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TRUSTEES.

17** Excellency, Joseph F. Johnston, President Ex^officio.

J. 0. Turner, Superintendent of Education Ex-officio.

J. G. Gilchrist (term expires 1903) Hope Hull

Tancred Betts .(term expires 1903) Huntstfille

Walter 0. Whitaker (term expires 1903) Tuscaloosa

Jo>athan Haralson (term expires 1901). ..... Selma

Thos. Williams (term expires 1901). Wetumpka

J. A. Bilbro (term expires 1901). ..... . ... . . . Gadsden

I. F. Oulyer...... .(term expires 1899) Union Springs.

J. C. Rich.. ............. . .(term expires IB99) Mobile.

H. Clay Armstrong (term expires 1899) .Auburn.

R. H. Duggar.. . . (term expires 1899 C Gallion.

E. T. Glenn, Treasurer.
J. H. Drake, M. D., Surgeon,

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FACULTY AND OFFICERS.

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Wm. LpROY BROUN, M. A., LL. D.,

President and Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

OTIS D. SMITH, A. 3VL,

Professor of Mathematics.

P. H. MELL, M. E., Ph. D„

Professor of Botany and Geology.

JAMES H. LANE, C. E,, A. M., Ph. D., LL. D.,

Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.

CHARLES C. THACH, A. M.,

Professor of English and Political Economy.

GEORGE PETRIE, M. A., Ph. D.,

Professor of History and Latin.

A. F. McKISSICK, A. M., M. M. E.,

Professor of Electrical Engineering. ■ . r

B. B, ROSS, M. So.,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.

CHARLES H. ROSS, C. E., Ph. D., _

Professor of Modern Languages.
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.

MAGNUS 0. HOLfrS, 1st Lieut. 4th Inf. U. S. A. (West Point),

Commandant and Professor of Military Science.

E. R. MILLER, Phar. M., M. 8c,

Professor of Pharmacy. '

J. F. DUGGAR, M. BQ., '
Professor of Agriculture. >

F. S. EARLE, .
Professor of Biology and\ Horticulture,

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C. F. BAKER, B. 8c,

Assistant Professor of Zoology.

B. H. CRENSHAW, M. E.,

Instructor in Mechanic Arts.

C. L. HARE, M. 8c,

Instructor in Chemical Laboratory.

R. J. TRAMMELL, C. E.,

Instructor in Mechanic Arts.

H. H. KYSER, E. and M. E. t

Instructor in Physical Laboratory.

W. L. FLEMING, B. Sc,

Assistant Librarian.
W. J. BEESON, B. 8c,
Assistant in English.
W. M. WILLIAMS, B. Sc,
Assistant in English and Mathematics.
G. B. KELLEY, B. Sc,
Assistant in Mathematics.
C. N. ALFORD, B. Sc,
Assistant in Civil Engineering and Drawing.
FRANK BOYKIN, B. Sc,
Assistant in Mechanic Arts.
J. Q. BURTON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Chemistry. k

H. S. HENDERSON, B. Sc,
Assistant Librarian of Experiment Station.

J. B. EDWARDS, B. Sc,
Assistant in Electrical Engineering,

B. A. TAYLOR, B. Sc,
Assistant in Veterinary Science.

OFFICERS

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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION

I. F. Culver. . . . . .\ .Union Springs .

J. G. Gilchrist Hope Hull.

H. Clay Armstrong Auburn.

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Wm. LeRoy Broun ..:... . . . . . President.

P. H. Mell.. . . .,, . ; . . .Botanist.

B - B - Rose v # .Chemist.

C. A. Cary Veterinarian.

J. F. Duggar. Agriculturist.

F. 8. Earle . . .Biologist and Horticulturist.

C. F. Baker ..........,;.. .Entomologist.

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J. T. Anderson, Ph. D.. .First Assistant Chemist.

C. L. Hare, M. Sc .Second Assistant Chemist.

R. G. Williams, M. Sc ........... .Third Assistant Chemist.

T. U. Culver Superintendent of Farm.

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OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE.

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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 require^ 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 gfv$n to the mental discipline of
the students in 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.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute;

LABORATORIES 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.

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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 indus-
trial pursuits. The work performed by the students is i?i-
structive 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 as-
signed three exercises a week, each exercise being two
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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 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 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,
60 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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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, 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 graded 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 U 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 followiug dynamos :

Edison compound 12 Kilo-watt generator, Thomson-
Houston 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

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motors, 20-horse power each (so connected as to be used as
direct or alternating current motors or generators), one
5 horse-power three phase motor, one General Electric 20-
horse power motor, two bi-phase induction motors (built by
students), one 9 light Thomson-Houston arc machine, two
phase alternator and 500 volt 20 ampere generator, made by
students. There is also in connection with this department
at the experiment station, a ten-horse power motor, made
by students, which is operated by the 500 volt generator in
the dynamo room.

v' 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.

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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.

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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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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
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.

m . XI— IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

The mechanical 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
M-tiorse 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
Deane duplex steam pump, # four-horse power gasoline
engine, an Ericsson hot air engine, a Westinghouse air
pump, four steam engine indicators, a separating calorime-
ter, 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, a Henning micro-
meter extensometer, and a Carpenter calorimeter with the
necessary auxiliary apparatus for determining the heating
value of different kinds of coal.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

This work is now carried on in the lower story of the
annex to the chemical laboratory. This room is 30 x 60 feet
in size and was specially designed and fitted up for this
purpose. A three-inch steam main has been laid from the
boiler house, thus securing a steam supply in the building
for all work requiring it. The work is thoroughly practi-
cal, 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 department
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.

XIII — IN PHARMACY.

The laboratory of this department occupies the second
floor of the annex to chemical laboratory, and is provided
with a sufficient supply of drugs and apparatus necessary
for instruction 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

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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. U.

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.

The frontispiece is a representation of the main College building.
It is 160 x 71 feet, and contains forty-five rooms. This building is
not used for dormitories lor 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, 90 x 50 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 two-story structure, 40 x 60
feet, with a rear projection, 35 x 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 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.

ANNEX, TO CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

This is a three-story brick building containing rooms for mechani-
cal engineering, pharmacy, analytical chemistry and drawing.

CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

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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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V GRADUATES IN 1896.

CLASS OF 1896.
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HONOR GRADUATES.

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.

DEGREES.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.

Albert Lea Alexander,. . .Georgia.

Charles Nutting Alford . .Marshall.

Andrew Beirne Andrews. Tennessee.

Marion Joseph Bancroft ; Mobile.

William James Beeson. . . . Etowah.

John Simeon Bennett .Lee.

Sidney Josiah Bross. ............. Coosa.

Joseph Quarterman Burton Lee.

Henry Kozer Casey. — Jefferson.

LeRoy Abda Christian Shelby.

James Washington Culver — — Lee.

Hubert Alberto Drennen .....Jefferson.

Oba DeVan Dumas ,y • Wilcox.

Jesse Boland Edwards. ........ Talladega.

John Cuthbert Farley. s . ..... . ... ....... .Lee.

Walter Lynnewood Fleming Pike.

John Louis Glenn Butler.

Annie Florence Heard Lee.

flampton Sanders Henderson Talladega.

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Richard Sparks Jackson Jefferson.

George Bates Kelley .Jefferson.

William Berrian Kelly .. . .. Montgomery.

Garry DeVon King . . . Georgia.

James Lewis Moulder \ Georgia.

Julian Berry Oglesby . ........ ..... . . Georgia.

John Albin Reeves Cherokee.

Benjamin Asbury Taylor.. .Autauga.

Walker Reynolds Tichenor Georgia.

William Abner Tippin . '.. . . Florida.

William Henry Harrison Trammell Lee.

Robert Edward Lee Weathers Randolph.

Estelle'Love Wh i taker. . ....:......... . . . Lee.

Frank Lewis Whitman. Lee.

William Martin Williams. Georgia.

Bryce Hewitt Wilson . ; ... Franklin.

MA8TER OP SCIENCE.

Henry Hinds Peevey (B. 8c, '9§). . . .' .Madison.

Harry Howell Smith (B. Sc , '95) ..Lee.

ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

Henry Hearst Kyser (B. Sc, '95). ...... , % . Talladega.

James Claude Thomason (B. Sc , '95) Randolph

John Adams Wills (B. Sc, '95). ^ . . / i ee

PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST.

Solon Lycurgus Coleman (B Sc, '95) Marengo.

MINING ENGINEER.
John Presley Slaton (B. Sc, '94, C. E.,'95). .'.Macon.

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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, and in six in the senior, are dis-
tinguished for excellence in schol-
arship, and are awarded

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HONOR CERTIFICATES.

The following students received honor certificates in 1896:

SENIOR CLASS.

Albert Lea Alexander ......... .Georgia.

Andrew Beirne Andrews. . ... — .Tennessee,

William James Beeson ........: Etowah. '•■-,.-

Hubert Alberto Drennen — Jefferson.

Oba DeVan Dumas.. .........:. — .. ...... .....Wilcox.

Jesse Boland Edwards. Talladega.

Walter Lynnewood Fleming .'-. Pike.

,Annie Florence Heard — Lee.

Hampton Sanders Henderson .Talladega.

George Bates Kelley Jefferson.

James Lewis Moulder. ... Georgia.

William Henry Harrison Trammel! .Lee.

Estelle Love Whitaker. . . .... .Lee.

Bryce Hewitt Wilson. ."...' . . . ; . .Franklin.

HONOR STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR CLASS.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Edwin Boyce Joseph ... .Montgomery.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Clarence Neil Jones. , Montgomery.

COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

George Nathan Mitcham. . . .Georgia.

GENERAL COURSE.
Peyton Graves Clark. • Montgomery.

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JUNIOR CLASS.

Peyton Graves Clark . Montgomery.

Thomas Ganaway Conner. .......;... Macon.

William Welch Hill.. .....*.. ... .Talladega.

John Buford Hobdy . . , Bullock.

George Michael Holley. ... ...■•; Georgia.

Clarence Neil Jon.es ; . Montgomery.

. Edwin Boyce Joseph. ... Montgomery.

George Nathan Mitcham Georgia.

William Jacob Nixon. , Tennessee.

Frederick Lloyd Tate Russell

William Tilman Warren [[,[[[ Montgomery.

Reuben David Webb.:.... .Coosa

SOPHOMORE CLASS*

Thomas Harrison Clower ... L ee

William VJenefee Dean. . ...........;. Georgia

George Oliver Dickey ,...'. ^ ^Crenshaw.

Clifford Lamar Edwards f .. L ee

Francis Williams Hare. ...][ * ][ "' ' ' Lee *

Charles Edward Harrison Florida

Harry Streety Houghton. . . j^n^

w:n- ™ i »t ? ■""«.«..•;••. — ,. Jefferson.

WilhamEarle Hudmon... ., Tc

Joseph Wood King ... . : ...Lee..

Peter Mastin Mclntyre. ... '■' ' 7 V : • • ''™°*&*>

Henry Edmund Memminger/. . .'.' '. ' ' "'" w^T

William Augustus Mitchell... South Carolina.

Robert Stewart Parker. . ■"' £ eor g ,a -

Alexander Simpson Pow.... ' "". • •• -»«mter.

Almuth Cunningham Vandiver;: ^.^^[Zl'.i Snadegli.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

George Price Cooper ,, ..

James Francis Dobbin....."." '***? n '

Flake Earle Farley . ......... .\\ ' " " ' ' * * lor,da '

Isham Fennell McDonnell ••••... Lee.

George Madison Wheeler " • !; a .! SOn *

Julien Chandler Yonge... ! Madison.

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CATALOGUE QF STUDENTS.

FOR THE SESSION OF 1896-97.

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Graduate Students.

[Residence is Alabama when State is not given.]

NAME. RESIDENCE.

Albert Lea Alexander ........... .......... Georgia.

Charles Nutting Alford .Marshall.

William James Beeson ;.... ....Etowah,

Frank Boykjn. .Lee.

Joseph Quarterman Burton. '•■£ .Lee.

George Webster Duncan .Lee.

Jesse Boland Edwards . .Talladega.

Walter Lynnewood Fleming . ......... . . . . .Pike.

Hampton Sanders Henderson .Talladega. .

Walter Pearce Holcombe . ..." Mobile.

George Bates Kelley . . . .Jefferson.

Benjamin Asbury Taylor .... . . Autauga.' ,

Walker Eeynolds Tichencfc Georgia.

Sheldon Lyne Toomer • Lee.

William Henty Harrison Trammell . Lee.

William Martin Williams. . . .Georgia.

Undergraduate- Students.

SENIOR CLASS.

Emile Glines Abbott ... .Georgia.

William Kirk Armstrong .Lee.

Erister Ashcraft •••••• e#

Bichar4 Manning Boykin . S. Carolina.

Edge worth Stephens Casey. ..... Jefferson.

Peyton Graves Clark . . . . • • Montgomery.

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Kobert Walter Collins. ................... .Hale.

Thomas Ganaway Conner Macon. '

George Leonard Faucett ...... ........ Eandolph.

, William Alexander Fitzgerald. . Georgia.

Arthur Williamson Greene ........... . Chambers.

Gaston Greil. .Montgomery.

Joseph Herzfeld Tallapoosa.

John Fletcher Heard Lee.

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.

Earle Foster Lee ............ L ee

William Parker Leonard \] \\ " Georgia.

Warren Horton McBryde .... * * Mobile

WilliamWriceMcLeran... ...... .^[^Ub^-

George Nathan Mitcham Georgia

Wade Hampton Negus n\\ • . .

Charles Johnston Nelson " ^ 18S1 PP I -

William Jacob Nixon . . ' £

Benjamin Sweat Patrick.' " %?- ' ' " ' ' ' ^ l^T'

James Lawrence Pollard ' " " S „ luUL

Leonard Callaway Pratt ' " ' * " " ' " " J^

John Pnrifoy . . . " •Bibb. •

JohnWesleyPurifoy" ••••'•••'•• ' Jf*

Berry Lathnm Scott ■*"' J 8 "*

Oliver John Semmes. " I*™'

Samuel Toliver Slaton ■•■•■■■ •..- Mobile.

Frederick Lloyd Tate ' -Macon

Merrick Do wdell Thomas " ' ' ' ™"'

Paul Vines... Chambers.

William Tilman Warren ••••••••••• Tallapoosa.

Beuben David Webb * " " "Montgomery.

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Noble James Wiley Montgomery.

George Wrigley . ,. . ., Georgia.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Lemuel Sledge Allen . Marengo.

Erin Black . . Lee.

William Brown Beeson ...... .Jackson.

Carter Berry . . .Tallapoosa.

Arthur Julian Bingham Talladega.

Mary Wright Boyd Lee.

William Hamill Bruce. .Montgomery.

Alexander Humphreys Clark Montgomery.

Thomas Harrison Clower . . ....... ...... , .Lee. ,

Henry Neal Coleman Lowndes.

Carmotte Ashley Cobb. Montgomery.

William Menefee Dean . . . . .... Georgia.

George Oliver Dickey Crenshaw.

Duncan Patterson Dixon Talladega.

Clifford Lamar Edwards Lee.

Richard Roe Eppes. . ."". ..... ........ ...Marengo.

Frank Farley .Lee.

Frank Reese Frazer. r». .Lee.

William Shelby Garner ..:...... .^.Shelby. .

John Wommack Giddens. .... .Crenshaw.

Elmer Wynn Gray . . ...... Georgia,

Jonathan Haralson .. Dallas.

Pearl Hanson Lee.

Francis Williams Hare Lee.

Charles Edward Harrison ^. . . Florida.

Harry Streety Houghton Jefferson.

William Earle Hudmon Lee.

John \v illiam Jepson . 8. Carolina.

Joseph Wood King. Georgia.

Absalom Mason Kennedy Montgomery.

George Clarence Lazenby Butler.

Jessie Hamilton Lockhart ......... .... . Georgia,

George Edward Mason — ............. .. .Shelby.

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John Richard McCalla •••••• ^ jee -

Peter Mastin Mclntyre Montgomery.

Henry Edmund Memminger S. Carolina.

William Augustus Mitchell ". • • .Georgia.

Benjamin Otey Miuge , ... Marengo.

Frank Green Morriss Talladega. *

Julia Hill Moore ....... .Lee. \

John St. Clair Paden. .....: Etowah.

Robert Stewart Parker Sumter.

Harry John Pettus. . . .Montgomery.

Alexander Simpson Pow ......... V. Jefferson.

Annie Lucinda Purifoy . . . Lee-
Arthur McBride Ransom ...... . . . . . . .Georgia.

Halbert Clyde Ray . /..,............ Geneva.

Harvey Owen Sargent Franklin.

Robert Pinkney Scarbrough ..... . Russell.

Marie Louise Scott . .Lee.

Selwyn Sutton Scott ... .Lee.

Newton Caraway Smith. .Shelby.

Clifford West Stewart. .Montgomery.

William Livingston Stewart. Montgomery.

William Bee Stokes ............ Marion.

Edward Wadsworth Stone . . . Montgomery.

Cecil Pitts Stowe * . . Lee.

Rush Price Strong. ..... Mobile.

Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe. ..-..,. .Louisiana.

Thomas Harrison Tutwiler. .Jefferson.

Almuth Cunningham Vandiver. ..... Talladega.

Bishop Billing Warwick . . . . . . . . .Talladega.

John Wesley Williams .Lee. ,

Joseph Leonard Wood. .Mobile.

Neander Montgomery Woods Tennessee.

William Wren Mobile.

SOPHOMORE CLA8S.

LeRoy Jones Allen Marengo. J

Jesse Maldrie Atkinson Dale.

Alston Boyd •Tennessee.

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William Bowdon Beard ; Pike.

Bailey Edgar Brown Morgan.

Emmett Gale Buck Mobile.

Thomas Greene Bush . ." Calhoun.

Joseph Peyton Carson .!........ .Lee.

John Wesley Camp v Georgia.

Osborn Henry Chapman "... ...Pike.

Henry Perkins Chappell . . . .;'. .Bullock.

Charles Wallace Collins ...... t Hale.

George Davis Collins Hale.

McNeill Crawford ...... Lee.

Colonel Seldon Crew .. . ...Coosa.

Frederick Bobert Daly Jefferson.

Bolivar Davis Jefferson.

Claude Davidson. . . .Georgia.

James Francis Dobbin Florida.

Allan Willis Elkins . Texas.

Flake Earle Farley -r. Lee.

Arthur Henry Feagin. Bullock.

Hugh Matherson Fenn. .* Barbour.

Gilford Cad well Gilder . .*. Montgomery.

William Armistead Gilder Montgomery.

John Boss Glenn. Lee.

Henry Everette Harvey . . . . . .Lee.

Charles Thomas Hightower Georgia.

Felix Grundy Horn. ... . ............. .. ( .'. .Sumter.

Charles Vines Ingram .Lee.

Emmett Francis Jackson . . • • Lee. j

Buf us Lee Jenkins Lee.

Walter Eldridge Johnson Madison.

Joseph Landman ..'..... ..Madison.

Howard Felix Landman • Madison.

William Bibb Leedy .Jefferson.

William Elliott Matthews . .Madison.

Thomas Herring McAdory Jefferson.

Isham Fenaell McDonnell Madison.

Frank McLean. • .Montgomery.

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Barton Harris McQueen ....'./ Montgomery.

Charles Henry Merrit't , — Chilton.

Chad wick Wiley Minge . . . . Marengo.

Hartley Allen Moon . . . Coosa.

Osburu Bogers Moore -.'.... Butler.

Collet Henry Munger . . . . . Jefferson.

Daniel Bobbins Nettles . . Monroe.

Angelo Marvin Nowlin DeKalb.

Francis Franek Oser . . Louisiana.

James Boyden Peabody Georgia.

William Hamet Pinson Sumter.

Frank Gordon Babb Lowndes.

Lawrence Bratton Bainey DeKalb.

Archie McDonnell Bobinson Madison.

John Osgood Bush .Lee.

William Oscar Scroggs. .... Georgia.

Benjamin Lewis Schuessler Chambers.

William Leon Sellers Bullock.

James Cary Slaton. . ."...- . .... .Macop.

Wade Hampton Shipp ......... Georgia.

John Cherry Smith Lee.

William Boykin Skinner. ...... ......... . .Marengo.

Dozier Turner. Elmore.

George Newman Ward ; , , • Henry.

James Alfred Ward . . ... . . . ■ .. Madison.

James Luther Watson. .Wilcox

Thomas William Wert Morgan.

George Madison Wheeler ..... ; . Madison.

John Butledge Williams Jefferson.

Moses Conrad Wright Macon.

Julien Chandler Yonge .....;.. Florida.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

James Aiken. . . . .:............... Etowah.

James Anderson Allen. Jefferson.

Earle Beese Anderson ' Georgia

Eobert Pterc6 Baldwin - . ... \ \ \ [xee.

Guy French Boyd. .!..!..! ^Lee.

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Jesse Wright Boyd Lee.

Abner Mason Buchanan /. Lee.

Boscoe Bulger .2^ Tallapoosa.

Judson Lamar Burke . rf . ..'..' ■' . Lee.

Salmon Holmes Burns. Lee.

Kelly Walker Burwell. . . . . Madison.

Ellis Alford Carter. . .3 Lee.

Murray Mooreman Campbell. ... .Lauderdale.

Frank Bovard Chapman Louisiana.

Wiliiam LeVert Christian Shelby.

Sterling Kich Coleman '., Wilcox.

Warren Lewis DeBardeleben ...... .... Autauga,

William Crawford Dowdell. ............. .Lee.

William Beach Dozier . .... Georgia.

Isaac Boss Edwards., ... ...V;.... ....Talladega.

Bobert Emmett Fitzgerald i Georgia.

Sherman Guy Forbes Henry.

Joseph Henry Glover . . ... Georgia.

James Olney Goggaas. . . . .. . ... .". . . .Tallapoosa.

Edgar Jones Graham • • • • .Tennessee.

Henry Daniel Green .....,......: v. . . Georgia.

John Dabney Hamilton ............ .Marion.

Wesley Moss Harrison .Lee.

Edward Zellars Heard. Lee.

Samf ord LeBoy Jordan Russell.

Walter Atlee Jordan , • • • E l more -

Wilbur Eldrad Kelley .......... . ..J&fferson.

Strother Trabue Key Jefferson.

Howard Makolm Kilpatrick Georgia.

John Maples r W« • • • • • • .Bussell.

James Guy Marcrum ...Georgia.

George Matthews Marks .Montgomery.

Marvin Hilliard McCalla .:.. ..Lee.

Henry Clyde McDavid. .Florida.

John Thomas Mcintosh v .1 • - .Tallapoosa.

Kenneth Bethune McKenzie. .Butler.

Edward Pinson McLennan Barbour.

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Lafayette Murdoch Meriwether. . . Montgomery.

David Harrison Minge *\ Marengo.

Jordan Holsey Mitchell $> Lee.

. Llewellyn Perry Motley . . .^. . . Lee.

Richard Gordon Mynatt. Talladega.

Lawson Harrison Nunnelly Tennessee.

Clovis Marvin Pearce Marion.

Hiram Perry Powell Georgia.

Cleveland Curry Purifoy , Lee.

Carlock Rand Madison.

Samuel Lowrie Robertson . . .Jefferson.

James Richard Rutland. . Chambers.

John Watson Rutland. .....' . Lee.

William Stowe Rutledge ; Lee.

William Winffed Shuff . .Talladega.

Joseph Bingham Stray horn ... Tennessee. ;

Frederick Blount Shepard. Mobile.

John Marion Tamplin. ... . .Lee.

Mallory Hunt Taylor. . ...... Jj. ......... Georgia.

Henry Barnett Thompson. ..... . : Lee.

John Felix Walker . r Dallas.

Alfred Taylor Whiteside Tennessee.

James Waldo Woodruff. ; \\\ Georgia.

SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.

Abbreviations: Ph.-Pharmacy ; E. & M. E.-Electrical and Me-
chanical Engineering; C.-Chemistry ; Ag.-Agnculture ; C. E.-
Civil Engineering.

John Cocke Abernathy Ph Florida.

Paul Otey Anderson /..... L ees

Harriet Lavinia Dabney Bondurant Lee.

Charles Lewis Bragaw p H v Lee.

Lewis Edward Byrum. . ....... . E . & M . e.'.V.K Carolina.

Charles Alexander Carmon ...... E . & m. e, . .Texas

James Hardin Crawford p H Georgia.

bamuel Walter Cunningham. .... ........ .Mobile

4 John Leigh Creary ..*.......... Florida

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Arthur Henry Davis Mobile.

Marion Dawson Elmore.

Charles Washington Drake Ph ....;.. . Madison.

Ellis Madison Duncan .' ,'. Franklin.

Luther Noble Duncan ..... . . , Franklin.

Ramon Antonio Eraso .... Venezuela.

Oliver Hazard Perry Fant E. & m. e. . ..S. Carolina.

Robert Clark Fenton .. c. e ..... . ..Connecticut.

William Bullock Fleming Ag .... Montgomery.

Michael Thomas Fullan e. & m. e .. . . Georgia. •

Bernard Law Greene .e. & m. e . . . .Etowah.

William LeGarde Hamilton. .... . Ph Talladega. |

Fletcher Dumas Harvey . # Ph ... ^ ... . Lee.

Walter Avery Henson Tennessee.

Miller Reese Hutchison e. & m. e... .Mobile.

John Tait Jenkins Ph Madison.

John David Johnston Ph , Pike.

Emmett Armistead Jones . Ph Marengo.

Charles Tulane Kidd...... .... .Ph.... . Montgomery.

Kate Meade Lane Lee.

Richard Chalmers Leavell S. Carolina.

Earle Benjamin Lentz ...... c. E. . . Mobile.

Frederick Lee Martin .Autauga.

John Nefson Mixon Conecuh.

Walter Wilson McGowan Ph Shelby.

George Fleming Moore Montgomery.

Ashleigh Strudwick Moses . . . e. & m. e. . . . Baldwin.

Thomas Joseph Norris ' a . Jefferson.

John Morgan Richeson . . Ag. . . . Hale.

Samuel Bernard Rice • .Montgomery.

Miguel Jose Romero c. & Ag . . . .Venezuela.

Joseph Schwartz Ph .Marengo.

James Barrie Shivers Ph Perry.

Benjamin Franklin Seay Bullock.

Ambrose Lee Scarbrough Ph Russell.

Sidney Ewing Simpson .... Montgomery.

Clara Tennille Montgomery.

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Fannie Louise Thomas .Lee.

* Frank Waters Van Ness e. & m. e . . . Tennessee.

Henry BeScham Visscher Ph Florida.

Daniel Wheeler E. & M. E . . . Mobile.

Richard Clarke Wilson . . Ph Wilcox.

SUB-FRESHMAN CLASS.

Stearnes Pearson Baker.. .. . . .Tallapoosa.

Joseph Nathaniel Barker . , . . : Franklin.

^ George Douglas Bush Georgia.

John Thomas Camp. . . . Jefferson.

Andrew Crozier Cameron Jefferson.

William James Cameron Jefferson.

William Austin Campbell Tennessee,

Samuel Anthony Cefalu . . Jefferson.

Henry Reed Childress ... Etowah.

John Isham Dorsey . . . . Lee.

Hunter Dunnaway Wilcox.

Marviu Joshua Ellis ....... .Autauga.

Philip Washburn Gooch ...... ... . . .Jefferson.

Cecil Groves. .Sumter.

Charles Calhoun Guy ... f .... . .8. Carolina.

James George Hardy Dallas.

Wallace Benjamin Harrison ............... Talladega.

Hubbard Hobbs Kelly.. Madison.

Henry James Lamar . Georgia.

Walter Douglas Lamar. . . Georgia.

Leon Phillippe LeHardy. Georgia!

James Randolph Livingston Georgia.

Benjamin Lee McGee Georgia.

Andrew McCord L ee

John Alexis Matthews. Madison.

Samford Mitchell Meadows .Lee.

Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether ][]]. ] ' .Montgomery

Alva Tuttle Moreland Russell

Abram Hill Mitchell. , [[[' ^ Lee

i^ Peter Preer Myhand .!...! ..Lee.

Total .....: 357

NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.

English..... 277 Geology... 46

History 196 Civil Engineering 12

French ... . . 47 Electrical Engineering. . 55

German 33 Mechanical Engineering. 46

Latin..... 144 Biology........ 16

Mental Science 25 Drawing. 188

Political Economy 41 Mechanic Arts 204

Mathematics .279 Military Tactics 319

Chemistry .138 Mineralogy 5

Chemical Laboratory 60 Physical Laboratory 56

Agriculture. .. .112 Physiology 52

Physics 168 Veterinary Science ..... 45

Botany 89 Pharmacy , 27

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Samuel Bradley Nettles Monroe.

Charles Daniel Odom. .... Jefferson.

Marvin Franklin Owens Cleburne.

Frank Connor Pinkston .; ....Chilton.

James Edward Prouty Etowah.

Edgar Prescott Rutland . .-....' Lee.

Thomas Elmer Rutland Chambers,

Jesse Gilbert Sells Georgia.

Charles Lewis Sudduth ......... , Lee.

Sidney Goode Tait ... ....... .Wilcox.

Elijah Albert Turner Lee.

Herbert George Weedon Barbour.

John Shuler Williamson Chilton.

Summary.

Graduates 16

Senior Class 45

Junior Class 66

Sophomore Class , 71

Freshman Class . . 65

Special and Irregular Students ,'. 51

Total in College Classes 314

Sub-Freshman Class. 43

MILITARY ORGANIZATION,

1896-97.

President,
W. L. BROUN.

Commandant,
M. 0. HOLLIS, 1st Lieut. 4th Infantry, U. 8. A.

Surgeon,
J. H. DRAKE, M. D.

Battalion Staff.

Cadet Captain J. B. Hobdy, Assistant to Commandant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant G M. Holley, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant W. H. Negus, Quartermaster.
Cadet Sergeant P. M. McIntyre, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant C. W. Stewart, Quartermaster Sergeant.

Cadet Captains.

3. B. S. Patrick,

4. P.G.Clark.

Cadet First Lieutenants.

5. R. D. Webb,
*> 6. W.J. Nixon,

7. C. N. Jones,

8. W. A. Fitzgerald.

Cadet Second Lieutenants.

3. W.A. Hood,

4. G. N. Mitcham.
Cadet First Sergeants.

3. A. C. Vandiver, '

4. F. W. Hare.

Cadet Sergeants.

9. H. S. Houghton,

10. W. L. Stewart,

11. J. S. Paden,

12. A. MoB. Ransom,

13. C. L. Edwards,

14. A. H. Clark,

15. R. P. Strong,

1. W. T. Warren,

2. E. B. Joseph,

1. Jno. Puripoy,

2. C. J. Nelson,

3. J. L. Pollard,

4. B. L. Scott,

1. E. S. Casey,

2. R. W. Collins,

1. H. E. Memminger,

2. W. A. Mitchell,

1. J. C Abernathy, >

2. J.W.Williams,

3. j. w. sutclippe,

4. G. E. Mason,

5. G. 0. Dickey,

6. W. M. Dean,

7. T. H. Clower,

8. W. B. Stokes,

17. F. R. Frazer.

16. J. B. Shivers,

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2. I. F. McDonnell,

3. G. M. Wheeler,

4. W. E. Matthews,
5 J. F. Dobbin,

6. J. Landman,

7. T. W. Wert,

8. C..W. Minge,

Cadet Corporals.

9. C. T. Hightower,

10. T.G. Bush,

11. H. F. Landman,

12. B. L. Greene,

13. J. R. Peabody,

14. W. B. Lbedy,

15. O. H. Chapman,

16. L. B. Rainey.

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REQUIREMENTS 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, grammar,
and division into paragraphs.

L Reading, The composition in 1897 will be upon sub-
jects drawn from one or more of the following works : Shake-
speare's Julius Ccesar and Longfellow's Evangeline, Irving's
Sketch Book, Scott's Marmion, Hughes's Tom Brown at
Rugby, Dickens's David Copperjkld, Scott's Ivanhoe, South-
ey's Life of Nelson.

The candidate will be required 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.

IL Study and Practice. This part of the examination
presupposes the thorough study of each of the following
works: — &

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Burke's Speech on Con-
ciliation loith America; Macaulay's Essay on Milton.

Preparation and examination on these works will be nec-
esary before the student is classed as regular.

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 Camr, in ad-
dition to the above subjects. *
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prepared to stand $ 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 equiv-
alents will be adopted, and studies which denote an equiv-
alent amount of discipline and training will be accepted as
satisfactory. But if not prepared to pass an examination
in history and chemistry at the time of application, the ap-
plicant will be required before graduation to pass a satis-
factory examination on those subjects.

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 appli-
cation 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 witlwut 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.

^University School, Montgomery J. M. Starke.

*Mt. Willing High School, Mt. Willing . . J. D. Garrett.

State Normal School, Jacksonville J. Forney.

Male Academy, Huntsville Puryear & Wyatt.

*State Normal College, Florence J. K. Powers.

Furman Academy, Livingston. L. A. Cockrell.

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tificates from these institutions.

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High School, Opelika . . J. M. Small wood.

University Military School, Clanton . . . . E. Y. McMorriss.

N. A. Agricultural School, Athens M. K. Clements.

W. Ala. Agricultural School, Hamilton. . Jas. E. Alexander.

Eutaw Male Academy, Eutaw . H. 0. Horton.

Waverly Institute, Waverly A. W. Holstun and

J. D. Lane.
Taylor's School, Birmingham . .- . . . W. P. Taylor.

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 :

The applicant must be eighteen years of age* and if a
candidate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory exam-
ination 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); Rhetoric (Lock-
wood, Abbott's How to Write Clearly, Genung); Scudder's
Amerioan 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 Cassar, Nepos, Virgil, Cicero's Orations, Cicero's
Letters, or the equivalent.

Tie equivalents of these subjects, as in above text-books, may
be substituted. "

Botany will constitute a required part of the general
course for young women who are candidates for a degree.

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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 con-
dition 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 exercjses.

The Trustees authorize the Faculty to admit a candidate
for a degree at the age of seventeen, provided she is able to
comply with all the requirements* for admission in the four
subjects named and the application meets with its ap-
proval.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday, the

15th 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
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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.

Stfldents 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.

COUESES 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; Phvsiology and
Veterinary Science; Pharmacy; English, French, German,

a „ 1 ?T a|,flBi Hi8tor ^ 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.

JJ" 8 ; fi ! e de ^ e courses ^ undergraduates, each
lead ng fc> the degree o Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) and re-
quiring four years for its completion :

I. Course in Chemistry and Agriculture.
Course in Civil Engineering

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Course in Pharmacy.

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There are also two partial courses, each requiring two
years for its completion :

VI. Two-Year Course in Agriculture.
VII. 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 agricultural and 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
manufacturing business.

Course V includes, besides the general education of course
IV in the lower classes, a special course in pharmacy 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.

A student who completes satisfactorily all the work of
the senior class in a department, including the laboratory
work, will be* awarded a certificate of proficiency \n said

subject.

No degree or certificate of proficiency will be given in any
course unless the applicant has passed a satisfactory exam-
ination in elementary English.

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Students who complete either of the 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.

COURSE IN MINING ENGINEERING.

Students who have received the degree of B. Sc. in en-
gineering, civil, or electrical and mechanical, or who have
prosecuted an equivalent course of study, can enter upon a
special course of mining engineering, which includes the fol-
lowing subjects of study :

Industrial Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Assaying, Re-
duction of Ores, Mineralogy, Economic Geology, with prac-
tical work in the field, Mining Machinery with the applica-
tions of Steam and Electricity to the various operations
connected with the exploitation of mines.

The student, if a candidate for a degree, will also be re-
quired to prosecute the necessary studies in that course of
engineering in which he has not graduated.

This course of study will be under thq charge of the pro-
fessors of geology, chemistry, civil and electrical and
mechanical engineering.

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, fc\,m 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 may attend the lectures in agriculture in allthe 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 agricul-
ture.

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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. Chemistry.

II. Civil Engineering, Field Work, Surveying, Etc.

III. Agriculture.

IV. Botany.

V. Mineralogy.
VI. Biology. .
VII. Technical Drawing.
VIII. Mechanic Arts.
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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I.— COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate then umber of hours per week

•

FRESHMAN CLASS.

First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

5. English.

2. History.

3. History.

5. Mathematics.

5. Mathematics, k

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.

2. Agriculture. ,

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

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3. Military Drill.

3. Military Drjll.

SOPHOMORE CLASS

•

Fir *t Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

3. English.

3. History.

3. Botany (a).

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture.

2. Agriculture (b).

8. Drawing.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Physiology.

3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term,

Second Term,

Third Term,

3. English.

3. Physics.

4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term,

3. Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry.
2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture (b).

4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. M ilitary Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science.

3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
2. Political Economy (c).2. Political Economy.

2. Mental Science. 2. Mental Science.

2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.

2. Geology. 2. Geology.

5. Biology. 5. Biology.

2. Agricultur'l Ch'm'try. 2. Agricultural Ch'm'try. 2. Agricultur'l Ch'm'try.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 2. Military Science.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Scie nce. 2. Veterinary Science.

(a) Begin 8 March 1st.

(b) Also Practical Agriculture.

4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science.

3. Mjlitary Drill.

First Term,
2. English Literature.
2. Mental Science.
2. Physics.
2. Geology „
5 Biology.

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IL— COUB8B IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

- Second Term.

5. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.
8. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing. 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.

First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second 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.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6- Mechanic Art Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Second Term.
3. English, French, or

German.
3. Physics.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.
3. Genera] Chemistry
2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiolog.y.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English, French, or

German.
3. Physics.

5- Mathematics. N-^~-~fh Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering. 6f. Civil Engineering.

5. Drawing. 6. 'Drawing.
1. Military Tactics. 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, Engin'g.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. 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. Vf athematics . 3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics.

(a) Begins March 1st.

(b) For Agriculture may be substituted Physical Laboratory.

(d) A For Eng. Lit. and Pol. Econ. may be substitutedJFrench or German.

Third Term.
English, French, or
German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
I. Military Tactics.

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5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing. 5. Drawing.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.
4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y. 4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y.
Field Work, Engin'g. Field Work, Engin'g.

5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Science.
4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y.
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 Civil Engineering.

JUNIOR CLAS8.

First Term. Second Term. Third Term.

3. English, French, or 3.
German .

3. Physics. 3.

5. Mathematics. 5.

4. Electrical Engin'g. 4.

3. Mech. Engineering. 3.

4. Mechanical Drawing. 4.
4 Electrical Lab'y. 4.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y. 6.
1. Military Tactics. "1.
3. Military Drill. 3.

First Term.

2. Eng. Literature (a).
2. Physics.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.
5. Electrical Engin'g.

5. Mech. Engineering.
2.- Electrical Designing.

6. ElectricakLab'y .

4 . M ech . Eng. Lab'y .
1. Military Science.

2.
2.
2.
3.
3.
5.
2.
6.
4.
1.

English, French, or 3

German.

Physics. 3

Mathematics. 5.

Electrical Engin'g. 4

Mech. Engineering. 3.

Mechanical Drawing. 4.

Electrical Lab'y . * 4 .

Mech. Art Lab'y . 6.

Military Tactics. 1.

Military Drill. 3.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term .
Political Economy (a).2

Astronomy. 2.

Geology. 2.

Mathematics. 3.

Electrical Engin'g. 5.

Mech. Engineering. 5.

Electrical Designing. 2.

Electrical Lab'y. 6.

Mech. Eng. Lab'y. 4.

Military Science. 1.

(a) French or German may be substituted.

English, French, or

German .
Physics .
Mathematics.
Electrical Engin'g.
Mech. Engineering.
Mechanical Drawing.
Electrical Lab'y.
Mech. Art Lab'y.
Military Tactics.
Military Drill.

Third Term.

Political Economy (a).
Astronomy.
Geology .
Mathematics.
Electrical Engin'g.
Mech. Engineering.
Electrical Designing.
Electrical Lab'y.
Mech. Eng. Lab'y.
Military Science.

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IV.— GENEBAL COUESE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the n

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.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

First Term.

3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.

1. Military Tactics.

6. Lab'y WorMb). -
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).

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 (c
2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.

1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).

umbers of hours per week

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: MiKtary Drill.

Third Term.

3. 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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V.-COUESE IN PHAEMACY.

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.
3. Military Drill.

First Term,

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Botanical Lab'y.
3. 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.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab'y.9. Pharmaceutical Lab.
4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

First Term.

5. Biology.
7. Toxicology.
4. Pharmacy

4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics.
3-. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second' Term.

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.
4. Pharmacy.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab'y.9 Pharmaceutical Lab'y
4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.

3. Bacteriology. 3. Materia Medica.

Third Term.

3. English.
3. History.
3. Latin.

5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.

2. Agriculture. /

6. Mechanic Art&^

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.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab'y.

4. .Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term*

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Pharmacy.

.9. Pharmaceutical Lab'y.
4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Science.
3. Materia Medica.

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VI.— TWO-TEAR COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS.

First Term. _
5. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic ArtLab'y.
3. Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.

FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.
. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SECOND YEAR.

Third Term .
5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
5. Drawing.

Third Term.
3. English,
5. Mathmatics.
3. Physics.
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. '

VII.— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.

First Term.

5. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.

3. Drawing.

4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

2. Practical Agriculture.

First Term."

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricult're.

3. Military Drill.

FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.

5. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary physics.

3. Drawing. )

4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

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.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

2. Practical Agriculture.

Third Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricult're

3. Military Drill .

SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.

HOURS

8-9

MONDAY

4. Algebra.
3. Latin.

3. Physiology.

4. Geometry.
3. Latin.
2. German.

1. and 2 Drawing J 1 and 2 Drawing

1. Elec.Engine'r'g 2. Botany.

2. Mec.Engine'r'g 1. Mental Science

TUESDAY

1. Biology.

II.
9-10

III.
10-11

4. English.

3. Chemistry.

2. Civ. Engineer'g

2. Latin.

1. Calculus.

1. Biology,

2. Elec.Engine'r'g

1. Elec.Engine'r'g

WEDNESDAY

4. Algebra.
3. Latin.

1 and 2 Drawing.
1. Vet. Science.
1. Elec.Engine'r'g

THURSDAY

4. History.

3. Agriculture.

2. Civ. Engineer'g

2. Botany.

1. Physics.

1. Elec.Enginee'g

3. English.

2. Physics.

1. German.

1. Civ. Engine'r'g

1. Biology.

1. Mec.Engine'r'g

4. English.
3. Chemistry.
2. Civ. Engineer'g
2. Latin.

1. Calculus.

2. Vet. Science.
2. Elec.Engine'r'g

3. Physiology.

4. Geometry.
3. Latin.

2. German.

1 & 2 Drawing.

2. Botany.

1 . Mental Science

1. Elec. Engin'r'g

3. History (1,2).

3. Botany (2, 3).
1. Biology.

1. Civ. Engineer'g

4. English.

1. Mec.Engine'r'g

2. French.

4. History.
3. Agriculture.
2. Civ. Engine'r'g
2. Botany.

1. Physics.

2. Elec.Engine'r'g

FRIDAY

4-. Algebra.
3. Latin..

1 and 2 Drawing.
1. Veterinary Sci.
I. Elec.Engine'r'g

SATURDAY

3. English.

2. Physics.

1. German^

1. Civ. Engine'r'g

1. Biology.

1 . Mech. Engin'r'g

3. History (1,2).

3. Botany (2, 3).
1. Civ. Engineer'g

4. English.

1. Mech. Engin'r'g

2. French.

4. English.
3. Chemistry.
2. Civ. Engine'r'g
2. Latin.

1 . Calculus.

2. Mech. Engin'r'g
2. Vet. Science.

3. English.
2. Physics.
1. German.

1. Civ.Enginee'r'g

4. History (3).

1. Mec.Engine'r'g

Exerc's in Elocution.

Military Drill,

Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laborat'ry.
Electric'l Laborat'ry.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics. "
Biologic'l Laborat'ry.
Field Engineering.

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SCHEDULE OF EXEECISES— Continued.

IV.

11-12

MONDAY

4. Physics (1, 2).

4. Agriculture (3)
4. Latin (1,2).

3. Drawing.

2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
1, English (1, 2).
1. Pol. Econ.(2,3)

4. Mechanic Arts

12-1

TUESDAY

2.
2.
1.

Latin.
Drawing.

Agriculture. r
Mathematics.
Chemistry.
French.

4. Physics (1, 2).
4. Latin (3).
3. History 1, 2)

3. Botany (2, 3).
. Mathematics.

2. Chemistry.
1. English (1-, 2).
1. Political Econ-
omy (2, 3).

4. Mechanic Arts.

4. Drawing.

2. Mathematics.

2. English'.

4. Mechanic Arts

1. Elec. Designi'g

1. French.

P.M.

VI, VII

2-4

4. Mechanic Arts

3. Mathematics,
2. English.
1. Geology.

3. Mechanic Arts
2. Mineralogy

Laboratory

3. Field W'rkAgr
1 & 2 Laboratory

Chemistry Military Drill (*)
1 & 2 Field W'rk, ?

Engineerings. Mech Lab'tory
\ & 2 Mach. W'n£ Elec. Lab'y Work

Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.

1 and 2 History.

WEDNESDAY

4. Latin.

2. Agriculture.

2. Mathematics.
1. Chemistry.

3. Physiology (3)
1 . French.

4. Drawing-.

3. Mathematics.

1. Latin.

4. Mechanic Arts.

2. Mec. Engin'r'g
2. German.

1. Elec.Designi'g

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Field W'rkAgr
1 & <2 Laboratory
Chem.
1 & 2 Field W'rk,
• Engineering.
1 & 2 Mach.Work
Ex'cis. in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab. Work
Physical Labor'y

THURSDAY

4. Physics (1, 2).

4. Agriculture (3)
4. Latin 1, 2).

3. Drawing.

2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.

1. Military Sci.

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Geology.

3. Mechanic Arts.

2. Mineralogy
Laboratory.

Military Drill (*).

3. Mech. Labor'y.
Elec. Lab. W'rk.
1 and 2 History.

FRIDAY

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

3. Latin.

4. Mechanic Arts.

1. Elec. Designing

2. Milit'ry Tactics

SATURDAY

3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laborat'ry.
Electric'l Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laborat'y.
Field Engineering.

3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laborat'ry.
Electric'l Laborat'ry.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laborat'y.
Field Engineering.

Chapel services daily at 7:45 a. in.

Number prefixed denote classes— 1 denotes senior, 2 junior, etc.

♦From 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.

4-. Mechanic Arts.

3. Field W'rk, Agr
2. French.
1 &2 Lab. Chem.
I & 2 Field W'rk,
Engineering.
1 & 2 Mach. W'rk
Ex'cis in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.

Numbers afl&xed— (1), (2), (3),— denote terms.

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DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION.

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PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY.

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 mat-
ter, units of measure, force, work, energy, kinematics, kinetics,
mechanic powers, friction, pendulum, molecular forces of
solids, liquids and gases, theory of undulations, heat, elec-
tricity, 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 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 re-
quired to do such work in ihe 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, acatheto-
meter with micrometer, a spectrometer furnished with prisms, crystal
holder and flat diffraction grating, made by the Soci^te" Genevoise, a
spectroscope by Browning, with a large amount of spectrum appa-
ratus, 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. There is also a large amount of minor
apparatus, thermometers barometers, calorimeters and apparatus for
experimentally determining the parallelogram of forces, for deter-
mining rolling and sliding friction, torsion and flexure, specific grav-
ity, etc.

The student in this laboratory is required to ascertaiuexperi ment-
ally various physical laws, h -nee in all exercises Wfere 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 lab-
oratory note-book.

MATHEMATICS.

PROP. 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 formulas.

Text-Books .

Wentworth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometry, Wentworth'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.

GEOLOGY AND BOTANY.

PROP. 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 studies mineralogy
through the entire session. This work consists of a thor-
ough course in blow-pipe analysis of the ordinary minerals,

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and lectures upon crystallography with instruction how to
measure crystals and determine the physical constants of
minerals. An effort is made to familiarize the student with
all the economic ores and the rocks entering into the com-
position of soils. C

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 eourse of chemistry and agri-
culture, two terms are devoted to systematic and structural
botany, and to advanced laboratory work with the micro-
scope in the preparation of specimens showing plant struct-
ure ; this work is sufficient to familiarize the students with
the methods of plant building and cellular organization.
Excellent microscopes of the most 1 improved patterns, and
all necessary chemicals and apparatus for preparing and
mounting vegetable tissues, are used by the students.

The third term is devoted to the study of the physiology
of plants in order to understand the functions of the various
organs after completion of the work in the histological
laboratory.

FACILITIES FOR WORK.

Geology.— -The department is equipped with models of Mount
Shasta, the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals for teaching
crystallography ; charts and maps of the geology of America and
Europe ; Colt's lantern complete with oil, oxy-hydrogen and auto-
matic electric lamps ; a large assortment of fine lantern slides rep-
resenting geological formations in this country and abroad ; well
equipped mineralogical laboratory for thirty students, supplied
with a collection of representative minerals ; and models of crystals.

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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 instruments
required in a well equipped laboratory. The Zeiss compound micro-
scope used by the professor for experiment work in connection with
the station is supplied with Abbe's illuminating apparatus, slide
changers, Abbe's camera lucida polarizers, apochromatic objectives
(16 mm, 8 mm, 4 mm, and homogeneous immersion), oculars (2, 8, 8,
12, 18 and photographic), eye-piece with micrometer. This labora-
tory is well lighted with gas and electricity and with a good expos-
ure 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 8% inches; Bausch & Lomb's pro-
fessional photo-micro camera extending to eight feet; Zeiss's afiay
stigmat photographic lens, Qy 2 x 8>£, fitted with Bausch & Lomb's dia-
phragm shutter, and Zeiss's wide angle lens,6)£ x 8)£, all mounted
in aluminium; Clark's lens fitted with diaphragm shutter; Darlot
lens, 4x5; the accessory apparatus and chemicals required for first
class work in photography.

The sludents 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, Williams's Practical Geology, Tarr's Economic
Geology, Dana's Mineralogy, Gray's Botany. Nelson's Herbarium and
Plant Descriptions, Laboratory Guide, and notes of lectures.

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND DRAWING.

PROF. LANE.

CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The special studies in this department begin in the junior
class, and require a 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.

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Special attention will be paid in this class to the location,
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;
cast and w rough t-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 me-
chanics of masonry; foundations on land and in water;
bridges and roofs of different kinds ; their construction and
strains determined mathematically and graphically; com-
mon roads, their coverings, location and construction ; loca-
tion and construction 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 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 and elevations and cross-sec-
tions of buildings, and blue prints. The senior class makes
topographical drawings, and drawings of machines, roofs,

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bridges, etc., to different scales, and blue prints. Plans,
profiles and sections of railroad surveys complete the in-
struction in this department.

Text- Books.

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Freshman class. — Kitchener's Geometrical Note Book, Thorne'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.

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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
education 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 liter-
ture of the English language, the endeavor is made to afford
a training somewhat equivalent to the ordinary course in
the classical language. ^5^

In view of the ill preparation in languages, especially in their
mother tongue, exhibited by many of the candidates for admission to
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work, to devote a portion of the first year to grounding such students
in the principles of grammar.

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 prin-
ciples of special and general composition, with frequent brief papers
illustrating the- laws studied ; study of American authors : Irving,
Hawthorne, Holmes, Poe, Bryant, Longfellow.^ ■„

Lockwood- Whitney's English Grammar, Lock wood's Rhetoric,
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 liter-
ary themes. v

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 ciass. — Two hours a week, first term. Principles of Criti-
cism, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Dowden's Shakespeare, 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, nnd Natural Sciences. The relations of the
soul to matter. The arguments of the Materialist. Counter argu-
ments. The Faculties of the Soul. The nature of Consciousness.
Sense perception. Fancy. Imagination. Nature of Conceptions.
Language. Judgment. Reasoning. Deduction. Induction, etc.
Porter* 8 Intellectual Science.

Political Economy. — Value ; production of wealth ; land ; labor ; cap-
ital ; division of labor; distribution of wealth ; wages ; trades-union ;
co-operation; money; credit; functions of government; taxation;
tariff; education, etc. F. A. Walker's Advanced Political Economy,
Lectures by Professor,

A Post-graduate Course has also been established in English. The
following courses have been given :

(1) Shakespeare:— Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice,
As You Like It, Henry IV, Part I, Richard III, King John.

(2) Dry den— Poetical Works (Cnristie); Essay on Dramatic Poesy*
(Thomas Arnold); Essay on Satire, etc., ( Y'onge) ; Saintsbury's Life
of Dry den.

Pope.— Poetical Works (Ward) ; Satires (Pattison) ; Stephen's Life of
Pope, Gosse's From Shakespeare to Pope and 18th Century Literature.

(3) English Literature of the Eighteenth Century : Addison, Pope,
Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, Bunke.

(4) American Literature : Longfellow, Lowell, Poe.

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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

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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 prin-
ciples'of chemical philosophy in connection with the history f
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 "appli-
cations of chemistry to the arts and manufactures are dis-
cussed. The apparatus used for experimental illustration
is extensive, containing the newest and most approved in-
struments necessary for presenting the subject in the most
attractive and instructive form.

REFERENCE BOOKS.

R^scoe & 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
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, illumina-
tion, 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, Ure's Dictionary, Watt's Dictionary,
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 origin,
composition and classification^ soils, the composition and

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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 ROOKS.

Johnson's How Crops Grow and How Crops Feed, Lupton'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 De-
partment 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.

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 prac-
tical 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 electo- plating Practical
instruction in the electro-deposition of nickel, silver, gold, etc upon
other metals will be given, and, in addition, the applications of elec-
trolysis to chemical analysis will be studied both theoretically and
practically. J

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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.

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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
aMlew 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.

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
investigate the growth of ideas and institutions, the rise
and progress of great historical movements and the recip-
rocal influences ot men and circumstances. Frequent use
is made of diagrams, photographs, charts and maps, with
which the department is well equipped. Constant prac-
tice in map drawing is insisted on in order to give pre-
cision to the geograpical 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
Alabama, 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 opportunity for special historical
work is given to those students of the general course who may elect
it instead of laboratory work. The work in 1897-98 will be in Amer-
ican history, 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 result of
research. These reports will be made the basis of general discission.
A series of lectures will be given from time on current foreign
events.

Text-Books.

Freshman class.— Cooper, Estill & Lemmon's History of the United
States, Thorpe & McCorvey's Civil Government in the United States
and Alabama, Montgomery's English History.

Sophomore class.— Myers's General History.

Junior and 8enior classes.— Hart's Formation of the Union, Wood-
row Wilson's Division and Reunion.

LATIN.

The objects kept in view in this department are : an ac-
curate knowledge of the forms and syntax; a familiarity
with Latin words, their etymology and their English
derivatives ; an appreciation of Latin literature and an
intelligent conception of Roman history and civilization
both in themselves and in their effect on the modern world.

A systematic course of instruction is given in the forms and in the
syntax. These are taught both deductively from a grammar and
inductively from the text read Translation is constantly practiced
sometimes at sight, sometimes after being assigned for preparation!
English passages based on a familiar author or illustrative of special
constructions are put into Latin both orally and in writing. Great
emphasis is laid on the etymology of the words in the text read

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In connection with every author studied in class a course of read-
ing in English is prescribed descriptive of his life, work and times.
The historical setting and the artistic value of his writings is care-
fully discussed and frequent comparisons are made with modern
authors)

For the benefit of students who do not study the Latin language a
series of popular lectures will be given upon the great Latin writers.

Text-Books. »

Freshman Class. — Grammar, Exercises, Nepos, Sallust.

Sophomore Class.— -Cicero, Selections from Livy, Allen & Green-
ough's Grammar, Exercises.

Junior Class. — Virgil, Horace, A. & G/s Grammar, Exercises, Al-
len's History of Rome, Wilkins's Roman Antiquities.

Senior Class — Selections from Latin Authors, Wilkins's Latin Lit-
erature, Ancient Classics for English Readers, Exercises.

MODERN LANGUAGES.

PROF. C. H. ROSS.

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 p week the second year. In this course the aim
and the methods are similar to those in French.
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A post-graduate course in French has been offered, con-
sisting of a study of the life and works of Moliere.

Text-Books.

French— First Year: Whitney's Brief French Grammar ; Joynes's
Contes de F£es, Jules Verne's Michel Strogoff .

Second Year: Hugo's Hernani, Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires ;
French Prose Composition.

Post-graduate Course: Le M£decin malgre* lui, Le Tartuffe, Les
Pr^cieuses Ridicules, Les Femmes Savantes, La Malade Imaginaire ;
Wells's Modern French Literature.

German— First Year: Harris's German Lessons ; Super's Elemen-
tary^German Reader, Grimm's Kinder- und Haus-Maerchen.

Second Year: Scheffel's Der TrOmpeter von Saekkingen, Freytag's
Doktor Luther, Hauff's Das Kalte Herz ; German Prose Compc

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

PROF. JfCKISSIGK.

The students in this course will study English, French, or German,
physics, mathematics, etc., as now prescribed for the course of civil engi-
neering in the junior and senior years; and in addition thereto, will
prosecute their studies in electricity and mechanics, as herein prescribed.

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COURSE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

JUNIOR YEAR.

Four hours a week for the entire session are devoted to
the studies of the principles of electricity and magnetism.
The student is made familiar with the theoretical princi-
ples 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, electro-plating, elec-
trical measurements, verification of the principles upon
which the measurements 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, Nichol's 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 demonstra-
tions on the applications of electricity to lighting, electrical
transmission of energy, electrical welding, etc.

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 stu-
dents 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
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.

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Drawing and Construction. — Two -hours per week in the
senior year are devoted to the desigu and construction of
electrical machinery. The student is required to make orig-
inal designs of dynamos, motors, transformers, etc.

Text-Books.

Thompson's Dynamo Electric Machinery, Fleming's Alternate Cur-
rent Transformer, NichoFs 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
Installations, by Salomons; Alternating Currents 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, galvanome-
ters, resistance boxes, electro-plating apparatus, and all apparatus
for first year students in electrical engineering. The equipment com-
prises many fine instruments of precision: Sir Wm. Thomson's
standard 100 ampere balance (either for direct or alternating cur-
rents) ; 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 voltmeter,
Cardew voltmeter (for direct or alternating currents), reading to 150
volts ; Weston's standard ammeter and voltmeter, box of resistance
coils ; Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter, and ammeter, standard %
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 for first year students.

In the dynamo room the following are installed: One Weston 150
volt, 20 ampere dynamo, with rheostat ; one Brush 6 arc light dynamo,

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with regulator and six lamps; 'one Thomson-Houston 9 arc light
dynamo with lamps; one Edison compound wound 12 kilo-watt gen-
erator: a Thomson-Houston 110 volt, 75 ampere generator; two
street car motors used as either direct or alternating current gener-
ators or motors ; two polyphase induction motors ; one General Elec-
tric 5 horse power induction motor ; General Electric 20 horse-power
motor; Edison Z% kilo-watt generator; a Crocker-Wheeler one
horse-power motor and rheostat, and one bi-phase alternator, and
600 volt generator, made by special students, furnish current to lab-
oratory, 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 electric motor made by students, supplied with current from a
generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press, ensi-
lage 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 transmission
of power.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANIC

ARTS.

PROF. WILMORE.
B. H. CRENSHAW,

R. J. TRAMMF.LL,

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ASSISTANTS.

MECHANIC ARTS.

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

molding, 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 chisses^ For satisfactory reasons a student may be
excused Trom 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 carpenter's
tools; 24 turning-lathes, 10-inch swing, each with complete set of
tools ; 1 double circular saw ; 1 band saw ; 1 board<-planing machine ;
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 molding benches for
18 students, each supplied with a complete set of molder's tools ; a
23-inch Oolliau 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, 30 x 50 feet, and
is equipped with six engine-lathes (screw-cutting), 14-inch swing,
6-foot bed; 2 engine-lathes, 16-inch swing (one with taper attach-
ment) ; 1 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 univer-
sal milling machine; 1 corundum tool grinder ^4-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 set 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 #ork in each department is as follows :

First YeaV

I. A course of carpentry or hand work covering the first two terms.
The lessons include instruction in the nature ancT^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 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 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 students familiarity with the use of patterns
for general molding.

III. A course in molding and casting in iron and brass occupy-
ing 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 practi-
cal 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
complicated 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 indus-
trial arts, cast and wrought iron, steel, brass, etc.

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
flat and curved surfaces, key-seating, etc. ; filing and finishing to line

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(straight and curved), surface filing and finishing, fitting, slotting,
dovetail work, sawing, pin and screw filing, surface finishing with
scraper, etc.

