defects, sea-
soning, durability and preservation of timber, classification
and description of natural building stones; bricks and con-
cretes; Cast and wrought iron, steel and other metals; limes,
cements, mortars and theij manufacture; paints and other
preservatives; classification of strains and a general mathe-
matical discussion of same; joints and fastenings; solid and
open built beams; classification, construction and mechanics
of masonry; fouadations on land and in water; bridges and
roofs of different kinds; their construction and strains de-
termined mathematically and graphically; common roads,
their coverings, location and construction; location and con-
struction of railroads; navigable, irrigation, and drainage
canals; river and sea-coast improvements.
Theory and practice are combined in both classes.
Tbxt Books.
Junior class.— Henck's Field Book for Railway Engineers and
Byrne's Highway Construction.
Senior class.— Wheeler's Civil Engineering and Von Ott's
Graphic Statics.
Drawing.
All of the students of the freshman and sophomore
classes are required to take drawing; but only the students
in mechanics and civil engineering in the junior and senior
classes.
The freshman class is taught linear and free-hand draw-
ing. The sophomore class is instructed in the principles
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of orthographic and isometric projections, shade and
shadows, perspective and tinting. In the junior class the
instruction embracesa moreextended coursein orthographic
and isometric drawing, perspective, shades and shadows,
and tinting; also sketches of tools and machines, plans,
elevations and Cross-sections of buildings, and blue prints.
The senior class make topographical drawings, and draw-
ings of machines, roofs, bridges, etc., to different scales,
and blue prints. Plans, profiles and sections of railroad
surveys complete the instruction in this department.
Text Books.
Freshman class. — Kitchener's Geometrical Note Book, Thome's
Tunior Course in Mechanical Drawing, and Davidson's Model
Drawing.
Sophomore class.— Davidson's Projections, Davidson's Prac-
tical Perspective, Keuffd & Esser's Alphabet.
Junior class.— Davidson's Building Construction, Davidson's
Drawing for Mechanics and Engineers, Plates belonging to the
College, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.
Senior class. — French, English and American Plates belonging
to the College, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.
ENGLISH AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
PROF. THACH
OBJECTS AND METHODS.
In this department the students pursue a systematic
i course in the English language and literature.
**} Language is the avenue of approach to all knowledge;
the interpretation of words is the fundamental process in
education of whatsoever kind. A full course of English
is, therefore, considered especially important in the tech-
nical courses of study that do not include the ancient
classics. Accordingly, the course of English is continued
throughout the four years of the College curriculum, three
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hours a week, and is made obligatory upon all students,
with the exception of those pursuing the first two years of
the course in Latiu. In this extended drill in the grammar
and literature of the English language, theendeavor is made
to aflbrd a training somewhat equivalent to the ordinary
course in the classical languages. j
In view of the ill preparation in languages, especially in
their mother tongue, exhibited by many of the candidates
for admission to the freshman class, it is deemed advis-
able, for the sake of honest work, to devote a portion of
the first year to grounding such students in the principles
of grammar. Further, with the idea that an ability to
speak and write correctly English of the present, and to
appreciate the literary excellencies of standard authors, is
more desirable than training in the philological curiosities
and literary crudities of Anglo-Saxon literature, the course
of study in this institution is confined exclusively to the
literature of modern English. V
Especial attention is given to the study of the writings,
themselves, of leading English authors, since direct contact
with literature is considered more profitable than informa-
tion merely about literature.
COURSE OF STUDY.
Freshman class. — Five hours a week; study of grammar, the
principles of special and general composition, with frequent brief
papers illustrating the laws studied: study of American authors;
Irving, Hawthorne, Holmes, Poe, Bryant, Longfellow.
Whitney's Essentials, Lockwood's Rhetoric, Scudder's Master
pieces of American Literature. I
Sophomore class. — Three hours a week; study of style, analysis
of selections of prose and poetry, frequent essays on historic and
literary themes.
Genung's Rhetoric, Genung's Rhetorical Analysis, Hales's
Longer English Poems.
Junior class. — Three hours a week; lectures on the history of
English literature, critical study of English classics, essays.
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Stopford Brooke's History of English Literature, Palgrave's
Golden Treasury, Minto's English Prose, Garnett's English Prose
from Elizabeth to Victoria .
Senior class. — Two hours a week, first term. Principles of
Criticism, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Dowden's Shaks-
pere, etc.
ESSAYS AND ORATIONS.
Theory without practice is as fruitless in the study of English
as in any other.department of study. Practical work is indispen-
sable to the successful teaching of English .
Besides numerous brief papers, illustrative of the subject matter
of the text-books, set essays or orations are required of all stu-
dents; for the freshman class, ten essays a year; ten for the soph-
omore; for the senior and junior classes, three orations each.
DECLAMATION.
The old practice of committing pieces to memory for "speak-
ing" is cultivated as a means, both of training in the art of think-
ing on the feet, and of storing the mind with the diction of
finished Specimens of English style.
The sophomore class is heard weekly throughout the year in
sections of ten, once for an hour and a half in rehearsal, afterwards
in the study hall before the body of students.
The senior and junior classes also deliver their orations in
public.
PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
The entire senior class pursues the study of intellectual
science, twice a week, through the year; and political econ-
omy twice a week, during the last two terms. The in-
struction in this department is by lectures In combination
with text-books.
Intellectual Science.— Psychology defined. Value in relation to
moral culture, education, and Natural Sciences. The relations of
the Soul to matter. The arguments of the Materialist Counter
arguments. The Faculties of the Soul. The nature of Conscious-
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ness. Sense Perception. Memory, its nature, development, edu-
cation. Fancy. Imagination. Nature of conceptions. Lan-
guage. Judgment. Reasoning. Deduction. Induction, etc.
Porter's Intellectual Science.
Political Economy.— Value; production of wealth; land; labor;
capital; division of labor; distribution of wealth; wages; trades-
union; co-operation; money; credit; functions of government; tax-
ation; tariff; education, etc. F. A. Walker s Advanced Political
Economy. Lectures by Professor.
A Post-graduate Course has been established in Political Econ-
omy. Topics are assigned for research by the student, who is
facilitated in his labor by a well chosen library, including most of
the standard works on political economy and government.
A Post graduate Course has also been established in English.
The course is as follows: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Mac-
beth, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Henry IV., Part I,
Richard III., King John.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Ward's Shakespeare;Furness's Variorum ; Hudson's Shakespeare ;
Clark and Wright's Select Plays of Shakespeare; Rolfe's Shakes-
peare; Halliweil-Phillips's Life of Shakespeare; Richard Grant
White's Life of Shakespeare; Collier's Annals of the Stage; J. A.
Symond's Shakespeare's Predecessors; Hudson's Art, Life, etc., of
Shakespeare; Giles's Human Life in Shakespeare; Mrs. Jameson's
Woman in Shakespeare; Dowden's Shakespeare's Art.
Post-Graduate Course in Dry den. — Poetical Works (Christie);
Essay on Dramatic Poesy (Thomas Arnold); Essay on Satire, etc ,
(Yonge); Saintsbury's Life of Dry den.
Pope. — Poetical Works (Ward); Satires (Pattison); Stephen's
Life of Pope .
Gosse's From Shakespeare to Pope; 18 Century Literature. The
entire session. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at 3 p. m.
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Scott and Saintsbury's Dry den, 18 \ols.; Critical Essays on
Dryden by Macaulay, Lowell, Matthew Arnold; Johnson's Life of
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Dryden; Mitford's Life of Dryden; El win* and Courthope's Pope,
10 vols,; Critical Essays on Pope by Addison, DeQuincey (3),
Lowell, Matthew Arnold; Courthope's Life of Pope; Johnson's
Life of Pope.
CHEMISTRY.
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Instruction in this department embraces —
1. A course of lectures in general chemistry.
2. A course of lectures in industrial chemistry.
3. A course of lectures in agricultural chemistry.
4. Systematic laboratory work in connection with each
course of lectures, for the practice of chemical analysis and
chemical research.
1. Course in general chemistry: This consists of a
series of lectures (three per week) extending throughout
the entire session, and includes a discussion of the funda-
mental principles of chemical philosophy in connection
with the history, preparation, properties and compounds
of the metallic and non-metallic elements, with the main
facts and principles of organic chemistry. In this course
the more common applications of chemistry to the arts
and manufactures are discussed. The apparatus used for
experimental illustration is extensive, containipg the
newest and most approved instruments necessary for pre-
senting the subject in the most attractive and instructive
form.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Roscoe & Schorlemraer, Fownes, Frankland, Remsen, Cooks's
Chemical Philosophy, Chemical Journals.
% The lectures on industrial chemistry (three per
wlek) extend throughout the session, and include a dis-
cussion in detail of the processes and chemical principles
involved in the most important applications of chemistry
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in the arts and manufactures to the reduction of ores, the
preparation of materials for food and drink, for clothing,
shelter, illumination, cleaning, purifying, writing, print-
ing, etc.
These lectures are amply illustrated by means of suita-
ble specimens of raw materials and manufacturing pro- )
ducts, together with models and diagrams.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Wagner's Chemical Technology, Muspratt's Chemistry as ap-
plied to Arts and Manufacturing, Ure's Dictionary, Watt's Dic-
tionary, Richardson and Watt's Chemical Technology, Percy's
Metallurgy, Sadtler's Industrial Organic Chemistry.
3. Course in agricultural chemistry : This consists of
lectures on chemistry in its applications to agriculture (two
per week), and includes a thorough discussion of the ori-
gin, composition and classification of soils, the composition
and growth of plants, the sources of plant food and how i
obtained, the improvement of soils, the manufacture and
use of fertilizers, the chemical principles involved in the
rotation of crops, the feeding of live stock, and the various
operations carried on by the intelligent and successful
agriculturist.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Johnson's Ho* Crops Grow and How Crops Feed, Lupton's
Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture, Johnson and
Cameron's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Storer*s Agri-
culture in relation to Chemistry, scientific journals, reports of g i
the United States Department of Agriculture, and the bulletins f|
and reports of the various home and foreign agricultural depart-
ments and stations.
4. The course of systematic laboratory work: TJiis
course of practical work in the laboratory is carried on in
connection with each course of lectures, and embraces the
practical operation of chemical analysis and synthesis,
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being varied somewhat to suit the individual object of the
student.
The laboratories, which are open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m .during
six days in the week, are amply supplied with everything neces-
sary for instruction in chemical manipulation, in the qualitative
and quantitative analysis of soils, fertilizers, feed stuffs, sugar
products, minerals, mineral waters, technical products, etc., and
in the method of prosecuting chemical researches. Unusual
facilities are offered to students who wish to devote their time to
the special study of practical chemistry.
Each student on entering the chemical laboratory is furnished
with a work table, a set of re-agent bottles, and the common re-
agents and apparatus used in qualitative and quantitative analysis.
At the close of the session he will be credited with such articles
as may be returned in good order; the value of those which have
been injured or destroyed will be deducted from the deposit.
In addition to the analytical work above described, it is de-
signed, to introduce during the next session a short course in
electro-plating. '
Practical instruction in the electro-deposition of nickel, silver,
gold, etc., upon other metals will be given, and, in addition, the
applications of electrolysis to chemical analysis will be studied
both theoretically and practically .
BOOKS USED.
In qualitative analysis— Jones, Fresenius, Plattner.
In quantitative analysis— Fresenius, Sutton, Rose, Bunsen,
Rickett's Notes on Assaying, Mitchell's Manual of Practical
Assaying.
In agricultural chemical analysis— Official methods of the Asso-
• ciation of Agricultural Chemists.
Wiley's Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis.
CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
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The chemical apparatus recently purchased for the laboratory
consists of a full supply of the most approved instruments for
practical work and investigation. The building is supplied with
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water and gas and every appliance required to meet the demands
of modern scientific instruction and research. In addition to the
apparatus usually supplied to first class laboratories, there have
been imported a new and improved Schmidt and Hensch's polari-
scope, four short-arm Becker Balances of latest pattern, Bunsen
spectroscope, Zeiss microscope, and other instruments for delicate
and accurate work.
BIOLOGY.
PROF. STEDMAN.
Practical Biology.— This subject is presented by lec-
tures and laboratory work to the senior students in agri-
culture and chemistry. The first part of the year will be
devoted to the study of zoology and entomology with
special reference to practical agriculture. This will be
followed by the study of bacteriology and mycology giving
prominence to the causes of diseases of cultivated giants.
Special attention will be given to methods employed in
combatting the attacks of fungi and insects upon plants.
The lectures will be illustrated as far as possible by actual
specimens, and by the use of the stereopticou and oxy-hy-
drogen and electric arc light for micro-projection, and also
by the use of several hundred lantern slides specially pre-
pared for these lectures. The biological museum is pri-
marily for the illustration of the lectures and contains
several hundred marine invertebrates as well as represen-
tations of nearly all orders of animals.
The reference books will be announced to the classes.
The department contains a carefully selected library of the
standard works on biology and many rare and valuable
works, besides current periodicals adapted to aid in the
special investigations carried on in the laboratory.
Especial opportunities are offered to graduate students
who desire to pursue advanced work and engage in origi-
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FACILITIES FOR WORK.
At present three rooms in addition to the museum and plant
laboratory are occupied by the department— an office,
lecture room, and laboratory. The office contains the cabinet of
fungi and insects, the technical library for the department, slate
tables with a Zeiss microscope, re-agents, gas and water fittings.
The work in the office consists of the examination, identification
and cataloguing of the specimens, beside the special work pecu-
liar to such an office . The cabinet is provided with tight drawers,
for receiving the mounted specimens of fungi and insects.
Laboratory.— Nine slate top tables are devoted to the use of
students, there being 16 microscopes set apart for them.
Two small culture rooms contain the plate and test tube cul-
tures of fungi and bacteria which are being studied in relation to
the plant diseases they cause. Here they can be handled and
studied with little danger of contamination from the dust of the
laboratory. In these rooms are kept Rohrbeck thermostats fitted
with automatic cut off burners and Lautenschlager's most recent
thermoregulators for maintaining constant temperatures.
A Winkel microscope is kept here for the examination of cul-
tures. It consists of stand No. 2, with condenser, triple revolver,
homogeneous immersion lens 1-24 and 1-14, dry objectives No. 5
and No. 7, oculars 1, 3 and 5, and micrometer ocular.
A Winkel microscope is also kept for the use of the students,
like the former, except the 1-24 homogeneous immersion lens.
The other pieces of apparatus are as follows:
Steam sterilizer, dry sterilizer, domestic still, instantaneous
water heater, Pasteur filter, fine and common balances, apparatus
for demonstrating intramolecular breathing of yeast, the Brendel
models of parasitic and sapro-phytic fungi, bacteria and yeast
plants, automatic device for rolling culture tubes of nutrient agar
agar, microtomes and paraffine water bath .
There are also cases containing a large quantity of the various
glass vessels, paper, dry and liquid dyes and re-agents, culture
media, etc., required in modern investigation.
The laboratory is well lighted from southern and western ex-
posure. All the rooms are well fitted with gas.. and water supply.
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A laboratory has been constructed especially for conducting
investigations on the diseases of plants. While this constitutes
part of the equipment for the biologist in experiment station
work, it will be at the disposal of the department for instruction.
HISTORY AND LATIN.
PROF. PETRI E.
HISTORY.
In this department the aim is not so much to memorize
facts as to understand them. Strong emphasis is laid on
the fact that history is not a succession of isolated facts
but a progressive whole, each event being at once the cause
and the effect of other events. The students are taught to
investigate the growth of ideas and institutions, the rise
and progress of great historical movements and the recip-
rocal influence of men and circumstances. Frequent use
is made of diagrams, photographs, charts and maps, \vith
which the department is well equipped. Constant practice
in map drawing is insisted on in order to give precision to
the geographical knowledge required. Instruction is given
by text-books, lectures and class discussion, but a constant
eftbrt is made to stimulate to widen reading and research
in the library.
In the freshman class, the subjects studied are the United
States and England. The first term (two hours per week)
is devoted to the history of the United States, the second
term (two hours per week) to its government, and the third
term (three hours per week) to the history of England.
In the sophomore class (three hours per week until
March) the subject studied is General History.
In the junior and senior classes (six hours each per
week) opportunity for special historical work is given to
those students of the General Course who may elect it
instead of laboratory work, A regular course of lectures
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(two per week) will be given on American history, social,
political and financial. Students will also investigate in
the library under the direction of the professor topics con-
nected with the lectures, and will report to the class the
results of their research. These reports will be made the
basis of general discusssion. A series of special lectures
will be given from time to time on the government of the
leading natious of Europe and on current foreign events.
Text Books.
Freshman class.-— Chambers's Larger History of the United
States, Macy'sOur Government, Montgomery's English History.
Sophomore class.— Myers's General History. *
Junior and Senior classes — Epochs of American History.
LATIN.
In this department two objects are kept in view: a knowl-
edge of the language, and an appreciation of the literature.
In teaching the language the following methods are
used: A systematic course is given in etymology and
syntax. These are taught both deductively from a gram-
mar and inductively from the Latin text read. Transla-
tion is constantly practiced, sometimes at sight, sometimes
after being assigued for preparation. English passages
based on a familiar author or illustrative of special con-
structions are translated into Latin, both orally and in •
writing. Simple conversation is carried on in Latin.
Special emphasis is laid upon the subject of Latin litera-
ture. In connection with every author studied in class
there is prescribed a course of reading in English descrip-
tive of his life, work and times. The artistic value of his
writings is carefully studied and discussed, and frequent
comparisons are made with modern writers.
Text Books.
Freshman class. — Nepos, Virgil, Sallust, Grammar, Composition.
Sophomore class. — Virgil, Cicero, Jones's Latin Prose Composi-
tion.
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Junior class. — Livy, Tacitus, Wilkins's Latin Literature, Miller's
Latin Composition.
Senior class. — Horace, Plautus, Terence.
AGRICULTURE.
PROF. BONDURANT
The course of instruction in this department embraces:
I, Soils; II, Plants; III, Domestic Animals.
The freshman class is taught by lectures and text-books,
during the third term of the session.
The subjects taught are the treatment of soils, their
classification, defects and remedies, causes of diminished
fertility, and thf* means used to protect them from waste
and to restore fertility, and the theory and practice of sur-
face and sub-drainage.
These subjects are treated with special reference to the
different classes of soil in Alabama and the Southern
States.
In the sophomore class, in addition to the discussion of
the physical properties and treatment of soils, the methods
of studying their defects and their remedies are also con-
sidered.
The sources of the important elements of plant food and
their use upon different soils and plants, methods of saving
and applying farm manures, making composts, proportion-
ing and applying commercial fertilizers, the relation of
plant growth to soil and atmosphere, terracing and grading
land to prevent washing, plows and plowing, and in fact
everything connected with tilling the soil, pass under re-
view as foundation works.
Southern agriculture is then treated; the history, nature
and cultivation of field crops discussed as regards their
adaptation to and treatment upon the soils of the Southern
States.
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Attention is also given the raising of stock, horses,
sheep, swine and other animals, and to the proper feeding
of dairy, beef cattle, and all farm stock.
In the junior class instruction is given in pomology, in-
cluding the propagation of nursery stock, planting, manur-
ing, pruning, cultivating, harvesting and marketing every
species of fruit.
Lectures are delivered to this class upon subjects rela-
ting to agriculture, namely: a thorough and judicious
system ot rotation of crops, diversified farming, the selec-
tion, purchase, equipment and management of the farm,
employment and management of labor.
Landscape gardening is also taught with special refer-
ence to the improvement of country houses.
Drawings and models of agricultural implements and
farm products are used to illustrate the subjects treated in
the lectures.
Reference will be made to suitable agricultural books,
and especial reference to the experiments contained in bul-
letins of other agricultural stations, whenever applicable
to the subject under discussion. In this department prac-
tical agriculture is combined with class instruction. Op-
portunities are given, and students are required, in the
junior and sophomore classes to do practical field work of
an educational character, under the direction of the pro-
fessor.
The farm instruction will embrace the details of farm
work, assisting in field and feeding experiments, which are
conducted daily on the station farm, aiding in dairy work,
care and management of farm stock, machinery, propaga-
ting fruits, grafting, budding, and pruning vines and fruit
trees.
TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS.
(i) Winslow's Principles of \griculture. (2) Gulley's Lessons
in Agriculture. (3) Wrightson's Principles of Agricultural Prac-
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Junior class. — Livy, Tacitus, Wilkins's Latin Literature, Miller's
Latin Composition.
Senior class. — Horace, Plautus, Terence.
AGRICULTURE.
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The course of instruction in this department embraces:
I, Soils; II, Plants; III, Domestic Animals.
The freshman class is taught by lectures and text-books,
during the third term of the session.
The subjects taught are the treatment of soils, their
classification, defects and remedies, causes of diminished
fertility, and the. means used to protect them from waste
and to restore fertility, and the theory and practice of sur-
face and sub-drainage.
These subjects are treated with special reference to the
different classes of soil in Alabama and the Southern
States.
In the sophomore class, in addition to the discussion of
the physical properties and treatment of soils, the methods
of studying their defects and their remedies are also con-
sidered.
The sources of the important elements of plant food and
their use upon different soils and plants, methods of saving
and applying farm manures, making composts, proportion-
ing and applying commercial fertilizers, the relation of
plant growth to soil and atmosphere, terracing and grading y
land to prevent washing, plows and plowing, and in fact f
everything connected with tilling the soil, pass under re-
view as foundation works.
Southern agriculture is then treated; the history, nature
and cultivation of field crops discussed as regards their
adaptation to and treatment upon the soils of the Southern
States.
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Attention is also given the raising of stock, horses,
sheep, swine and other animals, and to the proper feeding
of dairy, beef cattle, and all farm stock.
In the junior class instruction is given in pomology, in-
cluding the propagation of nursery stock, planting, manur-
ing, pruning, cultivating, harvesting and marketing every
species of fruit.
Lectures are delivered to this class upon subjects rela-
ting to agriculture, namely: a thorough and judicious
system ot rotation of crops, diversified farming, the selec-
tion, purchase, equipment and management of the farm,
employment and management of labor.
Landscape gardening is also taught with special refer-
ence to the improvement of country houses.
Drawings and models of agricultural implements and
farm products are used to illustrate the subjects treated in
the lectures.
Keference will be made to suitable agricultural books,
and especial reference to the experiments contained in bul-
letins of other agricultural stations, whenever applicable
to the subject under discussion. In this department prac-
tical agriculture is combined with class instruction. Op-
portunities are given, and students are required, in the
junior and sophomore classes to do practical field work of
an educational character, under the direction of the pro-
fessor.
The farm instruction will embrace the details of farm
work, assisting in field and feeding experiments, which are
conducted daily on the station farm, aiding in dairy work,
care and management of farm stock, machinery, propaga-
ting fruits, grafting, budding, and pruning vines and fruit
trees.
TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS.
(i) Winslow's Principles of \griculture. (2) Gulley's Lessons
in Agriculture. (3) Wrightson's Principles of Agricultural Prac-
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tice. (4) Fream's Soils and their Properties. (5) Webb's Agri-
culture. (6) Norton's Elements of Scientific Agriculture. (7)
Stewart's Irrigation for the Farm, Garden and Orchard. (8)
Griffith on Manures. (9) Harris on Manures, (to) Mill's Silos
and Ensilage, (n) Curtis on Stock. )i2) Willard's Practical
Dairy. (13) American Dairying, by H. B Gurler. (14 )Black's
Cultivation of Fruits. (15) Thomas's Cultivation of Fruits.
(16) Strong's Cultivation of Fruits. (17) Fuller's Grape Culturist.
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MODERN LANGUAGES.
PROF. C. H. ROSS.
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The following regular courses are given in French and
German :
French— First Year: Three recitations a week. During
this year the principal object is to acquire a thorough
knowledge of the elements of grammar, and a correct pro-
nunciation, together with facility in translating ordinary
French. Reading is begun at an early stage, and the prin-
ciples of grammar are illustrated and impressed by frequent
exercises in rendering English into French.
Second Year: Three recitations a week." During this
year, almost the same line of work is pursued as that begun
in the previous year. More difficult and varied French is
read, and careful instruction is given upon the laws of gram-
mar, the construction of the language, and the history of
the literature.
German— Two Years: Three recitations a week the first
year, three a week the second year. In this course the aim
and the methods are similar to those in French.
Post-graduate courses in French and German are offered.
That in French during the past year consisted of a study of
Moliere; that in German of a study of Goethe. An extra
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Text Books.
French— First Year: Whitney's Brief French Grammar and
Introductory French Reader; Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff;
Pailleron's Le Monde ou Ton s'ennuie.
Second Year: Moiliere's Les Precieuses Ridicules and L'A vare;
Hugo's Hernani and Selections; Feuillet's Le Roman d'un Jeune
\ Homme Pauvre (sight reading), Saintsbtirys Primer of French
Literature.
Post-graajtate Course: Les Precieuses Ridicules, Le Medecin
Malgre Lui, Le Bourgeois Gentilhorame, Le Taruffe, L'Avare,
Les Femmes Savantes, Le Misanthrope, L'Ecole des Femmes,
La Malade Imaginaire, Les Fourberies de Scapin; Oliphant's
Moliere; Saintsbury's Short History of French Literature.
German— First Year: Otis's Elementary German, Grimm's
Kinder-und Haus-Maerchen, Hauff's Das Kalte Herz, Germania.
Second Year: Schiller's Ballads, Heine's Prosa, Lessing's
Minna von Barnhelm, Lectures on German Literature.
Post-graduate Course: Goethe's Faust; Lewes's Goethe, Sime's
Goethe, Grimm's Goethe; Browning's Goethe; Hayward's Goethe;
i Scherer's History of German Literature.
Italian— Italian Principia, Pts. I & II.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
PROF. MCKISSICK.
The students in this course will study English, French,
or German, physics, mathematics, &c, as now prescribed
for the course of civil engineering in the junior and senior
years; and in addition thereto, will prosecute their studies
in electricity and mechanics, as herein prescribed.
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
JUNIOR YEAR.
Four hours a week for the entire session are devoted to
the study of the principles of electricity and magnetism.
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IMiu at ndunt \h umU famWmr with the theoretical princi-
ple by uxiimuumto, illu&atium* rwit&tioxifL, and lectures.
Lahmiatoiiv Wohk, — Four bovrs per week are given to
work in the laboratory, Tbb ii*e3udes ssaaiiagement of
battoriea, OOMtrtJCtiofl of ioirt«aii^ats, <deetriea3 measure-
ment^ verification of the pritieiptes apou which the mea-
uwmontH of current, electromotive force and resistance
are butted, etc.
Text Books.
Ayrton's Practical Electricity, Desmond's Electricity for En-
gineers, S. P. Thompson's Electricity and Magnetism, Stewart and
Gee's Practical Physics, Nichol's Laboratory Manual, VoL L
SENIOR YEAR.
In the senior year five hoars per week are devoted to
theoretical instruction in electricity and magnetism, sup-
plemented by a course of lectures and practical demonstra-
tions on the applications of electricity to lighting, electric il
transmission of energy, electrical welding, telegraphy and
telephony.