II. Machine work occupying the remainder of the y-ear. The
work includes cast and wrought iron, steel and brass; turning to
various diameters and lengths, taper turning, facing with chuck and
lace 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 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, cutting tools, gearing, gauges, screw
threads, etc. During 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 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 YEAB.

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
during 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
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 stuoents make
drawings to exact scale, of some of the simpler machines. \fhe^ stu-
dent takes his own measurements and makes his own sketches from
which to make the finished drawing.

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An elementary course of machine design is started art the beginning
of the second term and continued till the end of the year. Some
comparatively simple machine is selected and studied in all its de-
tails. Careful attention is given to the strength of the parts and their
mechanical arrangement with reference to facility of manufacture.
An actual machine or the working drawings of a machine are ob-
tained, the dimensions compared with those obtained by applying
the theoretical formulas, and the causes of variation between the
two studied.

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 ad-
vantage of graphical over analytical methods is generally recognized,
and new applications of the former are constantly being made. By
its use, the forces acting in every part of a machine may be 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
and corrosion ; the best manner of setting and operating, are dis-
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.

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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 equality of steam and analysis of flue
gas ; efficiency test of engine with brake and indicator power meas-
urement ; 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 35 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 engine, a Westinghouse air pump, four steam engine indicators, a
separating 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 test-
ing machine, .and Henning micrometer extensometer, a Carpenter
calorimeter with auxiliary apparatus for determining the heating
value of different fuels.

Text-Books.

Holmes's Steam Engine, Herrman-Smith's Graphica^tatics of
Mechanism ; Unwin's Machine Design ; Wilson's Steam Boilers.

Reference Books.

The library contains a number 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.

POST-GRADUATE COURSE.

The following course has been arranged and represents the amount
of work required. Hydraulics may be substituted for thermodyn-
amics if the members of the class are unanimous in wishing the

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change. Other substitutions may be made at the option of the pro-
fessor, provided they represent an equivalent amount of work, and
are in the general line of the course selected.

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 lo-
tion of steam in an engine. m (

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.

AGKICULTUEE.

, PROF. DUGGAR.

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 this 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 breedings
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 prop-
erties, 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 refer-
ence 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 meth-
ods of applying commercial fertilizers for different crops
and soils, and economical methods of improving exhausted
soils.

In every class the student is encouraged 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 conditions. The
conditions of soil, climate, etc., prevailing in different parts of Ala-
bama 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,
by Gurler ; Dairyman's Manual, by Stewart ; Soils and Crops of the

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Farm, by Morrow & Hunt; Muir's Agriculture; Corn Culture, by
Plumb; The Soil, by King; Manures and the Principles of Manuring,
by Aikman ; Drainage for Profit and Health, by Waring; Agriculture
in some of its Relations with Chemistry, by Storer ; Manual of Cattle
Feeding, by Armsby ; Stock Breeding, by Miles; Hand-book of Ex-
periment Station Work; and .selected publications of the various
divisions of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and of the agricul-
tural 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.

BIOLOGY AND HOBTICULTURE.

PROJF. EARLE.

The subject of biology is required of the senior class in
the courses of chemistry and agriculture, and of phar-
macy. It occupies five hours a week for the three terms of
the senior year. The work in this department will be
largely confined to the study of the lower forms of plant 1

life and to vegetable physiology, or the study of plants as 1

as living beings. Under the first head special attention
will be given to the bacteria and other disease producing
organisms of man and the higher animals; and to the par-
asitic fungi that cause diseases of plants. Under vegetable
physiology those problems that explain the foundation for
correct agriculture practices will be made most prominent.
This will include the germination of seeds, the food and
nutrition of plants, the circulation of the sap, the processes
of reproduction, plant variability, etc.

The instruction will be by text-book, supplemented by lectures and
by practical laboratory work.

The students will be required to make careful microscopic draw-
ings of objects studied. They will also collect material in the fields
and determine it so far as their instruction will admit.

The equipment for instruction in this department comprises, be-
sides a sufficient lecture room, a students' laboratory and two small
glass rooms for cultural and bacteriological work. These are supplied
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and advanced work, including compound and dissecting microscopes
for each student, microtomes, paraffipe baths, incubators, steam and
dry sterilizers, instantaneous water heaters, Pasteur filter, chemical
and common balances, set of BrendePs models of parisitic and other
fungi, besides a large and well selected stock of glassware staining
fluids, chemical re-agents, culture media, etc.

In the private office of the department, which is fitted up as a
special laboratory for the use of the professor in charge, is located a
good reference library and the scientific collections of the depart-
ment. At present these consist of about 10,000 named specimens of
fungi, and other material is being rapidly accumulated, not only of
fungi, but of the other groups of cryptogams as well. These books
and collections are accessible to the students, and constitute, with
the other resources mentioned, a superior equipment for advanced
biological instruction.

HORTICULTURE.

At present special horticultural instruction is confined to
the spring term of the junior year in the course of chemis-
try and agriculture, and to some practical work and "field
lectures" to the students of the same course during the
sophomore year. Instruction is given by lectures and by
courses of reading, using the green house and orchards and
gardens of the experiment station to give practical illustra-
tions of the subjects taugbt.

Attention is called to the various fruits and vegetables that can be
successfully cultivated in Alabama, and methods of propagation, cul-
tivation and marketing are discussed. Particular attention is called
to the diseases and insect enemies to which each of these crops are
liable, and careful directions are given as to the best known means
of combatting them. The construction and management of green
houses, hot beds and cold frames receive special attention, while
such topics as floriculture, landscape gardening and forestry are dis-
cussed in a general way only.

- Special work will be arranged for any special students desiring to
take a more extended course in horticulture.

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MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.

LIEUT. M. 0. HOLLIS, U. S. A., COMMANDANT.

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 inline 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. Revise! 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 tc 7 wear this uniform during the
session.

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 promo-
tion will depend on merit and not wholly on seniority.

A student who has once accepted an office cannot resign it except
for reasons entirely satisfactory to the President and Commandant^
The resignation of his office by a minor will usually not be considered
without first placing all the circumstances of the case before his pa-
rent or guardian.

Candidates for appointment or promotion may be required to stand
an examination. Moral fitness, including demerits, will be con-
sidered.

Examinations will be conducted by a Board of Officers, to be com-
posed of the Commandant of Cadets and two commissioned officers,
to be designated by him. The proceedings of the Board are subject
to revision and approval by the President of the College.

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Each company is officered by one captain, two first lieu-
tenants, one second 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."

On the graduation of each class the names of such students as have
shown special aptitude for military service will be reported to the
Adjutant- General of the U. S. Army, and the names of the three
most distinguished in military science and tactics will be inserted in
the U. S. Army Register, and published in general orders from head-
quarters of the army.

PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE. .

PROF. CARY.
PHYSIOLOGY.

The s6phomore class during the entire college year
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 witji 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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VETERINABY 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 senior class in pharmacy devotes four hours per week, during
the first term, to the study of bacteriology in the class room and
laboratory ; and three hours per week in the study of therapeutics
during the second and third terms.

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 tjie condi*
tions and wants of the students.

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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 protect-
ing the health of man and domestic animals, are considered in as
plain and practical a 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, pathology, and meat and
milk inspection.

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.

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.

A new veterinary hospital building has just been completed; it
contains five large box stalls, four open single stalls, an office and a
feed room, on the lower floor; the upper floor is used as a storage
room for hay, fodder, etc. The hospital is supplied with fresh water.

The cases for clinical work have been numerous. During 1896
there were five hundred and sixty cases handled by the depart-
ment.

PHARMACY AND PHARMACOGNOSY.

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-

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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.

Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work, four
hours a week. All official vegetable drugs studied with aid
of simple and 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 or-
ganic. Pharmaceutical testing by pharmacopceial methods.
Drug assaying, special attention given to compounding of
prescriptions.

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 pharmaceutical preparations and the com-
pounding 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.

ZOOLOGY.

PROF. BAKER.

This department is prepared to offer instruction in the
more important subjects relating to animal life. For the
present especial attention will be paid to entomology, dis-
cussing useful and injurious insects in their relations to
agriculture.

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Instruction is offered under four heads :

(1) General Morphology, (2) Embryology, (3) Taxonomy,
and (4) Interrelations of Plants and Animals.

The entire course for a post-graduate degree will cover
the work of four full terms. At present, in the course of
agriculture, a portion, amounting to one term's work, is re-
quired for a degree.

(1) General Morphology, Under this head is included a study of
the anatomy and physiology of types of each of the great groups of
animals. The guides in this work, which is all done at the laboratory
table, will be Huxley's Crayfish, Huxley and Martin's Practical Biol-
ogy, and Parker's Zootomy.

(2) Embryology. For work in embryology the department is well
equipped, possessing incubators, microtome, the best microscopes,
and all necessary re-agents. Students taking embryology will be en-
gaged largely with the development of the chick, using Foster and
Balfour's Elements.

(3) Taxonomy. The principles of taxonomy will be taught en-
tirely by the laboratory method. Some work will be done in each of
the greater groups, dissecting and classifying many of the common
animal forms. In this subject there will be used the College collec-
tion of periodicals and special works, together with the private library
of special papers and monographs of the professor. The private
zoological collections of the professor, now in the entomological
laboratory, containing a large number of specimens, will be at the
service of students.

(4) Interrelations of Plants and Animals. It is through the close
relations existing between the plant and animal worlds, that the
latter has so important an influence on agricultural and other inter-
ests. This subject will be taught almost entirely by field work, the
facts being brought out by the students themselves through observa-
tion and experiment. A consideration of the subject in general will
be followed by a study of the various insects injurious to field and
garden crops. Beneficial species will also be considered, especial at-
tention being given to the subject of the influence of insects in the
pollination and cross fertilization of plants. The field investigations
will be supplemented by lectures.

The department has a most exceptional outfit for thorough general
work. It has, in connection with the department of horticulture
and mycology, a lecture room and students' laboratory, the latter
being a large, well-lighted room, provided with water, gas, slate-
topped tables, and fully equipped with microscopes, reagents, and all -
other apparatus necessary in a study of general zoology. It has also
a well equipped entomological laboratory and a costly experimental
plant house in connection therewith.

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POST-GRADUATE DEGREES.

The post- graduate degrees are— Master of Science, Mining
Engineer,. Civil Engineer, Electrical and Mechanical
. Engineer, ^nd Pharmaceutical Chemist.

A post-graduate degree may be obtained by a graduate of
thiSfCollege, 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.

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 pres-
ence of the Faculty. .

The subject of the thesis must be submitted to the Faculty rbr ap-
proval prior to January 1st, and be given to the professor by
May 1st.

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.— For course of study for this degree, see page 40.

Civil Engineer.— Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Analytical Me-
chanics.

Electrical and Mechanical Engineer. — Electrical Engineering, Me-
chanical Engineering.

Pharmaceutical Chemist. — Pharmacy and Chemistry.

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 ninety
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

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in tnel 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.

A distinction is not given in the senior class if the average grade in
any one subject is less than 75 per cent.

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.

RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.

Daily records of the various exercises of the classes are kept by
the officers of instruction.

From the records 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-
tions, 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.

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.

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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 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. v

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.

Students are advised to unite with the Association when they
enter College.
The following are the officers :

W. J. Bieson, President.
*• S. T. Slaton, Vice-President.

W. H. MoBryde, Corresponding Secretary.
J. W. King, Recording Secretary.
John Puripoy, Treasurer.

LOCATION.

The College is situated in the town of Auburn, fifty-nine miles east
of Montgomery, on the line of the Western Railroad.

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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.

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 beneficiab influence of the family circle.

For each house an inspector is appointed, whose duty it is to re-
port 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 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.

. By special arrangement with the College authorities, Mrs. M. L.
Mitchell and Mrs. A DeBardeleben will accommodate students with
board, lodging, fuel, etc., for $9.50 per month.

EXPENSES.

There is no charge for tuition for a resident of Alabama.

Incidental fee, per half session .$ 2 50

. Library fee, per half session 1 00

Surgeons 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 cau be

remitted.
For students entering after January 1st, the fees for a

half session only are required.

For a non-resident of the State there is a charge for
* tuitionof $20.00 per session, payable $10.00 ou matricula-
tion and $10.00 on February 1st, in addition to the semi-
annual fee of $8.00 payable by all studants.
Board, per month, with fuel and lights $12 to 15 00

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EXPENSES FOR COLLEGE YEAR.

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

For a non-resident student there should be added to the amounts
given above $20.00 for tuition.

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 at present
$14.60. It is neat and serviceable, and less expensive than ordinary
clothing.

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 student.

AMOUNT OF DEPOSIT.

Each student on entering College should deposit with the Treas-
urer 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, unless
specially requested in writing by the parent.

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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.

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 eveuings 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 con-
ducted 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.

SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI.

The annual alumni oration is delivered by a member of the society,
in Langdon Hall, on Alumni Day, Tuesday of commencement week.
The following are the officers of the society :

Chas.C. Thach, 77, President.
O.W. Ashceaft, '88, Vice-President.

W. L. Fleming, '96, Secretary.
B. H. Ceenshaw, '89, Treasurer.
W. W. Peaeson, '82, Orator for 1897.

SURGEON.

The Surgeon is required to be present at the College
daily, to visit at their quarters the cadets that are reported

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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 yjear for 1897-98 commences on Wednes-
day, 15th September, 1897 (second Wednesday after the first
Monday), and euds on Wednesday, 15th June, 1898 (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. 23rd of December ;
the second term begins January 3rd, and ends March 19th •
the third term continues to the close 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 Faculty are authorized, in addition to
the^egal 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 Executive
and Miscellaneous Documents, 151 vols.

Hon. G. P. Harrison.— Compendium of 11th Census, 2 vols. ; Report
of Commissioner of Education, 1894-5, 2 vols.

Mrs. M. C. Jordan.— Pamphlets on Vivisection.

Dr. P. H. Mell.— Botanical Text-book, Vol. I.

R. S Jackson.— Life of Swedenborg; Apocalypse Revealed, by
Swedenborg; Christian Religion, by Swedenborg; Heaven and Hell,
by Swedenborg.

Thomas Egleston.—Lite of Maj. Gen. John Patterson.

Gen. James H. Zane.— Battle of Chancellorsville, by Augustus /
Hamlin.

Hon. John 0. Turner .—Schools Laws of Alabama.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons.— Redemption of the Body, by Whitehouse ;
Joint-metallism, by Anson Phelps Stokes.

Prof. C. C. Thach.— Rolling Ancient History, 2 vols.; Pitkin's
Political and Civil History of the United States, 2 vols. ; Speeches of
Celebrated Irish Orators.

DONATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING.

Weston Electrical Instrument Co., Newark, N. J., case of instru-
ments showing construction.
Westinghouse Electric Co., Pittsburg, Pa., photographs.
General Electric Co., Schenectady. N. Y., 5-horse power induction

motor.

Electric Appliance Co., Chicago, 111., standard thermometer.

Iron Clad Rheostat Co., Westfield, N. J., two iron clad rheostats.

Anderson Water, Light and Power Co., Anderson, S. C, four trans-
formers.

General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., photographs.

Carborundum Co., Niagara, N. Y., samples of carborundum.

Klemm & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., lamp reflector.

New York and Ohio Co., Warren, 0., "X" Ray tube.

Beacon Lamp Co., Boston, Mass., "X" Ray tube.

L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., Boston, Mass., "X" Ray tube.

DONATIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY.

1. Konseal Apparatus, J. M. Grosvenor & Co., Boston, Mass.

2. Materia Medica Specimens, Lehn & Fink, New York.

3. Materia Medica Specimens and Pharmaceutical Preparations,
The Mellor <S\Rittenhouse Co., Philadelphia.

DONATIONS TO MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT.

Deane Steam Pump Co., Holyoke, Mass., set of castings for vacuum
pump.

PERIODICALS.

The following periodicals are regularly received in the
main library and are accessible to students.

LITERARY.

QUARTERLIES.

' Current History, Quarterly Journal of Economics,

Economic Journal, Quarterly Rey.ew,

Edinburgh Review, Sewanee Review.
Political Science Quarterly,

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MONTHLIES.

Atlantic Monthly,
Blackwood's Magazine,
Bookman,
Book Reviews,
Century Magazine,
Ohautauquan,
v Contemporary Review,
Cosmopolitan,
Eclectic Magazine,
Education, f

Educational Review,

Academy,

Athenaeum,

Critic,

Dial,

Harper's Weekly,

Independent (New York),

Fortnightly Review,
Forum,

Harper's Monthly,
McClure's Magazine,
Munsey's Magazine,
Nineteenth Century,
North American Review,
Review of Reviews,
Scribner's Magazine,
Westminster Review.

WEEKLIES.

Xiterary Digest,
Literary World (Boston),
Nation,

Saturday Review,
Spectator.

SCIENTIFIC.

American Machinist,
American Journal of Mathe-
matics,
Cassier's Magazine,
Electrical Engineer,
Electrical Review,
Electrical World,
Electrician,
Engineering,
Engineering Magazine,
Engineering and Mining,

Engineering News,

Journal of Franklin Institute,

Machinery,

Mathematical Monthly,

Power,

Scientific American,

Sibley Journal %f Mechanical
Engineering,

Transactions American Insti-
tute of Electrical Engineers.

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

and newspapers received in the agricultural experiment station

library.

American Agriculturist,

American Corn and Hog Journal,
American Cultivator,
American Gardening,
American Geologist,
American Journal of Science,
American Monthly Microscopi-
cal Journal,

American Naturalist,
American Swineherd,
Analyst, x

Anatomischer Anzeiger,
Annales Agronomiques,
Annales des Sciences Naturelles :

Botanique,
Annals Society Entomology,

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Annals of Botany,
Annals & Mag. Natural History,
Anthony's Photographic Bulle-
tin,
Annals des K. K. Nat. Hist.,
Asa Gray's Bulletin,
Botanical Gazette,
Botanisches Centralblatt,
Breeder's Gazette,
Bulletin N. Y. Botanical Garden,
Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club,
Bulletin Society of Entomology,
Berliner Thieraerztliche Wochen-

schrift,
Chemical News,

Centralblatt fuer Bakteriologie, I,
Centralblatt fuer Bakteriologie, II,
Commercial and Financial

Chronicle,
Comptes Rendus,
Country Gentleman and Culti-
vator,

Die Landwirt. Versuchs-Sta-
tionen,

Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Tier-
medicine,

Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche
Presse,

Drainage Journal,

Dairy World,

Elgin Dairy Report,

Entomological Monthly Maga-
zine.

Entom. Nachrichter,

Erythea,

Farm and Home,

Farmer's Guide,

Farm and Fireside,

Farmer's Home,

Farmer's Voice,

Farming,

Farmers' Gazette of New South

' Wales,

Florida Farmer and Fruit
Grower,

Forester,

Garden and Forest,

Gardener's Chronicle, •

Grange Visitor,

Geological Magazine,

Herwigia,

Hoard's Dairyman,

Homestead,

Horticultural Gleaner,

Holstein-Friesian Register,

Hufschmied,

Indiana Farmer,

Industrial American,

Journal d'Agriculture Pratique,

Journal fuer Landwirtschaft,

Journal Cincinnati Society of

Natural History,
Journal American Chemical So-
ciety,
Journal of Chemical Industrial

Society,
Journal of Botany,
Journal of Comparative Pathol-
ogy and Therapeutics,

Journal % of Geology,

Journal Chemical Society (Eng-
land),

Journal of Horticulture,

Journal Royal Agricultural So-
ciety,

Journal Royal Microscopical So-
ciety,

Landwirt Jahrbuecher,

Market Garden,

Massachusetts Ploughman,

Meehans' Monthly,

Memoirs Torrey Botanical Club,

Montana Fruit Grower,

Naturae Novitates,

Natural Science,

Nature,

Optical Lantern Magazine,

Our Grange Home,

Practical Farmer,

Pacific Coast Dairyman,

Proceedings Rochester Academy
of Science,

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Pittonia,

Philosophical Magazine,

Photographic Times,

Popular Science Monthly,

Prairie Farmer,

Proceedings Academy of Natural

Science, Philadelphia,
Rural New Yorker,
Science,

Southern Cultivator,
Southern Farmer,
Southern Farm Gazette,
Southern Farm,
Southern Planter,
Successful Farmer,

Texas Farm and Ranch,
Transactions Entomological So-
ciety,
Veterinary Journal,
Veterinary Magazine,
Wallaces' Farmer,
Wilson's Quart'ly (Ornithology),
Wilson's Photographic Maga-
zine,
Zeitschrift fuer Anal. Chem.,
Zeitschrift fuer Fleisch- und

Milch-Hygiene,
Zoologischer Anzeiger,
Zeitschrift fuer Tiermedicine.

ADDENDA TO REGISTER OF STUDENTS. "

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Levi Alexander Ezell. . . Jefferson.

James Heustis Jones • ■ • • • • Wilcox.

John Paul Jones Wilcox.

Winston Boykin Jones • • -Wilcox.

Total Number of Students 361.

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AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL

COLLEGE.

1897-98.

AtrfJUBK, ALABAMA,

MONTGOMERY, ALA.:

THE BROWN PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS,

1898.

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TRUSTEES.

His Excellency, JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON, President Ex-officio.

J. 0. TURNER, Superintendent of Education Ex-officio.

J. G. Gilchrist (term

Tancred Betts (term

Walter 0. Whitaker (term

expires 1903) . Hope Hull.

expires 1903) Huntsville .

expires 1903) A Tuscaloosa.

Jonathan Haralson (term

Thos. Williams (term

J. A. Bilbro ... (term

expires 1901). / . . . . Selma.

expires 1901) Wetumpka .

expires 1901) Gadsden.

I. F. Culver . (term

T. H. FrazerV. (term

*H. Clay Armstrong .(term

R . H . Duggar (term

expires 1899) Union Springs.

expires 1899) ....Mobile.

expires 1899) Auburn .

expires 1899)....... Gallion.

>E. T. GLENN, Treasurer. J
J. H. DRAKE, M. D., Surgeon.

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FACULTY AND OFFICERS.

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.

JAMES H. LANE, C. E., A. M , Ph. D., LL. D ,
Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.

CHARLES C. THACH, A. M.,
Professor of English and Political Economy.

GEORGE PETRLE, M. A., Ph. D. t
Professor of History and Latin.

A. F. McKISSICK, A. M., M. M. E.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics.

B. B ROSS, M. Sc, a

Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.

CHARLES H. ROSS, C. E., Ph. D.,
Professor of Modern Languages.

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.

MAGNUS. 0. HOLLIS, 1st Lieut. 4th Inf. U. S. A. (West Point),
Commandant and Professor of Military Science.

L E. R. MILLER, Phar. M., M. Sc,
Professor of Pharmacy.

J. F. DUGGAR, M. So.,
Professor of Agriculture.

F. S. EARLE,
Professor of Biology and Horticulture.

0. F. BAKER, B Sc.,
Assistant Professor of Zoology.

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B.H. CRENSHAW, M.E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts and Mathematics.

C.L. HARE, M. So:,
Instructor in Chemical Laboratory.

R. J. TRAMMELL, C. E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts.

H. H. KYSER, E. & M. E.,
Instructor in Physical Laboratory.

W. L.FLEMING, M. Sc,
Assistant Librarian. .

M T. FULLAN,
Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

R. D. WEBB, B. Sc,

Assistant in English.

F.L.TATE, B. So.,
Assistant in English and Mathematics.

G. M. HOLLEY, B. Sc,
Assistant in Mathematics.

G.N. MITCH AM, B. Sc,
Assistant in Civil Engineering and Drawing.

W. W. HILL, B. Sc,
Assistant in Mechanic Ar^s.

E.B. JOSEPH, B. Sc,
Assistant in Chemistry.

W. P.LEONARD, B. Sc,

Assistant in Agriculture.

T, G. CONNER, B. Sc,
Assistant in Electrical Engineering.

J. B. HOBDY, B. Sc,
Assistant in charge of Gymnasium.

W.J NIXON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Veterinary Science.

B. S. PATRICK, B. So.,
Assistant in History and Latin.

OFFICERS

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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

COnniTTEE 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.

P . H . Mell Botanist .

B. B. Ross Chemist.

C . A . Cary ..'. '..... • • • • Veterinarian .

J. F. Duggar '..... Agriculturist.

F . S . E arle Biologist and Horticulturist .

C . F . Baker Entomologist .

J. T. Anderson, Ph. D I Associate Chemist.

ASSISTANTS.

C L Hare First Assistant Chemist .

R. G. Williams, M. Sc Second Assistant Chemist.

T. U. Culver Superintendent of Farm.

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OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE.

The leading pbject of the College, in conformity with the
act of Congress and the acts of the State Legislature, is to
teach the principles arid 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 i$ 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 in 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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LABORATORIES 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 dailylnade, 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 tjie foundation of various indus-
trial pursuits. The work performed by the students is in-
structive 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' as-
signed three exercises a week, each exercise being two
hours long.

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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 iu a commodiou3 hall,
90 x 50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horsepower
Corliss engine, a planer, circular saw, band-saw, two scroll
saws, a buzz planer, a pattern maker's lathe, twenty-four
stands each with a lathe and a full set of tools, and thirty
benches for carpentry work with the tools requisite for con-
struction.

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, molding
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
horsepower 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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ni — 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 a 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 graded current and potential gal-
vanometers, Cardew voltmeter, Weston voltmeters and am-
meter, Queens 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, Que n'f
Acme testing set, Eowland-D'Arsonval galvanometer
Kelvin electrostatic voltmeter, Edison ammeters, and many
w l ^-measuring instruments, resistance boxes

zssi ges> condensers ' teiepho * es ' ^

horse power Westinghouse engine Tt'h , S?***
installed the following dynamos UlldlDg are

Edison compound 12 Kilo-watt generator Th„
Houston 150 light 110 volt dynamo, C^ 2k2~
pere generator, Crocker-Wheeler one horse ™I !

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moters, 20 horse power each (so connected as to be used as
direct or alternating current motors or generators), one
5 horse power three phase motor, one General Electric 20
horsepower motor, one 40 light shunt dynamo, one Edi-
son 3 Kilo-watt generator, one Stanley induction motor with
condenser, two bi-phase induction motors (built by students),
one 9 light Thomson-Houston arc machine, two phase alter-
nator and 500 volt 20 ampere generator, made by students.
There is also in connection with this department at the ex-
periment station, a ten horse power motor, made by stu-
dents, which is operated by the 500 volt generator in the

dynamo room.

v— in PHYSICS.

I 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.

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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
professor.

ix— in engineering and surveying.

The necessary apparatus for field work, including ttansits,
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 DBA WING.

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 which

^ will accommodate fifty students, is provided with tables

lock boxes, etc.

XI— IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

The mechanical course has been extended to include ex-
perimental work in mechanical engineering.

The apparatus available for ^instruction is as follows-
, A ff h ° rSe P ° Wer Im P erial Cross compound engine, espe-

J cially arranged for experimental work, supplied with

.1 Wheeler surface condenser and Deane air pump and circu-

I lating pump , a 25 horse power Harris-Corliss engine a

I d6 horse power Westinghouse engine, a 25 horse power

» Atlas engine, two 9 horse power engines constructed by

H students, the boilers belonging to the regular power plant

a small engine and boiler for the special purpose of making
g efficiency tests, a Deane duplex steam pump, a four horse

| power gasoline engine, an Ericsson hot air engine, a New

York air pump, 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

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weights for correcting the standard gauge, a 35,000- pound
testing machine, a Henning micrometer extensometer, and
a Carpenter calorimeter with the necessary auxiliary appa-
ratus for determining the heating value of different kinds of

coal.

This work is now carried on in the lower story of the
annex to the chemical laboratory. This room is 30x60 feet
in size and was specially designed and fitted up for this
purpose. A three-inch steam main has been laid from the
boiler house, thus securing a steam supply in the building
for all work requiring it. The work is thoroughly practi-
cal, 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 department
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 fpr the benefit of the students in
veterinary science.

XIII — IN PHARMACY.

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 regu-
lar military drill, and in addition the military system is

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used as a means of enforciDg discipline and securing good
order, promptness and regularity in the performance of
academic duties.

This department is under the charge of Lieut. M. 0.
Hollis, 4th Infantrv, U. S. A.

It is supplied with new cadet muskets and accoutrements
for the corps.

COLLEGE BUILDINGS.

The frontispiece is a Representation of the main College building
It is 160 x 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, labora-
tories, library, museum, armory, etc.

LANGD0N HALL.

This is a two-story building, 90 x 50 feet. The second story is the
audience ha 1, used for commencement and other public occasions
The first story ,s appropriated to the laboratory of mechanic arts.

THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY, -

As shown on the opposite page, is a two story structure, 40 x 60 feet
with a rear projection, 35 x 60 feet, of one-story and basempn, J
contains eight rooms. The exterior is of presse/brl £ SSSSfi
trimmings and terra-cotta ornamentation

storage" baSement "" ^ ****** *>, assaying and

The main laboratory will accommodate sixty students »nrt » »■•.
improved working table, with water, gas SSX^SSSSS
ance for chemical work. ■* I,ecessa, 7 apph-

The second story contains a lecture room with seats «nH f»w * *

eighty students. Around the lecture room a^e easel 1 '* ^

and manufactured products illustrVnnT n ? imngCnide

„k^™- f • tJluuuccs » "mstrating agncultura and industrial

chemistry, prominent subjects taught in the institution. ,ndUStrial

ANNEX TO CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

This is a three-storv brink hn ;ih ;»,,., ~ *. • •

otuiv uncK ouuaing containing rooms for mpohnni
cal engineering, pharmacy, and drawing. mecbani-

CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

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GRADUATES IN 1897.

CLASS OF 1897.

HONOR GRADUATES.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Edwin Boyce Joseph ..' ••..•• Montgomery.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Thomas Ganaway Conner ... •• Macon.

COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING>

George Nathan Mitcham. ;.......... Georgia.

GENERAL COURSE.

Peyton Graves Clark. Montgomery.

DEGREES.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.

William Kirk Armstrong. . . Lee. ^

Erister Ashcraft.. ' . . . . i. • • • °* Carolina.

Richard Manning Boykin ,.. • ££«-£

Edgeworth Stephens Casey t ! w

*. Montgomery.

Peyton Graves Clark.. * ri

Robert Walter Collins ;.-..... m

Thomas Ganaway Conner ' '' ['-^^^Z^

George Leonard Faucett

William Alexander Fitzgerald. • • .Georgia.

wuiiani , Montgomery.

Gaston Greil.. Tallapoosa.

Joseph Herzfeld ; • • Lge

John Fletcher Heard •••••• • , ad

William Welch Hill ...Bollock

John Buford Hobdy -. Ooreia

George Michael Holley • •■ .-• y™^

William Alexander Hood.. .Montgomery.

Olarenoe Neil. Jones. ....Montgomery.

Edwin Boyce Joseph Dale

Adas Edwin^Killebrew

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Earle Foster Lee Lee.

William Parker Leonard .Georgia.

Warren Horton McBryde Mobile.

William Wrice McLeran . . ; Macon.

George Nathan Mitcham Georgia.

Wade Hampton Negus Mississippi.

Charles Johnston Nelson Dallas.

WUliam Jacob Njxon.. Tennessee.

Benjamin Sweat Patrick South Carolina.

James Lawrence Pollard RusselL '

Leonard Calloway Pratt Bibb.

John Purifoy Lee.

John Wesley Purifoy . . Perry.

Berry Lathum Scott. . Texas.

Oliver John Semmes. Mobile.

Samuel Toliver Slaton. .. ... Macon.

Frederick Loyd Tate ■ Russell. v

Merrick Dowdell Thomas . . Chambers.

Paul Vines , Tallapoosa.

William Tilman Warren Montgomery.

Reuben David Webb. . . Coosa.

Noble James Wiley . Montgomery.

George Wrigley Georgia.

Thomas Jefferson Brooks (class of 1890). Georgia.

MASTER OF SCIENCE.

Charles Nutting Alford Marshall

William James Beeson . . . . Etowah

Joseph Quarterman Burton L ee

Walter Lynnewood Fleming Pike.

Hampton Sanders Henderson . Talladega

George Bates Kelley ....//// !/ Jefferson/

Benjamin Asbury Taylor Autauga.

William Martin Williams Georgia

ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
Jesse Boland Edwards Talladeea

DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS.

Students who receive a grade above 90 in three studies in the
freshman classy 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 1897 :

SENIOR CLASS.

Erister Ashcraft. . , • *f e '

Robert Walter Collins.. Hale -

Thomas Ganaway Conner ^H*?™'

William Welch Hill •• Talladega.

John Buford Hobdy •••• Bullock.

George Michael Holley Georgia.

Clarence Neil Jones ••• Vontgomery.

George Nathan Mitcham -^orgia. .

Wade Hampton Negus......... . .Mississ, PP i.

William Jacob Nixon ■•• fennessee.

Frederick Loyd Tate Russell.

Reuben David Webb •• 0oosa *

HONOR STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR CLASS.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Arthur McBride Ransom Georgia.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANCAL ENGINEERING.

Jonathan Haralson Dallas -

COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

Thomas Harrison Clower Lee -

GENERAL COURSE.

Halbert Clyde Ray Geneva.

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JUNIOR CLASS.

Erin Black T

Mary Wright Boyd \ '

Thomas Harrison Clower T _

Pearl Hanson j

William Earle Hndmon j

.lessie Hamilton Lockhart . rT' ■

Julia Hill Moore... .'.' Georgia.

Annie Lucinda Purifoy ,

Arthur McBride Ransom. '. p .

Halbert Clyde Ray Georgia.

Marie Louise Scott. ' "' ? eneva -

Rush Price Strong..::.! &£,

s Mobile.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Flake Earle Farley.

Walter Eldridge Johnson.'.' „•

Julien Chandler Yonge. Madison.

Florida.

CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS

FOR THE SESSION OF 1897-98.

Graduate Students.

[Residence is Alabama when State is not given.]

NAME. RESIDENCE.

William Kirk Armstrong . . . .Lee.

Robert Walter Collins .. . Hale.

Thomas Ganawav Conner Macon.

James Washington Culver Lee.

George Webster Duncan Lee.

Walter Lynnewood Fleming Pike.

George Thomas Edgar Tuskaloosa.

John Louis Glenn .... '...... Butler.

Arthur Williamson Greene Chambers.

William Welch Hill .Talladega.

John Buford Hobdy Bullock.

Walter Pearce Holco.mbe * ' Mobile.

George Michael Holley Georgia.

Edwin Boy ce Joseph . . . Montgomery.

William Parker Leonard ....... Georgia.

George Nathan Mitcham Georgia.

William Jacob Nixon Tennessee.

•f Benjamin Sweat Patrick South Carolina.

John Purifoy • . . .Lee.

Frederick Loyd Tate Russell.

Sheldon Lyne Toomer Lee.

Reuben David Webb. Coosa.

George Wrigley Georgia.

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Undergraduate Students,
senior class.

John Cocke Abernethy . Florida.

Lemuel Sledge Allen Marengo.

'Erin Black Lee.

''Mary Wright Boyd Lee.

/William Haraill Bruce Montgomery.

Alexander Humphreys Clark Montgomery.

Henry Neal Coleman Lowndes.

George Oliver Dickey Crenshaw.

Duncan Patterson Dixon Talladega.

Clifford Lamar Edwards Lee.

Eichard Roe Eppes Marengo.

Frank Reese Frazer . . Lee.

FrankFarley .......Lee.

William Shelby Garner Shelby.

Elmer Wynn Gray.. Georgia.

Jonathan Haralson Dallas.

Francis Williams Hare . . Lee.

Charles Edward Harrison Florida.

Harry Streety Houghton ; Jefferson.

William Earle Hudmon Lee. '

/Joseph Wood King ..Georgia.

Absalom Mason Kennedy Montgomery.

Jessie Hamilton Lockhart Georgia.

George Edward Mason Shelby.

John Richard- McCalla Lee.

Peter Mastin Mclntyre . . . .' ; Montgomery.

Henry Edmund Memminger South Carolina.

William Augustus Mitchell Georgia.

Julia Hill Moore L ee

' Frank Greene Morriss Talladega.

Ashleigh Strudwick Moses Baldwin.

John Sanford Paden Etowah.

Alexander Simpson Pow Jefferson.

y/Annie Lucinda Turifoy .* Lee.

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^Arthur McBride Ransom. % Georgia.

Halbert Clyde Ray , Geneva.

James Barrie Shivers Perry.

Newton Caraway Smith Shelby.

Clifford West Stewart Montgomery.

William Livingston Stewart Montgomery.

William Bee Stokes Marion.

Edward Wadsworth Stone Montgomery.

Rush Price Strong Mobile.

Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe . .Louisiana.

Almuth Cunningham Vandiver Talladega.

Bishop Billing Warwick Talladega.

John Wesley Williams Lee.

Joseph Leonard Wood Mobile.

' Neander Montgomery Woods Tennessee.

JUNIOR CLASS.

LeRoy James Allen ....Marengo.

Jesse Maldrie Atkinson Dale.

Alston Boyd Tennessee.

William Bowdon Beard (c) .Pike'.

Harriet Lavinia Dabney Bondurant (c) — Lee.

Bailey Edgar Brown Morgan.

Mattie Lucile Burton Lee.

Thomas Greene Bush .Calhoun.

Charles Wallace Collins .Hale.

George Davis Collins (c) . . Hale.

McNeill Crawford Lee.

Colonel Seldon Crew . . .Coosa.

Frederick Robert Daly Jefferson.

Bolivar Davis .....Jefferson.

Claude Davidson • .Georgia.

Marion Dawson Elmore.

James Francis Dobbin (c)...... Florida.

Allan Willis Elkins Texas.

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Flake Earle Farley Lee.

Arthur Henry Feagin Bullock.

Hugh Matherson Fenn (c) Barbour.

Jones Stephen Gilliland Coosa.

John Boss Glenn .. Lee.

Theophilus Eaton Goodwin Crenshaw.

Fannie Maud Holstun Lee.

Felix Grundy Horn (c) . Sumter.

Walter Eldridge Johnson . . . . Madison.

James Heustis Jones Wilcox.

Winstou Boykin Jones ...... Wilcox.

Kate Meade Lane . . . . . .Lee.

Lottie Everard Lane. ....... . , ]j ee .

Harry Toulmin Lay (c) Mobile.

Thomas Herrington McAdory Jefferson.

Isham Fennell McDonnell. Madfson.

Graham Edwin Merchant LeC

Charles Henry Merritt (c) Chilton^

Chad wick Wiley Minge .Marengo

Hartley Allen Moon ....Coosa.

Auline Judson Moore (c) . . L ee

Angelo Marvin Nowlin ... DeKalb

James Royden Peabody . . ... Georgia

Hattie Marshall Phelps [[[[ ; Lee .

Lawrence Bratton Bainey DeKalb

Archie McDonnell Robinson (c) Madison.

Mary Evelyn Robinson # L ee

Wilmer Chatham Robinson (c) []][[ Tallapoosa

John Osgood Rush r. L ee

William Oscar Scroggs .....Georgia

James Cary Slaton m q ~

TT7 .„. A1 J : ' Macon.

William Alexander Thomason (c) Randolph

Dozier Turner (c) BImoi £ '

ir w'lr w '" Madis ™'

Thomas William W»rt Morgan v

George Madison Wheeler , . ..Madison

Julien Chandler Yonge Florida

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sophomore class.

William Lawrence Anderson Montgomery.

Fletcher Ashcraft Lee.

Buckner Beasley (c) hee.

Robert Pierce Baldwin Lee.

Malcolm Alfred Beeson Etowah.

John Samuel Black Lee.

Guy French Boyd Lee.

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee.

Abner Mason Buchanan (c) *. . .Lee.

Edwin Bukofzer Tennessee.

Judson Lamar Burke .Lee.

Salmon Holmes Burns Lee.

Kelly Walker Burwell Madison.

Andrew Crozier Cameron (c) Jefferson.

Frank Bovard Chapman . . . Louisiana.

Asbury Nicholson Culver. Lee.

William Crawford Dowdell Lee.

William Beach Dozier Georgia.

Ellis Madison Duncan Franklin.

Luther Noble Duncan Franklin.

Rutherford Sylvanus Finch Montgomery.

Philip Hamilton Fitzgerald (c) Georgia.

Robert Emmett Fitzgerald Georgia.

John Jefferson Flowers Butler.

Sherman Guy Forbes , Henry.

Earle Humphreys Foy Barbour.

James Edgar Foy Barbour.

Hermon Gillis Georgia.

James Olney Goggans Tallapoosa.

William Weatherly Hannon . . . .' Montgomery.

Roland B. Hall Georgia.

Edward Zellars Heard Lee.

Robert Thomas Hicks Talladega.

John Paul Illges (c) Georgia.

Emmett Francis Jackson Lee.

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Walter Atlee Jordan Elmore.

Moses Frank Kahn Lee.

Wilbur Edrald Kelley Jefferson.

Strother Trabue Key Jefferson.

Howard Malcolm Kilpatrick Georgia.

Leon Phillippe Le Hardy Georgia.

John Maples Russell.

James Guy Marcrum Georgia.

William Christopher Martin Barbour.

Frank Clark McAlpine Talladega.

Walter Deems McCrary (cj Lee.

Benjamin Lee McGee (c) .Georgia.

James Hardie McGehee Montgomery.

John Thomas Mcintosh (c) Tallapoosa.

Kenneth Bethune McKenzie ....Butler

Lafayette Murdoch Meriwether " .'.Montgomery

James Butler Mitchell Lowndes '

Collett Henry Munger (c; Jefferson.

Robley Charles Munger Jefferson.

William Livingston Neill (c) Jefferson>

Carlyle Nisbet (c) Georgia

Charles Walter Nixon .. . nC«

Marion Franklin Owens r,l ^

^ ^ . Cleburne.

George Benagh Phillips Geo •

Hiram Perry Powell .... •" " Q eQ g

Fleming James Bigney . . .' \,][\ [[[[[ ] y^

James Richard Rutland . . nu u

William Stowe Rutledge -^ambers.

Herman Scharnagel (c) )\' : \W\\ j,,* „.

Frederick Blount Shepard ... . Mnhil

John Winfred Shuff. . . '" %°u?

Joseph Manning Steiner . Z '• \ \ \ '. \ \ '. WWW B^
John Marion Tamplin (c). t,

Arthur Holt Warreir ' v J B \

Alfred Taylor Whiteside' .'.'." Mont gomery .

James Waldo Woodruff Tennessee.

Moses Conrad Wright. .'. W. '.'.'.'.'. ".'.'. '.'.'.' .'.'.' mZT'

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FRESHMAN CLASS.

Jftmos Bftd^r^tf^d (c) . . . . . .Henry.

■rfuuiBy Olli AlUm Lee.

Sy Andrews (c) Georgia.

Oliver Burnside Andrews • • ■ Tennessee.

Stearnes Pearson Baker (c) Tallapoosa.

Joseph Nathaniel Barker Georgia.

William Ho rt p n "P ' (o) Lee.

VS ,| | •ff iii rtl li m'tT l il ll iiff fiiV ...Calhoun.

William LeGrande Burnett . . . . . Barbour.

William James Cameron (c) .Montgomery.

James Lorenzo Deaton Georgia.

John Isham Dorsey (c). « - Lee.

Malcolm Nassau Fleming .Georgia.

F i ' iink P i mn' i TY i lmrnr Pike.

John Drewry Foy Barbour.

William Alexander Frazer ....... Lee. x

GbasgeJfeifi*. , Macon -

Jacob Lionel Haas (c) .Montgomery.

Joooph Hinn* Hftll (e) Butler ' ; y

Wallace Benjamin Harrison .... Talladega.

Michael Smith Harvey Lee.

Be*jfwme~Garrl Hatcher (c) Georgia.

William Baxter Haynes .Lowndes.

Daniel Haywood Haynes ................ .Lowndes.

James Kelly Haynie (c) Montgomery.

Eobert Holland Hood. Jefferson.

Edwin DeWitt Huguley • • .Georgia.

P j / c \ Montgomery.

Arthur Flournoy Jackson Georgia.

James Baxter Jackson. Lee.

Madison.

/ c ) . Mobile.

Claude Kauffman(c) ..Mobile.

{( j Tennessee.

Bobert Paterson Manly Georgia.

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Daniel Stacy Martin (c) Barbour.

Robert Murdoch Martiu Barbour.

Earle Irvin McBryde . Wilcox.

Stanton MnKfnfry (c) Marengo.

Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether (c) Montgomery.

Eiakimj;Millor (c) . Mississippi.

Abram Hill Mitchell (c) Lee.

Jordan Holsey Mitchell Lee.

James Crowder Moore. . . Lee.

Merrill Hastings Moore Montgomery.

Peter Preer Myhand (c) Lee.

Tiiiiiijili TJiolmird Pirinn (c) . . . Barbour.

James Cochran Phelps Lee.

^flinlf tow** rinlnfrin Chilton.

WilHftjaJiM*>aq ••;*■ Tennessee.

Oscar Menderson Schloss Barbour.

Henry Alexander Skeggs Morgan.

Matthew Scott Sloan (c) .Mobile.

Earnest Walter Thompson Macon.

Abner Mason Torbert (c) Macon.

Elijah Albert Turner (c) Lee.

Vej a*jn Burleigh -Wfrttteside (c) Tennessee.

Gaius Whitfield Marengo.

Edward Houston Wills Lee.

SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.

Abbreviations: Ph —Pharmacy ; E. & M. E.— Electrical and Me-
chanical Engineering; C— Chemistry ; Ag.— Agriculture; C. E. —
Civil Engineering.

James Anderson Allen C Jefferson.

Frank Hammond Bancroft ph Perry.

Lynn Mathews Boyd. ph Macon.

Charles Louis Bragaw PH Lee.

Emmett Gale Buck Mobile.

Rufus White Butler ph Lee.

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Toccoa Cozart .Montgomery.

Arthur Henry Davis e. & M. E . . . . Mobile.

Ramon Eraso e. & M. E . . . .Venezuela.

Michael Thomas Fullan E. a m. e . . . . Georgia.

Emmett Spencer George Marengo.

Joseph Henry Glover Georgia.

Eula Belle Hale Lee.

ZaideHale Lee -

John Dabney Hamilton .ph Lee.

Pearl Hanson - • Lee -

Walter Avery Henson e. & M. E . . . . Tennessee.

Emmett Armistead Jones ph. ... r Marengo.

John Paul Jones . • Wilcox.

Sidney Johnston Jones ph. Georgia.

Earle Benjamin Lentz . . c. E Mobile.

Gqorge Simial Lombard . . . . Georgia.

Barton Harris McQueen Montgomery.

Martin Luther Malloy Lee.

George Mathews Marks AG .Montgomery.

Andrew McCord Lee -

John Mettauer McGoolrick . . . . E. & M. E . . . . Georgia.

Hugh Tredegar McKinnon . . .- Bullock.

Benjamin Otey Minge e. & M. E . . . . Marengo.

George Eleming Moore e. & M. E. . . . Montgomery.

George McElhany Moore Lee.

John Peabody Moore Georgia.

Eobert Leslie Newman ph Lee.

Emile Thomas Peddy .' Lee.

John Abner Penton ph Coosa.

Harry John Pettus .Montgomery.

John Percy Beid Perry.

John Watson Eutland Lee.

Joseph Schwartz PH . ....... .Marengo.

Lucius Kelly Simmons ph ....... . .Jefferson.

Sidney Ewing Simpson „ Montgomery.

Berta Leonora Summers .Lee.

Fannie Louise Thomas Lee.

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George Hoover Thomson.. . . . (E . & m. e. . . .Louisiana.

Pies May Tindell E . k M . e. . . . Mobile.

Edgar Earle Upch urcb ph Pickens.

James Robert Vann . PH . . .Henry. "

Henry Beecham Visscher..... ph. Florida

Charles Finley White 7. V/. Jefferson.

William Dunbar Wills PH . Lee.

SUB-FRESHMAN CLASS.

George Adams..... j,^

J a lies Walter Aids Mont

Clifford Douglas Biankensi;ip\\\\\;;;;;;;; Mont g 3y.'

C I'? n-n kc « BuUard • &*&*

Charles Clifton Brown M i

Charles Newton Caraway Montgomeiy.

E. ii _ J ■• < Male,

ugene Albert Dumas T • •

Paul Metzger Efehelberger Louisiana. .

Edward Gaston Fike.. ' 22?^ "

Robert Henry Harwell '" ' Z

Macon Leigh Jones ™ Dg0 '

William George Jackson Sf 8rS0D -

Hubbard Hobbs Kelly f f ?!

Claud Lewis King Madison.

Albert Sidney Lewis . . ^" y \

Philip Warren Low -Talladega.

James Philip Martin Montgomery.

Robert Lafonzo Martin harbour.

Ross Earnest Mattison J?^**

William Emory Mcintosh £* l^

James Whitaker Nisbet Tallapoosa.

William Marcus Peters ' * * * * ' 5° 88eIL

Richard Blount Shepard «??

Arnold Trigg Mobile.

Leland Dock Trippe Marengo.

John Morgan Turner .'..'.'. Marengo.

Calvin Earle Upchurch ■'*'"' £ ee ;

••• Pickens.

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Non Dura Ward Tallapoosa.

William Hubert Young Barbour.

Summary.

Graduates •'•-■

Senior Class .'

Junior Class •

Sophomore Class .

Freshman Class

Special and Irregular Students • • • 5Q

Total in College Classes. •..."...' 3i2

Sub-Freshman Class

72
62

j.ot)ai .... ..••■• .••• ...

NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.

341

51
12

E D gH=h. . . / 2G0 Geology

History 168 Civil Engineering

French ' 52 Electrical Engineering. . 53

Geman ' .'. . 34 Mechanical Engineering . 35

Latin I* 1 Biology. 19

Mental Science 27 Drawing 150

Political Economy 41 Mechanic Arts 1%

Mathematics. ........ -248 Military Tactics 294

Chemistry .. !<# Mineralogy .... 6

Chemical Laboratory .... 70 Physical Laboratory . . . . 64

Agriculture i 105 Physiology 52

ph sic8 192 Veterinary Science.. ... 30 -

Botany.".' 93 Pharmacy... • • • 4*=" »>

Bacteriology lo

MILITARY ORGANIZATION,

1897-98.

President,
W. L. BROUN.

Commandant,
M. 0. HOLLIS, 1st Lieut 4th Infantry, U. S. A. .

Surgeon,
J. H. DRAKE.

Battalion Staff.
Cadet Captain P. M. McIntyre, Assistant to Commandant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant J. 8. Paden, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant A. MoB. Ransom, Quartermaster.
Cadet Sergeant G. M. Wheeler, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant T. G. Bush, Quartermaster Sergeant.

Cadet Captains.

3. C. W. Stewart,

4. J. C. Abernethy.

Cadet First Lieutenants.

5. R. P. Strong,

6. L. S. Allen,

7. H.C.Ray.

8. A.M.Kennedy.

Cadet Second Lieutenants.

3. E.W.Gray,

4. F. G. Morriss.
Cadet First Sergeants.

3. J, F. Dobbin,

4. T. W. Wert.
Cadet Sergeants,

9. J. H. Jones,

10. G. D. Collins,

11. J.A.Ward,
12.

1. A. C. Vandiver,

2. F. W. Hare,

1. J. W. Williams,

2. G. 0. Dickey,

3. H. S. Houghton,

4. C. L. Edwards,

1. E.W.Stone,

2. C. E. Harrison,

1. J. C. Yonge,

2. I. F. McDonnell,

1. C. W. Minge,

2. L: B. Rainey,

3. A. H. Feagin,

4. B.Davis,

5. J. M. Atkinson,

6. A. Boyd,

7. A. W. Elkins,

8. J. R. Peabody (Color Sergeant), 16.

B. E. Brown,

13. W. B. Jones,

14. J. R. Glenn,
D. Turner,
W. O. Scroggs.

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1. H. P Powell,

o. E. H. Foy,

3. F. Ashcraft,

4 G. F. Boyd,

5. W. E. Kelley,

6. J. L Burke,

7. R. T. Hicks,
8> j. W. Shufp,

Cadet Corporals.

K. B. McKenzie,

10.

J. J. Flowers,

11.

K. P. Baldwin,

12.

J. P. ILL(JES,

13.

A.C. Cameron,

14.

S. T.Key,

J. H. McGehee,

16.

F. C. MoAlpine.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

All applicants for admission should present testimonials
of good moral character, and those who come from other
colleges must present certificates of honorable dismissal.

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 Euglish. (b) A composition giving evidence
of satisfactory proficiency in spelling, punctuation, grammar,
and division into paragraphs.

I. Reading. The composition in 1898 will be upon sub-
jects drawn from one or more of the following works in
English Literature: (1) Hughes's Torn Brown at Rugby;
(2) Southey's Life of Nelson; (3) Shakespeare's Julius Ccesar;
(4) Longfellow's Evangeline; (5) Scott's Ivanhoe; (6) Shake-
speare's Merchant of Veniee; (7; Irving's Sketch Book; (8)
Macaulay's Essay on Milton; (9) Scott's Marmion; (10)

Dickens's David Copperfield.

The candidate will be required to present evidence ^f 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

at the substance of the books.
II. Study and Practice. This part of the examination

presupposes the thorough study of the style of the work.

This part of the examination will be upon Julius Ccesar and

the Essay on Milton.

Preparation and examination on these ivorks will be necessary
before the student is classed as regular in any course.

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 6 and cube
roots, (b) Algebra to quadratic equations, one book of
geometry.

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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 Ceesar, in addi-
tion to the above subjects.

For admission to the higher classes, students should be
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 equiv-
alents will be adopted, and studies which denote an
equivalent amount of discipline and training will be accepted
as satisfactory. But if not prepared to pass an examination
in history and chemistry at the time of application, the
applicant will be required before graduation to pass a satis-
factory examination on those subjects.

ADMISSION ON CERTIFICATE.

Applicants will be admitted without examination on presenting 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 ^^^^SSS^
'Class without examination upon the certificate i of. thfi > W~£
"pi incipal showing definitely that such students have ;comF)let^ satis
"factory all the studies requiredfor admission, as stated in the cata
"logue, and are otherwise admissible."

CERTIFICATE SCHOOLS.

University Military School, Mobile. : ' # "--' wVSISL

*Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa. W . it . v erne .

•University School, Montgomery J- £" ™" /

*Mt. Willing High School, Mt. Willing J- J^T

State Normal SchooJ, Jacksonville £ ? & ^

Male Academy, Huntsville '

•State Normal College, Florence l Ycockrell

Furman Academy. Livingston •••• j M gmallw00(L

High School, Opelika • } B Murphy .

Union Springs Institute. .. '

' J^T^TT^^oDhomore class on approved cer-

•Applicants are admitted to tne sopnumu

tificates from these institutions.
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University Military School, Clan ton E. Y. McMorries.

N. A. Agricultural School, Athens M. K. Clements.

% Ala. Agricultural School, Hamilton Jas. E. Alexander.

Eutaw Male Academy, Eutaw. H..C. Horton

Boys' High School, Anniston . . ..H. C. Gunnels.

Taylor's School, Birmingham W. P.Taylor.

Gaylesville High School John L. Ray.

Carrollton Academy L - v Rosser.

Ninth District Agricultural School, Blountsville..W. J. Beeson.

Gadsden High School, ...... I. W. Hill.

Boyd High School, Ramer B. H. Boyd.

Dadeville High School A. W. Holstun and

J. D. Lane.

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 :

The applicant must be eighteen years of age, and if a
candidate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory exam-
ination in e/ich of the four subjects as named below.

If the applicant is a candidate fop 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 (Lock wood- Whitney); Rhetoric (Lockwood's Les-
sons and Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric) ; Scudder's Mas-
terpieces of American Literature ; Syle's From Milton to
Tennyson.

For requirements in reading in literature see page 32.

(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 syntax ;
Jones's Latin Prose Composition ; translation pf selections

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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.

Botany will constitute a required part of the general
course for young women who are candidates for a degree.

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 con-
dition 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 at the age of seventeen, provided she is able to
comply with all the requirements for admission in the four
subjects named and the application meets with its approval.

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ENTEANCE EXAMINATIONS.

Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday, the
15th 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 fe freshman
class when they are quaked to pass satisfactorily the
required examinations.

• „i o<- Anhnrn will report immediately to

class previous to matriculation.

NUMBER OF EXERCISES REQUIRED.
All students are reared to have , not ££•£" «*££

per week, or their ^^^fj^^i d itional exercises
tory work, drawing, and military drill.

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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 gran^d 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.

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.

A student who does not take all the studies in a class of one of the
degree courses, as prescribed in the catalogue, and is permitted to
take an irregular course, will be assigned to a member of the* Faculty
who ,w,IJ act as his special adviser, and when his course of study has

IZTtZ™ t ' the FaCUUy n ° ° ther Cha "* e Wil1 be Pe™*tted
without the endorsement of his adviser

te^'SS Wh ° fa " ^r S satisfactor y final examinations

egS st u den f s y i eCOme 8PeCia ' StUde " t8 - They wil1 be c,assed *
regular students pursmng a course for a degree, whenever thev M „

d P en S cien e t. eXaminati0n8 '° *™ ^'^ '" which ^etelouZ
Students, candidates for a degree, who are not in full standine in

and their na.es are J^ n 7^ZlT "^ ° f 8tUd '' e8 '

ADMISSION TO HIGHER CLASSES

-£« .5E2 iSSSSXSt^ sub - fr ? man c,ass

sion to the freshman class in histo y EnS' ^3ffl? " ?""*
and if his examination is muj^f^^^ '^
adm.tted to the freshman class in that'subject onlv *'" *

regular degree courses, can enter, wthou con di In SZ ,T ° f ?*
in any course, except in the general course or thJ hejumor cl **>
macy, in.which Latin is required ° UrSe in phar "

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Students who are admitted to the junior class from other institu-
tions, on examination in English, Latin, and mathematics, and who
have not completed all the studies of the sophomore class, in order to
graduate, will be required to complete the course in chemistry and
history as taught in the sophomore class.

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; Pharmacy; English, French, Ger-
man A 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 activer 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 :
I. Course in Chemistry and Agriculture.

II Course in Civil Engineering.

III. Course in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering.

IV. General Course.

V. Course in Pharmacy.

There are also two partial courses, each requiring two
years for its completion :
VI. Two-Year Course in Agriculture.
VII.' Two- Year Course in Mechanic Arts.

Course I includes theoretical and practical instruction in
th^e branches that relate to chemistry and agriculture,
and is especially adapted to those who propose to devote
themselves to agriculture and chemical pursuits

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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 ulti-
mately to engage in teaching or in some commercial or
professional business.

Courses VI and VII have been arranged for the benefit of
thos* students who, for reasons satisfactory to themselves,
are unable to continue at college four years and to take one
of the regular degree courses.

A student who completes satisfactorily all the work of the senior
class in a department, including the laboratory work, will be awarded
a certificate of proficiency in said subject.

Students who complete either of the two-year courses will, on pass-
ing a satisfactory examination, receive certificates indicating their
attainments.

No degree or certificate of proficiency will be given in any course
unless the applicant has passed a satisfactory examination in ele-
mentary English.

Declamation and themes or orations are required of all regular
students pursuing courses leading to a degree.

POST-GRADUATE COURSES.

The post-graduate degrees are— Master of Science, Mining
Engineer, Civil Engineer, Electrical and Mechanical
Engineer, and Pharmaceutical Chemist.

A more extended post-graduate course of study may be
taken by a graduate of this College or of any other institu-
tion of equal grade. The completion of a course which

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leads to a post-graduate degree requires one year's residence
at the College, spent in the satisfactory prosecution of a
course of study, with such laboratory work as may be ap-
proved by the Faculty.

The candidate 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 pres-
ence of the Faculty.

The subject of the thesis must be submitted to the Faculty for ap-
proval prior to January 1st, and the thesis be given to the professor
by April 1st.

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. — Students who have received the degree of B. Sc.
in engineering, civil, or electrical and mechanical, or who have prose-
cuted an equivalent course of study, can enter upon a special course
of mining engineering, which includes the following subjects of

study ;

Industrial Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Assaying, Reduction
of Ores, Mineralogy, Economic Geology, with practical work in the
field, Mining Machinery with the applications of steam and elec-
tricity to the various operations connected wifh the exploitation of

mines.

The student, if a candidate for a degree, will also be required to
prosecute the necessary studies in that course of engineering in
which he has not graduated .

This course of study will be under the charge of the professors of
geology, chemistry, civil and electrical and mechanical engineering.

Civil Engineer. —Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Analytical Me-
chanics.

Electrical and Mechanical Engineer. -Electrical Engineering, Me-
chanical Engineering.

Pharmaceutical Chemist— Pharmacy and Chemistry.

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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SPECIAL ONE- YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.

Young men over twenly-one years of age who desire to study agri-
s 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
duties ; 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 agricul-
ture.

PHOTOGRAPHY.

LABOBATORY 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: e

I.
It
III.
IV.
V.
VI
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XL
XII.
XIII.

Chemistry.

Civil- Engineering, Field Work, Surveying Etc
Agriculture. 9 :^™

Botany.

Mineralogy.
Biology.

Technical Drawing.
Mechanic Arts.
Physics.

Electrical Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering.

Physiology and Veterinary Science
Pharmacy.

Nom-Special work in English or iTicf^

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COLLEGE GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD.

The gymnasium is situated at the west end of the athletic
and drill grounds, and contains one room, 80x40 feet, with
strong beams 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
officer.

The athletic field has a quarter-mile cinder track and
ample space for football, baseball, and general athletics.

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.

Students are not permitted to participate in any public entertain-
ment, or game, without previously obtaining the consent of the
Faculty.

No cadet will be permitted, without the approval of his parent or
guardian, to take part in a public game of football ; nor will per-
mission be given in any instance to a student deficient in his studies.

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 devel-
opment of the physique and improvement of the carriage of the cadet
are manifest.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

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.

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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

This Association is regularly organized and has a well furnished
room on the first floor of the College building set apart for its exclu-
sive use. Through its weekly meetings it exerts a wholesome Chris-
tian influence among the students of the College.

Students are advised to unite with the Association when they enter
College.

The following are the officers :

N. C. Smith, President.

W. S. Garner, Vice-President.

H. C. Ray, Corresponding Secretary.

J. W. King, Recording Secretary.

J. M. Atkinson, 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 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 influence of the family circle.

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I— COUKSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

The numerals opposite

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.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y

2. Physiology.

3. Military Drill.

the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.

FRESHMAN CLAS3.

Second Term. Third Term.

5. English. 5. English.

2. History. 3. History.

5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.

. 3. Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.

. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term. Third Term.

3. English.

3. Botany (a).

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture (b).

3. Drawing

3. English.

3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Physiology. 2. Physiology.

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

3. English.
3. Physics.

Just Term. --wowfit-^wwir Third Term.

3. English. •' • " 3. English. v 3. English.

3. Physics. 3. Physics. / 3. Physics,

Indus trial Qh emistry

2. Agriculture.

4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Vete rinary Scienc e.

3. Military Drill.

2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture (b).

4. Botany (Lab'y). 4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Scienc e .

3. Military tfrHT. 3. Military Drill

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term. Third Term.

2. PoliticalEconomy(c).2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science 4d). 2. Mental Science (d).
2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.

2. Geology. 2 - Geology.

5. Biology. 5. Biology.

2.' AgricuLr'lCh'm'try.2. Agricultur'lCh'm'try.2. Agricultur'l Ch'm'try .

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 2. Military Science.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab y.

2. Veterin aryScience. 2 : Je^erinarySden ae. 2. Veterinary Science.
(a) Begins Marxist (bTAlsTPr^tical Agriculture.

. (9) Begins Feb. Uth. (d) Germftu W * substituted. %

First Term.
2. English Literature.
2. Men taf Science (d).
2. Physics.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.

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II-COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Second Term.

5. English.

2. 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

First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b)

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Second Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
2. Physiology.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics. '
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).
2. Physiology.
3. Drawing. 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.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term

3. English, French, or 3. Engl/sh, French, or 3. English, French or

German. German.

3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.
6. ^y,Mech.Arts(c)6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c). 6. hSf^XS^m^
1. Field Work Engin'g. 2. Field Work, Engin'g. 2. Field Work, Engin'g.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. 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

German .
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.

3. Physics.

5. Mathematics.

5. Civil Engineering.

5. Drawing.

1. Military Tactics.

3. Mathematics

2
2
3. Mathematics.

3. Mathematics.

(a) Begin 8 March 1st.

(b) For Agriculture may be substituted Physical Laboratory.

(d) For Eog. Lit. and Pol. Econ. may be substituted French or German.

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5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering.

5. 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.— COUKSE 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^Civil Engineering.

JUNIOR CLASS. • '

First Term.

3. English, French, or
German.

3. Physics.

5. Mathematics.

4. Electrical Engin'g.
3. Mech. Engineering.

Second Term.

3. English, French, or
German.

3. Physics.

5. Mathematics.

4. Electrical Engin'g.
3. Mech. Engineering.

Third Term.

3. English, French, or
German.

3. Physics.

5. Mathematics.

4. Electrical Engin'g.
3. Mech. Engineering.

4. Mechanical Drawing. 4 Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing.

4. Electrical Lab'y.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

■v.
First Term.

2. Eng. Literature (a).
2. Physics.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

5. Electrical Engin'g.

4. Electrical Lab'y.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term,

4. Electrical Lab'y.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

2. Political Economy (a).2. Political Economy (a).
2. Astronomy. 2- Astronomy.

2. Geology. 2. Geology.

3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics.

5. Electrical Engin'g 5. Electrical Engin'g.
5. Mech. Engineering. 5. Mech. Engineering.

5. Mech. Engineering.
2. Electrical Designing. 2. Electrical Designing. 2. Llectnca 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 Sci ence. 1 . Milita i^denc^_^_ Military Science.

(a) French'or German may be substituted.

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IV.— GENERAL COURSE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the numbers 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.

8. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. 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).

FRESHMAN 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.

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. Mathsmatics.

3. General Chemistry.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.
3. 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 (c).2. Political Economy

2. Mental Science
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.

1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).

2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.

1. Military Science.
6 Lab'y Work (b).

(&) Begins March 1st.

he £1 SifiSSj ^ 6,eCt ^ lab0 ' ator ' of » n * ^Partment for which
(c) Begins February 15th.

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V.— COURSE IN PHARMACY.

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. Genejral-Chemistry .

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

3.
6.
4.
3.

First Term.

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Botanical Lab'y.

3. Pharmacy.
9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9.

4. Pharmacognosy. 4.
1. Military Tactics. 1.

3. Military Drill. 3.

First Term.

5. Biology. 5.

7. Toxicology. 6-

4. Pharmacy. 4.
9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9.
4. Pharmacognosy. 4.
1. Military Science. 1.
3. Materia Medica. 3.

(a) Begins March 1st.

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. GeneralChemistry.
i. Physiology.
3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

Physics.
Chemical Lab'y.
Botanical Lab'y.
Pharmacy.
Pharmaceutical Lab.
Pharmacognosy.
Military Tactics.
Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.

Biology.
Chemical Lab'y.

Pharmacy.
Pharmaceutical Lab.
Pharmacognosy.
Military Science.
Materia Medica.

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. GeneralChemistry.

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.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab

4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Pharmacy.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab

4. Pharmacognosy.

1. Military Science.

3. Bacteriology.

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VI.-TWO--TEAK COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS.

First Term.

5. English.
2. Hi3tory.
5. Mathematics.

FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.

5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics

Third Term.

5. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing,

3. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics.

3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab 'v

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SECOND YEAR.

Second Term
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics .-
10 „ u . 5 - Drawing. ' w ^ w .««.

; Mr, mC / r n Laby 12 Mech ^ic Art Lab'y. 12. Mechanic Art Lab'y
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

VII.-TWO-YEAR COUESE IN AGRICULTURE.

FTRST YEAR.

Second Term,

5 English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing,

Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3 Drawing.

First Term.

5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics
3. Drawing. 3. Drawing

Third Term.

5 English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.
4. MechamcAr Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art Lab'y
3. M.litary Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3 Militarv Drill
2. Practical Agricult're. 2. Practical Agriculture. 2. Practical Agricult're.

SECOND YEAR.

Second Term. Third Term.

3. English. 3 . EngHgh

5. Mathematics. 5 . Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry. 3. General Chemistry.

Agncu ture. 4 . Agriculture.

Physmlogy. 2 . Phys j ology

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First Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics^

3. General Chemistry

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary Science.

4
2
2.

SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.

HOURS

8-9

MONDAY

4 Algebra.
3. Latin.

L. and 2 Drawing.
L. Elec.EngineVg
2. Mec. EngineVg
I. Biology.
1. German.

II.
9-10

TUESDAY

3. Physiology.

4. Geometry.
3. Latin.

2. German.

I and 2 Drawing.

2. Botany.

1. Elec. EngineVg

2. Mec. EngineVg
1. Mental Science.

WEDNESDAY

4. Algebra.
3. Latin.

1 and 2 Drawing.
1. Vet. Science.
1. Elec EngineVg.
1. German.

4. English.

3 Chemistry.

2. Civ. Engineer'g

2 Latin.

1. Calculus.

1. Biology.

2. Elec EngineVg.

4. History.
3. Agriculture.
2 Civ. Engineer'g
i. Botany.

1. Physics.

2. Elec. EngineVg

4. English.
3. Chemistry.
2. Civ. Engineer'g
2. Latin.

1. Calculus.

2. Vet. Science.

2. Elec. EngineVg

III.

10-11

3. English.

> PhveJcS.

THURSDAY

4. Geometry.

3. Latin.

2. German.

I and 2 Drawing.

2. Botany.

1. Mental Science.

L. Elec. EnginVg

4. Algebra.
3. Latin.

1 and 2 Drawing.
1. Veterinary Sci.
1. Elec. EngineVg
1. German.

4. History.
3. Agriculture.
2. Civ. EngineVg.
2. Botany,

1. Physics.

2. Elec. EngineVg

3. History (1, 2). 3. English.
3. Botany (2, 3).

1. Civ. EngineVg.

t, Biology.

L. Latin.

1. Mec. EngineVg.

1. Biology

L. Civ.Engineeri'g

4. English.

2. Physics.
1, Latin

3. History ((1, 2).

3. Botany (2,3).

1. Civ. Engineer'g

4. English

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Exercises inElocution.

4. English.
3. Chemistry.
2. Civ. EngineVg.
2. Latin.

1. Calculus.

2. Mech. KnginVg
2. Vet. Science.

Military Drill.

3. English.
2. Physics .

2. French

2. Mech. Drawing.

1 Civ. Engineer'g.il. Mech. Engin'r'g
1. Biology. T2. '

1. Mech. EnginVg>

Mec. EngineVg 1. Biology^ XJ2. French A

Mechanic Arts.

Chemical Laboratory.

Electrical Laboratory.
1. Civ. Engineer'g. Physical Laboratory.

(Veterinary Clinics.
4. History (3). 'Biological Laboratory.
I. Mech. Engin'r'giField Engineering.

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SCHEDULE OF EXEECISES— Continued.

HOURS

IV.

11-12

MONDAY

4. Physics (1,2).

4. Agriculture (3)
4. Latin (1,2).

3. Drawing.

■2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
[.English (1,2).
i. Pol. Econ (2,3)

4. Mechanic Arts.

TUESDAY

4. Latin.
3. Drawing.

2. Agriculture.
2. Mathematics.
1. Chemistry.
1. French.,

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P.M.

VI, VII.
2-4

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.
2. English.

4. Mechanic Arts.
1. Elec. Designi'g
1. French.

4. Physics (1,2).
4. Latin (3).
3. History (1,2).
3. Botany (2, 3).
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.
I.English (1, 2).
1. Political Econ-
omy (2, 3).
4 Mechanic Arts.

3 Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Geology.

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Field Work, Agr.
1 & 2 Laboratory,
Chemistry.
1 & 2 Field Work,
Engineering.
l&2Mach. Work.
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor' y.

3. Mechanic Arts.
2. Mineralogy

Laboratory.

Military Drill (*).

1. Mech. Lab'tory.
Elec. Lab'y Work.
1 and 2 History.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

4. Latin.

2. Agriculture.

2. Mathematics.
1. Chemistry.

3. Physiology.
1. French.

FRIDAY

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

4. Mechanic Arts.

2. German.

1. iSlec. Designing.

2. Anal.Chemist'y
4. Mechanic Arts

3. Field Work,Agr.
1 & 2 Laboratory,

Chem.
1 & 2 Field W'rk,
Engineering.
l&2Mach. Work.
Ex'cis. in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'yi

3. Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Gfeology.

4. Physics (1, 2).

4. Agriculture (3).
4. Latin (1,2).

3. Drawing.

2. Mathematics.
2.JJfTemistry.

1. Military Science

4. Mechanic Arts.

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

-V

4. Mechanic Arts

1. Elec. Designing

2. Miliary Tactics.

3. Mechanic Arts.
2. Mineralogy

Laboratory.

Military Drill (*).

1. Mech. Labor'y.
Elec. Lab'y Work.
1 and 2 History.

SATURDAY

3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laboratory.
Field Engineering.

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Field W'rk Agr.
2. French.
I & 2 Lab. Chem.
1 & 2 Field W'rk,
Engineering.
1 & 2 Mach. W'rk.
Ex'cis. in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.

Chapel services daily at 7:45 a. m,

Numbers prefixed denote classes — 1 denotes senior, 2 junior, etc.

*From 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.

Numbers affixed — (1), (2), (3), — denote terms.

DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION.

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY.

PRESIDENT BROUN.
PROFESSOR^)McKISSICK.

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
astronomy.

Post-graduate Course. This includes the study of ana-
lytical mechanics, and requires a knowledge of differential
and integral calculus.

PHYSICAL LABORATORY.

Instructor H. H. Kyser.
The laboratory work includes courses for the sophomore and fresh-
man classes, and is so arranged as to begin with a study of the sys-
tems and units of measurements and to conclude with simple experi-
ments in heat. . , . ,
The student is required to ascertain experimentally various physical
laws, hence in all exercises there is something to measure Urom
hese measurements he is required to find the law. connecting the
quantities involved. Results of experiments are to be entered, in

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tabular form, together with methods, diagrams, etc., in a laboratory
record-book, which each student is required to prepare. At the close
of each week this book is criticised and graded according to its accu-
racy and neatness.

Freshman Course.

First Term, (a) Elementary physics (mechanics and heat).
Second Term. (6) Elementary graphical statics (continued in

sophomore year).
Third Term, (c) Systems and units of measurements.

(d) Simple measurements of length, surface, volume and weight.

Sophomore Course.

First Term, (a) Simple measurements and designing verniers and
micrometers.

(6) Elementary graphical statics, (c) Forces, moments and^
work.

Second Term, {d) Simple machines and friction (determining me-
chanical advantages, loss, efficiency, law, etc ).

(e) Pendulum and gravity. (/) Elasticity.

Third Term, (g) Liquids, (h) Density and specific gravity. ' (i)
Gases. (/) Heat.

The laboratory is equipped with instruments of foreign and Ameri-
can manufacture, such as verniers, micrometers, cathttometers a
horizontal comparator, a Rater's reversion pendulum, balances, etc.,
and with all apparatus necessarv to perform from 10 to 20 experiments
under each of the above named groups.

MATHEMATICS.

PROFEbSOR SMITH.

The general course for the first two years embraces the
first year, algebra, through logarithms and geometry six
books; second year, algebra, 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 ? nd use of instru-
ments.

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The class, 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 atten-
tion 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 the principles and formulas.

Text-Books.

Wentworth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometry, Wentworth's Trigo-
nometry and Surveying, Wentworth's Analytical Geometry, Fannce's
Descriptive Geometry, Nicholson's Calculus, Johnson's Differential
Equations, Osborne's Problems, Peck's Determinants.

GEOLOGY AND BOTANY. /

. ' TROFESSOK MELL.

Geology.— Thi* * ibject 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. Mineral springs, the ,
origin of ore deposits, and the 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 the degrees of master of science and

mining engineer. .

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through the entire session. This work consists of a thor-
ough course in blow-pipe analysis of the ordinary minerals,
and lectures upon crystallography, with instruction how to
measure crystals and determine the physical constants of
minerals. An effort is made to familiarize the student with
all the economic ores and the rocks entering into the com-
position of soils.

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
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, two terms are devoted to systematic and structural
botany, and to advanced laboratory work with the micro-
scope in the preparation of specimens showing plant struct-
ure; 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 necessary chemicals and apparatus for preparing and
mounting vegetable tissues, are used by the students.

The third term is devoted to the study of the physiology
of plants in order to understand the functions of the various
organs after completion of the work in the histological
laboratory.

FACILITIES FOR WORK.

Geology.— The department is equipped with models of Mount
Shasta, the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals for teaching
crystallography ; charts and maps of the geology of America and
Europe ; Colt's lantern complete, with oil, oxy-hydrogen and auto-
matic electric lamps; a large assortment of fine lantern slides rep-
resenting geological formations in this cpuntry and abroad- well
equipped mineralogical laboratory for thirty students, supplied with
a collection of representative minerals ; and models of crystals.

Botany. -Th* facilities for teaching this subject are as follows:

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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 instruments
required in a well equipped laboratory. The Zeiss compound micro-
scope used by the professor for experiment work in connection with
the station is supplied with Abbe's illuminating apparatus, slide
changers, Abbe's camera lucida polarizers, apochromatic objectives
(16 mm, 8 mm, 4 mm, and homogeneous immersion), oculars (2, 3, 8,
12 18, and photographic), eye-piece with micrometer. This labora-
tory is well lighted with gas and electricity and with a good expos-
ure 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^ x %% inches; Bausch & Lomb s pro-
fessional photo-micro camera extending to eight feet; Ze iss s ana-
stigmat photographic lens, 6^ x 8*, fitted with Bausch & Lomb's dia-
E shutter, and Zeiss's wide angle lens, *% x 8* all mounted
SE blark's lens fitted with «^^£S
lens, i x 5; the accessory apparatus and chemicals required for nrst
class work in photography. experi-
The students have access to the botanica garden wher? expert
ments in grass culture and many other plants of interest to the
farmer are conducted by the professor.

Text-Books.

LeConte's Geology, Williams's ^t^^^S^

Geology, Dana's *^>«^£Z£*£% lectures.
Plant Descriptions, Laboratory Guide, ana noies

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND DRAWING.

PROFESSOR LANE.
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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 location
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 ;
cast and wrought-irou, 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 me-
chanics of masonry; foundations on land and in water-
bridges and roofs of different kin/ls, their construction and
strains determined mathematically- and graphically com-
mon roads, their coverings, location and construction; loca-
tion and construction of railroads ; navigable, irrigation, and
drainage canals; river and sea-coast improvements
Theory and practice are combined in both classes.

Text-Books.

Jupior Class.— Henck's Field Bonk fnr pVi ^ .

Byrne's Highway Construction *™ Eng.neers and

StaST (;,a88 - Wheeler ' 8 <** Engineering and Von Ott's Graphic

DRAWING.

a re A 11bedt r \ Dt8 ; f "? frCShman - dso Phon>ore classes
engineering in the junior and senior classes.

The freshman class is tanght linear and free-hand draw-
ing. The sophomore class is instructed in the princ pies of
orthographic and isometric projections thJtolT?*
perspective and tinting In ,hi T • , d shadow8 >

embraces a more extended Vn ' ^ in8truction

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tions of buildings, and blue prints. The senior class makes
topographical drawings, and drawings of machines, roofs,
brides, etc., to different scales, and blue prints. Plans,
profile's and sections of railroad surveys complete the in-
struction in this. department.

Text-Books.

Freshman Class.-Kitchener's Geometrical Note Book, Thome's
Junior Course in Mechanical Drawing, and Davidson's Model Draw-

'"sophomore Class.-Davidson's Projections, Davidson's Practical
Perspective, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.

Junior Class-Davidson's Building Construction. Dav.dson^ Draw-
i„g for Mechanics and Engineers, Plates belongmg to the College,

K rent & ctr- F ?n" b EngH S h and American p.ates longing to
the College, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.

ENGLISH AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PROFESSOR THACH.
OBJECTS AND METHODS.
In this department the students pursue a systematic

course in **g*^££T* knowledge;
Language s the avenue o p P ^ 83 in

the interpretation of words is tn
education of whatsoever kind A full con se g

therefore, considered ^pec* mpor^t in
courses of study that do not « *»J to ^

Accordingly, the course fig**^ three hours a
the four years of tbe ^ ol ^f all stud ents, with the

W eek, and is made obliga to 7 J°» rs of the course

exception of those pursuing the brsU y and

in Latin. In this extended d ^ ^ afford

ature of the English language, tie endeav
a training somewhat equivalent to the
the classical languages.

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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.

All students before classed as regular in any course leading to a
degree must conform to all the requirements in English for admission
as set forth on page 32.

For requirements as to thesis and as to proficiency in English for
certificates and degrees see page 38.

Declamation and themes (or orationsliire^required of all regular
students. For details see below.

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, Holmes, Foe, Bryant, Longfellow.

Morris's English Grammar, Lockwood's Rhetoric, 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 liter-
ary themes.

Genung's Rhetoric, Genung's Rhetorical Analysis, Syle's FrW
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, etc.

Senior class.-Two hours a week, first term. Principles of Criti-
cism, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Dowden's .Shakespeare's ,
etc.

THEMES AND ORATIONS.

Theory without practice is as fruitless in the study of English as
.n any other department of study. Practical work is indispensable
to the successful teaching of English.

^1?^^"?^ PaperS> illustrati ™ of the subject matter

rllf ' ? th6meS ° r ° rati0nS are re * uired of all students. -

Foi the freshman class ten themes a year ; ten for the sophomore ; for
the senior and j unior classes, three orations each .

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declamation.

The old practice of committing pieces to memory for "speaking" id
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 specimen.

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 to
the study hall before the body of students.

The senior and junior classes also deliver their orations to pubhc.

PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The entire senior class pursues the study of intellectual
science, twice a week, through the year; and political econ-
omy wice a week, during the last two terms. The , instruc-
Zl in this department is by lectures in combination with
text-books. . .

s ssrs^*-** De<i " o,i ™ ,nd "°'"""

' , hflS a . s0 been established in English. The

A Post-graduate Course has a so uee
following courses have been given : h Merchant of Venice,

(!) «WNP-5T»5*J? Y Richard III, King John.
As You Like It, Henry IV. Fart i^ Dromahc Pctfsy

(2) Dryden-Poetical Works (OWJJ •>. » Saintsbur ys ii/<

(Thomas Arnold) ; JS«.«|f "» »' '

ofDrydm. SaJirM (Pattison); Stephen's !../« of

'nL-Poemi Tr-erto (Ward), Aoft ^ c Wera(ure .

I^Qo^.^»^J e to £ ^LS».C«--r,: Addison, Pope,

5) *«U» ^^oLper Burke.
Grft y , Goldsmith, Burns C wper ^ poe<

^4) American Literature .

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CHEMISTEY.

PROFESSOR B, B. ROSS.

ttistruotion 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
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 manufac-
tures 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 & Fchorlemmer, Fownes, Frankland, Remsen, Cooke's
Chemical Philosophy, Chemical Journals.

These lectures are amply, illustrated by means of suitable
specimens of raw materials and manufactured products,
together with models and diagrams.

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REFERENCE BOOKS.

Waener-s Chemical Technology, Muspratf s Chemistry as apnhed
to Arts and Manufacturing, lire's Dictionary, Watt's Dtc«onw,,
LhV&m 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
,er w et) and includes a thorough discussion of the origin
rmposit on and classification of soils, the composition and
composition _ ources f plant food and how ob-

gro wth of plants the urces ^ ^^ ^ ^

SfcdfiTCSS-l principles involved in the rota-
of fertilizers, tne ^ ^ ^

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MM ,o ol practical work ,. the «^'° ? brMe8 the

conoeetion with e.oh eoum ol b*n* ^ ^

poetical operation, ol . *» cj «*- ^ ^ „, the

ing varied somewhat to suit

Student. fro m9AM.to5r.M.,duringsix

The laboratories, which are Jjjjj every thing **"«£.
davs in the week, are amply bUPP ji* ua iitative and quant

Suction in chemical ^ff^SU ~*»Ufc

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prosecuting chemical researche- J^ ^ ^ ^, Btudy of prac

students who wish to devote the. ^ ^

tical chemistry. chemic al laborato y i ^

Each student on entei ""(5 bottles , and t e J

with a work table, a set o * *, rt a „d quant.tauve J
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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 his contingent fee.

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, geid, etc., upon
other metals will be given, and, in addition, the application of elec-
trolysis 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-
tion of Agricultural Chemists, Wiley's Principles and Practice of
Agricultural Analysis. ^

CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
[For description of the building see page 14.]

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 scien-
tific 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 micros-
cope, and other instruments for delicate and accurate work

HISTOKY AND LATIN.

PROFESSOR PETRIE.
HISTORY.

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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. .-. -

history of England.

In the sophomore class (three hours per week until March)
the subject studied is general European history.

In the junior and senior classes opportunity for special historical

gate in the library under the direction o* tta piofeij P
Lcted with the lectures, and wiH repor t the clas ^ e.
research. These reports w, 11 be made thba-o

A series of lectures will be given from tune tc . w
foreign events, and on important points in recent hi.tory.

Text-Books. — *.

W.M11 & Lemmon's History of the United
Freshman class.-Cooper, Est 11 4. Lem , the Unite d States

States, Thorpe & McCorvey's Civil Gove indent
and Alabama, Montgomery s English H»tory_
Sophomore class.-Myers's ^ ^JJ. <* the Union, Wood-
Junior and Senior classes.-Hait *o o{ E land .
row Wilson's Division and Reunion. Oman

LATIN.
The objects kept in view in this depart ac-
curate knowledge of the ^^^'tbeir English
with Latin words, their etymology _^ ^ ^ in _
derivatives ; an appreciation 0I , and civilizat ion b
telligent conception «***££ on t £ 6 mo dern world,
themselves and in their etteci, o

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A systematic course of instruction is given in the forms and
syntax. These are taught bgth deductively from a grammar and
inductively from the text r^ad Translation is constantly practiced,
sometimes at sight, sometimes after being assigned for preparation.
English passages based on a familiar author or illustrative of special
construction's are put into Latin both orally and in writing. Great
emphasis is laid on the etymology of the words in the text read.

For' the benefit of students who do not study the Latin language a
series of popular lectures will be given upon the great Latin writers.

Text- Books.

Freshman Class— Grammar, Exercises, Nepos, Sallust.

Sophomore Class.— Cicero, Selections from Livy, Allen & Green-
ough's Grammar, Exercises.

Junior Class.— Virgil, Horace, A. & G.'s Grammar, Exercises, Al-
len's History of Rome, Wilkins's Roman Antiquities.

Senior Class-Selections from Latin Authors, Wilkins's Latin Lit-
erature, Ancient Classics for English Readers, Exercises.

MODERN LANGUAGES.

PROFESSOR C. H. ROSS.

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 knowledge of
the elements of grammar and a. correct pronunciation,
together with facility in translating ordinary French. Read-
ing is bdgan at an early stage, and the principles of gram-
mar 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 instruction is given upon the laws of grammar

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the construction of the language, and the history of the
literature. Special attention is given to sight translation.

German— Tioo 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.

A post-graduate course in French has been offered, con-
sisting of a study of the life and works of Victor Hugo and
Alexandre Dumas, Sr.

Text-Books.

French — First Year: Keetels' Elementary French Grammar;
French Fairy Tales, Jules Verne's Michel StrogofT.
, Second Year : Hugo's Hernani, MerimeVsColomba; French Prose
Composition.

Post-graduate Course: Les Miserables, Les/Irois Mousquetaires ;
various books and articles on Hugo and Dumas. *

German — First Year: Harris's German Lessons; Super's Ele-
mentary German Reader, Zschokke's Der Zerbrochene Krug.

Second Year: Goold's Tales from Hauff,. Goethe's Hermann und
Dorothea ; Harris's German Composition.

ELECTEICAL ENGINEERING.

PROFESSOR McKISSICK.

The students in this course will study English, French. or German,
physics, mathematics, etc., 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.

JUNIOR YEAR.

Four hours a week for the entire session are devoted to
the studies of the principles of electricity and ma^tism.
The student is made familiar with the theoretical r5rinci>les
by experiments, illustrations, recitations, and lectures.

Laboratory Work.-Foui- hours per week are given to
work in the laboratory. This includes management of
batteries, construction of instruments, electro-plating, elec-
trical measurements, verification of the principles upon
whih the measurements of current, electromotive force and

resistance are based, etc.
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Tkxt-Books.

Avrton's Practical Electricity, Stewart and Gee's Practical
Physics, Niehol'i Laboratory Manual, 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 demonstra-
tions on the applications of electricity to lighting, electric
railways, electrical transmission of energy, polyphase cur-
rents, electrical welding, etc.

Laboratory Work. — Six hours per week are devoted to
practical laboratory work, electrical measurements, relation
of electrical currents to heat and mechanical work, care and
tests of dynamo and motors, calibration of voltmeters, am-
meters and watt-meters, electric lighting, management and
care of accumulators, energy consumed*rn lamps, adjustment
and care of arc lamps, proper wiring of buildings, the ap-
plication of electricity to street railways, magnetic meas-
urements, tests of transformers and alternating motors, etc.

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, etc.

Text-Books.

Thompson's Dynamo Electric Machinery, American Street Kail-
ways by Hedges, NiehoPs Laboratory Manual, Vol. II.

Post-graduate Course. *■

This includes advanced study and laboratory work in alternating
currents.

Reference Books.

The Dynamo by Hawkins & Wallace, Alternating Currents by Jack-
son, Principles of the Transformer by Bedell, Dynamos, Alternators
and Transformers by Kapp, Alternating Current Phenomena by
Steinmetz.

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equipment.

The electrical laboratory has a complete line of batteries, call-
bells, annunciators, telegraph sounders, relays, keys, magnets, gal-
vanometers, resistance boxes, electro-plating apparatus, and all ap-
paratus for students in electrical engineering. The equipment
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, read-
ing 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 electro-
static voltmeter, Cardew voltmeter (for direct or alternating cur-
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;
Thompson watt-meter, ballistic reflecting galvanometer, mirror gal-
vanometer, Fein ammeter and voltmeter, Ayrton & Perry ammeter,
Edison ammeters, Kohl's solenoid ammeter, Wood ammeter, Deprez
ammeter, Hartman & Braun voltmeter, D'Arsonval galvanometer,
Rowland-D'Arsonval galvanometer, Hughe's induction balance, tasi-
meter, microphone, telephones, electrolytic apparatus and several
mirror and other galvanometers for first year students.

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 Ideal 5 kilo-watt three phase
alternator; one Thomson-Houston 9 arc light dynamo with 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 ; one General Electric 5 horse-power in-
duction motor; General Electric 20 horse-power motor; one Stanley
induction motor with condensers ; Edison 3^ kilo-watt generator ; a
Crocker-Wheeler one horse-power motor and rheostat, and one
bi-phase alternator, and 500 volt generator, made by special students
furnish current to laboratory, and light up the different buildings'
A lamp board with a capacity of 210 lamps has been installed and is
used for testing purposes.

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 e ectnc motor made by students, supplied with current fronla
generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press, ensi-

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lage 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 transmission
of power.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANIC

ARTS.

PKOFESSOR WILMOHE.

B. H. CRENSHAW,
R. J. TRAMMELL,

MECHANIC ARTS.

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-
molding, casting and smithing; third year, machine shop-
chipping and filing and machiue 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 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 st-am pump and a heater for the feed water form
apart 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 following :
30 wood-working benches, each with complete set of carpenter s too s ;
24 tiirning-lathes, 10-inch swing, each with complete set of tools ;
1 double circular saw ; 1 band saw ; 1 board-planing machine ; 1 buz,
planer; 1 large pattern-make* lathe, 16-inch swing; 3 -inch
grindstone. The tool room is supplied with a variety of extra and-
toolsfor special work, and in addition ^^v»f^W^
tools in-lfie benches, each student is supplied ^^Jf*£*
and plane irons with a locker to keep them m and is held responsible
for their care and condition. h*n*hAi for

The equipment for the foundry coiwuts oJ molding benches for

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18 students, each supplied with a complete set of molder's tools; a
28-inch Colliau cupola, with all modern improvements, capable of
melting 2,(»0O 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 molding 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 trie 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 six engine-lathes (screw-cutting), 14-inch swing,
6-foot bed ; 2 engine-lathes, 18-inch swing, (one with taper attach-
ment) ; 1 engine-lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound res,t and taper
attachment; 1 screw-cutting lathe, 12-inch swing; 1 speed lathe, 10-
inch swing; I 20-inch drill press (power feed); 110-inch sensitive
drill ; 1 15-inch shaper ; 1 22-inch x 22 inch x 5 feet planer; 1 univer-
sal milling machine; 1 corundum tool grinder (14-inch wheel); 1
bench grinder; 1 post xirill press, 14-inch; 1 universal cutter and
reamer grinder; 1 Brown & Sharpe universal grinding machine; 1
power hack saw. A part of the room is set apart for vise-work,
chipping and filing; and benches for 12 students are provided, each
with vise and set 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,
hies 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 or hand work covering the first two terms
The lefsons 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 cabinetwork,
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 leng hs
simple and compound curves, screw plate and chuck work, hollow
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Second Year.

III. A course in molding and casting in iron and brass occupy-
ing 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 practi-
cal knowledge of the usual methods and appliances used in light
foundry work. Most of the work is in graen sand in two part flasks;
core work is also given, and some three part flask and some dry sand
work is introduced.

In connection with this second year work, a series of lectures is
given on the metallurgy and working of the metals used in the indus-
trial arts, cast and wrought iron, steel, brass, etc.

Third Year.

L 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, slotting,
dovetail work, sawing, pin and screw filing, surface finishing with

scraper, etc. T ,

II. Machine work occupying the remainder of the year, ine
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 ^g.etc,,
with planer and shaper, milling various ^™*^^X5.
chine, including exercises in making taps, reamers, etc.,fitting, gnna-

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neoted with machine work in metals : such as forms, conation and
use of the various machines, cutting tools, gearing, gauges, screw

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threads, etc. During the last term some piece of construction work
is given the classes.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
JUNIOR YEAR.

Principles of Mechanism. — Three recitations per week
during the second and third terms are devoted to this
subject.

Mechanical Drawing —Daring the first term the students make
drawing to exact scale, of some of the simpler machines. The stu-
dent takes his own measurements and makes his own sketches from
which to make the finished drawing.

An elementary course of machine design is started at the beginning
of the second term and continued till the end of the year. Some
comparatively simple machine is selected and studied in all its de-
tails. Careful attention is given to the strength of the parts and their
mechanical arrangement with reference to facility of manufacture
An actual machine or the working drawings of a machine are ob-
tained, the dimensions compared with those obtained by applying
the theoretical formulas, and the causes of variation between the
two studied.

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.

WocxTb Elementary Mechanics ; Stahl and Wood's Elementary
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SENIOR YEAR.

Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants. -The first term
five hours per week is given to the study of the practical
applications of steam machinery. It is believed that a
thorough knowledge of the apparatus in actual practical use
is the best preparation a student can have for the study of
the theory, and to that end, the different types of engines,
boilers, pumps, condensers, and other auxiliary apparatus
are taken up and studied in detail, and the advantages and
disadvantages of each discussed. Extensive files of manu-
facturer's catalogues are kept and the technical papers and
magazines in the library are freely used in order to keep in
touch with the latest and best practice in engineering work.

Steam Engine.— -The second 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, effects 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. -Six weeks of the third term, five
hours per week, will be given to the study of this subject. The ad-
vantage of graphical over analytical methods is generally recognized,
and new applications of the former are constantly being made. By
its use the forces acting in every part of a machine may be deter-
mined,' both in direction and intensity, without the use of a mathe-
matical formula. . ... -

During the remainder of the third term, a series of lectures on
mechanical refrigeration and gas engines is given.

Machine Design.— The subject of machine design is made
a continuation of the junior course and runs throughout
the year, two hours a week. During the first term, the
strength and proportions of different joints and fastenings
are studied, and problems given for actual solution. During
the remainder of the year the time is spent on steam engine
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are coin pared with the dimensions as used by the best con-
structors, and the reasons for variations, if any occur, are
studied.

Laboratory Work.— The students are not only taoght how to cali-
brate and use the different instruments, but they are brought in
~oo*K*et with engineering appliances under practical working con-
ditio**

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
t#*t with determination of the quality of steam and analysis of flue
gas ; efficiency test of engine with brake and indicator power
urement ; test of hot air pumping engine ; efficiency and duty of

£**«*?; tenaional. congressional and transverse tests of cast .

«roa*ht iron, steel and wood, in which are observed the limit of
elasticity, t^e ultimate breaking strength and the modulus of
elasticity

Ml cla>> * illy makes a test of some electric plant or mill
tii»e i» the last term

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Imperial cross compound engine, especially arranged for
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a£r|*m**ft4 circulating pump, of a 25 horse-power .
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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.

POST-GRADUATE COUESE.

The following course has been arranged and represents the amount
of work required. Hydraulics may be substituted for thermody-
namics if the members of the class are unanimous in wishing the
change Other substitutions may be made at the option of the pro-
fessor, provided they represent an equivalent amount of work, and
are in the general line of the course selected.

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.
TiSS^to of the Steam Engine.-TMs 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.

Father's Dynamometers and Measurement of Power, Spangler's
Valve Gears, Peabody's Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine,
Merriman's Hydraulics.

AGEICULTUEE.

PROFESSOR DUGGAR.

Instruction in agriculture is given by means of lectures,
text-books,bulletinsof the agricultural experimental 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 throe terms of the sopho-
more year and two terms of the junior year. The time
devoted to this 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,

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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,— r
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
subjects are studied: soils— chemical and physical prop-
erties, 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 every class the student is encouraged 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 ays-

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tern of farming rests and the 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 accumulaiing 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; Milk and its Pro-
ducts, by Wing; Dairyman's Manual, by Stewart; Soils and Crops of
the Farm, by Morrow & Hunt ; Muir's Agriculture ; Corn Culture, by
Plumb ; The Soil, by King ; Manures and the Principles of Manuring,
by Aikman ; Drainage for Profit and Health, by Waring; Agriculture
in some of its Relations with Chemistry, by Storer ; Manual of Cat-
tle 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 agricul-
tural 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.

BIOLOGY AND HORTICULTUEE.

PROFESSOR EARLE.

The subject of biology is required of the senior class in
the courses of chemistry and agriculture, and of phar-
macy. It occupies five hours a week for three terms of
the senior year. The work in this department will be
largely confined to the study of the lower forms of plant
life and to vegetable physiology, or the study of plants as
living beings. Under the first head special attention will
be given to the bacteria and other disease producing
organisms of man and the higher animals ; and to the par-
asitic fungi that cause diseases of plants. Under vegetable
physiology those problems that explain the foundation for
correct agriculture practices will be made most prominent.
This will include the germination of seeds, the food and

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without first placing all the circumstances of the case before his pa-
rent or guardian, s.

Candidates for appointment or promotion may be required to stand
an examination. Moral fitness, including demerits, will be consid-
sidered .

Each company is officered by One captain, two first lieutenants, one

second lieutenant, and with a proper number of non-commissioned

officers. The officers and non-commissioned 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 Ii fantrv
Tactics. J

The senior class recites once a week in " Notes on Military Science."
On the graduation of each clasc the names of such students as have
shown sperial aptitude for military service will be reported to the
Adjutant-General of the U. S. Army, and the names of the three
most distinguished in military science and tactics will be inserted in
the U. S. Army Register, and published in general orders from head-
quarters of the army.

PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR CARY.
PHYSIOLOGY.

The sophomore class studies human anatomy, physiology
and hygiene during the entire college year

r>rt£! he ? m ?l the , ? e P artment t0 give the students
practical and real knowledge of the gross anatomy and func-
tions of the various parts of the human body. Due atten-
tion 18 given also, to the laws of health-the conditions

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Instruction is given by lectures and by text-books sud-
plemented by black-board drawings, charts models of
organs, a human skelelon, and by dissections o some of the
smaller animals (dog, cat, etc.). -

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Martin's Human Body is used as a text and reference
book, and several other works on anatomy, physiology and
hygiene may be consulted in the college and experiment
station libraries.

VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART.

Students in the agricultural and chemical course of study,
during the entire junior and senior years, devote to this
work two hours per week in the class room and three hours
per week at practical clinics. Instruction in veterinary
science and art is given by lectures.

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.

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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, and the ways of protecting the health of domestic animals
are considered in as plain and practical a 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.

The senior class in pharmacy devotes three hours per week, during
the first term, to the study of bacteriology in the class room and
laboratory ; and three hours per week to the study of therapeutics
during the second and third terms.

To the post-graduate student this department furnishes
work in histology, bacteriology, pathology, meat and milk
inspection.

tJttMf tmen K 0f 1 ^ hySi0 u 1 ° gyand veterin «y science is now loca-
ted by i self n a bmld.ng which consists of a two-story portion, con-
tain.ng four laboratory rooms on the second floor and a lecture oom
museum and office on the lower floor; and a one-story part 3
contains an operating room. " ™ '

The building is supplied with water and gas, and the laboratorv i«

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PHARMACY AND PHARMACOGNOSY.

PROFESSOR 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.

Pharmacognosy .—Class work with laboratory work, four
hours a week. All official vegetable drugs studied with aid
of simple and compound microscope.

SENIOR YEAR.

Laboratory, nine hours a week. Preparation of official
and non-official pharmaceutical chemicals, inorganic and or-
ganic. Pharmaceutical testing by pharmacopoeial methods.
Drug assaying, special attention given to compounding of
prescriptions.

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 pharmaceutical preparations and the com-
pounding of not less than than fifty prescriptions.

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ZOOLOGY.

PBOFESSOR BAKER.

Instruction is offered under four heads :

(1) General Morphology, (2) Embryology, (3) Taxonomy,
and (4) Interrelations of Plants and Animals.

The entire course for a post-graduate degree will cover the work
of the four full terms. At present, in the course of agriculture, a
portion, amounting to one term's work, is required for a degree.

(1) General Morphology. Under this head is included a study of
the anatomy and physiology of types of each of the great groups of
animals. The guides in this work, which is all done at the laboratory
table, will be Huxley's Crayfish, Huxley and Martin's Practical
Biology, and Parker's Zootomy.

(2) Embryology. For work in embryology the department is well
equipped, possessing incubators, microtome, the best microscopes,
and all necessary re-agents. Students taking embryology will be
engaged largely with the development of the chick, using Foster and
Balfour's Elements.

(3) Taxonomy. The principles of taxonomy will be taught entirely
by the laboratory method. Some work will be done in each of the
greater groups, dissecting and classifying many of the common ani-
mal forms. In this subject there will be used the College collection
of periodicals and special works, together with the private library of
special papers and monographs of the professor. The private
zoological collections of the professor, now in the entomological
laboratory, containing a large number of specimens, will be at the
service of students.

(4) Interrelations of Plants and Animals. It is through the close
relations existing between the plant and animal worlds, that the
latter has so important an influence on agricultural and other in-
terests. The subject will be taught almost entirely by field work,
the facts being brought out by the students themselves through ob-
servation and experiment. A consideration of the subject in general
will be followed by a study of the various insects injurious to field
and garden crops. Beneficial species will also be considered, especial
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pollination and cross fertilization of plants. The field investigations
will be supplemented by lectures.

The department has a most exceptional outfit for thorough general
work. It has, in connection with the department of horticulture
and mycology, a lecture room and students' laboratory, the latter
being a large, well-lighted room, provided with water, gas, slate-
topped tables, and fully equipped with microscopes, re-agents and all
other apparatus necessary in a study of general zoology. It has also
a well equipped entomological laboratory and a costly experimental
plant house in connection therewith.

REGULATIONS.

(1) Each student upon entering is required to sign his name in
the matriculation book, and pledge himself to obey the rules and

regulations of the College.

(2) Every absence from recitation or examination is graded zero.

(3) When the term grade of a cadet is lowered by reason of ab-
sence for which a satisfactory excuse can be rendered, a special term
re-examination may be subsequently granted, and the grade made
on the special re-examintion alone is substituted for that previously

re aT e Only sickness, as reported by the Surgeon, or being absent by
reason of family sickness, will constitute a satisfactory excuse for
arantine a re-examination.

g When a cadet is called away from College by his parents hi. zeros
for absences are not removed.

(5) The term grade of a student is the average of h.s dai ly
sesLal and ternfexamination marks, found by giving due weight to

th « 6 rPr"a a tSonh e n senior class in full standing who are candidates

(6) ravages ui Luc D Prpsident from all military
for graduation may be excused by th * Jjjjj [ U me of
drills, and also students over twenty one yea* .01 ag

entering College that are , «J g » ££ Jjj fc

DISTINCTIONS.

a a •„ thP different subjects of each class to
Distinctions are awarded >n the different , .

those students whose grade for the entire ye

cent. . ownr ded in public on commencement

Certificates of Distinction are warded mp«Q ^ ^ tf ^ ^

day to those who obtain an ««»*T £ those wh o obtain three

scribed studies of a regular class an 80phom0 re class, five

distinctions in the freshman <*£.£ claS8> provide d they have
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satisfactorily passed all the regular examinations of that session, and
have not received forty demerits during the year.

A distinction is not given in the senior class if the average grade in
any one subject is less than 75 per cent.

RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.

Daily records of the various exercises of the classes are kept by
the officers of instruction.

From the records 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 finalexamina-
tions, can be promoted to full standing in the next higher class onlv
on satisfactory examinations at the opening of the next session

LIBRARY.

The library occupies an elegant, well-lighted room in the main

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9,000 bound volumes, including valuable reference and scientific

books, with select editions of standard authors, and DtJerslSSe

for students carefully and recently selected, it is kept olTetlt

hours daily for the use of students as a reading room and 1S t £s

made an important educational feature.

MUSEUM.

The museum occupies a large room in the third story It is nro
vided with suitable cases and is equinned with ™i k, P "

and models of an instructive character ValUabl6 SpecimeDS

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Students, afters 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.

Permission to board and lodge at different houses will be granted
only to seniors, to cadets twenty-one years of age and to those who
are on the "honor roll."

By special arrangement with the College authorities, Mrs. M. L.
Mitchell and Mrs. A. DeBardeleben will accommodate students with
board, lodging, fuel, etc., for $9.50 per month.

EXPENSES.

There is no charge for tuition for a resident of Alabama.

Incidental fee, per half session $ 2 50

Library fee, per half session — 1 00

Surgeon's lee, 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.

For a non-resident of the State there is a charge for
tuition of $20.00 per session, payable $10.00 on matricula-
tion and $10.00 on February 1st, in addition to the semi-
annual fee of $6.00 payable by all students.

Board, per month, with fuel and lights. .$ 12 00 to $15 00

Fees 12-00to 12 00

Board, lodging fuel and lights 108 00 to 135 00

Washing 900to 900

Books, e g tc.; say 8 00 to 15 00

Total $137 00 $17100

For non-resident student there should be added to, the amounts
given above $20.00 for tuition. This tuition fee is not required of
any non resident student who matriculated during the session of

18 Si 7 tion for students not residents of Alabama is ?£ per session,

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unless remitted by the Trustees to worthy students upon the recom-
mendation of the Faculty.

The remission of this tuition fee to non-resident students will: be
granted in the form of a free scholarship after the first year, to those
who obtain a distinction the preceding year, or who, by reason of
merit, are deemed worthy.

UNIFORM.

A uniform of cadet gray cloth is prescribed, which all uhder-
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 at present
$14.00. It is neat and serviceable, and less expensive than ordinary
clothing.

CONTINGENT FEE.

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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 student.

AMOUNT OF DEPOSIT.

Fees to be paid on entrance:

Incidental fee $ 2* s 6x)

Library { L00

Surgeon _ 2 50

Contingent fee , 5 qq

Uniform [ 14.00

$25.00 $25.00
Tuition, non-resident 10 00

$35.00

Besides the above, the student should deposit with the Treasurer

enough to pay for books, one month's board, incidentals, amounting

to, say $25.00. Hence, a resident of Alabama should deposit with the

Treasurer $50 00, a non-resident, $60.00.

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FUNDS OF STUDENTS.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

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, unless specially
requested in writing by the parent. I

The College cannot be held responsible \f or 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 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 April.

The subject must be submitted for approval by January 1st.

LITEEARY 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 con-
ducted 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.

SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI.

The annual alumni oration is delivered by a member of the society,
in Langdon Hall, on Alumni Day, Tuesday of commencement week.
The following are the officers of the society :

C. W. Ashcraft, '88, President.
W. H. Blake, '79, Vice-President.
W. L. Fleming, '96, Secretary."
B. H. Crenshaw, '89, Treasurer.
J. T, Ashqraft, '80, Orator for 1898,

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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 enter-
ing college.

ACADEMIC TEAR

The academic year for 1898-99 commences on Wednes-
day, 14th September, 1898 (second Wednesday after the first
Monday), and ends on Wednesday, 14th June, 1899 (second
Wednesday after the first Monday), which is commencement
dav.

It is divided into three terms. The first term extends
from the opening of the session to the 23rd of December ;
the second term begins January 3rd, and ends March 19th ;
the third term continues to the close of the session.

RESOLUTION OF THE TKUSTEES.

The following resolution has been 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 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 ex-
panded system of practical instruction in industrial science in the
course of education now provided for.

DONATIONS TO LIBRARY.

U. S. Government.— Fublic Documents, 216 volumes.

Senator Morgan.— Public Documents, 46 volumes.

American Book Company.— Lights of Two Centuries. V

Col. M. V. ifoore.— Rhyme of the Southern Rivers.

Prof. C. C. Thach.—Yoet Lore, 2 volumes; Bolingbroke's Works,
4 volumes ; Delivered from Afar, by Ralph Roberts.

Governor of New South Wales.-A History of the Development of
New South Wales.

Dr. P. C. Candidus.— Pharmaceutical Reports (for the Department
of Pharmacy).

A labam a Polytechnic^Instttute.

DONATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING.

Stanley Electric Co., Pittsfield, Mass., one horse-power induction
motor, with switch, transformer and condenser.

Campbell & Wright, Jr., Roanoke, Ala., one "Star" 40 light
dynamo.

Cutter Electrical and Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, Pa., one
circuit breaker.

Sentinel Electric Co., Wilmington, Del., one circuit breaker.
D. & W. Fuse Co., Providence, R. I., samples of enclosed fuses.
Shawmut Fuse Wire Co., Boston, Mass., samples of fuses.
Chicago Fuse Wire & Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111., samples of fuses.
Buckeye Electric Co., Cleveland, 0., samples of lamps.
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., samples of lamps.
Sawyer-Man Electric Co., Allegheny, Pa., samples of lamps.
Fort Wayne Electric Corporation, Fort Wayne, Ind., photographs.
Bossert Electrical Construction Co., Utica, N. Y., samples of con-
duit boxes.
Warren Electric Specialty Co., Warren, 0., samples of lamps.
Beacon Lamp Co., N. J., samples of lamps.
Columbia Incandescent Lamp Co., St. Louis, Mo., samples of lamps.

PEKIODICALS.

The following periodicals are regularly received in the
main library and are accessible to students.

LITERARY.

QUARTERLIES.

Current History,
Economic Journal,
Edinburgh Review,
Political Science Quarterly,

Atlantic Monthly,
Blackwood's Magazine,
Bookman,
Book Reviews,
Century Magazine,
Chautauquan,
Contemporary Review,
Cosmopolitan,
Eclectic Magazine,
Education,
Educational Review,

Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Quarterly Review,
Sewanee Review.

MONTHLIES.

Fortnightly Review,
Forum,

Harper's Monthly,
McClure's Magazine,
Munsey's Magazine,
Nineteenth Century,
North American Review,
Review of Reviews,
Scribner's Magazine,
Westminister Review.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

WEEKLIES.

Academy,

Critic,

Dial,

Harper's -Weekly,

Independent (New York),

Literary Digest,

Literary World (Boston),

Nation,

Outlook,

Saturday Review,

Spectator.

SCIENTIFIC.

American Machinist,
American Journal of Mathe-
matics,
Cassier's Magazine,
Compressed Air,
Electrical Engineer,
Electrical Review,
Electrical World,
Electrician,
Engineering,
Engineering Magazine,
Engineering and Mining,

Engineering News,

Journal of Franklin Institute,

Machinery,

Mathematical Monthly,

Physical Review,

Power,

Scientific American,

Sibley Journal of Mechanical
Engineering,

Transactions American Insti-
tute of Electrical Engineers.

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

and newspapers received in the agricultural experiment station

library.

Botanical Gazette,
Botanisches Centralblatt,
Breeder's Gazette,
Bulletin N. Y. Botanical Garden,
Bu letin ToVrey Botanical Club,
Bn etin Societe d'EntomoIogie,
Bulletin Societe Mycologique,
Bulletin Botanical Dept. Jamaica,
Berliner Thierajrztliche Wochen-
schrift,

Chemiker-Zeitung,

AnnalesdeTscie^rNaturelles- SSSW
Botanique, - ° entral °latt f uer Bakteriologie, I,

Annals Society Entomology, J*"?,' ' "l' Bakter ¥°«ie. H,

Annals of Botany, Commercial and Financial Chroni-

Annals & Mag. Natural History Com^. r .,
Anthony's Photographic BuUrtft. n» P ~ Rendu8 '
Annals des K. K^ZCuT '$ " PJ * nter Journal -
Aaa Gray's Bulletin, "' °° u "t'J Gentleman and Cultiva-

. ' tor,

American Agriculturist,

American Cultivator,

American Gardening,

American Geologist,

American Journal of Science,

American Monthly Microscopi-
cal Journal,

American Naturalist,
American Swineherd,
Analyst,

Anatomi8cher Anzeiger,
Annales Agronomiques,

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

Die Landwirt. Versuchs-Sta-
tionen,

Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Tier-
medicine,

Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche
Presse,

Drainage Journal,

Dairy World,

Elgin Dairy Report,

Entomological Monthly Magazine, Kansas Farmer,

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Journal Chemical Society (Eng-
land),
Journal of Horticulture,
Journal Royal Agricultural So-
ciety,
Journal Applied Microscopy,
Journal Royal Microscopical So-
ciety,
Journal Franklin Institute,

Entomologist,

Entom. Nachrichter,

Erythea,

Farm and Home,

Farmer's Guide,

Farm and Fireside,

Farmer's Home,

Farmer's Voice,

Farming,

Farmers' Gazette of New South

Wales,
Farm News,

Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower,Pittonia,

Forester,

Garden and Forest,

Gardener's Chronicle,

Gentleman Farmer,

Herwigia,

Hoard's Dairyman,

Homestead,

Horticultural Gleaner,

Hoistein-Friesian Register,

Hufschmied,

Landwirt Jahrbuecher,
Market Garden,
Massachusetts Ploughman,
Memoirs Torrey Botanical Club,
Montana Fruit Grower,
Naturae Novitates,
Natural Science,
Nature,

New England Florist,
Optical Lantern Magazine,
Our Grange Home,
Practical Farmer,

Philosophical Magazine,
Photographic Bulletin,
Photographic Times,
Popular Science Monthly,
Proceedings Academy of Natural

Science, Philadelphia,
Revue Bryologique,
Revue Mycologique,
Revue Horticole,
Rural New Yorker,

Science,

Southern Cultivator,

Southern Farmer.

Indiana Farmer,

Journal d' Agriculture Pratique,

&a£S3*El of to*, n Farm Gazette,

Natural History, 2S5t

Journal African Chemical So- ^thernJUnter,^

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Journal of Chemical Industrial Snnshine,^^ ^ ^.^

JoulTof Comparative Pathol- Southern Farmer and Horticul-

ogy and Therapeutics, JJ™^ ^ rmel>
Journal of Geology,

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Texas Farm and Ranch,
Transactions Entomological So-
ciety,
Veterinary Journal,
Veterinary Review.
Wallaces' Farmer,
Western Rural,
\Vestern Creamers,

Wilson's Photographic Magazine,
Wool Record,

Zeitschrift fuer Anal. Chem.,
Zeitschrift fuer Fleisch-und

Milch-Hygiene,
Zoologiseher Anzeiger,
Zeitschrift fuer Tiermedicine.

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i/is Excellency, JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON, President Ex-officio,

JOHN W. ABEROROMBIE, Superintendent of Education.. Ex-officio.

J. G. Gilchrist (term expires 1903) Hope Hull.

Tancrbd Betts (term expires 1903) Huntsvllle.

Walter C. Whitaker. . (term expires 1903) .Tuscaloosa.

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 .

T. H. Frazer (term expires 1899) .Mobile.

H. Clay Armstrong (term expires 1899) Auburn.

R. H. Duggar (term expires 1899) Gallion.

E. T. Glenn, Treasurer.
J. H. Drake, M. D., Surgeon.

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*6*4 FACULTY AND OFFICERS.

Wm. LdROY 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.

JAMES H. LANE, 0. E., A. M., Ph. D., LL. D.,
Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.

CHARLES C. THACH, A. M.,
Professor of English and Political Economy.

GEORGE PETRIE, M. A., Ph. D.,
Professor of History and Latin.

A. F. McKISSICK, A. M.. M. M. E.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics.

B. B. ROSS, M. So.,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.

CHARLES H. ROSS, C. E., Ph. D..
Professor of Modern Languages.

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.

E. R. MILLER, Phar. M., M. So.,
Professor of Pharmacy.

J. F. DUGGAR, M. So.,
Professor of Agriculture.

F. S. EARLE,
Professor of Biology and Horticulture.

COPL. B. S. PATRICK,
Commandant and Acting Professor of Military Science.

R. H. TRAMMELL, C. E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts.

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B. H. CRENSHAW, M. E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts and Mathematics.

0. L. HARE, M. So.,
Instructor in Chemical Laboratory.

H. H.KYSER.E. & M. E.,
Instructor in Physical Laboratory.

H. H. SMITH, M. So.,
Assistant Librarian.

M. T. FULL AN,

Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

A. H. Clark, B. Sc,
Assistant in English.

W. M.WILLIAMS, M. Sc,
Assistant in English and Mathematics.

G. N. MITCHAM, M. Sc,
Assistant in Mathematics.

F. G. MORRISS, B. Sc,
Assistant in Civil Engineering and Drawing.

A. S.MOSES, B. Sc,
Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

A. B.RANSOM, B.Sc,

Assistant in Chemistry.

J. R. McCALLA,B. Sc,
Assistant in Agriculture.

JNO. HARALSON, B. So. ,
Assistant in Electrical Engineering.

B. B. WARWICK, B. Sc,
Assistant in Veterinary Science.

J. W. KING, B.Sc,
Assistant in History and Latin.

W. E. JOHNSON,

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C. C. Thach,
Superintendent of Library.

0. D. Smith,
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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION.

I. F. Culver. Union Springs.

. G. Gilchrist Hope Hull.

lH. Clay Armstrong , . • Auburn.

STATION COUNCIL.

Wm. LeRoy Broun President.

P. H. Mell • Director and Botanist.

B. B. Ross Chemist.

0. A. Cary • • • • -Veterinarian.

J. F. Duggar Agriculturist.

F. 8. Earle Biologist and Horticulturist.

J. T. Anderson Associate Chemist.

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C. L. Hare. First Assistant Chemist.

j q Burton Second Assistant Chemist.

T. U Culver Superintendent of Farm.

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OBJECT OF THE INSTITUTE.

The Institute is a distinctive school of Science and
Lts applications ; being also the State College for the
benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts estab-
ished by the State in 1872, by endowing it with the
and-grajit appropriation made by the U. S. Congress

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The leading object of the Institute, in conformity with
he act of Congress and the acts of the State Legislature,
s to teach the principles and applications of science.

In its courses of instruction it gives prominence to the
ciences and their applications, especially to those that
relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts ; and at the
same time the discipline and liberal education obtained
by the study of language and other sciences is not neg-
lected.

All students are required to study the English lan-

uage. The Latin, French and German languages are

lso 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.

In its different courses of education, work of great
value to the youth of the State is 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 re-
sponsible 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
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LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES FOR INSTRTJC-

.'■ TION.

*lie Institute now possesses facilities for giving labora.
tory instruction in applied science in the following de-
partments :

I IN AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.

The farm contains 226 acres, and is supplied with
illustrative specimens of stock of select varieties.

The agricultural experiment station, established in
connection with the College, where experiments and
scientific investigations relating to agriculture are daily
made, affords unusual opportunities to students to be-
come familiar with agriculture, its defects and remedies.

The students of agriculture accompany the professor
in the field, garden, conservatory, stock-yard, etc., where
lectures are delivered in the presence of the objects dis-
cussed, and during the year exercises in practical agri-
culture 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 of manual train-
ing in the arts that constitute the foundation of various
industrial pursuits. The work performed by the students I

mtructme in character, as in any other laboratory, and
he classes are taught in sections by a series of graded

lessons under the supervision of the professor, fn the
ower 1 f the j each student enterg

school and is assigned three exercises a week, each ex-
ercise being two hours long. I
The object of this laboratory is not to teach a trade

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manual and mental training, to educate thoroughly the
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tion. 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,
90x50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horse-
power Corliss engine, a planer, circular saw, band-saw,
two scroll saws, a buzz planer, a pattern maker's lathe,
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, 30x87 feet, with two rooms, has
|been constructed especially for instruction in working

ron.