Encouragement is offered to advanced students for conducting
original investigations, and opportunity is taken to stimulate a
spirit of scientific inquiry. Courses of reading are suggested to
such students in connection with their experimental work.
Laboratory Work. — Six hours per weebare devoted to
practical laboratory work, including construction of instru-
ment^ electrical measurements, electrolysis, and. relation of
electrical current* to boat and mechanical work, care and
tests of dynamo, the adjustment and calibration of voltme-
ters and ammeter*, electric lighting, management and care
of accumulators, energy consumed in lamps, adjustment and
enre of KM lamp*, proper wiring of buildings, the applica-
tion &t electricity to street railway*, magnetic measure-
ment*, toH»M of transformers and motors.
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Drawing and Construction. — Two hours per week in the
senior year are devoted to the design and construction of
electrical machinery. The student is required to make
original designs of dynamos, motors, transformers, galvano-
meters, etc.
i Text Books
Thompson's Dynamo Electric Machinery, Fleming's Alternate
Current Transformer, Nichol's Laboratory Manual, Vol. II.
reference books.
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vols. I and II, by
Gordon; Electricity and Magnetism, by Clerk Maxwell; Emtage's
Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Mag-
netism; Kcmpe's Electrical Testing; Dredge's Electric Illumina-
tion, Vols. I and II; Dynamo Electric Machinery, by Carl Hering;
The Electro- Motor and its Applications, by Wetzler and Martin;
Electric Transmission, by Kapp; Electric Lighting by Atkinson;
Electric Light Installations, by Salomons; Alternating Currents
j of Electricity, by Blakesley; London Electrician; Proceedings of
American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Thompson's Electro-
Magnet.
EQUIPMENT.
The electrical laboratory has a complete line of batteries, call-
bells, annunciators, telegraph sounders, relays, keys, magnets, and
all apparatus necessary for first year students in electrical en-
gineering. The equipment comprises many fine instruments of
precision: Sir Wm. Thomson's standard ioo ampere balance
(either for direct or alternating currents); Sir Wm. Thomson's
graded current galvanometer, reading to 600 amperes; also, his
graded potential galvanometer, reading to 600 volts; Weston al-
ternating current voltmeter, Weston direct reading watt meter,
Queen's "Acme" testing set, Kelvin electrostatic voltmeter,
Cardew voltmeter (for direct or alternating currents), reading to
150 volts; Weston's standard ammeter and voltmeter, box of re-
sistance coils; Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter, and ammeter,
standard Vi micro-farad condenser and Sabine key; Thompson
watt-meter ballistic reflecting galvanometer, mirror galvanometer,
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Fein ammeter and voltmeter, Ayston & Perry ammeter, Kohl's
solenoid ammeter, Wood ammeter, Deprez ammeter, Hartman &
Braun voltmeter, D'Arsonval galvanometer, Hughe's induction
balance, tasimeter, microphone, telephones, electrolytic apparatus
and several mirror and other galvanometers for first year students.
A battery of fifty-five Julien accumulators has been installed in
the laboratory, and a like battery in the department of botany and
geology.
In the dynamo room the following are installed: One Weston
150 volt, 20 ampere dynamo, with rheostat; one Brush 6 arc-light
dynamo, with regulator and six lamps; one Edison compound
wound 12 kilo- watt generator; a Tompson-Houston no volt, 75
ampere generator; two street car motors used as either direct or
alternating current generators or motors, two polyphase induction
motors; a Crocker-Wheeler one-horse power motor and rheostat,
and one two phase alternator, and 500 volt generator, made by
special students, furnish current to laboratory, and light up the
different buildings.
The dynamos occupy a separate brick building, 50 x 32 feet,
and are operated by a 35 horse-power Westinghouse vertical
engine, and a 25 horse- power Atlas engine.
This department, being provided with Sir Wm. Thomson's stand-
ard electrical instruments for exact measurements, will calibrate,
free of expense, any ammeter or voltmeter that may be sent to the
College.
An electric-motor made by students, supplied with current from
a generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press,
ensilage cutter and feed cutter at the experiment station farm.
This motor not only subserves a useful purpose in the operation of
these machines, but is an excellent illustration of the electric trans-
mission of power.
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Fein ammeter and voltmeter, Ayston & Perry ammeter, Kohl's
solenoid ammeter, Wood ammeter, Deprez ammeter, Hartman &
Braun voltmeter, D'Arsonval galvanometer, Hughe's induction
balance, tasimeter, microphone, telephones, electrolytic apparatus
and several mirror and other galvanometers for first year students.
A battery of fifty-five Julien accumulators has been installed in
the laboratory, and a like battery in the department of botany and
geology.
In the dynamo room the following are installed: One Weston
150 volt, 20 ampere dynamo, with rheostat; one Brush 6 arc-light
dynamo, with regulator and six lamps; one Edison compound
wound 12 kilo-watt generator; a Tompson-Houston no volt, 75
ampere generator; two street car motors used as either direct or
alternating current generators or motors, two polyphase induction
motors; a Crocker-Wheeler one-horse power motor and rheostat,
and one two phase alternator, and 500 volt generator, made by
special students, furnish current to laboratory, and light up the
different buildings. /
The dynamos occupy a separate brick building, 50 x 32 feet,
and are operated by a 35 horse-power Westinghouse vertical
engine, and a 25 horse- power Atlas engine.
This department, being provided with Sir Wm. Thomson's stand-
ard electrical instruments for exact measurements, will calibrate,
free of expense, any ammeter or voltmeter that may be sent to the
College.
An electric-motor made by students, supplied with current from
a generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press,
ensilage cutter and feed cutter at the experiment station farm.
This motor not only subserves a useful purpose in the operation of
these machines, but is an excellent illustration of the electric trans-
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A— Atlas Engine.
B— Westinghouse
Engine.
C— Clutch Coupling.
D— Edison Generator.
E— Weston Generator.
F —Motor-Generator.
G— Two-Phase Alterna-
tor.
H— Crocker-Wheeler
Motor.
I— Thompson-Houston
Motor.
J -500 Volt Generator.
K— Series Dynamo.
L— Brush Arc Dynamo.
M— Instrument Case.
N— Switch Board.
O- Steam Separator.
P— Work Table.
Q— Two- Phase Induction
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANIC
AETS.
Prof. Wilmore.
B. H. CRENSHAW,
R. J. TRAMMELL,
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ASSISTANTS.
The course in Manual Training covers three years, as
follows : First year, wood-working— carpentry and turn-
ing ; second year, pattern-making and foundry and forge
work— moulding, casting and smithing ; third year, ma-
chine shop— chipping and filing and machine work in
metals.
This course is obligatory upon the students of the three
lower classes. For satisfactory reasons a student may be
excused from this laboratory work by the Faculty.
The full work of each class is six hours per week, in three
exercises of two hours each.
The power for running the apparatus in this department is de-
rived from a twenty- five horse power Hanis-Corliss automatic
engine, which is supplied with steam by a thirty horse- power steel
horizontal tubular boiler. A steam pump and a heater for the
feed water form a part of the steam apparatus . For the steam
plant a substantial brick boiler-house and chimney have been
erected *
The equipment for the wood-working shop comprises the fol-
lowing : 30 wood working benches, each with complete set of
carpenter's tools ; 24 turning-lathes, 10-inch swing, each with
complete set of tools ; 1 double circular saw ; r band saw ; r
board-planing machine ; 1 buzz planer ; r large pattern-maker's
lathe, r6 inch swing ; 1 36-inch grindstone. In addition to these,
the tool room is supplied with a variety of extra hand-tools for
special work.
The equipment for the foundry consists of moulding-benches
for 18 students, each supplied with a complete set of moulder s
tools ; a 14-inch cupola, with all modern improvements, capable of
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melting 1,000 pounds of iron per hour ; a brass furnace in which
can be melted ioo pounds of brass at a heat, with a set of crucible
tongs, etc. Also a full supply of ladles, large and small mould-
ing flasks, special tools, etc.
The forge shop equipment consists of 16 hand forges of new
pattern, each with a set of smith's tools, anvil, etc. The blast
for all the forges is supplied by a No. 3 Sturtevant steel pressure
blower (which also furnishes blast for the foundry cupola), and a
No. 15 Sturtevant exhaust blower draws the smoke from the fires
into the smoke -flues and forces it out through the chimney.
The machine department occupies a brick building 30x50 feet,
and is equipped with 6 engine-lathes (screw-cutting), 14 inch
swing, 6-foot bed; 2 engine-lathes, 16 inch swing (one with taper
attachment); r engine lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound rest
and taper attachment ; 1 screw cutting lathe, 12 inch swing; 1
speed lathe, 10 inch swing; 1 20 inch drill press (power feed); 1
10-inch sensitive drill; 1 15-inch shaper ; 1 22-inch x 22-inch
x 5-feet planer ; 1 universal milling machine; 1 corundum tool
grinder (14 inch wheel>; 1 bench grinder; 1 post drill press,
14-inch; 1 universal cutter and reamer grinder ; 1 Brown & Sharpe
universal grinding machine ; 1 power hack saw. A part of this
room is set apart for vise- work, chipping and filing ; and benches
for 12 students are provided, each with vise and sets of files,
chisels, hammers, etc. In the tool-room is to be found a good
supply of machinists' tools for general shop use, such as lathe
and drill chucks, drills, reamers, taps, dies, gauges, files, cutting
and measuring tools, and special appliances for machine work,
with machine for grinding twist drills.
The nature of the work in each department is as follows :
First Year.
1. A course of carpentry or hand work covering the
first two terms.
The lessons include instruction on the nature and use of
tools, instruction and practice in shop drawing, elementary
work with plane, saw, chisel, different kinds of joints,
timber-splices, cross joints, mortise and teuon, mitre and
frame work, dovetail work, comprising different kinds of
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joints used in cabinet making, light cabinet work, ex-
amples in building, framing, roof-trusses, etc.
II. A course in turning, extending through the third
term. The lessons comprise, first, nature and use of lathe
and tools, plain straight turning caliper work to different
diameters and lengths, simple and compound curves, screw
plate and chuck-work, hollow and spherical turning.
Second Year.
I. A course in forge work in iron and steel, occupying
the first term. The lessons are arranged so that the
students, in making the series of objects, become familiar
with the nature of the metals and the successive steps in
working them by hand into simple and complex forms, as
drawing, upsetting, bending, cutting, punching, welding
by various methods, tool-forging, tempering, harden-
ing, etc.
II. A course in pattern-making, covering the second
term. The work includes a variety of examples of whole
and split patterns, core work, etc., giving the students
familiarity with the use of patterns for general moulding.
III. A course in moulding and casting in iron and
brass occupying the third term. The work consists for
the most part of small articles, such as light machine
parts, but a sufficient variety of forms are introduced for
the student to acquire a good general and practical knowl-
edge of the usual methods and appliances used in light
foundry work. Most of the work is in green sand in two
part flasks; core work is also given, and some three part
flask and some dry sand work is introduced.
The same patterns which have been previously made by
students are used, besides special patterns for occasional
larger or more complicated work. Instruction and prac-
tice is given in working the cupola, each student in turn
taking charge of a melting.
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In connection with this second year work, a series of
lectures is given on the metallurgy and working of the
metals used in the industrial arts, cast and wrought iron
steel, brass, etc.
Third Year.
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I. A course of chipping and filing, covering the first
term. The lessons comprise work on cast and wrought
iron ; chipping to line on flat and. curved surfaces, key-
seating, etc.; filing and finishing to line (straight and
curved), surface filing and finishing, fitting, slotting, dove-
tail work, sawing, pin and screw filing, surface finishing
with scraper, etc.
II. Machine work occupying the remainder of the
year. The work includes cast and wrought iron, steel and
brass : turning to various diameters and lengths, taper
turning, facing with chuck and face plate, drilling— both
in lathe and drill press— reaming, boring, screw-cutting in K
lathe and with taps and dies, planing, slotting, etc., with
planer and shaper, milling various forms with the milling
machine, including exercises in making taps, reamers, etc.,
fitting, grinding, polishing, etc.
Lectures are also given during the year on various sub-
jects connected with machine work in metals : such as
forms, construction and use of the various machines,
cutting tools, gearing, gauges, screw threads, etc. Dur-
ing the last term some piece of construction work is given
the classes. %
All of the work is done from blue prints made by the class in
drawing. In the construction work, the student is given a blue
print and the materiaHor a certain part. He is then encouraged
to study the work and plan the best method of doing it.
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In connection with this second year work, a series of
lectures is given on the metallurgy and working of the
metals used in the industrial arts, cast and wrought iron,
steel, brass, etc.
Thikd Year.
I. A course of chipping and filing, covering the first
term. The lessons comprise work on cast and wrought
iron ; chipping to line on flat and. curved surfaces, key-
seating, etc.; filing and finishing to line (straight and
curved), surface filing and finishing, fitting, slotting, dove-
tail work, sawing, pin and screw filing, surface finishing
with scraper, etc.
II. Machine work occupying the remainder of the
year. The work includes cast and wrought iron, steel and
brass : turning to various diameters and lengths, taper
turning, facing with chuck and face plate, drilling— both
in lathe and drill press— reaming, boring, screw-cutting in
lathe and with taps and dies, planing, slotting, etc., with
planer and shaper, milling various forms with the milling
machine, including exercises in making taps, reamers, etc.,
fitting, grinding, polishing, etc.
Lectures are also given during the year on various sub-
jects connected with machine work in metals : such as
forms, construction and use of the various machines,
cutting tools, gearing, gauges, screw threads, etc. Dur-
ing the last term some piece of construction work is given
the classes. %
All of the work is done from blue prints made by the class in
drawing. In the construction work, the student is given a blue
print and the material.for a certain part. He is then encouraged
to study the work and plan the best method of doing it
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
JUNIOR YEAR.
Elementary Mathematics.— -Three hours a week for the
first term are devoted to this subject. The fundamental
laws underlying all mechanical science and the mechanics
of liquids, gases and vapors are studied.
Principles of Mechanism.— Three recitations per week
during the second and third terms are devoted to this
subject.
Under this head machines are analyzed and their elementary
combinations of mechanism studied. The communication of
motion by gear wheels, belts, cams, screws and link work, the
different ways of obtaining definite velocity ratios and definite
changes of velocity, parallel motions and quick return motions as
well as the designing of trains of mechanism for various purposes,
together with the theoretical forms of teeth for gear wheels to
transmit the motion through these trains, are investigated under
this subject.
Mechanical Drawing. — During the first term the students
make drawings to exact scale, of some of the simpler ma-
chines. The student takes his own measurements and
makes his own sketches from which to make the finished
drawing.
The first eight weeks of the second tefm are devoted to detail
drawing, tracing and the art of blue printing. The student is
given a machine or a part of a machine and is required to make
detail working drawings of the same .
This is followed by work intended to be supplemental
to the work in mechanism. Involute and epicycloidal
gear wheels, bevel wheels and endless screws are designed
and drawn to scale from data given by the instructor.
Laboratory Work. — The laboratory work will consist of
hand work in iron and machine work in iron, as given in
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Text Books
Wood's Elementaiy Mechanics ; Stahl and Wood's Elementary
Mechanism.
SENIOR YEAR.
Steam Engine. — The first term five hours per week will
be given to the study of the theory and efficiency of the /
steam engine, with discussions of the effects of condensa-
tion in cylinder, action of fly-wheels, effect of jacketing,
etc. Simple and compound engines, various valves and
cut-off* motions, and the pricipal types of modern engines
are studied. Special attention is given to the steam engine
indicator.
Graphical Statics of Mechanism. — Eight weeks of the
second term, five hours per week, will be given to the
study of this subject. The advantage of graphical over
analytical methods is generally recognized, and new ap-
plications of the former are constantly being made. By
its use, the forces acting in every part of a machine may
be determined, both in direction and intensity, without
the use of a mathematical formula.
Machine Design. — During the remainder of the year the
subject of machine design will be studied in connection
with the strength of materials, the latter being studied
mainly from actual experiments made on the testing ma-
chine.
Laboratory Work. — The students are not only taught
how to calibrate and use the different instruments, but
they are brought in contact with engineering appliances €*^t
under practical working conditions.
Thoroughness of work is sought rather than the per- .
formance of a large number of experiments.
The following course has been arranged :
Calibration of steam gauge ; calibration of indicator spring ;
calibration of thermometer ; calibration of scales and balances ;
calorimeter tests with barrel, separating and throttling calo- »
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rimeters ; boiler test with determination of the quality of steam
and analysis of flue gas ; efficiency test of engine with brake and
indicator power measurement ; test of hot air pumping engine ;
efficiency and duty of a steam pump ; tensional, compressional
and transverse tests of cast iron, wrought iron, steel and wood, in
which are observed the limit of elasticity, the ultimate breaking
strength and the modulus of elasticity.
This class usually makes a test of some electric plant or mill
sometime in the last term.
The apparatus for carrying on this work consists of a
25-horse power Harris-Corliss engine, a 35-horse power
Westiughouse engine, a 25-horse power Atlas engine, two
9-horse power engines constructed by students in the
shops, a small engine and boiler especially for making
efficiency tests, a duplex Deane steam pump, an Ericsson
hot air engine, a Westinghouse air pump, iour steam
engine indicators, a separating calorimeter, thermometers,
pyrometers, scales, a standard steam gauge with apparatus
for testing steam gauges, a Crosby dead weight tester for
correcting the standard gauge, a 35,000-pound testing ma-
chine, and a Henning micrometer extensometer.
Text Books.
Holmes' Steam Engine, Herrman-Smith's Graphical Statics of
Mechanise; Unwin's Machine Design.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
The library contains a number of standard works on the various
subjects studied, and the students are referred to them constantly
for more extended treatment of many points that come up in
class.
POSTGRADUATE COURSE.
Dynamometers.— -This includes dynamometers and the meas-
urement of power. Absorption and transmission dynamometers
are studied,with their application and use in tesfing steam engines.
Valve Gears —The different forms of valve gears of steam
engines are studied, and problems in designing gears are worked
out.
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Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine. — This subject is studied
theoretically and practically, and attempts a complete analysis'
of the action of steam in an engine.
Laboratory Work. — As much advanced laboratory work will be
given as can be arranged with the appliances at hand.
Text Books.
Flather's Dynamometers and Measurement of Power, Spangler's
Valve Gears, Peabody's Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine.
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MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.
LIEUT. J. H. WILLS, U. S ARMY, COMMANDANT.
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Military, science and tactics are required by law to be
taught in this institution. This law is faithfully carried
out by imparting to each student, not physically incapac-
itated to bear arms, practical instruction in the school of
the soldier, of the company and of the battalion in close
and extended order, also in guard mountings, inspections,
dress parades, reviews, etc.
Under section 1225, U. S. Revised Statutes, the College
is provided with modern cadet rifles and accoutrements
and two pieces of field artillery. Ammunition for prac-
tice firing is used under the direction of an experienced
officer. The exercises in target practice and artillery drill
beginthe first day of the third term, March 23d.
The following uniform of standard cadet gray cloth has
been prescribed for dress, viz. : . Coats and pants as worn
at West Point, with sack coat for fatigue, dark blue cadet
cap. A neat and serviceable uniform can be obtained here
at $17 to $18. This is less expensive than the usual
clothing. All students are required to wear this uniform
during the session.
The entire body of students is divided into companies.
The officers are selected for proficiency in drill, deport-
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ment, and studies. Each company is officered by one cap-
tain, two 1st lieutenants, one 2d lieutenant, and with a
proper number of non-commissioned officers. The offi-
cers and non-commissioned officers are distinguished by
appropriate insignia of rank. These appointments are
confirmed by the President on nomination of the Com-
mandant.
The junior class recites once a week in the United States
Infantry Tactics. .
The senior class recites once a week in "Notes on Mili-
tary Science."
PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.
PROFESSOR CARY.
PHYSIOLOGY.
The sophomore class during the second and third terms
study human physiology.
It is the aim of the department to familiarize the student
with the gross anatomy and the functions of the various
parts of the human body ; moreover, due attention is given
to the laws of health or conditions most favorable to a
healthy action of the organs of the human body.
Instruction is given by lectures which are illustrated by
charts, drawings, models of the organs of the body and by
a human skeleton.
The department is now supplied with rooms where the
students can dissect some of the smaller animals and thus
see the organs, tissues and regions as exhibited in a few of
the lower animals.
VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART.
During the entire junior and senior years the students
in the agricultural and chemical course of study devote to
this work two hours per week in the class room and three
to five hours per week in clinical practice.
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The lectures are arranged with special reference to the
students who are interested in horses or other domestic
animals; also to those students who contemplate studying
human or veterinary medicine. While it is not the aim
to give a complete course in veterinary medicine, we at-
tempt to present the general principles of comparative ,
medicine with such special applications as are adapted to '
the conditions and wants of the students.
Special attention is given to the exterior anatomy of the horse,
while comparative anatomy is presented mainly in connection with
the study of the diseases of the different apparatus of the horse
or other domestic animals.
Lameness in the horse, minor surgery, the actions and uses of
the most common medicines, the principles and practice of com-
parative medicine, the methods of meat inspection, and the ways
of protecting the health of man and domestic animals, are con-
sidered in as plain and practical manner as the time allotted to
each subject will permit. Post mortem examinations and the dis-
section of domestic animals are used as object lessons in the study
of general. pathology and anatomy.
To the post-graduate student this department furnishes
work in histology, bacteriology and pathology.
The department of physiology and veterinary science is now
located in a new building which consists of a two-story portion,
containing four laboratory rooms on the second floor and a lee- *
ture room, museum and office on the lower floor ; and a one-
story part which contains an operating room and a hospital ward
with two box stalls and four open single stalls.
The building is supplied with water and gas, and the labora-
tory is now equipped for work. The museum contains
the skeletons of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the hog, and a
human skeleton. It also contains anatomical models of the vari-
ous parts and organs of the human body and models of many
parts of the horse, the ox, and the other domestic animals. It
also contains a collection of pathological and anatomical speci-
mens, and one of animal parasites .
The cases for clinical work have been numerous. During 1894
there were three hundred and sixty cases handled by the
department.
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POST-GRADUATE DEGREES.
The Post-graduate Degrees are — Master of Science, Mining
Engineer, Civil Engineer, and Electrical and
Mechanical Engineer.
A post-graduate degree may be obtained by a graduate
of this College, or of any other institution of equal grade,
by one year's residence at the College, spent in the suc-
cessful prosecution of a course of study approved by the
faculty.
Candidates must also present to the faculty a satisfactory thesis,
showing independent investigation upon some subject pertaining
to their course, and must pass an examination at the close of each
term on the course of study prescribed, in which he must attain a
grade of 75 per cent. The examination is written, and also oral
in the presence of the faculty.
Applicants for post-graduate degrees are, by order of the trus-
tees, permitted to matiiculate without payment of fees.
They are subject to the general regulations as other students,
but are exempt from all military duty.
Resident graduates that are not candidates for a degree, are
permitted to matriculate and prosecute the studies in any depart-
ment of the College, without payment of regular fees.
The following courses are prescribed for the degrees named :
Mining Engineer. — Geology, Civil Engineering, Chemistry.
Civil Engineer. — Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Analytical
Mechanics.
Electrical and Mechanical Engineer. — Electrical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, Analytical Mechanics or Mathematics.
Master of Science. — Studies in three departments, in two of
which the candidate must have previously completed the full
course of the senior class.
A certificate of proficiency will be given when any one subject
of a post-graduate course is satisfactorily completed.
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DISTINCTIONS.
Distinctions are awarded in the different subjects of each class
to those students whose grade for the entire year is above 90 per
cent.
Certificates of Distinction are awarded in public on commence-
ment day to those who obtain an average of 96 per cent, in all j
the prescribed studies of a regular class ; and also to those who
obtain three distinctions in the freshman class, four in the sopho-
more class, five in the junior class, and six in the senior class,
provided they have satisfactorily passed all the regular examina-
tions of that session and have not received forty demerits during
the year.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
During the session there will be given by Professor Mell a
course of twelve lectures on photography. This course will be
elective, and the instruction will be open to any student that may
desire to learn how to make pictures. It will be necessary for
each student to provide himself with an outfit that will cost from V
$11.50 to $16.00.
RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.
Daily records of the various exercises of the classes are kept
by the officers of instruction .
From the record a monthly circular, or statement, is sent to the
parent or guardian.
EXAMINATIONS.
Written monthly examinations on the studies of the month are
held by each professor.
At the end of eich term written examinations, or written and
oral, are held on the studies passed over during that term.
Special examinations are held only by order of the faculty, and
in no case will private examinations be permitted.
Students falling below the minimum grade at the final examina-
tion, can be promoted to full standing in the next higher class,
only on satisfactory examinations at the opening of the next ses-
sion.
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It is required that every student who enters the College shall
remain through the examinations at the end of the term. Leaves
of absence and honorable discharges will, therefore, not be granted
within three weeks of the examination, except in extreme cases.
LIBRARY.
The library occupies an elegant, well-lighted room in flie main
building, and also two smaller adjacent rooms. It contains
about 8,000 volumes, including valuable reference and scientific
books, with select editions of standard authors, and others suitable
for students, carefully and recently selected . It is kept open
eight hours daily for the use of students as a reading-room, and
is thus made an important educational feature.
MUSEUM.
The museum occupies a large room in the third story. It is
provided with suitable cases and is equipped with valuable speci-
mens and models of an instructive character.
DISCIPLINE.
The government of the College is administered by the Presi-
dent and faculty, in accordance with the code of laws and regula-
tions enacted by the trustees.
Attention to study and punctuality in attendance on recitations
and all other duties, are required of every student. Students are
prohibited from having in their possession arms or weapons not
issued for the performance of military duty, and also from using,
or causing to be brought into the College limits, intoxicating
liquors.
MILITARY DRILL.
There are three regular military drills each week, and all un-
dergraduate students, not physically incapacitated to bear arms,
are required to engage in these exercises.
The drills are short, and the duty involves no hardships . The
military drill is a health-giving exercise, and its good effects in
the development of the physique and improvement of the carriage
of the cadet are manifest t
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Privates of the senior class who are candidates for graduation
may be excused by the President from all military drills, and also
students over twenty-one years of age at the time of entering
College that are permittsd to devote their time to one special
study, as chemistry, agriculture, etc.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE.
Religious services are held every morning in the chapel.
All students are required to attend these exercises, and also to
attend the church of their choice at least once on Sunday.
Opportunities are also offered for attending Bible classes every
Sunday.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
This Association is regularly organized, and through its weekly
meetings exerts a wholesome Christian influence among the stu-
dents of the College.
The first week of the session the trains will be met by a com-
mittee of the Association, whose business will be to give informa-
tion to, or assist in any way it can, the students entering College
for the first time. The Association is commended to all the
students .
The fallowing are the officers :
H. H. Smith, '95, President.
S. L. Coleman, '95, Vice-President;
J. A. Groves, '96, Recording Secretary.
W. H. McBryde, '97, Corresponding Secretary.
J. L. Molder, '96, Treasurer.
GYMNASIUM.
The fourth floor of the main building is one large attic- room,
well lighted and ventilated. It has been supplied with a number
of such appliances as are used in a gymnasium, and is used for
athletic exercises by the students, in the afternoon, under pre-
scribed regulations.