One room is equipped with sixteen forges and tools
required for a forge department, and the other with a
Colliau cupola furnace, a core oven, a brass furnace,
molding benches, foundry crane constructed by students,
and special tools for use in a foundry.

The forge and foundry rooms are furnished with a
ISturtevant fan and exhauster, supplied with power from
la ten-horse power engine, constructed by the students
[in mechanic arts.

The machine department occupies a brick building,
30x50 feet, and is equipped with ten engine lathes, one
speed lathe, one 20-inch drill press, one 10-inch sensi-
tive 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 m-achine, 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
Juse in instruction, including a machine for grinding
twist drills. The rooms are lighted with electricity
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Ill — IN PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

The chemical laboratory is supplied with modern ap-
paratus, and in its equipment affords excellent facilities
for instruction in practical chemistry and for investiga-
tion.

The investigations that are undertaken in this labora-
tory by scientific experts, in 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
accommodates sixty students, a lecture room with a
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 graded current and potential
galvanometers, Cardew voltmeter, Weston voltmeters
and ammeter, Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter and am-
meter, Thomson watt-meter, Hartman and Braun volt-
meter, Kohlrausch ammeter, Wood ammeter, Weston
alternating current voltmeter, Weston direct reading
watt-meter, Queen's "Acme" testing set, Rowland-

D'Arsonvalgalvanometers^elvinelectrostaticvoltmeter,
Edison ammeters, and many other current-measuring
instruments, resistance boxes, Wheatstone bridges, con-
densers, telephones, batteries, magnets, etc.

The dynamos occupy a separate building and are. op-
erated by a twen^pftve 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 generator, Crocker-Wheeler one horse power
notor, Ideal 3 phase alternator, Brush 6 arc light
lynamo with lamps, two Baxter street car
notors, % 20 horse power each (so connected
is to be used as direct or alternating current motors or
generators) , one 5 horse power three phase motor, one
General Electric 20 horse power motor, one 40 light
(hunt dynamo, one Edison 3 Kilo-watt generator, one
Stanley induction motor with condenser, two bi-phase
hduction motors (built by students) , one 9 light Thom-
[on-Houston arc machine, two phase alternator and 500

olt 20 afnpere generator, made by students. There is
ilso in connection with this department at the experi-
nent station, a ten horse power motor, made by stu-
lents, which is operated by the 500 volt generator in the

ynamo room.

v — IN PHYSICS.

In the College building provision is made for ele-
nentary laboratory work in the department of^ physics.
Special rooms are appropriated for this purpose, and are
quipped with the necessary appliances for instruction
n practical physics.

VI IN MINERALOGY.

This laboratory occupies a convenient room in the
msement, and is provided with tables and appliances to
iccommodate thirty students, with an excellent collec-
ion of minerals.

VII — IN BOTANY.

In the work of the agricultural experiment station
here is a botanical garden under the charge of the pro-
essor of botany, investigations in botany are given
pecial attention, and opportunities are offered advanced
tudents for practical work in a laboratory especially

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fittted with microscopes, tables, a dark room for photo-
graphic 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, ex-
cellent 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 observa-
tion and execution. A large, well-lighted drawing-room,
which will accommodate fifty students, is provided with
tables, lock boxes, etc.

XI — IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

The mechanical course has been extended to include
experimental work in mechanical engineering.

The apparatus available for this instruction is as fol-
lows : A 45 horse power Imperial Cross compound en-
gine, especially arranged for experimental work, sup-
plied with Wheeler surface condenser and Deane air pump
and circulating pump, a 25 horse power Harris-Corliss
engine, a 35 horse power Atlas engine, two 9 horse
power engines constructed by students, the boilers be-
longing to the regular power plant, a small engine and
boiler for the special purpose of making efficiency tests,
a Deane duplex steam pump, a four horse power gaso-

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line engine, an Ericsson hot air engine, a New York air
pump, a Westinghouse air pump, four steam engine in-
dicators, a separating calorimeter, thermometers, a
pyrometer, scales, a standard steam guage with ap-
paratus for testing steam gauges, a Crosby dead weight
tester with weights for correcting the standard gauge, a
35,000-pound testing machine, a Henning micrometer
extensometer, and a Carpenter calorimeter with the
necessary auxiliary apparatus for determining the heat-
ing value of different kinds of coal.

This work is now carried on in the lower story of the
annex to the chemical laboratory. This room is 30x60
feet in size and was specially designed and fitted up for
this purpose. A three-inch steam main has been laid
from the boiler house, thus securing a steam sup-
ply in the building for all work requiring it. The work
is thoroughly practical, and it is desired to extend it as
rapidly as the funds available for the purchase of appa-
ratus will allow.

XII IN PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.

There has been constructed for the veterinary depart-
ment 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 veterinary science.

XIII — IN PHARMACY.

The laboratory of this department occupies the second
floor of the annex to chemical laboratory, and is pro-
vided with a sufficient supply of drugs and apparatus
necessary for instruction in pharmaceutical preparations.

The students work in the laboratory with the pro-
fessor, from five to eight hours, six days in the week.

It is expected to increase the facilities as means are
available •

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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 supplied with new cadet muskets
and accoutrements for the corps.

COLLEGE BUILDINGS.

The frontispiece is a representation of the main College building.
It is 160 x 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, labora-
tories, library, museum, armory, etc.

LANGDON HALL.

This is a two-story building, 90 x 50 feet. The seoond 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, 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 with seats and tablets for
eighty students. Around the lecture room are cases containing crude
and manufactured products, illustrating agricultural and mechanical
chemistry, prominent subjecls taught in the institution.

ANNEX TO CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

This is a three-story brick building, containing rooms for mechani-
cal engineering, and drawing.

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GRADUATES IN 1898.

CLASS OF 1898.
HONOR GRADUATES.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Arthur McBride Ransom Georgia.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

T , , Dallas .

Jonathan Haralson.

COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

% . . Talladega.

Frank Greene Mornss • • • •

GENERAL COURSE.

„ Geneva.

} Halbert Clyde Ray Montgomery.

i Alexander Humphreys Clark , ■

COURSE IN PHARMACY.

John Wesley Williams

DEGREES.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.

.. Florida.

John Cocke Abernethy Marengo.

Lemuel Sledge Allen Lee

Erin Black .......... • • ' v Lee *

Mary Wright Boyd. Montgomery

William Hamill Bruce .Montgomery

Alexander Humphreys Clark Lowndes.

Henry Neal Coleman ' Crens haw.

George Oliver Dickey .Talladega.

Duncan Patterson Dixon Lee

Clifford Lamar Edwards ..'..Marengo.

Richard Roe Eppes • .Lee.

Frank Farley .Shelby.

William Shelby Garner '.'.'.'.... .Georgia.

Elmer Wynn Gray .Dallas.

Jonathan Haralson • y " L ee .

Francis Williams Hare ^Florida.

Charles Edward Harrison '

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Harry Streety Houghton Jefferson.

William Earle Hudmon Lee.

Joseph Wood King Georgia.

Absalom Mason Kennedy Montgomery

Jessie Hamilton Lockhart Georgia.

John Richard McCalla Lee.

Peter Mastin Mclntyre. Montgomery

Julia Hill Moore L ee

Frank Greene Morriss ............Talladega.

Ashleigh Ktrudwick Moses Baldwin

John Sanford Paden Etowah'

Alexander Simpson Pow Jefferson.

Annie Lucinda Purifoy L ee

Arthur McBride Ransom ......" Georgia

Halbert Clyde Ray .'...'....'...'.Geneva

James Barrie Shivers " Perrv

Newton Caraway Smith Shelbv

Clifford West Stewart M « ♦

' Edward Wadsworth Stone..'.;..: Mon!" 7 '

Rush Price Strong ...'.'.'.'. '.'.'.V Mob f * *

Almuth Cunningham Vandiver . . " " " To^? !

Bishop Billing Warwick.... £ a adega.

John Wesley Williams .''.'.'.'..'''' Talladega.

Joseph Leonard Wood fj]? 6 '

Neander Montgomery Woods Mobile.

Arthur Williamson Greene (c^^^^

CIVIL ENGINEER.

George Nathan Mitcham

Georgia.

ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

Thomas Ganaway Conner

Arthur Williamson Greene Macon ■

William Welch Hill Chambers.

Benjamin 8weat Patrick. Talladega.

S. Carolina.

MASTER OP SCIENCE.

James Washington Culver.

George Webster Duncan... Lee *

John Buford Hobdy Lee

George Michael Holley. Bullock.

Edwin Boyce Joseph Georgia.

William Parker Leonard Montgomery.

William Jacob Nixon Georgia.

Frederick Loyd Tate Tennessee.

Reuben David Webb..: ..\.\ Russell.

Coosa. *

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, and in six in the senior, are dis-
guished for excellence in schol-
arship, and are awarded

HONOR CERTIFICATES.

The following students received honor certificates in 1698:

SENIOR CLASS.

Erin Black • ^ee.

Mary Wright Boyd • ■ • ^ ee ■

Alexander Humphreys Clark Montgomery.

Frank Farley *f e

William Shelby Garner • £11

Jonathan Haralson ™ vi" l

Charles Edward Harrison * Jonaa.

Harry Streety Houghton , Jefferson.

William Earle Hudmon tf e - -■

Jessie Hamilton Lockhart • • <*eorgia.

Julia Hill Moore • • ' ']?*:

Frank Greene Morriss •••••• -Talladega.

Alexander Simpson Pow Jetterson.

Annie Lucinda Purifoy • ee '

Arthur McBride Ransom Georgia.

™ « . ™ j t» Geneva.

Halbert Clyde Ray

Rush Price Strong •

John Wesley Williams. •

HONOR STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR CLASS.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Flake Earle Farley

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

„ , _ _. , r Florida.

Julien Chandler Yonge .•

GENERAL COURSE.

' - ...Georgia.

William Oscar Scroggs

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junior CLASS.

Alston Boyd Tennessee.

Bailey Edgar Brown Morgan.

Mattie Lucile Burton L ee

Thomas Greene Bush ; Calhoun

McNeill Crawford .........Lee

Marion Dawson .......Elmore.

Flake Earle Farley Lee

Jones Stephen Gilliland .Coosa

Kate Meade Lane L ee

Lottie Everard Lane L ee

^amFennen ^onneii... :::::::::;:;:;;;;;:;;;;;;; Madi80n

Hattie Marshall Phelps Lee

Mary Evelyn Robinson [] ,.......][[[ Lee

William Oscar Scroggs G .

William Alexander Thomason. i .".'.'.'.". R«nHnini,

Julien Chandler Yonge ^ ^^ig^ '

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

John Samuel Black T

Guy French Boyd ^

Jesse Wright Boyd [., j

William Crawford Dowdell. j'

Luther Noble Duncan. " i" 66,

Sherman Guy Forbes. .Franklin.

Edward Zellars Heard * Henry.

John Paul Illges * Lee *

Moses Frank Kahn. . . ' Geor g i a

Charles Wellington Nixon! ! ! " ' Lee *

Hiram Perry Powell. Tennessee.

James Richard Rutland. * * ' Geor g ia -

John Winfred ShuflF '"* Chambers.

Talladega.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

William LeGrande Burnett.

John Dreway Foy Barbour.

Arthur Flournoy Jackson! ! Barbour.

Abram Hill Mitchell Georgia.

Gaius Whitfield ' Le ©-

Edward Houston Wills Marengo.

Lee.

CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS.

FOR THE SESSION OF 1898-99-

r *

Graduate Students.

r Residence is Alabama when State is not given.]

1 RESIDENCE.

NAME. T

. _. , .Lee.

Erin Black Lee

Toccoa cowl • ;;;;;;; Lownde9 .

Henry Neal Co eman

Jonathan Haralson

Francis Williams Hare •

Charles Edward Harrison g« ,

Joseph Wood King B

John Richard McOalla •

George Nathan Mitcham '.Talladega.

Frank Greene Momss TUldwin

Ashleigh Strudwick Moses »£ dwUL

Annie Lucinda Purif oy Georgia

Arthnr McBride Ransom • • * de

Bishop Billing Warwick • « B

John Wesley Williams ^

George Wngley

TJndebgbaduate Students,
seniob class.

.„ Marengo.

LeRoy James Allen . . • ^^

Jesse Maldrie Atkinson ^^

Emmett Gale Buck '....... Tennessee.

Alston Boyd • • • • • " ' " T

Harriet Lavinia Dabney Bondurant Lee.

BMley Edgar Brown • ^^

Mattie Lucile Burton Calhoun.

Thomas Greene Bush

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Charles Wallace Collins

McNeill Crawford.

Colonel Seldon Crew

Frederick Robert Daly

Bolivar Davis

Marion Dawson

James Francis Dobbin :

Flake Earle Farley

Arthur Henry Feagin

Hugh Mathersou Fenn

Michael Thomas Fullan

Jones Stephens Gilliland

John Ross Glenn

Theophilus Eaton Goodwin. . .

Fannie Maud Holstuu

Felix Grundv Horn

Kate Meade Laue

Lottie Everard Lane

Harry Toulmin Lay

Thomas Henuiugton McAxJory

Isham Fenuell McDonnell

Charles Henry Merritt

Jackson Chad wick Minge

Benjamin Otey Minge

Hartley Alley Moon .
James Roy den Peabody .
Hattie Marshall Phelps . ,
Lawrence Bratton Rainey
Mary Evelyn Robinson . . ,

John Osgood Rush

William Oscar Scroggs. .

James Cary Slaton

Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe . .

Dozier Turner

James Alfred Ward

Thomas William Wert . . .
George Madison Wheeler.
Julien Chandler Yonge. . .

......

« * . . . . .

• • . .

Hale.
Lee.
Coosa.
Jefferson.
Jefferson.
Elmore.
Florida.
Lee.
Bullock.
Barbour.
Georgia.
Coosa.
Lee.

, Crenshaw.
Lee

Sumter.
Lee.
Lee.

, Montgomery.
Jefferson.
Madison.
Chilton.
Marengo.
Marengo.
Coosa.
Georgia.
Lee.

DeKalb.
Lee.

Autauga.
. Georgia.
Macon.
Louisiana.
Elmore.
Madison.
Morgan.
Madison.
Florida,

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junior class.

Frank Hunter Anderson . . Bullock.

William Lawrence Anderson Montgomery.

Fletcher Ash craft . . Lauderdale.

Jt u b n rt . Pinrnrrfhrtrh rrn .•'.. .fenifflrit -

Malcolm Alfred Beeson Etowah.

John Samuel Black Lee.

Guy French Boyd Lee.

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee.

Millard Morse Brooks ■•/. Escambia.

Abnui' Mauun Bmjliwiiaii (c) ramS^-.

Edwin Bukofzer. . .Tennessee.

Judson Lamar Burke ....Lee.

Andrew Crozier Cameron Jefferson.

, Frank Boyard Chapman, fc) ^ .^ . u , -^^M^k."

*£afl^Rcliblflon"OuMf: . TV. • • • • Lee. f"^

Emma Beall Culver Lee. *

William Crawford Dowdell .... Lee.

Ellis Madison Duncan Franklin.

Luther Noble Duncan Franklin.

Eutherford Sylvanus Finch Montgomery.

John Jefferson Flowers Butler.

Sherman Guy Forbes ...... . ....... Dale.

Earle Humphreys Foy . , Barbour.

TiiijiiiViiTiilimf i i.i uarnnnr.

(^arles^HjpwrPttHer (c) mtiwH»iH.

JA ,mrin"f)iHwy | flu |i ai>iin .■Tnllap'oooa.

Bertha Mae Grout L _ ee -

Wittfom Wontheij y H i tuuon ( c) ■ . • '■

Roland B. Hall : jZrlou.

Harry Young Hall • • '

Charles Lewis Harold .Escambia.

Edward Zellars Heard | jee -

MabelHeard («) > ^ e _

Ja^s^te^6*^iae« (c) .X4w*rtK?rs.

Mary Katherine Hollifield ^ ee -

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John Paul Illges Georgia.

Geprgp Martin likes (c) . A./. .^^. ._.., Montgomery

v^^^nttoses HFrant Kah# Jjee: »

Wilber Edrald Kelley Jefferson.

Henry Daes Lesesne Mobile.

"William Christopher Martin Lee.

/ v. John Maples Eussell.

Enoch Marvin Mason Lee.

James Hardie McGehee Montgomery.

3 Kenneth Bethune McKenzie . ./. ^r^r. . . . Jitter. ^

^fera jfifiS^ .... Marshall.

William Livingston Neill Jefferson.

Charles Wellington Nixon Tennessee.

William Forney Osburn . . Lee.

Hiram Perry Powell .Georgia.

Fleming James Rigney \ Madison.

James Richard Rutland Chambers.

William Stowe Rutledge Lee.

««M (CJ : : r. : : : z : KBSr^-

Joseph Manning Steiner Butler.

Horace Ware. ... .Calhoun.

John Ttiillndgo WiVHmnn JeSwwwi.

Jan—a Wi>Mr ^^Oftfttfr CtWfgia.

Moses Conrad Wright. .Macon, y _ /

ftlOPIIOMQRE CLASS.

Oliver Burnside Andrews Tennessee.

Stearnes Pearson Baker ... Tallapoosa.

Joseph Nathaniel Barker Georgia.

Frank Carlisle Bivings Georgia.

Thomas Bragg ... . Lee.

Kenneth Bradford. * . Montgomery.

William LeGrande Burnette Barbour.

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Salmon Holmes Burns Lee.

Henry Herschel Conner Macon.

James Lorenzo Deaton Georgia.

John Isham Dorsey (c) Lee.

William Hamilton Eager Tennessee.

John Heron Edmonson Barbour.

Eugene Flynn Enslen Jefferson.

Malcolm Nassau Fleming Georgia.

John Drewry Foy Barbour.

William Alexander Frazer Lee.

Walter Lee Greene Lee.

Jacob Lionel Haas . Montgomery.

Alexander Cameron Hannon Montgomery.

Paul Shields Haley Walker.

Wallace Benjamin Harrison Talladega.

Michael Smith Harvey Lee.

Daniel Haygood Haynes Lowndes.

William Baxter Haynes Lowndes.

Charles Henry Haynes , Bullock.

James Kelly Hay me .Montgomery.

Arber Samuel Hertz Georgia.

Robert Holland Hood Jefferson.

Frank Dowsing Howard . Autauga.

Edwin Dewitt Huguley Georgia

Blair Hughes (c) •-• Jefferson.

Arthur Flournoy Jackson , Georgia.

James Baxter Jackson Lee.

Jefferson Franklin Jones Sumter.

Gordon Houston Jones (c) Montgomery.

Myron Daniel Kahn Lee - m

Claude Kauffman • • M° blle -

Emmett Stephens Killebrew Dale.

Howard Malcolm Kilpatrick Georgia.

Edward Kelley .... • Montgomery.

Karl Edward Lindrose Mississippi.

William Eeid Lancaster (c) ^ee.

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Daniel Stacy Martin Barbour.

Robert Murdoch Martin Barbour.

Earle Edwin McBryde Wilcox.

Edward Pinson McLennan Barbour.

Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether Montgomery.

Abram Hill Mitchell Lee.

Isaac Lenoir Moore Montgomery.

Merrill Hastings Moore Montgomery.

Alexander Jackson Moseley Bullock.

William Boyd McGehee Montgomery.

William Louis Noll Tennessee.

Carlyle Nisbet Georgia.

James Cochran Phelps Lee.

James Blackmon Powell Bullock.

Shepherd Harrison Roberts Montgomery.

Oscar Menderson Schloss Morgan.

Wilbur Allen Sellers Bullock.

Henry Alexander Skeggs (c) Morgan.

John Hunt Skeggs Morgan.

Matthew Scott Sloan , Mobile.

Holland McTyeire Smith RusselL

Godfrey Rhodes Thomas Sumter.

Earnest Walter Thompson . . % Lee.

Manly Curry Turpin Virginia.

Henry Edward Werner Texas.

Leonidas Whorton Cherokee.

Gaius Whitfield : Marengo. -

Jere Crawford Williams Lowndes.

Edward Houston Wills . . . . .^. . . . Lee.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Oliver Hannibal Alford Marshall.

Samuel Pitts Anderson . . . s Russell.

William Warren Askew. .Georgia.

Ralph Calloway Armstrong Lee.

Albert Miner Avery Florida.

Bennett Gordon Beck Georgia.

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Charles Homer Billingsley Elmore.

Ellerslie Wallace Bullard Calhoun.

Charles Cliffton Brown. . (c) Bibb.

Clyde Allen Collins Hale.

Oscar Cunningham Limestone.

Gerald Matthews Crenshaw Perry.

Pearco Henry DeBardleben Lee.

Solon Malone Davis Georgia.

Warren Alfred Dewees Tennessee.

Paul Metzger Eichelberger Calhoun.

Jesse Duncan Elliott Wyoming. ,

James Douglas Farley . . Dee.

David Fleming Montgomery.

John Sears Francis ..(c) Jefferson.

Jeremiah Warren Gwinn Jefferson.

William Houston Gwinn Jefferson.

James Browcler Garber Hale.

Clifton Duane Haynie Lee -

William Tillman Heard Lee.

Oscar Lynn Henry • • • - • Marshall.

FrankHn Jerome Houston Jefferson.

Garrett Newton Hudmon Lee.

John Snow Jeraison ££"?* '

Albert Sidney Johnson • • Colbert

Collins Johnson Missouri.

James Taylor Jones ^T'

Morris Ketchum * l °"™ ■

James Hartwell King. Colbert

James Allen Kyser ^ lla8 -

Earnest Linwood Maury . . . .' ; • • Jf octa w *

Ross Earnest Mattison Calhoun.

Roscins Sandwich McMichael ..(c) ®?° m £

Fern Wood Mitchell Etowah.

Peter Preer Myhand ^ ee> .

Henry Bigham Park Cjeorgia.

William Marcus Peters L wndes

Wallace Powers Pruitt • • • • ■ own es '

„ yf. (c) Conditioned.

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Daniel Syers Eobertson Chambers.

Edward Prescott Kutland . . . . (c) Lee.

Charles Martin Shepard Mobile.

Eichard Blount Shepard Mobile.

Julian Cassius Smith Macon.

Philip Ware Smith Calhoun.

Alired Huntington Stevenson Mobile.

Siddons Stollenwerck Marengo.

Jonathan Eender Thomas Sumter.

Abner Mason Torbert. Macon.

Elijah Albert Turner Lee-
George John Turner Florida.

John Morgan Turner Lee

Non Dura Ward .... (c) Tallapoosa.

Clifford Noble Wallace . . Elmore.

Mem Creagh Webb . . Marengo.

Walker Dorr Willis . Florida.

Forney Eenf ro Yarbrough Georgia.

John Eyers Davis Yonge Florida.

SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.

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Abbreviations: Ph— Pharmacy ; E. & M. E— Electrical and Me-
chanical Engineering; C— Chemistry ; Ag.— Agriculture; C. E —
Civil Engineering ; M. A.— Mechanic Arts.

James Wilson Bandy ph Lee.

Milton Columbus Baldridge .... ph Madison.

Arthur Bernard Beringjer Barbour.

Peter Alexander Brannon ph . Bussell.

Charles William Brassfield . . , . . ph Marengo.

Charles Louis Bragaw ph Lee.

Mortimer Perry Brown Pike.

Walter Leslie Bryant ph . . . Georgia.

Bufus White Butler ph Lee.

William James Cameron Jefferson.

Charles Newton Carraway ph. .... . .Montgomery.

Edwin Weaver Caro m. a Florida.

William Cruse Coles Calhoun.

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Harris Hill Cory Autauga.

Eamon Eraso E. & M. E . . Venezuela.

William Bullock Fleming Montgomery.

Harry Lavan Fitch Wilcox.

John Knox Franklin Bullock.

Loren Gary Barbour.

Swoope Darrow Gilbert E. & M. E . . Lauderdale.

James McAnelly Gill .Madison.

Frank Crouch Green E. & m. e. . Georgia.

William Hope Haigler Montgomery.

Eula Belle Hale Lee.

John Dabney Hamilton . . ph ... Marion.

John Albert Hannah ph Florida.

Ethel Tilman Heard. Lee.

Bunn Young Hill Georgia.

John William Jepson .E. & m. e. . South Carolina.

Walter Eldridge Johnson Lee.

William Francis Johnston Calhoun.

John Alexander Lanford ph Sumter.

Robert Paterson Manly e. & M. E . . Georgia.

George Mathews Marks Montgomery.

James Philip Martin , Lee.

Andrew McCord • • Lee.

Graham Merchant. E. & M. E. .Lee,

Louie Huntington Moore Montgomery.

James Crowder Moore -. Lee.

Llewellyn Perry Motley • Lee.

Eobley Charles Munger Jefferson.

James William Patton Chilton.

Emile Thomas Peddy m. a Lee.

Morris Pelham m. a Calhoun.

James Garnett Pruitt ph Barbour.

Marv Eobins Sampey • • • • J° n u e ° uh '

Howard Culver Eush m. a Mobile.

Peter Sequeira * a Nicaragua,C. A.

Lewe Frank Sessions Bullock.

Maurice Garbery Shannon C Jefferson.

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Sidney Ewing Simpson E. & M. E. .Montgomery.

Walter Ellis Sistrunk PH Elmore.

Henry Bennett Thompson PH Lee.

Elijah Smith Weldon. Elmore.

Charles Finley White Jefferson.

William Dunbar Wills c Lee.

SUB-FRESHMAN CLASS.

John Mangum Buchanan Lee.

Cecil Battle Brown Pike.

George Bobinson Bryant Baldwin.

Walter Brooks Cawthorn Mobile.

Walter Davis Compton Pike.

Weedham Lee Drury .... Barbour.

Jerry William Dumas .LeQ.

James William Flanagan .Lee.

Harrv Fannin Gohlson Pike.

Bell George Hazard .Kentucky.

Charles Henry Howie Calhoun.

Bartow Elliott Ingram Russell.

Emmett Llewllyn Jones Calhoun.

Walter Henry Jones Pike.

John Fulton Lanier Madison.

Frank Runals McElhaney Lee.

Frederick Clifton Maddox Georgia.

Earnest Linwood Mayberry Lee.

William Osborn Mitchell Lee.

Edward LeBoy Napier Lee.

Stanley Wimbish Napier Lee.

Walter Cornelius Oneal Sumter.

Walter Gardner Pitts Russell.

James Robert Philips Calhoun.

Joseph William Powers Madison.

Albert Wellman Pratt Madison.

James Henry Randle Bullock.

Samuel Rembert Tennessee.

Roy Gustavus Rhodes Marengo.

George Washington Smith Lee,

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Nelson Horatio Romero Cuba.

Sloss Smith Jefferson.

Earnest Percy Thompson Lee.

James Feagin Tompkins Lee.

Filo Harrison Turner . Florida.

Horace Sanford Turner Mobile.

Fletcher Pcavey Whatley Montgomery.

Forney Renfro Wright Lee.

Samuel James Wisdom Montgomery.

Summary.

ift
Graduates xo

Senior Class i * u

Junior Class

.... •

Sophomore Class <*

Freshman Class u ")

Special and Irregular Students .... 5 '

Total in College Classes .318

Sub-Freshman Class ..... •

• *•• ....

Total...' .'... 356

NUMBER OP STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT OP STUDY.

English 5*6* Geolo *y : • 4 o

History ..181 Civil Engineering «

French b9 -E ,ectrical Engineering . . 47

German ,-.'87 Mechanical Engineering. 45

Latin. .:".'.'.".'.'.".'. 157 Biology..... ..18

Mental Science 24 Drawing.. 174

Political Economy 35 Mechanic Arts 219

Mathematics 280 Military Tactics 301

Chemistry 16 ° Mineralogy »

Chemical Laboratory...- 73 Physical Laboratory 62

Agriculture 1°8 Physiology 70

Physics 13 * Veterinary Science a6

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MILITARY ORGANIZATION,

1 898-99.

President,
W. L. BROUN.

Commandant,
COL. B. S. PATRICK.

Surgeon, .
J. H. DRAKE.

Battalion Staff.
Cadet Captain I. F. McDonnkll, Assistant to Commandant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant T. G. Bush, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant A. H. Feagin, Quartermaster.
Cadet Sergeant H. P. Powell, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant J. L. Burke, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant J. W. Shuff, Quartermaster Sergeant.

Cadet Captains.

3. T. W. Wert,

4. C. W. Minge.
Cadet First Lieutenants,

5. J. A Ward,

6. B. E. Brown,

7. D. Turner,

8. W. 0. Scroggs.
Cadet Second Lieutenants.

2. J. S. Gilliland.
Cadet First Sergeants.

3. G. F. Boyd,

1. I. F. McDonnell,

2. J. F. Dobbin,

1. B. Davis,

2. J. M. Atkinson,

3. A.M. Boyd,

4. J. R. Peabody,

1 H. A. Moon,

I. E. H. Foy,

2. F. ASHCRAPT,

Cadet Sergeants.

1. K. B. McKenzie,

2. J.J. Flowers,

3. R. P. Baldwin,

4. J. P. Illges,

5. A. C. Cameron,

6. J. H. McGehee,

7. R. B. Hall, (Color Sergeant),

8. S. G. Forbes,

9. M.F.Kahn,

4. W. E. Kelley.

10. J. W. Boyd,

11. L. N. Duncan,

12. J. S. Black,

13. C.W.Nixon,

14. W. L. Anderson,

15. H, Ware,

16. S. D. Gilbert,

17. E. M. Mason.

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Cadet Corporals.

1. J. D. Foy,

2. S.H.Roberts,

3. A. F Jackson,

4. M. 8. Sloan,

5. EH. Wills,

6. A. C. Hannon,

7. M. H. Moore,

8. H. A. Skeggs,

9 0. B. Andrews.

10. G. Whitfield,

11. A. H. Mitchell,

12. W. B. McGehee,

13. J. B. Powell,

14. W. L. Greene,

15. P. S. Haley,

16. M. 0. Turpin,

17. B. B. Merriwether.

Cadet Band.
M. Thos. Fcjllan, Chief Musican.
A. M. Boyd, Principal Musician.

J. A. Ward,
C. L. Brag aw j
W. A. Dewees,
W. J. Cameron,
F. C. Bivings,
M. F. Kahn,

W. A. Frazer,
J. A. Lanford,
W. L. Bryant,
E. H. Wills,
M. D. Kahn,
R. C. Armstrong.

J. O. Rush, Drum Major.

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KEQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

All applicants for admission should present testimo-
nials of good moral character, and those who come from
other colleges must present certificates of honorable
dismissal. ■ • •# •

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
evidence of satisfactory proficiency in spelling, punctua-
tion, grammar, and division into paragraphs.

(a) Reading . The composition in 1899 will be upon
subjects drawn from one or more of the following works
in English Literature: (1) Hughes's Tom Brown at
Rugby; \2) Southey's Life of Nelson ; (3) Shakespeare's
Julius Cvesar; (4) Longfellow's Evangeline; (5) Scott^s
Ivanhoe; (6) Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; (7)
Irving's Sketch Book; (8) Macaulay's Essay on Milton;
(9) Scott's Marmion; (10) Dickens's David Copperfield.

The candidate will be required 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.

(b) Study and Practice. This part of the examination
presupposes the thorough study of the style of the work,
and will be upon Julius Ccesar and the Essay on Milton.

Preparation and examination on these works will be neces-
sary before the student is classed as regular in any course.

3. Mathematics — (a) Arithmetic, including funda-
mental operations ; common and decimal fractions •

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denominate numbers ; the metric system ; percentage,
including interest and discount ; proportion ; extraction
of square and cube roots, (b) Algebra to quadratic
equations, one book of geometry.

4. Those applicants who desire to continue the study
of Latin should be qualified to pass a satisfactory exam-
ination in Latin grammar and the first two books of
Csesar, in addition to the above subjects.

In pronouncing Latin it is recommended that « be pronounced as in
father, a as the a in Cuba ; e as in prey, I as in men; l as in machine, i
as in cigar ; o as in old, 6 as in obey; i as in rule, u as in full ; j as y in
yard ; c always as'fc in king ; g always as g in get.

For admission to the higher classes, students should
be 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 satisfactory. But if not
prepared to pass an examination in history and chem-
istry at the time of application, the applicant will be
required before graduation to pass a satisfactory exam-
ination on those subjects.

ADMISSION ON CERTIFICATE

Applicants will be admitted without examination on presenting a
certificate from any of the certificate schools named herein

-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 satis-
factorily all the studies required for admission, as stated in the cata-
'logue, and are otherwise admissible."

The privilege of admitting students to the Sophomore class on

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certificate will be granted only to those approved schools that have
had a continuous existence for five years or more, and have previ-
ously had pupils admitted to that class without conditions.
The following form of Certificate will be used :

I hereby certify that A , B has attended the

(name the school or academy) for years and has studied

the following subjects:

n History (name the books)

nEnglish... ( " '■ . " )

n Algebra (state amount accomplished)

n Geometry ( " " ** )

n Latin (stale books read)

and having passed a satisfactory examination on these subjects as

required in the Catalogue for admission to the class,

I recommend him for the same.

CERTIFICATE SCHOOLS.

University Military School, Mobile J D. Wright.

Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa W. H. Verner.

University School, Montgomery J. M. Starke.

Mt. Willing High School, Mt. Willing J. D. Garrett.

State Normal School, Jacksonville. . . J. Forney.

Male Academy, Huntsville '. Puryear,& Wyatt.

State Normal College, Florence M. C. Wilson .

Furman Academy, Livington .L. A. Cockrell.

High School, O^elika J. M. Smallwood.

Union Springs Institute J. B. Murphy.

University Military School, Clanton E Y. McMorries.

N. A. Agricultural School, Athens M. K Clements.

W. Ala. Agricultural School, Hamilton.. S. T. Slaton.

Eutaw Male Academy, Eutaw H . C . Horton

Boys' High School, Anniston H. C. Gunnels.

Taylors' School, Birmingham W. P. Taylor.

Gaylesville High School John L. Ray.

Carrollton Academy .L. V. Rosser.

Ninth District Agricultural School,Blountsville.W. J. Beeson

Gadsden High School I. \y\ Hill.

Boyd High School, Ramer B. H. Boyd

Dadeville High School A. W. Holstun and

J. D. Lane.

Eufaula High School f. L. McCoy.

Union Springs College J. m. Sanders.

Montgomery High School Q.JL. Floyd

Calera Academy ; .' . Slaton .

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ADMISSION OF YOUNG WOMEN.

The privileged 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
candidate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination 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 ; Gram-
mar (Lockwood-Whitney) ; Rhetoric (Lockwood's Lessons and Gen-
ung's Outlines of Rhetoric); Scudder's Masterpieces of American
Literature ; Syle's From Milton to Tennyson.
For requirements in reading in literature see page 32.

(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 Analytic Trigonometry, as in Wentworth.

(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 substi-
tuted.

Botany will constitute a required part of the general course for
young women who are candidates for a degree.

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 at the age of seventeen, provided she is able to comply with
all the requirements for admission in the four subjects named and
the application meets with its approval.

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ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday,
the 13th 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 Fresh-
man 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.

Ali 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.

Students qualified to prosecute the studies of the
junio:- 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 .

A student who does not take all the studies in a class of one of the
degree courses as prescribed in the catalogue, and is permitted to
take an irregular course, will be assigned to a member of the Faculty,

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who will act as his special adviser, and when his course of study has
been approved by the Faculty no other change will be permitted
without the endorsement of his adviser.

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.

ADMISSION TO HIGHER CLASSES.

At the beginning of each term a student in the sub-freshman class
may, on application approved by the Faculty, be examined for admis-
sion to the freshman class in history. English, mathematics, or Latin,
and if his examination is satisfactory in any subject, he will be ad-
mitted to the freshman class in that subject only.

indents who have completed satisfactorily all the studies of the
sophomore class, as prescribed in. the catalogue, in any one of the reg-
ular degree courses, can enter, without condition, the junior class in
any course, except in the general course, or the course in pharmacy,

in which Latin is required. tL****

Students who are admitted to the junior class from other institu-
tions, on examination in English, Latin, and mathematics, and who
have not completed all the studies of the sophomore class, in ordei to
graduate, will be required to complete the course in chemistry and
history as taught in the sophomore class.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

The courses of study include the Physical, Chemical,
and Natural Sciences, with their applications ; Agricul-
ture ; Biology ; Mechanics, Astronomy, Mathematics ;
Drawing ; Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineer-
ing; 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

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loading 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 Civil Engineering.
111. Course in Electrical and Mechanical En-
gineering.

IV. General Course.
V. Course in Pharmacy.

There are also two partial courses, each requiring two
years for its completion :

VI. Two-Year Course in Agriculture.
VII. Two-Year Course in Mechanic Arts.

Course I includes theoretical and practical instruction
in those branches that relate to chemistry and agricul-
ture, 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 ap-
plications of electricity and mechanics, and is arranged
for the profession of electrical and mechanical en-
gineering.

Course IV has been arranged to give a general and
less technical education in subjects of science and Ian-
guage 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 professional business.

Course V includes, besides the general education of
course IV in the lower classes, a special course in phar-
macy and chemistry, and is adapted to those who expect
to become pharmacists, manufacturing chemists, or to
enter upon the study of medicine.

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Courses VI and VII have been arranged for the benefit
of those students who, for reasons satisfactory to them-
selves, are unable to continue at college four years and
to take one of the regular degree courses.

A student who completes satisfactorily all the work of the senior
class in a department, including the laboratory work, will be awarded
a certificate of proficiency in said subject.

Students who complete either of the two-year courses will, on pass-
ing a satisfactory examination, receive certificates indicating their

attainments.

No degree or certificate of proficiency will be given in any course
unless the applicant has passed a satisfactory examination in element-
ary English. Every candidate for a degree will be required to stand
this special examination during the second term of the Senior year.

Declamation and themes or orations are required of all regular
students pursuing courses leading to a degree.

POST-GRADUATE COURSES.

The post-graduate degrees are— Master of Science,
Mining Engineer, Civil Engineer, Electrical and
Mechanical Engineer and Pharmaceutical Chem-
ist.

A more extended post-graduate course of study may
be taken by a graduate of this College or of any other
institution'of equal grade. The completion of a course
which leads to a post-graduate degree requires one year's
residence at the College, spent in the satisfactory prose-
cution of a course of study, with such laboratory work
as may be approved by the Faculty.

The candidate must also present to the Faculty a satisfactory thesis
showing independent investigation upon some subject pertaining to
his lourse, 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 pies-

ence of the Faculty. jJu* #**« '■<■*

The subject of the thesis must be submitted to the Faculty foi ap-

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proval prior to January 1st, and the thesis given to the professor by
April 1st.

Applicants for post-graduate degrees 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.

The following courses are prescribed for the degrees named :

Mining Engineer.— Students who have received the degree of B Sc.
in engineering, civil, or electrical and mechanical, or who have prose-
cuted an equivalent course of study, can enter upon a special course
of mining engineering, which includes the following subjects of
study :

Industrial Chemistry, Analytic Chemistry, Assaying, Reduction of
Ores, Mineralogy, Economic Geology, with practical work in the
field, Mining Machinery with the applications of steam and elec-
tricity to the various operations connected with the exploitation of
mines

The student, if a candidate for a degree, will also be required to
prosecute the necessary studies in that course of engineering in which
he has not graduated. k

This course of study will be under the charge of the professors of
geology, chemistry, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.

Civil Engineer — Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Analytical Me-
chanics.

Electrical and Mechanical Engineer.— -Electrical Engineering, Me-
chanical Engineering.

Pharmaceutical Chemist.— Pharmacy and Chemistry.

Master of Science —Studies in three departments, in two of which
the candidate must have previously completed the full course of the
senior class ; or in special cases, with the approval of the Faculty, a
student may devote his entire time to work in one department.

A certificate of proficiency will bs given when any one subject of a
post-graduate course is satisfactorily completed.

SPKCIAL 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
duties; 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
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stock-yard, dairy, garden, orchard, vineyard, etc., and may thus, in
one year, acquire valuable practical knowledge of scientific agricul-
ture.

PHOTOGRAPHY.

LABORATORY INSTRUCTION.

Laboratory instruction constitutes an important feature
in the courses of education provided for the students of
this Institute, and as far as possible all students are re-
quired to enter upon laboratory work in some one depart-
ment.

Laboratory instruction and practical work are given

in the following departments :

I. Chemistry.

II. Civil Engineering, Field Work, Survey-
ing, Etc.

III. Agriculture.

IV. Botany.

V. Mineralogy.

VI. Biology.

VII. Technical Drawing.

VIII. Mechanic Arts.

IX. Physics.

X. Electrical Engineering.

XI. 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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GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD 1 .

The gymnasium is situated at the west end of the ath-
letic and drill grounds, and contains one room, 80x40
feet, with strong beams 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 officer.

The athletic field has a quarter-mile cinder track and
ample space for football, baseball, and general athletics.

DISCIPLINE.

The government of the College is administered by the President
and Faculty, in accordance with the code of laws and regulations
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.

Students are not permitted to participate in any public entertain-
ment, or game, without previously obtaining the consent of the
, Faculty.

No cadet will be permitted, without the approval of his parent or
guardian, to take part in a public game of football ; nor will permis-
sion be given for any athletic game, to a student deficient in his stu-
dies.

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 ; privates of the Senior class are
exempt.

The drills are short, and the duty involves no hardships. The mili-
tary drill is a health-giving exercise, and its good effects in thedevel-
opment of the physique and improvement of the carriage of the cadet
are manifest.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
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
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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

This Association is regularly organized and has a well furnished
room on the first floor of the main building set apart for its exclusive
use. Through its weekly meetings it exerts a wholesome Christian
influence among the students.

Students are advised to unite with the Association when they enter

the Institute.

The ladies of the different churches in Auburn, have recently
formed an Auxiliary association to the Y. M. C. A. of this Institute
Assisted by members of the Faculty, they will hold monthly a joint
service of praise in the College chapel and will provide special lec-
turers for the occasion.

Tht-y have also undertaken to build a special hall for the use of the
Association, and will solicit subscriptions for that purpose.
The following are the officers :

J. M.Atkinson, President.

Chas. White, Vice-President.

A. F. Jackson, Treasurer.

J. R. Rutland, Corresponding Secretary.

H.H. Cory, Recording Secretary.

M. A. Beeson, Librarian.

LOCATION.

The Institute 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 aud keeping saloons of any kind are forbidden.

BOARDING.

The Institute has no barracks or dormitories, and the students
board with families in the town of Auburn, and thus enjoy all the pro-
tecting and beneficial influence of the family circle.

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I .—COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.

FRESHMAN CLASS.
First Term. Second Term.

5. English. 5. English.

2. History. 2. History.

5. Mathematics. ■» 5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.** 3. Elementary Physics^z^igriculture.
3. Drawing. 3. Di-awing. 3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y . 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y

Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5 jJ^Tathematics .

3. Military Drill.

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3. Military Drill.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term.
3. English.
3. Histoixy^*
5. MathSnatlcs.
3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

2. Physiology.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Chemical Lab'y. 2. Chemical Lab'y. 2. Chemical Lab'y,

3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.

Second Term.
3. English.

3. Physics.
3. Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry
2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture (b).

4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science.

2. Clinical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term.
2. Political Economy (c;.2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science (d). 2. Mental.Science (d).
2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.

2. Geology. 2 . Geology.

5. Biology. 5. Biology
2. Agricultural Ch'm'try 2. Agricultural Ch'm'try.2. Agricultural Oh'm'try.

1. Military Science. I. Military Science. 2. Military Science.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. (Jhemical Lab'y.

2. Vetermary Science. 1. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science
2. Clinical L ab'y. ^imcjdLab'y. 2 . Clinical Lab'y.

First Term.

3. English.

3. History.

5. MathemaWes.
->3. General Chemistry.
^ 2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.
^> 2. Physiology.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.

— *4. Botany (Lab'y).
1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.
2. English Literature.
2. Mental Science (d).
2. Physics.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botaaxia).

Mathematics
3. General Chemistry .

2. Agriculture (b).

3. Drawing.
2. Physiology.

3. Military Drill,

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.

4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science.

2. Clinical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

(a) Begins March 1st.
(c) Begins Feb. 15th.

<*}) Also Practical Agriculture,
(a) German may be substituted.

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The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Second Term. Third Term.

5. English. 5. English.

2. History. 3. History.

5. Mathematics. 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.

First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

3. Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term.
3. English.
3. 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.

2. Chemical Lab'y. 2. Chemical Lab'y. 2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term.

3. English, French, or 3. English, French, or 3. English, French, or

German. German. German.

3. Physics. 3. Physics. 3. Physics.

5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.

5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering.

5. Drawing. 5. Drawing. 5. Drawing.

1. Military Tactics . 1. Military Tactics . 1. Military Tactics .

6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c). 6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c). 6. Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c).

1. Field Work, Erfgin'g. 2. Field Work, Engin'g. 2. Field Work,Engin'g.
3. Military Drill . 3. Military Drill . 8, 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.

(a) Begins March 1st. _„ . 1T .

(b) For Agriculture may be substituted Physical Laboratory .

(?) SoXS Litfand Pol. Econ, may be substituted French or German,

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5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering.
5. 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 Civil Engineering.

JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.

First Term.

3. English, French, or
German .

3. Physics.

5. Mathematics.

4. Electrical Engin'g.
3. Mech. Engineering

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 Lab'y. 4. Electrical Lab'y. 4. Electrical Lab'y

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

6. Mech . Art Lab'y
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

First Term.

2. Eng. Literature (a).
2. Physics.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

5. Electrical Engin'g.

5. Mech. Engineering.
2. Electrical Designing.

6. Electrical Lab' v.

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.

Third, Term .

2. Political Economy (a). 2. Political Economy (a).

2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy,

3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics.

I' ^ leC u tn i al ?ngin'g. 5 - Electrical Engin'g

5. Mech Engineering. 5. Mech. Engineering.

2. E ectrica Designing 2. Electrical Designing.

?' £ lec , tr, ?. al Lttb y 6 - Electrical Lab'v.

4. Mech. Eng Lab'y. 4. Mech Eng Lal'y. 4 Mech C Lab^
LMih tary Science. 1. Military Sci ence/ 1. Mm^loi^'

(a) French or German may be substituted.

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IV.— GENERAL COURSE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the numbers 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.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. 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).

FRESHMAN 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.

2. Chemical 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.

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.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3.. 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 (c).2. Political Economy.

2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2 Latin.

1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).

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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V.— COURSE IN PHARMACY.

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.

8. General Chemistry.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.

3. Physics. '

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. botanical Lab'y.
3. Pharmacy.

FRESHMAN 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.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLA8S.

Second Term.

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. botanical Lab'y.

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.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Botanical Lab'y.
3. Pharmacy.

3. Pharmacy.
9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab
4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy.

1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Pharmacy.
9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab. 9. Phw^^ticd Lab
4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy
1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science

3 - Materia Medica. 3. Bacteriology.

1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.
5. Biology.
7. Toxicology.

4. Pharmacy.

1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Pharmacy.

8. Materia Medica.

(a) Begins March 1st.

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VI— 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.
5. Drawing.

12. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

5. English.
3. History.
5; Mathematice.

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.

VII— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.

First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

Third Term.
5. English.
3. History.
5. ^Mathematics.

5. Mathematics. o. juatiicuiau^. ^-—

3 Elementary Physics^. Elementary Physicsr*2 Agriculture.

3 Drawing 3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.

4 : Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4. Mechanic Art LaVy.

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3 Military Drill.

2. Practical Agricult're. 2. Practical Agricult're. 2. Practical Agncult re.

SECOND YEAR.
First Term. Second Term.

3. English. 3. English.

5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry. 3. General Chemistry. 3. Genera Chemistry,

4. Agriculture. 4. Agriculture. 4 Agriculture.
2 Physiology 2. Physiology. 2. Physiology

2*. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science
12. Practical Agricult're.12. Practical Agricult're.12. Practical Agncult re.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3- Military Drill,

Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.

SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.

HOURS

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WKDXESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

3. Physiology.

4. Algebra.

4. Geometry.

4. Algebra.

4. Geometry.

4. Algebra.

3. Latin .

3. Latin.

8-9

2. German.

Exercises in Elocuti'n.

1. and 2 Drawing.

1 and 2 Drawing.

1 and 2 Drawing

1 and 2 Drawing.

1. Elec Engine Vg.

2. Botany.

1. Vet. Science.

2. Botany.

1. Veternary Sci.

2. Mec.EngineVg.

1. ElecEngineVg

l.Elec EngineVg.

1. Mental Science

1. Elec Engine'r'g

1. Biology.

2. Mec.EngineVg

1. German.

1. Elec Engine'r'g.

1. German.

1. German .

1. Mental Science.

4. English.

4 History.

4. English.

4. History.

4. English

II.

3. Chemistry.

3. Agriculture.

3. Chemistry.

3. Agriculture.

3. Chemistry.

Military Drill.

2. Civ. Engineer'g.

2. Civ. Engine'r'g.

2. Civ. Engine'r'g

9-10

2. Latin .

2. Botany.

2. Latin.

2 Botany.

2. Latin.

1. Calculus.

1. Physics.

1. Calculus.

1. Physics.

1. Biology.

2. ElecEngineVg

2. Vet. Science.

2. Elec Engine'r'g

1. Calculus:

2 ElecEngineVg

2. Elec EngineVg

2. Mech. Engin'r'g
2. Vet. Science.

III.

3. English.

3. History (1,2).

3. English.

3. History (1, 2).

3. English.

Mechanic Arts.

2. Physics.

3. Botany (2, 3).

3 Botany (2,3).

2. Physics.

Chemical Laboratory.

1. Biology.

2. Physics.

1. Civ. Engine'r'g

Electric Laboratory.

10-11

1. Civ. Engine'r'g

1. Civ. Engineer'g

i. Latin.

4. English.

1. Civ. Engineer'g.

Physical Laboratory.

1. Biology.

4. English.

1. Civ Engineer'g.

1. Mech Engin'r'g

Veterinary Clinics.

1. Latin.

1. Mec.EngineVg

1. Biology.

2. French.

4. History. (3).

Biological Laboratory.

1. Mec.EngineVg.

2. French.

2. Mec. Drawing.

1. Mech.Engin'r'g.

1. Mech. Engin'r'g

Field Engineering.

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SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES— Continued.

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.
I.English (1,2)
J. 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.

I. English (1,2;.
1. Political Econ-
omy (2,3).

4. Mechanic Arts

4. Latin.

2. Agriculture.

2. Mathematics .
1. Chen istry

3. Physiology.
1 . French .

4. Physics (1,2).

4. Agriculture (3).
4. Latin (1,2;.
3. Drawing.
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry

1. MilitaryScience
4 Mechanic Arts

3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory .
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laboratory.
Field Engineering.

V.
12-1

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.
2. English.

4. Mechanic Arts.
1. Elec. Designi'g.
1. French.

3. Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Geology.

4. Drawing

3. Mathematics.

4. Mechanic Arts.

2. German

1. Elec Designing

2 Anal Chemist'y.

3. Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Geology.

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

4. Mechanic Arts.

1. Elec. Designing.

2. Milit'ry Tactics.

3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics .
Biological Laboratory.
Field Engineering

P.M.

Y1,VII.

2-4

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. FieldWork Agr.
1 & 2 Laboratory
Chemistry.
1 & 2 Fit- Id Work.
Engineering.
l&2Mach Woik
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.

3. Mechanic Arts.
2. Mineialogical
Laboratory .

Military Drill (*>.

1. Mech.Lab'tory.
Elec.Lab'y Work.
1 and 2 History .

4. Mechanic Arts

3. FieldWork,Agr.

1 & 2 Laboratory.

Chem

1 & 2 Field Work,

Engineering.

L &2Mach Work.

Ex'cis. in Elocut'n

Elec. Lab. Work.

1 Physical Labor'y.

3.. Mechanic Arts
2. Mineralogical
Laboratory .

Military Drill (*)

U Mech Labor'y .
Elec.Lab'y Work
L and History .

4 Mechanic Arts.

3. Field Wik Agr.
2 French.
1 & 2 Lab . Chem
1 & 2 Field W'rk,
Engineering
1 &2Mach W'sk
Ex'cis in Elocut'n
Elr-c Lab Work.
Physical Labor'y.

Chapel services daily at 7 :45 a.m.

lumbers prefixed denote classes — 1 denotes senior

♦From 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.

2 junior, etc. Numbers affixed— (1), (2), (3),— denote terms.

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DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION.

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY.

PRESIDENT BROUN.
PROFESSOR MCKISSICK.

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 me-
chanics, 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, kine-
matics, 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 light, and
astronomy.

Post-graduate Course. This includes the study of ana-
lytical mechanics, and requires a knowledge of differential
and integral calculus.

Text-Books .

Atkinson's Ganot's Physics, Young's Astronomy, Berry's History of
Astronomy, Bowser's Analytic Mechanics.

PHYSICAL LABORATORY.

Instructor H. H. Kyser.

The laboratory work includes courses for the sophomore and fresh-
man classes, and is so arranged as to begin with a study of the sys-
tems and units of measurements and to conclude with simple experi-
ments in heat.

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The student is required to ascertain experimentally various physical
laws hence in all exercises there is something to measure. From
these measurements he is required to find the law connecting the
quantities involved. Results of experiments are to be entered, in
tabular form, together with methods, diagrams, etc., in a laboratory
record-book, which each student is required to prepare. At the close
of each week this book is criticised and graded according to its accu-
racy and neatness.

Freshman Course.

First Term, (a) Elementary physics (mechanics and heat).
Second Term. (6) Elementary graphical statics (continued in

sophomore year).
Third Term, (c) Systems and units of measurements.
(d) Simple measurements of length, surface, volume and weight.

Sophomore Course.

First Term, (a) Simple measurements and designing verniers and

micrometers.

(b) Elementary graphical statics (c) Forces, moments and work

Second Term . (d) Simple machines and friction (determining me-
chanical advantages, lose, efficiency, law, etc).

(e) Pendulum and gravity. (/) Elasticity.

Third Term, (g) Liquids, (fc>> Density and specific gravity. (0

Gases, (j) Heat.
The laboratory is equipped with instruments of foreign and Ameri-
can manufacture, *such as verniers, micrometers, cathetometers, a
horizontal comparator, a Kater's reversion pendulum, balances, etc
and with all apparatus necessary to perform from 10 to 20 experiment,
under each of the above named groups.

MATHEMATICS.

PROFESSOR SMITH.

The general course for the first two years embraces the
first year, algebra, through logarithms, and geometry, six
books ; second year, algebra, solid geometry, plane and
spherical trigonometry, surveying, mensuration.

Two objects are sought to be attained : first, mental
discipline ; second, a thorough knowledge of the princi-
ples of pure mathematics and their practical applications.

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The class 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 pur-
sued in the mechanical and engineering courses. Espe-
cial attention is given to their practical applications.

During the entire course, instruction in text-books is
supplemented by lectures. Solutions of original practi-
cal problems are required of ^ the student, to make him
familiar with the application of the principles and for-
mulas.

Text-Books.
Wentvvorth's Algebra, Wenthworth's Geometry, Wentvvorth's Trie-
onometry „nd Surveying, Wentvvorth's Analytical Geometry, Fan nce's
Descriptive Geometry, xXicholson's Calculus, Johnson's Differential
Equations, Osborne's problems, Peck's Determinants.

GEOLOGY AND BOTANY.

PROFESSOR 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 illustra-
tions are drawn from the coal and iron fields and other

BOTANICAL LABORATORY.

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natural deposits of minerals in the State. Mineral
springs, the origin of ore deposits, and the 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 pur-
sued by applicants for the degrees of master of science
and mining engineer.

The junior class in civil engineering studies mineral-
ogy through the entire session. This work consists of a
thorough course in blow-pipe analysis of the ordinary
minerals, and lectures upon crystallography, with in-
struction how to measure crystals and determine the
physical constants of minerals. An effort is made to
familiarize the student with all the economic ores and
the rocks entering into the composition of soils.

Botany —The students of the sophomore class begin
the studv of botany the first of March, and continue it
through'the session. Analytical work is made an im-
portant feature . This class is provided with plants from
the fields, and taught how to determine their specific
names The work is sufficiently 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 ag-
riculture, two terms are devoted to systematic and struc-
tural botany, and to advanced laboratory work with the
microscope in the preparation of spedmens showing
plant structure ; this work is sufficient to famihanz the
students with the methods of plant budding and cellular
organization. Excellent microscopes of the most im-
proved patterns, and all necessary chemicals and appar-
atus for preparing and mounting vegetable tissues, are

used by the students. .

The third term is devoted to the study of the physiol-

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ogy of plants in order to understand the functions of the
various organs after completion of the work in the his-
tological laboratory.

FACILITIES FOR WORK.
Gtotom. -The department is equipped with models of Mount
Shasta, the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals for teaching
crystallography • charts and maps of the geology of America and Eu
rope ; 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 ; well equipped min
eralogical laboratory for thirty students, supplied with a collection of
representative minerals; and models of crystals

*o*«» v .-The facilities for teaching this subject are as follows •
Auzoux s clast.c models of seeds and flowers; a large collection of
pressed plants of Alabama and other section;, mounted Z Z !
logued There ,s also a laboratory for practical work in botany
equipped with slate-topped tables for twenty students ; dissecting and
compound m.croscopes by Zeiss, Leitz, and Bausch 4 Lomb- mofec
t.o„ .mcroscop.c apparatus ; microtomes by King and Bausch 4 Lomb •
all the necessary glass ware and smaller dissecting instrument

tirstS • p P r:^s: ri ;;r nt -; k in connection «*

changers Abbe's camp™ l a , '"uminat.ng apparatus, slide

(WnnV „ , U °u ' polarizers > apochromatic objectives

., 7; ' ' ' and hom °geneous immersion), oculars (2 3 8

ft* J*! TJS£ ' " e,eCtWCity and WI ' th a *°° d -P—

roonraT::;::^:; e p,:r me, ; t there is a *w*«.**

varying in size f -om 4 x ftZ5??£?. °f *' C ° n8istin * of
fessional photo-mio -n lz***?*% ,nches >' Bau8 <* & Lomb's pro-

stigmat *S5^iTr,2?S5 t0 ^ ht feet; Zeiss ' s ana -

phragm shutter, and Zeiss WM^* , f W ' th BaUS ° h * L ° mb ' S dia "
in aluminum; 6lark's iZ Z^a £t *"*' ****%>>& «»>unted
'ens,, x5 ; t., ac^sor p S s ^ ****» Gutter; Darlot
class work in photography chemicals required for first

The students have aceM* t„ *u ■_
mentsin grass culture and nil 5S / ^'^ WherC eXpe "-
farmer are conducted by the profe Ssor P ^ ° f intereSt t0 the

Text-Books

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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND DRAWING. II

PROFESSOR LANE. I]

CIVIL ENGINEERING 1

The special studies in this department begin in the , I I

junior class, and require a good knowledge of algebra, , I

geometry, trigonometry, and analytical mechanics. I

They are as follows : I

Junior Class — Simple, compound, reversed and para- I

bolical curves, turnouts and crossings, leveling, gradients, I

setting slope stakes, etc. 1

Special attention will be paid in this class to the loca- ! I

tion, construction, drainage and maintenance of country I

roads; and the various pavements and foundations for 1

the same. 1 1

Senior Class— Classification, appearances, defects, :|

seasoning, durability and preservation of timber ; classi- I

fication and description of natural building stones ; bricks 1 1

and concretes; cast and wrought iron, steel and other j|
metals ; limes, cements, mortars and their manufacture ;

paints and other preservatives ; classification of strains
and a general mathematical discussion of same; joints
and fastenings ; solid and open built beams; classifica-
tion, construction and mechanics of masonry; founda-
tions on land and in water ; bridges and roofs of differ-,
ent kinds, their construction and strains determined
mathematically and graphically; common roads, their
coverings,' location and construction of railroads ; navi-
gable, 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 Kail way Engineers and
Byrne's Highway Construction. ,■/_.■ .

Senior Class-Wheeler's Civil Engineering and Von Ott s Graphic

Statics.

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DRAWING.

All of the students of the freshman and sophomore-
classes are required to take drawing ; but only the stu-
dents in civil engineering in the junior and senior
classes.

The freshman class is taught linear and free-hand
drawing. The sophomore class is instructed in the prin-
ciples of orthographic and isometric projections, shades
shadows, perspective and tinting. In the junior class
the instruction embraces a more extended course in or-
thographic and isometric drawing, perspective, shades
and tinting ; also sketches of tools and machines, plans
and elevations and cross-sections of buildings, and blue
prints. The senior class makes topographical drawings >
and drawings of machines, roofs, bridges, etc., to differ-
ent scales, and blue prints. Plans, profiles and sections of
railroad surveys complete the instruction in this de-
partment.

Text-Book 8.

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.

PROFESSOR THACH.
OBJECTS AND METHODS.

In this department the students pursue a systematic-
course in the English language and literature.

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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 in 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 lan-
guages.

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.

Especial attention is given to the study of the writings, themselves,
•of leading English anthors, since direct contact with literature is
considered more profitable than information merely about literature.

All students before classed as regular in any course leading to a
degree must conform to all the requirements in English for admission

:as set forth on page 32.

For requirements as to thesis and as to proficiency in English for

■certificates and degrees see page 39.

Declamation and themes (or orations) are required of all regular

•students. For details see below.

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, Holmes, Poe, Bryant, Longfellow.

Swinton's English Grammar, Lockwood's Rhetoric, 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 liter-
ary themes.

Carpenter's Rhetoric, Genung's Rhetorical Analysis, Syle s From

3Iilton to Tennyson.

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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, etc.

Senior Class.— Two hours a week, first term. Principles of Criti-
cism, Shakespeare's Julius Cresar, Hamlet, Dowden's Shakespeare
etc.

THEMES 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 themes or orations are required of all students:—
For the freshman class, tf themes 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.
PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The entire senior class pursues the study of intellec-
tual science, twice a week, through the year fand political
economy twice a week, during the last two terms The
instruction in this department is by lectures in combina-
tion with text-books.

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A Post-graduate Course has also been established in English, The
following courses have been given :

(1) Shakespeare. — Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice,
As You Like It, Henry IV, Part I. Richard III, King John.

(2) Dryden — Poetical Works (Christie); Essay of 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 and ISth Century Literature.

(3) English Literature of the Eighteenth Century: Addison, Pope,
Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper Burke.

»(4) American Literature: Longfellow, Lowell, Poe.

CHEMISTRY.

PROFESSOR B. B. ROSS.

Instruction in this department embraces —

1. A course of lectures in general chemistry.

2. A course of lectures in industrial chemistry.
2. A course of lectures in agricultural chemistry.

4. Systematic laboratory work in connection with
<each course of lectures, for the practice of chemical anal-
ysis and chemical research.

1. Course in general chemistry : This consists of a
■S3ries of lectures (three per week) extending throughout
the entire session, and includes a discussion of the fun-
damental principles of chemical philosophy in connec-
tion with the history, preparation, properties and com-
pounds 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 ajnd manufactures are discussed. The appa-
ratus used for experimental illustration isextensiye, con-
taining the newest and approved improvements neces-
sary for presenting the subject in the most attractive and
instructive form.

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REFERENCE BOOKS.

Roscoe & Schorlemmer, Fownes, Frankland^ Remsen, Cooke's
Ohemical Philosophy. Chemical Journals.

2. Lectures on industrial chemistry (three per week)
extend throughout the session, and include a discussion
in detail of the processes and chemical principles in-
volved 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 cloth-
ing, shelter, illumination, cleansing, purifying, writing,
sprinting, etc.

These lectures are amply illustrated by means of suit-
able specimens of raw materials and manufactured pro-
ducts, together with models and diagrams.

REFERENCE BOOKS.

Wagner's Chemical Technology, Muspratt's Chemistry as applied
•to Arts and Manufacturing, lire's Dictionary, Watt's Dictionary
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 agricul-
ture (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 fertilizers, the chemical princi-
ples involved in the rotation of crops, the feeding of live
stock, and the various operations carried on by the in-
telligent and successful agriculturist,.

REFERENCE BOOKS

Johnson's How Crops Grow and How Crops Feed T nnW* iri
-entary Principles of Scientific J^^^^n^l^
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Storer's Agriculture in xelaUon
^oChem.stry, scientific journals, reports of the United I Ltt rtL
partment of Agriculture, and the bulletins and r^of i?S&
iiome and foreign agricultural departments and stations

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4. The course of systematic laboratory work : This
course of practical work in the laboratory is carried ow
in connection with each course of lectures, and embraces-
the practical operations of chemical analysis and synthe-
sis, being varied somewhat to suit the individual ob-
ject 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 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 prac-
tical 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 his contingent fee.

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 application of elec-
trolysis to chemical analysis will be studied both theoretically and
practically.

Books Used.

In qualitative analysis— Jones's Fresenius Plattner.

In quantitative analysis-Freseriius, 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.

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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 micros-
cope, and other instruments for delicate and accurate work.

HISTORY AND LATIN.

PROFESSOR PETRIE.

HISTORY.

In this department the aim is not so much' to* rnerm>
rize facts as to understand them. Strong emphasis is-
laid on the fact that history is not a succession of iso-
lated 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 an'd progress of
great historical movements and the reciprocal influences
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 con-
stant effort is made to stimulate to wider reading and
research in the library.

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 gov-
ernment of the United States, the second term (two
hours per week) to Alabama, 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 European history.

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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. The work in 1899-1000 will be in Ameri-
can and English history, social, political and constitutional.

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 lectures will be given from time to time on current
foreign events, and on important points in recent history.

Text- Books.

Freshman Class.— Cooper, Estill & Lemmon's History of the United
States, Thorpe & McCorvey's Civil Government in the United States
and Alabama, Montgomery's English History.

Sophomore class.— Myers's General History.

Junior and Senior classes.— Hart's Formation of the Union, Wood-
row Wilson's Division and Reunion, Green's History of England.

LATIN.

The objects kept in view in this department are : an
accurate knowledge of the forms and syntax ; a famili-
arity with Latin words, their etymology and their Eng-
lish derivatives ; an appreciation of Latin literature and
an intelligent conception of Roman history and civiliza-
tion both in themselves and in their effect on the mod-
ern world .

A systematic course of instruction is given in the forms and
syntax. These are taught both deductively from a grammar and in-
ductively from the text read. Translation is constantly practiced,
sometimes at sight, sometimes after being assigned for preparation.
English passages based on a familiar author or illustrative of special
constructions are put into Latin, both orally and in writing. Great
emphasis is laid on the etymology of the words in the text read.

In connection with every author studied in class a course of reading
in English is prescribed descriptive of his life, work and times. The
historical setting and the literary value of his writings are carefully
discussed and frequent comparisons are made with modern authors.

For the benefit of students who do not study the Latin language a
series of popular lectures will be given upon the great Latin writers.
Especial emphasis is laid on proficiency in writing Latin exercises
and in translating Latin prose at sight.
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Tkxt-Books.

Freshman's Class.— Grammar, Exercises, Nepos, Sallust.
Sophomore Class.— Cicero, Allen & Greenough's Grammar, Exer-
.cises.

Junior Class.— Virgil, Horace, A. & G 's Grammar, Exercises, Al-
len's History of Rome, Wilkins' Roman Antiquities.
Senior Class.— Livy, Tacitus, Wilkins's Latin Literature, Exercises.

MODERN LANGUAGES.

PROFESSOR C. H. ROSS.

The following regular courses are given in French and!
German :

French — First Year: Three recitations a week. Dur-
ing this year the principal object is to acquire a knowl-
edge of the elements of grammar and a correct pronun-
ciation, together with a facility in translating ordinary
French. Reading is begun at an early stage, and
the principles 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 instruction is given upon the laws
of grammar, the construction of the language, and the
history of the literature. Special attention is given to
sight translation.

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.

Tkxt-Books. T'

French-^ Year : French Principia, Pts. I & II ; Jules Verne'*
Michel Strogoff, Rogers's Sight Reading in French.

Second Yeur : Feuillet's Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre
Dumas' La Tulipe Noire ; French Composition.

German-JV^ Year: Harris's German Lessons; Super's Elemen-
tary German Reader, Zschokke's Der Zerbrochene Krug

Second Year: Schiller's Ballads, Hauff's D^ Kalte Herz •
hardt's German Composition.

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

PROFESSOR MCRISSICK.

The students in this course will study English, French, or German,
physics, mathematics, etc., 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.

(■;•;"■ JUNIOR YEAR.

Four hours a week for the entire session are devoted
to the studies of the principles of electricity and mag-
netism. The student is made familiar with the theoret-
ical 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, electro-plating,
electrical measurements, verification of the principles
upon which the measurements of current, electromotive
force and resistance are based, etc.

Text-Books.

Ayrton's Practical Electricity, Stewart and Gee's Practical Physics,
^Nichol's Laboratory Manual, 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-,
stration on the applications of electricity to lighting,
electric railways, electrical transmission of energy, poly-
phase currents, electrical welding, etc.

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Laboratory Work.— Six hours per week are devoted
to practical laboratory work, electrical measurements,
relation of electrical currents to heat and mechanical
work, care and tests of dynamo and motors, calibration
of voltmeters, ammeters and watt-meters, electric light-
ing, management and care of accumulators, energy con-
sumed 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 alternating motors, etc.

Drawing and Construction.— Two hours per week in
the senior year are devoted to the design and construc-
tion of electrical machinery. The student is required to
make original designs of dynamos, motors, transformers,
etc.

Text-Books.

Thompson's Dynamo Electric Machinery, Bell's Power Transmis-
sion, NichoPs Laboratory Manual, Vol. II.

Post-graduate Course.

This includes advanced study and laboratory work in alternating
/currents.

Reference Books.

The Dynamo by Hawkins & Wallace, Alternating Currents by Jack-
son, Principles of the Transformer by Bedell, Dynamos, Alternators
and Transformers by Kapp, Alternating Current Phenomena by 4
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The electrical laboratory has a complete line of batteries, call-bells
annunciators, telegraph sounders, relays, keys, magnets ; galvanome-
ters, resistance boxes, electro-plating apparatus, and all apparatus
for students in electrical engineering. The equipment comprises
many fine instruments of precision: Lord Kelvin's standard
100 ampere balance (either for direct or alternating currents);
Lord Kelvin'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 electro-static voltmeter, Cardew
voltmeter (for direct or alternating currents), reading to 150 volts;
Weston's standard ammeter and voltmeter, box of resisting coils;'
Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter, and ammeter, standard micro-farad
condenser and Sabine key ; Thompson's watt-meter, ballistic reflect-
ing galvanometer, mirror galvanometer, Fein ammeter and voltmeter j
Ayrton & Perry ammeter, Thomson inclined coil ammeter, Edison-
ammeters, Kohl's solenoid ammeter, Wood ammeter, Deprez am-
meter Hartman <fe Braun voltmeter, D'Arsonval galvanometer, Row-
land-D Arson val galvanometer, cable testing apparatus, Hughe's in-
duction balance, tasimeter, microphone, telephones, electrolytic ap-
paratus and several mirror and other galvanometers for first year
st uuen tSt

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Hous on 110 volt, ,5 ampere generator ; two street car motors used
as e.ther direct or alternating current generators or motors • two
polyphase induction motors ; one General Electric 5 horsepower .n-
duct.on motor mounted on cradle dynamometer ; General E?eclr? c £)

tdson3^ k.lo-watt generator; a Crocker-Wheeler one horse-power
motor and rheostat, and one bi-phase alternator, and 500 volt g"n-

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generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press, ensi-
lage 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 transmission
of power.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANIC

ARTS.

PROFESSOR WILMORE.

B. H. CRENSHAW, )

R. J. TRAMMELL, > ASSISTANTS.

M. T. FULLAN, )

MECHANIC ARTS.

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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 forgo
work— molding, 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 Fac-
ulty.

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 equipment for the wood-working shop comprises the following r
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 band saw ; 1 board-planing machine; 1
jointer; 1 pattern-maker's lathe, 16-inch swing; 1 36-inch
grindstone. The tool room is supplied with a variety of extra band-'

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tools for special work, an* in addition to the regular carpenter's tools
in the benches, each student is supplied with a set of chisels and plane
irons with a locker to keep them in and is held responsible for their
care and condition.

The equipment for the foundry consists of molding benches for
18 students, each supplied with a complete set of molder'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 cam
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 Nq. 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, 30 x 50 feet, and
is equipped with eight engine-lathes, (screw-cutting), 14-inch swing,
6-foot bed ; 2 engine lathes 16-inch swing, (one with taper attach^
ment); 1 engine lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound rest
and taper attachment): 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); I
bench grinder; 1 post drill press, 14-inch; 1 universal cutter and
reamer grinder; 1 Brown and Sharpe universal grinding machine ; 1
power hack saw. A part of the room is set apart for vise-work,,
chipping and filing; and benches for 12 students are provided, each
with vise and set of files, chisels, hammers, etc. In the tool-room is
to be found a good supply of machinists' tools for general shop use,
sach 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 fol-
lows :

First Year.

I. A course of carpentry or hand work covering the first two terms.
The essons 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
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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 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 student* familiarity with the use of patterns

for general molding.

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 practioe is given in working the

cupola.

In connection with this second year work, a series of lectures is
given on the metallurgy and working of the metals used in the indus-
trial arts, cast and wrought iron, steel, brass, etc.

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
flat and curved sufaces, key-seating, etc., filing and finishing to line
(straight and curved), surface filing and finishing, fitting, slotting,
vedotail 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,
gcrew-cutting in lathe and with taps and dies, planing, slotting, etc.,

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with planer and shaper, 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, cutting tools, gearing, gauges, screw
threads, etc. During the last term some piece of construction work
is given the classes.

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.-Thvee recitations per week
during the second and third terms are devoted to this
subject.

M^yiasas 7^ and their eiementai - y —

gear wheels hlZ T The commun ication of motion by

obtainine it £ Ca nS ', Screws and 'ink-work, the different ways of

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tained, the dimensions 1*7 ?**&* of tt machine are ob-
the theoretical formulu «nd"S Wlth th ° 8e obtained by applying
two studied. he cause * of variation between the

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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.

Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants. — The first term
five hours per week is given to the study of the practical
applications of steam machinery. It is believed that a
thorough knowledge of the apparatus in actual practical
use is the best preparation a student can have for the
study of the theory, and to that end, the different types
of engines, boilers, pumps, condensers, and other auxil-
iary apparatus are taken up and studied in detail, and
the advantages and disadvantages of each discussed.
Extensive files of manufacturer's catalogues are kept
and the technical papers and magazines in the library
are freely used in order to keep in touch with the latest
and best practice in engineering work.

Steam Engine .-The second 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 con-
densation in cylinder, action of fly-wheels, effects of
jacketing, etc. Simple 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.

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vantage of graphical MMP^ gfrgJJl being made. B,
and new applications of the formei we hine ma , be deter-

itsuse.the forces acting in every part o fa n ac ne J
mined, both in direction and intensity, without the

matical formula. ie9 of i ectU res on

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Machine Design.— The subject of machine design is
made a continuation of the junior course and runs
throughout the year, two hours a week. During the
first term, the strength and proportions of different
joints and fastenings are studied, and problems given
for actual solution. During the remainder of the year
the time is spent on steam engine design. The results
as obtained from standard formulas are compared with
the dimensions as used by the best constructors, and the
reasons for variations, if any occur, are studied.

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 meas-
urement ; test of hot air pumping engine ; efficiency and duty of a steam
pump;tensional, compression^ and transverse tests of cast iron,
wrought- iron, steel and wood, in which are observed the limit of
e asticity, the ultimate breaking strength and the modulus of
elasticity.

This olass 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 45 horse-power
Imperial cross compound engine, especially arranged for experi-
mental work, supp hed with Wheeler surface condenser and Deane
elfn. P « /" rCulat,n « P U1 »P. of a 25 horse-power Harris-Corliss
Itfa T:l? h t ™-J>™*' Westinghouse engine, a 25 horse-power
the shlf ' ,? ' horse -P° w <* engines constructed by students in
ests a P d„ ni'Tn e " g ' ne "* b ° iler es P eciall y for ™king efficiency

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chemistry and agriculture, and to some practical work
and "field lectures" to the students of the same course
during the sophomore year. Instruction is given by
lectures and text-book and by courses of reading, using
the green house and orchards and gardens of the experi-
ment station to give practical illustrations of the sub-
jects taught.

Attention is called to the various fruits and vegetables that can be
successfully cultivated in Alabama, and methods of propagation, cul-
tivation and marketing are discussed. Particular attention is called
to the diseases and insect enemies to which each of these crops are
liable, and careful directions are given as to the best known means
of combatting them. The construction and management of green
houses, hot beds and cold frames receive special attention, while such
topics as floriculture, landscape gardening and forestry are discussed

in a general way only. t #

Special work will be arranged for any student desiring to ta«e

a more extended course in horticulture .

'" r MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.

COL. B. S. PATRICK, COMMANDANT.

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 inca-
pacitated to bear arms, practical instruction in the
school of the soldier, of the company and of the bat-
talion in close and extended order, also in guard mount-
ings, inspections, dress parades, reviews, etc

Under section 1225, U. B; Revised Statutes, the Co -
lege is provided with modern cadet rifles and accoutre
mfnts. Ammunition for practice firing ««£j^
the direction of an experienced f^'^^S
in target practice begin the first day of the third term^

The following uniform of standard cadet gray cloth
. ine following g ag worn

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cadet cap. A neat and serviceable uniform can be ob-
tained here at $14 to $15. 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 military efficiency, good
conduct and scholarship. The commissioned officers
will be selected either from the senior or junior
classes, and promotion will depend on merit and not
wholly on seniority.

A band, composed of cadets, furnishes appropriate
music at all reviews and parades, and on other special
occasions.

A student who has once accepted an office cannot resign it except
for reasons entirely satisfactory to the President and Commandant.
The resignation of his office by a minor will usually not be considered
without first placing all the circumstances of the case before his
parent or guardian.

Candidates for appointment or promotion may be required to stand
an examination Moral fitness, including demerits, will be consid-
ered.

No cadet can continue an officer in the corps who during a session
is classed in the fourth grade in two or more subjects at any term
examination, or in the fourth grade in any subject at two term
examinations ; nor who receives during the session more than 60
demerits.

Examinations will be conducted by a Board of Officers, to be com-
posed of the Commandant of Cadets and two commissioned officers,,
to be designated by him. The proceedings of the Board are subject
to revision and approval by the President of the College.

Each company is officered by one captain, two first lieutenants, one
second lieutenant, and with a proper number of non-commissioned
officers. The officers and non-commissioned 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
Drill Regulations.

The senior class recites once a week in "Notes on Military Science."

On the graduation of each class the names of such students as have
shown special aptitude for military service will be reported to the
Adjutant-General of the U. S. Army, and the names of the three-

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most distinguished in military science and tactics will be inserted in
the U. 8. Army Register, and published in general orders from head-
quarters of the army .

(PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR CARY.
PHYSIOLOGY.

The sophomore class studies human anatomy, physi-
ology and hygiene during the entire college year.

It is the aim of the department to give the students
practical and real knowledge of the gross anatomy and
functions of the various parts of the human body. Due
attention is given, also, to the laws of health— the con-
ditions most favorable to a continuous healthy action of
the organs of the human body.

Instruction is given by lectures and by text-books,
supplemented by black-board drawings, charts, models
of organs, a human skeleton, and by dissections of some
of the smaller animals (dog, cat, etc.).

Martin's Human Body is used as a text and reference
book, and several other works on anatomy, physiology
and hygiene may be consulted in the college and experi-
ment station libraries.

VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART.

Students in the agricultural and chemical course of
study, during the entire junior and senior years, devote
to this work two hours per week in the class room and
three hours per week at practical clinics. Instruction
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aim to give a complete course in veterinary medicine,
we attempt to present the general principles of com-
parative 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 h.orse, minor surgery, the actions and uses of the
most common medicines, the principles and practice of comparative
medicine, and the ways of protecting the health of domestic animals,
are considered in as plain and practical a 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.

The senior class in pharmacy devotes three hours per week, during
the first and second terms, to the study of therapeutics ; and four
hours per week during the third term to class room and laboratory
work in bacteriology.

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To the post-graduate student this department furnishes
work in histology, bacteriology, pathology, meat and
milk inspection. Such students may devote their entire
time to work in this department with approval of
faculty.

The department of physiology and veterinary science is now loca-
ted by itself in a building which consists of a two-story portion, con-
taining 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.

The new veterinary hospital building contains five large box stalls,
four open single stalls, an office and a feed room, on the lower floor;
the upper floor is used as a storage room for hay, fodder, etc. The
hospitals supplied with fresh water.

Every Saturday during the college year, the department conducts
a free clinic for the benefit of the students in veterinary science and
art. Clinical cases have been various and numerous, giving the
students opportunity to see and study many diseases and lamenesses
and to become proficient in minor operations.

PHARMACY AND PHARMACOGNOSY.

PROFESSOR MILLER.

JUNIOR YEAR.

Pharmacy. — Class work, three hours a week. The dif-
ferent systems of weights and measures . Specific gravity.
Pharmaceutical problems. The fundamental operations
in pharmacy. Apparatus used in pharmaceutical pro-
cesses. Discussion of all classes of pharmaceutical
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Laboratory, nine hours a week. Preparation of official
and non-official galenicals.

Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work,
four hours a week. All official vegetable drugs studied
with aid of simple and compound microscope.

SENIOR YEAR.

Pharmacy. — Class work, fmr hours a week. Official
and non-official pharmaceutical chemicals, inorganic and
organic, including the more important newer remedies.
The prescription. 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 prescriptions.

Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work,
four hours a week. Study of important non-official vege-
table drugs ; of drugs of animal origin ; of adulterants
and worthless drugs. Practical exercises in identifica-
tion of pharmaceutical* preparations and chemicals.

The practical work in pharmacy includes the manufacture of not
less than two hundred pharmaceutical preparations and the com-
pounding of not less than fifty prescriptions.

MISCELLANEOUS.

REGULATIONS.

(1) Each student upon entering is required to sign his name in the
matriculation book, and pledge himself to obey the rules and regula-
tions of the College.

(2) Every absence from recitation or examination is graded zero.

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sence for which a satisfactory excuse can be rendered, a special term
re-examination may be subsequently granted, and the grade made
on the special re-examination alone is substituted for that previously
received.

(4) Only sickness, as reported by the Surgeon, or being absent by
reason of family sickness, will constitute a satisfactory excuse for
granting a re-examination.

When a cadet is called away from College by his parents his zeros
for absences are not removed.

(5) The term grade of a student is the average of his daily ses-
sional and term examination marks, found by giving due weight to
the term examination.

(6) Privates of the senior class in full standing who are candidates
for graduation maybe 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 on*
special study, as chemistry, agriculture or pharmacy, provided the
time devoted to drill is spent by them in laboratory work.

DISTINCTIONS.

Distinctions are awarded in the different subjects of each class to
those students whose grade for the entire year is above ninety 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 thi*ee
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.

A distinction is not given in the senior class if the average grade in
any one subject is less than 75 per cent.

RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.

Daily records of the various exercises of the classes are kept by the
officers of instruction.

, From the records a monthly circular, or statement, is sent to the
parent or guardian.

EXAMINATIONS.

Written examinations on the studies of the month are held by each
professor during the months of October, November, February, and
April. Each examination occupies one hour. '

ACthe end of each term written examinations, or written and oral,
are-held on the studies passed over during' that term.

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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-
tions, can be promoted to full standing in the next higher class only
on satisfactory examinations at the opening of the next session .

LIBRARY.

The library occupies an elegant, well-lighted room in the main
building, and also two smaller adjacent rooms. It contains over
12,000 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.

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.

BOARDING HOUSES.

For each house an inspector is appointed, whose duty it is to report
those who, without permission, leave their rooms after "call to quar-
ters," or are guilty of any violation of order. The report of the in-
spector is made to the Commandant on alternate days of the week.

Permission to board and lodge at separate houses will be granted
only to seniors, to cadets twety-one years of age and to those who
are on the " honor roll," except on special conditions.

By special arrangement with the College authorities, Mrs. M. L.
Mitchell, Mrs. A. DeBardeleben and Mrs S. M. Anderson, will accom-
modate students with board, lodging and fuel, for $9.50 per month.

EXPENSES.

There is no charge for tuition for a resident of Alabama.

Incidental fee, per half session $ 2 50

Library fee, per half session ^ 1 00

Surgeon's fee, per half session 2 50

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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 00 to $15 00

. 12 00 to 12 00
rrd;iodgingVfueVand lights: : '. ". . 108 00 to 135 0^

Waging • 8(K)t0 1500

Books, etc., say

Total ••• • -* 13700 * 1710 °

For non-resident students there should be added to the amounts
.01 non res i fee . g nQt required f

Z e ™Z™™2::rio matriculated during the se98ion of

18 Tuiion for students not residents of Alabama is $20.00 per session,
u Xs! ! remitted by the Trustees to worthy students upon the recom-

Thtt^roS Sition fee to non-resident students will be
La Tn the form of a free scholarship for the succeed.ng year, to
f h "e lo obtaLTdistinction the preceding year, or who, by reaaon
of merit, are deemed worthy.

HONOR SCHOLARSHIPS.

' The following non-resident students were granted each, by reason
of spec a nTeHt in conduct and scholarship during the sessmn 97-98,
an tnor scholarship, which exempted from tu.t.on fees: ^^

E. Bukof zer Georgia .

B.B. Hall Georgia.

J.P.Illges.. ' Georgia.

M.N. Fleming • • Georgia.

A. F. Jackson •••• {&

J. M. McGoolnck ^^

J.P.Moore .' Tennessee.

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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 Chadottsville mill This suit, including cap, costs at present
about 114.00 It is neat and serviceable, and less expensive than
ordinary clothing.

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 student.

AMOUNT OF DEPOSIT.
Fees to be paid on entrance :
Incidental fee , ,.,... .. |250

Surgeon 250

Contingent fee • 5 00

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to «J to m * u • ° n l m0nth ' S b ° al-d ' incid entals, amounting

fcasLtf 'Z » ' a re ?l dent ° f AUbama 8h0 «ld deposit with the

Jieasuier sfoO.Ot), a non-resident, $60.00.

FUNDS OF STUDENTS.
Parents and guardians are advised to deposit with the Treasurer
of the College a.Uunds desired for sons or wards, whether for regu

ar charges of college fees or board, or for any other purpose It is
the du t y of th j ffioer to keep ^ [a J g PU pose It £

and to pay all expenses incurred by the students, including Sard'
uniform, books, etc., when approved ooara,

When funds are deposited, checks are drawn on the Treasurer of
the College by the cadet to pay his necessary expenes These
checks are paid only when officially approved The approval' is lien
only for necessary expenses, as stated in the catalogue, unTels snedan v
requested in writing by the parent. specially

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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 April.

The subject must be submitted for approval by January 1st.

LITERARY SOCIETIES.

There are two literary societies connected with the

College 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
annually, with the approval of the Faculty, an orator to
represent them at the close of the year.

EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION. .

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On every Saturday morning, immediately after chapel services,
oratorical exercises in declamation and in origmal orations are con-
ducted 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.

SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI.

In 1885, the Alumni Society established "The Alumni
Scholarship," which makes an annual loan of one hun-
dred and seventy dollars to a beneficiary elected by the
society. Eight young men have been thus enabled to
go through College. This scholarship is supported by
annual contributions from the Alumni and other friends
of the institution.

Subscriptions should be sent to B. H. Crenshaw,
Treasurer, Auburn, Ala.

The annual alumni oration is delivered toy a member
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of the society, in Langdon Hall, on Alumni Day, Tues-
day of commencement week.

The following are officers of the society.

Wm. H. Blake, of '92, M. D., President.

C. L. Hare, " '94, Vice President.

H. H. Smith, " '95, Secretary.

B. H. Crenshaw, '89, Treasurer.

T. H. Samford, '88, Orator for 1899.

SURGEON.

The Surgeon is required to be present at the College
daily, to visit at their quarters the cadets that are re-
ported sick, and to give all requisite jrfedical attention
without other charge than the regular surgeon's fee,
paid on entering college.

ACADEMIC YEAR.

The academic year for 1899-1900 commences on
Wednesday, 13th September, 1899 (second Wednesday
after the first Monday), and ends on Wednesday, 13th
June, 1900 (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 22nd of Decem-
ber ; the second term begins January 2nd, and ends
March 18th ; the third term continues to the close of the
session.

AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE

To change the name of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of

Alabama.

Whereas, the Agricultural and^echanical College at Auburn hav-
ing by means of the appropriations made by the State legislature, and
by those made and continued in recent years by the acts of Congress,
developed, as originally designed, into an institution where are taught
not only the branches that relate to agriculture and the mechanic
arts but also the sciences and arts in general that relate to the in-
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, That
said institution shall hereafter be known and designated as The Ala-
bama Polytechnic Institute, it being provided that said Institute shall
continue to perform the functions of the State college for the benefit
of agriculture and the mechanic arts, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, granting lands to the
several States and territories for collegiate purposes.

Approved January 27, 1899.

(Official) Kobt. P. McDavid,

Secretary of State.

DONATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING.

General Electric -Co . , Harrison, N. J., case of incandescent lamps.

S. C. Shaffner, Mobile, Ala., two arc lamps.

W. H. McBryde, New York, N. Y., one magnetic lamp socket.

DONATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF sMECHANICAL
ENGINEERING FOR THE YEAR 1898-99.

Samples of Lathe and Planer Tools, donated by Armstrong Brothers

Tool Co., Chicago, 111.

Set of Castings and blue prints for complete Corliss valve gear,
adapted to the Harris-Corliss engine in the shop, donated by The
Edwin P. Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

Samples of Finch Automatic oil cups, donated t^eorge L. Thomp-
son Manufacturing Co., Chicago, 111.

Samples of Copper Gaskets, donated by The United States Mineral

Wool Co., New York, N. Y.

DONATIONS TO THE GENERAL LIBRARY.

To the General Library, 12 vols.
Pamphlets, etc., 36 vols.
Government publications, 195 vols.

TO THE EXPERIMENT STATION LIBRARY.

Scientific papers and pamphlets, 63.

Bound volumes by Prof. C. F. Baker, 67.

Pamphlets by Prof. C. F. Baker, 143.

There are 56 scientific and literary journals regularly received in
the general library, and 38 foreign journals and 26 American in the
Experiment Station library, all of which are accessible to the stu-
dents.

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Catalog of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1
Auburn, Ala. : *b The College, *c 1894-1899. I
6 v. : *b ill. ; *c 23 cm. I
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STATE COLLEGE,

FOR THE

Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.

AUBURN, ALABAMA.

1900.

MONTGOMERY, ALA.

BROWN VlilNTING CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS.

1900.

TRUSTEES.

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His Excellency, JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON", President. .Ex-officio.

JOHN W. ABERCROMBIE, Superintendent of Education. .Ex-officio.

F. M. Moselry, (term expires 1905) Union Springs.

W. K. Terry, . . . . (term expires 1905) Birmingham.

T. H. Frazer, (term expires 1905) Mobile.

N. P. Renpro, (term expires 1905) Opelika. *

J. G. Gilchrist, (term expires 1903). . Hope Hull.

Tancred Bbtts, (term expires 1903) Huntsville.

Walter O. Whttaker,. (term expires 1903) Tuscaloosa.

Jonathan Haralson,. ...(term expires 1901) Selma.

Thos. Williams......... (term expires 1901) Wetumpka

J. A. Bilbro, (term expires 1901) Gadsden.

E T. Glenn, Treasurer.
J. H. Drake, M. D., Surgeon.

R. W. Burton, Secretary.

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FACULTY AND OFFICERS.

Wm. LeROY BROUN, M. A., LL. D.,
President and Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

OTIS DAVID SMITH, A. M., LL. D.,
Professor of Mathematics.

PATRICK HUGHES MELL, M. E., Ph D.,
Professor of Botany and Geology.

JAMES HENRY LANE, C. E., A. M., Ph. D., LL. D.,
Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.

CHARLES COLEMAN THACH, A. M.,
Professor of English and Political Economy.

GEORGE PETRIE, M. A., Ph. D.,
Professor of History and Latin.

BENNETT BATTLE ROSS, M. So.,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.

* CHARLES HUNTER ROSS, C. E., Ph. D.,
Professor of Modern Languages.

JOHN JENKINS WILMORE, M. E.,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Laboratory.

CHARLES ALLEN CARY, B. Sc, D. V. M.,
Professor of Physology and Veterinary Science.

EMERSON R. MILLER, Phae. M., M. Sc,
Professor of Pharmacy.

JOHN FREDERICK DUGGAR, M., So.,
Professor of Agriculture.

FRANK SUMNER EARLE.
Professor of Biology and Horticulture.

ARTHUR ST. CHARLES DUNSTAN, M. E., C. E.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics.

BOLLING HALL CRENSHAW, M. E.,
Assistant Professor of Mechanic Arts and Mathematics.

BENJAMIN SWEAT PATRICK, E. & M. E.,
Commandant add Acting Professor of Military Science.

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THOMAS GREEN FAULKNER, M. A.,
Acting Professor Modern Languages.

CLIFFORD LeROY HARE, M. Sc,
Instructor Chemical Laboratory.

ROBERT JEFFERSON TRAMMELL, C. E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts.

HENRY HEARST KYSER, E. & M. E.,
Instructor in Physical and Electrical Laboratory.

WALTER LYNWOOD FLEMING, M. Sc,
Assistant Librarian.

MICHAEL THOMAS FULLAN, M. Sc.,
Assistant in Mechanics Arts.

ROBERT HIGGINS ADAMS, B. Sc,
Assistant in English and Mathematics.

WILLIAM OSCAR SCROGGS, B. Sc,

Assistant in English.

♦ARTHUR McBRYDE RANSOM, M. Sc,
Assistant in Chemistry.

ISHAM FENNELL McDONNELL, B. Sc,
Assistant in Electrical Engineering.

THOMAS HENNINGTON McADORY, B. Sc,
Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

.ARTHUR HENRY FEAGIN, B. Sc,
Assistant in Civil Engineering and Drawing.

t HARRY STREETY HOUGHTON, B. Sc.,
Assistant in Chemistry.

BAILEY EDGAR BROWN, B. Sc,
Assistant in Veterinary Science.

C. C. THACH,
Superintendent of Library.

0. D. SMITH,
Corresponding Secretary.

* Resigned.

t Appointed Feb. 15th.

OFFICERS.

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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION.

F. M. Moseley Union Springs.

J. G. Gilchrist. Hope Hull.

Jonathan Haralson Selma.

STATION COUNCIL.

Wir. LeRoy Broun President.

P. H. Mell Director and Botanist.

B. B. Ross .Chemist.

C. A. Cary, D. V. M Veterinarian.

J. F. Duggar Agriculturist.

F. S. Earle Biologist and Horticulturist.

J. T. Anderson Associate Chemist.

ASSISTANTS.

C. L. Hare First Assistant Chemist.

J. Q. Burton Second Assistant Chemist.

* H. S. Houghton Third Assistant Chemist.

T. U. Culver Superintendent of Farm.

R. W. Clark Assistant Agriculturist.

Moses Craig Assistant Horticulturist.

Appointed Feb. 15, vice A. McB. Ransom, resigned.

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LANGDON HALL.

The Institute is a distinctive school of Science and
its applications; being also the State College for the
benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts established
by the State in 1872, by endowing it with the land-grant
appropriation made by the U. S. Congress in 1862.

The leading object of the Institute, in conformity with
the act of Congress and the acts of the State Legislature,
is to teach the principles and applications of science.

In its course of instruction it gives prominence to the
sciences and their applications, especially to those that
relate to agriculture and the mechanic, arts ; and at the
same time the discipline and liberal education obtained
by the study of language and other sciences are not neg-
lected.

All students are required to study the English lan-
guage. 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.

In its different courses of education, work of great
value to the youth of the State is 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.

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LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES FOR IN-
STRUCTION. '*

The Institute now possesses facilities for giving
laboratory instruction in applied science in the follow-
ing departments :

I — IN AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.

The farm contains 304 acres, and is supplied with
illustrative specimens of stock of select varieties.

II — IN MECHANIC ARTS.

The laboratory of mechanic arts is used as an aux-
iliary in industrial education, and as a school of manual
training in the arts that constitute the foundation of
various industrial pursuits. The work performed by the
students is instructive 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 Institute each stu-
dent 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 I*
hand, as well as the mind, and thus by associating

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manual and mental training, to educate thoroughly the
student for the duties of life, Avhatever may be his voca-
tion. 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,
90x50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horse-
power Corliss engine, a planer, circular saw, band-saw,
two scroll says, a buzz planer, a pattern maker's lathe,
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, 30x87 feet, with two rooms, has been
constructed especially for instruction in working iron.

The forge and foundry rooms are furnished with a
Sturtevant fan and exhauster, supplied with power from
a ten-horse power engine, constructed by the students
in mechanic arts.

The machine department occupies a brick building,
30x50 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 grind-
ing 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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Ill — IN PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

The chemical laboratory is supplied with modern ap-
paratus, and in its equipment affords excellent facilities
for instruction in practical chemistry and for investiga-
tion.

The investigations that are undertaken in this labora-
tory by scientific experts, in 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
accommodates sixty students, a lecture room with a
capacity for one hundred seats, and nine other , rooms,
all appropriated to instruction and research in chem-
istry.

IV — IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

The electrical laboratory is well supplied with modern *j

appliances for instruction in electrical engineering. It
occupies three large rooms in the basement and is
equipped with many fine instruments of precision.

In addition to resistance boxes, bridges, condensers,
galvanometers, dynamometers, wattmeters, and other
laboratory instruments, the department is supplied with
representatives of the best types of commercial electrical
instruments from foreign and domestic makers.

The dynamos occupy a separate building and are oper-
ated 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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nating current motors or generators), one 5 horse power
three phase motor, one General Electric 20 horse power
motor, one 40 light shunt dynamo, one Edison 3 Kilo-
watt generator, one Stanley induction motor with con-
denser, two bi-phase induction motors (built by stu-
dents), one 9 light Thomson-Houston arc machine, two
phase alternator and 500 volt 20 ampere generator, made
by students. There is also in connection with this de-
partment at the experiment station, 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 elemen-
tary laboratory work in the department of physics.
Special rooms 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
basement, and is provided with tables and appliances to
accommodate thirty students, with an excellent collec-
tion of minerals.

VII — IN BOTANY.

In the work of the agricultural experiment station
there is a botanical garden under the charge of the pro-
fessor of botany; investigations in botany are given
special attention, and opportunities are offered ad-
vanced students for practical work in a laboratory es-
pecially fitted with microscop.es, tables, a dark room for
photographic work, and appliances needed for instruc-
tion and research. This department is provided, with
Auzoux's clastic models of seeds and flowers for teach-
ing botany.

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viii — IN BIOLOGY.

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 observa-
tion and execution. A large, well-lighted drawing room,
which will accommodate fifty students, is provided with
tables, lock-boxes, etc.

XI — IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

The mechanical course has been extended to include
experimental work in mechanical engineering.

The apparatus available for this instruction is as fol-
lows : A 45 horse power Imperial Cross compound en-
gine, especially arranged for experimental work, sup-
plied with Wheeler surface condenser and Deane air
pump and circulating pump, a 25-horse power Harris-
Corliss engine, a 35 horse power Westinghouse engine,
two 9 horse power engines constructed by students, the
boilers belonging to the regular power plant, a small en-
gine and boiled for the special purpose of making effi-
ciency tests, a Deane duplex steam pump, a 4-horse power
gasoline engine, an Ericsson hot air engine, a New York
air pump, a Westinghouse air pump, four steam engine
indicators, a separating calorimeter, thermometers, a
pyrometer, scales, a standard steam gauge with appar-

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atus for testing steam gauges, a Crosby dead weight
tester with weights for correcting the standard gauge,
a 35,000-pound testing machine, a Henning micrometer
extensometer, and a Carpenter calorimeter with the nec-
essary auxiliary apparatus for determining the heating
value of different kinds of coal.

This work is now carried on in the lower story of the
annex to the chemical laboratory. This room is 30x60
feet in size and was specially designed and fitted up
for this purpose. A three-inch steam main has been laid
from the boiler house, thus securing a steam supply in
the building for all work requiring it. The work is thor-
oughly practical, and it is desired to extendit 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 depart-
ment 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 veterinary science.

XIII — IN PHARMACY.

The laboratory of this department occupies the second
lioor of the annex to chemical laboratory, and is pro-
vided with a sufficient supply of drugs and apparatus
necessary for instruction in. pharmaceutical prepara-
tions.

The students work in the laboratory with the profes-
sor, from five to eight hours, six days in the week.

The facilities are increased as means are available.

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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 sys-
tem is used as a means of enforcing discipline and secur-
ing good order, promptness and regularity in the per-
formance of academic duties.

This department is supplied with cadet muskets and

accoutrements for the corps.

COLLEGE BUILDINGS.

The frontispiece is a representation of the main College building.
It is 160 x 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, 90x50 feet. The second story is the
audience hall, used for commencement and qther public occasions.
The first story is appropriated to the laboratory of mechanic arts.

THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

As shown on the opposite page this is a two story structure, 40 by
60 feet, with a rear projection, 35 by 60 feet, of one-story and base-
ment, 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 with seats and tablets
for eighty students. Around the lecture :room are cases containing
crude and manufactured products, illustrating agricultural and
mechanical chemistry, prominent subjects taught in the institution.

ANNEX TO CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

This is a three-story brick building, containing rooms for phar-
macy, mechanical engineering, and drawing.

The Chemical Laboratory for the Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion occupies a building 60 by 26 feet and is appropriated exclusively
for chemical investigation and research, and not for instruction.

CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

GRADUATES IN 1899.

CLASS OF 1899.

HONOR GRADUATES.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Flake Earle Farley Lee.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Jones Stephen Gilliland Coosa.

COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

Arthur Henry Feagin . . . . Bullock.

GENERAL COURSE.

William Oscar Scroggs Georgia.

COURSE IN PHARMACY.

Dozier Turner. Elmore.

DEGREES.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.

xjcxvoy j cimes aiich . ....... ..*.*...... ........ ••<..••••• .JMari

Jesse Maldrie Atkinson

Emmett Gale Buck

Alston Boyd Tennessee.

Harriet Lavinia Dabney Bondurant Lee.

Bailey Edgar Brown Morgan.

Mattie Lucile Burton , Lee.

Thomas Greene Bush Calhoun.

Charles Wallace Collins Hale.

Colonel Seldon Crew Coosa.

Frederick Robert Daly Jefferson.

Bolivar Davis Jefferson.

Marion Dawson Elmore.

James Francis Dobbin Florida.

Arthur Henry Feagin .Bullock.

Michael Thomas Fullan Georgia.

Jones Stephens Gilliland Coosa.

Theophilus Eaton Goodwin Crenshaw.

Fannie Maud Holstun

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Felix Grundy Horn. Sumter.

Kate Meade Lane Lee.

Harry Toulmin Lay Montgomery.

Thomas Hennington McAdory Jefferson.

Isham Fennell McDonnell ....Madison.

Jackson Chadwick Minge Marengo.

Benjamin Otey Minge Marengo.

Hartley Allen Moon Coosa.

Hattie Marshall Phelps Lee.

Mary Evelyn Robinson Lee.

John Osgood Rush Autauga.

William Oscar Scroggs Georgia.

Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe Louisiana.

Dozier Turner Elmore.

James Alfred Ward Madison.

Thomas William Wert Morgan.

George Madison Wheeler Madison.

ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

Michael Thomas Fullan Georgia;

Jonathan Haralson Dallas.

Ashleigh Strudwick Moses Baldwin.

George Wrigley Georgia.

MINING ENGINEER. ....

George Nathan Mitcham. Georgia.

MASTER OF SCIENCE.

Erin Black Lee.

Mary Wright Boyd Lee.

Alexander Humphreys Clark Montgomery.

Joseph Wood King Georgia.

Frank Greene Morriss Talladega.

Arthur McBride Ransom Georgia.

PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST.

John Wesley Williams Lee.

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DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS.

Students who receive a grade above 90 in three studies in the fresh-
man class, in four in the Sophomore, in five in the
Junior, and in six in the Senior, are dis-
guished for excellence in scholar-
ship, and are awarded

HONOR CERTIFICATES.

The following students received honor certificates in 1899:

SENIOR CLASS

Bailey Edgar Brown Morgan.

Mattie Lucile Burton Lee.

Charles Wallace Collins. , .Hale.

Flake Earle Farley Lee.

Arthur Henry Feagin ; Bullock.

Jones Stephen Gilliland Coosa.

Kate Meade Lane Lee.

Isham Fennell McDonnell Madison.

Hattie Marshall Phelps ! Lee.

Mary Evelyn Robinson Lee.

William Oscar Scroggs Georgia.

Dozier Turner Elmore.

HONOR STUDENTS IN THE JUNIOR CLASS,

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE

Luther Noble Duncan Franklin.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Roland B. Hall. ; Georgia.

GENERAL COURSE.

James Richard Rutland .Chambers.

COURSE IN PHARMACY.

Enoch Marvin Mason Lee.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Malcolm Alfred Beeson Etowah.

John Samuel Black Lee.

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee.

Millard Morse Brooks.' Escambia.

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Edwin Bukofzer. » .Tennessee.

Emma Beall Culver. . Lee.

William Crawford Dowdell Lee.

Luther Noble Duncan Franklin.

Sherman Guy Forbes. ... Dale.

Bertha Mae Grout Lee.

Harry Young Hall . Jefferson.

Roland B. Hall Georgia.

Charles Lewis Harold Escambia,

Edward Zellars Heard Lee.

Mary Katherine Hollifield Lee.

Moses Frank Kahn .Lee.

Enoch Marvin Mason ., Lee.

William Livingston Neill Jefferson.

Charles Walter Nixon Tennessee.

William Forney Osburn Lee.

Hiram Perry Powell ". Georgia.

Fleming James Rigney .Madison.

James Richard Rutland Chambers.

Joseph Manning Steiner Butler.

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SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Eugene Flynn Enslen. Jefferson.

John Drewry Foy Barbour.

Paul Shields Haley Walker.

Arthur Flournoy Jackson Georgia.

Myron Daniel Kahn Lee.

Howard Malcolm Kilpatrick Georgia.

Karl Edward Lindrose Mississippi.

Abram Hill Mitchell Lee.

Isaac Lenoir Moore Lee.

Henry Edward Werner Texas.

Gaius Whitfield , Marengo.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Oliver Hannibal Alford Marshall.

William Warren Askew Georgia.

Clyde Allen Collins Hale.

Jesse Duncan Elliott Wyoming.

Morris Ketchum Florida.

James Allen Kyser \ %% Dallas.

Henry Bigham Park Georgia.

Richard Blount Shepard \ Mobile.

Jonathan Render Thomas Lee.

Walker Dorr Willis Florida.

John Eyers Davis Yonge Florida.

CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS,

FOR THE SESSION OF 1899-1900.
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Graduate Students.

[Residence in Alabama when Slate is not given.] *

NAME. RESIDENCE.

Robert Higgins Adams Pike.

Bailey Edgar Brown . . . . Morgan.

Toccoa Cozart Montgomery.

George Webster Duncan Lee.

Arthur Henry Feagin Barbour.

Kate Meade Lane Lee.

Richard Harris Little Tuskaloosa.

Thomas Hennington McAdory Jefferson.

Isham Fennell McDonnell Madison.

Julian Berry Oglesby Georgia.

William Oscar Scroggs .Georgia.

Undergraduate Students.

senior class.

Frank Hunter Anderson Bullock.

William Lawrence Anderson. Montgomery.

Fletcher Ashcraft Lauderdale.

Malcolm Alfred Beeson .Etowah.

John Samuel Black Lee.

Guv French Bovd Lee.

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee.

Millard Morse Brooks Escambia.

Edwin Bukofzer Tennessee.

Judson Lamar Burke Lee.

Andrew Crozier Cameron Jefferson.

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Frank Bovard Chapman Louisiana.

Sallie McGehee Clark , .Montgomery.

Asburv Nicholson Culver Lee.

Emma Beall Culver Lee.

William Crawford Dowdell .Lee.

Ellis Madison Duncan Franklin.

Luther Noble Duncan Franklin.

Rutherford Sylvanus Finch Montgomery.

John Jefferson Flowers Butler.

Sherman Guy Forbes Dale.

Erie Humphreys Foy Barbour.

Bertha Mae Grout Lee.

Roland B. Hall Georgia.

Harry Young Hall .. Jefferson.

Charles Lewis Harold Escambia.

Edward Zellars Heard Lee.

Mabel Heard Lee.

Mary Katherine Hollifleld. Lee.

George Martin Illges Montgomery. \

John Paul Illges , Georgia.

John William Jepson South Carolina.

Walter Eldrade Johnson Madison.

Moses Frank Kahn Lee.

Wilbur Edrald Kelley. . . . . . ( .Jefferson.

Henry Deas Lesesne. Mobile.

John Maples. Eussell.

William Christopher Martin Barbour.

Enoch Marvin Mason Lee.

James Hardie McGehee Montgomery.

Kenneth Bethune McKenzie Butler.

Graham Edwin Merchant Lee.

Edward Andrew Miller. . . Marshall.

William Livingston Neill Jefferson.

Charles Wellington Nixon Tennessee.

William Forney Osburn .Lee.

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Hiram Perry Powell Georgia.

Fleming James Rigney Madison.

James Richard Rutland Chambers.

William Stowe Rutledge Lee.

Frederick Blount Shepard Mobile.

Mary Robbins Sampey. Conecuh.

John Winfred Shuff . . Talladega.

Joseph Manning Steiner Butler.

Horace Ware Calhoun.

Moses Conrad Wright. .Macon.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Robert Tanner Arnold . .Florida.

Berschall Winston Bass St. Clair.

Frank Carlisle Bivings Georgia.

j- Kenneth Bradford Montgomery.

Thomas Bragg. .• Lee.

Samuel Hamner Browne .Tuskaloosa.

Salmon Holmes Burns Lee.

John Isham Dorsey Lee.

William Hamilton Eagar Winston.

Eugene Flynn Enslen .Jefferson.

LeRov Madison Felton South Carolina.

John Drewry Foy Barbour.

William Alexander Frazer (c) Lee.

James Olney Goggans Tallapoosa.

Walter Lee Greene Lee.

William Hope Haigler Montgomery.

Paul Shields Haley Walker.

«- Leslie Murphy Hand Sumter.

Alexander Cameron Hannon Montgomery.

Michael Smith Harvey (c) . .- Lee.

Charles Henry Haynes Bullock.

Daniel Hagood Haynes Dallas.

— James Kelly Haynie. Montgomery.

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Arber Samuel Hertz Georgia.

Robert Holland Hood Jefferson.

Artbur Flournoy Jackson Georgia.

James Baxter Jackson Lee.

Jefferson Franklin Jones. Sumter.

Myron Daniel Kahn *. Lee.

Claude Kauffman Mobile.

Emmett Stephens Killebrew. Dale.

William Reid Lancaster Lee.

John Talbert Letcher Macon.

Karl Edward Lindrose Mississippi.

Daniel Stacy Martin Barbour.

^Walter Deems McCrary Lee.

""William Boyd McGehee Montgomery.

Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether. Montgomery.

Abram Hill Mitchell .Lee.

Isaac Lenoir Moore Lee.

Merrill Hastings Moore Montgomery.

William Louis Noll. Tennessee.

Dorsey Julian Parker Escambia.

James Cochran Phelps Lee.

James Blackmon Powell Bullock.

Shepherd Harrison Roberts ...Montgomery.

~Oscar Menderson Schloss Morgan.

Lyman Hall Shaw .Sumter.

Henry Alexander Skeggs Morgan.

John Hunt Skeggs Morgan.

Matthew Scott Sloan . . . Mobile.

Holland McTyeire Smith .L ee |

Louis Sternfeld. Montgomery.

Godfrey Rhodes Thomas. Sumter.

Manly Curry Turpin Virginia!

Henry Edward Werner . . Texas

-Leonidas Wharton [][ '.Cherokee.'

Gains Whitfield.... Marengo.

Jere Crawford Williams Lee

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John Rutledge Williams . . .Jefferson.

Edward Houston Wills Lee.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Oliver Hannibal Alford Marshall.

William Warren Askew Georgia.

Charles Homer Billingsley Elmore.

Ellerslie Wallace Bullard Calhoun.

Victor Hugo Clements Limestone.

William Cruse Coles Marshall.

Clyde Allen Collins. Hale.

Robert Geoghegan Dawson Montgomery.

Jesse Duncan Elliott . . .Minnesota.

Marvin Ellis. Morgan.

James Douglas Farley , Lee.

Clarence Edmund Feagin : Bullock.

David Fleming (c) Montgomery.

Harold LaVan Fitch Wilcox.

William Peace Gaddis Elmore.

James Browder Garber Hale.

William Holt Glenn. .Lee.

Arthur Rodfer Grav Florida.

Jeremiah Warren Gwin /.Jefferson.

William Houston Gwin. . .Jefferson.

William Bulger Hamilton Elmore.

Clifton Duane Haynie. Lee.

William Tillman Heard Lee.

Oscar Lynn Henry Marshall.

Franklin Jerome Houston Jefferson.

Mell Frazer Jackson Lee.

Collins James Johnson Missouri.

Albert Sidney Johnson Colbert.

Morris Ketchum New York.

James Allen Kyser Dallas.

Richard Hartwell King Colbert.

Martin James Lide Dallas.

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Gaston Joel Lipscomb Marengo.

Earle Irwin MeBryde Wilcox.

Henry Bigham Park Georgia.

Douglass Welles Peabody . Mobile.

William Marcus Peters Perry.

Edgar Johnson Pierce Bullock.

Wallace Powers Pruitt (c) Lowndes.

Daniel Syers Robertson Chambers.

Richard Blount Shepard Mobile.

Julian Cassius Smith (c) Mobile.

George Waddell Snedecor Jefferson.

William Swift Sherrill Limestone.

Siddons Stollenwerck Perry.

John Griffin Swanson Macon.

Enrico Alfonso Washington Georgia.

Clifford Noble Wallace Elmore.

John Osceola Webb Webb.

Walker Dorr Willis . . . Florida.

Forney Renf ro Yarbrough Georgia.

John Eyres Davis Yonge , Florida.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Auber Faust Adams Montgomery.

George Whitfield Allen Jefferson.

Albert Miner Avery Florida.

Earnest Stakely Ayers Calhoun!'

Adolphus Berry .Tallapoosa.

Marshall Leonard Bize. , Georgia.

Johnson Wilson Black (c) Mobile.

Wallace Edward Brewster Georgia!

Cecil Battle Brown , Pike*

Edward Jeffeson Bruister .Choctaw!

William Jefferson Bruister (c) ' Choctaw!

John Mangum Buchanan Lee *

Harry Walter Campbell ;V///; T^essee

Walter Brooks Cawthon (c) Mobile*

Louis Hamburger Chandler (c) .*,' .Montgomery!

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William Julius James Chase (c) Georgia.

Dudley Chipley Florida.

Earl Cline. . . Jefferson.

Sidney Cornell Jefferson.

Charles Sanders Culver Lee*

Oscar Fitzalen Cunningham (c) Lee.

Travers Daniell Etowah.

William Abler Darden Calhoun.

Howard Ellis Davis Mobile.

William Watson Davis Mobile.

Thomas Joseph Dowdell. Montgomery.

William Eugene Finch Florida.

James William Flanagan. Lee.

Frank Flinn Montgomery.

John Hope Fuller (c) Escambia.

Horace Bright German (c) Tennessee.

Charles Belshaw Goldthwaite , Pike.

William Lanier Halsey ./. Madison.

Henry Clif t Hawkins .7. Lee.

Earnest Cecil Haynie. Lee.

Bell George Hazard. . . ., . Calhoun.

George Bloise Hill . . Talladega.

Alexander Grice Horn .... . Sumter.

Charles Henrv Howie. Calhoun.

William Dana Hubbard Dallas.

John Blevins Hudnall. , .Kentucky.

Garrett Newton Hudmon Lee.

John David Hudson Lee.

James Daughtry Hudson'. Georgia.

Frank Edward Hunt Jefferson.

Arthur Jacobs Jefferson.

Albert Jefferson. .Georgia.

Walter Henry Jones. Pike.

Ira LaFayette Jordan Elmore.

William Micou Jordan Elmore.

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William George Karnathan Choctaw.

Roy Kauffman Mobile!

Walter Joseph Knight Mobile.

Oscar Jennings Knox (c) l^

CarI La y .Etowah!

Percy McLean Marshall Georgia.

John Van Valkenbnrg Matthews .Madison

Thomas Hatcher Matson Talladega.

Ernest Linnwood Maybery Macon.

Allen Davis McLain Lee '

Lonis Hnnt McCants (c) .'.'.'.'.'.'.' .'.'.Louisiana!

Christian McDevitt Pennsylvania.

Henry Miller Escambia.

Roscoe Milner (c) .Georgia

Robert Peyton Minis (c) Jefferson.

John Harris Mitchell G ia

WUl.am Lee Mitchell ;. ■ , Madison

Frank Wallace Moseley Dallas

Gilbert Meyer Newhouse (c) ! Marengo

Erastns Jonathan Parsons .Jefferson

Christopher Henderson Pinson Sumter

Albert Wellman Pratt (c) [[[ Madison!

Gregg Newton Preuit Lawrence.

■Rnsse 1 Rates Preuit Lwww*

Albert Davis Rambo Montgomery.

George Daniel Randle Je 8 ffergo ;

James Henry Ramdle \ BuUock

John Patrick Rembert Mississippi!

Samuel Rembert Tennessee

Roy Gustavus Rhodes i\r„

Tod Hewitt Roberts .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. '%£"*

Nelson Horatio Romero. . " " p S ? D '

Wilbur Barnes Roney (c) M

t™„,- t ^ . ^ J ,; Macon.

Irving Jeffenes Roseborough r„ii™i,

John Van Ryan * U !!° Ck -

Edward Prescott Rutland Madison.

. . . .Lee.

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William Watson Rutland. Chambers.

Clifford Philip Rutledge. Lee.

George Washington Smith Lee.

Benjamin Marion Smith Cherokee.

Quinton Sorrell Talladega.

Edward Taylor Marengo.

Louis Earle Thornton Florida.

William Lawson Thornton Talladega.

Janies Feagin Tompkins .Lee.

Filo Harris Turner Florida.

George Baker Tyson Montgomery.

Ivv Whitson Walker Colbert.

Fletcher Peavy Whatley Lee.

Walter Whitman (c) Lee.

Walter Harry Wiley Pike.

Henry Mathews Yonge Florida.

SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.

Abbreviations: Ph — Pharmacy; E. <fe M. E. — Electrical and Mechan-
ical Engineering; 0.— Chemistry ; Ag.— Agriculture ; C. E.— Civil
Engineering; M. A, — Mechanic Arts.

NAME. RFSIDKNCE.

Milton Columbus Baldridge ph Madison.

Idaline Bell Lee.

-Arthur Bernard Beringer. .-. ph Barbour.

Parham Benjamin Borden Hale.

Peter Alexander Brannon ph Russell.

Walter Leslie Bryant. ph Georgia.

William James Cameron M. a. . . .Jefferson.

Fredrico Cardenas Cuba.

-Arthur Ernest Carter. ph Shelby.

Edwin Weaver Caro If. a. Florida.

David James Castleman e. & m. e Hale.

Herschel Henry Conner Macon.

i>Lewis Henry Grumpier ph. . . .Talladega.

Pearce Henrv DeBardelaben ph Lee.

Warren Alfred Dewees Tennessee.

Rufns White Butler Lee -

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William Edwards ag Florida.

William Bullock Fleming Montgomery.

Ingraham Barron Foster Perry.

John Sears Francis Jefferson.

Swoope Darrow Gilbert e. & m. e.. Lauderdale.

** Frank Crouch Green Georgia.

Edward Putney Guerrant AG. . . .Kentucky.

Abram Debow Given ph Madison.

William Weatherlv Hannon. . Montgomery.

Bunn Young Hill Georgia.

Blair Hughes Jefferson.

Edwin DeWitt Huguley Chambers.

Clarence Luther Jenkins Talladega.

Edward Kelly Montgomery.

Carlos Lacayo ^ Nicaragua, C. A.

John Alexander Lanford ph Sumter.

John Fulton Lanier Madison.

Howard Metcaff Letcher. ph Macon.

Mary Emma Little Lee.

Thomas Leonard Macon Elmore.

George Mathews Marks . . Montgomery.

Oliveria Masvidal ma Cuba.

Mary Elinor Mitchell Calhoun.