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LOCATION.
The College is situated in the town of Auburn, fifty-nine miles
east of Montgomery, on the line of the Western Railroad.
The region is high and healthful, noted for its general good
health and freedom from malaria, having an elevation of eight
i hundred and twenty-six feet above tide water. By statute of the
State, the sale of spirituous liquors and keeping saloons of any
kind are forbidden.
BOARDING.
The College has no barracks or dormitories, and the
students board with families in the town of Auburn, and
thus enjoy all the protecting and beneficial influences of
the family circle.
For each house an inspector is appointed, whose duty it
is to report those who, without permission, leave their
hjj rooms after "call to quarters," or are guilty of any viola-
^^ tion of order. The report of the inspector is made to the
Commandant on alternate days of the week.
Students, after selecting their boarding-houses, are not
permitted to make changes without obtaining permission
from the President, and this permission is given only at
the close of a term, except for special reasons.
EXPENSES.
There is no charge for tuition.
Incidental fee, per half session ......$ 2 50
Library fee, per half session 1 00
Surgeon's fee, per half session • • 2 50
6 00
These fees are payable, $6.00 on matriculation and
$6.00 on February 1st. By order of the trustees no fees
can be remitted.
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For students entering after January 1st, the fees for a
half session only are required.
Board, per month, with fuel and lights. . . . $12 to 15 00
EXPENSES FOR COLLEGE YEAR.
Fees . $ 12 00 to $ 12 00 i
Board, lodging, fuel and lights. ... 108 00 to 135 00
Washing 9 00 to 9 00
Books, etc., say 8 00 to 15 00
Total ■.,".'.'. $137 00 $171 00
UNIFORM.
A uniform of cadet gray cloth is prescribed, which all under-
graduate students are required to wear during the session. The
uniforms are made by a contractor of excellent cloth manufac-
tured at the Charlottesville mills. This suit, including cap, costs
about $16.50. It is neat and serviceable, and less expensive
than ordinary clothing.
CONTINGENT FEE.
A contingent fee of five dollars is required to be de-
posited by each student on matriculation, to cover any
special or general damage to college property for which he
may be liable.
At the close of the session the whole of the contingent
fee, or the unexpended balance, is refunded to the student.
AMOUNT OP DEPOSIT.
Each student on entering College should deposit with
the Treasurer not less than $50.00, to pay the expenses of
fees, one month's board, uniform, books, etc.
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FUNDS OF STUDENTS.
Parents and guardians are advised to deposit with the Treas-
urer of the College all funds desired for sons or wards, whether
for regular charges of College fees or board, or for any other pur-
pose. It is the duty of this officer to keep safely all funds placed
\ in his hands, and to pay all expenses incurred by the students,
including board, uniform, books, etc., when approved.
When funds are deposited, checks are drawn on the Treasurer
of the College by the cadet to pay his necessary expenses. These
checks are paid only when approved by the President. This ap-
proval is given only for necessary expenses, as stated in the cata-
logue, unless specially requested in writing by the parent.
The College cannot be held responsible for the expenses of a
student, unless the funds are deposited with the Treasurer. No
student should be permitted to have a large amount of pocket
money, as it brings only trouble and encourages idleness.
THESIS.
Each applicant for a degree is required to write and submit to *
the faculty an essay or oration and read or deliver the same at
commencement, if required by the faculty.
It must be given to the Professor of English by the first of May.
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
There are two literary societies connected with the Col-
lege — the Wirt and the Websterian. Each has a hall in
the main building.
These societies hold celebrations on the evenings of
l Thanksgiving Day and 22nd of February, and also dur-
] ing commencement week. They elect annually, with the
approval of the faculty, an orator to represent them at the
close of the year.
EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION.
On every Saturday morning, immediately after chapel services,
oratorical exercises in declamation and in original orations are
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conducted by the Professor of English, in presence of the faculty
and students.
The/™/ and second terms the students of the junior and sopho-
more classes are exercised in original orations and declamation.
The second and third terms the members of the senior class read
essays or deliver original orations.
SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI.
The annual alumni oration is delivered by a member of the
society, in Langdon Hall, on Alumni Day, Tuesday of com-
mencement week. The following are the officers of the society :
C. H. Ross, '86, President.
C. W. Ashcraft, '88, Vice President.
C. C. Thach, '77, Secretary and Treasurer.
R. H. Thach, '85, Orator for 1895.
SURGEON.
The Surgeon is required to be present at the College
daily, to visit at their quarters the cadets that are reported
sick, and to give all requisite medical attention without
other charge than the regular surgeon's fee, paid on enter-
ing College.
ACADEMIC YEAE.
The academic year for 1895-96 commences on Wednes-
day, 11th September, 1895 (second Wednesday after first
Monday), and ends on Wednesday, 10th June, 1896,
(second Wednesday after first Monday), which is commence-
ment day.
It is divided into three terms. The first term extends
from the opening of the session to the 20th of December ;
the second term begins December 30th, and ends March
2l8t; the third term continues from March the 21st to the
close of the session.
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RESOLUTION OF THE TRUSTEES.
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The following resolution was adopted by the trustees :
That in view of increased facilities for instruction in agriculture
and the technical departments of education now possessed by this
College, especially in the department o( mechanic arts, made
possible by the recent donation from the State, the faculty are
authorized, in addition to the legal name of this College, to print
on the catalogue the words ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC IN-
STITUTE, as significant of the expanded system of practical
instruction in industrial science in the course of education na^
DONATIONS TO LIBRARY.
provided for.
W. Aldrich — Farming Corporations.
. H. S. Salt— Animal Rights.
Arthur Pew — Government Railroads.
Babcock and Wilcox Co. — Steam. Its generation and use.
P. H. Mcll, Jr. — Mell's Decisions on Parliamentary Practice.
R. P. Williams — The Apostolic Fathers.
Secretary of Interior — Senate and House Executive and Mis-
cellaneous Documents, Memorial Addresses, Reports, etc — 164
vols.
Hon. W. C. Oates and Hon. G. P. Harrison — Congressional Re-
cord, and 3 vols. War of the Rebellion Reports.
Russian Government — World's Fair Report.
Commissioner of Education — 8 Pamphlets on American Edu-
cational History.
Commissioner of Finance — 47 Pamphlets on Tariff Reports.
Univeisity of Wisconsin — 4 Pamphlets Engineering Series.
DONATIONS TO ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL
DEPARTMENTS.
Baxter Electric Motor Co., Baltimore, Md. — Two street car
motors, 20 horse power each.
General Electric Co., Atlanta, Ga.-— One lightning arrester.
Hill Clutch Works, Cleveland, O.— One friction clutch pulley.
Magnolia Metal Co, New York— Eighteen copies of "The
Practical Engineer" for distribution to the senior class.
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Niles Tool Works, Hamilton, O. — Two large photographs,
framed, showing machinery.
The Lane & Bodley Co. — Large photograph of Columbian
Corliss engine.
The Consolidated Safety Valve Co., N. Y. — Sectional model
of locomotive pop safety valve .
The Ames Iron Works, Oswego, N. Y. — Two framed engrav-
ings of engines.
Allis Engine Works, Milwaukee, Wis. — Engraving of engine.
Frick Co., Waynesboro, Pa. — Four photographs of engines and
ice machines.-
Deane Steam Pump Co., Holyoke, Mass. — Duplex steam pump
complete.
Lukeins Iron and Steel Co., Coatsville, Pa. — Flanged boiler
head; two Huston patent boiler braces.
Mr. W. H. Parrish, President Gulf Red Cedar Co., Greenville,
Ala. — Cedar lumber.
PERIODICALS.
The following periodicals are regularly received in the
library and are accessible to students.
LITERARY.
QUARTERLY.
Economic Journal. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Edinburgh Review. Quarterly Review.
Political Science Quarterly. Sewanee Review.
MONTHLY.
Atlantic Monthly.
Blackwood's Magazine.
Book Buyer.
Book Reviews.
Century Magazine.
Contemporary Review.
Cosmopolitan.
Eclectic Monthly.
Education.
Educational Review.
Fortnightly Review.
Forum.
Harper's Monthly.
McClure's Magazine.
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North American Review.
Review of Reviews.
Scribner's Magazine.
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WEEKLY.
Academy .
Independent (New York).
Athenaeum.
Literary World (Boston).
Critic.
Nation ,
Dial.
Saturday Review.
Harper's Weekly.
Spectator.
SCIENTIFIC.
Agricultural Science.
Agricultural Society Journal.
American Agriculturalist.
American Cultivator.
American Gardening.
American Geologist.
American Journal of Mathematics.
American Journal of Science.
American Machinist.
American Meteorological Journal.
American Monthly Microscopical Journal.
American Naturalist.
Analyst
Anatomischer Anzeiger.
Anrifcles de Chemie et de Physique.
Annales des Sciences Naturelles.
Annals of Botany.
Annals of Mathematics.
Anthony's Photographic Bulletin.
Archives de Biologic
Archives de Zoologie .
Archives fuer Mikroskopische Anatomic
Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft.
British Journal of Photography,
Botanical Gazette.
Builder and Woodworker.
Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club.
Cassier's Magazine.
Chemical News.
Centralblatt fuer Bacteriologie .
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Country Gentleman and Cultivator.
Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Tiermedicine.
Electrical Engineer.
Electrical Review.
Electrical World.
Electrician.
Engineering (London).
Engineering and Mining Journal.
Engineering News.
Engraver and Printer.
Farmer's Gazette (New South Wales).
Farmer's Advocate.
Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower.
Garden and Forest.
Hufschmied.
Journal de l'Anatomie et de Physiologic
Journal of American Chemical Society.
Journal of Botany.
Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics.
Journal of Franklin Institute.
Journal of Geology.
Journal of Horticulture.
Journal of Morphology.
Journal of New York Microscopical Society.
Mehan's Monthly.
Natural Science.
Nature.
Pharmaceutical Journal.
Photographer (St. Louis).
Photographic Times.
Popular Science Monthly.
Prairie Farmer.
Proceedings of the Academy of 'Natural Science of Phila-
delphia.
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
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Rural New Yorker.
Science.
Scientific American.
Sibley Journal of Engineering.
Southern Cultivator.
Southern Farm.
Southern Planter.
Veterinary Journal.
Veterinary Magazine.
Western Rural.
Wilson's Photographic Magazine.
Zeitschrift fuer Fleisch und Milch Hygiene.
Zeitschrift fuer vergleichende Augenheilkunde.
Zoologischer Anzeiger.
PUBLIC LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE COLLEGE
DURING SESSION 1894-95.
Dr. Broun — How we Hear.
Prof. Thach— Sir Walter Scott.
Dr. Petrie — Washington City.
Dr. Cary — Cor formation of the Horse.
Dr. C. H. Ross— Names.
Dr. Mell— Plant Life.
Prof. Stedman— Biology of Coral Reefs.
Prof. B. B. Ross— Technical Chemistry.
PUBLIC LECTURES FOR SESSION 1 895-96.
Dr. Broun— Lunar Influences Real and Imaginary.
Prof. Smith— Reminiscences of a Schoolmaster.
Dr. Mell— Erosion of Continents.
Prof. Thach— Thackeray's Life and Works.
Dr. Petrie — Benjamin Franklin.
Prof. Bondurant— The Southern Labor Problem .
Prof. McKissick— Phenomena of Alternating Currents.
Prof. Stedman— Hydroids and Jelly Fish.
Prof. B. B. Ross— Technical Application of Chemistry.
Dr. C. H. Ross— Americanisms.
Prof. Wilmore— The Steam Engine as a Factor in Civilization .
Dr, Cary— Psychology of Domestic Animals.
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CALENDAR, 1895=96.
Session begins Wednesday, Sept. 1 1, 1805
Examination for .admission Wednesday, Sept. 1 ., 1895
First term begins Wednesday, Sept. 11,1895
First term ends -MJ* » ec 20 « -^
Second term begins Monday,- J>ec 30, 189S
Second term ends Saturday, March a., ,896
Ttird term begins Monday, March 23, '896
Sophomore class exercises .Friday, May r, .890
Final examinations begin Wednesday, May 27, .896
Commencement sermon Sunday, June 7, ^
Annual meeting of Trustees .■■.■■ Monday, June 8, 1896
Junior class celebration, 10 AM Monday, June 8, 1896
Military exercises, 4 p. * Monda y- J une 8 ' '^
Celebration of Literary Societies, 8 p.m.. .Monday, June 8, 1896
Alumni day Tuesday, June 9 , 1896
Military exercises, 5 p. m Tuesday, June 9, 1896
Address before Literary Societies, 8 p. m. .Tuesday, June 9, 1896
Commencement day Wednesday, June 10, 1896
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Jonathan Haralson (term expires 1901) Selma.
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Wm. LeROY BROUN, M. A , LL. D.,
President and Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
OTIS D. SMITH, A. M.,
Professor of Mathematics.
P. H. MELL, M. E., Ph. D.,
Professor of Botany and Geology. <j t,
JAMES H. LANE, C. E., A. M., LL. D., .11 11
Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing. .0 X
CHARLES C. THACH, A. M., H .II
Professor of English and Political Economy. H .11
GEORGE PETRIE, M. A., Ph. D.,/^ ° wT * 8
Professor of History and Latin.
A. F. McKISSICK, A. M., M. M. E.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering.
B. B. ROSS, M. So.,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.
CHARLES H. ROSS, C. E., Ph. D.,
Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages and English.
J. J. WILMORE, M. E.,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Laboratory.
C. A. CARY, B. So., D. V. M.,
Professor of Physiology and Veterinary Science.
MAGNUS 0. HOLLIS, 1st Lieut. 4th Inf. U. S. A. (West Point),
Commandant and Professor of Military Science.
E. R. MILLER, Phar. M., M. Sc,
Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy.
LUCIEN M. UNDERWOOD, Ph. D.,
Professor of Biology.
J. F. DUGGAR, M. Sc,
Assistant Professor of Agriculture.
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0. L. HARE, M. So.,
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R. J. TRAMMELL, C. E.,
Assistant Instructor in Mechanic Arts.
L. 8. BOYD, M. So.,
Assistant Librarian.
W. M. RIGGS, E. & M. E.,
Instructor in Physical' Laboratory.
J. P. 8laton, M. So. Assistant in English and Mathematics.
H H. Smith, B. So Assistant in English.
J. C. Thomabon, B. So Assistant in Mathematics.
H. H. Kysrr, B. So Assistant in Mechanic Arts.
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P. H. Mell Botanist.
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L. M. Underwood Biologist.
0. A. Oary Veterinarian.
J. F. Duoqar.. Agriculturist.
F. S. Earle Horticulturist.
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J. T. Anderson, Ph. D .First Assistant Chemist.
C. L. Hare, M. So Second "Assistant Chemist.
R. G. Williams, M. So Third Assistant Chemist.
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OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE.
The leading object of the College, in conformity with the
act of Congress and the acts of the State Legislature, is to
teach the principles and the applications of science.
In its courses of instruction it gives prominence to the
sciences and their applications, especially to those that re-
late to agriculture and the mechanic arts ; and at the same
time the discipline obtained by the study of language and
other sciences is not neglected.
All students are required to study the English language.
The Latin, French and German languages are also taught,
and opportunity for their study is offered to students in any
course*
The special and technical instruction given is thus based
on a sound, general education.
The College, in fact, is a distinctive school of industrial
science — or Polytechnic Institute — a title which by reso-
lution of the Trustees is permitted to be inscribed in the
catalogue, — and work of great value to the youth of the
State is being accomplished by fitting them by a thorough
science-discipline, in which manual training in the lower
classes is made a prominent feature, for the successful and
honorable performance of the responsible duties of life.
While every attention is given to the mental discipline of
the students L endeavoring to train them to habits of ac-
curate scientific thought, and thus to qualify them for the
duties of life, their moral and Christian training will always
constitute the prominent care and thought of the Faculty.
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LABORATOBIES AND FACILITIES FOR INSTRUC-
TION.
The College now possesses facilities for giving laboratory
instruction in applied science in the following departments :
I— IN AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.
The farm contains 226 acres* and is supplied with illus-
trative specimens of stock of select varieties.
The agricultural experiment station, established in con-
nection with the College, where experiments and scientific
investigations relating to agriculture are daily made, affords
unusual opportunities to students to become familiar with
agriculture, its defects and remedies.
The students of agriculture accompany the professor in
the field, garden, conservatory, stock-yard, etc., where lec-
tures are delivered in the presence of the objects discussed,
and during the year exercises in practical agriculture of an
educational character are given the students who enter
upon this course of study.
H— IN MECHANIC ARTS.
The laboratory of mechanic arts is used as an auxiliary
n ndustrml education, and as a school in manual training
n the arts that constitute the foundation of various bdto
2SESLS" work performed b ' *• Snts t :
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under the ^iL&^S^*^ *""«
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signed three exercises a week LT! 8Ch °° 1 ' v and 18 as "
hours long. ' each exe ™se being two
The object of this laboratory is not tn t.o W . ., i. .
to educate, to discipline andfL T ° h * trade ' bot
well as tne mind ^d Jhnt T *? " dUie W ' M
mental training to educated 7 « od » ti »W manual and
duties of life wLve ht ^ the student f <* the
me, whatever hie vocation may be. There is no
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attempt to teach students special skill in constructing arti-
cles of commercial value, but all the exercises are syste-
matically arranged and designed for purposes of education.
The wood department is located in a commodious hall,
90 x 50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horse-power
Corliss engine, a planer, circular saw, band-saw, two scroll
saws, a buzz planer, twenty-four stands each with <* lathe
and a full set of tools, and thirty benches for carpentry
work with the tools requisite for construction.
A brick building, 30 x 87 feet with two rooms, has been
constructed especially for instruction in working iron.
One room is equipped with sixteen forges and tools re-
quired for a forge department, and the other with a Colliau
cupola furnace, a core oven, a brass furnace, moulding
benches, a foundry crane constructed by students, and
special tools for use in a foundry.
The forge and foundry rooms are furnished with a Sturte-
vant fan and exhauster, supplied with power from a ten
horse-power engine, constructed by the students in me-
chanic arts.
The machine department occupies a brick building,
SO x 50 feet, and is equipped with ten engine lathes, one
speed lathe, one 20-inch drill press, one 10-inch sensitive
drill, one post drill, one 16-inch shaper, one 5-foot planer,
one universal milling machine, a corundum tool grinder, a
small emery grinder, a universal cutter and reamer grinder^
a No. 1 Brown & Sharpe universal grinding machine, and
a power hack saw.
The chipping and filing department is arranged with
benches, vises and tools for twelve students.
The tool room is well supplied with special tools for use
in instruction, including a machine for grinding twist drills.
The rooms are lighted with electricity whenever necessary.
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m— IN PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.
The chemical laboratory is supplied with modern appa-
ratus, and in its equipment affords excellent facilities for
instruction in practical chemistry and for investigation.
The investigations that are undertaken in this laboratory
by scientific experts, in connection with the work of the
agricultural experiment station, are of especial value to ad-
vanced students, and afford them unusual opportunities to
learn the methods of scientific research. The building con-
tains a large general laboratory that will accommodate sixty
students, a lecture room with capacity for one hundred
seats, and nine other rooms, all appropriated to instruction
and research in chemistry.
IV— IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
- The electrical laboratory is well supplied with modern
appliances for instruction in electrical engineering. It
occupies two large rooms in the basement, and is equipped
with many fine instruments of precision: Kelvin deka-
ampere balance, Kelvin gradfed current and potential gal-
vanometers, Cardew voltmeter, Weston voltmeters and am-
meter, Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter and ammeter,
Thomson watt-meter, Hartman and Braun voltmeter,
Kohlrausch ammeter, Wood ammeter, Weston alternating
current voltmeter, Weston direct reading watt-meter,
Queen's " Acme" testing set, Kelvin electrostatic voltmeter*
Edison ammeters and many other current-measuring instru-
ments, resistance boxes, Wheatstone bridges, condensers,
telephones, batteries, magnets, etc.
The dynamos occupy a separate building and are opera-
ted by a twenty-five horse-power Atlas engine, and a thirty-
five horse-power Westinghouse engine. In this building
are installed the following dynamos :
Edison compound 12 Kilo-watt generator, Thomson-Hous-
ton 150 light 110 volt dynamo, Weston 150 volt 25 ampere
generator, Crocker-Wheeler one-horse power motor, Brush
6 arc light dynamo with lamps, two Baxter street car motors,
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20-horse power each (so connected as to be used as direct
or alternating current motors or generators), one General
Electric 20-horse power motor, two bi-phase induction
motors (built by students), two phase alternator and 500
volt 20 ampere generator, made by students. There is also
in connection with this department at the experiment sta-
tion, a ten-horse power motor, made by students, which is
operated by the 500 volt generator in the dynamo room.
v— IN PHYSICS.
In the College building provision is made for elementary
laboratory work in the department of physics. Special
rooms in the basement are appropriated for this purpose,
and are equipped with the necessary appliances for instruc-
tion in practical physics.
VI — IN MINERALOGY.
This laboratory occupies a convenient room in the base-
ment, and is provided with tables and appliances to accom-
modate thirty students, with an excellent collection of
minerals.
VII — IN BOTANY.
In the work of the agricultural experiment station there
is a botanical garden under the charge of the professor of
botany, investigations in botany are given special attention,
and opportunities are offered advanced students for practi-
cal work in a laboratory especially fitted with microscopes,
tables, a dark room for photographic work, and appliances
needed for instruction and research. This department is
provided with Auzoux's clastic models of seeds and flowers
for teaching botany.
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Yin— IN BIOLOGY.
The laboratory in this department adjoins the lecture
room of the professor, and is furnished with tables, excel-
lent microscopes and appliances for investigation. Each
student of the class works under the supervision of the
professor.
IX— IN ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING.
The necessary apparatus for field work, including transits,
levels, plane table, models of bridges, etc., is provided for
the use of the students, and the customary exercises in the
field are given.
X— IN DRAWING.
All students in the lower classes are required to take
drawing, a study which tends to discipline the mind, as
well as to train the eye and hand to accuracy of observation
and execution. A large, well-lighted drawing-room, that
will accommodate fifty students, is provided with tables,
lock boxes, etc.
XI— IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
The me chanical course has been extended to include ex-
perimental work in mechanical engineering.
The apparatus available for this instruction is as follows :
A 25-horse power Harris -Corliss engine, a 35-horse power
Westinghouse engine, a 25-horse power Atlas engine, two
9-horse power engines constructed by students, the boilers
belonging to the regular power plant, a small engine and
boiler for the special purpose of making efficiency tests, a
Dean duplex steam pump, an Ericsson hot air engine, a
Westinghouse air pump, four steam engine indicators, a
separating calorimeter, thermometers, a pyrometer, scales,
a standard steam gauge with apparatus for testing steam
gauges, a Crosby dead weight tester with weights for cor.
recting the standard gauge, a 35,000-pound testing machine,
a Henning micrometer extensometer, and a Carpenter
calorimeter with the necessary auxiliary apparatus for de-
termining the heating value of different kinds of coal.
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No suitable place has as yet been provided for a testing
laboratory, and the work is carried on, partly in a room in
the basement of the main building, partly in the dynamo
house, and partly in the shops. The work is thoroughly
practical, and it is desired to extend it as rapidly as the
funds available for the purchase of apparatus will allow.
Xn— IN PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINAEY SCIENCEr
There has been constructed for the veterinary laboratory
a new and separate two-story building with nine rooms. It
is provided with lecture room, office, working and operating
rooms for clinical practice, and museum with skeletons of
the domestic animals for instruction. Free clinics are
given every Saturday for the benefit of the students in vete-
rinary science.
Xm— IN PHARMACY.
The laboratory of this department, at present, occupies a
room in the Chemical building and is provided with a suffi-
cient supply of drugs and apparatus necessary for instruc-
tion in pharmaceutical preparations.
The students work in the laboratory with the Professor,
from five to eight hours, six days in the week.
It is expected to increase the facilities as means are
available.
MILITARY TACTICS.
Instruction in this department is given in conformity
with the act of Congress. Students receive the benefit of
regular military drill, and in addition the military system
is used as a means of enforcing discipline and securing
good order, promptness and regularity in the performance
of academic duties.
This department is under the charge of Lieut M. O.
Hollis, 4th Infantry, U. S. A.
It is supplied with new cadet muskets and accoutrements
for the corps, and for artillery practice, with two three-
inch rifle guns, carriages and limbers.
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COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
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The frontispiece is a representation of the main College building.
It is 100 by 71 feet, and contains forty-five rooms. This building is
not used for dormitories for students, but is appropriated to pur-
poses of instruction and investigation.
It contains the lecture rooms and offices of the professors, labora-
tories, library, museum, armory, etc.
LANGDON HALL.
This is a two-story building, ninety by fifty feet. The second
story is the audience hall, used for commencement and other public
occasions.
The first story is appropriated to the laboratory of mechanic arts.
THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
As shown on the opposite page, is a two-story structure, 40 by 60
feet, with a rear projection, 85 by 60 feet, of one-story and basement,
add contains eight rooms. The exterior is of pressed brick, with cut
stone trimmings and terra-cotta ornamentation.
In the basement are ample accommodations for assaying and
storage.
The main laboratory will accommodate sixty students, and con-
tains improved working tables, with water, gas and every necessary
appliance for chemical work.
The second story contains a lecture room and also a room used at
present for the pharmaceutical laboratory. Around the lecture
room are cases containing crude and manufactured products, illus-
trating agricultural and industrial chemistry, prominent subjects
taught in the institution.
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GYMNASIUM.
The recently constructed gymnasium is situated at the west end of the
athletic grounds and contains one room 80 x 40 feet, with truss-roof and
strong beams 22 feet above for fastening the usual fixtures. It is equipped
with Spalding's gymnasium apparatus and is open to all students at stated
hours, under the care of an instructor.
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CLASS OF 1895,
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HONOR GRADUATES.
COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Solon Lycurgus Coleman Marengo.
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
James Claude Thomason . — Randolph.
GENERAL COURSE.
LeVert Coleman Madison.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.
Robert Higgins Adams f. • Pike *
Daniel SpigeiWr Anderson Lee-
Walter Scott Askew Chambers.
Hugh Bickerstaff Russell.
George Perkins Bondurant Lee -
Frank Asbury Boykin • • Lee -
William Wallace Bussey Georgia.
Gordon Flewellen Chambers, Russell.
LeVert Coleman , Madison.
Solon Lycurgus Coleman Marengo.
Langdon Bowie Gammon. ..... .• Georgia.
Benjamin Browning Haralson • • • ' £ alla8 -
Benjamin Glenn Jennings *„*
Henry Hearst Kyser i Talladega.
Charles Linn ■ Jefferson.
James Neil McLean Montgomery.
William Cunningham McMillan Talladega.
James Newsom ? r e °J. g1 *'
Henry Hinds Peevey Madison.
Tilden Hendricks Phipps Georgia.
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Walter Russell Shafer Montgomery.
Harry Howell Smith. Lee.
Percy Hilton Smith Georgia.