James Crowder Moore ph Lee.

-JVIartin TheopiTus Moody ph Calhoun.

James Frazer McNamee Lee.

Peter Preer Myhand vet. sci Lee.

Carlyle Nisbet . e. & m. e Georgia.

Walter Cornelius O'Neill Sumter.

Elbert William Patterson Sumter.

William Burns Paterson ag. & h.. .Montgomery.

Morris Pelham e. & m. e.. . .Calhoun.

Israel Pickens PH# t Hale.

Walter Gardner Pitts Russell.

^Henry Virgil Eeid m... ! Barbour!

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Alston Keith Rennie ph Dallas.

Harvey Owen Sargent Franklin.

Wilbur Allen Sellers Bullock.

George Clement Sequeira Nicaragua, C. A.

Hans Schmidt Jefferson.

Maurice Carberv Shannon ; Jefferson.

Sidney Ewing Simpson E. & M. B. . Montgomery.

Walter Ellis Sistrunk ph . Elmore.

Bernard Horace Smith ph Lee.

Henry Sleeth Stickle .Lauderdale.

Richard Franklin Valentine e. & M. e.. .. .Barbour.

Judson Franklin Webb Calhoun.

James Waldo Woodruff .e. & m. e.. . . . Georgia.

SUB-FRESHMAN <3LASS.

Raymond Albertson Jefferson.

Jesse Drew Beale Montgomery.

Frank Gordon Bell Lee.

William Bell. • • • Lee.

Marvin Fitzpatrick Boykin . . .. Lee.

Edward Worswick Braswell Georgia.

Richard Young Buchanan , Georgia.

Frank Turner Cammack Mobile.

William Henry Chambers Colbert.

John David Foshee Escambia.

Thomas Claud Hawkins Elmore.

Percy Wilbur Hudson Lee.

William Inman Huff .'. ............. .Etowah.

Arthur Dean Jones . Lawrence.

Woodson Jones. Dallas.

Edward James Lane Talladega.

Thomas Reeves Leavell .Greene.

Frank Gordon Lyon Lowndes.

Andrew Lee Martin Lee.

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Richard Matthews ,. Jefferson.

Howard Wilbur McMakin Russell.

Hevwood McFaddin Dallas.

Edward Adolphus Miles Mobile.

Wei ton Xabors * Shelby.

Enoch Lawrence McCormick Pruitt Lowndes.

Pope Prvor Preuit. Colbert.

Fornev Renfro Lee.

Richard Hoskins Roberts Sumter.

Oscar Early Rutland. . . . Lee.

John Deal Steele Greene.

Benjamin Marion Stewart Cherokee.

Henry Jefferson Sullivan .Washington.

John Hughes Thomason. Calhoun.

Dudley Chipley Thornton Florida.

George Taylor Williamson Lee.

Jacob W r olff ; Montgomery.

Fornev Renfro Wright - Lee.

SUMMARY.

Graduates. ....... \\

Senior Class 5$

Junior Class . . . 60

Sophomore Class. ... 52

Freshman Class. ....... ]02

Special and Irregular Students 65

Total in College Classes 346

Sub-Freshman Class 33

Total

384

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NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN

English 316

History 205

French 28

German 33

Latin 137

Mental Science 26

Political Economy 53

Mathematics 293

Chemistry 156

Chemical Laboratory. . 141

Agriculture ..... 128

Physics 187

Botany , 82

Horticulture 33

EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.

Geology 55

Civil Engineering 12

Electrical Engineering. 61
Mechanical Engineer'g. 57

Biology 24

Drawing .....230

Mechanic Arts .... .... 258-

Military Tactics , 344

Mineralogy ... 19

Physical Laboratory ... 42

Physiology 55

Veterinary Science — 39

Pharmacy 37

Bacteriology 11

RESIDENCE.

Alabama. ,
Georgia. .
Florida. .
Tennessee
Cuba

Nicaragua
Kentucky

Mississippi

Louisiana

South Carolina
Missouri

Texas

Virginia

Pennsylvania

New York

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fllLITARY ORGANIZATION.
1 899- 1 906.

President.

W. L. BROUN.

Commandant

COL. B. S. PATRICK.

Surgeon.

J. H. DRAKE.

Battalion Staff,

Cadet Captain H. P. Pow*:ll, Assistant to Commandant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant J. J. Flowers, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieutenant J. W. Shuff, Quartermaster.
Cadet 2nd Lieutenant E. M. Mason, Assistant Adjutant.
Cadet Sergeant J. D. Foy, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant G. Whitfield, Quartermaster Sergeant

Cadet Captains.

3.
4.

Cadet First Lieutenants.

1. F. Ashcraft,

2. G.F.Boyd.

W. E. Kelly,
J. L. Burke.

1. K B. McKenzie,

2. J. P. Illges,

3. A. C. Cameron,

4. J. H. McGkhee,

1. S. D. Gilbert,

2. R. S Finch,

3. J. A. Lanford,

1. S. H. Roberts,

2. A. F. Jackson,

5. R B. Hall,

6. J. W. Boyd,

7. C.W.Nixon,

8. W. L. Anderson.

Cadet Second Lieutenants.

Cadet First Sergeants.

4. W. C. Dowdell,
5 M. M. Brooks.

3. M. S. aSloan.

4. E.H.Wills.

Cadet Sergeants.

1. M. H. Moore,

2. W. B. McGehee,

3. J . B. Powell,

4. W. L. Greene,

5. P. S. Haley,
6 M.C. Turpin,

7. B. B. Meriwether (Color Sergeant)

8. I. L. Moore,

9. F. C. Bivings,

10. R.T.Arnold,

11. G. R. Thomas,

12. C. H. Haynes,

13. D. J. Parker,

14. D. H. Haynes,

15. T. Bragg,

16. J. T. Letcher,

17. W. R. Lancaster,

18. E. S. KlLLEBREW.

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Cadet Corporals.

1. W. D. Willis.

2. J. E. D Yonge.

3. J. A. Kyser.

4. J. D. Elliott.

5. W. M. Askew.

6. G. W. Snedecor.

7. C. A. Collins-

8. J. B. Garber.

9. W. C. Coles.

10.

R. B. Shepard.

11.

H. B. Park.

12.

D. W. Peabody.

13.

R . G. Dawson.

14.

J. D. Farley-

15.

F.J. Houston.

16.

M. Ketohum.

17.

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THE A. P. I. CADET BAND.

M. Thos. Fullan, Bandmaster.
J. A. Lanford, Principal Musician.

A. M. Avery.
F. C. Bivings-
W. J. Cameron-

T. Daniel
W. A. Dewees
M. Ellis-

W. H. Glenn.
A. Jefferson.
I. L Jordan.

M. D. Kahn.
M. F. Kahn.

D. W. Peabody-

E. J. Pierce.
G. Sequiera,
L. Sternfeld-

I. W. Walker.
H. E. Werner.

R. T. Arnold, Drum Major.

Cadets of the Graduating Class who were reported to the Adju-
tant General, U. S. Army, for publication in the "Official Army
Register" as having ranked highest in the Military Department:

1889.

A. St C. Dunstan.

B. H. Crenshaw.
A. J. Burr.

1890.

F. D. MlLSTEAD.
J. W. BlVINS.

G. W. Emory.
1991.

L. E. Baker.

C. C. Johnson.
F. J. Biviss.

1892.

H. F. Dobbin.
A. L. Jones.
C. L. Brown.

1893.

Joel Dumas.

C. H. Smith.

J. F. Webb.
1894.

C. S. Andrews.
P. P. McKeown.
R. T. Dorsey.

1895.
S. L. Coleman.
H. H. Smith.
L. B. Gammon.

1896.

A. L. Alexander.
W. L. Fleming.
W. M. Williams.

1897.

P. G. Clark.
G. M. Holley.
G. N. Mitcham.

1898.

A. H. Clark.

A. McB. Ransom.

Jno. Haralson.

1899.
I. F. McDonnell.
A. H. Feagin.
T. W. Wert.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

All applicants for admission should present testimo-
nials of good moral character, and those who come from
other colleges must present certificates of honorable
discharge.

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 sub-
jects:

1. Geography and History of the United States.

2. English — (a) English grammar as contained in
any standard text, (b) An examination upon sen-
tences containing incorrect English, (c) A composi-
tion giving evidence of satisfactory proficiency in spell-
ing, punctuation, grammar, and division into para-
graphs.

(a) Reading. The composition in 1900 will be upon
subjects drawn from one or more of the following works
in English Literature: (1) Hughes's Tom Broion at
Rugby; (2) Southey's Life of Nelson; (3) Shakes-
peare's Julius Caesar; (4) Longfellow's Evangeline;
(5) Scott's Ivanhoe; (6) Shakespeare's Merchant of
Venice; (7) Irving's Sketch Book; (8) Macaulay's Es-
say on 'Milton; (9) Scott's Mann ion; (10) Dickens's
David Copperfield.

The candidate will be required 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.

(b) Study and Practice. This part of the examina-
tion presupposes the thorough study of the style of thfr
work, and will be upon Julius C&sar and the Essay on
Milton.

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Preparation and examination on these tcorks will be
necessary before the student is classed as regular in any
course.

3. Mathematics — (a) Arithmetic, including funda-
mental operations; common and decimal fractions; de-
nominate numbers; the metric system; percentage, in-
cluding interest and discount; proportion, (b) Alge-
bra to quadratic equations; especial preparation is
urged in fundamental operations, factoring, multiples,
dwisors and fractions; one book of geometry.

4. Those applicants who desire to continue the study
of Latin should be qualified to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination in Latin grammar and the first two books of
Csesar, in addition to the above subjects.

In pronouncing Latin it is recommended that a be pronounced as in
father, & as the a in Cuba; i as in prey, t as in men; % as in machine, %
as in cigar; D as in old, o as in obey; u as in rule, u as in full; j as y in
yard; c always as k in king; g always as g in get.

For admission to the higher classes, students should
be prepared to stand a satisfactory examination in all
of the studies of the lower classes, as shown in the
course of study. Students applying for admission to
the sophomore class will be examined in mathematics
through logarithms in Algebra, and on seven books in
geometry. 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 satisfactory. But if not prepared
to pass an examination in history and chemistry at the
time of application, the applicant will be required
before graduation to pass a satisfactory examination
on those subjects.

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ADMISSION ON CERTIFICATE

Applicants will be admitted without examination on presenting a
certificate from any of the certificate schools named herein.

"Students from certificate schools will be admitted to the fresh-
man class without examination upon the certificate of the presi-
dent or principal showing definitely that such students have com-
pleted satisfactorily all the studies required for admission, as
"stated in the catalogue and are otherwise admissible."

The privilege of admitting students to the Sophomore class on
certificate will be granted only to those approved schools that have
had a continuous existence for five years or more and have pre-
viously had pupils admitted to that class without conditions.

The following form of certificate will be used:

I hereby certify that A B. . . . . has attended the

(name the school or academy) for years and has studied

the following subjects:

in History (name the books)

in English (name the books)

in Algebra (state amount accomplished)

in Geometry (state amount accomplished)

in Latin (state books read)

and having passed a satisfactory examination on these subjects as

required in the Catalogue for admission to the class,

I recommend him for the same.

CERTIFICATE SCHOOLS.

University Military School, Mobile j. d. Wright.

Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa. w. H. Verner!

University School, Montgomery j. m' Starke

Mt. Willing High School, Mt. Willing

State Normal School, Jacksonville c. W. Daiigette

Male Academy, Huntsville Puryear & Wyatt

Furman Academy, Livingston ...... .L. A. CockrelL

High School, Opelika j. M Smallwood>

University Military School, Clanton E . Y. McMorries

N. A. Agricultural School, Athens m. K. Clements

W. Ala. Agricultural School, Hamilton

Eutaw Male Academy, Eutaw u. C Horton

Boys' High School, Anniston. 7.7.V.H. C Gunnels'

Taylor's School, Birmingham . . . . . w p Taylor*

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Gaylesville High School Jonn R Ray#

Carrollton Academy L . v< R sser.

Ninth District Agricultural School, Blountsville

Gadsden High School I. W. Hill.

Boyd High School, Ramer B. H. Boyd.

Dadeville High School j. d. Lane.

Prattville High School ;...A. W. Holstun.

Eufaula High School F. L. McCoy.

Union Springs High School f J. m. Sanders.

Montgomery High School ; c. L. Floyd.

Calera Academy C. C Slaton.

Southern Agricultural School, Abbeville J. V. Brown.

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 :

The applicant must be eighteen years of age, and if a
candidate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination 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 (Lockwood-Whitney) ; Rhetoric (Lockwood's Lessons and
Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric) ; Scudder's Masterpieces of Ameri-
can Literature; Syle's From Milton to Tennyson.

For requirements in reading in literature see page 34.

(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 Analytic Trigonometry, as in Wentworth.

(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.

Botany will constitute a required part of the general course for
young women who are candidates for a degree.

When admitted, upon complying with the conditions above stated,

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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 at the age of seventeen, provided she is able to comply with
all the requirements for admission in the four subjects named and
the application meets with its approval.

ENTRANCE 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 en-
trance examinations for full admission to the freshman
class are admitted to the sub-college department, pro-
vided they are fifteen years of age, and are found after
examination qualified to profit by the instruction given.
Those who, after admission, are inattentive to their
studies, and neglectful of their duties will be required
* to withdraw, but those who are studious and make

sufficient progress 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 imemdiately
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.

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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 ;
and 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
ithat 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.

A student who does not take all the studies in a class of one of
the degree courses, as prescribed in the catalogue, and is permitted
to take* an irregular course, will be assigned to a member of the
Faculty, who will -act as his special adviser, and when his course of
study has been approved by the Faculty no other change will be
permitted without the endorsement of his adviser.

Regular students who fail to pass satisfactory final examinations
in any one study become irregular 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 depart-
ment with that class in which they have the greatest number of
studies, and their names are so placed in the catalogue.

ADMISSION TO HIGHER CLASSES.

At the beginning of each term a student in the sub-freshman clasa
may, on application approved by the Faculty, be examined for ad-
mission to the freshman class in history, English, mathematics, or
Latin, and if his examination is satisfactory in any subject, he will
l)e admitted to the freshman class in that subject only.

Students who have completed satisfactorily all the studies of the
sophomore class, as prescribed in the catalogue, in any one of the
regular degree courses, can enter, without condition, the junior
-class in any course, except in the general course, or the course in
pharmacy, :in which Latin is required.

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Students who are admitted to the junior class from other institu-
tions, on examination in English, Latin, and mathematics, and who
have not completed all the studies of the sophomore class, in order
to graduate, will be required to complete the course in chemistry
and history as taught in the sophomore class.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

The courses of study include the Physical, Chemical,
and Natural Sciences, with their applications; Agricul-
ture; Biology; Mechanics, Astronomy, Mathematics;
Drawing; Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineer-
ing; Physiology and Veterinary Science; Pharmacy;
English, 'French, German, and Latin Languages; His-
tory, 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.

I. Course in Chemistry and Agriculture.
II. Course in Civil Engineering.

III. Course in Electrical and Mechanical En-
gineering.

IV. General Course.

V. Course in Pharmacy.

There are also three partial courses, each requiring
two years for its completion :

VI. Two- Year Course in Agriculture.
VII. Two- Year Course in Mechanic Arts.
VIII. Two- Year Course in Pharmacy.

Course I. includes theoretical and practical instruc-
tion in those branches that relate to chemistry and agri-
culture, and is especially adapted to those who propose

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to devote themselves to agriculture or chemical pur-
suits.

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 profes-
sion.

Course III. includes, besides the general principles
and applications of the sciences, a special course in the
applications of electricity and mechanics, and is
arranged for the profession of electrical and mechan-
ical engineering.

Course IV. has been arranged to give a general and
less technical education in subjects of science and lan-
guage 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 professional business.

Course V. includes, besides the general education of
course IV. in the lower classes, a special course in phar-
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. VII. VIII. 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.

A student who completes satisfactorily all the work of the senior
class in a department, including the laboratory work, will be
awarded a certificate of proficiency in said subject.

Students who complete either of the two-year courses will, on
passing a satisfactory examination, receive certificates indicating
their attainments.

No degree or certificate of proficiency will be given in any course
unless the applicant has passed a satisfactory examination In ele-
mentary English. Every candidate for a degree will be required
to stand this special examination during the second term of the
Senior ye,ar.

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Declamation and themes or orations are required of all regular
students pursuing courses leading to a degree.

POST-GRADUATE COURSES.

The post-graduate degrees are — Master of Science,
Mining Engineer, Civil Engineer, Electrical and
Mechanical Engineer, and Pharmaceutical Chem-
ist.

A more extended post-graduate course of study may
T>e taken by a graduate of this College or of any other
institution of equal grade. The completion of a course
which leads to a post-graduate degree requires one
year's residence at the College, spent in the satisfactory
prosecution of a course of study, with such laboratory
work as may be approved by the Faculty.

The candidates must also present to the Faculty a satisfactory
thesis showing independent investigation upon some subject per-
taining to his course, and must pass an examination at the close of
•each term on the course of study prescribed, in which he must at-
tain a grade of 75 per cent. The examination is written, and also
oral in the presence of the Faculty.

The subject of the thesis must be submitted to the Faculty for
approval prior to January 1st, and the thesis given to the professor
oy April 1st.

Applicants for post-graduate degrees are subject to the general
regulations as other students, but are exempt from all military duty.
The following courses are prescribed for the degrees named:
Mining Engineer. — Students who have received the degree of B.
Sc. in engineering, civil, or electrical and mechanical, 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:

Industrial Chemistry, Analytic Chemistry, Assaying, Reduction of
Ores, Mineralogy, Economic Geology, with practical work in the
fleld, Mining Machinery with the applications of steam and elec-
tricity to the various operations connected with the exploitation of
mines.

The student, if a candidate for a degree, will also be required to
prosecute the necessary studies in that course of engineering in
which he has not graduated.

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This course of study will be under the charge of the professors of
geology, chemistry, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.

Civil Engineer. — Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Analytical Me-
chanics.

V Electrical and Mechanical Engineer. — Electrical Engineering, Me-
chanical Engineering.

Pharmaceutical Chemist. — Pharmacy* and Chemistry.

Master of Science. — Studies in three departments, in two of which
the candidates must have previously completed tl^ full course of
the senior class; or in special cases, with the approval of the
Faculty, a student may devote his full time to work in one or two
■departments.

Special Students in Post-Senior Studies. — Students who are not
.graduates, but are qualified in special subjects to prosecute post-
senior studies, and desire to prepare themselves more thoroughly
for professional or special work in any one of the departments of
engineering, in chemistry or pharmacy, veterinary science, or other
subject in which instruction is given may, when qualified, with ap-
proval of the faculty, enter this higher department of study and
have all the privileges of post-graduate students.

A certificate of proficiency will be given when any one subject of
a post-graduate course is satisfactorily completed.

SPECIAL ONE-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.

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 agricul-
ture.

PHOTOGRAPHY.

During the session there will be given by Professor Mell a course
of twelve lectures on photography. Tnis course will be elective and
the instruction wijl be open to any student that may desire to learn
how to make pictures. It will be necessary for each student to pro-
Tide himself with an outfit that will cost from $11.50 to $16.00.

44 Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

LABORATORY INSTRUCTION.

Laboratory instruction constitutes an important
feature in the courses of education provided for the
students of this Institute, 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. Civil Engineering, Field Work, Surveying,

Etc.

III. Agriculture.

IV. Botany.

V. Mineralogy.

VI. Biology.

VII. Technical Drawing.
VIII. Mechanic Arts.

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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I.— COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Second Term. Third Term.

5. English. 5. English.

2. History. 2. History.

5. Mathematics. 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.

First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

3. Military Drill.

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

First Term.
3. English.
3. History.

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Botany (a).
3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture (b).

3. Drawing.

2. Physiology.

First Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.

Second Term.
3. English.
3. History.
3. General Chemistry. 3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture. 2. agriculture.

3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.

2. Physiology. 2. Physiology. r
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.
3. Physics.

3. Industrial Chemistry3. Industrial Chemistry3. Industrial Chemistry
2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture (b).

4. Botany (Lab'y). 4. Botany (Lab'y). 4. Botany (Lab'y).

1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science.

2. Clinical Lab'y. 2. Clinical Lab'y. 2. Clinical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term.

2. English Literature. 2. Political Econo'y (c)2. Political Economy.
2. Mental Science (d). 2. Mental Science (d).2. Mental Science (d).
2. Physics. 2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.

2. Geology. 2. Geology. 2. Geology.

5. Biology. 5. Biology. 5. Biology.

2. AgriculturT Ch'm't'y.2. Agricultur'l Ch'm't'y.2. Agricultur'l Ch'm't'y.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y. 9. Chemical Lab'y.

2. Veterinary Science. 2 Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science.
2. Clinical Lab'y. 2. Clinical Lab'y.

2. Clinical Lab'y.

(a) Begins March 1st.
(c) Begins Feb. 15th.

(b) Also Practical Agriculture.

(d) French or German may be substituted.

1 — ■ —

NOTE.-There should be in the schedule for the Sophomore
Class— "Mathematics, 5 exercises for each term."

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II.— COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week

FRESHMAN CLASS.
Second Term.
5. English.
2. 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. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

Third Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

First Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term. Third Term.

3. English. 3. English.

3. History. 3. Botany (a).

5. Mathematics, 5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry. 3. General Chemistry. 3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b). 2. Agriculture (b). 2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiology. 2. Physiology. 2. Physiology.

3. Drawing. 3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y ^

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. English, French, or 3. English, French, or 3. English, French, or

German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.

German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.

German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics
5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing.
1. Military Tactics.

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.l. Field Work, Engin'g.l. Field Work, Engin'g.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.
First Term. Second Term. Third Term.

2. English Literat'e (d)2. Political Econo'y (d)2. Political Econo'y (d)
2. Physics. 2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.

2. Geology. 2. Geology. 2. Geology.

3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics, 3. Mathematics .

(a) Begins March 1st.

(b) For Agriculture may be substituted Physical Laboratory

<d) For Eng. Lit. and Pol Econ. may be substituted French or Ger-
man.

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$. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering. 5. Civil Engineering.
5. Drawing. 5. Drawing. 5. Drawing.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. l. 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 MECHANI-
CAL ENGINEERING.

he numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number honrs per week.
In freshman and sophomore classes the same studies are prescribed
as in Course II in Civil Engineering.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term. Second Term. Third Term.

3. English, French, or 3. English, French, or 3. English, French, or
German. German. German.

3. Physics. 3. Physics. 3. Physics.

5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.

4. Electrical Engin'g. 4. Electrical Engin'g. 4. Electrical Engin'g.

3. Mech. Engineering. 3. Mech. Engineering. 3. Mech. Engineering.

4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing.
4. Electrical Lab'y. 4. Electrical Lab'y. 4. Electrical Lab'y.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

First Term. Second Term. Third Term.

2. Eng. Literature (a). 2. Political Econo'y (a) 2. Political Econo'y (a>
2. Physics. 2. Astronomy. 2. Astronomy.

2. Geology. 2. Geology. 2. Geology.

3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics. 3. Mathematics. '
5. Electrical Engin'g. 5. Electrical Engin'g. 5. Electrical Engin'g. V

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.

(a) French or German may be substituted.

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IV.— GENERAL COURSE.

The numerals opposite the subject! indicate number of hours^per week.

First Term.
3. English.

2. History.
5. Latins

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.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. 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.

FRESHMAN 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.

2. Chemical 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.

Third Term.
3. English.

2. History.
5. Latin.

5. Mathematics.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill. .

Third Term.
5. Latin.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

Third 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.

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
2. English Literature. 2. Political Econo'y (c)2. Political Economy.
Mental Science. 2. Mental Science. 2. Mental Science.

Third Term.

2. Physics.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.

1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).

2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.

1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (b).

(a) Begins March 1st.

2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.

1. Military Science.
6. Lab'y Work (h^).

-which L b mlKqtnfl^ ^ ^ lab ° rat ° ry ° f an * departments
(c) Begins February 15th.

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V.— COURSE IN PHARMACY.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate number of hours per week

FRESHMAN CLASS.

First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

3. English.

2. History.

5. Latin.

5. Mathematics.

5." Mathematics.

5. Mathematics.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

2. Agriculture.

3. Military Drill.

6. Mechanic Arts.

3. Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS

First Term,.

Second Term.

Third Term.

5. Latin.

3. History.

3. Botany (a).

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

6. iftech. Art Lab'y.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

3. Physics. *

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Botanical Lab'y.

3. English (a).

3. Pharmacy.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab

. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab

9. Pharmaceutical Lab.

4. Pharmacognosy.

1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

3. Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

6. Toxicology.

5, Pharmacy.

5. Pharmacy.

8. Pharmaceutical Lab. 8. Pharmaceutical Lab. 8. Pharmaceutical Lab.
5. Pharmacognosy. 5. Pharmacognosy. 5. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.
v 3. Materia Medica. 3. Materia Medica. 3. Bacteriology.

(a) Begins March 1st.

(a) French or German may be substituted.

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VI— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS.

First Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.
5. English.
2. History.

5. Mathematics.
3. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics. 2.
3. Drawing. 3. Drawing. 3.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3.

SECOND YEAR.

Third Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

Agriculture.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.

Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.

Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
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.

VII-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 Agricult're.2.

First Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricult're 12

3. Military Drill. 3.

3.
:>.
3.
4.
2.
2

FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.
English. 5.

History. 2.

Mathematics. 5.

Elementary Physics. 2.
Drawing. 3,

Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4.
Military Drill. 3.

Practical Agricult're.2.

SECOND YEAR.

Second Term.

English. 3

Mathematics. , 5.

General Chemistry. 3.

Agriculture. 4.

Physiology. 2.

Veterinary Science. 2.
• Practical Agricult'rel2.

Military Drill, 3.

Third Term.

English.

History.

Mathematics.

Agriculture.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Military Drill.

Practical Agricult're.

Third Term.
English.
Mathematics.
General Chemistry.
Agriculture.
Physiology.
Veterinary Science.
Practical Agricult're
Military Drill,

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VIII— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN PHARMACY.

\ First Term.

3. General Chemistry.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. English.

2. Physiology.

3. Pharmacy.

4. Pharmacognosy.

6. Mech. Art Lab'y. (a)
3. Military Drill.

First Term.

FIRST YEAR.
Second Term.

3. General Chemistry. 3.

2. Chemical Lab'y. 2.

3. English^ "7* 3.

2. Physiology. 2.

3. Pharmacy. 3.

4. Pharmacognosy. 4.
6. Mech. Art Lab'y. (a) 6.
3. Military Drill. 3.

SECOND YEAR.
Second Term.

Third Term.
General Chemistry.
Chemical Lab'y.
Botany.
Physiology.
Pharmacy.
Pharmacognosy.

Mech. Art Lab'y. (a)
Military Drill.

5. Pharmacy. 5. Pharmacy. 5.

5. Pharmacognosy. 5. Pharmacognosy. 5.

8. Pharmaceutical Lab. 8. Pharmaceutical Lab. 8.

6. Chemical Lab'y.
3. Materia Medica.
6. Botanical Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

6. Chemical Lab'y. 7.

3. Materia Medica. 3.

6. Botanical Lab'y. 6.

3. Military Drill. 3.

(a) or Physical Laboratory.

Third Term.

Pharmacy.
Pharmacognosy.
Pharmaceutical Lab.
Toxicology.
Bacteriology.
Botanical Lab'y.
Military Drill.

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SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.

fcO

HOUKS

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THl'R.sDAY

I RIDAY

8ATURDAY

3. Physiology.

4. Algebra.

4. Geometry.

4. Algebra.

4. Geometry.

4. Algebra.

3. Latin.

3. Latin

3. Latin .

8-9

2. German.

—

2. German.

Exercises in Elocuti'n.

1 and 2 Drawing.

1. Elec. EngineVg

2. Botany

1. Vet. Science.

2. Botany. 1. Veterinary Sci.

2. Mec. EngineVg

1. Elec. EngineVg

1. Mental Science. 1 Elec. EnginVg.

1. Biology.

2. Mec. EngineVg

i. German.

1. Elec.EngineVgil. German.

1 German.

1 Mental Science.

4. English.

4. History.

4. English.

4. History.

4. English.

II.

3. Chemistry.

3. Agriculture.

3. Chemistry.

3. Agriculture.

3. Chemistry.

Military Drill.

2. Civ. Engineer'g.

2. Civ. EngineVg.

2. Civ. Eugineer'g

2. Civ. EngineVg.

2. Civ. EngineVg

9-10

2. Latin.

2. Botany.

2. Latin.

2. Botany.

2. Latin.

1. Calculus.

1. Physics.

1. Calculus.

1. Physics.

1. Biology.

2. Elec. EngineVg

2. Vet. Science.

2. Elec. EngineVg

1. Calculus.

2. Elec. EngineVg

•

2. Elec. EngineVg

2. Mech. EnginVg
2. Vet. Science.

■

III.

3. English. -

3. History (1, 2).

3. English.

3. History (1, 2).

3. English.

Mechanic Arts.

2. Physics. V

S.-Bo^ayX^J)*/ 1

3. Botany CX3JL

2. Physics.

Chemical Laboratory.

1. Biology.

2. Physics.

1. Civ. EngineVg

Electrical Laboratory.

10-11

1. Civ. EngineVg.

1. Civ. Engineer'g

1. Latin.

4^EngJifeb.

1. Civ. Engineer'g.

Physical Laboratory.

1. Biology.

4^sgCaJ^

1. Civ Engineer'g

1. Mech. EnginVg

Veterinary Clinics.

1. Latin.

1. Mec. EngineVg

1. Biology.

2. French.

4. History (3).

Biological Laboratory.

1. Mec. EngineVg

2. French.

2. Mec. Drawing,

1. Mech.EnginVg

1. Mech. EnginVg

Field Engineering.

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is

SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES — Continued.

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. England, 2).
. Pol. Econ.(2,3)

4. Mechanic Arts.

12-1

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.
2. English.

4. Mechanic Arts .
1. Elec. Designing
1. French.

P.M.

VI., VI I

2-4

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. FieldWork Agr
1 & 2 Laboratory

Chemistry.
1 & 2 Field Work,

Engineering
1 & 2Mach. Work
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.

4. Latin.
3. Drawing.

2. Agriculture.
2. Mathematics.
1. Chemistry.
1. French.

4. 'Physics (1, 2).
4. Latin (3). s
g. History jj^
- ^7 Botanj^(2, r 3JJ
2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.

. English (1,2).
1. Political Econ-
omy (2,3).
4. Mechanic Arts

3. Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Geology.

3. Mechanic Arts
2. Mineralogical
^Laboratory

Military Drill (*).

1. Mech. Lab'tory.
Elec. Lab'y Work.
1 and 2 History.

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

4. Mechanic Arts

2. German.

1. Elec. Designing

2. Anal.Chemis'ty.

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. FieldWork Agr.
1 & 2 Laboratory.
Chem
1 & 2 Field Work,
Engineering

4. Latin.

2. Agriculture.

2. Mathematics.
1. Chemistry.

3. Physiology.
1. French.

3. Mathematics.
2. English.
1. Geology.

4. Physics (1, 2).

4. Agriculture (3)
4. Latin (1,2).

3. Drawing.

2. Mathematics.
2. Chemistry.

1. MilitaryScience

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Mechanic Arts
2. Mineralogical
Laboratory.

Military Drill (*;

1. Mech. Labor'y.

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

4 Mechanic Arts

1. Elec. Designing

2. Milit'ryTactics

3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological laboratory.
Field Engineering.

1 & 2 Mach. Work.iElec. Lab'y Work

Ex'cis. in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.

1. and 2 History

4. Mechanic Arts

3. FieldWork Agr.
2 French.
1 & 2 Lab. (hem
L & 2 Field Work,
Engineering.
1 & 2 Mach. Work.
Ex'cis. in Elocut'n
Elec. Lab Work.
Physical Labor'y.

3. Mechanic Arts.
Chemical Laboratory.
Electrical Laboratory.
Physical Laboratory.
Veterinary Clinics.
Biological Laboratory.
Field Engineering.

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
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PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY.

PRESIDENT BROUN.
PROFESSOR DUNSTAN.

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,
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, kine-
matics, 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 light, and
astronomy.

Post-graduate Course. This includes the study of
analytical mechanics, and requires a knowledge of dif-
ferential and integral calculus.

Text-Books.

Atkinson's Ganot's Physics, Young's Astronomy, Berry's History
of Astronomy, Bowser's Analytic Mechanics.

PHYSICAL LABORATORY.

Instructor H. H. Kyser.

The laboratory work includes courses for the sophomore and
freshman classes, and is so arranged as to begin with a study of the
systems and units of measurements and to conclude with simple ex-
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The student is required to ascertain experimentally various physi-
cal laws, hence in all exercises there is something to measure. From
these measurements he is require4 to find the law connecting the
quantities involved. Results of experiments are to he entered, in
tabular form, together with methods, diagrams, etc., in a laboratory
record book, which each student is required to prepare. At the
close of each week this book is criticised and graded according to its
accuracy and neatness.

Freshman Course.

First Term, (a) Elementary physics (mechanics and heat).
Second Term, (b) Elementary graphical statics (continued in

sophomore year).
Third Term, (c) Systems and units of measurements.

(d) Simple measurements of length, surface, volume and weight.

Sophomore Course.

First Term, (a) Simple measurements and designing verniers

and micrometers.
(6) Elementary graphical statics, (c) Forces, moments and

work.
Second Term, (d) Simple machines, and friction (determining
mechanical advantages, loss, efficiency, law, etc.).

(e) Pendulum and gravity, (f) Elasticity.

Third Term, (g) Liquids, (h) Density and specific gravity, (i)

Gases. (;') Heat.
The laboratory is equipped with instruments of foreign and
American manufacture, such as verniers, micrometers, cathetome-
ters, a horizontal comparator, a Rater's reversion pendulum, bal-
ances, etc., and with all apparatus necessary to perform from 10 to
20 experiments under each of the above named groups.

MATHEMATICS.

PROFESSOR SMITH. u

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CRENSHAW.
INSTRUCTOR PATRICK.
ASSISTANT FEAGIN.

The subjects taught in the different classes in this

department are as follows :
Feeshman Class. Algebra through quadratic equa-

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tions and logarithms, plane geometry (six books Went-
worth), original solutions of exercises.

Sophomore Class. Algebra completed, solid geom-
etry, plane and spherical trigonometry, surveying, men-
suration.

Junior Class. Analytical geometry, descriptive
geometry.

Senior Class.— Differential and integral Calculus:

Two objects are sought to be attained : first, mental

I discipline; second, a thorough knowledge of the princi-

Ptes of pure mathematics and their practical applica-
tions.

Theoretical and practical instruction is given to the
sophomore class in farm, town and government land
| surveying, dividing land, mapping, plotting, and com-

puting areas, etc. ; also in the theory, adjustment and
{ use of instruments.

. The class in sections of six or eight, devote three
afternoons a week ^firing 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 stu-
dents, 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 engineering courses. Especial atten-
tion isy ven to their practical applications.

During the entire course, instruction in text-books
is supplemented by lectures. Solutions of original prac-
tical problems are required of the student, to make him

familiar with the application of the principles and for-
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Text-Books.

Wentworth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometery, Wentworth's Trig-
onometry and Surveying, Wentworth's Analytical Geometry,
Faunce's Descriptive Geometry, Nicholson's Calculus, Johnson's Dif-
ferential Equations, Osborne's Problems, Peck's Determinants.

GEOLOGY AND BOTANY.

PROFESSOR MELL.

Geology. — This subject is studied in the senior class,
and extends through the entire session. Special atten-
tion is given to the geology of Alabama, and many illus-
trations are drawn from the coal and iron fields and
other natural deposits of minerals in the State. Mineral
springs, the origin of ore deposits, and the 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 studies miner-
alogy through the entire session. This work consists of
a thorough course in blow-pipe analysis of the ordinary
minerals, and lectures upon crystallography, with in-
struction how to measure crystals and determine the
physical constants of minerals. An effort is made to
familiarize the student with all the economic ores and
the rocks entering. into the composition of soils.

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 im-
portant feature. This class is provided with plants
from the fields, and taught how to determine their spe-
cific names. The work is sufficiently exhaustive to en-
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any of the ordinary weeds and grasses that he will en-
counter in this section.

In the junior class, in the course of chemistry and
agriculture, two terms are 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 micro-
scopes of the most improved patterns, and all necessary
chemicals and apparatus for preparing and mounting
vegetable tissues, are used) by the students.

The third term is devoted to the study of the physiol-
ogy of plants in order to understand the functions of
the various organs after completion of the work in the
histological laboratory.

FACILITIES FOR WORK.

Geology. — The department is equipped with models of Mount
Shasta, the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals for teaching
crystallography; charts and maps of the geology of America and
Europe; Colt's lantern complete, with oil, oxy-hydrogen and auto-
matic electric lamps; a large assortment of fine lantern slides repre-
senting geological formations in this country and abroad; well
equipped mineralogical laboratory for thirty students, supplied with
a collection of representative minerals; and models of crystals.

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;
projection 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 lucida, polarizers, apochromatic ob-
jctives (16 mm, 8 mm, 4 mm, and homogeneous immersion), ocul-
ars (2, 3, 8, 12, 18,) and photographic eye-piece with micrometer.

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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 photographicted States, Alabama, and England. The first term
(two hours per week) is devoted to the history and gov-
ernment of the United States, the second term (two
hours per week) to Alabama, 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 European 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 session of 1900-01
the work will be in American history, social, political and constitu-
tional.

A series of lectures will be given on American statesmen, includ-
ing amongst others such Southern men as Randolph, Davis, Steph-
ens, Toombs and Yancey. Lectures will also be given on important
points in our history, including: The Failure of the Confederation;
The Ordinance of 1787; The Constitutional Convention; The War
of 1812; The Missouri Compromise; The Monroe Doctrine; Texas
and Mexico; The Compromise of 1850; The Kansas-Nebraska
Struggle; Secession.

The students will investigate under the direction of the professor
topics connected with the lectures and will record the results of their
research in note books. These records will be made the basis of
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senior discussions and in addition wiil meet with the professor for
conference in regard to their work. Those who take history as
their major subject are expected to devote a large part of their time
to original research upon some topic on which they can consult the
original sources of information. They are also required to pursue
a prescribed course of reading as indicated below:

Text-Books.

Freshman Class. — Cooper, Estill & Lemmon's History of the United
States. Thorpe & McCorvey's Civil Government in the United States
and Alabama, Montgomery's English History.

Sophomore Class.— Myers's General History.

Junior and Senior Classes. — Moore's American Congress.

Graduate Course— Wilson's Division and Reunion, selected parts
of Stephen's Constitutional History, and of Rhodes's History of the
United States, Fiske's Critical Period, Lodge's Hamilton, Morse's
Jefferson, Schurz's Clay, Lodge's Webster, Sumner's Andrew Jack-
son.

LATIN. ]

The objects kept in view in this department are : An
accurate knowledge of the forms and syntax; a famili-
arity with Latin words, their etymology and their Eng-
lish derivatives ; an appreciation of Latin literature and
an intelligent conception of Roman history and civiliza-
tion both in themselves and in their effect on the modern
world.

A systematic course of instruction is given In the forms and syn-
tax. These are taught both deductively from a grammar and in-
ductively from the text read. Translation is constantly practiced,
sometimes at sight, sometimes after being assigned for preparation.
English passages based on a familiar author or illustrative of special
constructions are put in Latin, both orally and in writing. Great
emphasis is laid on the etymology of the words in the text read.

In connection with every author studied in class a course of read-
ing in Engine is prescribed descriptive of his life, work and times.

I % n J SetUng and the literary vaIue of h * writings are
carefully discussed and frequent comparisons are made with modern
authors.

j£ 'T beD ? fit ,° f StUd6ntS Wh ° d0 not stud y the ^tin language a
senes o popular lectures will be given upon the great Latin writers.
Especial emphas.s is laid on proficiency in writing Latin exercises
and in translating Latin prose at sight.

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Text-Books.

Freshman Class. — Allen & Greenough's Grammar, Exercises,
Nepos.

Sophomore Class. — Cicero, Allen & Greenough's Grammar, Exer-
cises. - ,

Junior Class — Virgil,Horace, Allen & Grenough's Grammar, Exer-
cises, Allen's History of Rome, Wilkins's Roman Antiquities.

Senior Class. — Livy, Tacitus, Wilkins's Latin Literature, Exercises.

MODERN LANGUAGES.

ACTING PROFESSOR FAULKNER.

The following regular courses are given in French
and German:

French — First Year : Three recitations a week. Dur-
ing this year the principal object is to acquire a knowl-
edge of the elements of grammar and a correct pronun-
ciation, together with a facility in translating ordinary
French. Reading is begun at an early stage, and the
principles 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 be-
gun in the previous year. More difficult and varied
French is read, and instruction is given upon the laws
of grammar, the construction of the language, and the
history of the literature. Special attention is given to
sight translation. ►

German Two Years : Three recitations a week the

first vear, three a week the second year. In this course
the aim and the methods are similar to those in French.

Text-Books.

French— First Year : French Principia, Pts. I ft II; Jules Verne's
Michel Strogoff, Rogers's Sight Reading in French.

Second Year: Feuillet's Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre,
Dumas' La Tulipe Noire; French Composition.

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German— First Year: Harris's German Lessons; Super's Elemen-
tary German Reader, Zschokke's Der Zerbrochene Krug.

Second Year: Schiller's Ballad's, Hauff's Das Kalte Herz; Bern-
hardt's German Composition.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

PROFESSOR DUNSTAN.

INSTRUCTOR KYSER.
ASSISTANT MCDONNELL.

JUNIOR YEAR.

The students in this course will study English, French or German,
Physics, Mathematics, etc., 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.

First Term : Four hours per week are devoted to
study of the principles of electricity and magnetism,
with especial reference to their industrial applications.
The subject of electrical measurements is also treated in
detail.

Second Term: Incandescent lightning, four hours
per week.

Third Term: Arc lighting and wiring four hours per
week.

Text-Books.

Ayrton's Practical Electricity. Houston and Kennelly's Incandes-
cent and Arc Lighting. Cushing's Standard Wiring.

Laboratory Work. — Four hours per week are given
to work in the laboratory. This included management
of batteries, construction of instruments, electro-plating,
electrical measurements, verification of the principles
upon which the measurements of current, electromotive
force and resistance are based, etc.

SENIOR YEAR.

First Term : Dynamo electric machinery, five hours
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Second Term: Alternating currents and alternating
current machinery.

Third Term: Polyphase machinery and power trans-
mission, five hours per week.

Text-Books.

Dynamo Electric Machinery, Thompson. Alternating Currents,
Franklin and Williamson. Standard Polyphase Apparatus, Oudin.

Laboratory Work. — Six hours per week are devoted
to practical laboratory work, electrical measurements,
relation of electrical currents to heat and mechanical
work, care and tests of dynamo and motors, calibration
of voltmeters, ammeters and watt-meters, electric light-
ing, management and care of accumulators, energy con-
sumed 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 alternating motors, etc.

Drawing and Construction.— Two hours per week
in the senior year are devoted to the design and con-
struction of electrical machinery.

In addition to the usual laboratory work senior stu-
dents spend a portion of their time in the boiler room,
learning the management and care of the steam plant,
and in turn take charge of the lighting plant, thus be-
coming familiar with running the engines and dynamos.

Post Graduate Course. — To graduate students more
advanced courses in the theory and applications of alter-
nating currents and alternating current machinery are
"■iven. The courses will be varied slightly from year to
year to suit the needs of those taking the course.

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EQUIPMENT.

The electrical laboratory has a complete line of batteries, call-
bells, annunciators, telegraph sounders, relays, keys, magnets; gal-
vanometers, resistance boxes, electro-plating apparatus, and all ap-
paratus for students in electrical engineering. The equipment com-
prises many fine instruments of precision: Lord Kelvin's standard
100 ampere balance (either for direct or alternating currents) ;
Lord Kelvin'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 electro-static voltmeter, Cardew
voltmeter (for direct or alternating currents), reading to 150 volts;
Weston's standard ammeter and voltmeter, box of resisting coils;
Queen's magnetic vane voltmeter, and ammeter, standard micro-
farad condenser and Sabine key; Thompson's watt-meter, ballistic
reflecting galvanometer, mirror galvanometer, Fein ammeter and
voltmeter, Ayrton & Perry ammeter, Thomson inclined coil amme-
ter, Edison ammeters, Kohl's solenoid ammeter, Wood ammeter,
Deprez ammeter Hartman & Braun voltmeter, D'Arsonval galvano-
meter, Rowland-D'Arsonval galvanometer, cable testing apparatus,
Hughe's induction balance, tasimeter, microphone, telephones, elec-
trolytic apparatus and several mirror and other galvanometers for
first year students.

In the dynamo room the following are installed: One Weston 150
volt, 20 ampere dynamo, with rheostat; one Brush 6 arc light dyna-
mo, with regulator and six lamps; one Ideal 5 kilo- watt three phase
alternator; one Thompson-Houston 9 arc light dynamo with 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 poly-
phase induction motors; one General Electric 5 horse-power induc-
tion motor mounted on cradle dynamometer; General Electric 20
horse-power motor; one Stanley induction motor with condensers;
Edison 3% kilo-watt generator; a Crocker-Wheeler one horse-power
motor and rheostat, and one bi-phase alternator, and 500 volt genera-
tor, made by special students, furnish current to laboratory, and
light up the different buildings. A lamp board with a capacity of
210 lamps has been installed and is used for testing purposes.

The dynamos occupy a separate brick building, 50x32 feet, and
are operated by a 35-horse power Westinghouse vertical engine, and
a 25 horse-power Atlas engine.

This department, being provided with Lord Kelvin's standard elec-
trical instruments for exact measurements, will calibrate, free of ex-
pense, and ammeter or voltmeter that may be sent to the College.

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a generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press, ensi-
lage cutter and fed 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 transmis-
sion of power.

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ARTS.

PROFESSOR WILMORE.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CRENSHAW .
INSTRUCTOR TRAMMKLL.
INSTRUCTOR FULL AN.

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— molding, 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
two lower classes. For satisfactory reasons a student
may be excused from this laboratory work by the Fac-
ulty.

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 Harris-Corliss automatic en-
gine which is supplied with steam by a thirty horse-power steel hori-
zontal tubular boiler. A steam pump and a heater for the feed water
form a part of the steam apparatus. For the steam plant a substan-
tial 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-
ters tools; 24 turning-lathes, 10-inch swing, each with complete set
of tools; 1 double circular saw; 1 band saw; 1 board-planing ma-
chine; 1 jointer; 1 pattern-maker's lathe, 16-inch swing- 1 36-inch
grindstone. The tool room is supplied with a variety of extra hand-
too s for special work, and in addition to the regular carpenter's
tools in the benches, each student is supplied with a set of chisels and

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plane irons with a locker to keep them in and is held responsible
for their care and condition.

The equipment for. the foundry consists of molding benches for
18 students, each supplied with a complete set of molder'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 suppy of ladles, large and small moulding flasks, a
foundry crane, special tools, etc.

The forge shop equipment consists of 16 hand forges of new pat-
tern,' 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 eight engine-lathes, (screw-cutting, 14-inch swing,
6-foot bed; 2 engine lathes 16-inch swing, (one with taper attach-
ment) ; 1 engine lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound rest and taper
attachment); 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 universal cutter and reamer grinder; 1 Brown and Sharpe
universal grinding machine; 1 power hack saw. A part of the room
is set apart for vise-work, chipping and filing; and benches for 12
students are provided, each with vise and set of files, chisels, ham-
mers etc. In the tool-room is to be found a good supply of machin-
ists' 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 or hand work covering the first two
terms. The lessons include instruction in 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 tenon, mitre and frame work, dovetail work, com-
prising different kinds of joints used in cabinet making, light cabi-
net work examples in building, framing, roof-trusses, etc.

II. A course in turning, extending through the third term. The
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straight turning, caliper work to different diameters and lengths,
simple and compound curves, screw plate and check work, hollow
and soherical turning.

Second Yeab.

I. 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 suc-
cessive steps in working them by hand into simple and complex
forms, as drawing, upsetting, bending, cutting, punching, welding
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 students familiarity with the use of pat-
terns for general molding.

.III. A course in molding 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 prac-
tical 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.

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.

Third Yeab.

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 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.!
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nected with machine work in metals; such as forms, construction
and 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.

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.

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 me-
chanics of liquids, gases and vapors are studied.

Principles of Mechanism.— Three recitations per
week during the second and third terms are devoted to

^indT^thifhead machines are analyzed and ^eir elementary com-
binations of mechanism studied. The commun j c f h i0n fl lXt°ways
gear wheels, belts, cams, screws and link-work, the dWemt W
of obtaining definite velocity ratios and definite changes o, Mj g
parallel motions and quick return motions as weUi a _ the design ng
of trains of mechanism for various pu rpo ses togethe r w ith h
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drawings to exact scale, of ^LTmSwa^w^tch- from,
dent takes his own measurements and maKes nis.
which to make the finished drawing. b in .

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ning of the second term and continued tin the end^ ^ ^
Some comparatively simple machine is se lecteo i
its details. Careful attention is given to tte SUWB » ^.^ rf
and their mechanical arrangement witn t* ' dra wings of a

manufacture. An actual machine or »e those obtained

machine are obtained, the dimensions compared w ^

by applying the theoretical formulas, and the causes

between the two studied. consist of hand work

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in iron and machine work in iron, as give
chanlc arts in the third year.

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Text-Books.

Wood's Elementary Mechanics; Stahl and Wood's Elementary-
Mechanism.

SENIOR YEAR.

Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants. — The first
term five hours per week is given to the study of the
practical applications of steam machinery. It is be-
lieved that a thorough knowledge of the apparatus in ac-
tual practical use is the best preparations a student can
have for the study of the theory, and to that end, the dif-
ferent types of engines, boilers, pumps, condensers, and
other auxiliary apparatus are taken up and studied in
detail, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
discussed. Extensive files of manufacturer's catalogues
are kept and the technical papers and magazines in the
library are freely used in order to keep in touch with the
latest and best practice in engineering work.

Steam Engine.— The second 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 con-
densation in cylinder, action of fly wheels, effects of
jacketing, etc. Simple 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.-Six weeks of the third term,
five hours per week, will be given to the study of this subject. The
advantage of graphical over analytical methods is general recog-
nized, and new applications of the former are constantly being made.
By its use, the forces acting in every part of a machine may be de-
termined, both in direction and intensity, without the use of a
mathematical formula.

During the remainder of the third term, a series of lectures on
mechanical refrigeration and gas engines is given.

Machine Design.— The subject of machine design is
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throughout the year, two hours a week. During the
first term, the strength and proportions of different

joints and fastenings are studied, and problems given for
actual solution. During the remainder of the year the
time is spent on steam engine design. The results as ob-
tained from standard formulas are compared with the
dimensions as used by the best constructors, and the
reasons for variations, if any occur, are studied.

Laboratory Work. — The students are not only taught how to cali-
brate and use the different instruments, but they are brought in con-
tract 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 45 horse-
power Imperial cross compound engine, especially arranged for ex-
perimental work, supplied with Wheeler surface condenser and
Deane air pump and circulating pump, of a 25 horse-power Harris-
Corliss engine, a 35 horee-power Westinghouse engine, a 25 horse-
power Atlas engine, two 9 horse-power engines, constructed by stu-
dents 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, four steam engine indicators, a
separating calorimeter, pyrometers, scales, a standard steam gauge
with apparatus for testing steam gauges, a Crosby dead weight tester
for correcting the standad gauge, a 35,000-pound testing machine,
and Henning micrometer extensometer, a Carpenter calorimeter
with auxiliary apparatus for determining the heating value of dif-
ferent fuels, a draft gauge, and a Henning pocket recorder.

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Text-Books.

Hutton's Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants, Holmes's
Steam Engine, Herrman-Smith's Graphical Statics of Mechanism;
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.

POST-GRADUATE COURSE.

The following course has been aranged and represents the amount
of work required. Hydraulics may be substituted for thermody-
namics if the members of the class are unanimous in wishing the
change. Other substitutions may be made at the option of the pro-
fessor, provided they represent an equivalent amount of work, and
are in the general line of the course selected.

Dynamometers. — This includes dynamometers and the measure-
ment 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 en-
gines are studied, and problems in designing gears are worked out.

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 ine appliances at hand.

Text-Books.

Flather's Dynamometers and Measurement of Power, Spangler's
Valve Gears, Peabody's Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine, Mer-
riman's Hydraulics.

AGRICULTURE.

PROFESSOR DUGGAR.

Instruction in agriculture is given by means of lec-
tures, text-books, bulletins of the agricultural experi-
ment 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

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of the sophomore year and two terms of the junior year.
The time devoted to this 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 charac-
teristics, uses, management and adaptability to the
South. Practical work in judging live-stock is included
in the course. Five breeds of cattle and two of hogs are
represented in the herd maintained by this department.

The first term of the sophomore year is devoted to
dairying 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 follow-
ing subjects are studied : soils — chemical and physical
properties, defects, and means of improvement ; the con-
trol 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 im-
provement 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 re-
quirements, 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 in-
cluded under the latter heading are different systems of
farming and stock growing, farm equipment and build-
ings, silos and silage, care of farm manures, compost-
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ing, choice and methods of applying commercial fertil-
izers for different crops and soils, and economical
methods of improving exhausted soils.

In every class the student is encouraged 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 sys-
tem of farming rests and the details that vary with changing condi-
tions. The conditions of soil, climate, etc., prevailing in different
parts of Alabama are kept constantly in view.

Applicants for post-graduate work in agriculture will be as-
signed special research work and aided in the line of investigation
deemed best for each individual student.

REFERENCE BOOKS.

Horses, Cattle, Sheep, and Swine, by Curtis; The Study of Breeds,
by Shaw; Milk and its Products, by Wing; Dairyman's Manual, by
Stewart; Soils and Crops of the Farm, by Morrow & Hunt; The Fer-
tility of the Soil, by Roberts; Corn Culture, by Plumb; The Soil, by
King; Manures and the Principles of Manuring, by Aikman; Drain-
age for Profit and Health, by Waring; Agriculture in some of its
Relations with Chemistry, by^torer; Manual of Cattle Feeding, by
Armsby; Feeds and Feeding, by Henry; 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.

BIOLOGY AND HORTICULTURE.

PROFESSOR EARLE.

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largely confined to the study of the lower forms of plant
life* and to vegetable physiology, or the study of plants
as living beings. Under the first head special attention
will be given to the bacteria and other d -eases produc-
ing organisms of man and the higher annuals; and to
the parasitic fungi that cause diseases of plants. Under
vegetable physiology those problems that explain the
foundation for correct agricultural practices will be
made most prominent. This will include the germina-
tion of seeds, the food and nutrition of plants, the circu-
lation of the sap, the processes of reproduction, plant
variability, etc.

The instruction will be by text-book, supplemented by lectures
and by practical laboratory work.

The students will be required to make careful microscopic draw-
ings of objects studied. They will also collect material in the fields
and determine it so far as their instruction will admit.

The equipment for instruction in this department comprises be-
sides a sufficient lecture room, a students' laboratory and two small
Sass rooms for cultural and bacteriological work. These are sup-
S3 Z Twater, gas and all necessary appliances ■ *J*J^
mary and advanced work, including compound an ^Ovlg
scopes for each student, microtomes, parage M* J^Woj
steam and dry sterilizers, instantaneous water heaters Pasteur ni
" emLl and common balances, set of M£-g o ° j£
sitic and other fungi, besides a large and well eetoetej *oc* g>
ware staining fluids, chemical re-agents, culture : medi , etc

In the private office of the department, which » »»•■»"
spedal laboratory for the use of the »«"***"» JJJJJ
good reference library and the f^^^t^L of
ment. At present these consist «j£^SmJZ aud col-
fungi, and of the other groups of cryptogams. ln the

lections are accessible ^^^%SStt advanced
other resources mentioned, a superior euu y

biological instruction. horticulture .

At present special horticultural instruction J. > con-
fined to the spring term of the junior year «^£
of chemistry and agriculture, and to -W^J?
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during the sophomore year. Instruction is given by lec-
tures iuul text-book and by courses of reading, using the

green house and orchards and gardens of the experi-
ment station to give practical illustrations of the sub-
jects taught.

Attention is called to the various fruits and vegetables that can
be successfully cultivated in Alabama, and methods of propagation
cultivation and marketing are discussed. Particular attention is
called to the diseases and insect enemies to which each of these
crops are liable, and careful directions are given as to the best
known means of combating them. The construction and manage-
ment of green houses, hot beds and cold frames receives special at-
tention, while such topics as floriculture, landscape gardening and
forestry are discussed in a general way only.

Special work will be arranged for any student desiring to take a
more extended course in horticulture.

MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.

COr,. B. S. PATRICK, COMMANDANT.

Military science and tactics are required by law to be
taught in this institution. The law is faithfully carried
<>iit by imparting to each student, not physically inca-
pacitated 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, in-
spections, dress parades, reviews, etc.

Under section 1225, U. S. Revised Statutes, the Col-
lege is provided with modern cadet rifles and accoutre-
ments. Ammunition for practice firing is used under the
direction of an experienced officer. The exercises in tar-
get practice begin the first day of the third term.

The following uniform of standard cadet gray cloth
1ms been prescribed for dress: Coat and pants as
worn at West Point, with sack coat for fatigue, dark
Mne cadet cap. A neat and serviceable uniform can be
obtained here at $U to |15. This is l ess expensive than
be usnal clothing. All students are required to wear
this umform during the session.

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The entire body of students is divided into companies.
The officers are selected for military efficiency, good
conduct and scholarship. The commissioned officers
will be selected either from the senior or junior classes,
and promotion will depend on merit and not wholly on
seniority.

A band, composed of cadets, furnishes appropriate
music at all reviews and parades, and on other special
occasions.

A student who has once accepted an office cannot resign it except
for reasons entirely satisfactory to the President and Commandant.
The resignation of his office by a minor will usually not be consid-
ered without first placing all the circumstances of the case before
his parent or guardian.

Candidates for appointment or promotion may be required to
stand an examination. Moral fitness, including demerits, will be
considered.

No cadet can continue an officer in the corps who during a session
is classed in the fourth grade in two of more subjects at any term
examination, or in the fourth grade in any subject at two term
examinations; nor who receives during the session more than 60

demerits.

Examinations will be conducted by a board of officers, to be com-
posed of the Commandant of Cadets and two commissioned officers,
to be designated by him. The proceedings of the board are subject
to revision and approval by the President of the College.

Each company is officered by one captain, two first lieutenants,
one second lieutenant, and with a proper number of non-commis-
sioned officers. The officers and non-commissioned officers are dis-
tinguished 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 Infan-
try Drill Regulations.

The senior class recites once a week in Wagner's Elements of
Military Science, and Manual of Guard Duty, U. S. Army.

On the graduation of each class the names of such students as
have shown special aptitude for military service will be reported to
the Adjutant-General of the U. S. Army, and the names of the three
most distinguished in military science and tactics will be inserted
in the U. S. Army Register, and published in general orders from
headquarters of the army.

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PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR CARY.
PHYSIOLOGY.

The sophomore class studies human anatomy, physi-
ology and hygiene during the entire college year.

It is the aim of the department to give the students
practical and real knowledge of the gross anatomy and
functions of the various parts of the human body. Due
attention is given, also, to the laws of health — the con-
ditions most favorable to a continuous healthy action of
the organs of the human body.

Martin's Human Body is used as a text and reference
book, and several other works on anatomy, physiology
and hygiene may be consulted in the college library.

VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART.

Students in the agricultural and chemical course of
study, during the entire junior and senior years, devote
to this work two hours per week in the class room and
three hours per week at practical clinics. Instruction in
veterinary science and art is given by lectures.

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 study-
ing 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 conditions and wants of the students.

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Lameness in the horse, minor surgery, the actions and uses of
the most common medicines, the principles and practice of compara-
tive medicine,* and the ways of protecting the health of domestic
animals, are considered in as plain and practical a manner as the
time allotted to each subject will permit. Post mortem examina-
tions and the dissection of domestic animals are used as object les-
sons in the study of general pathology and anatomy.

The senior class in pharmacy devotes three hours per week,
during the first and second terms, to the study of therapeutics;
and four hours per week during the third term to class room and
laboratory work in bacteriology.

To the post-graduate student this department furnishes work in
history, pathology, bacteriology, meat and milk inspection. This
work gives students who contemplate studying medicine excellent
preparatory work along that line. Such students may devote their
entire time to work in this department with the approval of the
faculty.

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Histology includes methods of injecting small animals, collecting,
fixing, hardening, embedding, section cutting, mounting, staining,
examining under the microscope, drawing and describing the differ-
ent tissues.

Pathology is studied in text and reference books, and morbid his-
tology embraces naked eye and microscopic examinations of dis-
eased tissues in the laboratory. Quite a collection of diseased* tissues
and animal parasites are found in connection with the laboratory.

The laboratory is well fitted for the study of bacteriology. Bac-
teriological analyses of water, milk, sputum, pus, diseased tissues,
and of soils can be made. All of the practical operations in the pre-
paration of culture, media, sterilizations, inoculations of small ani-
mals, staining, microscopical examinations may be learned. In the
laboratory, are 3 Bausch and Lomb and 2 Winkel microscopes, each
of whichAs supplied with oil immersion objectives, 2 oculars, Abbe
condenser, and iris diaphragm. Sterilizers, autoclaves, incubators, and
all the necessary apparatus required in bacteriological work are to
be found in the laboratory.

The department of physiology and veterinary science is now
located by itself in a building which consists of a two-story portion,
containing 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.

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 new veterinary hospital building contains five large box stalls,
four open single stalls, an office and a feed room, on the lower floor;
the upper floor is used as a storage room for hay, fodder, etc. The
hospital is supplied with fresh water.

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PHARMACY AND PHARMACOGNOSY.

PROFP3SSOR MILLER.
JUNIOR YEAR.

Pharmacy. — Class work, three hours a week. The dif-
ferent systems of weights and measures. Specific grav-
ity. Pharmaceutical problems. The fundamental opera-
tions in pharmacy. Apparatus used in pharmaceutical
processes. Discussion of all classes of pharmaceutical
preparations.

Laboratory, nine hours a week. Preparation of official
and non-official galenicals.

Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work,
four hours a week. All official vegetable drugs studied
with aid of simple and 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 reme-
dies. The prescription. Incompatibilities. Doses.

Laboratory, nine hours a week. Preparation of offi-
cial and non-official pharmaceutical chemicals, inorganic
and organic. Pharmaceutical testing by pharmacopoeial
methods. Drug assaying, special attention given to com-
pounding of prescriptions.

Pharmacognosy.— CM** work with laboratory work,
four hours a week. Study of important non-officiaJ
vegetable drugs; of drugs of animal origin; of adulter-
ants and worthless drugs. Practical exercises in identi-
fication of pharmaceutical preparations and chemicals.

The practical work in pharmacy includes the manufacture of not
less than two hundred pharmaceutical preparations and the com-
pounding 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,

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MISCELLANEOUS.

GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD.

The gymnasium is situated at the west end of the ath-
letic and drill grounds, and contains one room, 80x40
feet, with strong beams above for fastening the usual fix-
tures.

It is equipped with Spalding's gymnasium apparatus
and is open to all students at stated hours, under the
care of an officer.

The athletic field has a quarter-mile cinder track and
ample space for football, baseball, and general athletics.

DISCIPLINE.

The government of the College is administered by the President
and Faculty, in accordance with the code of laws and regulations
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.

Students are not permitted to participate in any public entertain-
ment, or game, without previously obtaining the consent of the
Faculty.

No cadet will be permitted, without the approval of his parent or
guardian, to take part in a public game of foot-ball; nor will per-
mission be given for any athletic game, to a student deficient in his
studies.

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RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

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 has a well furnished
room on the first floor of the main building set apart for its ex-
clusive use. Through its weekly meetings it exerts a wholesome
Christian influence among the students.

Students are advised to unite with the Association when they
enter the Institute.

The ladies of the different churches in Auburn have recently
formed an auxiliary association to the Y. M. C. A. of this Institute.
Assisted by members of the Faculty, they will hold monthly a joint
service of praise in the College chapel and will provide lecturers
for the occasion.

They have also undertaken to build a special hall for the use of
the Association, and will solicit subscriptions for that purpose.
The following are the officers:

M. A. Beeson, President.

H. Y. Hall, Vice-President.

W. S. Rutledge, Treasurer.

W. F. Osburn, Corresponding Secretary.

J. R. Rxjtland, Recording Secretary.

A. F. Jackson, Librarian.

LOCATION.

The Institute 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 hun-
dred 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 Institute 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.

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REGULATIONS.

(1) Each student upon entering is required to sign his name in
the matriculation book, and pledge himself to obey the rules- and
regulations of the College.

(2) Every absence from recitation or examination is graded
zero.

(3) When the term grade of a cadet is lowered by reason of ab-
sence for which a satisfactory excuse can be rendered, a special
term re-examination may be subsequently granted, and the grade
made on the special re-examination alone is substituted for that
previously received.

(4) Only sickness, as reported by the Surgeon, or being absent
by reason of family sickness, will constitute a satisfactory excuse
for granting a re-examination.

When a cadet is called away from College by his parents his
zeros for absences are not removed.

(5) The term grade of a student is the average of his daily ses-
sional and term examination marks, found by giving due weight to
the term examination.

(6) Privates of the senior class in full standing who are candi-
dates 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 or pharmacy, provided
the time devoted to drill is spent by them in laboratory work.

DISTINCTIONS.

Distinctions are awarded in the different subjects of each class to
those students whose grade for the entire year is above ninety per
cent.

Certificates of distinction are awarded in public on commence-
ment 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 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.

A distinction is not given in the senior class if the average grade
in any one subject is less than 75 per cent.

RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.

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At the close of each term and at regular intervening intervals re-
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EXAMINATIONS.

Written examinations on the studies of the month are held by
each professor during the months of October, February, and
April. Each examination occupies one hour.

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-
tions, can be promoted to full standing in the next higher class only
on satisfactory examinations at the opening of the next session.

LIBRARY.

The library occupies an elegant, well-lighted room in the main
building, and also two smaller adjacent rooms. It contains over
14,000 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.

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. It is under the charge of
Professor P. H. Mell, to whom specimens as contributions may be
sent.

BOARDING HOUSES.

For each house an inspector is appointed, whose duty it is to re-
port 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 Commandant on alternate days of the

week.

Students, after selecting their boarding-houses, are not per-
mitted 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.

Permission to board and lodge at separate houses will be granted
only to seniors, to cadets twenty-one years of age and to those who
are on the "honor roll," except on special conditions.
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EXPENSES.

There is no charge for tuition for a resident of Ala-
bama.

Incidental fee, per half session $2 50

Library fee, per half session 2. 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.

For a non-resident of the State there is a charge for
tuition of $20.00 per session, payable $10.00 on matricu-
lation and $10.00 on February 1st, in addition to the
semi-annual fee of $6.00 payable by all students.

Board, including lodging, fuel and lights is furnished
at $12.50 to $15.00 per month.

The necessary expenses for a session, not including
uniforms or books, are for a resident of Alabama, as fol-
lows : , 7

p° U T i *? b . $12.00 *12.00

Board, lodging, fuel arid lights .... 108.00 135.00

Washin S 9.00 9.00

T0tal $129.00 $156.00

By special arrangement with the College authorities
Mrs^M L. Mitchell, Mrs. A. Debardeleben, and Mrs. S.
M Anderson will accommodate students with board,
lodging, fuel, &c, for $9.50 per month.

By boarding at one of these houses the necessary ex-
penses may be reduced to $106.50 per session. ' This es-
timate does notWlude the cost of the uniform, about

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$14.00, or of books, say from $5.00 to $15.00, or the

laboratory fees in the higher classes, $5.00 or $10.00. I

LABORATORY FEES. I

For each student in the junior or senior laboratory in I

chemistry, or in electrical and mechanical engineering, 1

a fee of $5.00 per session is required. This fee is pay- I
able on admission to the laboratory, and is not remitted.

NON-RESIDENT STUDENTS.

Tuition for students not residents of Alabama is $20.00 per ses-
sion, unless remitted by the Trustees to worthy students upon the
recommendation of the Faculty.

The remission of this tuition fee to non-resident students will be
granted in the form of a free scholarship for the succeeding year,
to those who obtain a distinction the preceding year, or who, by
reason of merit, are deemed worthy.

This tuition for non-residents is remitted to sons of ministers of
the gospel.

HONOR SCHOLARSHIPS. I

The following non-resident students were granted, each, by reason
of special merit in conduct and scholarship during the session '98-99, 1

an honor scholarship, which exempted from tuition fees:
W. W. Askew Georgia. J

E. Bukofzer Tennessee.

J.D.Elliott ..Wyoming.

F. C. Greene Georgia.

R. B. Hall .Georgia.

A. F. Jackson. . Georgia.

M. Ketchum • • -Florida.

H. M. Kilpatrick Georgia.

K. E. Lindrose ...Mississippi.

C.W.Nixon • Tennessee.

H. B.Park... Georgia.

H. P. Powell .....Georgia.

H. E. Werner • •-•••' -. Texas -

W.D.Willis Florida -

J. E. D. Yonge Florida -

UNIFORM.

A uniform of cadet gray cloth is prescribed, which all under-
graduate students are required to wear during the session. The uni-
forms are made, by a contractor, of excellent cloth manufactured at

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

the Charlottesville mill. This suit, including cap, costs at present
about $14.00. It is neat and serviceable, and less expensive than
ordinary clothing.

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. General damages are
assessed on the body of students.

At the close of the session the whole of the contingent fee, or the
unexpended balance, is refunded to the student.

AMOUNT OF DEPOSIT.
Fees to be paid on entrance:

Incidental fee * « rA

T ., r « 50

£ lbrary 100

:S2T* •';:■; 2 50

Contingent fee , ..

Uniform :* *J

14 00

Tuition, non-resident °°

135 00

enoSTn"! 6 ab f ° V V he StUd6nt Sh0Uld deposit with th « Treasurer

n^to a ? Loo' K *' °" m ° nth ' S ^ lncWentaIs ' <"•
wifh th. t . DCe ' a reSldent of Alabama should deposit

with the Treasurer ?50.00, a non-resident, $60.00.

FUNDS OF STUDENTS.

of !he e CoIl e r a n U f ^ ^ adVlS6d t0 deposit with th ° Treasurer

Sr chafes of 2 < ** *** S ° nS ' ° r Wards ' whether for «**

he duty Tf tl T f S ° r b ° ard> ° r for any other ™se. It is

and to nav S - ' ° **» "^ *" fUndS * laced ln "« * aads .

^™zi:zz*z:Lr the students ' <— board -

the^ollrbytr^^f 6d ' Ch6CkS m drawn oa tne Treasu ™ oi
are pa £S 2? « t0 Pay Ws nec ^ary expenses. These checks

for ne essa^ ^™ * aPPr ° Ved - The a M>™ al is *™ oniy

reau^rr^iTbi'th: js in the cataiogue - «*- **«*«»

delt'^n^rtheT ? 6 heW responsi "to for the expenses of a stu-

oent\SrpelTted r :o d h e a P ; S,t a ed ^ ^ T ~"- N ° StU -
as It brin gS onl/trou ^ 'SggTJgg* * "^ ""^

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THESIS.

Each applicant for a'degree is required to write and submit to the
Faculty a thesis, or oration and read and deliver the same at com- •
mencement if equired by the Faculty

There may be presented, with the approval of the professor in
charge, a carefully written report of special work d *ne in a labora-
tory showing independent investigation and discussion of some
subject.

It must be given to the Professor of English by the first of April.

The subject must be submitted for approval by January 1st.

LITERAHY SOCIETIES.

There are two literary societies connected with the
College — 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
annually, with the approval of the Faculty, an orator to
represent them at the close of the year.

To encourage the literary societies the Trustees have
directed that a medal be awarded on commencement
day to the member of each society who is both efficient,
and regular in attendance, and who is the best debater.
The method of selection to be determined by the Faculty.

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 the presence of the Faculty

and students.

Theirs* and second term* 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 and deliver original orations.

SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI.

In 1885, the Alumni Society established "The Alumni
Scholarship," which makes an annual loan of one hun- ,
dred and seventy dollars to a beneficiary elected by thee
society. Eight young men have been thus enabled to

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go through college. This scholarship is supported by
annual contributions from the Alumni and other friends
of the institution.

The beneficiary selected is admitted without charge
for tuition or college fees of any character.

►Subscriptions should be sent to B. H. Crenshaw
Treasurer, Auburn, Ala.

The annual alumni oration is delivered by a member
of the society, in Langdon Hall, on Alumni Day, Tues-
day of commencement week.
The following are officers of the society :

C. L. Hare President.

it. ap C. Jones. vice President.

("has. h - Ross Permanent Secretary.

II. H. Kyser Assistant Secretary.

B H. Crenshaw Treasurer.

George H. Price, M. D. . . . .• .Orator, 1900.

SURGEON.

The Surgeon is required to be present at the College
daily, to visit at their quarters the cadets that are re-
ported sick, and to give all requisite medical attention
without other charge than the regular surgeon's fee, paid
on entering college.

ACADEMIC YEAR.

The academic year for 1900-1901 commences on
Wednesday, 12th September, 1900 (second Wednesday
after the first Monday), and ends on Wednesday, 12th
June, 1901 (second Wednesday after first Monday),
which is commencement day.

It is divided into three terms. The first term extends

from the opening of the session to the 21st of December;

he second term begins January 2nd, and ends March

18th ; the third term continues to the close of the session.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE.

To change the name of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of

Alabama.

Whereas, the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Aaburn
having by means of the appropriations made by the State legisla-
ture, and by those made and continued in recent years by the acts
of Congress, developed, as originally designed, into an institution
where are taught not only the branches that relate to agriculture
and the mechanic arts, but also the sciences and arts in general
that relate to the industrial development of modern civilization,
therefore :

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama,
That said institution shall hereafter be known and designated as
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, it being provided that said In-
stitute shall continue to perform the functions of the State college
for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, in accordance
with the provisions of the Acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, grant-
ing lands to the several States and territories for collegiate pur-
poses.

Approved January 27, 1899.

(Official) . Robt. P. McDavtd,

Secretary of State.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.

United States Government— Public Documents, 148 volumes.

Dr. P. C. Candidus, Mobile, Ala.— Works on Botany, Pharmacy,
and Chemistry, 110 volumes.

American Union League Society— Facing the Twentieth Century,

by James M. King, 1 volume.

T. A. Coghlan, Sydney, N. S. W — Wealth and Progress of New
South Wales, 1 volume.

A. C. Vandiver— Glomerata, volume 2.

L. B. Rainey— Glomerata, volume 3.

Dr. J. L. M. Curry— Peabody Educational Fund, 2 volumes.

DONATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING.

General Electric Co., 1 constant potential enclosed arc lamp, 60
incandescent lamp manuals.
The Adams Bagnall Co., 1 constant potential enclosed arc lamp.
The Roebling Co., samples of insulated wire for testing.
American Wire Co., samples of insulated wire for testing.
The Okonite Co., samples of insulated wire for testing.
Electric Appliance Co., samples of insulated wire for testing.
The Westinghouse Electee * Mf$. Co., 50 street railway histories,

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DONATIONS TO AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
German Kali Works, New York, 2 tons kainit, Y 2 ton muriate of

P °T taS B Baker Mfg. Co., Racine, Wis., 1 sheep collar.
Dr J A Myers New York, 3 sacks nitrate of soda.
S S Dept of igriculture, assortment of field seeds.
DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM.

Fossils and bird eggs from Miss Bell.

Granite from Greenland and bird's skin, from Dr. Remus Persons.

Cast of trilobite from Prof. 0. D. Smith.

Indian arrow head from Miss Grout.

Indian Lrow head and shells from C. H. Billingsley.

Alabama fossils from C. H. Billingsley.

Conglomerate from F. Ashcraft.

Indian arrow heads from Dr. McElhany.

Alabama fossils from Miss Cozart.

Relics from an Indian mound from H. P. Powell.

Columbian silver half dollar from E. A. Miller.

Kauma gum from Samoan Islands from S. Stollenwerk.

Mica and petrifications from C. L. Harold.

Petrifications from E. H. Foy.

Quartz crystals from W. D. McCreary.

Quartz crystal from M. H. Kahn.

Indian arrow heads and pottery from E. M. Boyd.

Fossil plant from F. J. Rigney.

Fossils from W. B. Patterson.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

The following examinations are given as models of entrance ex-
aminations, and will suggest to teachers and students the nature
and scope of the work required for admission to the freshman class.

EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH.

I. GRAMMAR.

I. Name the parts of speech. Give examples of each.

II. Name and decline the personal pronouns.

III. Compare the following: good, ill, bad, happy, perfect

IV. What is an irregular verb? A regular verb? An intransitive

verb? A transitive verb? An impersonal verb? Give example
of each.

V. Give the principal parts of the following verbs: to be,Jo see,

to dig, to lie (to recline) ,to lay, to set, to sit, to write, to love,

to crow.

VI. Give in full the present and past tenses, Indicative and Sub-

junctive Modes, of (1) to be, (2) to love.

VII. How is the Passive voice formed? Give Passive voice, third
person, singular number, Indicative and Subjunctive of to ask.

VIII. Form the possessive singular and plural of pony, valley,
mouse, ox, princess, it, man. Form plural of following words:
Radius, phenomenon, cupful, Mr., Mrs., talisman, genius,
genus, attorney, zero, hero, brother-in-law.

IX. Parse in full the following Sentence: He that observeth the

' wind shall not sow.

X. Correct any errors in the following sentences:

1. Dot your its and cross your Pi.

2. Dr. Arnold of Rugby kept a famous boy's school.

3. Can I speak to my desk-mate?

4. I dont know nothing about your affairs.

5. Between you and I, I don't believe it.

6. Have you seen the book of my friend Story?

7. Has everybody performed their examples?

8. The oldest daughter has married a banker whom they say

is very wealthy.

9. I intended to have written.

10. We are acquainted neither with the doctor or with his

family.

11. I will be drowned; nobody shall help me.
12l We shall not go without it stops raining.

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ii. literature and composition.
Ivanhoe.

i Who are the main characters in Ivanhoet What is the date of
the events of the story? Who was King of England at that

time? , M ,_. .

II Describe the following: (1) Cedric and his home. (2) Man-

ners and Customs of the Saxons. (3) Relations of the Saxons
to the Normans.

III Tell something about Isaac of York, Rebecca, Rowena.

IV. Describe the tournament of Ashby.

V. Who was Robin Hood?

VI. Describe the assault on the castle of Front de Bceuf .

VII. Give the conclusion of the story.

VIII. Write a letter giving account of your journey from home tc
Auburn. Pay especial attention to form, spelling, and punc-
tuation.

Note.— The subject of Examination for 1900, will be taken from
the list of books in Literature required for admission. [See p. 39.]

EXAMINATION IN MATHEMATICS.

I. ARITHMETIC.

I Write ten million, four thousand, and fifty: one thousand and
two, ten millionths.

II. Find least common multiple of 60, 15, 24 and 25.

III. Reduce if x f x 7j— j of f x 5.

IV. If 15.25 lbs. of meat cost $.68%, how many lbs. of meat can be

bought for a bale of cotton weighing 520 lbs. sold for 1% cents
a pound?

V. A man sold a horse for $125 00 and gained 12%%, how much did

the horse cost ?

April 23rd, 1898

VI. One day after date I promise to pay John Doe, or order, one
hundred and twenty-five ■&$ dollars, value received. Richard
Roe.

Endorsements :

Dec. 25th, 1898— $25.00.
April 1st, 1899— $50.00.
How much is due Sept. 15th, 1900. Rate of interest %%t

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II. ALGEBRA.

I. (a.) Simplify by removing parentheses and combining terms:

2 x-( y -!- [ 4 x-( y-2 x )-3 x] ).

(b.) Divide x*m -|- x 2 ™ -|- 1 by x 2n * -|- x°» -|-l.

II. Factor (a.) 4 x*— 9 y 2 ; (b.) x 2 -x-12; (c.)x 2 -a 2 -|- 2 ab-b 2 ;

(d.) im-n-l-2,

III. Simplify (a) _±

•t

x 2 — 5x-|-6
(b.) a 2 -b 2

x-4
x 2 —4x-|-3

ab— b 2
X

x-3

x 2 — 3x-|- 2

(a— b) 2

3 a b -|- 2 b 2 X a 2 -|- a b ' a 2 -a b

™ t?a i * . , ^ llx-l-2 , x , ' 3 x-2 2— 7x
IV. Find value of x in (a) — J — -J- _. -|- 4 = — - — __ — —

Verify.

<t << a

(b)

5 a

2bi

a __ b - a .|_b a 2 -b 2 - Verify,

V. Mnltiplyx«— x^y>^-|-y%byx^-|-y^.

VI. Expand (x 2 — x" 2 ) 2 and write the result with positive exponents.

VII. Simplify (a.) ^6U+ /IS-f5S; (b.) If a=8, b=4, c=2 find

numerical value of 2 a& b-§ c 2 ; (c.) Extract square root

VIII. If the floor of a hall had been 2 feet longer, and 4 feet wider,
it would have contained 528 square feet more; but if the length
and width had been 2 feet less the floor would contain 316
square feet less. How many square feet in the floor?

in. geometey.— First Two Books.

I. If two parallel straight lines are cut by a third straight line,

the alternate interior angles are equal.

II. The sum of the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right

angles.

III. The median of a trapezoid is parallel to the bases and is equal

to one half their sum.

IV. A radius perpendicular to a chord bisects it and the arc sub-

tended by it

V In the same circle, or equal circles, two angles at the centre

have the same ratio as their intercepted arcs.

VI The radius of the circle inscribed in an equilateral triangle is
' equal to one third of the altitude of the triangle.

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EXAMINATION IN UNITED STATES HISTORY.

1 Give a summary of the Navigation Acts.

2.' Make a list of the causes of the Revolutionary War, and explain

each briefly.
3 Why did the colonists object to the Stamp Act?

4. Point out the defects of the Articles of Confederation and ex-

plain how each of these was remedied in the Constitution.

5. Name three compromises in the Constitution and explain between

what parties each was made.

6. Give an account of the Hartford Convention.

7. What was the purpose of the Embargo Act?

8. Explain three of the following:

(1) Ordinance of 1787; (2) Missouri Compromise; (3) Mon-
roe Doctrine; (4) Omnibus Bill.

9. What was meant by Nullification and on what ground did South

Carolina base its right to nullify the tariff?

10. Make a list of the causes of the Civil War and explain each.

EXAMINATION IN LATIN.

Required of students who propose to continue that study in the
freshman class (not required for admission to college).
I. (1) Translate Caesar, Bk. II, Chapter 13.

[Note: — Instead of Caesar a selection from.Nepos, or other
equivalent may be substituted.]

(2) Give the principal parts of ihe first six verbs in the above
Latin.

(3) Tell what verbs in the above are in the Subjunctive and
explain their use.

(4) Do the same for all verbs in the Infinitive.

11. (1) How do you express in Latin, (a) the Agent, (b) Manner,

(c) Place Where, (d) Duration of Time?
(2) Give an example in English of (a) Hortatory Subjunctive,
(b) Clause of Purpose, (c) Indirect Question.
III. Write in Latin:

(1) Caesar comes (venire) to Italy.

(2) The soldiers (miles) asked (rogare) aid (auxilium).

(3) We shall come to Italy from Greece (Graecia).

INDEX.

Page.

Academio Year 98

Admission to College 34-39

Admission to Higher Classes 39, 40

Agricultural Experiment Station, 5

Agriculture 8, 45, 50, 80-82

Alumni..... 97, 98

Astronomy 55

Athletics 90

Auburn. 91

Auxiliary Schools 36 > 37

Band 38

Biology 12,82,83

Boarding 91 ' 93

Botany 16.57,58

Buildings of the College ;• 14

Cadet Band

Cadet Officers 30,31,85

Calendar, 1900-1901, second

page of cover.
Certificate Schools 36 - 37

10 44, 64-66
Chemistry 1U ' **«

Civil Engineering 12,46,59,60

Classification of Students by

residence

Classification of Students by .

studies '

College buildings...... —

College established ^

College, name of

College, object of

Courses obstruction •»*

.. 62,63,97

Declamation ^g

Degrees

Page.

Departments of Instruction 52-86

Discipline 90

Distinctions 92

Distinguisbed Students 15-18, 87

Donations 99, 100

Drawing .12, 59, 60, 77

Drill 9°

Electrical Engineering .10, 11,

47, 70-73

Elocution 62, 63, 97

English • 61, 62, 63

Examinations, entrance 34-38

Examinations, monthly and term 93
Examinations, specimen 101-104

Expenses - 94 » 95 » 96

Experiment Station 5

Faculty and Officers ; 3 « *

Farm ""

Fees, Alabama Students 94-96

Fees, Non-residents 94 " 96

Fees, Contingent ' ■

Fees, Laboratory

69
French

Freshman Class, roll of 24-77

48
General Course

57, 58

Geology

69
German

Graduate Courses, see each de-

partment, also •»•• **•

Graduate Students, roll of I 9

Graduates, 1899, roll of 15. * 5

90
Gymnasium

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History 68, G7 > r,s

Honor Certificate! 17, 1S

Honor (Jraduates I*

Honor Scholarships 98

Honor Students 15, 16

Horticulture 8, 88« s ^

Irregular Students 89

Irregular Student*, roll of 27-29

Junior Class, roll of 21, 22

Laboratories:

Agriculture £ Horticulture S

Biology 12, 83

Botany.... ; 11,57

Chemistry. 10, 65, <5»>

Drawing 12, (JO, 77

Electrical Engineering 10, 11, 73

Mechanic Arts 8, 9, 74-7<>

Mechanical Engineer' g, 12, 18, 74-80

Mineralogy 11

Pharmacy 18, 89

Physics 11, 54, 55

Physiology 18,86

Veterinary Science 18, 87, 88

Laboratory Fees 95

Latin 6K, 69

Library 98

Literary Societies 97

Mathematics 55-57

Mechanic ArtH 8, 9, 50, 74-70

Mechanical Drawing 77

Mechanical Engineering. 12.

18, 47, 74-80

Medical Attendance 98

Mental Science (;;.}

Military Drill q

Military Organization ;, 30, 33

Military Science & Tactics 14^ $4

Military Science A Tactics, dis-

tinguinhed students in 33, #5

Modern Languages gg

Museum <j^

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Non-resident Students 94-95

0bject3 of the College 7

Officers, Cadet 32, 33

Officers, College 3, 4

Officers o! Experiment Station... 5

Orations 62, 63

Pharmacy 18, 49, 51, 89

Philosophy 63

Physics 11, 55, 66

Physiology 12, 86-88

Political Economy 63

Political Science 66-68

Records 92

Regulations 92

Religious Services 91

Reports . 92

Requirements for Admission.... 34-39

Schedule of Exeroises 52-53

Senior Class, roll of ^ 19-21

Societies, Literary ... 91

Society of the Alumni 91. 92

Sophomore Class, roll of 23, 24

Special and Irregular Students,
roll of 27-29

special and Irregular Students,

regulations 39

Students, register of.... 15-30

Sub-Freshman Class, roll of.... 29, 30

Surgeon 98

Surveying 12

Text-Books, see each department.

Theme-writing 62, 63

Theses #># 97

Trustee* o

• —

Under-Graduate Students 19-30

Uniforms 84-95

Veterinary Science 86-88

Woodwork 74, 75

Women admitted to College 37, 38

Young Men's Christian Associ-
ation 9i

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Examination for admission Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1901

First term begins .Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1901.

Literary Society Celebration-Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28, 1901.

First term ends ™ -, „

• -Friday, Dec. 20, 1901.

Second term begta Thursday, Jan. 2, 1903.

Literary Society Celebration. Saturday, Feb. 22, 1902.

Senior class exercises Saturday, Feb. 22, 1902.

Second term ends o 1 j

us • Saturday, March 15, 1992.

Third term begins... -»r j ,. , -

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Senior Thesis Reported Thursday, May 1, 1902.

Sophomore class exercises Thursday , Ma , lm

Field day ~,

r. Thursday, May 1,1902.

Final examinations begin FridaVi May 30> 190 ,

Commencement sermon Sundav> June 8> 1903

Annual meeting of Trustees. . Monday) June 8> 1903 .

Military exercises, 4 p. m MondaV) June 9> 19Q3

Junior class celebration, 8 p. m Monday, June 9, 1902.

Alumni dav m j T

J Tuesday, June 10, 1902.

Military exercises, 5 p. m Tuesday, June 10, 1902.

Address before Literary Societies, 8 p. m. . .Tuesday, June 10, 1902.
Commencement day Wednesday, June 11, 1902.

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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
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TRUSTEES.

His Excellency, Wm. J. SAMFORD, President Ex-Ofjlcio.

JNO. W. ABERCROMBIE, Superintendent of Education .. Ex-Ofjtcio,

ITERM EXPIRES, 1907.

Jonathan Haralson Selma, Ala.

Thomas Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.

J. A. Bilbro, Gadsden, Ala.

TERM EXPIRES, 1905.

J. ft, Carmichael, . . Ozark, Ala.

W. K. Terry, ,,, .Birmingham, Ala.

T. H. Frazer, Mobile, Ala.

I. F. Purser Opelika, Ala.

TERM EXPIRES, 1903.

R. F. Ligon, Jr Montgomery, Ala.

Tancred Betts, Huntsville, Ala.

W. C. Whitaker, , Tuscaloosa, Ala.

E. T. Glenn, Treasurer. J. H. Drake, M. D., Surgeon.

R. W. Burton, Secretary.

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barksdale FACUL TY AND OFFICERS.

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Wm. LeROY BROUN, M. A., LL. D.,
President.
OTIS DAVID SMITH, M. A., LL. D.,

Professor of Mathematics.

PATRICK HUGHES MELL, M. E., Ph. D.,
Professor of Botany and Geology.

JAMES HENRY LANE, C. E., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D.,
Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.

CHARLES COLEMAN THACH, M. A.,
Professor of English and Political Economy.

GEORGE PETRIE, M. A., Ph. D.,
Professor of History and Latin.

♦BENNETT BATTLE ROSS, M. Sc,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.

JOHN JENKINS WILMORE, M. E.,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Laboratory.

CHARLES ALLEN CARY, B. So., D. V. M.,
Professor of Physiology and Veterinary Science.

EMERSON R. MILLER, Phar. M., M. Sc,
Professor of Pharmacy.

JOHN FREDERICK DUGGAR, M. Sc,
Professor of Agriculture.

FRANK SUMNER EARLE, *

Professor of Biology and Horticulture.

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ARTHUR ST. CHARLES DUNSTAN, M. E., C. E.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics.

JOHN EDWARD WIATT, M. A.,
Professor of Modern Languages.

BOLLING HALL CRENSHAW, M. E.,
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics.

BENJAMIN SWEAT PATRICK, E. & M. E.,
Commandant and Acting Professor of Military Science.

PAUL INGOLD MURRILL, M. Sc, Ph. D. ,
Acting Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry.

* A. (went on leave, at University in Germany

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HENRY HEARST KYSER, E. & M. E.,
Assistant Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering.

MICHAEL THOMAS FULLAN, M. Sc,
Assistant Professor of Mechanic Arts.

CLIFFORD LeROY HARE, M. Sc,
Instructor Chemical Laboratory.

ROBERT JEFFERSON TRAMMELL, C. E.,
Instructor in Mechanic Arts.

WILLIAM OSCAR SCROGGS, M. Sc,
Assistant Librarian and Assistant in English.

(a) WILLIAM WELCH HILL, E. & M. E.,
Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

HARRY STREETY HOUGHTON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Chemistry.

JAMES RICHARD RUTLAND, B. Sc,
Assistant in Sub-Freshman English and Mathematics.

JOHN WILLIAM JEPSON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Electrical Engineering.

CHARLES LEWIS HAROLD, B. Sc,
Assistant in English.

WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, B. Sc,
Assistant in Civil Engineering and Drawing.

(b) EDWARD ZELLARS HEARD, B. Sc,
Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

CHARLES WELLINGTON NIXON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Chemistry.

fc) ELLIS MADISON DUNCAN, B. Sc,
Assistant in Veterinary Science.

JESSE WRIGHT BOYD, B Sc,
Assistant in Latin and History.

ENOCH MARVIN MASON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Biology and Pharmacy.

ARTHUR FLOURNOY JACKSON,
Student Assistant in charge of Gymnasium.

S ^PP°! n t e< l yarch 6th, vice T. H. McAdorv resiened
trt Appointed Janunrv 1st, vice H P Powell mi™*i
<e) Appointed March 1st, vice E. A. MtH« %^?nSd?

COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY

Committee on Discipline,
Professors Smith, Thach, Mell.

Committee on Entrance Examination,
Professors Smith, Thach, Petrie.

Committee on Examination of Special Students.
Professors Wilmore, Dunstan, Miller.

Committee on Public Lectures,
Professors Petrie, Dunstan, Kyser.

Committee on Library,
Professors Thach, Petrie, Wiatt.

Committee on Athletics,
Professors Ross, Mell, Dunstan, Kyser, Petrie.

Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings,
Professor Wilmore.

Curator of Museum,
' Professor Mell.

Secretary of Alumni Record,
Professor Crenshaw.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION.

Thos. Williams Wetumpka, Ala.

Jonathan Haralson * — Selma, Ala.

STATION COUNCIL.

Wm. LeRoy Broun .' President.

P. H. Mell Director and Botanist.

B. B. Ross Chemist.

C. A. Cary, D. V. M. Veterinarian.

J. F. Duggar Agriculturist.

F. S. Earle, Biologist and Horticulturist.

J. T. Anderson Associate Chemist.

ASSISTANTS.

C. L. Hare pi rst Assistant Chemist.

*C. W. Nixon . . Second Assistant Chemist.

H. S. Houghton Third Assistant Chemist.

T. U. Culver Superintendent of Farm.

R. W. Clark Assistant Agriculturist.

C F. Austin Assistant Horticulturist.

C. F. Boyd Assistant to Director.

OFFICER IN CHARGE OF FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

Dr. C. A. Cary.

♦Appointed Feb. 3st, yice J. Q. Burton, resigned.

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The leading object of the Institute, in conformity with
the act of Congress and the acts of the State Legislature,
is to teach the principles and applications of science.

In its course of instruction it gives prominence to the
sciences and their applications, especially to those that
relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts ; and at the
same time the discipline and liberal education obtained
by the study of language and other sciences are not neg-
lected.

All students are required to study the English lan-
guage. 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.

In its different courses of education, work of great
value to the youth of the State is 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.

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LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES FOR

INSTRUCTION.

The Institute now possesses facilities for giving
laboratory instruction in applied science in the follow*
ing departments : " < * ■ * • ■

I— IX AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.

The farm contains 304 acres, and is supplied with
illustrative specimens of stock of select varieties.

II — IN MECHANIC ARTS.

The laboratory of mechanic arts is used as an aux-
iliary in industrial education, and as a school of manual
train ng in the arts that constitute the foundation of
various industrial pursuits. The work performed by the
students is instructive in character, as in any othe-

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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 Institute each stu-
dent 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
luiud, as well as the mind, and thus by associating
manual and mental training, to educate thoroughly the
student for the duties of life, whatever may be his voca-
tion. 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,
90x50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horse-
power Corliss engine, a planer, circular saw, band-saw,
two scroll saws, a buzz planer, a pattern maker's lathe,
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, 52x87 feet, with two rooms, has been
constructed especially for instruction in working iron.

One room is equipped with twenty-four forges and
tools required for a forge department, and the other with
a Colliau cupola furnace, a core oven, a brass furnace^
molding benches, foundry crane constructed by students,,
and special tools for use in a foundry.

The forge and foundry rooms are furnished with a
fan and exhauster, supplied with power from an engine,
constructed by the students in mechanic arts.

The machine department occupies a brick building,
30x50 feet, and is equipped with eleven engine lathes,
one speed lathe, one 20-inch drill press, one iO-inch sensi-

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tive drill, one 16-inch shaper, one 5-foot planer, one uni-
versal milling machine, a corundum tool grinder, a small
emery grinder, a No. 1 Brown & Sharpe universal grind-
ing 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
Avhenever necessary.

Ill — IN PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY./

The chemical laboratory is supplied with modern ap-
paratus, and in its equipment affords excellent facilities
for instruction in practical chemistry and for investiga-
tion.

The building contains a large general laboratory that
accommodates sixly^fudents, a special laboratory for
Seniors that will accommodate thirty students, a lecture
room with a 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 three large rooms in the basement and is
equipped with many fine instruments of precision.

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In addition to resistance boxes, bridges, condensers,
galvanometers, dynamometers, wattmeters, photom-
eters, and other laboratory instruments, the depart-
ment is supplied with representatives of the best types
of commercial electrical instruments from foreign and
domestic makers.

The laboratory is also equipped with apparatus for
making break-down tests of insulating materials, up to
30,000 volts, also with spectroscopic apparatus for test-
ing the quality of arc light carbons.

Edison compound 12 Kilo-watt generator, Thomson-
Houston 150 light 110 volt dynamo, Weston 150 volt 25
ampere generator, Crocker-Wheeler one horse power
motor, Ideal 3 phase alternator, Brush 6 arc light dy-
namo with lamps, two Baxter street car motors, 20 horse
power each (so connected as/to be used as direct or alter-
nating current motors or generators), one 5 horse power
three phase motor, one General Electric 20 horse power
motor, one 40 light shunt dvnamo, one Edison 3 Kilo-

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watt generator, one Stanley induction motor with con-
densers, two bi-phase induction motors (built by stu-
dents), one 9 light Thomson-Houston arc machine, two
phase alternator and 500 volt 20 ampere generator, made
by students. There is also in connection with this de-
partment at the experiment station, a ten horse power
motor, made by students, which is operated by the 500
volt generator in the dynamo room.

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V — IN PHYSICS.

The physical laboratory occupies two rooms, one of
these being permanently darkened for experimental
work in light.

It is equipped with numerous standard instruments
of precision, such as verniers, micrometers, cathetom-
eters, a horizontal comparator, a Kater's reversion
pendulum, balances, etc., and a quantity of minor appa-
ratus.

Recently there has been added a concave grating spec-
trograph, a large induction coil of .12 inch spark, and
other apparatus of value.

VI — IX MINERALOGY.

This laboratory occupies a convenient room in the
basement, and is provided with tables and appliances to
accommodate thirty students, with an excellent collec-
tion of minerals.

VII — IN, BOTANY.

In the work of the agricultural , experiment station
there is a botanical garden under the charge of the pro-
fessor of botany; investigations in botany are given
special attention, and opportunities are offered* ad-
vanced students for practical work in a laboratorv es-
pecially fitted with microscopes, tables, a dark room for
photographic work, and appliances needed for instruc-
tion and research. This department is provided with
Auzoux's clastic models of seeds and flowers for teach-
ing botany.

VIII. — IN BIOLOGY. •

The laboratory in this department adjoins the lecture
room of the professor, and is furnished with tables, ex-

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•eellent 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 cusfomarv
exercises in the field are given.

N — 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 observa-
tion and execution. A large, well-lighted drawing room,
which will accomodate fifty students, is provided with
tables, lock-boxes, etc.

XI — IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

The mechanical course has been extended to include
experimental work in mechanical engineering.

The apparatus available for this instruction is as fol-
lows : A 45-horse power Imperial Cross compound en-
gine, especially arranged for experimental Avork, sup-
plied with Wheeler surface condenser and Deanc? air
pump and circulating pump, a 25-horse power Harris-
Corliss engine, a 35 horse power Westinghouse engine,
two 9 horse power engines constructed by students, the
boilers belonging to the regular power plant, a Deane
duplex steam pump, a 4-horse power gasoline engine, an
Ericsson hot air engine, a New York air pump, a West-
inghouse air pump, four steam engine indicators, a sepa-
rating calorimeter, thermometers, a pyrometer, scales,

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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 test-
ing machine, a Henning micrometer extensometer, and
a Carpenter calorimeter with, the necessary auxiliary
apparatus for determining the heating value of different
kinds of coal.

Thi§ work is now carried on in the lower story of the
annex to the chemical laboratory. This room is 30x60
feet in size and was specially designed and fitted up
for this purpose. A three-inch steam main has been laid
from the boiler house, thus securing a steam supply in
the building for all work requiring it. The work is thor-
oughly 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.

with skeletons of the domestic animals for instruction.
Free clinics are given every Saturday for the benefit of
the students in veterinary science.

There is a separate dissecting room constructed, with
cement floor and north roof light especially for ihis de-
partment. This Laboratory is used by the professor
and students each afternoon for three months.

XIII— IN PHARMACY.

The laboratory of this department occupies the second
floor of the annex to chemical laboratory, and is pro-

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vided with a sufficient supply of drugs and apparatus
necessary for instruction in pharmaceutical prepara-
tions.

The students work in the laboratory with the profes-
sor, from five to eight hours, six days in the week.

The facilities are increased as means are available.

MILITARY TACTICS.

This department is supplied witli cadet rifles and
accoutrements for the corps.

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COLLEGE BUILDINGS.

The frontispiece is a representation of the main College building.
It is 160 x 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, 90 x 50 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.

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 laboratory for advanced work in chemistry will accommodate
thirty students and is equipped in the same manner. Adjoining this
are two rooms "which are used respectively as a balance room, and
a room for work with spectroscope, polariscope, etc.

The second story contains a lecture room with seats and tablets
for eighty students. Around the lecture room are cases containing
crude and manufactured products, illustrating agricultural and
mechanical chemistry, prominent subjects taught in the institution.

ANNEX TO CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

This is a three-story brick building, containing rooms for phar-
macy, mechanical engineering, and drawing.

The Chemical Laboratory for the Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion occupies a building 60 by 26 feet and is appropriated exclusively
for chemical investigation and research, and not for instruction.

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HONOR ROLL FOR CONDUCT, IN 1900.

The following cadets having received no demerits during the year,
their names are placed upon the honor roll for good conduct:

SUB-FRESHMAN CLASS.

Haynie, C. D. Rutledge, C. P.

Jones, A. D. Stewart, B. M.

Matthews, J. V. Williamson, G. T.

Roberts, R. H. , Sullivan, H. J.

SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.

Brannon, P. A. Marks, G. M.

Crumpler, L. H. Rennie, A. K.

Cameron, W. J. Reid, H. V.

Conner, H. H. Sargent, H. O.

Haigler, W. H. Sellers, W. A.

Stickle, H. S.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Allen, G. W.
Bize, M. L.
Bruister, W. J.
Chipley, D.
Davis, H. E.
Davis, W. W.
Goldthwaite, C. B.
Halsey, W. L.
Hawkins, H. C.
Hill, G. B.
Horn, A. G.
Hunt, F. E.

Jordan, I. L.
Kauffman, R.
Knight, W. J.
Matson, T. H.

Maberry, E. L.
McLain, A. D.
Mitchell, J. H.
Preuit, G. N.
Rhodes, R. G.
Thornton, W. L.
Walker, I. W.
Yonge, H. M.

Moseley, W. F.

•SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Askew, W. M.
Dawson, R. G.
Ellis, M.

Hamilton, W. B.
Houston, F. J.
Johnson, C. J.

Kyser, J. A.
Swanson, J. G.
Snedecor, G. W.
Wallace, C. N.
Webb, J. O.
Willis, W. D.

Yonge, J. E. D.

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junior CLASS.

Arnold, R. T.
Bivings, F. C.
Bragg, T.

Eagar, W. II.
Fitch, H. L.
Felton, L. M.
Foy, J. D.
Goggans, J. 0.
Haley, P. S.
Jackson, A. F.
Kahn, M. D.

Ashcraft, F.
Beeson, M. A.
Boyd, G. F.
Boyd, J. W.
Brooks, M. M.
Bukofzer, E.
Culver, A. N.
Dowdell, W. C.
Duncan, E. M.
Duncan, L. N.
Flowers, J. J.
Hall, H. Y.
Hall, R. B.
Heard, E. Z.
Illges, J. P.

Kelly, E.
Killebrew, E. S.
Letcher, J. T.

McCrary, W. D.
McGehee, W. B.
Meriwether, B. B.
Parker, D. J.
Smith, H. M.
Turpin, M. C.
Werner, H. E.
Williams, J. C.

SENIOR CLASS.

Jepson, J. W.
Kahn, M. F.
Kelley, W. E.
Martin, W. C.
Maples, J. .
Mason, E. M.
McGehee, J. H.
Miller, E. A.
Nixon, C. W.
Osburn, W. F.
Powell, H. P.
Rutland, J. R.
Rutledge, W. S.
Shuff, J. W.

GRADUATES IN 1900.

CLASS OF 1900.

HONOR GRADUATES.

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

John William Jepson South Carolina

COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

William Christopher Martin Barbour

GENERAL COURSE.

Charles Lewis Harold Escambia

COURSE IN PHARMACY.

Enoch Marvin Mason . . . Lee

DEGREES.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.

Frank Hunter Anderson Bullock

William Lawrence Anderson Montgomery

Fletcher Ashcraft Lauderdale

Malcolm Alfred Beeson Etowah

John Samuel Black Lee

Guy French Boyd Lee

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee

Millard Morse Brooks .Escambia

Edwin Bukofzer Tennessee

Ruf us W T hite Butler Lee

Judson Lamar Burke Lee

Andrew Crozier Cameron Jefferson

Sallie McGehee Clark Montgomery

Asbury Nicholson Culver Lee

Emma Beall Culver Lee

William Crawford Dowdell Lee

Ellis Madison Duncan Franklin

Luther Noble Duncan Franklin

Rutherford Sylvanus Finch Montgomery

John Jefferson Flowers Butler

Erie Humphreys Foy Barbour

Bertha Mae Grout Lee

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Roland B Hall Georgia

Harry Young Hall * Jefferson

Charles Lewis Harold • Escambia

Edward Zellars Heard Lee

Mabel Heard .- • Lee

Mary Katherine Hollifield Leo

George Martin Illges Montgomery

John William Jepson South Carolina

Walter Eldrade Johnson Madison

Moses Frank Kahn Lee

Wilbur Edrald Kelley Jefferson

John Maples Russell

William Christopher Martin Barbour

Enoch Marvin Mason Lee

James Hardie McGehee Montgomery

<Jraham Edwin Merchant Lee

Edward Andrew Miller Marshall

William Livingston Neill Jefferson

Charles Wellington Nixon . . Tennessee

vVilliam Forney Osburn Lee

Hiram Perry Powell Georgia

Fleming James Rigney Madison

James Richard Rutland Chambers

William Stowe Rutledge Lee

* rederick Blount Shepard Mobile

Mary Robbins Sampey Conecuh

John Winf red Shuff Talladega

Joseph Manning Steiner Butler

Moses Conrad Wright Macon

MASTER OF SCIENCE.

Robert Higgins Adams Pike

Bailey Edgar Brown ; Morgan

Walter Eldrade Johnson Madison

Kate Meade Lane L ee

William Oscar Scroggs Georgia

CIVIL ENGINEERING.

Arthur Henry Feagin Barbour

ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

Thomas Hennington McAdory Jefferson

Isham Fennell McDonnell Madison

DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS

Students who receive a grade above 90 in three studies in the fresh-
man class, in four in the Sophomore, in five in the
Junior, and in six in (the Senior, are dis-
guished for excellence in scholar-
ship, and are awarded

HONOR CERTIFICATES.

The following students received honor certificates in 1900:

SENIOR CLASS.

Malcolm Alfred Beeson Etowah

John Samuel Black Lee

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee

Edwin Bukofzer Tennessee

Sallie McGehee Clark Montgomery-
Emma Beall Culver Lee

William Crawford Dowdell Lee

Luther Noble Duncan Franklin

Bertha Mae Grout Lee

Roland B. Hall Georgia

Harry Young Hall . Jefferson

Charles Lewis Harold Escambia

Mary Katherine Hollifield Lee

John William Jepson South Carolina

Moses Frank Kahn L© e

William Christopher Martin Barbour

Enoch Marvin Mason Lee

Edward Andrew Miller Marshall

Charles Wellington Nixon Tennessee

William Forney Osburn • • Lee

Fleming James Rigney Madison

James Richard Rutland Chambers

Mary Robbins Sampey Conecuh

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honor students in the junior class.

COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

Thomas Bragg Lee

COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Eugene Flynn Enslen Jefferson

CIVIL ENGINEERING.

Paul Shields Haley Walker

GENERAL COURSE.

John Talbert Letcher Macon

COURSE IN PHARMACY.

William Boyd McGehee Montgomery

JUNIOR CLASS.

Robertson Tanner Arnold Florida

Herschel Winston Bass St. Clair

Thomas Bragg Lee

William Hamilton Eagar Winston

Eugene Flynn Enslen Jefferson

John Drewry Foy Barbour

Paul Shields Haley * . . Walker

Arthur Flournoy Jackson ' Georgia

William Boyd McGehee Montgomery

Emmett Stephens Killebrew Dale

John Talbert Letcher Macon

Karl Edward Lindrose Mississippi

Isaac Lenoir Moore Lee

Dorsey Julian Parker Escambia

Shepherd Harrison Roberts Montgomery

Louis Sternfeld Montgomery

henry Edward Werner Texas

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

William Warren Askew . . .". Georgia

William Cruse Coles Marshall

Jesse Duncan Elliott Minnesota

Marvin Ellis Morgan

James Browder Garber Hale

Morris Ketchum N ew York

James Allen Kyser . # Dallas

Martin James Lide Dallas

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Richard Blount Shepard Mobile

George Waddell Snedecor Jefferson

John Griffin Swanson Macon

Walker Dorr Willis Florida

John Eayres Davis Yonge Florida.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Dudley Chipley Florida

Earl Cline Jefferson

Sidney Cornell Jefferson

Howard Ellis Davis Mobile

\v illiam Watson Davis Mobile

Thomas Joseph Dowdell Montgomery

William Lanier Halsey Madison

Frank Edward Hun Jefferson

Roy Kauffman Mobile

Walter Joseph Knight Mobile

Thomas Hatcher Matson Talladega

John Harris Mitchell Georgia

Gregg Newton Preuit Lawrence

Russell Bates Preuit Lawrence

William Watson Rutland Chambers

William Lawson Thornton Talladega

Ivy Whitson Walker Colbert

Henry Mathews Yonge Florida

— etff ALOGUE OF STUDENTS.

FOR THE SESSION OF 1900-1901.

GRADUATE STUDENTS.

[Residence in Alabama ivhen State is not given.]
NAME. RESIDENCE.

Guy French Boyd . Lee

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee

Mattie Lucile Burton Lee

Toccoa Cozart Lee

Emma Beall Culver Lee

Ellis Madison Duncan Franklin

Charles Lewis Harold Escambia

Edward Zellars Heard Lee

Mabel Heard . . Lee

John William Jepson South Carolina

WilliaLm Christopher Martin Barbour

Enoch Marvin Mason Lee

Edward Andrew Miller Marshall

James Lewis Molder Chambers

Charles Wellington Nixon Tennessee

Hiram Perry Powell Georgia

James Richard Rutland Chambers

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS.

SENIOR CLASS.

Robertson Tanner Arnold Florida

Herschel Winston Bass St. Clair

Idaline Bell Lee

Frank Carlisle Bivings Georgia

Kenneth Bradford Montgomery'

Thomas Bragg Lee

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Samuel Hamner Browne Tuscaloosa

Salmon Holmes Burns Lee

David James Castleman Hale

Herschel Henry Conner Macon

William Hamilton Eagar . . .Winston

Eugene Flynn Enslen Jefferson

LeRov Madison Felton South Carolina

John Drewry Foy Barbour

James Olney Goggans Tallapoosa

Walter Lee Greene Lee

William Hope Haigler Montgomery

Paul Shields Haley Walker

Alexander Cameron Hannon . . . Montgomery

Michael Smith Harvey Lee

Charles Henry Haynes • Bullock

Daniel Hagood Haynes Dallas

James Kelly Haynie Montgomery

Arber Samuel Hertz Georgia

Robert Holland Hood Jefferson

Arthur Flournoy Jackson Georgia

James Baxter Jackson • • • • Lee

Jefferson Franklin Jones Sumter

Myron Daniel Kahn Lee

Claude Kauffman : Mobile

Emmett Stephens Killebrew Dale

William Reid Lancaster • • • Lee

John Talbert Letcher • Macon *

Karl Edward Lindrose Mississippi

Walter Deems McCrary Lee

William Boyd McGehee Montgomery

Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether .Montgomery

Abram Hill Mitchell ••••■• Lee

Isaac Lenoir Moore • • • • Lee

Merrill Hastings Moore Montgomery

William Louis Noll Tennessee

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Dorsey Julian Parker Escambia

James Cochran Phelps Lee

James Blackmon Powell Bullock

Shepherd Harrison Roberts Montgomery

Harvey Owen Sargent Franklin

Oscar Menderson Schloss. Barbour

Lyman Hall Shaw Sumter

Henry Alexander Skeggs Morgan

John Hunt Skeggs Morgan

Matthew Scott Sloan Mobile

Holland McTyeire Smith Lee

Louis Sternfeld ".'...;... Montgomery

Oodfrey Rhodes Thomas Sumter

Manly Curry Turpin Virginia

Henry Edward Werner Texas

Leonidas Wharton Cherokee

Oaius Whitfield Maren°x>

Jere Crawford Williams Lee

John Rutledgc AVilliams Jefferson

Edward Houston Wills Lee

JUNIOR cla^s.

Oliver Hannibal Alford .. /. , /,, . . . . .Marshall

William Warren Askew Georgia

Frederick Cornelius Atkinson to . Dale

Charles Homer Billingsley Elmore

Edward Lambeth Carroll Florida

William Cruse Coles Marshall

Clyde Allen Collins . . Hale

Alpheus Mallette Davis Florida

Robert Geoghegan Dawson Montgomery

Jesse Duncan Elliott Minnesota

Marvin Ellis ...;... Morgan

James Douglas Farley .' j jee

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Clarence Eugene Feagin Bullock

James Browder Garber Hale

Arthur Rodfer Gray Florida

Jeremiah Warren Gwin Jefferson

William Houston Gwin Jefferson

William Bulger Hamilton Elmore

Clinton Duane H'aynie Lee

William Tillman Heard Lee

Oscar Lynn Henry . . . Marshall

Dallas Tabor Herndon . Henry

Franklin Jerome Houston Jefferson

Collins James Johnson Missouri

Albert Sidney Johnson Colbert

Morris Ketchum New York

Howard Malcolm Kilpatrick Georgia

James Allen Kyser Dallas

Martin James Lide Dallas

Gaston Joel Lipscomb Marengo

Earle Irwin McBryde , .Wilcox

Thomas Michael McCarroll Florida

Francis Schroeder Montgomery Etowah

Henry Bigham Park Georgia

Douglass Welles Peabody Mobile

Edgar Johnson Pierce • • • Bullock

Daniel Syers Robertson Chambers

Richard Blount Shepard Mobile

Julian Cassius Smith Macon.

George Waddell Snedecor • • Jefferson

Enrico Alfonso Washington Georgia

Clifford Noble Wallace Elmore

John Osceola Webb Tallapoosa

Walker Dorr Willis Florida

Forney Renfro Yarbrough Georgia

John Eayres Davis Yonge Florida

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sophomore class.

George Whitfield Allen Jefferson

Albert Miner Avery Florida

James Victor Blackwell Calhoun

Edward Jefferson Bruister . Choctaw

Bush Pearson Burke * . . . Montgomery

Thomas Arthur Caddell Etowah

William Julius James Chase Georgia

Dudley Chipley . Florida

William Hudmon Cooper Lee

Sidnev Cornell Jefferson

Walter Thomas Credille Georgia

Charles Sanders Culver . . . . Lee

Howard Ellis Davis Mobile

William Watson Davis .' Mobile

William Wert Dinsmore Morgan

Thomas Joseph Dowdell Montgomery

Isaac Ball Feagin Bullock

t William Eugene Finch Florida

George Bridges Foss Etowah

Charles Belshaw Goldthwaite Pike

William Lanier Halsey Madison

Millard Harwell . . Lee

Earnest Cecil Haynie Lee

Bell George Hazard Calhoun

Henry Hiden -. . Jefferson

George Bloise Hill Talladega

William Hill Etowah

Alexander Grice Horn Sumter

John David Hudson Lee

James Daughtry Hudson Georgia

Frank Edward Hunt Jefferson

vlra LaFayette Jordan Bullock.

tNot in full standing.

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William George Kama than Choctaw

Roy Kauffman Mobile

Walter Joseph Knight Mobile

John Fulton Lanier Madison

Carl Lay . . Etowah

George Duncan Lesesne Mobile

Percv McLean Marshall Georgia

Winfleld Scott Martin Mississippi

John Van Valkenburg Matthews Madison

Thomas Hatcher Matson Talladega

fErnest Lynnwood Mayberry 4 . Macon

Allen Davis McLain Lee

Kobert Pevton Minis Jefferson

John Harris Mitchell Georgia

William Pitman Moon Coosa

Thomas William Morgan Jefferson

James Porter Paterson Montgomery

Christopher Henderson Pinson Suiiiter

f Albert Wellman Pratt Madison

David Philips Pruett • Bullock

Wallace Powers Pruitt Lowndes

George Daniel Handle • . Jefferson

James Henry Handle Bullock

John Patrick Rembert Mississippi

Paul Kigney .• •••••• Madison

William Richard Bison : • • • Madisoo

tR/oy Gustavus Rhodes Marengo

Tod Hewitt Roberts • • • Jefferson

William Watson Rutland Chambers

Clifford Philip Rutledge Lee

Hans Schmidt Jefferson

Edmund Rhett Taber • • Montgomery

Edward Taylor • • Marengo

Louis Earle Thornton Florida

t Not in full standing.

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William Lawson Thornton Talladega

James Feagin Tompkins — . Lee

Filo Harris Turner Florida

William Micou Turnley Elmore

Ivv Wliitson Walker Colbert

Joseph Dorrah Walker Jefferson

Walter Harry Wiley Pike

Ira Dateman Williams Elmore

Henry Mathews Yonge Florida

FRESHMAN CLASS.

y William Nevin Adkins Georgia

Henry Alexander Allison Sumter

William Leroy Alston South Carolina

Frank Gordon Bell Lowndes

f William Henry Bell Lowndes

f Nathan Arnold Beringer Barbour

Irby Boyd Pike

Jefferson Edward Brown ? Pike

Borden Montgomery Campbell Eutaw

Julian Sidney Chambers Montgomery

Alan Armstead Chester Ne\v r York

James Henderson Childs Georgia

William Lawrence Dumas Mobile

Earlie Roy Emrick ". . ... Jefferson

Frank Trimble Evans Georgia

Clarence Evelyne Field Jefferson

Joseph Cochrane Franklin Bullock

Frederick Emanuel Gerbel Montgomery

Walter Summerville Going Jefferson

James Buchanan Green Crenshaw

Elmus Knowles Hanby Jefferson

Walter Leonidas Harwell Lee

Guy David Hawkins Jefferson

t Not in full standing.

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fClay Irby Hudson . . . Lee

Robert Walter Huey Jefferson

Charles Jefferson Jackson Montgomery

Max Gordon Jepson South Carolina

Arthur Dean Jones Pike

Allen Green Jones . . Dallas

Chauncey Smith Joseph Montgomery

Thomas Jefferson Killebrew ....... .«. . Dale

Edward Philip Lacey Jefferson

Trapy Lay Etowah

Francis Lyon Lowndes.

Thomas VanRensaler Matthews Calhoun

Isaac Sadler McAdory Jefferson

John William McConnell Jefferson

John McDuifie Monroe

Henry McDonnell Madison

Thomas Pettus McElderry Talladega

William Monroe Meredith Green

Edward Adolphus Miles . . . Mobile

Frederick Shealy Middleton Chambers.

Lee Penn Montgomery Lee

Andrew Blair Nelson Walker

Fenton Forest Newman Talladega

Fornev Renfro Lee

Thomas Andrew Eiley Jefferson

Richard Hoskins Roberts Sumter

James Lon Robinson Jefferson

Charles McPherson Rogers Sumter

Oscar Early Rutland Lee

John Van Ryan Madison

Joseph McMurray Seabrook Talladega

James Emmet Seale Sumter

Frederick Samuel Shepherd Tennessee

t Not in full standing.

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William Martin Shepard Mobile

Berner Leigh Shi Georgia

Washington Irving Shi Georgia

Solomon Kauffman Simon Marengo

Philip Ware Smith Chambers

vJohn Deal Steele Greene

Paul Stewart Jefferson

John Randolph St. John . . . . Mobile

Henry Jefferson Sullivan Washington

y Benjamin Walton Taylor Jefferson

Albert Lee Thomas . Lee

John Walker Wakefield Talladega

William Francis Ward Lee

Thornton Albert Ward Lee

Fletcher Peavy Whatley Lee

George Traylor Williamson Lee

John Mayer Wilson Clark

William Mason Wilson Etowah

John Washington Wood Jefferson

SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.
Abbreviations: Ph — Pharmacy; E. & M. E. — Electrical and Mechan-
ical Engineering; C. — Chemistry; Ag. — Agriculture; C. E. — Civil
Engineering; M. A. — Mechanic Arts.