Herbert Warren Taylor r. » . - . ■ Montgomery.
James Claude Thomason Randolph.
Andrew Hearne Whitman Lowndes.
John Adams Wills Lee.
MASTER OF SCIENCE.
Leigh Stafford Boyd Lee.
Kate Conway Broun Lee.
James Vandiver Brown Georgia.
Rosberry Covington Conner Macon.
Charles Gordon Greene Lee.
Rinaldo Greene Williams Lee.
CIVIL ENGINEER.
James Archibald Duncan Pike.
John Presley Slaton Macon.
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Students who receive a grade above 90 in three studies in the
Freshman Class, in four in the Sophomore, in five in
the Junior, and in six in the Senior, are dis-
tinguished for excellence in schol-
arship, and are awarded
HONOR CERTIFICATES.
The following students received honor certificates in 1805:
SENIOR CLASS.
Walter Scott Askew Chambers.
Hugh Bickerstaff Russell.
Solon Lycurgus Coleman Marengo.
LeVert Coleman Madison.
Henry Hearst Kyser Talladega. ■
James Newsom. , Georgia.
Harry Howell Smith Lee.
James Claude Thomason Randolph.
HONOR STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR CLASS.
COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
Albert Lea Alexander Georgia.
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
William Henry Harrison Trammell Lee.
COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.
George Bates Kelley Jefferson.
GENERAL COURSE.
Walter Lynnewood Fleming Pike.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Albert Lea Alexander .Georgia.
Andrew Beirne Andrews Tennessee.
William James Beeson Etowah.
Hubert Alberto Drennen Jefferson.
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Walter Lynnewood Fleming Pike.
James Alston Groves Dallas.
Annie Florence Heard Lee.
Hampton Sanders Henderson Talladega.
Gaorge Bates Kelley Jefferson.
Garry DeVon King Georgia.
James Louis Moulder Georgia.
William Henry Harrison Trammell Lee.
Estelle Love Whitaker , .Lee.
Bryce Hewitt Wilson Franklin.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Thomas Ganaway Conner Macon.
Ernest William Heck .Illinois.
William Welch Hill Talladega.
Clarence Neil Jones .Montgomery.
Edwin Boyce Joseph ; Montgomery.
Henry Madison Lindsey : Mobile.
Samuel Toliver Slatoo Macon.
William Tilman Warren..... Montgomery.
Reuben David Webb Coosa.
George Wrigley ..'... ..!... Georgia.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
John Cocke Abernethy # .Florida.
William Menefee Dean . . Georgia
Robert Clark Fen ton. .'.'.'...'.'.'.'.'..'.Connecticut.
Harry Streety Houghton Jefferson
Marshall Hill Hurt ZZ' ' £^ '
Robert Stewart Parker Sumter
William Bee Stokes M .
WiUiam Alexander Thomason.^
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Graduate Students.
[Residence is Alabama when State is not named.]
NAME. RESIDENCE.
Solon Lyfcurgus Coleman Marengo.
Henry Hearst Kyser Talladega.
Henry Hinds Peevey Madison.
Walter Bussell Shafer Montgomery.
John Presley Slaton .Macon.
arry Howell Smith Lee.
James Claude Thomason Eandolph.
John Adams Wills Lee.
Herbert Warren Taylor. Montgomery.
Undergraduate Students.
senior class.
Albert Lea Alexander Georgia.
Charles Nutting Alford Marshall.
Andrew Beiine Andrews Tennessee.
Marion Joseph Bancroft Mobile.
William James Beeson Etowah.
John Simeon Bennett Lee.
Sidney Josiah Bross Coosa.
Joseph Quarterman Burton Lee.
Henry Rozier Casey Jefferson.
LeBoy Abda Christian Shelby.
James Washington Culver Lee. \
Walter Ernest Culver Lee.
Hubert Alberto Drenhen Jefferson.
Oba DeYan Dumas Wilcox.
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Jesse Boland Edwards Talladega.
John Cuthbert Farley Lee.
Walter Lynnewood Fleming Pike.
John Lonis Glenn Butler.
Annie Florence Heard Lee.
. John Fletcher Heard Lee.
Hampton Sanders Henderson , Talladega.
Frank Thomas Jackson Mobile.
Richard Sparks Jackson Jefferson.
George Bates Kelley Jefferson.
William Bernan Kelly . . Montgomery.
Garry DeVon King .. .Georgia.
James Lewis Moulder Georgia.
Julian Berry Oglesby Georgia,
John Albin Reeves. Cherokee.
Oliver John Semmes Mobile.
Benjamin Asbury Taylor Autauga.
Wade Douglas Taylor Madison.
Walker Reynolds Tichenor Georgia.
William Abner Tippin , \\\\ Florida.
William Henry Harrison Trammell Lee
Estelle Love Whitaker \\\\ # L ea
Frank Lewis Whitman L ee
William Martin Williams ...\\\\\ Georgia.
Bryce Hewitt Wilson .' ! .' .\' ! ! . Franf iTn.
JUNIOB CLASS.
Emile Glines Abbott. n
William Kirk Armstrong'. . * '. '. '.'.[][ i^ 8 ^
Bichard Manning Boykin an v
Lewis Edward Byrum. » % ^l**
Edgeworth Stephens Casey N. C arohna .
Alexander Hnmphreys Clark Jefferson.
Peyton Graves Clark Mon gomery.
Bobert Walter Collins Montgomery.
Thomas Ganaway Conner m
George uonard F aucett..:::::;;;:;.;;;;;;^ ph
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William Alexander Fitzgerald Georgia.
Arthur Williams Greene Chambers.
Gaston Greil Montgomery.
Jule Alford Haigler Montgomery.
Fletcher Dumas Harvey Lee.
Harry Herzf eld Tallapoosa.
Joseph Herzfeld Tallapoosa.
William Welch Hill Talladega.
John Buford Hobdy Bullock.
George Michael Holley Georgia.
William Alexander Hood Jefferson.
Cassius Rex Hudson Lee.
Clarence Neil Jones Montgomery.
Edwin Boyce Joseph Montgomery.
Adus Edwin Killebrew Dale.
George Powe Kyser Talladega.
William Parker Leonard Georgia.
Warren Horton McBryde Mobile.
William Wrice McLeran Macon.
George Nathan Mitcham Georgia.
Wade Hampton Negus Mississippi.
Charles Johnson Nelson Dallas.
William Jacob Nixon .... Tennessee.
William Clifford Paden Etowah.
Benjamin Sweat Patrick S. Carolina-
James Lawrence Pollard Russell.
Leonard Calloway Pratt Bibb.
John Purif oy Lee.
John Wesley Purifoy Wilcox.
Berry Lathum Scott Texas.
Samuel Tolivar Slaton Macon.
Frederick Lloyd Tate Russell
Merrick Dowdell Thomas Chambers.
Paul Vines Tallapoosa.
James Clifton Warren Montgomery.
William Tilman Warren Montgomery.
Reuben David Webb Coosa.
Noble James Wiley Montgomery.
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SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Lemuel Sledge Allen Marengo.
Thomas Meriwether Barnett Chilton.
William Brown Beeson Jackson.
Carter Berry Tallapoosa.
Arthur Bingham . Talladega.
Hector Patrick Blue Bullock.
William Hamill Bruce Montgomery.
Thomas Harrison Clower Lee.
William Thomas Covin .Georgia.
William Menefee Dean Georgia.
George Oliver Dickey Crenshaw.
Duncan Patterson Dixon Talladega.
Clifford Lamar Edwards Lee.
Richard Roe Eppes. Marengo.
Prank Farley Lee.
Jewett Whatley Feagin Jefferson.
Walter Zabe Fletcher Lee.
Frank Reese Frazer Lee.
James Stephen Gilliland Coosa.
John Wommack Giddens . . Crenshaw.
Elmer Wynn Gray .Georgia.
Benjamin Fortson Griffin Texas.
Francis Williams Hare Lee.
Charles Edward Harrison Florida.
Henry Everette Harvey: Lee.
Harry Streety Houghton Jefferson.
William Earl Hudmon ...Lee.
Robert Edwin Hudson fj 6e
Marshall Hill Hurt. ...:....;:.". .'.7.." ['.'. '. .Macon.
John William Jepson S. Carolina.
William Earle Lay Etowah
Claude Omega Looney Talladega.
Joseph Wood King ..Georgia?
George" Edwards Mason Shelb
John Kichard McCalla. L ee
George Bulger McDonald .......... . . " . .' .' [ Coosa.
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Peter Mastin Mclntyre Montgomery.
Henry Edmund Memminger , Tennessee.
Edwin Thomas Merrick Louisiana.
William Augustus Mitchell Georgia.
Benjamin Otey Minge Marengo.
Ohadwick Wiley Minge Marengo.
George McElhaney Moore Lee.
Frank Green Morriss Talladega.
Howard Crawford Motley Lee.
John SSt. Clair Paden . . .Etowah.
Robert Stewart Parker Sumter.
Harry John Pettus Montgomery.
Alexander Simpson Pow Jefferson.
James Ware Ray Elmore.
Harvey Owen Sargent Franklin.
Robert Pinkney Scarbrough Russell.
Selwyn Sutton Scott Lee.
John Asbury Selman > Coosa.
Clifford West Stewart Montgomery.
William Livingston Stewart Montgomery.
William Bee Stokes! . . ; Marion.
Cecil Pitts Stowe .Lee.
Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe Louisiana.
Thomas Harrison Tutwiler Jefferson.
William Alexander Thomason Randolph.
James Robert Vann Henry.
Almuth Cunningham Vandiver Talladega.
Bishop Billing Warwick , Talladega.
George Newman Ward Henry.
Burns Michel Wert Morgan.
John Wesley Williams Lee.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
Roland T. Abbott .Georgia.
LeRoy Jones Allen .Marengo.
Paul Otey Anderson .' Lee.
Albert Martin Ayres Marshall.
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William Tennant Besson Montgomery.
Joseph Peyton Carson I^ee.
Horace Cecil Tennessee.
Henry Perkins Cbappell : . . . Bullock.
William LeVert Christian Shelby.
Charles Wallace Collins Hale.
George Davis Collins Hale.
Charles Chapman Clark Pickens.
George Price Cooper Madison.
Henry Neal Coleman Lowndes.
Bolivar Davis Jefferson.
Arthur Hillman DeBardeleben Jefferson.
James Francis Dobbin Florida.
Charles Washington Drake Madison.
Leo Pogue DuBose Mobile.
Flake Erie Farley Lee.
Philip Suder Finn S. Carolina.
William Bullock Fleming Montgomery.
Thomas Coleman Flowers Sumter.
Joseph Henry Glover Georgia,
Charles Thomas Hightower . . Georgia.
Felix Grundy Horn Sumter.
Charles Vine Ingram Lee.
Emmett Franklin Jackson Lee.
John Tate Jenkins Madison.
Bufus Lee Jenkins Lee.
Stansell Clare Keys. . . . .' S. Carolina.
Alexander Killough Autauga.
Joseph Landman Madison.
Bobert Wesley Lockhart Jefferson.
Fred Lee Martin ....'! Autauga.'
William Elliott Matthews Madison.
Isham Fennell McDonnell Madison.
Charles Henry Merritt Chilton.
Angelo Marvin Nowlin DeKalb
Francis Franek Oser \[\\\ .Louisiana.
Julius Ernest Perez Mobile
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William Wesley Powers Hale.
William Jackson Pritchett Marengo.
Lawrence Bratton Rainey DeKalb.
Frank Gordon Rabb Lowndes.
Thomas Hamlin Reese Macon.
Ferdie John Rheiner Texas.
John Osgood Rush Lee.
Archie McDonnell Robinson. . Madison.
Herman Seharnagel Franklin.
Horatio Seymour » . . . Sumter.
Benjamin Lewis Schuessler Chambers.
Dozier Turner Elmore.
Thomas William Wert. Morgan.
George Madison Whepler Madison.
Richard Clarke Wilson Wilcox.
Albert Edward Woodall Sumter.
Julien Chandler Tonge Florida.
SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.
Abbreviations : Ph.— Pharmacy ; E. & M, E,-Electrical and Me-
chanical Engineering; C— Chemistry ; A g.— Agriculture.
John Cocke Abernethy ph. ... . . . Florida.
John Arrington .e. & m. E Montgomery.
Erister Asbcraft. Lee-
George Doan Borup Missouri.
James Warren Capps , .ph Henry.
Charles Alexander Carmon E. & M. E. Texas.
Walter Marion Carter • . .Lee.^
Benajah Bibb Cobb Macon.
James Hardin Crawford ph. Georgia.
Joseph Crenshaw ....". . .ph.. Perry.
Annie Lizzie Dyer Lee.
Oliver Hazard Perry Fant ,...e.am.e S. Carolina.
John Ross Glenn • • • • Lee.
Charles Edwin Goulding. . . . . .E. & m. e Florida.
Henry Blount Hunter .0. N. Carolina.
Ramesus Alfonso Hammack. . .E. & M. e Dale.
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NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.
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English 261
History .....178
French 34
German 28
Latin 106
Mental Science 27
Political Economy ... 37
Mathematics 225
Chemistry 130
Chemical Laboratory. .. . 57
Agriculture 103
Physics 144
Botany. 89
Geology 46
Civil Engineering 7
Electrical Engineering.. 44
Mechanical Engineering. 40
Biology 14
Drawing 162
Mechanic Arts. 170
Military Tactics 252
Mineralogy 2
Physical Laboratory .... 34
Physiology 54
Veterinary Science 41)
Pharmacy 17
MILITARY ORGANIZATION.
1895-96.
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President ,
W. L. BROUN.
Commandant,
M. 0. HOLLTS, 1st Lieut. 4th Infantry, U. S. A.
Surgeon,
J. H. DRAKE, M. D.
Battalion Staff.,
Cadet Captain H. R. Casey, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant A. B. Andrews, Quartermaster.
Cadet Sergeant J. B. Hobdy, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant J. L. Pollard, Quartermaster Sergeant.
Cadet Captains ,
1. W. A. Tippin, 3. A. L. Alexander,
2. W. M. Williams, 4. G. B. Kelley.
Cadet First Lieutenants.
5. W. L. Fleming,
6. C. N. Alpord,
7. W. H. H. Trammell,
8. J. B. Edwards.
Cadet First Sergeants.
3. B. S. Patrick,
4. P. G. Clark.
Cadet Sergeants.
10. W. A. Fitzgerald,
11. E. S. Casky,
12. 0. H. P. Fant,
13. R. W. Collins,
14. W.IA. Hood,
15. E. Abbott,
16. F. L. Tate,
17. L. K. Irwin.
1. J. W. Culver,
2. J. A. Reeves,
3 B. A. Taylor,
4. H. A. Drennen,
1. W. T. Warren,
2. E. B. Joseph,
1. W. H. MoBryde,
2.- Jno. Puripoy,
3. W. H. Negus,
4. C. J. Nelson,
5. G. M. Holley,
6. B. L. Scott,
7. R. D. Webb,
8. W. J. Nixon,
9. C. N. Jones,
1. P. M. McIntyre,
2. H. E. Memminger,
3. W. A. Mitchell,
4. A. C. Vandiveb,
5. F. W. Hare,
6. C. W. Stewart,
7. J. C. Abernethy, *
8. J. W.iWlLLIAMS,
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9. J. W. SUTCLIPPB,
10. G. E.!Mason,
11. G. O. Dickey,
12. W. M.IDban,
13. M. H.IHurt,
14. T.yH. Glower,
15. W. B. Stokes,
J.6. H. S. Houghton.
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.
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Applicants for admission must be of good moral character.
To enter the freshman class the applicant must be not less
than fifteen years of age, and should be qualified to pass a
satisfactory examination on the following subjects :
1. Geography, and History of the United States.
2. English— (a> An examination upon sentences contain-
ing incorrect English, (b) A composition giving evidence
of satisfactory proficiency in spelling, punctuation, grammar,
and division into paragraphs.
L Reading. The composition in 1896 will be upon sub-
jects drawn from one or more of the following works : Shake-
8 cR e ? r f tMwOaaar and Longfellow's Evangeline, Irvine's
Sketch Book, Scott's Marmim, Hughes's Tom Brown at
Rwgby , Dickens s David Copperfidd, Scott's IvanKoe, South-
ey s Life of Nelson.
„ J he iT 11 ^ wiU , be , re( l uired to Present evidence of a
general knowledge of the subject matter, and to answer
simple questions on the lives of the authors. This part of
the examination is intended to test only a general knowledge
of the substance of the books. *nowieage
H Study and Practice. This part of the fiiaminflfinr,
presupposes the thorough study of each of the Swing
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; Burke's Speech on Con
catahon u>Uh America; Macaulay's Essay on Su
Preparation and examination on these works will be t,po
essary before the student is classed as regular
3. Mathematics-(a) Arithmetic, including fundamental
T m wV 0, T n "? deCimal fraction8 ' denominate
L ^- ' f m6inC6 l st * m; P ercent *ge> Eluding interest
and discount; proportion; extraction of square and cube
roots, (b) Algebra, to quadratic equations.
« J^lT^T^? d68ire to COntinae the Bt »dy of Latin
should be qualified to pass a satisfactory examination in
La in grammar and the first two books of Cesar, in addition
to the above subjects,
For admission to the higher.classes,>tudents should be
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prepared to stand a satisfactory examination in all of the
studies of the lower classes, as shown in the courses of study.
Where opportunity has not been offered to pursue special
studies required at this College, the system of equivalents
will be adopted, and studies which denote an equivalent
amount of discipline and training will be accepted as satis-
factory.
ADMISSION ON CERTIFICATE.
Applicants will be admitted without examination on pre-
senting a certificate from any of the certificate schools
named herein.
The following educational institutions having made
application to be correlated to this College, and having
presented an approved course of study, are hereby declared
to be certificate schools, and are granted the privilege set
forth in the following resolution ;
"Students from certificate schools will be admitted to
"the freshman class without examination upon the certificate
of the president or principal showing definitely that such
students have completed satisfactorily all the studies
required for admission, as stated in the catalogue, and are
"otherwise admissible."
certificate schools.
University Military School, Mobile J. D. Wright
♦Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa. . . . W. H. Verner.
Mt. Willing High School, Mt Willing ... . J. D. Garrett.
State Normal School, Jacksonville J. Forney.
Male Academy, Huntsville Puryear & Wiatt
Noble Institute, Anniston W. H. MacKeller.
*State Normal College, Florence J. & Powers.
Fur man Academy, Livingston. . .L. A. CockrelL
High School, Opelika J. M. Smallwood.
University Military School, Clanton B. T. McMorrisa
N. A. Agricultural School, Athens M. K Clementa
University School, Montgomery J. M. Starke.
W. Ala. Agricultural School, Hamilton. . . . Jag. K Ale x a nd er.
Eutaw Male Academ y, Entaw. H. C. Horton,
•Applicant! are admitted to the fophomore classWapproved cer-
tificates from theie institutions.
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ADMISSION OP YOUNG WOMEN.
The privilege of becoming students in this College is
granted by the Trustees to young women of mature mind
and character, on the following conditions :
The applicant must be eighteen years of age, and if a can-
didate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory examina-
tion in each of the four subjects as named below.
If the applicant is a candidate for admission as a special
or irregular student, she must be able to pass a satisfactory
examination in two of the subjects named.
(a) In English — Proficiency in spelling and punctuation;
Grammar (Whitney's Essentials of English); Ehetoric (Lock-
wood, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, Genung); Scudder's
American Prose Selections ; Scudder's American Poems.
(b) In History— Macy's Our Government; Chambers's
History of the United States; Myers's General History.
(c) In Mathematics— Arithmetic ; Algebra, including
quadratic equations, logarithms and series ; Plane and Solid
Geometry ; Plane and Analytical Trigonometry, as in Went-
worth.
(d) In Latin — Grammar, including the forms and syn-
tax; Jones's Latin Prose Composition ; Translation of selec-
tions from Csesar, Nepos, Virgil, Cicero's Orations, Cicero's
Letters, or the equivalent
TU equivalents of these subjects, as in above text-books, may
be substituted.
Certificates will be granted to those who are not candidates
for a degree upon the satisfactory completion of any subject
pursued by the senior class.
When admitted, upon complying with the conditions above
stated, they may enter upon the study of any subject taught
m the College, and join any class, for which upon examina-
tion, they may be found qualified. The only condition
imposed will be that they engage in earnest study, and attend
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the exercises regularly. They will board in the town with
private families, and attend College only at the hours of
their exercises.
The Trustees authorize the faculty to admit a candidate
for a degree who is able to comply with all the requirements,
at the age of seventeen, if the application meet3 with their
approval.
There will be no charge for tuition. The incidental fees,
amounting to $12.00 per year, will be paid, $6.00 on entrance,
and $6.00 on February 1st
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.
Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday, the
16th of September, the day on which the session opens.
Candidates will also be examined during the session, when
application is made for admission.
Applicants who are not prepared to stand the entrance
examinations for full admission to the freshman class are
admitted to the sub-college department
They will be advanced to full admission to the freshman
class when they are qualified to pass satisfactorily the
required examinations.
Students upon their arrival at Auburn will report immediately to
the President. No student will be admitted to a recitation in any
class previous to matriculation.
NUMBER OF EXERCISES REQUIRED/
All students are required to have not less than fifteen recitations
per week, or their equivalent, in addition to the exercises in labora-
tory work, drawing, and military drill. These additional exercises
occupy not less than twelve hours per week and in all give twenty-
seven to thirty hours per week required in college exercises.
Special and Irregular Students.
The privilege of electing studies in the lower classes* is
not granted to young students nor to their parents. The
faculty will assign a student on admission to that class of a
prescribed course for which he is qualified ; and for special
reasons, approved by the faculty, he may be permitted to
become irregular.
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Students qualified to prosecute the studies of the junior
class, and those over twenty-one years of age that are not
candidates for a degree, are permitted to take, with the ad-
vice of the faculty, the subjects of study for which they may
be qualified.
Regular students who fail to pass satisfactory final examinations
in any one study become special students. They will be classed as
regular students pursuing a course for a degree, whenever they can
pass the examinations in those subjects in which they were found
deficient.
Students, candidates for a degree, who are not in full standing in all
the prescribed studies of a class, rank in the military department
with that class in which they have the greatest number of studies, and
their names are so placed in the catalogue.
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COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
The courses of study include the Physical, Chemical and
Natural Sciences, with their applications ; Agriculture ; Biol-
ogy, Mechanics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Drawing; Civil,
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering; Physiology, and
Veterinary Science ; Pharmacy; English, French, German,
and Latin Languages ; History, Political Economy, Mental
and Moral Sciences.
These studies are arranged in regular courses so as to offer
a liberal and practical education as a preparation for the active
pursuits of life.
There are five degree courses for undergraduates, each
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) and
requiring four years for its completion:
L Coubse m Chemistry and Agriculture.
IL Course in Mechanics and Civil Engineering.
HL Course in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.
IV. General Course.
Y^ Course in Pharmacy.
No degree or certificate of proficiency will be given in any
course unless the applicant has passed a satisfactory exam-
ination in English.
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There are also two partial courses, each requiring two
years for its completion :
VI Two-Tear Course in Agriculture.
VIL Two-Tear Course in Mechanic Arts.
Course I includes theoretical and practical instruction in
those branches that relate to chemistry and agriculture, and
is especially adapted to those who propose to devote them-
selves to agriculture or chemical pursuits.
Course II includes the principles and applications of the
sciences that directly relate to civil engineering, and is
adapted to those who expect to enter that profession.
Course III includes, besides the general principles and
applications of the sciences, a special course in the applica-
tions of electricity and mechanics, and is arranged for the
profession of electrical and mechanical engineering.
Course IV has been arranged to give a general and less
technical education in subjects of science and language to
meet the wants of those students who have selected no defi-
nite vocation in life, as well as of those who propose ulti-
mately to engage in teaching, or in some commercial or man-
ufacturing business.
Course V includes, besides the general education of course
IV in the lower classes, a special course in phai macy and
chemistry, and is adapted to those who expect to become
pharmacists, manufacturing chemists, or to enter upon the
study of medicine.
Courses VI and VII have been arranged for the benefit of
those students who, for reasons satisfactory to themselves,
are unable to continue at college four years and to take one
of the regular degree courses.
Students who contemplate either of these two-year courses
will, on passing a satisfactory examination, receive certifi-
cates indicating their attainments.
Those who have completed the general course in each de-
partment of the school of mechanic arts, and are qualified,
can enter upon a more extended technical course in mechan-
ical engineering.
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COURSE IN MINING ENGINEERING.
Students who have received the degree t>f B. Sc. in engineering, or
who have prosecuted an equivalent course of study, can enter upon
a special course of mining engineering, which includes the following
subjects of study, and will require a residence of one year:
Industrial Chemistry, Assaying, Reduction of Ores, Mineralogy,
Economic Geology, Mining Machinery, Drifting, Tunnelling, Timber-
ing, Ore Dressing, and the various operations connected with the ex-
ploitation of mines.
This course of study will be under the charge of the professors of
chemistry, civil engineering, and geology.
SPECIAL ONE- YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.
Young men over twenty-one years of age who desire to study agri-
culture will be permitted, without examination, to enter any class
under the professor of agriculture, and will be excused from reciting
in any other class, from military duty, and from all other college du-
ties ; but will be under the general college regulations, and will be
required to have their time fully occupied.
They may attend the lectures in agriculture in all the classes and
engage in the practical work at the experiment station, in the field,
stock-yard, dairy, garden, orchard, vineyard, etc., and may thus, in
one year, acquire valuable practical knowledge of scientific agri-
culture.
LABOBATOBY INSTBUCTION.
Laboratory instruction constitutes an important feature
in the courses of education provided for the students of this
College, and as far as possible all students are required to
enter upon laboratory work in some one department.
Laboratory instruction and practical work are given in the
following departments :
L Chemistry.
EL Engineering, Field Work, Surveying, etc.
III. Agriculture.
IV. Botany.
V v Mineralogy.
VL Biology,
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VII. Technical Drawing.
VIII. Mechanic Aura
IX. Physics.
X. Electrical Engineering.
XL Mechanical Engineering.
XII. Physiology and Veterinary Science.
XIII. Pharmacy.
Note.— Special work in English or History may be taken by stu-
dents in the general course as a substitute for laboratory work.
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L-COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
JIr« Term. Second Tern. Third Term.
5. English. 5. English. 5. Engli sh.
2 History 2. History. 8. History.
5^ Mathematics 6. Mathematics. 6. Mathematics.
8 Elementary Physics. 8. Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.
8 Drawing 8. Drawing. 3. Drawing.
6* Mechanic Art Labor'y .6. Mechanic Art Labor'y. 6. Mechanic Art Labor'y .
8. Military Drill.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
First Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
3. English.
8. Physics.
* Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
3. Drawing.
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
Second Term.
8. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture,
o. x/rawing.
6 Mechanic ArtLabor'y. 6. Mechanic Art Labor'y 6. Mechanic Art Labor'y.
2. Physiology. 2. Physiology. 2. Physiology.
3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
f First Term. Second Term.
3. English.
3. rhysics.
3 Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry .
2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture (b).
4. Botany (Lab'y). 4. Botany (Lab'y). 4. Botany (Lab'y).
l! Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics.
9! Chemical Laboratory. 9. Chemical Laboratory. 9. Chemical Laboratory.
2 Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science.
3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.
2 Agricultural Ch'm'try. 2. Agricultural Ch'm'try. 2. Agricultural Ch'm try.
1 Military Science. 1. Military Science. 2. Military Science,
9 Chemical Laboratory. 9. Chemical Laboratory. 9. Chemical Laboratory.
2. Veter inary Science. 2. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science.
(a) Begins March 1st.
(b) Abo Practical Agriculture.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
2. English Literature.
2. Mental Science.
2. Physics.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.
2. Military Drill.
t
Third Term.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.
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IL-COURSE m MECHANICS AND CIVIL
ENGINEERING.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term.
6. English. 5. English. 5.' English.
2. History. 2. History. 8. History.
5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.
8. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing. 3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Militarv Drill. a uriiit-.m-v rirm o \m:ui tx,.i
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
First Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
Second Term.
3. English.
8. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c). 6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c). 6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c).
1. Field Work, Engin'g. 2. Field Work, Engin'g. 2. Field Work, Eng.
8. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 2. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term.
2. English Literature(d).2. Political Economy (d).2. Political Economy (d).
2. Physics. 2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.
2. Geology. 2. Geology. 2. Geology.
3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics.
/k\ Begins Mar ch 1st.
(c) Or Ar griC ? lfcUre may be substituted Ph ysical Laboratory.
(d ) For Eng. Lit. and Pol. Econ. may be substituted French or German.
First Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
Third Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
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5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering.
6. Drawing. 5. Drawing. 5. Drawing.
1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.
4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y. 4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y. 4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y.
Field Work, Engin'g. Field Work, Engin'g. Field Work, Engin'g.
III.-COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING,
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
In freshman and sophomore classes the same studies are prescribed
as in Course II in Mechanics and Civil Engineering.
First Term.
8. English, French, or
German.
8. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
4. Electrical Engin'g.
8. Mech. Engineering.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
4. Electrical Engin'g.
Third Term.
3. English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
4. Electrical Engin'g.
3. Mech. Engineering.
3. Mech. Engineering.
4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing.
4. Electrical Laboratory. 4. Electrical Lab'y. 4. Electrical Lab'y.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y. 6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
1. Military Tactics.
8. Military Drill.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.
6. Mebh. Art Lab'y.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
Third Term.
SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
2. Eng. Literature (b). 2. Political Economy (b).2. Political Economy (b).
2. Physics. 2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.
2. Geology. 2. Geology. 2. Geology.
3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics.
5. Electrical Engin'g. 3. Electrical Engin'g. 5. Electrical Engin'g.
5. Mech. Engineering. 5. Mech. Engineering. 5. Mech. Engineering.
2. Electrical Designing. 2. Electrical Designing. 2. Electrical Designing.
6. Electrical Lab'y. 6. Electrical Lab'y. 6. Electrical Lab'y.
4. Mech. Eng. Lab'y. 4. Mech. Eng. Lab'y. 4. Mech. Eng. Lab'y.
1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.
(b) French or German may be substituted.
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IV.— GENERAL COURSE.
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
First Term.
3. English.
2. History.
5. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
5. Latin.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
8. Military Drill.
First Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
6. Lab'y Work (b). ,
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
2. English Literature.
2. Mental Science.
2. Physics.
2. Geology.
3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).
FRE8HMAN CLASS.
Second Term.
3. English.
2. History.
5. Latin.
5; Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Second Term.
5 Latin.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
6. Lab'y Work <b).
3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).
Third Term.
3. English.
3. History.
3. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
2. Agriculture.
6. Mechanic Arts.
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
5. Latin.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
8. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
1. Military Tactics.
6. Lab'y Work (b).
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.
2. Geology.
3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).
(a) Begins March 1st.
(b) The student may elect the laboratory of any department for which
he may be qualified.
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Y.— COURSE IN PHARMACY.
ft
The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
First Term.
3. English.
2. History.
5. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill. .
First Term.
5. Latin.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
, 3. General Chemistry.
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
8. Military Drill.
First Term.
8. Physics.
^6. Chemical Lab'y.
I/ *. Botanical Lab'y.
^8. Pharmacy.
Second Term.
3. English.
2. History.
5. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Second Term.
5. Latin.
3, History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
3. Physics.
6. Chemical Lab'y.
4. Botanical Lab'y.
3. Pharmacy.
Third Term.
3. English.
3. History.
3. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
2. Agriculture.
6. Mechanic Arts.
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
5. Latin.
3. Botany.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
Third Term.
3. Physics.
6. Chemical Lab'y.
4. Botanical Lab'y.
3. Pharmacy.
0. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab.
i/4. Pharmacognosy.
• a Military Drill.
First Term.
5. Biology.
7. Toxicology.
4. Pharmacy.
4. Pharmpcogno-y.
3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
5. Biology.
6. Chemical Lab'y.
4. Pharmacognosy.
3. Military Drill. .
Third Term.
5. Biology
6. Chemical Lab'y.
4. Pharmacy.
4. Pharmacy.
9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab.
4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy.
3. Materia Medica. 3. Materia Medica.
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VI.— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS.
First Term.
6. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
FIRST YEAR.
Second Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.
Third Term.
6. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing. 3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.
First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
8. Drawing.
8. Military Drill.
SECOND YEAR.
Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. xMilitary Drill.
Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.
5. Drawing.
12. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 12. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 12. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
8. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 8. Military Drill. *
VIL— TWO-TEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.
FIRST YEAR.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term.
5. English. 5. English. 5. English.
2. History. 2. History. 3. History.
5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.
3. Drawing. 3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.
4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
2. Practical Agriculture. 2. Practical Agriculture. 2. Practical Agriculture*
SECOND YEAR.
Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.
2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricult're. 12. Practical Agricult're. 12. Practical Agricult're.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.
First Tej*m.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
4. Agriculture.
2. Veterinary Science.
Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.
2. Veterinary Science.
SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.
&
HOUR8
MONDAY.
TUESDAY.
WEDNESDAY.
THURSDAY-
FRIDAY.
SATURDAY.
3. Physiology.
3. Physiology.
I.
4. Algebra.
4. Geometry.
4. Algebra.
4. Geometry.
4. Algebra.
3. Latin.
3. Latin.
3. Latin.
3. Latin.
3. Latin.
8-9
2. German.
2. German.
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1 and 2 Drawing.
1 and 2 Drawing.
1 and 2 Drawing.
1 and 2 Drawing
1 and 2 Drawing.
Exerc's in Elocution.
1. Elec.Engine'r'g
2. Botany.
1. Vet. Science.
2. Botany.
1. Veterinary Sci.
2. Mec. Engine'r'g
1 . Mental Science
1. Elec.Engine'r'g
1. Mental Science
1. Elec.Engine'r'g
1. Biology.
1. Elec.Engine'r'g
1. Elec.Engine'r'g
4. English.
4. History.
4. English.
4. History.
4. English.
II.
3. Chemistry.
3. Agriculture.
3. Chemistry.
3. Agriculture.
3. Chemistry.
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2. Civ. Engineer'g
2. Civ. Engineer'g
2. Civ. Engineer'g
2. Civ. Engineer'g
2. Civ. Engineer'g
9-10
2. Latin.
2. Botany.
2. Latin.
2. Botany.
2. Latin.
Military Drill.
1. Calculus.
1. Physics.
1. Calculus.
1. Physics.
1. Biology.
1. Elec.Engine'r'g
2. Vet. Science.
2. Elec.Engine'r'g
1. Calculus.
2. Elec.Engine'r'g
2. Elec.Engine'r'g
2. Mec. Engine'r'g
2. Vet. Science.
III.
3. English.
3. History (1, 2).
3. English (1, 2).
3. History (1, 2).
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3. English.
Mechanic Arts.
2. Physics.
3. Botany (2, 3).
3. Botany (2,3).
2. Physics.
Chemical Laborat'ry.
10-11
1. German.
1. Biology.
2. Physics.
1. Civ. Engineer'g
1. German.
Electric'l Laborat'ry.
1. Civ. Engineer' g
1. Civ. Engineer'g
1. German.
4. English.
1. Civ. Engineer'g
Physical Laboratory.
1. Biology.
4. English.
1. Civ. Engineer'g
1. Mec. Engine'r'g
Veterinary Clinics
1. Meo. Engine'r'g
1. Biology.
2. French.
4. History (3).
Biologic'l Laborat'ry.
1. Mec. Engine'r'g
2. French. 1. Mec. Engine'r'g|
1. Mec. Engine'r'g
Field Engineering.
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SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.— Conttnufd.
HOURS
MONDAY.
TUESDAY.
WEDNESDAY. .
THURSDAY.
FRIDAY.
SATURDAY
IV.
11-12
4. Physics (1, 2).
4 Agriculture (3)
4. Latin (1, 2).
3. Drawing.
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
1. English (1).
1. Pol.Econ.(2,3)
4. Mechanic Arts.
4. Latin.
3. Drawing.
2. Agriculture.
2. Mathematics.
1. Chemistry.
1. French.
4. Physics (1,2).
4. Latin (3).
3. History (1, 2)
3. Botany (2, 3).
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
1 . English ( 1 ) .
1.* Political Econ-
omy (2, 3).
4. Mechanic Arts
4. Latin.
2. Agriculture.
2. Mathematics.
1, Chemistry.
3, Physiology (3)
1, French.
4. Physics (l, 2).
4. Agriculture (3).
4 Latin (1, 2).
3. Drawing.
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
1 . Military Sci.
4. Mechanic Arts.
3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laborat'ry.
Eleotric'l Laborat'ry.
Physical Laboratory,
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laborat'y.
Field Engineering.
V.
12-1
4. Drawing.
3 Mathematics.
2. English.
4. Mechanic Arts.
1. Elec. Designing
1, French.
3. Mathematics.
2. English
1. Geology.
4. Drawing.
3. Mathematics.
1. Latin.
4. Mechanic Arts.
2, Mec.Engine'r'g
2. German.
1. Elec. Designi'g
3, Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Geology.
4. Drawing.
3. Mathematics.
3. Latin.
4. Mechanic Arts.
L. Elec Designing
2. Military Tactics
3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laborat'ry.
Eleotric'l Laborat'ry,
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laborat'y.
Field Engineering.
P.M.
VI, VII.
2-4
4. Mechanic Arts.
3. Field Wrk Agr
1 & 2 Laborato-
ry Chem.
l&2FieldWrk,
Engineer'g.
1 & 2 Mach. Wrk
Elec. Lab 'Work.
Physical Labor'y.
3. Mechanic Arts.
2. Mineralogy
Laboratory.
Military Drill (*).
3. Mech. Lab'tory
Elec. Lab'y Work
1 and 2 History.
4. Mechanic Arts.
3. Field Wrk, Agr
1 & 2 Laborat'ry,
Chem.
1 & 2 Field Wrk,
Engineer'g
1 & 2 Mach Wrk
Ex'cis. in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.
3. Mechanic Arts.
2. Mineralogy
Laboratory.
Military Drill (*>.
3. Mech. Labor'y.
Elec Lab'y Work
1 and 2 History.
4. Mechanic Arts
3. Field Wrk, Agr
2. French.
1 & 2 Lab. Chem.
I & 2 Field Wrk,
Engineer'g.
1 & 2 Mach Work
Ex'cis. in Elocut'n
Elec Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.
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Chapel services daily at 7:45 a. m. '
Number prefixed denote classes— 1 denotes senior, 2 junior, etc. Numbers affixed— (1), (2), (3),— denote terms.
•Prom 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.
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DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION
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PHYSICS AND ASTBONOMY.
PRESIDENT BROUN.
The instruction is given by recitations from text-books
and lectures, illustrated by experiments. The first part of
the course is occupied with elementary rational mechanics,
treated graphically.
This is followed by a full discussion of molecular mechan-
ics ; while due prominence is given to principles, frequent
reference is made to the applications of science.
The studies of the junior class include the properties of
matter, units of measure, force, work, energy, kinematics,
kinetics, mechanic powers, friction, pendulum, molecular
forces of solids, liquids and gases, theory of undulations,
heat, electricity, magnetism, etc.
The studies of the senior class include optics and
astronomy.
Post- Graduate Course. This includes the study of ana-
lytical mechanics, and requires a knowledge of differential
and integral calculus.
PHYSICAL LABORATOKY.
Instructor H. H. Kyser has charge of the classes in ele-
mentary physics, and of the physical laboratory. In ele-
mentary physics the students are taught mechanics, solving
problems by the elements of graphical statics, and are
required to do such work in the physical laboratory as is
adapted to their attainments. A part of their time is given
to learning practical telegraphy by the use of instruments
provided for that purpose.
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The physical laboratory is equipped with a number of instruments
of foreign and American manufacture. It contains a standard metre
bar, a horizontal comparator, a Kater reversion pendulum, a catbeto-
meter with micrometer, a spectrometer furnished with prisms, crystal
holder and flat diffraction grating, made by the Societe Genevoise, a
spectroscope by Browning, with a large amount of spectrum appara-
tus, Carre's ice machine, Becker's balances, a small dividing engine
and a vertical comparator, both the later made at the College in the
laboratory of mechanic arts. There is also a large amount of minor
apparatus, thermometers, barometers, calorimeters, and apparatus for
experimentally determining the parallelogram of forces, for determin-
ing rolling and sliding friction, torsion and flexure, specific grav-
ity, etc.
The student in this laboratory is required to ascertain experiment-
ally various physic il laws, hence in all exercises there is something
to measure. From these measures he is required to find the law con-
necting the quantities involved. Results of experiments are required
to be entered, in tabular form, together with diagrams, etc., in a
laboratory note-book.
MATHEMATICS.
PROF. SMITH.
The general course for the first two years embraces the
first year, algebra and geometry, six books ; second year,
solid geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, surveying,
mensuration.
Two objects are sought to be attained : first, mental dis-
cipline; second, a thorough knowledge of the principles of
pure mathematics and their practical applications.
Theoretical and practical instruction is given to the
sophomore class in farm, town, and government land sur-
veying, dividing land, mapping, plotting, and computing
areas, etc. ; also in the theory, adjustment and use of instru-
ments.
The class, in sections of six or eight, devote three after-
noons a week during the second and third terms to field
practice.
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Mensuration includes an extended course in measurements
of heights and distances, plane, rectilinear and curvilinear
figures, surfaces and volumes.
The completion of this course, common to all students
lays the foundation for the pure and applied mathematics
of the mechanical and engineering courses. Analytical
geometry, descriptive geometry, and calculus are pursued in .
the mechanical and engineering courses. Especial attention
is given to their practical applications.
During the entire course, instruction in text-books is sup-
plemented by lectures. Solutions of original practical prob-
lems are required of the student, to make him familiar with
the application of the principles and formulae.
Text-Books.
Wentworth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometry, Went worth's Trigo-
nometry and Surveying, Wentworth's Analytical Geometry, Faunce's
Descriptive Geometry, Nicholson's Calculus, Johnson's Differential
Equations, Osborne's Problems, Peck's Determinants.
BOTANY AND GEOLOGY.
PBOF. MELL.
Geology. — This subject is studied in the senior class, and
extends through the entire session. Special attention is
given to the geology of Alabama, and many illustrations are
drawn from the coal and iron fields and other natural de-
posits of minerals in the State. The origin of ore deposits,
mineral springs and geological relations of soils are carefully
studied.
There is also a course of advanced work in practical
geology for post-graduate students. This subject is pursued
by applicants for the degrees of master of science and mining
engineer.
The^junior class in civil engineering spends two terms in
mineralogy and blow-pipe wort
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Botany.-*^ The students of the? sophomore class begin the
study of botany the first of March and continue it through
the session. Analytical work is made an important feature.
This class is provided with plants from the fields, and taught
how to determine their specific names. The work is suffi-
ciently exhaustive to enable the student, after completing
the course, to name any of the ordinary weeds and grasses
that he will encounter in this section. •
In the junior class, in the course of chemistry and agri-
culture, an amount of time is devoted to systematic and
structural botany, and to advanced laboratory work with
the microscope in the preparation of specimens showing
plant structure ; this work is sufficient to familiarize the
students with the methods of plant building and cellular
organization. Excellent microscopes of the most improved
patterns, and all the necessary chemicals and apparatus for
preparing and mounting vegetable tissues, are used by the
students.
FACILITIES FOR WORK.
Geology.— The department is equipped with models of Mount Shasta,
the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals for teaching crystal-
lography ; charts and maps of the geology of America and Europe ;
Colt's lantern complete with oil, oxy-hydrogen -and automatic elec-
tric lamps; a large assortment of fine lantern slides representing
geological formations in this country and abroad ; well equipped min-
eralogical laboratory for thirty students, and supplied with collection
of representative minerals.
Botany.— The facilities for teaching this subject are as follows:
Auzoux's clastic models of seeds and flowers ; a large collection of
pressed plants of Alabama and other sections, mounted and cata-
logued. There is also a laboratory for practical work in botany
equipped with slate-topped tables for twenty students dissecting and
compound microscopes by Zeiss, Leitz, and Bausch & Lomb ; projec-
tion microscopic apparatus; microtomes by King and Bausch &
Lomb ; all the necessary glass ware and smaller dissecting instru-
ments required in a well equipped laboratory. The Zeiss compound
microscope used by the professor for experiment work in connection
with the Station is supplied with Abbe's illuminating apparatus, slide
changers, Abbe's camera lucids, polarizers, apochromatic objectives
(16 mm, 8mm, 4 mm, and homogeneous immersion), oculars (2, 3, 8,
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12, 18 and photographic), eye-pieee with micrometer. This laboratory
is well lighted with gas and electricity and with a good exposure for
ample sunlight.
In connection with the department there is a photographic dark
room and an excellent photographic outfit consisting of cameras vary-
ing in size from 4x5 to §% x 8% inches ; Bausch & Lomb's profes-
sional photo-micro camera extending to eight feet ; Zeiss's anastigmat
photographic lens Q [ 4 x 8}£ fitted with Bausch & Lomb's diaphragm
shutter, and Zeiss'a wide angle lens 6)£ x 8>£, all mounted in alumin-
ium ; Clark's lehs fitted with diaphragm shutter ; Darlot lens 4x5;
the accessory apparatus and chemicals required for first class work
in photography.
The students have access to the botanical garden where experi-
ments in grass culture and many other plants of interest to the
farmer are conducted by the professor.
Text-Books.
LeConte's Geology, William's Practical Geology, Tarr's Economic
Geology, Dana's Mineralogy, Gray's Botany, Nelson's Herbarium and
Plant Descriptions, Laboratory Guide.
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND DRAWING.
PROF. LANE.
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
The special studies in this department begin in the junior
class, and require good knowledge of algebra, geometry,
trigonometry and analytical mechanics. They are as fol-
lows :
Junior class. — Simple, compound, reversed and parabolic
curves, turnouts and crossings, leveling, gradients, setting
slope stakes, etc.
Special attention will be paid in this class to the loca-
tion, reconstruction, drainage and maintenance of country
roads ; and the various pavements and foundations for the
same.
Senior class. — Classification, appearances, defects, season-
ing, durability and preservation of timber, classification and
description of natural building stones ; bricks and concretes ;
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cast and wrought iron, steel and other metals ; limes, cements,
mortars and their manufacture ; paints and other preserva-
tives ; classification of strains and a general mathematical
discussion of same ; joints and fastenings ; solid and open
built beams ; classification, construction and mechanics of
masonry ; foundations on land and in water ; bridges and
roofs of different kinds ; their construction and strains deter-
mined mathematically and graphically ; common roads, their
coverings, location and construction ; location and construc-
tion of railroads ; navigable, irrigation, and drainage canals ;
river and sea-coast improvements.
Theory and practice are combined in both classes.
TBXT-J>OOK8.
Junior class.— Henek's Field Book for Railway Engineers and
Byrne's Highway Construction.
Senior class.— Wheeler's Civil Engineering and Von Ott's Graphic
Statics.
DRAWING.
All of the students of the freshman and sophomore classes
are required to take drawing; but only the students in
mechanics and civil engineering in the junior and senior
classes*
The freshman class is taught linear and free-hand draw-
ing. The sophomore class is instructed in the principles of
orthographic and isometric projections, shade and shadows,
perspective and tinting. In the junior class the instruction
embraces a more extended course in orthographic and iso-
metric drawing, perspective, shades and tinting; also
sketches of tools and machines, plans, elevations and cross-
sections of buildings, and blue prints. The senior class
make topographical drawings, and drawings of machines,
roofs, bridges, etc., to different scales, and blue prints.
Plans, profiles and sections of railroad surveys complete the
instruction in this department
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12, 18 and photographic), eye-piece with micrometer. This laboratory
is well lighted with gas and electricity and with a good exposure for
ample sunlight.
In connection with the department there is a photographic dark
room and an excellent photographic outfit consisting of cameras vary-
ing in size from 4x5 to 6^ x %% inches ; Bausch & Lomb's profes-
sional photo-micro camera extending to eight feet ; Zeiss's an astigmat
photographic lens 6^ x 8% fitted with Bausch & Lomb's diaphragm
shutter, and Zeiss'b wide angle lens 6)£ x 8}£, all mounted in alumin-
ium ; Clark's lehs fitted with diaphragm shutter ; Darlot lens 4x5;
the accessory apparatus and chemicals required for first class work
in photography.
The students have access to the botanical garden where experi-
ments in grass culture and many other plants of interest to the
farmer are conducted by the professor.
Text-Books.
LeConte's Geology, William's Practical Geology, Tarr's Economic
Geology, Dana's Mineralogy, Gray's Botany, Nelson's Herbarium and
Plant Descriptions, Laboratory Guide.
CIVIL ENGINEEBING AND DRAWING.
PBOF. LANE.
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
The special studies in this department begin in the junior
class, and require good knowledge of algebra, geometry,
trigonometry and analytical mechanics. They are as fol-
lows:
Junior class.— Simple, compound, reversed and parabolic
curves, turnouts and crossings, leveling, gradients, setting
slope stakes, etc.
Special attention will be paid in this class to the loca-
tion, reconstruction, drainage and maintenance of country
roads ; and the various pavements and foundations for the
same.
Senior class.— Classification, appearances, defects, season-
ing, durability and preservation of timber, classification and
description of natural building stones ; bricks and concretes ;
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cast and wrought iron, steel and other metals ; limes, cements,
mortars and their manufacture ; paints and other preserva-
tives ; classification of strains and a general mathematical
discussion of same ; joints and fastenings ; solid and open
built beams ; classification, construction and mechanics of
masonry ; foundations on land and in water ; bridges and
roofs of different kinds ; their construction and strains deter-
mined mathematically and graphically ; common roads, their
coverings, location and construction ; location and construc-
tion of railroads ; navigable, irrigation, and drainage canals ;
river and sea-coast improvements.
Theory and practice are combined in both classes.
Text-Books.
Junior class.— Henck's Field Book for Eailway Engineers and
Byrne's Highway Construction.
Senior class. — Wheeler's Civil Engineering and Von Ott's Graphic
Statics.
DRAWING.
All of the students of the freshman and sophomore classes
are required to take drawing; but only the students in
mechanics and civil engineering in the junior and senior
classes.
The freshman class is taught linear and free-hand draw-
ing. The sophomore class is instructed in the principles of
orthographic and isometric projections, shade and shadows,
perspective and tinting. In the junior class the instruction
embraces a more extended course in orthographic and iso-
metric drawing, perspective, shades and tinting; also
sketches of tools and machines, plans, elevations and cross-
sections of buildings, and blue prints. The senior class
make topographical drawings, and drawings of machines,
roofs, bridges, etc., to different scales, and blue prints.
Plans, profiles and sections of railroad surveys complete the
instruction in this department
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TBXT-B0OK8.
Freshman class.— Kitchener's Geometrical Note Book, Thome's
Junior Course in Mechanical Drawing, and Davidson's Model Draw-
ing.
Sophomore class.— Davidson's Projections, Davidson's Practical
Perspective, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.
Junior class.— Davidson's Building Construction, Davidson's Draw-
ing for Mechanics and Engineers, Plates belonging to the College,
Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.
Senior class.— French, English and American plates belonging to
the College, Kueffel & Esser's Alphabet.
ENGLISH AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
PROF. THACH.
OBJECTS AND METHODS.
In this department the students pursue a systematic
course in the English language and literature.
Language is the avenue of approach to all knowledge ; the
interpretation of words is the fundamental process in edu-
cation of whatsoever kind. A full course of English is,
therefore, considered especially important in the technical
courses of study that do not include the ancient classics.
Accordingly, the course of English is continued throughout
the four years of the College curriculum, three hours a
week, and is made obligatory upon all students, with the
exception of those pursuing the first two years of the course
in Latin. In this extended drill in the grammar and
literature of the English language, the endeavor is made to
afford a training somewhat equivalent to the ordinary course
in the classical languages.
In view of the ill preparation in languages, especially in their
mother tongue, exhibited by many of the candidates for admission to
the freshman class, it is deemed advisable, for the sake of honest
work, to devote a portion of the first year to grounding such students
in the principles of grammar. Further, with the idea that an ability
to speak and write correctly English of the present, and to appreciate
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the literary excellencies of standard authors, is more desirable than
training in the philological curiosities and literary crudities of Anglo-
Saxon literature, the course of study in this institution is confined
exclusively to the literature of modern English.
Especial attention is given to the study of the writings, themselves,
of leading English authors, since direct contact with literature is
considered more profitable than information merely about literature.
COURSE OF STUDY.
Freshman class.— Five hours a week; study of grammar, the rin-
ciples of special and general composition, with frequent brief papers
illustrating the laws studied; study of American authors: Irving,
Hawthorne, Holmes, Poe, Bryant, Longfellow.
Whitney's Essentials, Lockwood's Rhetoric, Scudder's Master-
pieces of American Literature, Kellogg & Reed's English Language.
Sophomore class.— Three hours a week ; study of style, analysis of
selections of prose and poetry, frequent essays on historic and literary
themes.
Genung's Rhetoric, Genung's Rhetorical Analysis, Syle's From
Milton to Tennyson.
Junior class. — Three hours a week ; lectures on the history of Eng-
lish literature, critical study of English classics, essays.
Pancoast's History of English Literature, Palgrave's Golden Treas-
ury, Macaulay, Carlyle, DeQuincey.
Senior class. — Two hours a week, first term. Principles of Criti-
cism, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Dowden's Shakespere, etc*
ESSAYS AND ORATIONS.
Theory without practice is as fruitless in the study of English as
in any other department of study. Practical work is indispensable to
the successful teaching of English.
Besides numerous brief papers, illustrative of the subject matter
of the text-books, set essays or orations are required of all students ;
for the freshman class, ten essays a year ; ten for the sophomore ; for
the senior and junior classes, three orations each.
DECLAMATION.
The old practice of committing pieces to memory for "speaking" is
cultivated as a means, both of training in the art of thinking on the
feet, and of storing the mind with the diction of finished specimens
of English style.
The sophomore class is heard weekly throughout the year in sec-
tions of ten, once for an hour and a half in rehearsal, afterwards in
the study hall before the body of students.
The senior and junior classes also deliver their orations in public.
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PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.
The entire senior class pursues the study of intellectual
science, twice a week, through the year ; and political econ-
omy twice a week, during the last two terms. The instruc-
tion in this department is by lectures in combination with
text-books.
Intellectual Science.— Psychology defined. Value in relation to moral
culture, education, and Natural Sciences. The relations of the Soul
to matter. The arguments of the Materialist. Counter arguments.
The Faculties of the 8oul. The nature of Consciousness. Sense per-
ception. Fancy. Imagination. Nature of conceptions. Language*
Judgment. Reasoning. Deduction. Induction, etc. Porter's Intel-
lectual Science.
Political Economy.— Value; production of wealth; land; labor;
capital; division of labor; distribution of wealth; wages ;' trades-
union ; co-operation; money; credit; functions of government; tax-
ation ; tariff ; education, etc. F. A. Walker's Advanced Political Econ-
omy. Lectures by Professor.
A Post-graduate Course has been established in Political Economy
Topics are assigned for research by the student, who is facilitated in
his labor by a well chosen library, including most of the standard
works on political economy and government.
A Post-graduate Course has also been established in English The
mi°n in M C TT, f ,mV u bee " glVen '-^-Shakespeare's Hamlet,
Othello, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, as You Like It Henrv IV
Part I, Richard 1 II, King John. ' J V '
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Ward's Shakespeare ; Furness's Variorum ; Hudson's Shakespeare ;
Clark and Wr.ght's Select Plays of Shakespeare; Eolfe's Shakes
White sL,fe of Shakespeare; Collier's Annals of the Stage- J A
Symonds's Shakespeare's Predecessors; Hudson's Art, Life etc of
Shakespeare; Giles's Human Life in Shakespeare; M» Jameson's
Woman in Shakespeare ; Dowden's Shakespeare's Art.
(ThLL rV ArZ^% iCal W ° rk ! (Chfi8tie) ; *"*» on Oranuuic Poesy
JfSSL >; y ° n SaHrei 6tC - (Y ° n * e) ; anbury's Life
a/paper™™ 1 W ° rkS (Ward)! SatireS (Patti8on >; Stephen's Life
J^TuoZ^wTT P T\ 18 Cent » r » &*«***< ^e entire
session. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at 3 p. m .
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REFERENCE BOOKS.
Scott and Saintsbury's Dryden, 28 vols. ; Critical Essays on Dryden
by Macaulay, Lowell, Matthew Arnold ; Johnson's Life of Dryden ;
Mitford's Life of Dryden ; E'win and Oourthope's Pope, 10 vols.;
Critical Essays on Pope by Addison, DeQuincey (3), Lowell, Matthew
Arnold ; Courthope's Life of Pope ; Johnson's Life of Pope.
(3.) English Literature of the Eighteenth Century: Addison, Pope,
Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, Burke.
CHEMISTRY.
PROF. B. B. ROSS.
Instruction in this department embraces —
1. A course of lectures in general chemistry.
2. A course of lectures in industrial chemistry.
3. A course of lectures in agricultural chemistry.
4. Systematic laboratory work in connection with each
course of lectures, for the praotice of chemical analysis and
chemical research.
1. Course in general chemistry : This consists of a
series of lectures (three per week) extending throughout
the entire session, and includes a discussion of the funda-
mental principles of chemical philosophy in connection
with the history, preparation, properties and compounds
of the metallic and non-metallic elements, with the main
facts and principles of organic chemistry. In this course
the more common applications of chemistry to the arts
and manufactures are discussed. The apparatus used for
experimental illustration is extensive, containing the newest
and most approved instruments necessary for presenting the
subject in the most attractive and instructive form.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Roscoe & Schorlemmer, Fownes, Frankland, Remsen, Cooke's
Chemical Philosophy, Chemical Journals.
2. The lectures on industrial chemistry (three per week)
extend throughout the session, and include a discussion in
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detail of the processes and chemical principles involved in
the most important applications of chemistry in the arts
and manufactures to the reduction of ores, the preparation
of materials for food and drink, for clothing, shelter, illumi-
nation, cleansing, purifying, writing, printing, etc.
These lectures are amply illustrated by means of suitable
specimens of raw materials and manufacturing products,
together with models and diagrams.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Wagner's Chemical Technology, Muspratt's Chemistry as applied
to Arts and Manufacturing, lire's Dictionary, Watts's Dictionary,
Richardson and Watts's Chemical Technology, Percy's Metallurgy,
Sadtler's Industrial Organic Chemistry.
3. Course in agricultural chemistry: -This consists of
lectures on chemistry in its applications to agriculture (two
per week), and includes a thorough discussion of the origin,
composition and classification of soils, the composition and
growth of plants, the sources of plant food and how ob-
tained, the improvement of soils, the manufacture and use
of fertilizers, the chemical principles involved in the rota-
tion of crops, the feeding of live stock, and the various
operations carried on by the intelligent and successful
agriculturist
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Johnson's How Crops Grow and How Crops Feed, Lup ton's Ele-
mentary Principles of Scientific Agriculture, Johnson and Cameron's
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Storer's Agriculture in relation
to Chemistry, scientific journals, reports of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, and the bulletins and reports of the various
home and foreign agricultural departments and stations.
4. The course of systematic laboratory work': This
course of practical work in the laboratory is carried on in
connection with each course of lectures, and embraces the
practical operation of chemical analysis and synthesis, be-
ing varied somewhat to suit the individual object of the
student
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The laboratories, which are open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m„ during six
days in the week, are amply supplied with everything necessary for
instruction in chemical manipulation, in the qualitative and quanti-
tative analysis of soils, fertilizers, feed stuffs, sugar products, min-
erals, mineral waters, technical products, etc., and in the method of
prosecuting chemical researches. Unusual facilities are offered to
students who wish to devote their time to the special study of practi-
cal chemistry.
Each student on entering the chemical laboratory is furnished
with a work table, a set of re-agent bottles, and the common re-
agents and apparatus used in qualitative and quantitative analysis.
At the close of the session he will be credited with such articles as
may be returned in good order ; the value of those which have been
injured or destroyed will be deducted from the deposit.
In addition to the analytical work above described, it is designed
to give during the session a short course in electro-plating.
Practical instruction in the electro-deposition of nickel, silver,
gold, etc., upon other metals will be given, and, in addition, the ap-
plications of electrolysis to chemical analysis will be studied both
theoretically and practically.
BOOKS USED.
In qualitative analysis— Jones, Fresenius, Plattner.
In quantitative analysis— Fresenius, Sutton, Rose, Bunsen, Rick-
ett's Notes on Assaying, Mitchell's Manual of Practical Assaying.
In agricultural chemical analysis—Official methods of the Associa-
ciation of Agricultural Chemists.
Wiley's Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis.
CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
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The chemical apparatus recently purchased for the laboratory con-
sists of a full supply of the most approved instruments for practical
work and investigation. The building is supplied with water and
gas and every appliance required to meet the demands of modern
scientific instruction and research. In addition to the apparatus
usually supplied to first-class laboratories, there have been imported
a new and improved Schmidt and Henscb's polariscope, four short-
arm Becker Balances of latest pattern, Bunsen spectroscope, Zeiss
microscope, and other instruments for delicate and accurate work.
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BIOLOGY.
PROP. UNDERWOOD.
The subject of general biology is presented to the senior
students in agriculture and chemistry by means of lectures,
laboratory work and reading. In the limited time assigned
to the subject only the more general principles are con-
sidered and the work in the laboratory is limited to those
groups of organisms most concerned in the diseases of cul-
tivated plants. A large part of the laboratory work is
devoted to the study of fungi, notably those wliich are
parasitic on plants. The lectures are illustrated with speci-
mens as far as possible, and these are supplemented with
diagrams and other illustrations in order to give as clear an
idea of the subject as possible. Keference books are an-
nounced in the class, and with the library of the department
supplemented by that of the professor in charge extensive
facilities are offered for the study of fungous diseases.
Especial opportunity is offered for students who desire
to pursue advanced work and engage in original study.
The facilities for work open for students involve besides a lecture
room of sufficient size, a large laboratory fitted with nine slate top
tables well equipped with compound microscopes of Leitz and Bausch
and Lomb manufacture, dissecting microscopes and necessary tools
and re-agents for work. Connected with the laboratory are two
small rooms set apart for cultures of fungi and bacteria. They are
well equipped with special apparatus for the cultivation of bacteria,
incubators, thermostats, thermo-regulators for maintaining constant
temperatures. Special microscopes manufactured by Winkel are
also kept here for the special study of bacterial ovganisms These
are furnished with homogenous immersion lenses and a full battery
of oculars.
Other pieces of apparatus are as follows :
Steam sterilizer, dry sterilizer, domestic still, instantaneous water
heater, Pasteur filter, fine and common balances, apparatus for
demonstrating intramolecular breathing of yeast, the Brendel
models of parasitic and saprophytic fungi, bacteria and yeast plants,
automatic device for rolling culture tubes of nutrient agar agar,
microtomes and paraffine water bath.
There are also cases containing a large quantity of the various
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glass vessels, paper, dry and liquid dyes and re-agents, culture
media, etc., required in modern investigation.
The laboratory is well lighted from southern and western exposure.
All the rooms are well fitted with gas and water supply.
There is also a private office for the department which is fitted up
as a special laboratory for the professor in charge, and contains the
works of reference needed by the department and the collections
possessed by the department. In addition to the growing collection
of fungi already in possession of the College, the private herbarium
of the professor in charge, amounting to over 25,000 specimens illus-
trating all the groups of cryptogamic plants, is accessible for pur-
poses of study and illustration. The office is fitted up with cases for
the safe storing of books and collections, and is provided with two
slate top tables for microscopic purposes and a Zeiss microscope well
supplied with oculars and objectives.
A laboratory has been constructed especially for conducting in-
vestigations on the diseases of plants. While this constitutes part of
the equipment for the biologist in experiment station work, it will
be at the disposal of the department fcr instruction.
HISTORY AND LATIN.
PROF, PETRIE.
HISTORY.
In this department the aim is not so much to memorize
facts as to understand them. Strong emphasis is laid on
the fact that history is not a succession of isolated facts but
a progressive whole, each event being at once the cause and
the effect of other events. The students are taught to inves-
tigate the growth of ideas and institutions, the rise and
progress of great historical movements and the reciprocal
influence of men and circumstances. Frequent use is made
of diagrams, photographs, charts and maps, with which the
department is well equipped. Constant practice in map
drawing is insisted on in order to give precision to the geo-
graphical knowledge required. Instruction is given by text-
books, lectures and class* discussion, but a constant effort is
made to stimulate to wider reading and research in the
library.
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In the freshman class, the subjects studied are the United
States, Alabama, and England. The first term (two hours
per week) is devoted to the history and government of the
United States, the second term (two hours per week) to Ala-
bama, and the third term (three hours per week) to the his-
tory of England.
In the sophomore class (three hours per week until March) ,
the subject studied is General History.
In the junior and senior classes opportunity for special historical
work is given to those students of the general course who may elect
it instead of laboratory work. During the past year the course con-
sisted of advanced studies in American history. The work in 1896-7
will be on the history of England, social, political and economic.
The work will be partly by lectures ; but students will also investi-
gate in the library under the direction of the professor topics con-
nected with the lectures, and will report to the class the results of
their research. These reports will be made the basis of general dis-
cussion. A series of special lectures will be given from time to time
on the government of the leading nations of Europe and on current
foreign events.
Text-Books.
Freshman class. — Chambers's Larger History of the United States,
Thorpe & McCorvey's Civil Government in the United States and Ala- .
bama, Montgomery's English History.
Sophomore class. — Myers's General History.
Junior and Senior classes. — Green's Short History of the English
People. .
LATIN.
In this department two objects are kept in view : a knowl-
edge of the language, and an appreciation of the literature.
In teaching the language the following methods are used :
A systematic course is given in etymology and syntax.
These are taught both deductively from a grammar and
inductively from the Latin text read. Translation is con-
stantly practiced, sometimes at sight, sometimes after being
assigned for preparation. English passages based on a
familiar author or illustrative of special constructions are
translated into Latin, both orally and in writing. Simple
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conversation is carried on in Latin. Especial emphasis is
laid on Latin derivation of words.
Special emphasis is laid upon the subject of Latin litera-
ture. In connection with every author studied in class there
is prescribed a course of reading in English descriptive of his
life, work and times. The artistic value of his writings is
carefully studied and discussed, and frequent comparisons
are made with modern writers.
Text-Books.
Freshman class. — Nepos, Sallust, Grammar, Composition.
Sophomore class.— Virgil, Cicero, Latin Prose Composition.
Junior olass.— Livy, Tacitus, Wilkins's Latin Literature, Miller's
Latin Composition. Original Latin Exercises.
Senior class.— Horace, Plautus, Terence, Preston & Dodge's Pri-
vate Life of the Romans. Original Latin Exercises.
AGRICULTUBE.
PBOF. DUGGAB. ,
Instruction in agriculture is given by means of lectures,
text-books, bulletins of the agricultural experiment stations,
and practical work in field, barn, and dairy.
The study of agriculture begins with the freshman class
in the third term, and extends through three terms of the
sophomore year and two terms of the junior year. The
time devoted to thin study in the lecture room is two hours
per week with each class.
The subjects studied by the freshman class are the breeds
of horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs,— their characteristics,
uses, management and adaptability to the South. Practical
work in judging live-stock is included in the course.
The first term of the sophomore year is devoted to dairy-
ing and to a study of the principles of live-stock breeding.
Dairying will be taught by practical work in the dairy,—
butter making, determination of fat in milk by the Babcock
method, etc., as well as by instruction in the lecture room.
In the second term of the sophomore year the following
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subjects are studied : Soils— chemical and physical proper-
ties, defects, and means of improvement; the control of
water, including means of conserving moisture in times of
drought, terracing, underdrainage, and open and hillside
ditches; objects and methods of cultivation; agricultural
implements; rotation of crops ; and improvement of plants
by crossing, selection, and culture.
The third term of the sophomore year is devoted to the
staple crops produced in Alabama, to forage plants adapted
to the South, and to plants valuable for the renovation of
soils. The more important crops are treated with reference
to varieties, soil and fertilizer requirements, methods of
planting and cultivating, and uses.
In the junior year the subjects of feeding animals and of
farm management are studied. Among the topics included
under the latter heading are different systems of farming
and stock growing, farm equipment and buildings, silos and
silage, care of farm manures, composting, choice and
methods of applying commercial fertilizers for different
crops and soils, and economical methods of improving ex-
hausted soils.
In every class the student is enaouraged to independent thought
on agricultural problems rather than to depend on " rules of thumb/'
so that he may be prepared to adapt his practice in after years to
changed conditions of soil, climate, capital, market, etc. The suc-
cessful farmer must be a thinker rather than a blind follower of in-
flexible rules.
The effort is made to keep before the student the difference be-
tween the widely applicable principles on which every rational
system of farming rests and details that vary with changing condi-
tions. The conditions of soil, climate, etc., prevailing in different
parts of Alabama are kept constantly in view.
As far as limited time allows, attention is directed to agricultural
literature now accumulating so rapidly in this and in foreign coun-
tries, to the end that in future years the student may know where
and how to seek the information that he may need.
REFERENCE BOOKS.
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Swine, by Curtis; American Dairying,
byGurler; Dairyman's Manual, by Stewart ; Soils and Crops of the
Farm, by Morrow & Hunt; Muir's Agriculture; Corn Culture, by
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Plumb; Soils, by King; Treatise on Manures, by Aikman; Drainage
for Profit and Health, by Waring; Agriculture in Relation to Chem-
istry, by Storer; Manual of Cattle Feeding, by Armsby; Stock
Breeding, by Miles ; Hand-book of Experiment Station Work ; and
selected publications of the various divisions of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, and of the agricultural experiment stations.
Applicants for post-graduate work in agriculture will be assigned
special research work and aided in the line of investigation deemed
best for each individual student.
HORTICULTURE.
PROP. EARLE.
In horticulture instruction will be given on the following
topics:
Market gardening and Southern truck farming ; construc-
tion and care of green-houses, hot beds and cold frames ;
propagating fruit trees ; planting and care of orchards ; varie-
ties of fruits and vegetables suited to Alabama ; methods of
producing new varieties ; refrigeration and cold storage as
connected with transporting and marketing perishable pro-
ducts ; observations on forestry and landscape gardening.
MODERN LANGUAGES.
PROF. 0. H. ROSS.
The following regular courses are given in French and
German : ,
French— First Tear : Three recitations a week. During
this year the principal object is to acquire a thorough
knowledge of the elements of grammar, and a correct pro-
nunciation, together with facility in translating ordinary
French. Eeading is begun at an early stage, and the prin-
ciples of grammar are illustrated and impressed by frequent
exercises in rendering English into French.
Second Year : Three recitations a week During this
year, almost the same line of work is pursued as that begun
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in the previous year. More difficult and varied French is
read, and careful instruction is given upon the laws of gram-
mar, the construction of the language, and the history of
the literature.
Oerman — Ttoo Years : Three recitations a week the first
year, three a week the second year. In this course the aim
and the methods are similar to those in French.
Post-graduate courses in French and German are offered.
That in French during the past year consisted of a study of
Victor Hugo ; that in German of a study of Goethe.
TEXT BOOKS.
French — First Year : Chardenal's Complete French Course ; Joynes's
Contes de Fees, Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff.
Second Year : Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, FeuilJet's Le
Roman <Tun Jeune Homme Pauvre (both play and novel, the latter
for sight reading), Pailleron's Le Monde on Ton S'ennuie, Saints-
bury's Primer of French Literature. %
Post-graduate Course : Hernani, Notre Dame de Paris, Les Misera-
bles, William 8hakespeare, Marzials's Victor Hugo, Barbou's Life
and Times of Hugo, NichoPs Victor Hugo, Saintsbury's Short History
of French Literature.
German— First Year: Sheldon's Short German Grammar, Lech-
ner's Easy German Headings, Hauff's Das Kalte Herz.
Second Year : Heine's Poems, Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit,
Wells's Modern German Literature.
Post-graduate Course : Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea, Brown-
ing's Goethe, Wells's Modern German Literature.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
PBOF. MCKISSIOK.
The students in this course will study English, French, or German,
physics, mathematics, &c, as now prescribed for the course of civil
engineering in the junior and senior years; and in addition thereto,
will prosecute their studies in electricity and mechanics, as herein
prescribed.
COURSE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
JUNIOR YEAR.
Four hours a week for the entire session are devoted to
the study of the principles of electricity and magnetism.
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The student is made familiar with the theoretical principles
by experiments, illustrations, recitations, and lectures.
Laboratory Work. — Four hours per week are given to
work in the laboratory. This includes management of
batteries, construction of instruments, electrical measure-
ments, verification of the principles upon which the meas-
urements of current, electromotive force and resistance are
based, etc.
Text-Books.
Ayrton's Practical Electricity, Desmond's Electricity for Engi-
neers, Stewart and Gee's Practical Physics, NichoFs Laboratory Man-
ual, Vol. I.
SENIOR YEAR.
In the senior year five hours per week are devoted to
theoretical instruction in electricity and magnetism, sup-
plemented by a course of lectures and practical demon-
strations on the applications of electricity, to lighting, elec-
trical transmission of energy, electrical welding, telegraphy
and telephony.
Encouragement is offered to advanced students for conducting origi-
nal investigations, and opportunity is taken to stimulate a spirit of
scientific inquiry. Courses of reading are suggested to such students
in connection with their experimental work.
Laboratory Work. — Six hours per week are devoted to
practical laboratory work, including construction of instru-
ments, electrical measurements, electrolysis, and relation of
electrical currents to heat and mechanical work, care and
tests of dynamo, the adjustment and calibration of voltmeters
and ammeters, electric lighting, management and care of ac-
cumulators, energy consumed in lamps, adjustment and care
of arc lamps, proper wiring of buildings, the application of
electricity to street railways, magnetic measurements, tests
of transformers and motors.
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Drawing and Construction. — Two hours per week in the
senior year are devoted to the design and construction of
electrical machirffery. The student is required to make
original designs of dynamos r motors, transformers, galvano-
meters, etc.
Text-Books.
Thompson's Dynamo Electric Machinery, Fleming's Alternate Cur-
rent Transformer, NiehoFs Laboratory Manual, Vol. II.
Reference Books.
Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vols. I and II, by Gordon ;
Electricity and Magnetism, by Clerk Maxwell; Emtage's Introduc-
tion to the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism;
Kempe's Electrical Testing; Dredge's Electric Illumination, Vols. I
and II; Dynamo Electric Machinery, by Carl Hering ; The Electro
Motor and its Applications, by Wetzler and Martin ; Electric Trans-
mission, by Kapp ; Electric Lighting, by Atkinson ; Electric Light In-
stallations, by Salomons ; Alternating Currents of Electricity, by
Blakesley; London Electrician; Proceedings of American Institute
of Electrical Engineers ; Thompson's Electro-Magnet.
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EQUIPMENT.
The electrical laboratory has a complete line of batteries, call-bells,
annunciators, telegraph sounders, relays, keys, magnets, and all ap-
paratus for first year students in electrical engineering. The equip-
ment comprises many fine instruments of precision : Sir Wm. Thom-
son's standard 100 ampere balance (either for direct or alternating
currents) ; Sir Wm. Thomson's graded current galvanometer, reading
600 amperes ; also, his graded potential galvanometer, reading 600
volts ; Weston alternating current voltmeter, Weston direct reading
watt meter, Queen's "Acme" testing set, Kelvin electrostatic volt-
meter, Cardew voltmeter (for direct or alternating currents), reading
to 160 volts ; Weston's standard ammeter and voltmeter, box of resist-
ance coils ; Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter, and ammeter, standard
K micro-farad condenser and Sabine key ; Thompson watt-meter bal-
listic reflecting galvanometer, mirror galvanometer, Fein ammeter
and voltmeter, Ayrton & Perry ammeter, Edison ammeters, Kohl's
solenoid ammeter, Wood ammeter, Deprez ammeter, Hartman &
Braun voltmeter, D'Arsonval galvanometer, Hughe's induction bal-
ance, tasimeter, microphone, telephones, electrolytic apparatus and
several mirror and other galvanometers %r first year students.
In the dynamo room the following are installed : One Weston 150
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volt, 20 ampere dynamo, with rheostat ; one Brush 6 arc light dynamo,
with regulator and six lamps; one Edison compound wound 12 kilo-
watt generator ; a Thomson-Houston 110 volt, 75 ampere generator;
two street car motors used as either direct or alternating current
generators or motors two polyphase induction motors; General
Electric 20 horse-power motor; Edison 3^ kilo-watt generator; a
Crocker- Wheeler one horse-power motor and rheostat, and one two
phase alternator, and 500 volt generator, made by special students,
furnish current to laboratory, and light up the different buildings.
The dynamos occupy a separate brick building, 50 x 32 feet, and are
operated by a 35 horse-power Westinghouse vertical engine, and a 25
horse-power Atlas engine.
This department, being provided with Sir Wm, Thomson's stand-
ard electrical instruments for exact measurements, will calibrate,
free of expense, any ammeter or voltmeter that may be sent to the
College.
An electric motor made by students, supplied with current from a
generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press, ensilage
cutter and feed cutter at the experiment station farm. This motor
not only subserves a useful purpose in the operation of these ma-
chines, but is an excellent illustration of the electric transmission of
power.
MECHANICAL ENGINEEKING AND MECHANIC
AETS.
Prof. Wilmube.
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R. J. TRAMMELL
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ASSISTANTS.
The course in manual training covers three years, as fol-
lows: first year, wood- working — carpentry and turning;
second year, pattern-making and foundry and forge work —
moulding, casting and smithing ; third year, machine
shop — chipping and filing and machine work in metals.
This course is obligatory upon the students of the three
lower classes. For satisfactory reasons a student maybe
excused from this laboratory work by the faculty.
The full work of each class is six hours per week, in three
exercises of two hours each.
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The power for running the apparatus in this department is derived
from a twenty-five horse power Harris-Corliss automatic engine,
which is supplied with steam by a thirty horse-power steel horizontal
tubular boiler. A steam pump and a heater for the feed water form
a part of the steam apparatus. For the steam plant a substantial
brick boiler-house and chimney have been erected.
The equipment for the wood- working shop comprises the follow-
ing : 30 wood-working benches, each with complete set of carpen-
ter's tools; 24 turning-laths, 10-inch swing, each with complete set
of tools ; 1 double circular saw ; 1 band saw • 1 board-planing ma-
chine ; 1 buzz planer ; 1 large pattern-maker's lathe, 16-inch swing ;
1 36-inch grindstone. In addition to these, the tool room is supplied
with a variety of extra hand-tools for special work.
The equipment for the foundry consists of moulding-benches for 18
students, each supplied with a complete set of moulder's tools ; a
23-inch Colliau cupola, with all modern improvements, capable of
melting 2,000 pounds of iron per hour ; a brass furnace in which can
be melted 100 pounds of brass at a heat, with a set of crucible tongs,
etc. Also a full supply of ladles, large and small moulding flasks, a
foundry crane, special tools, etc.
The forge shop equipment consists of 16 hand forges of new pattern,
each with a set of smith's tools, anvil, etc. The blast for all the
forges is supplied by a No. 3 Sturtevant steel pressure blower (which
also furnishes blast for the foundry cupola), and a No. 15 Sturtevant
exhaust blower draws the smoke from the fires into the smoke-flues
and forces it out through the chimney.
The machine department occupies a brick building 30x50 feet, and
is equipped with 6 engine-lathes (screw-cutting), 14-inch swing, 6-foot
bed; 2 engine-lathes, 16-inch swing (one with taper attachment);
1 engine-lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound rest and taper attach-
ment; 1 screw cutting lathe, 12-inch swing; 1 speed lathe, 10-inch
swing; 1 20-inch drill press (power feed); 1 10-inch sensitive drill;
1 15-inch shaper; 1 22-inch x 22-inch x 5-feet planer; 1 universal
milling machine; 1 corundum tool grinder (14-inch wheel); 1 bench
grinder ; 1 post drill press, 14-inch ; 1 universal cutter and reamer
grinder; 1 Brown & Sharpe universal grinding machine; 1 power
hack saw. A part of this room is set apart for vise- work, chipping
and filing; and benches for 12 students are provided, each with vise
and sets of files, chisels, hammers, etc. In the tool-room is to be
found a good supply of machinists' tools for general shop use, such
as lathe and drill chucks, drills, reamers, taps, dies, gauges, files,
cutting and measuring tools, and special appliances for machine
work, with machine for grinding twist drills.
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The nature of the work in each department is as follows :
First Year.
I. A course of carpentry or hand work covering the first two
terms.
The lessons include instruction in the nature and Use of tools, in-
struction and practice in shop drawing, elementary work with plane,
saw, chisel, different kinds of joints, timber-splices, cross joints,
mortise and tenon, mitre and frame work, dovetail work, comprising
different kinds of joints used in cabinet making, light cabinet work,
examples in building, framing, roof-trusses, etc.
II. A course in turning, extending through the third term. The
lessons comprise, first, nature and use of lathe and tools, plain
straight turning caliper work to different diameters and lengths,
simple and compound curves, screw plate and chuck work, hollow
and spherical turning.
Second Year.
I. A course in forge work in iron and steel, occupying the first
term. The lesions are arranged so that the students, in making the
series of objects, become familiar with the nature of the metals and
the successive steps in working them by hand into simple and com-
plex forms, as drawing, upsetting, bending, cutting, punching, weld-
ing by various methods, tool-forging, tempering, hardening, etc.
II. A course in pattern-making, covering the second term. The
work includes a variety of examples of whole and split patterns, core
work, etc., giving the studsnts familiarity with the use of patterns
for general moulding.
III. A course in moulding and casting in iron and brass occupying
the third term. The work consists for the most part of small arti-
cles, such as light machine parts, buf a sufficient variety of forms are
introduced for the student to acquire a good general and practical
knowledge of the usual methods and appliances used in light foundry
work. Most of the work is in green sand in two part flasks ; core
work is also given, and some three part flask and some dry sand work
is introduced.
The same patterns which have been previously made by students
are used, besides special patterns for occasional larger or more com-
plicated work. Instruction and practice is given in working the
cupola, each student in turn taking charge of a melting.
In connection with this second year work, a series of lectures is
given on the metallurgy and working of the metals used in the in-
dustrial arts, cast and wrought iron, steel, brass, etc.
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Third Year.
I. A course of chipping and filing, covering the first term. The
lessons comprise work on cast and wrought iron ; chipping to line on
fiat and curved surfaces, key-seating, etc.; filing and finishing to
line (straight and curved), surface filing and finishing, fitting, slot-
ting, dovetail work, sawing, pin and screw filing, surface finishing
with scraper, etc.
II. Machine work occupying the remainder of the year. The
work includes cast and wrought iron, steel and brass; turning to
various diameters and lengths, taper turning, facing with chuck and
face plate, drilling— both in lathe and drill press — reaming, boring,
screw-cutting in lathe and with taps and dies, planing, slotting, etc.,
with planer and simper, milling various forms with the milling ma-
chine, including exercises in making taps, reamers, etc. , fitting, grind-
ing, polishing, etc.
Lectures are also given during the year on various subjects con-
nected with machine work in metals: such as forms, construction
and use of the various machines, cutt ng tools, gearing, gauges,
screw threads, etc. During the last term some piece ol construction
work is given the classes. -.
All of the work is done from blue prints made by the class in draw-
ing. In the construction work, the student is given a blue print and
the material for a certain part. He is then encouraged to study the
work and plan the best method of doing it.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
JUNIOR YEAR.
Elementary Mechanics. — Three hours a week for the first
term are devoted to this subject. The fundamental laws
underlying all mechanical science and the mechanics of
liquids, gases and vapors are studied.
Principles of Mechanism. — Three recitations per week dur-
ing the second and third terms are devoted to this subject.
Under this head machines are analyzed and their elementary com-
binations of mechanism studied. The communication of motion by
gear wheels, belts, cams, screws and link-work, the different ways of
obtaining definite velocity ratios and definite changes of velocity,
parallel motions and quick return motions as well as the designing
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of trains of mechanism for various purposes, together with the theo-
retical forms of teeth for gear wheels to transmit the motion through
these trains, are investigated under this subject.
Mechanical Drawing.— During the first term the students make
drawings to exact scale, of some of the simpler machines. The
student takes his own measurements and makes his own sketches
from which to make the finished drawing.
The first eight weeks of the second term are devoted to detail
drawing, tracing and the art of blue printing. The student is given
a machine or a part of a machine and is required to make detail
working drawings of the same.
This is followed by work intended to be supplemental to the
work in mechanism. Involute and epicycloidal gear wheels, bevel
wheels and endless screws are designed and drawn to scale from data
given by the instructor.
Laboratory Work. — The laboratory work will consist of hand work
in iron and machine work in iron, as given in the course in mechanic
arts in the third year.
Text Books.
Wood's Elementary Mechanics; Stahl and Wood's Elementary
Mechanism.
SENIOR YEAR.
Steam Engine. — The first term five hours per week will be
given to the study of the theory and efficiency of the steam
engine, with discussions of the effects of condensation in
cylinder, action of fly-wheels, effect of jacketing, etc. Sim-
ple and compound engines, various valves and cut-off
motions, and the principal types of modern engines are
studied. Special attention is given to the steam engine
indicator.
Graphical Statics of Mechanism.— Five weeks of the second term,
five hours per week, will be given to the study of this subject. The
advantage of graphical over analytical methods is generally recog-
nized, and new applications of the former are constantly being made.
By its use, the forces acting in every part of a machine maybe deter-
mined, both in direction and intensity, without the use of a mathe-
matical formula.
Steam Boilers— The remainder of the second term is given to this
subject. The different forms of boilers, the different materials used,
and the most approved methods of construction ; the various styles
of boiler fittings; cause and prevention of foaming, incrustation.
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and corrosion; the best manner of setting and operating; are di»-
cussed.
Machine Design— During the last term, the subject of machine de-
sign will be studied in connection with the strength of materials, the
latter being studied mainly from actual experiments made on the
testing machine.
Laboratory Work.— The students are not only taught how to cali-
brate and use the different instruments, but they are brought in
contact with engineering appliances under practical working con-
ditions.
Thoroughness of work is sought rather than the performance of a
large number of experiments.
The following course has been arranged :
Calibration of steam gauge ; calibration of indicator spring ; cali-
bration of thermometer ; calibration of scales and balances ; calori-
meter tests with barrel, separating and throttling calorimeters ; boiler
test with determination of the quality of steam and analysis of flue
gas; efficiency test of engine with brake and indicator power
measurement ; test of hot air pumping engine ; efficiency and duty of
a steam pump; tensional, compressional and transverse tests of cast
iron, wrought iron, steel and wood, in which are observed the limit
of elasticity, the ultimate breaking strength and the modulus of
elasticity.
This class usually makes a test of some electric plant or mill some
time in the last term.
The apparatus for carrying on this work consists of a 25 horse-power
Harris-Corliss engine, a 36 horse-power Westinghouse engine, a 25
horse-power Atlas engine, two 9 horse-power engines constructed by
students in the shops, a small engine and boiler especially for making
efficiency tests, a duplex Deane steam pump, an Ericsson hot air en-
gine, a Westinghouse air pump, four steam engine indicators, a sepa-
rating calorimeter, thermometer, pyrometers, scales, a standard steam
gauge with apparatus for testing steam gauges, a Crosby dead weight
tester for correcting the standard gauge, a 35,000-pound testing ma-
chine, and Henning micrometer extensometer. A Carpenter calori-
meter with auxiliary apparatus for determining the heating value of
different fuels.
Text- Book 8.
Holmes's Steam Engine, Herrmann-Smith's Graphical Statics of
Mechanism ; Uhwin's Machine Design ; Wilson's Steam Boilers.
Reference Books.
The library contains a nugfter of standard works on the various
subjects studied, and the students are referred to them con-
stantly for more extended treatment of many points that come up
in class.
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POST-GRADUATE COURSE.
Dynamometers.— This includes dynamometers and the measurement
of power. Absorption and transmission* dynamometers are studied,
with their application and use in testing steam engines.
Valve Gears.— The different forms of valve gears of steam engines
are studied, and problems in designing gears are worked out.
Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine. — This subject is studied theo-
retically and practically, and attempts a complete analysis of the ac-
tion of steam in an engine.
Laboratory Work.— As much advanced laboratory work will be given
as can be arranged with the appliances at hand.
Text-Books.
Flather's Dynamometers and Measurement of Power, Spangler's
Valve Gears, Peabody's Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine.
MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.
LIEUT. M. 0. HOLLIS, U. 8. A., COMMANDANT.
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Military science and tactics are required by law to be
taught in this institution. The law is faithfully carried out
by imparting to each student, not physically incapacitated
to bear arms, practical instruction in the school of the
soldier, of the company and of the battalion in close and
extended order, also in guard mountings, inspections, dress
parades, reviews, etc.
Under section 1225, U. S. Revised Statutes, the College
is provided with modern cadet rifles and accoutrements and
two pieces of field artillery. Ammunition for practice firing
is used under the direction of an experienced officer. The
exercises in target practice and artillery drill begin the first
day of the third term. * . ■
The following uniform of standard cadet gray cloth has
been prescribed for dress: Coat and pants as worn at
West Point, with sack coat for fatigue, dark blue cadet cap.
A neat and serviceable uniform can be obtained here at $14
to $15. This is less expensive than the usual clothing. All
students are required to wear this uniform during the
session.
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The entire body of students is divided into companies.
The officers are selected for military efficiency, good con-
duct, and scholarship. The commissioned officers will be
selected either from the senior or junior classes, and pro-
motion will depend on merit, and not wholly on seniority.
Each company is officered by one captain, two ] st lieu-
tenants, one 2d lieutenant, and with a proper number of
non-commissioned officers. The officers and non-commis-
sioned officers are distinguished by appropriate insignia of
rank. These appointments are confirmed by the President
on nomination of the Commandant.
The junior class recites once a week in the United States
Infantry Tactics.
The senior class recites once a week in, '* Notes on Mili-
tary Science/'
PHYSIOLOGY AND VETEEINAEY SCIENCE.
PROF. CARY.
PHYSIOLOGY.
The sophomore class during the second and third terms
studies human physiology.
It is the aim of the department to familiarize the student
with the gross anatomy and the functions of the various
parts of the human body ; moreover, due attention is given
to the laws of health or conditions most favorable to a
healthy action of the organs of the human body.
Instruction is given by lectures which are illustrated by
charts, drawings, models of the organs of the body and by
a human skeleton.
The department is now supplied with rooms where the
students can dissect some of the smaller animals and thus
see the organs, tissues and regions as exhibited in a few of
the. lower animals.
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VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART.
During the entire junior and senior years the students in
the agricultural and chemical course of study devote to this
work two hours per week in the class room and three to five
hours per week in clinical practice.
The lectures are arranged with special reference to the
students who are interested in horses or other domestic
animals ; also to those students who contemplate studying
human or veterinary medicine. While it is not the aim to
give a complete course in veterinary medicine, we attempt
to present the general principles of comparative medicine
with such special applications as are adapted to the condi-
tions and wants of the students.
Special attention is given to the exterior anatomy of the horse,
while comparative anatomy is presented mainly in connection with
the study of the diseases of the different apparatus of the horse or
other domestic animals.
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Lameness in the horse, minor surgery, the actions and uses of the
mo*t common medicines, the principles and practice of comparative
medicine, the methods of meat inspection, and the ways of protect-
ing the health of man and domestic animals, are considered in as
plain and practical manner as the time allotted to each subject will
permit. Post mortem examinations and the dissection of domestic
animals are used as object lessons in the study of general pathology
and anatomy.
To the post-graduate student this department furnishes
work in histology, bacteriology and pathology.
The department of physiology and veterinary science is now loca-
ted in a new building which consists of a two-story portion, contain-
ing four laboratory rooms on the second floor and a lecture room,
museum and office on the lower floor; and a one-story part which
contains an operating room and a hospital ward with two box stalls
and four open single stalls.
The building is supplied with water and gas, and the laboratory is
now equipped for work. The museum contains the skeletons of the
horse, the ox, the sheep, and the hog, and a human skeleton. It also
contains anatomical models of the various parts and organs of the
human body and models of many parts of the horse, the ox and the
other domestic animals. It also contains a collection of pathological
and anatomical specimens, and one of animal parasites.
The cases for clinical work have been numerous. Dnring 1895
there were five hundred and eighty-one cases handled by the depart-
ment.
PHAEMACY AND PHABMACOGNO
Prof. Miller,
junior year.
Pharmacy. — Class work three hours a week. The different
systems of weights and measures. Specific gravity. Phar-
maceutical problems. The fundamental operations in phar-
macy. Apparatus used in pharmaceutical processes. Dis-
cussion of all classes of pharmaceutical preparations.
Laboratory, nine hours a week. Preparation of official and
non-official galenicals.
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Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work, four
hours a week. All official vegetable drugs studied with aid
of simple aud compound microscope.
SENIOR YEAR.
Pharmacy. — Class work four hours a week. Official and
non-official pharmaceutical chemicals, inorganic and organic,
including the more important newer remedies. The pre-
scription. Incompatibilities. Doses.
Laboratory, nine hours a week. Preparation of official and
non-official pharmaceutical chemicals, inorganic and organic.
Pharmaceutical testing by pharmacopoeial methods. Drug
assaying, special attention given to compounding of pre-
scriptions.
Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work, four
hours a week. Study of important non-official vegetable
drugs ; of drugs of animal origin ; of adulterants and worth-
less drugs. Practical exercises in identification of pharma-
ceutical preparations and chemicals.
The practical work in pharmacy includes the manufacture of not
less than two hundred pharmaceutal preparations and the compound-
ing of not less than fifty prescriptions.
The work in pharmacognosy includes the study of more than three
hundred drugs, each of which the student is required to recognize by
its physical and chemical properties, giving Latin name, common
name, origin, habitat, constituents, medicinal action and dose.
POST-GRADUATE DEGREES.
The Post-graduate Degrees are— Master of Science, Mining
Engineer, Civil Engineer, Electrical and Mechanical
Engineer, and Phamaoeutical Chemist.
A post-graduate degree may be obtained by a graduate of
this College, or of any other institution of equal grade, by
one year's residence at the College, spent in the successful
prosecution of a course of study approved by the faculty.
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Candidates must also present to the faculty a satisfactory thesis,
showing independent investigation upon some subject pertaining to
their course, ani must pass an examination at the close of each term
on the course of study prescribed, in which he must attain a grade of
75 per cent. The examination is written, and also oral in the presence
of the faculty.
Applicants for post-graduate degrees are, by order of the Trustees,
permitted to matriculate without payment of fees.
They are subject to the general regulations as other students,
but are exempt from all military duty.
Resident graduates that are not candidates for a degree, are per-
mitted to matriculate and prosecute the studies in any department
of the College, without payment of regular fees.
The following courses are prescribed for the degrees named :
Mining Engineer.— Geology, Civil Engineering, Chemistry.
Civil Engineer.— Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Analytical Me-
chanics.
Electrical and Mechanical Engineer.— Electrical Engineering, Me-
chanical Engineering.
\S Pharmaceutical Chemist.— Pharmacy and ChemistFy. — •
Master of Science.— Studies in three departments, in two of which
the candidate must have previously completed the full course of the
senior class.
A certificate of proficiency will be given when any one subject of
a post-graduate course is satisfactorily completed.
DISTINCTIONS.
Distinctions are awarded in the different subjects of each class to
those students whose grade for the entire ye*ar is above 90 per cent.
Certificates of Distinction are awarded in public on commencement
day to those who obtain an average of 90 per cent, in all the pre-
scribed studies of a regular class ; and also to those who obtain three
distinctions in the freshman class, four in the sophomore class, five
in the junior class, and six in the senior class, provided they have
satisfactorily passed all the regular examinations of that session, and
have not received forty demerits during the year.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
During the session there will be given by Professor Mell a course
of twelve lectures on photography. This course will be elective, and
the instruction will be open to any student that may desire to learn
how to make pictures. It will be necessary for each student to pro-
vide himself with an outfit that will cost from $11.50 to $16.00.
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RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.
Daily records of the various exercises of the classes are kept by
the officers of instruction.
From the record a monthly circular, or statement, is sent to the
parent or guardian.
EXAMINATIONS
Written monthly examinations on the studies of the month are
held by each professor.
At the end of each term written examinations, or written and oral,
are held on the studies passed over during that term.
Special examinations are held only by order of the faculty, and in
no case will private examinations be permitted.
Students falling below the minimum grade at the final examina-
tion, can be promoted to full standing in the next higher class, only
on satisfactory examinations at the opening of the next session.
It is required that every student who enters the College shall re-
main through the examinations at the end of the term. Leaves of
absence and honorable discharges will, therefore, not be granted
within three weeks of the examination, except in extreme cases.
. LIBRARY.
The library occupies an elegant, well-lighted room in the main
building, and also two smaller adjacent rooms. It contains over
9,000 bound volumes, including valuable reference and scientific
books, with select editions of standard authors, and others suitable
for students* carefully and recently selected. It is kept open eight
hours daily for the use of students as a reading room, and is thus
made an important educational feature.
i MUSEUM.
The museum occupies a large room in the third story. It is pro-
vided with suitable cases and is equipped with valuable specimens
and models of an instructive character.
DISCIPLINE.
The government of the College is administered by the President
and faculty, in accordance with the code of laws and regulations en-
acted by the Trustees.
Attention to study and punctuality in attendance on recitations
and all other duties, are required of every student. Students are
prohibited from having in their possession arms or weapons not
issued for the performance of military duty, and also from using, or
causing to be brought into the College limits, intoxicating liquors,
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MILITARY DRILL.
There are three regular military drills each week, and all under-
graduate students, not physically incapacitated to bear arms, are re-
quired to engage in these exercises.
The drills are short, and the duty involves no hardships. The
military drill is a health-giving exercise, and its good effects in the
development of the physique and improvement of the carriage of the
cadet are manifest.
Privates of the senior class who are candidates for graduation may
be excused by the President from all military drills, and also
students over twenty-one years of age at the time of entering Col-
lege that are permitted to devote their time to one special study, as
chemistry, agriculture, etc.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE.
Religious services are held every morning in the chapel.
All students are required to attend these exercises, and also to at-
tend the church of their choice at least once on Sunday.
Opportunities are also offered for attending Bible classes every
Sunday.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
' This Association is regularly organized, and through its weekly
meetings exerts a wholesome Christian influence among the students
of the College.
The first week of the session the trains will be met by a committee
of the Association, whose business will be to give information to, or
assist in any way it can, the students entering College for the first
time. The Association is commended to afl the students.
The following are the officers :
J. L. Pollard, President.
W. J. Bebson, Vice-President.
G. D. King, Recording Secretary.
W. H. McBrydb, Corresponding Secretary.
S. T. Slaton, Treasurer.
LOCATION.
The College is situated in the town of Auburn, fifty-nine miles east
of Montgomery, on the line of the Western Railroad.
The region is high and healthful, noted for its general good health
and freedom from malaria, having an elevation of eight hundred and
twenty-six feet above tide water. By statute of the Statc^lhe sale
of spirituous liquors and keeping saloons of any kind are forbidden.
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BOABDING.
The College has no barracks or dormitories, and the
students board with families in the town of Auburn, and
thus enjoy all the protecting and beneficial influence of the
family circle.
For each house an inspector is appointed, whose duty it
is to report those who, without permission, leave their
rooms after "call to quarters," or are guilty of any violation
of order. The report of the inspector is made to the Com-
mandant on alternate days of the week.
Students, after selecting their boarding-houses, are not
}>ermitted to make changes without ^obtaining permission
rom the President, and this permission is given only at the
close of a term, except for special reasons.
By special arrangement with the College authorities Mrs.
M. L. Mitchell will accommodate twenty students with
board, lodging, fuel, eta, for $9.50 per month.
EXPENSES.
There is no charge for tuition.
Incidental fee, per half session .$ 2 50
Library fee, per half session 1 00
Surgeon's fee, per half session 2 50
$ 6 00
These fees are payable, $6.00 on matriculation and $6.00
on February 1st. By order of the Trustees no fees can be
remitted.
For students entering after January 1st, the fees for a
half session only are required.
Board, per month, with fuel and lights $12 to 15 00
EXPENSES FOB COLLEGE TEAR.
Fees * 12 O0.to$ 12 00
Board, lodging, fuel and lights 108 00 to 135 00
Washing. 9 00 to 9 00
Books, etc, say 8 00 to 15 00
Total $137 00 $17100
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UNIFORM.
A uniform of cadet gray cloth is prescribed, which all under-
graduate students are required to wear during the session. The
uniforms are made by a contractor of excellent cloth manufactured
at the Charlottesville mill. This suit, including cap, costs 114.50.
It is neat and serviceable, and less expensive than ordinary cloth-
ing.
CONTINGENT FEE.
A contingent fee of five dollars is required to be deposited
by each studont on matriculation, to cover any special or
general damage to college property for which he may be
liable.
At the close of the session the whole of the contingent
fee, or the unexpended balance, is refunded to the student.
AMOUNT OF DEPOSIT.
Each student on entering College should deposit with the
Treasurer not less than $50.00, to pay the expenses of fees,
one month's board, uniform, books, etc.
FUNDS OF STUDENTS.
Parents and guardians are advised to deposit with the Treasurer
of the College all funds desired for sons or wards, whether for regu-
lar charges of College fees or board, or for any other purpose. It is
the duty of this officer to keep safely all funds placed in his hands,
and to pay all expenses incurred by the students, including board,
uniform, books, etc., when approved.
When funds are deposited, checks are drawn on the Treasurer of
the College by the cadet to pay his necessary expenses. These
checks are paid only when officially approved. The approval is
given only for necessary expenses, as stated in the catalogue, un-
less specially requested in writing by the parent.
The College cannot be held responsible for the expenses of a
student, unless the funds are deposited with the Treasurer. No
student should be permitted to have a large amount of pocket money,
as it brings only trouble and encourages idleness.
• . THESIS.
Each applicant for a degree is required to write and submit to the
faculty an essay or oration and read and deliver the same at com-
mencement, if required by the faculty.
It must be given to the Professor of English by the first of May.
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LITERABY SOCIETIES.
There are two literary societies connected with the Col-
lege — the Wirt and the Websterian. Each has a hall in the
main building.
These societies hold celebrations on the evenings of
Thanksgiving Day and 22nd of February. They elect an-
nually, with the approval of the faculty, an orator to repre-
sent them at the close of the year.
EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION.
On every Saturday morning, immediately after chapel services,
oratorical exercises in declamation and in original orations are
conducted by the Professor of English, in the presence of the faculty
and students.
The first and second terms the students of the junior and sophomore
classes are exercised in original orations and declamation.
The second and third terms the members of the senior class read
essays or deliver original orations.
v SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI.
The annual alumni oration is delivered by a member of the society,
in Langdon Hall, on Aj.umni Day, Tuesday of commencement week.
The following are the officers of the society :
Chas. C. Thach, 77, President.
C. W. Ashcraft, '88, Vice-President.
L S. Boyd, '92, Secretary.
B. H. Crenshaw, '89, Treasurer.
0. N. Ousley, '81, Orator for 1896.
SUEGEON.
The Surgeon is required to be present at the College
daily, to visit at their quarters the cadets that are reported
sick, and to give all requisite medical attention without
other charge than the regular surgeon's fee, paid on entering
college.
ACADEMIC TEAR
The academic year for 1896-97 commences on Wednes-
day, 16th September, 1896 {second Wednesday after the first
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Monday), and ends on Wednesday, 16th June, 1897 (second
Wednesday after the first Monday), which is commencement
day.
It is divided into three terms. The first term extends
from the opening of the session to the 18th of December ;
the second term begins December 28th, and ends March 20th ;
the third term continues from March 21st to theclose of the
session.
RESOLUTION OF THE TRUSTEES.
The following resolution was adopted by the Trustees :
That in view of increased facilities for instruction in agriculture
and the technical departments of education now possessed by this
College, especially in the mechanic arts, made possible by the recent
donation from the State, the facujty are authorized, in addition to
the legal name of this College, to print on the catalogue the words
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, as significant of the ex-
panded system of practical instruction in industrial science in the
course of education now provided for.
DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. ^
Congressional and Public Documents.— Senate and House and Miscel-
laneous Documents, etc., 157 vols.
Congressman G. P. Harrison.— Report U. S. Commission on Fish
and Fisheries, 1888; Congressional Records ; War of the Rebellion,
J vols.
Dr. /. R. Jordan, Montgomery, Ala.— Transactions of Alabama Med-
ical Association, 5 vols. ; Reports Alabama Board of Health, 4 vols.
Macmillan & Co., N. F.— Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied
Electricity, 2 vols. ; The Planet Earth, by E. A. Gregory.
P. H. Mell, Jr.— Lite of P. H. Mell.
Senator John T. Morgan.— U. S. Geological Survey ; U. S. Fish Com-
mission ; U. S. Civil Service ; Messages and Documents, 1895, 5 vols.
E. A. Smith, State Geologist.— Geological Survey of Alabama, 1895.
JV. H. Winchell.— Geological Survey of Minnesota, vol. Ill, part I,
Gen. J. H. Lane.— The History of Mount Mica, Maine, by Augustus
C. Hamlin.
Senor Miguel J. Romero.— Six publications on the history of Vene-
zuela, its boundary dispute, etc.
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DONATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGI-
NEERING.
Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., one street rail-
way motor, 20 horse power.
General Electric Co., Atlanta, Ga., one 3>£ kilo watt generator.
John A. Roebling Son's Co., Trenton, N. J., boards of different styles
of cables and wires.
Mutual Light and Power Co., Montgomery, Ala., one Wheeler-
Crocker 1-6 horse power fan motor.
E. McKay, Asheville, N. C, two Edison ammeters.
Indianapolis Telephone Co., Indianapolis, Ind„ telephone (com-
plete). - , ,
Standard Electric Co., Chicago, III, one Standard arc lamp.
Berlin Iron Bridge Co., East Berlin, Conn., framed photograph of
power house.
PERIODICALS.
The following periodicals are regularly received in the
library and are accessible to students.
LITERARY.
QUARTERLIES.
American Historical Review, Political Science Quarterly,
Current History,
Economic Journal,
Edinburgh Review,
Arena,
Atlantic Monthly,
Bachelor of Arts, *
Blackwood's Magazine,
Book Buyer,
Bookman,
Book Reviews,
Century Magazine,
Contemporay Review,
Cosmopolitan,
Eclectic Magazine,
Academy,
Athenaeum,
Critic,
Dial,
Harper's Weekly,
Agricultural South,
Agricultural Science,
Agricultural Society Journal,
American Agriculturist,
American Cultivator,
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Quarterly Review,
Sewanee Review.
MONTHLIES.
Education,
Educational Review,
Fortnightly Review,
Forum,
Harper's Monthly,
McClure's Magazine,
Nineteenth Century,
North American Review,
Review of Reviews,
Scribner's Magazine,
Westminster Review.
WEEKLIES.
Independent (New York),
Literary World (Boston)
Nation,
Saturday Review,
Spectator.
SCIENTIFIC.
American Gardening
American Geologist,
American Journal of Science,
American Machinist,
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American Meteorological Jour-
nal,
American Monthly Microscopi-
cal Journal,
American Naturalist,
Analyst,
An atomise her Anzeiger,
Annates de Chemie et de Physi-
que,
Annates des Sciences Naturelles,
Annals of Botany,
Annals of Mathematics,
Anthony's Photographic Bulle-
tin,
Archives de Biologie,
Archives de Zoologie,
Archives fuer Mikroskopische
Anatomie,
Berichte der Deutschen Chemis-
chen Gesellschaft,
British Journal of Photography,
Botanical Gazette,
Breeders Gazette,
Builder and Woodworker,
bulletin Torrey Botanical Club,
Cassier's Magazine,
Chemical News,
Centralblatt fuer Bacteriologie,
Commercial & Financial Chroni-
cle,
Comptes Rendus,
Country Gentleman and Culti-
vator,
Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Tier-
medicine,
Drainage Journal,
Electrical Engineer,
Electrical World,
Electrician,
Engineering (London),
Engineering and Mining Jour-
nal,
Engineering Magazine,
Engraver and Printer,
Farmer's Gazette (New South
. Wales),
Farmer's Advocate,
Florida Farmer and Fruit Grow-
er,
Garden and Forest,
Gardener's Chronicle,
Hufschmied,
Industrial American,
Journal de l'Anatomie et de Phy-
siologic,
Journal of American Chemical
Society,
Journal of Chemical Industrial
Society,
Journal of Botany,
Journal fuer Prak. Chem.,
Journal of Comparative Pathol-
ogy and Therapeutics,
Journal of Franklin Institute,
Journal of Geology,
Journal of Chem. Society (Eng-
lish),
Journal of Horticulture,
Journal of Morphology,
Journal Royal Agricultural So-
ciety,
Journal of New York Microscop-
ical Society,
Mathematical Monthly,
Massachusetts Ploughman,
Mehan's Monthly,
Memoirs Torrey Botanical Club,
Natural Science,
Nature,
Our Grange Home,
Pharmaceutical Journal,
Philosophical Magazine,
Photographer (St. Louis),
Photographic Times,
Popular Science Monthly,
Prairie Farmer.
Proceedings of the Academy of
Nat'al Science of Philadelphia,
Quarterly Journal of Microscop-
ical Science,
Rural New Yorker,
Science,
Scientific American,
Sibley Journal of Engineering,
Southern Cultivator,
Southern Farm,
Southern Planter,
Transactions American Institute
of Engineers,
Veterinary Journal,
Veterinary Magazine,
Western Rural,
Wilson's Photographic Magazine,
Zeitschrift fuer An. Chem.,
Zeitschrift fuer Fleisch und
Milch Hygiene,
Zeitschrift fuer vergleichende
Augenheilkunde,
Zoologischer Anzeiger.
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ALUMNI.
♦ ♦
Published under direction of the Executive Committee of the
Alumni Society.
1860.
n ft „ w f. Glenn. Minister and Editor Atlanta, Ga.
Ffl Tohnson Merchant ; M J ac . ( !"' £ a>
* . ». Joniwoii. Orawfordville, Ga.
R. D. Lumsden •• v Orrville Ala
W G Thrash ; farmer £> "vu ie, a a.
a'f Woolley Farmer . .Kingston, Ga.
186 L.
„ Sparta, Ga.
Henry Hams.... Social Circle, Ga.
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H. S. McFarlana ' "\ ": fvinmhns (ia.
*J. J. F. Rogers
1867.
^ „ r« W vpr La Fayette, Ala.
1868.
*
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t Birmingham, Ala.
W. W. Moore La wyer ? Ala
Lev. W. T. ^Pattillo Minister
1869. ■ ...
•r. - a f ...Opehka, Ala.
A. G. Dowdell. . . ..... .... £ ru *£f .Houston, Texas.
L.A. Dowdell........ if. ac .^; '.'...Louisville, Ala.
*Rev. A. S. Douglas ..... Ministei Augtin? Texas
Leander G. Jackson lawyer . . .Jasper, Ala.
T.J.Lamar Teacher... ...Mobile, Ala.
*Caleb H. Lindsey Lawyer Auburn, Ala.
J. J. Motley • Journalist . Midway, Ga.
James D. Myrick -** rme *' T y' a NrVv" ".'.. .Brooklyn, N. Y.
R. 0. Persons /oaV W?S«?aSd iSeV graduated in the East
[The classes of 1860, 1861, 1867, 1868 »«~ «" |^ Alabama College
Alabama College. In 1872 the ^^£Si^t^ State AgriCUlr
became, by donation to the State, t* aj ^gy^wighad.]
tural and Mechanical College, which was tnen
1872> ...Salem, Ala.
rc F Rnrt Teacher. ... • • • •••••:"' Waco, Texas.
t 0.' RouLvali. Prest. National ^^ft'g,*!,,
W. E. Home • . .Birmingham, Ala.
L. V. Rosser. ' ' '\^Z r '.. • .-AuBtin, TexM.
Rev E W.Solomon Minister. ....••• • p ra ttville, A a.
G.C.Spigener & r ?JE; ;;;;;... ..Opelika, Ala.
*Rev. C. R. Williamson .... Minister
* Deceased.
92 Agricultural and Mechanical College.
1873.
J. L. Golson Lawyer New Orleans, La.
W. T. Rutledge Farmer Crawford, Ala.
*P. R. Rutledge Farmer Crawford, Ala.
1874.
R. K. Fitzhugh U. 8. Geological Survey. .Pine Bluff, Ark.
*B. H. Johnson Lawyer Dadeville, Ala.
W. H. Moore Contractor Birmingham, Ala.
M. H. Mooie Teacher Dallas, Texas.
1875.
Frank C. Dillard Lawyer Sherman, Texas.
*Wm. M. Perry. Teacher Columbus, Ga.
♦John A. Ratchford Manufacturer La Fayette, Ala.
Eugene R. Rivers Lawyer Birmingham, Ala.
187&.
Rev. M. K. Clements Teacher Athens, Ala.
*C. T. Hodge Lawyer Opelika, Ala.
8. B. Holt Manufacturer Siluria, Ala.
E. M. Oliver Lawyer La Fayette, Ala.
F. D Peabody Lawyer Columbus, Ga.
J. E. Ruffin Teacher Columbiana, Ala.
*P. H. Stowe Farmer Phoenix City, Ala.
Reese Wilson Editor Waco, Texas.
1877.
Rev. Samuel C. Riddle . . .Minister Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Charles C. Thach Prof. English, A. & M. C.,. ..Auburn, Ala.
John M. Trammell Manufacturer.. West Point, Ga
William 0. Trammell Physician Atlanta, Ga.
1878.
Lemuel G. Dawson Farmer *, Ware Ala
Silas C. Dowdell Farmer .... Merrick La
Tucker H. Frazer Physician Mobile, Ala
Robert E. Hardaway Civil Engineer . . .. Austin, Texas
George H Price Physician Nashville, Tenn.
♦Isaac A Lanier Teacher Huntsville, Ala.
Lee S. bcluefflin Manufacturer Nashville, Tenn .
Reuben L. Thornton Lawyer Birmingham, Ala.
1879.
Mark S. Andrews Banker Greenville, Texas.
WyattH Blake Physician Lineville, Ala.
Frank B Dillard. Lawyer Sherman, Texas.
Joshua S. Dowdell Merchant La Fayette, Ala.
Rev. Oliver C. McGehee. . . Minister Mobile Ala
♦Allen B. O'Hara Merchant Woodbury Ga
Thonns M. Oliver Druggist Columbus, Ga.
x^ n J^ V. nckard Sup*- ot Education Newton, Ala.
J. E. D. Shipp Lawyer Americus, Ga.
1880.
John T. Ashcraft Lawyer Florence Ala
♦Benjamin F. Atkinson. . . .Lawyer West Point, Ga.'
8amuel B Cantey Lawyer Ft. Worth, Texas.
Samuel Callaway Roadm'ter,L. & N. R. R.,Birmingham, Ala.
John 8. N. Davis R. R. Business Savannah, Ga.
* Deceased,
Agricultural and Mechanical Golkge.
03
x>v,„cioinn Uniontown, Ala.
J. M, Langhorne Physician Lampasas, Texas.
Alva Fitzpatrick Lawyer Montgomery, Ala.
S t ««rrison Pension Examiner Danville, 111.
r«Le R Hall Teacher M idway, Ala
Rev Harrison L. Martin. . .Minister Ozark, Ala.
Charles B. McCoy Physician '. Opehka.Ala.
Robert F. Ousley Farmer -Oui ey.Ua.
So„rv ft Perrv Physic an Greenville, Ala.
EdSarA G, pr1ce y ::.:: Lawyer Nashville Tenn.
Sw Stevens Merchant. Roanoke, At.
Sf) Street Merchant and Planter. Bluff Springs, Ala.
iXfrV'Y Street . . Planter Bluff Springs, Ala.
?j°ames l. l$t« I '• '. • ' • '• • farmer , Oourtland, Ala.
R^sT E Thomas Real Estate Agent. Gadsden, a
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1881.
W. U. Acree Sec, Banking, Bldg. 4 Loan A«oe., ^
J. Callaway... • ■•jHRty^ Montgomery, Ala.
?• g- SeT^" '.". '• :. K™r ngl . nee : ! \ '. '. •' .' •' • • • , Opejika, Ala.
J H Jeter Farmer Barachias, Ala.
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Physician .Uniontovi
t O f„„ op Lampasas,
* J. T. Letcher T Lawy l Sebastian , Fla .
A. J. Mitchell V^Zaiist ••'••'■ 'Galveston, Texas.
C. N. Ousley i f oipm'isrrv' A A M. College,
B.B.Ross.... Pr° f - Chemistry, a. « Auburn, Ala.
...... ...Ozark, Ala.
Rev. W. H. 8immons....Minister .._ n ..- L - g - at Uni
W. D. Taylor... ....Prof. Civil Bug., La. ^ ^^ u
m r> u Dallas, Texas.
J. D. Trammell K-SrLe''':.'.'.'.'.'-S« JIex -
E. I. Van Hoose Supt. Silver Mine
Birmingham, Ala.
J. J. Banks £"7 wl'J rw,rai r' R Cit y of Mex '
E. N. Brown f U P*- Mex ' Cent . . Dallas, Texas.
G. A. Garden Lawyer Washington, D- C.
a. m. ciegg • • • • •••,:;• " ' ■".'.' B utler - A a -
•W.H.Cunningham Physician .Birmingham, A a.
Bartow Eberhart Merchant Montgomery, »■
*B. H. Fitzpatrick £ arm , er . Auburn, A a.
J. M. Hurt Teacher .Birmingham, Ala..
W. H. Jones .Druggist • , asp er, A a.
Howard Lamar Lawyer ..Montgomery, A a.
R. F. Ligon, Jr Lawyer Montgomery, Ala.
W. W. Pearson J^Wn'rinew" "• • • Pilot P ° int '
J. M. Reid Civil Engineer....
} m - ..Marble Falls, Tex.
W. H. Bruce ^Math ,'Cox College, Manchester Ga
W. S. Cox Prof.Matn.,v, F« ttv ^i!' ii.
W. L. Ellis. • • • • • v -I Montgomery, Ala.
C. L. Gay M ,. erC v?™ • ■ -Alexander City, Ala.
A. L. Harlan Physician ••••
♦Deceased,
*
94
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
M. L. Harp, Jr Druggist Atlanta, Texas.
D. B. Mangum With iMex. Cent. K. R — City of Mexico.
T. F. Mangum Lawyer McKinney, Texas.
A. M. Mcintosh Teacher Renfroe, Ala.
E M. Face Agt. Maynard, Merrill & Co. Calvert, Tex.
*Rev N. P. D Samford Minister Trussville, Ala.
R. L. Sutton Physician Orrville, Ala.
1884.
B. H Boyd — Teacher Ramer, Ala.
L R. Boyd Dentist Troy, Ala.
R. S. Corry Real Estate Agent Greenville, Ala.
F. C. Duke Lawyer La Fayette, Ala.
•Rev. T. F. Hardin Minister. ..Tuscaloosa, Ala.
W. L. Hutchinson Prof. Chemistry, A. & M. College,
Agricultural College, Miss.
J W. Lockhart Teacher Salisbury, Mo.
D. 1) McLeod. Lawyer Anniston, Ala.
•J. B. Robinson, Jr Lawyer .Memphis, Tenn.
W. C. Whitaker iviinister. Tuscaloosa, Ala.
W. D. Wood Wood Lumber Co Montgomery, Ala.
1885.
J. M. Allen Merchant Birmingham, Ala.
W. T. Andrews P. O. Dept Washington, D. C.
R. E. L. Collier Civil Engineer Thistle, Utah.
*W. T. Penn Merchant Cusseta, Ala.
R. H. Thach Lawyer .. .Birmingham, Ala.
1886.
C. A. Allison Railroad Agont. Gadsden, Ala.
B. S r Burton Physician Yaldosta, Ga.
L M. Capps Farmer Blackfoot, Idaho.
L.F.Howell.... Farmer Valdosta, Ga.
C. L. Newman Director, Exp. Station,. .. .Camden, Ark.
A. A. Persons ...Prof. Chemistry, A. &M. College,
*'« ~ Lake City, Fla.
S. C. Pitts Civil Engineer Tumaco, U. S.
_ ¥T Columbia, S. A.
C. H . Ross Prof. Mod. Langs., A. & M. College,
_ _ __ - Auburn, Ala.
R. J. H. Simmons Teacher Thomasville, Ala.
t R \« „ 8mitn Teacher. Equality, Ala.
L. W. Spratling Surgeon U. S. Navy.. .San Francisco, Cal.
? ,5 ,\Y^ a Y er * • • ^ otton Merchant Memphis, Tenn.
m ^- W 1 , . lkin8011 Chemist ,Exper. Sta.,. . . New Orleans, La.
T. P. Zellars Drummer.... Atlanta, Ga.
1887.
4* t " \ ,exander Civil Engineer. Mobile, Ala.
V. L Allen Lawyer Birmingham, Ala.
H.O.Armstrong Sec'y of Legation Madrid, Spain.
ww B r ?? k . in Clk. State Trea's. Office. Montgomery, Ala.
W. E. Davis Merchant Opelika, Ala.
K. ap.C, Jones Banker Selma, Ala.
l H. Jones Merchant and Farmer. Bonnet Carre, La.
w tT't i "i ar Lawyer. Washington, D. C.
w u7 d A « r » A& M - C, Agricult'l College, Miss.
W. H. Newman U.S. Army San Antonio. Texas.
♦Deceased.
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
%
£ H- Perry Teacher Memphis, Tenn
0. W. Simmons Lawyer Geneva Ala
B. A. BJakey.... Electrician • Montgomery' Ala'
G ' 1 ;J 1 ti l V i" 8 "™" 06 A S ent Birmingham,' Ala!
*J. W. Morgan, Jr Prof Eng., State Normal College,
18g8 Florence, Ala.
C. W. Ashcraft
R. L. Bennett —
• • •
. . .Journalist Opelika, Ala.
. . .Dir. Exper. Sta , Ark. Indus. Univ.,
„ -, « J . . Fayetteville,Ark.
G. F. Broun Physician Birmingham. Ala
F. Broun .....Lawyer Oharlestown, W. Va.
H. L Broun Lawyer. Cliarlestown, W. Va.
A F. Cory. Farmer Mulberry, Ala.
J. H. Drake, Jr Physician Opelika, Ala
E \V\ Foster Civil Engineer Mobile, Ala
J. T. Gregory Teacher Mobile, Ala.
*E. W Harris Teacher.. . . . : Kowaliga, Ala.
G. A. Huguley! Farmer West Point, Ga.
Wm. Lyman Farmer Montevallo, Ala.
E. C. Macartney Merchant... Mobile, Ala.
T. D. Samford Lawyer Opelika, Ala.
0. 0. Smith Bank Cashier Atlanta, Ga.
S. 0. Taylor Farmer Snowdoun, Ala.
1889.
L. D. Burdett Drummer Birmingham, Ala.
A.J. Burr Merchant Griffin, Ga.
J. R. Clower Insurance Agent Atlanta, Ga.
E. C. Cochran Insurance Agt., 114 Main St.,tlouston, Tex.
A. J. Crawford Farmer Auburn, Ala
B. H. Crenshaw Instructor Mech. Arts , A. & M. C,
Auburn, Ala.
A. C. Crowder Insurance Agent Birmingham, Ala.
H. G. Crowder Agt. Stn'd Oil Co New Orleans, La.
H. 8. Doster Lawyer Prattvil.'e, Ala.
A. St. C. Dunstan Instructor in Physics, Kansas Univ.^
Lawrence, Kans
P. L. Hutchinson Chem., State Ag. Dept., Atlanta, Ga.
D. Killebrew Manufacturer Newton. Ala
A. M. Lloyd Chem., McQandless LabVry., Atlanta Ga.
W. L. Martin <.. Drummer Birmingham Ala.
M. D. Pace Prof. Mathematics, State Normal College,
Troy, Ala.
T. A. Ross Civil Engineer Cape Town, Africa.
E. J. Spratling. ... Physician Fishkill Landing, N. Y
H. M. Taylor Civil Engineer • • r ^ ed rffl'
P. T. Vaughan Physician Insane Asylum, Little RockArK.
F. H. Vernon Manufacturer .Social Circle Ga.
T M. Watlington Lawyer . . . .- San Antonio T txas.
R. Weaver Electrician • SeIma,Aia.
N.
1890.
B. C. Abernethy Druggist ?riando, Fla.
J W. Bivins. . Manufacturer • ■ £&*X'
W. Callaway Farmer ^'^ * {£'
W.?G. Cook Journalist ^'IfZ Texa
G.W.Emory Physician Anderson, Uxas.
•Deceased.
■n
96
Agricultural and Mechanical Cdlege.
S. J. Emory Physician Navasota, Texas.
•F.M.Fontaine Lawyer Columbus, Ga.
D. Gillis Teacher Brewton, Ala.
W. G. Harrison Physician Talladega, Ala.
R. E. D. Irvin Teacher Opelika, Ala.
J. H. Little... . :.. .Farmer Auburn, Ala.
W. B. Matthews Conductor, G. & A. R. R.,. .Americus, Ga.
F. D. Milstead. Manufacturer Tallassee, Ala.
J. Milton Lawyer Marianna, Fla.
R. E. Noble Medical Student New York City.
R. H. Poole Physician Douglasville. Ga.
P. \V. Terry Journalist Birmingham, Ala.
G. H. Waring Chemist Atlanta, Ga.
J. F. Wilkinson Chemist, State Ag. Dep., — Atlanta, Ga.
J. Quarles Teacher. ..Texas.
1891.
L. E. Baker Bookkeeper Montgomery. Ala.
H. Benton Director, Exper. Station., Uniontown, Ala.
F.J. Bivins Bank Teller Cordele, Ga.
S. J. Buckalew Farmer Boyd's Tank, Ala.
J. A. Cox Electrician ..Birmingham, Ala.
J. N. Dean Farmer. Pine Level, Ala.
W. E. Fitzgerald Farmer Omaha, Ga
W. T. Glass Physician Phoenix City, Ala.
C. B.Glenn .....Student Cambridge, Mass.
C. L. Hare Asst. Chem., A. & M.C., Auburn, Ala.
B. F. Harwood Supt. Compress .Uniontown, Ala.
C. C Johnson Teacher Sherman, Texas.
J. C. Kimball Lawyer Birmingham, Ala.
F. A. Lupton Medical Student Baltimore, Md
W. A. Marshall Rome, Ga.
A. D. McLennan Electrician Lynn, Mass.
W.H.Oates Chemist Mobile,Ala.
P. Reynolds Farmer Tuskegee, Ala.
W. E. Reynolds Farmer Tuskegee, Ala.
R. C. Smith Lawyer Opelika, Ala.
1892.
W. S. Allen .Civil Engineer Cartersville, Ga.
A. S. Averett Merchant Valdosta, Ga.
E. C. Avery t. Merchant Prescott, Arizona.
L. S. Boyd Asst. Librarian, A. & M. C.,. .Auburn, Ala.
0. A. Brown Teacher Birmingham, Ala.
J. T. Bullen Clerk Montgomery, Ala.
G, S. Clark Teacher Highland Home, Ala.
W. B. Clay Manager Opera House Troy, Ala.
J. G. Crommelin Bookkeeper Montgomery, Ala.
J. L. Culver Postal C, M. & B. R. R., Birmingham, Ala.
H. L. Davidson Bookkeeper Montgomery, Ala.
H. T. DeBardeleben Supt. Furnace Birmingham, Ala.
H. F. Dobbin Draughtsman t New York City.
W. F. Fe igin Teacher Albertville, Ala.
J. E. Gachet Dental Student Auburn, Ala.
E. H. Graves Drummer Atlanta, Ga.
R. W. Greene,. Theological Student Nashville, Tenn.
R. F. Hare Asst. Chem.,A. & M. C, Las Cruces,N. Mex.
L. P. Heyman Journalist Atlanta, Ga.
•Deceased.
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
99
A. L. Jones ..M'g'r Ala. Printing Co. Montgomery, Ala.
R. D. McAllister Lawyer.. Atlanta, Ga.
F. M. Moseley Electrician Montgomery, Ala.
L. W. Payne Teacher Evergreen, Ala.
C. T. Pollard Physician Montgomery, Ala.
W. E Richards. . ..... Lawyer Weatherford, Texas.
E. B. Smith Druggist Columbus, (la.
S. S. Strong . Civil Eng.,A. & W. P. R. R, West Point, Ga.
G. A.Thomas Merchant Montgomery, Ala.
R. J. Trammell I»sr. Mech. Arts, A. & M. C, Auburn, Ala.
d! M. Walker Merchant Faunsdale, Ala.
D. L. Whetstone Bookkeeper Montgomery, Ala.
D. E. Wilson Druggist Birmingham, Ala.
B. M. Duggar. State Biological Survey.. Urbana f Ill.
1893.
Lee Ashcraft Teacher Geneva, Ala.
W R Bishop Physician Talladega, Ala.
R " L G. Bivins Teacher New Orleans, La.
F. M. Boykin '.- Farmer Montgomery, Ala.
M R. Burton... Insurance Agent Opelika,Ala.
W S Crump Lawyer Seddon.Ala.
C W Daugette Prof. Eng., Normal Col., Jacksonville, Ala.
JoelDumas Bookkeeper Arlington, Ala.
D. B. Edwards Farmer . >oapstone, As.
T G Foster Medical Student Montgomery, Ala.
J.' H. Holt Electrician Washington, DC.
T.L.Kennedy Teacher lampa, * a.
J. M. Little.. ....Farmer Auburn, Ala.
J. B. Loveless Farmer. . Guntersyille, Ala.
N.B. Marks . .Law Student. . University of Va.
E B Mell Teacher i' tt . ? t ? n ;T n
H. K. Miller Chemist Agr'l Expt. Sta..,. .Raleigh N C.
W M fUgffs ... . Asst. Prof. Physics,. Clemson College, S. C.
J S RoSn Electrician Birniingh^Ala.
C H. Smith Electrician .Atlanta, da.
Henry Hamilton Smith. . . . VV. Ry. of Ala fi&S** ifc
L. S. Smith Cotton Business Birm V^' ?£
S.L.Toomer Druggist mSS - Ala
J.F.Webb LawStudent... m^SKm All'
T.F.Wimberly Merchant Birmingham, Ala.
1894.
G. S. Anderson Merchant rh^at^Tmn'
C. I. Andrew^ , . .Lawyer Cha ^Xrn T Ala.
Kate Conway Broun „,"' v.. Brewton , Ala.
J - \j r B "> w .°\ • • • TP^her Loachapoka, Ala.
w W. Carlisle, Teacher. „ ,„ ■ Station, Texas.
WD. Clayton Asst A & M. 1/ , S* B Co , (imbia , A | a .
R. C. Conner Teacher Tallassee, Ala.
P. P. Daugette Teacher . . ... • • • Atlanta Ga.
tt t twJ* . Medical Student gViKaIs.
R T. Dorsey • Medical
W. G. Duggar Farmer
Tallahassee, Fla.
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J.C.Dunham
Charles Dunlap • Clerk
James Dunlap Clerk
Selma, Ala.
Selma. Ala.
207879
96
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
O. E. Edwards U. S. Patent Office Washington, D. C.
R. G. Foy Cadet. U. S. M. A., West Point, N. Y.
F. A. Fulghum Lawyer Birmingham, Ala.
C. G. Greene i . Merchant Opelika, Ala.
C. C Hare . . Electrician West Point, Ga.
A. J. Harris Bank Clerk Decatur, Ala.
A. W Holstun Teacher Waverly, Ala.
J. D.Lane Teacher Waverly, Ala.
Sydney Leach Medical Student University of Va.
Willie Gertrude Little Auburn, Ala.
P. P. McKeown Lumber Business Concord, Fla.
H. Meislahn Elect rician Winter Park, Fla.
L. G Moore Electrician Pulaski, Tenn.
P. H. Moor.* Lawyer Birmingham, Ala.
W. W. Moore Electrician Columbia, Tenn.
Peter Preer Money Order Dept., P. 0.,. Columbus, Ga.
S. A. Redding Electrician . . Schenectady, N. Y.
J P. Slaton Inst'rMath &Eng, A. & M.C .Auburn, Ala.
Margaret Kate Teague Hot Springs, Ark.
Jack Thorington Lawyer Montgomery, Ala.
G. G. Vaughan Selma, Ala.
F. A. Vernon Merchant Cusseta, Ala.
R. G. Williams Asst. Chemist, A. & M.C, — Auburn, Ala.
A. Z. Wright Merchant .. ..Auburn, Ala,
J. B. Espy Teacher Abbeville, Ala.
A. L. Quaintance Asst. Biol., A. & M. C, .. Lake City, Fla.
1895.
R. H. Adams Teacher Brundidge, Ala.
D. S. Anderson. .
W. S. Askew....
Hugh Bickerstaff
G. P. Bon'lurant.
F. A. Boykin...
Farmer , Auburn, Ala
Merchant ..• Cusseta, Ala.
Electrician Atlanta, Ga .
Teacher . Athens, Ala.
Farmer Aubu#i, Ala.
*W. W. fiussey Electrician Savannah, Ga.
G. F. Chambers Farmer Oswichee, Ala.
LeVert Coleman Cadet, U. S. M. A., . . . West Point, N. Y.
S. L. Coleman Asst. Chemist, A. <fe M. C.,. . Auburn, Ala.
L. B. Gammon Commission and Brokerage. . . Rome, Ga.
B. B. Haralson Electrician Atlanta, Ga.
B. G. Jennings Farmer Seale, Ala.
H. H Kyser Dir. Phys Lab , A. & M. C. .Auburn, Ala.
Charles Linn Farmer Birmingham, A»a.
J. N. McLean Medical Student .New Orleans, La.
W. C. McMillan .Clerk .Talladega, Ala.
James Newsom Electrician, 132 W.22 St.,. New York City.
H. H. Peevey Asst. Drawing, A.<fe V1. C.,. Auburn, Ala.
T. H. Phipps Bookkeeper... Columbus, Ga.
W.R.Shafer . . ..PosuGrad., A & M C, Auburn, Ala.
Harry Howell Smith Asst. in Eng., A. & M.C, Auburn, Ala.
P. H. Smith Medical Student. New York City .
H. W. Taylor Farmer Snowdoun, Ala.
J. C Thomason Asst. Math., A & M.C Auburn, Ala.
A. H. Whitman Dentist Auburn, Ala.
J. A. Wills PostGrad., A. <fc M. C, ...Auburn, Ala.
♦Deceased.
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