NAME. RESIDENCE.

Charles Pierce Anderson .ph. ... . Montgomery

William Spaight Anderson Jefferson.

Ralph Calloway Armstrong Lee

Martin Vanburen Beason . Georgia

Arthur Bernard Beringer. ...... .ph Barbour

Marshall Leonard Bize Georgia

Johnson Wilson Black Mobile

*Moffatt Grier Bonner . W r ilcox

W r illiam Jones Bonner e. & m. e.. . . . . . .Wilcox

♦Deceased.

t Not in full standing.

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Wallace Edward Brewster Georgia

Andrew Henry Buchanan. . .ph. & vet. s. .Montgomery

John Mangum Buchanan Lee

Rufus White Butler ph . .Lee

Arthur Ernest Carter ph Shelby

William Hatchett Chandler Montgomery

Willis Gaylord Clark e. & m. e Mobile

Earl Cline Jefferson

Joseph Henry Corrigan M. a Florida

Lewis Henry Grumpier ph Talladega

Francis Roy Daniel , Mobile

George Parker Dexter Jefferson

Wiley Frank Dorman Chambers

Woodson Lee Ennis Sumter

Martin Conner Folmar Pike

Ingrahm Barron Foster ph Perry

Albert Edward Gilbert ph Clay

John Hunter Goddard . .ph Georgia

Alexander Hamilton Green Florida

Edward Putney Guerrant ag. . Kentucky

Leslie Murphy Hand ............ ph Sumter

James Coupon Harper c. e Mississippi

William Bed well Harrell ph Choctaw

Ethel Julia Harwell ."'...' . Lee

Henry Clift Hawkins Lee

Alvis Clift Hawkins Lee

Alvis Perry Henderson Limestone

William Jefferson Hearin Mobile

Mollie Hal Hollifield Lee

William Dana Hubbard Dallas

Elbert Carter Jackson ph Pike

Mell Frazer Jackson ph. & vet. s Lee

John Samf ord Jewett .... ph ...... . Florida

William Micou Jordan ph Elmore

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Edward Kelly . . . .* Montgomery

Oscar Jennings Knox ph Lee

Lottie Everard Lane Lee

Daniel Stacy Martin. e. & m. e .Barbour

Robert Murdoch Martin Barbour

Jean Llorca-Marty Nicaragua

Oliveria Masvidal .m. a. . Cuba

Christian McDevitt Pennsylvania

Herbert McLeod ph Pike

Allen Massillon McNeel e. & m. e . . Montgomery

William Robert Middleton Lowndes

Fern Wood Mitchell . . Etowah

Martin Theophilus Moody ph. . . . Calhoun

James Crowder Moore ...... ph Lee

Peter Preer Myluind vet. s. & ph Lee

Carlyle Nisbet e. & m. 5. . Georgia

Louis Milton Noll ph ... .Tennessee

Sallie Fleming Ordway .... Tennessee

William Freeman Owens . .ph Choctaw

William Burns Patsrson AG . . . Montgomery

Morris Pelham e. & m. e Calhoun

Israel Pickens ph Hale

Boiling Reigns Powell ph Montgomery

Alston Keith Rennie ph Dallas

Henry Virgil Beid ph..- Barbour

Carl Robinson Tallapoosa

Benjamin Riley Sawyer ; :i> H Calhoun

Robert Houston Scruggs . a»H Sumtfcr

George Clement Sequeira . . c. e.v. . . . Nicaragua

Robert Ware Sistrunk iv * ..ph.. . . . . . . , Elmore

Hiihter Macon Smith v ........... / Jefferson

Brady Wilkinson Steele .ph

auga

Henry Sleeth Stickle , j.o. m , .'. . Lauderdale

Ror<Eee ThorntoA^ .............. . . M^miuvwilL Bullock

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George Baker Tyson Montgomery

Guy Hanson Upchurch ph Pickens

Victor Vance Jefferson

Luz Maria Washington Georgia

Judson Franklin Webb c. e Lee

Walter Rivers Whitman. m. a. . . . . .Lee

Annie Lizzie Wright Lee

SUB-FRESHMAN.

Ha-ry Robert Adams Jefferson

Thomas Eaton Alexander *. .Marengo

f Robert Lehman Ashurst Tallapoosa

Robert Tramniell Bagby. .< Lee

Marvin Fitzpatrick Boykin Lee

Thomas Quincy Bradford .» Marengo

Thomas Cobb Bradford Lee

Hubert Gillespie Brown Pike

f George Washington Bryan. . .' Crenshaw

James DeRasete Bryant. Wilcox

Andrew Duke Cameron Macon

Lemuel Jacob Cobb Cherokee

Lynn Lewis Conner Macon

Benjamin Peeples Cooper. Washington

Paul Clifton Croft Etowah— __

James Louis Edwards Jefferson

James Chester Elmer Mississippi

Edgar Earl Ferrell Eutaw

Benjamin Fitzpatrick . . . . ■ . . . . Montgomery

Eugene Goldthwaite P^ e

James Haynes Gumm • • • • • Georgia

fHerbert Elwood Hawkins Lee

fClute Bernard Hixon Covington

James Elliott Holt Russell

Charles Edwin Jackson Madison

t Frank Qte y Johnson Florida

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Claude Boiling Jones Lowndes

Hilery Boston Jones Baldwin

Airy Carlisle Jordan Clarke

Thomas Reeves Leavel Greene

f Thomas Edward Long Perry

Darrell Francis Marion Dallas

Joel Angus MeGwier Colbert

f Benjamin McMillan Mobile

Jay Frank Morgan Georgia

George Newburgh Montgomery Washington

fCicero Lewis Nelson Baldwin

f Benjamin Peeples Tennessee

f Louis Amos Phillips Colbert

John Henry Powell Lee

f Marshall Go^v^n Price Marengo

Edgar Hill Pritchett Wilcox

Charles Eugene Rhodes Marengo

Willis' Au tray Riley Covington

Joseph Molton Sadler Lowndes

Joseph Luther Selden Marengo

f Samuel Homer Thornton Pike

William Biggers Tucker Lee

Elbert Fain Webb Cherokee

Thomas Jefferson Webb Cherokee

t James Samuel Webb L e e

f Fletcher Gordon Webb. Lee

Cullen Haddley Wimberly Sumter

Thomas Pelham Winston * Lee

Walter Scott Wilson Bullock

t Not in full standing.

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SUMMARY.

Graduates 17

Senior Class 61

Junior Class 46

Sophomore Class 75

Freshman Class 75

Special and Irregular .Students 83

Total in College Classes 357

Sub-Freshman Class . . 55

Total 412

NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.

English 340

History 208

French 39

German . . 36

Latin 119

Mental Science 19

Political Economy ... 51
Mathematics .... ...303

Chemistry . . ...... .172

Chemical Laboratory. . 150

Agriculture . . 116

Phvsics 228

Botanv 97

Horticulture 37

Geology . . 58

Civil Engineering .... 23
Electrical Engineer'g.. 55
Mechanical Engr'g. ... 57

Biology 27

Drawing 256

Mechanic Arts . . ... .260

Military Department.. 381

Mineralogy 22

Physical Laboratory. . . 66

Physiology . . . . 100

Veterinary Science ... 34

Pharmacy . . 44

Bacteriology 16

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residence by states. ' j

Alabama j .341

Georgia 27

Florida . . 17 '

Tennessee . . 7

Mississippi 5

South Carolina . . 4

New York . . 2

Nicaragua . . 2

Cuba . . . . • . . , i

Kentucky i

Pennsylvania 1

Virginia . . . . 1

Texas \ t X

Minnesota 1

Missouri # 1

Total... .412

MILITARY ORGANIZATION,
-—1900-1901.

Cadet
Cadet
Cadet
Cadet
Cadet
Cadet

3.
4.

1.
2.

President.
W. L. BROUN.
Commandant.
Col. B. S. PATRICK.
Surgeon.
J. H. DRAKE.
Battalion Staff.
Captain J. D. Foy, Assistant to Commandant.
First Lieutenant J. B. Powell, Adjutant.
First Lieutenant G. Whitfield, Quartermaster.
First Lieutenant H. H. Conner, Assistant Adjutant.
Sergeant W. D. Willis, Sergeant Major.
Sergeant J. B. Garrer, Quartermaster Sergeant.

Cadet Captains.

S. H. Roberts. 3. M. S. Sloan.

A. F. Jackson. 4. E. H. Wills.

Cadet First Lieutenants.

M. H. Moore, 5. & B. Meriwether,

W. B. McUehee, 0. R. T< Arnold,

W. L. Greene. 7. D. T. Parker,

M. C. Turpin, '8. J.T.Letcher.

Cadet Second Lieutenants.
E. S. Killebrew, 3. W. H. Eagar.

W. R. Lancaster.

Cadet' First Sergeants.

1. J. E. D. Yonge, . 3. J. D. Elliott,

2. J. A. Kyser,

G. W.

Snedecor,

C. A.

Collins,

w. c.

Coles,

R. B.

Shepard,

H. B.

Park,

D. W

. Peabody,

R. G.

Dawson,

(Color

Sergeant.)

J. D.

Farley,

F. J.

Houston,

M. Askew.

Jad

et Sergeants.

10.

Ketchum,

11.

Ellis,

12.

L. Carroll,

13.

J. Lide,

14.

0. Webb,

15.

M. McCarroll,

16.

B. Hamilton,

17.

E. Feagin,

18.

T. Herridon.

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Cadet Corporals.

1. W. J. Knight,

2. H. E. Davis,

3. W. W. Davis,

4. D. Chipley,

5. H. M. Yonge,

6. T. J. Dowdell,

7. A. M. Avery,

8. T. H. Matson,

9. L. E. Thornton,

10. P. M. Marshall,

11. W. H. Wiley,

12. W. W. Rutland,

13. J. H. Mitchell,

14. W. L. Thornton,

15. F. E. Hunt,

16. W. L. Halsey,

17. E. Taylor.

THE A. P. I. CADET BAND.

M. Thos. Fullan, Bandmaster.

L. Sternfeld, Principal Musician.

A. M. Avery, W. L. Harwell,

R. C. Armstrong, J. C. Harper,

F. C. Atkinson, I. L. Jordan,
N. A. Beringer, M. D. Kahn,
*• B °yd, C. Lay,

V. R. Emrick, g. N. Montgomery,

M - EWs, A. B. Nelson,

G. B. Foss, e. J. Pierce,
A. R. Gray, g. Sequiera,
M. Harwell, H. E. Werner,

E. J. Carroll, Drum Major.

Cadets of the graduating class who were reported to the Adjutant
General, U. S. Army, for publication in the "Official Army Register"
as having ranked highest in the Military Department:

1889.

A. St. Duns tan,

B. H. Crenshaw,
A J. Burr.

1890.

F. D. Milstead,
J. W. Bivins,

G. W. Emory.

1891
L. E. Baker,

C. C. Johnson,
F. J. Bivins.

1892
H. F. Dobbin,
A. L. Jones,
C. L. Brown.

1893.
Joel Dumas,
C. H. Smith,
J. F. Webb.

1894.
C. S. Andrews,
P. P. McKeown,
R. T. Dorsey.

1895.
S. L. Coleman,
H. H. Smith,
L. B. Gammon.

' 1896.
A. L. Alexander,
W. L! Fleming,
W. M. Williams.

1897.
P. G. Clark,
G. M. Holley,
G. N. Mitcham.

1898.
A. H. Clark,
A. McB. Ransom,
Jno. Haralson.

1899.
I. I. McDonnell,
A. H. Feagin,
T. W. Wert.

1900.
E. M. Mason,
H. P. Powell,
C. W. Nixon.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

All applicants for admission should present testimo-
nials of good moral character, and those who come from
other colleges must present certificates of honorable
discharge.

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 sub-
jects:

1. Geography and History of the United States,

2. .English — (a) English grammar as contained in
any standard text, (b) An examination upon sen-
tences containing incorrect English, (c) A composi-
tion giving evidence of satisfactory proficiency in spell-
ing, punctuation, grammar, and division into para-
graphs.

(a) Reading. The composition in 1901 will be upon
subjects drawn from one or more of the following works
in English Literature: (1) Hughes's Tom Brown at
Rugby; (2) Southey's Life of Nelson; (3) Shakes-
peare's Julius Caesar; (4) Longfellow's Evangeline;
( 5 ) Scott's Ivanhoe ; ( 6 ) Shakespeare's Merchant of
Venice; (7) Irving s .Sketch Book; (8) Macaulay's
Essay on Milton; (9) Scott's Marmion; (10) Dick-
ens's David Copperfield.

The candidate will be required 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.

(b) Study and Practice. This part of the examina-
tion presupposes the'tlio&ugh study of the style of the
work, and wall be upon Julius Cwsar and the Essay on
Milton.

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Preparation and examination on these works will be
necessary before the student is classed as regular in any
course.

3. Mathematics — (a) Arithmetic, including funda-
mental operations; common and decimal fractions; de-
nominate numbers; the metric system; percentage, in-
cluding interest and discount; proportion, (b) Alge-
bra, to quadratic equations; especial preparation is
urged in fundamental operations, factoring, multiples,
divisors and fractions; one book of geometry.

4. Those applicants who desire to continue the study
of Latin should be qualified to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination in Latin grammar and- the first two books of
Ca*sar, in addition to the above subjects.

In pronouncing Latin it is recommended that a be pronounced as in

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father, a as the a in Cuba; e as in prey t as in men; i as in machine, %

*s in cigar ; o as in old, u as in obey; u as in rule, tlas in full; j as y in
yard ; c always as k in king; g always as g in get.

For admission to the higher classes, students should
be prepared to stand a satisfactory examination in all
of the studies of the lower classes, as shown in the course
of study. Students applying for admission to the sopho-
more class will be examined in mathematics through
quadratic equations and logarithms in "Algebra, and on
seven books in geometry. 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 satisfactory. But if not
prepared to pass an examination in history and chemis-
try at the time of application, the applicant will be re-
squired before graduation to pass a satisfactory examina-
tion on those subjects. ...,.•■.

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It is absolutely essential that students, who hope to
succeed, should be well grounded in Arithmetic, Algebra,
.and Geometry.

A working knowledge of the metric system should also
be obtained.

ADMISSION ON CERTIFICATE.

Applicants will be admitted without examination on presenting a
^certificate from any of the certificate schools named herein.

The following educational institutions having made application to
Tbe 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:

"Students from certificate schools will be admitted to the fresh-
"man class ivithout examination upon the certificate of the presi-
dent or principal showing definitely that such students have com-
pleted satisfactorily all the studies required for admission, as
"stated in the catalogue and are otherwise admissible."

The privilege of admitting students to the Sophomore class on
•certificate will be granted only to those approved schools that have
.had a continuous existence for five years or more and have pre-
viously had pupils admitted to that class without conditions.

The following form of certificate will be used:

I hereby certify that A , B. has attended the

{name the school or academy) for years and has studied

the following subjects:

in History • • (name the books)

in English (name the books)

in Algebra (state amount accomplished)

in Geometry (state amount accomplished)

in Latin (state books read)

and having passed a satisfactory examination on these subjects as

Tequired in the Catalogue for admission to the class,

I recommend him for the same.

Admission by certificate is regarded as provisional.

That is, though admitted to the class for which the certificate
calls the applicant may be required to take a special examination
in any subject in which his preparation proves unsatisfactory, or,
after a fair trial, he may be dropped to a lower clasVifhe fails, to
maintain standing in the class to which he may be admitted.

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certificate schools.

University Military School, Mobile......... J. D. Wright.

Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa W. H. Verner.

University School, Montgomery J. M. Starke.

Mt. Willing High School, Mt. Willing J. Knight.

State Normal School, Jacksonville C. W. Daugette.

Male Academy, Huntsville F. Puryear.

Furman Academy, Livingston L. A. Cockrell.

High School, Opelika .J. M. Smallwood.

University Military School, Clanton .E. Y. McMorries.

Eighth District Agricultural School, Athens M. K. Clements.

Sixth District Agricultural School, Hamilton. G. A. Holley.

Eutaw Male Academy, Eutaw H. C. Horton.

Boy's High School, Anniston H. C. Gunnels.

Taylor's School, Birmingham , W. P. Taylor r

University High School, Birmingham. . .1. J. White, M. B. Dickinson.

Fourth District Agricultural School, Sylacauga A. G. Seay.

Gaylesville High School . John R. Ray.

Carrollton Academy ". , L. V. Rosser.

Ninth District Agricultural School, Blountsville J. A. B. Lovett.

Gadsden High School , . . . . . I. W. Hill.

Boyd High School, Ramer B. H. Boyd.

Dadeville High School , fTJ. D. Lane.

Prattville High School . . . A. W. Holstun.

Eufaula High School F. L. McCoy.

Union sWngs High School J. M. Sanders.

Montgomery High School. C. L. Floyd.

Calera Academy .C. C. Slaton.

Southern Agricultural School, Abbeville J. B. Murphy.

Barnes's School, Montgomery E. R. Barnes.

Jackson Agricultural School J. B. Murphy.

Spring Lake School w. C. Griggs.

West Alabama Agricultural School, Hamilton G. A. Holly.

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 seventeen years of age, and if a
candidate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination 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,
and may be admitted at an age less than seventeen, with
a resident of Auburn acting as guardian, if application
is approved by the Faculty.

(a) In English— Proficiency in spelling and punctuation; Gram-
mar ( Lock wood- Whitney ) ; Rhetoric (Lockwood's Lessons and Ge-
nung's Outlines of Rhetoric) ; Scudder's Masterpieces of American
Literature; Syle's From Milton to Tennyson.

For requirements in reading in literature see page 41.

(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 arid series; Plane and Solid Geometry; Plane

and Analytic Trigonometry, as in Wentworth.

(d) In Latin— Grammar, including the forms and syntax; Jones's
Latin Prose Composition; translation of selections from Cassar,
Nepos, Virgil, Cicero's Orations, Cicero's Letters, or the equivalent.

The equivalents of these subjects, as in above text-books, may be
substituted.

Botany will constitute a required part of the general course for
young women who are candidates for a degree.

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.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday,
the 11th of September, the day on which the session
opens. Candidates will also be examined during- the
session, when application is made for admission.

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Applicants who are not prepared to stand the entrance
examinations for full admission to the freshman class
are admitted to the sub-college department, provided
tliey are fifteen years of age, and are found after exami-
nation qualified to profit by the instruction given. Those
who, after admission, are inattentive to their studies,
and neglectful of their duties will be required to with-
draw, but those who are studious and make sufficient
progress will be advanced to full admission to the Fresh-
man 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.

Students qualified to prosecute the studies of the
junior class, and those over twenty-one years of age that
are not candidates, fop a degree, are permitted to take,
with the advice of the Faculty, the, subjects of study for
which they may. he/piajifiejl. . ..

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For an applicant to enter upon the study of Electrical
and Mechanical Engineering as a special or irregular
student, he must have studied Algebra through quadrat-
ics and logarithms, plane geometry, and plane trigonom-
etry.

The professor in charge of a department will decide
by examination whether a special student is prepared
for admission to his class.

A student who does>not take all the studies in a class of one of
the degrejp courses, as prescribed in the catalogue, and is permitted
to take an irregular course, will be assigned to a member of the
Faculty, who will act as his special adviser, and when his course of
study has been approved by the Faculty no other change will be
permitted without the endorsement of his adviser.

Regular students who fail to pass satisfactory final examinations
in any one study become irregular 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.

ADMISSION TO HIGHER CLASSES.

At- the beginning of ejtch term a student in the sub-freshman class
may, on application approved by the Faculty, be examined for ad-
mission to the freshman class in history, english, mathematics, and
be admitted to the freshman class in that subject only.
. Students who have completed satisfactorily all the studies of the
sophomore class, as prescribed in the catalogue, in any one of the
regular degree courses, can enter, without conditj/on, the junior
class in any course, except in the general course, oK.the course in
pharmacy, in which Latin is required.

Students who are adihitted to the junior class from othe^nstitu-
tions, on examination in English, Latin, and mathematics, and\wJip
have, not 'completed all. the studies ot the sophomore, class,. ( jn, order
to .gra^uMe, will., he require^, to complete the course, in cheniis^v
and history as taught in the sophomore class.

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COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

The courses of study include the Physical, Chemical,
and Natural Sciences, with their applications; Agricul-
ture; Biology; Mechanics, Astronomy, Mathematics;
Drawing; Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineer-
ing; Physiology and Veterinary Science; Pharmacy;
English, French, German, and Latin Languages; His-
torv, 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.

I. Course in Chemistry and Agriculture.
II. Course in Civil Engineering.

III. Course in Electrical and Mechanical En-
gineering.

IV. General Course.

V. Course in Pharmacy.

There are also three partial courses, each requiring
two years for its completion :

VI. Two-Year Course in Agriculture.

VII. Two-Year Course in Mechanic Arts.

VIII. Two-Year Course in Pharmacy.

Course 1. includes theoretical and practical instruc-
tion in those branches that relate to chemistry and agri-
culture, 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.

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and is adapted to those who expect to enter that profes-
sion.

Course III. includes, besides the general principles
and applications of the sciences, a special course in the
applications of electricity and mechanics, and is ar-
ranged for the profession of electrical and mechanical
engineering.

Course V.* includes, besides the general education of
course IV. in the lower classes, a special course in phar-
macy and chemistry, and is adapted to those who expect
to become pharmacists, manufacturing chemists, or to
enter upon the study of medicine.

A student who completes satisfactorily all the work of the senior
class in a department, including the laboratory work, will be awarded
a certificate of proficiency in said subject.

Students who complete either of the two-year courses will, on
passing a satisfactory examination, receive certificates indicating
their attainments.

No degree or certificate of proficiency will be given in any course
unless the applicant has passed a satisfactory examination in ele-
mentary English. Every candidate for a degree will be required
to stand this special examination during the second term of the
Senior year.

Declamations and themes or orations are required of all regular
students pursuing courses leading to a degree.
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POST-GRADUATE COURSES.

A more extended post-graduate course of study may
be taken by a, graduate of this College or of any other
institution of equal grade. The completion of a course
which leads to a post-graduate degree of Master of Sci-
ence requires one year's residence at the College, spent
in the satisfactory prosecution of a course of study, with
such laboratory work as may be approved by the Faculty.

The candidate must also present to the Faculty a satisfactory
thesis showing independent investigation upon some subject per-
taining to his course, and must pass an examination, at the close of
each term, on the course of study prescribed, in which he must at-
tain a grade of 75 per cent. The examination is written, and also
oral in the presence of the Faculty.

The subject of the thesis must be submitted to the Faculty for
approval prior to January 1st, and the thesis given to the professor
by May 1st.

Applicants for a post-graduate degree and special students in post-
senior studies are subject to the general regulations as other stu-
dents, and pay the same fees, but are exempt from all military duty.

The following courses are prescribed for the degree named :

1. Master of Science.— Studies in three departments, in two of
which the candidate must have previously completed the full course
of the senior class; or in special cases, with the approval of the
Faculty, a student may devote his full time to work in two de-
partments, in each of which he has completed the full senior course.

2. Master of Science in Pharmacy.— Pharmacy and Chemistry.

3. Master of Science in Civil Engineering —Civil Engineering,
Mathematics, Analytical Mechanics.

4. Master of Science in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. —
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering.

5. Master of Science in Mining Engineering. — Students who have
received the degree of B. Sc. in engineering, civil, or electrical and
mechanical, or who have prosecuted an equivalent course of study,
can enter upon a special course of mining engineering, which in-
cludes the following subjects of study:

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The student, if a candidate for a degree, will also be required to
prosecute the necessary studies in that course of engineering in
which he has not graduated. This course of study will be under the
charge of the professors in the different engineering departments
the professor of Chemistry, and the professor of Mineralogy and
Geology.

Special Students in Post-Senior Studies. — Students who are not
graduates, but are qualified in special subjects to prosecute post-
senior studies, and desire to prepare themselves more thoroughly
for professional or special work in any one of the departments of en-
gineering, in chemistry or pharmacy, veterinary science, or other
subjects in which instruction is given, may, when qualified, with ap-
proval of the Faculty, enter this higher department of study and
have all the privileges of post-graduate students.

A certificate of proficiency will be given when any one subject of
a post-graduate course is satisfactorily completed.

Two degrees will not he given the same year.

PROFESSIONAL DEGREES.

The professional degree of Civil Engineer, Electrical Engineer,
Mechanical Engineer, Mining Engineer, or Pharmaceutical Chemist
will be given two years after receiving the degree of Master of
Science, provided the intervening time of two years has been spent
in a- responsible position in practical engineering work in that de-
partment in which he received the degree of Master of Science, or
in practical pharmacy, and an approved thesis is submitted to the
Faculty, with a report of the character of the work done.

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 rec tog
in any other class, from military duty, and from al other co.leg
duties; but will be under the genial college regulatxons, .and will
be required to have their time fully occupied.

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LABORATORY INSTRUCTION.

Laboratory instruction constitutes an important
feature in the courses of education provided for the stu-
dents of this Institute, 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. Civil Engineering, Field Work, Surveying,
Etc.

III. Agriculture.

IV. Botany.

V. Mineralogy.

VI. Biology.

VII. Technical Drawing.

VIII. Mechanic Arts,

IX. . Physics.

X. Electrical Engineering.

XI. Mechanical Engineering.

XII. Physiology and Veterinary Science.

XIII. Pharmacy.

NoTE.-Special work in English or History may be taken by in-
dents in the general course as a substitute for laboratory work.

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I.— COURSE" IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per week.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Second Term.
5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

First Term.

:>. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

TMrd Term.
."). English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

First Term.
.*{. English.
.'*. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

2. Physiology.

3. Military Drill.

ttrxt Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.

Third Term
3. English.
3. Botany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
:.\ Agriculture (b).
3. Drawing.
2. Physiology.

3. Military Drill.

3. Elementary Physics. 3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.

(>. Mechanic Art Lab'y. <i. Mechanic Art Laby. 6. Mechanic Art Laby.
3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3, Military Drill.

';■•■•; SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
:}. Agriculture.
3. Drawing.
.!. Physiology.
Chemical Laboratory. 2. Chemical Laboratory. 2. Chemical Laboratory.
6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. <>. Mechanic Art Lab'y. (>. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.
3. English.
3. Phvsics.

3. Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry. 3. Industrial Chemistry.
2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture. 2. Agriculture (b).

4. Botany. (Laboratory). 4. Botany. (Laboratory). 4. Botany (Laboratory).

1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics.

9. Chemical Laboratory. 9. Chemical Laboratory. !>. Chemical Laboratory.

2. Veterinary Science. 3, Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science.

:l. Clinical Laboratory. 3. Clinical Laboratory.
3, Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term. Third Term.

:>. Political Economy (c). 3. Political Economy.
3. Mental Scienc3 (d). 3. Mental Science (d).

2. Astronomy. -• Astronomy.

3. Geology. 2. Geology.
5. Biology. •">• Biology.

2, Agricultural ChemVy. 8. Agricultural ChemTy. 2. Agricultural ChemYy.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.

i>. Chemical Laboratory. 9. Chemical Laboratory. 9, Chemical Laboratory.

2. Veterinary Science. :!. Veterinary Science. 2. Veterinary Science.

3. Clinical Laboratory. 2. Clinicil Laboratory. 3. Clinicil Laboratory.

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.

2. Clinical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

First Term,
2. English Literature.
2. Mental Science (d).
2. Physics.
2. Geology.
5. Biology.

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(a) Begins March 1st.
(c) Begins Feh. 15th.

(b) Also Practical Agriculture.

(d) French or German may be substituted.

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I[._CorRSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours perwcek.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

First Term.

5. English.

2. History.

. r >. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing 1 .

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

First Term.
3. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. (Jeneral Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

(>. Mechanic Art Lab'v

Second Term.
.*>. English.
2, History.
5. Mathematics.

Third Term:
.*>. English.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics. 2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

fl Mechanic Art Lab'v.

3. Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term.

3. Englisli.

3. History.

.">. Mathematics.

3. (Jeneral Chemistry.

2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

<). Mechanic Art Lab'v.

3. Military Drill,

Third Term.
3. English.
3. Hotany (a).
;>. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.
5. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Laboratory. 2. Chemical Laboratory. 2. Chemical Laboratory.

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term.

English, French, or
German.

Physics.

Mathematics.

Civil Engineering.

Drawing.

Military Tactics.

<i.

Lab'y, Mech. Arts (c).

11.

Field Work, Engin'g.

Military Drill.

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First Term
2. English Literat'e (d).
2. Physics.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

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Second Term.
English, French, or

(Jerman.
Physics
Mathematics.
Civil Engineering.
Drawing.
Military Tactics.
Lab'y. Mech. Arts (c).
Field Work. Engin'g.
Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

Serum d Term.
Political Economy (d).
Astronomy.
Geology.
Mathematics.

Third Term.
English, French, or

(Jerman.
Physics.
Mathematics.
Civil Engineering.
Drawing.
Military Tactics.
Lab. Mech. Arts (c).
Field Work, Engin'g.
Military Drill.

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Third Term.
2. Political Economy (d)«
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

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(a) Begins March 1st.

(b) For Agriculture may be substituted «Physical Laboratory.
(o) Or Mineralogy.

(d) For Eng. Lit and Pol. Eccn. may be substituted. French or (Jerman.

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5. Civil Engineering.

:>. Civil Engineering.

5. Civil Enginoering.

5. Drawing;. &> Drawing. :>. Drawing.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science

4* Mech. Eng., Laby.. 4. Mech. Eng.. Laby. 4. Mech. Eng.. Lab'y.
Field Work, Engin'g. Field Work, Engin'g. Field Work, Engin'g.

HI.— COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECIIANI-

CAL 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 Civil Engineering.

JUNIOR CLASS.
First Term, Second Term, Third Term.

3 English, French, or 3. English. French, or 3. English, French, or
German. German. German.

3. Physics. 3. Physics. 3. Physics.

5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.

4. Electrical Engin'g. 4. Electrical Engin'g. 4. Electrical Lngin g,

3. Mech. Engineering. 3. Mech. Engineering. 3. Mech. Engineering.

4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing. 4. Mechanical Drawing.
4. Electrical Lab'y. 4. Electrical Lab'y. 4. Electrical Laby.

(J. Mech. Art Lab'y.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.

^ V' t \ o Political Econo'v(a). 2. Political Eeono'y (a).

Tl. Enff. Literature (a). 2. 1 oliticai r^uuu .> y<*,

. o Aa+rrmrmiv 2. Astronomy.

It. Physics. -• Astronomy.

;>. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

5. Electrical Engin'g.

5. Mech. Engineering.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.

6. Mech, Art Laby.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

First Tkrm.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

X Electrical Engin'g.
5. Mech. Engineering.

ft. Mech. Art Lab'y.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

5. Electrical Engin'g.

5. Mech. Engineering.

4. Mech. Eng. Lab'y.
1. Military Science.

(;a) 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.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

First Term,
3. English.

2. History.

3. Latin.

*>. Mathematics.

3. Drawing.

6, Mechanic Art Lab'y

3. Military Drill.

Second Tern}.
3. English.

2. History.
5. Latin.

.">. Mathematics.

I, Drawing.

♦>. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Third Term.
3. English.
3. History.
3. Latin.
.*>. Mathematics.
■i. Agriculture.
3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

3.
3.
<>.

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First Term,
Latin.
History.
Mathematics.
General Chemistry
Drawing.
Mechanic Art Lab'y

Second Term.
.">. Latin.
3. History.

Third Term.
5. Latin.
3. Hotany(a).
5. Mathematics. 5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry. 3. General Chemistry.
3. Drawing. . ; ;; 3. Drawing.

<5. Mechanic Art Lab'y. <x Mechanic Art Lab'y
Chemical Laboratory. r>. Chemical Laboratory. 2. Chemical Laboratory
Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

3.
3.
3.
3.
3.
3.
1.
♦).
3.

First Term
English.
Physics.
Mathematics
French.
German.
Latin.
Military Tactics.

Second Term.
3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.

Third Term.
3* English.
3. Physics.
3.. Mathematics.
3. French.
3. German.
3. Latin.
I. Military Tactics.

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3.
3.

1. Military Tactics.

Laboratory Work (b). 0. Laboratory Work (b). <>. Labo7aVr7work (b)

Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term. Third Term,

■I. Political Economy (c). 3. Political Economy.

First Term,
English.
Mental Science.
Physics.
Geology.
French.
German.
Latin.
Military Science

2. Mental Science.
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.
1. Military Science.

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Mental Science.
Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. French.
3. German.
2. Latin.

Military Science.

Laboratory Work (b). (>. Laboratory Work (b). (>. Laboratory Work (b).

(a) Hegins March 1st.

(b) The student may elect the laboratory of any department for
which he may be qualified. J uepartment tor

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V.— COURSE. IN PHARMACY.

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 1 . J

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Second Term.
5. Latin.
3. History.
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.
2. Physiology.

Third Term.

3, English.
3. History.
3. Latin.
5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.
... Agriculture.
0. Mechanic Arts.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term..
5. Latin.
3. Hotany (a).
5. Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.
(5. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Flint Term.
3. English.

2. History.

5. Latin.

.*>. Mathematics.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

First Term,
5, Latin.
3. History.

5, Mathematics.
3. General Chemistry.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing. 3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. (>. Mechanic Ar| Lab'y

2. Chemical Laboratory. 2. Chemical Laboratory. 2, Chemical Laboratary

3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill. 3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Second Term, Third Term.

3. Physics. 3. Physics.

<). Chemical Laboratory. 0. Chemical Laboratory. <>. Chemical Laboratory.

4. Botanical Laboratory. 4. Botanical Laboratory. 4. Botanical Laboratory
3. English (b). 3. English (b). 3. English (b).

3. Pharmacy. 3. Pharmacy. 3. Pharmacy.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab 1 v. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab'y. 9. Pharmaceutical Lab'y

4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics. 1. Military Tactics.

3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term.
5. Biology.

0. Chemical Labaratory. (>. Chemical Laboratory. 0. Toxicology.
•">. Pharmacy. 5. Pharmacy. ">: Pharmacy.

8. Pharmaceutical Lab'y. 8. Pharmac9iitical Lab'y. 8. Pharmaceutical Lab'y.
5. Pharmacognosy. 5. Pharmacognosy. 5. Pharmacognosy.

2. Military Science. 1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.

3. Materia Medica. 3 Materia Medica. 3. Bacteriology.

(a) Begins March 1st.

(b) French or German may be substituted.

First Term,
2. Physics.

3. Military Drill.
First Term,

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Biology.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.
3. Biology.

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VI— TWO-YEAR COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS

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ftrsi 7Vrm.

English.

History.
Mathematics.

Elementary Physics.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Laby.
Military Drill.

First Term.

English.

Mathematics.

Physics.

Drawing.

, Mechanic Art Lab'y

Military Drill.

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3.
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3.
5.
3.

3.
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3.

FIRST YEAR.
Second Term.

English.

History.

Mathematics.

Elementary Physics.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Military Drill.

SECOND YEAR. .
Second Term.

English.
Mathematics
Physics.
Drawing.

. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
Military Drill.

Third Term.

5. English.
2. History.
5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

(i. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
8. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3, Physics.

3. Drawing.

12. Mechanic Art Lab'y

3. Military Drill.

VH._TWO-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.

First Term.

T>. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.

3. Drawing.

4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

2. Practical Agricult're.

First Term.

"1. English.

r>. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.
2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricultre
.3. Military Drill.

FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.

:>. English.

2. History.
5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.

3. Drawing.

4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

2. Practical Agricult're.

SECOND YEAR.

Second Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary Science
12. Practical Agricult're,

3. Military Drill.

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English.

History.

Mathematics.

Agriculture.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Military Drill.

Practical Agricult're.

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Third Term.

English.
Mathematics.
General Chemistry.
Agriculture.
Physiology.
Veterinary Science.
. Practical Agricult're
Military Drill.

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FIRST YEAR.

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First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

General Chemistry.

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Chemical Lab'y.

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Chemical Lab'y.

English.

Hotany.

Physiology.

Pharmacy.

Pharmacognosy.

Mech. Art Lab'y. (a)

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Mech. Art Lab'y. (a)

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Mech. Art Lab'y. (a)

Military Drill.

Military Drill.
SECOND YEAR.

Military Drill.

First Term.

Sectmd Term.

Third Term. ,

Pharmacy.

Pharmacognosy.

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Pharmacognosy.

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Pharmaceutical Lab.

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Chemical Lab'y.

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Chemical Lab'y.

Toxicology.

Materia Medica.

Bacteriology.

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Botanical Lab'y.

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Botanical Lab'y.

Military Drill.

(a) or Physical Laboratory

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SCHEDULE OF

EXERCISES.

HOUBfi

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

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;3. Agriculture.

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4. Algebra. |4. Geometry.

4. Algebra.

4. Geometry. 4. Algebra.

3. Latin. :*. Latin.

3. Latin.

3. Latin. 3. Latin.

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.2. German.

2. German.

Exercises in Elocution.

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1 and 2 Drawing. 1 1 and 3 Drawing.

1 and 2 Drawing.

1 and 2 Drawing. 1 and 2 Drawing.

1 . Elec. Engine'r'g 2. Botany.

1. Vet. Science.

2. Botany. 1. Veterinary Sci.

2. Mec. Engine'r'g 1. Elec. Engine'r'g 1. :iec.U igine'r'g

1. Mental Science. 1. Elec. Engine'r'g

1. Biology.

1. Mental Science. 'l. German.

1. Elec. Engine'r'g 1. German.

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1. German.

|2. Mech'l Eng.

2. Mech'l Eng.

|4/ English.

4. History.

4. English.

4. History.

4. English.

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3. Chemistry.

3. Physiology.

3. Chemistry.

3. Agriculture.

3. Chemistry.

Military Drill.

2. Civ. Engineer'g.

2. Civ. Engine'r'g.

2. Civ. Engineer'g.

2. Civ. Engine'r'g.

2. Latin.

2. Botany.

2. Latin.

2. Botany.

2. Latin.

1. Calculus.

2. Elec. Engine'r'g

1. Calculus.

2. Elec. Engine'r'g

2. Mech'l Drawing

1. Biology.

1. Chemistry.

2. V§jt. Science.

1. Chemistry.

1. Calculus.

2. Elec. Engine'r'g 1. French.

2. Vet. Science.

1. Machine Desi'g.

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3. English.

3. History (1. 2).

3. English.

3. History (1, 2).

3. English.

Mechanic Arts.

2. Physics.

3. Botany (2, 3).

3. Botany (2, 3). 2. Physics. *

Chemical Laboratory.

1 . Biology.

2. Physics.

1. Civ. Engin'r'g.

Electrical Laboratory.

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1. Civ. Engine rg.

1. Civ. Engineer'g

1. Latin.

4. English.

1. Civ. Engineer'g.

Physical Laboratory.

1. Biology.

4. English.

1. Civ. Engineer'g

1. Mech. Engin'r'g

Veterinary Clinics.

1. Latin.

1. Mec. Engine'r'g

1. Biology.

2. French. *

4. History (3).

Biological Laboratory.

1. Mec. Engine r'g

2. French.

1. Mech. Fnjin'r'g

1. Mech. Engin'r'g

Field Engineering.

|2. jMec. Drawing.

SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES— Continued .

HOURS

MONDAY

tuksday

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

F HID AY

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SATURDAY

4. Physics (1, 2;.

4. Latin.

4. Physics (1, 2).

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3. Drawin?.

4. Latin (3).

3. History (1, 2).

4. Latin.

4. Physics (1, 2).

4. Agricultnre (3).

2. Agriculture.

3. Botany (2, 3.)

2. Agriculture.

4. Agriculture( 3).

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4. Latin (1. 2).

2. Mathematics.

.'. Mathematics.

2. Mathematics.

4. Latin (1. 2). 3. Mechanic Arts.

3. Drawing.

i. Chemistry.

2. Chemistry.

1. Chemistry.

3. Drawing. jChemical Laboratory.

2. Mathematics.

1. -French.

1. English (1, 2).

3. Physiology.

2. Mathematics.

Electrical Laboratory.

2. Chemistry.

1. Physics.

1 . Political Econ-

1. French.

2. Chemistry.

Physical Laboratory.

1. English (1. 2 .

omy (2. 3*.

1. Phvsic3.

j Veterinary Clinics.

1. Pol. Econ.(2,3).

4. Mechanic Arts.

1. MilitaryScience Biological Laboratory.

4. Mechanic Arts.

4. Mechanic Arts J Field Engineering.

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

2. English.

3. Mathematics.

3. Mechanic Arts.

2. English.

1. Geology.

2. English.

Chemical Laboratory.

4. Mechanic Arts.

L Mechanic Arts.

1. Geology.

4. Mechanic Arts.

Electrical Laboratory.

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1. Elec. Designi'g.

1. Elec. Designing.

Physical Laboratory.

1. French.

1. German.

1. Elec. Designing

2. Anal. Chemis'ty

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2. Military Tactics

Veterinary Clinics.
Biological j Laboratory.
F*ield Engineering.

P.M.

'4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Mechanic Art3.
2. Mineralogical

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Mechanic Arts.
2. Mineralogical

4. Mechanic Arts.

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3. Field Work Agr.
1 & 2 Laboratory.

Laboratory.

3. Field Work Agr.
1 *fe 2 Laboratory.

Laboratory.

3. Field WorkAgr.
2. French.

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Chemistry.

Military Drill (*j.

Chem.

Military Drill v *)

1 & 2 Lab. Chem.

1 & 2 Field Work,

1 & 2 Field Work.

Engineering.

1. Mech. Lab'tory.

Engineering.

1. Mech. Labor'y.

Engineering.

1 & 2 Mach. Work.

Elec. Lab'y Work.

1 & 2 Mach. Work.

Elec. Lab'y Work.

1 & 2 Mach. W r ork.

lElec. Lab. Work.

1 and 2 History.

Ex"cis. in Elocut'n

1 and 2 History.

Ex'cis. in Elocut'n

Physical Labor'y.

Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Labor'y.

Chapel services daily at 7:45 a. m.

Numbers prefixed denote classes — 1 denotes senior. 2 junior, etc. Numbers affixed— ' v 1 ). (2). (3), denote terms.

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PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY.

PROFESSOR DUXSTAX.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KYSER.
ASSISTANT JEPSON.

The instruction is given by the recitation from text
books and lectures, illustrated by experiments and fctere-
opticon projections.

The following courses are given in this department :

Fkesiimax Course.

First and Second Terms. (Three recitations per week). Ele-
mentary general physics.

Text-Book.
Cooley's Physics.
Sophomore Laboratory Course.
This is a laboratory course to follow the Freshman Course in
general physics, and is designed, principally, for students who
intend following engineering courses.

First Term. (Six hoars per week.) (a) Simple measurements
and design of measuring instruments, (b) Elementary graphi-
cal statics, (c) Forces, moments and work. (d) Simple
machines and friction (determining mechanical advantages,
loss, efficiency, law, etc).
Second Term. (Six hours per week,) (e) Pendulum and gravity.
(■/) Elasticity, {g) Liquids, (h) Density and specific gravity.
Third Term. (Six hours per week.) (i) Gases. (;) Heat, (k)
Sound, (I) Light.

Record-Book.
About 100 experiments are selected and are quantitative in na-
ture. Results of experiments are to be entered, in tabular form,
together with diagrams, deductions, etc., in a laboratory record
book which contains a synopsis of the experiment and deductive
questions. At the close of each week this book is criticised and
graded according to Us accuracy and neatness.

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Reference-Books.
Ames & Bliss' Laboratory Manual, Stewart & Gee's Practical Phys-
ics, Nichol's Laboratory Manual, Magnus' Mechanics, Glazebrook's
Mechanics and Statics.

Junior Course.
This is a more advanced course in general physics required of
all candidates for a degree.

First Term. (Three recitations per week.) Mechanics of solids,

liquids and gases.
Second Term. (Three recitations per week.) Static and dynamic

electricity and magnetism.
Third Term. (Three recitations per week.) Sound and heat.

Text-Book.
Ames' Theory of Physics.
Senior Course.
First Term. (Two recitations per week.) Light and optical in-
struments.
Second and Third Terms. (Two recitations per week.) Astronomy.

Text-Books.
Ames' Theory of Physics, Young's Astronomy.
Post-Graduate Course.
Instruction will be given in either analytical mechanics, or se-
lected portions of mathematical physics.

Prerequisite-Differential and integral caluculus. The depart-
ment is well equipped with apparatus tor illustrating the lectures.

MATHEMATICS.

PllOFESSOR SMITH.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CRENSHAW.
INSTRUCTOR PATRICK.

The subjects taught in the different classes in this
department are as follows:

Freshman Class. Algebra through quadratic eqa-
tions and series, geometry (seven books Weatworfh),
original solutions of exercises.

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Sopiiomoub Class. Algebra completed, solid geom-
etry, plane and spherical trigonometry, surveying, men-
suration.

Junior Class, Analyticial geometry, descriptive^
.geometry.

Senior Class. Differential ami integral calculus.

Two objects are sought to be attained : First, mental
discipline; second, a thorough knowledge of the princi-
ples of pure mathematics and their practical applica-
tions.

Theoretical and practical instruction is given to the
sophomore class in farm, town and government land
surveying, dividing land, mapping, plotting and com-
puting areas, etc.; also in the theory, adjustment and
use of instruments.

The class, in sections of six or eight, devote three
afternoons 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.

During the entire course, instruction in text-books
is supplemented by lectures. Solutions of original prac-
tical problems are required of the student, to make him
familiar with the application of the principles and for-
mulas.

BOTANICAL LABORATORY.

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Text-Books.
Went worth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometry, Wentworth's Trig-
onometry, Davie's Surveying, Wentworth's Analytical Geometry.
Faunce's Descriptive Geometry, Taylor's Calculus, Johnson's Dif-
ferential Equations, Osborne's Problems, Peck's Determinants.

GEOLOGY AND BOTANY.

PROFESSOR MELL.

Geology. — This subject is studied in the senior class,
and extends through the entire session. Special atten-
tion is given to the geology of Alabama, and many illus-
trations are drawn from the coal and iron fields and
other natural deposits of minerals in the State. Mineral
springs, the origin of ore deposits, and the. geological
relations of soils are carefully studied.

There is also a course of advanced work in practical
geology for post-graduate students. This subjed is
pursued by applicants for the degrees of master of sci-
ence and mining engineer.

The junior class in civil engineering studies miner-
alogy through the entire season. This work consists of
a thorough course in blow-pipe analysis of the ordinary
minerals, and lectures upon crystallography, with in-
struction how to measure crystals and determine the
physical constants of minerals. An effort is made to
familiarize the student with all the economic ores and
the rocks entering into the composition of sods.

Botany.— The students of the sophomore class begin
the study of botany the first of March, and continue it
through the remainder of the session. Careful experi-
ments are conducted in the lecture room explaining the
formation and germination of seed, the growth into the

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mature plant, and the various functions performed by
the plant in its development. Each student is required
to keep careful notes illustrated with drawings of the
various organs of the plant under examination. A lim-
ited amount of work is done in classification and nomen-
clature.

In the junior class, in the course of chemistry and
agriculture, two terms are devoted to systematic and
structural botany, and to advanced laboratory work
With the microscope in the preparations of specimens-
showing plant structure; this work is sufficient to fa-
miliarize the students with the methods of plant build-
ing and cellular organization. Excellent microscopes,
of the most improved patterns, and all necessary chem-
icals and apparatus for preparing and mounting vege-
table tissues, are used by the students.

The third term is devoted to the study of the physiol-
ogy of plants in order to understand the functions of
the various organs after completion of the work in the
histological laboratory.

FACILITIES FOR WORK.

. Geology. -The department is equipped with models of Mount
Shasta, the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals of teaching,
crystallography; charts and maps of the geology of America and
Europe; Colt's lantern complete with oil, oxy-hydrogen and auto-
matic electric lamp?; a large assortment of fine lantern slides rep^
resenting geological formations in this country and abroad; welF
equipped mineralogical laboratory for thirty students, supplied with
a collection of representative minerals; and models of crystals.

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& Lomb; all the necessary glassware and smaller dissecting instru-
ments required in a well equipped laboratory. The Zeiss com-
pound 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 lucida, polarizers, apo-
chromatic objectives (16mm, S mm, 4mm, and homogeneous immer-
sion), oculars (2, 3, 8, 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
varying in size from 4x5 to &&*8% inches; Bausch & Lomb's pro-
fessional photo-micro camera extending to eight l'eet; Zeiss's ana-
stigmat photographic lens, 6^X8%, fitted with Bausch & Lomb's
diaphragm shutter and Zeiss's wide angle lens, 6%x$&, all mounted
in aluminum; Clark's lens 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, Tarr's Economic Geology, Dana's Mineralogy,
Crosby's Tables for Determining Minerals, Bergen's Botany, Mell's
Laboratory Guide, and notes of lectures.

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND DRAWING.

PROFESSOR LANE.

ASSISTANT MARTIN.

The special studies in this department begin in the
junior class, and require a good knowledge of algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, and analytical mechanics. Iney

are as follows : 5

Junior Class-Simple, compound, reversed and para-
bolical curves, turnouts and crossings, leveling, gradi-
ents, setting slope stakes, etc.

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Special attention will be paid in this class to the loca-
tion, construction, drainage and maintenance of coun-
try roads; and the various pavements and foundations

for the same.

Senior Class— Classification, appearances, defects,
seasoning, durability and preservation of timber; classi-
fication and description of natural building stones;
bricks and concretes; cast and wrought iron, steel and
other metals; limes, cements, mortars and their manu-
facture; paints and other preservatives; classification
of strains and a general mathematical discussion of same ;
joints and fastenings; solid and open built beams; classi-
fication, construction and mechanics of masonry; foun-
dations on land and in water ; bridges and roofs of differ-
ent kinds, their construction and strains determined
mathematically and graphically; common roads, their
coverings, and location, and construction 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 stu-
dents in civil engineering in the junior and senior
classes.

The freshman class is taught linear and free-hand
drawing. The sophomore class is instructed in the prin-
ciples of orthographic and isometric projections, shades,
shadows, prospective and tinting. In the junior class

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the instruction embraces a more extended course in
orthographic and isometric drawing, perspective, shades
and tinting; also sketches of tools and machines, plans
and elevations and cross-sections of buildings, and blue-
prints. The senior class makes topographical draw-
ings and drawings of machines, roofs, bridges, etc., to
different scales, and blue prints. Plans, profiles and sec-
tions of railroad surveys complete the instruction in this
department.

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
Drawing for Mechanics and Engineers, plates belonging to the col-
lege, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet

Senior Class— French, English and American plates belonging to
the College, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.

ENGLISH AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PROFESSOR THACH.
PROFESSOR WIATT.

ASSISTANT SCROCGS.
ASSISTANT HAROLD.

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 education of whatsoever kind. A full course ,n Eng-

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lish is, therefore, considered especially important in
the technical courses of study that do not include the an-
cient classics. Accordingly, the course of, English is
continued throughout the four years of the college cur-
riculum, three hours a week, and is made obligatory
upon all students, with the exception of those pursuing
the first two rears of the course in Latin. In this ex-
tended drill in the grammar and literature of the Eng-
lish language, the endeavor is made to afford a train-
ing 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 stu-
dents in the principles of grammar.

Especial attention is given to the study of the writings (them-
selves of leading English authors, since direct contact with litera-
ture is considered more profitable than information merely about
literature.

All students before classed as regular in any course leading to
a degree must conform to all the requirements in English for ad-
mission as set forth on page 41.

For requirements as to thesis and as -to proficiency in English
for certificates and degrees see pages 49 and 109.

Declamation and themes (or orations) are required of all regular
students. For details see below.

COURSES OP STUDY.

Freshman Class — Five hours a week; study of grammar, the
principles of special and general composition, with frequent brief
papers illustrating >ihe laws studied; study of American authors;
Irving/Hawthorne, Holmes, Poe, Bryant, Longfellow.

Swinton's English Grammar, Lockwood's Rhetoric, 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.

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iG. R. Carpenter'^ Rhetoric, Genung's Rhetorical Analysis, Syle's
From Milton to Tennyson.

Junior Class. — TJiree hours a week; lectures on the history of
English literature, critical study of English classics, essays.

Pancoast's History of English Literature; Pancoast's Standard
English Poems, Macaulay, Carlyle, DeQuincey, etc.

Senior Class. — Two hours a week, first term. Principles of Criti-
cism, Shakepeare's Julius Caesar, Hamlet, etc., Dowden's Shakes-
peare, etc.

THEMES 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 themes or orations are required of all stu-
dents:— For the freshman class, ten themes a year; ten for the
sophomore; for tire 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 Englisli style.

The sophomore class is heard weekly throughout the year in
sections of ten, once for an hour and a half in rehearsal, afterwards
iin the study-hall before the body of students.

The senior and junior classes also deliver their orations in public.

PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The senior elass pursues the study of intellectual
science, twice a week, through the year; and political
economy twice a week, during the last two terms, l ne
instruction in this department is by lectures in combi-
nation with text-hooks.

intellectual Science.-Psychology defined. Value in relation to
moral culture, education and Natural Sciences. The relation ot
the soul to matter. The arguments of the Materialist. Counter
arguments. The Faculties of tie Soul. The nature of Consciounes.
Sense Perception. Fancy. Imagination. Nature of Conceptions.

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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; tariff; education, etc. Lectures by Professor. Ely's Outlines

itf Economics.

A Post-graduate course has also been established in English. The

following courses have been given:

(1) Shakespeare— Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice,
As You Like It, Henry IV., Part I., Richard III., King John.

(2) Dryden— Poetical Works (Christie); Essay of Dramatic
Poesy (Thomas Arnold); Essay on Satire, etc., (Yonge) ; Salis-
bury's Life of Dryden.

Pope— Poetical Works (Ward); Satires (Pattison); Stephen's

Life of Pope, Gosse's From Shakespeare to Pope and 18th Century
of Economics.

(3) English Literature of the Eighteenth Century; Addison,
Pope, Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, Burke.

(4) American Literature: Longfellow, Lowell, Poe.

(5) The Rise and Development of the English Essay: Bacon,
Addison, Steele, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Macaulay, DeQuincey,
Lamb, Carlyle.

CHEMISTRY.

ACTING PROFESSOR MURRILL.

INSTRUCTOR HARE.
INSTRUCTOR HOUGHTON.

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 metallurgy.

4. A course of lectures in agricultural chemistry.

5. 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

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series of lectures (three per week ) extending throughout
the entire session, and includes a discussion of the fun-
damental principles of chemical philosophy in connec-
tion with the history, preparation, properties and com-
pounds 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 appa-
ratus used for experimental illustration is extensive,
containing the newest and approved improvements nec-
essary for presenting the subject in the most attractive
and instructive form.

REFERENCE BOOKS.

Roscoe & Schorlemmer, Fownes, Frankland, Remsen, Cooke's.
Chemical Philosophy, Chemical Journals.

i. Lectures in industrial chemistry (three per week)
extend throughtout the session, and include a discussion
in detail of the processes and chemical principles in-
volved in the most important applications of chemistry
in the arts and manufactures to the preparation of ma-
terials for food and drink, for clothing, shelter, illumi-
nation, cleansing, purifying, writing, printing, etc.

These lectures are amply illustrated by means of suit-
able specimens of raw materials and manufactured pro-
ducts, together with models and diagrams.

REFERENCE BOOKS.

3. Course in metallurgy : This consists of lectures
and recitations (two per week, during first term) upon
the more important metals, such as iron and steel, cop-
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-discussion of the physical and chemical properties of
the metals and of their alloys, the ores and their treat-
ment, and the processes by whteh the metals- are ob-
tained from the ores, with chemical reactions involved.
4. Course in agricultural chemistry: This consists
*of lectures on chemistry in its application to agriculture
(two per week, during second and third terms), and
includes a thorough discussion of the origin, composi-
tion and elassifiation 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 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 How Crops Grow, and How Crops Feed, Lupton's Ele-
mentary Principles of Scientific Agriculture, Johnson's and Cam-
eron's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Storer's Agriculture in
Relation to Chemistry, scientific journals, reports of the United
States Department of -Agriculture? and the bulletins and reports of
the various home and foreign agricultural- departments and stations-

5. . The course of systematic laboratory work : This
course of practical work in the laboratory is carried on
in connection with each course of lectures. In the junior
year the work embraces the practical operations of
chemical synthesis and analysis and includes the prep-
aration of the non-metallic elements and their most im-
portant compounds, in addition to a systematic study of
the metals and their compounds, their separation and
identification. In the senior year students pursue work
in quantitative analysis, including analysis of fertil-
izers, soils, coal, iron ore, iron and steel, sugars and
tsugar products, feed stuffs, minerals, mineral waters,

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etc., being varied somewhat to suit the individual object
of the student

The laboratories, which are open from 2 a,^ m. to 5 p. m., during
six days in the week, are amply supplied with everything neces-
sary for instruction in chemica^nalnpulation in qualitative and
quantitative anaylsis, and in the method of prosecuting chemical
Tesearches. 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 or quantitative analysis.

At the close of the session he will be credited with such arti-
cles as may be returned in good order; the value of those which
Jiave been injured or destroyed will be deducted from his contingent
fee.

In addition to the analytical work above described it is designed
to give during the session a short course in electro-plating. Prac-
tical instruction in the electro-deposition of nickel, silver, gold,etc,
upon other metals will be given, .and, in addition, the application of
electrolysis to chemical analysis will be studied both theoretically
jand practically.

Text-Books.

In qualitative analysis— Jones, Sellers, Fresenius, Plattner.

In quantitative analysis.— Fresenius, Cairns, Sutton, Rose, Blair's
Analysis of Iron and Steel, 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 prac-
tical work and investigation. The building is supplied with water
and gas and every appliance required to meet the demands of mod-
ern scientific instruction and research. In addition to the appa-
ratus 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 spectro-
scope, Abbe refractometer and other instruments for delicate and
accurate work.

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HISTORY AND LATIN.

PROFESSOR PETRIE.

ASSISTANT BOYD.
HISTORY.

Ill this department the aim is not so much to memo-
rize facts as to understand them. Strong emphasis is
laid on the fact that history is not a succession of iso-
lated 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 influences of men and cir-
cumstances. Frequent use is made of diagrams, photo-
graphs, charts and maps, with which the department is
well equipped. Instruction is given by text-books, lec-
tures 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, Alabama, and England. The first term
(two hours per week) is devoted to the history and gov-
ernment of the United States; the second term (two
hours per week ) to Alabama, 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 European history.

HISTORICAL LABORATORY.

in the junior and senior classes opportunity for spe-
cial work in United States history is slven those stu-
dents of the General Course who elect it as laboratory
work, and to any others who are properly qualified. The
chief object kept in view is training in historical re-
search and in the formation of independent but careful
opinions based on the original sources of information,

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as well as on the standard authorities. Emphasis is
laid on the importance of securing proper material for
investigation and every incentive is given to the col-
lection and use of new documents, papers and letters
illustrative of Southern,, and especially Alabama his-
tory. I ' ,

The method of work is as follows: Informal lectures are given
on important and suggestive points, as: The causes of tfce Revo-
lution; the Constitutional Convention; the War of 1812; the Mis-
souri Compromise; the Monroe Doctrine; Texas and Mexico; the
Compromise of 1850; the Kansas Struggle; the Dred Scott Decision;
Secession. After each lecture topics connected with it are assigned
to fthe students with an outline of the points to be investigated.
They report their results to the class and a discussion follows.
The final results are collected by each student according to his
own judgment in his note-book, which is then passed in to the
professor for correction and suggestion.

Graduate students are expected to take part in the junior and
senior discussions and in addition will meet with the professor
for conference in regard to their work. Those who take history as
their major subject are expected to devote a large part of their
time to original research upon some topic on which they can con-
sult the original sources of information. They are also required
to pursue a prescribed course of reading as indicated below:

Text-Books.

Freshman Class. — Cooper, Estill & Lemmon's History of the
United States, Brown's History of Alabama, Montgomery's English
History.

Sophomore Class. — Myers's General History.
Junior and Senior Classes. — Moore's American Congress.

Graduate Course. — Wilson's Division and Reunion, selected parts
of Stephen's Constitutional History, and of Rhodes's History of
the United States, Fiske's Critical Period, Lodge's Hamilton, Morse's
Jefferson, Schurz's Clay, Lodge's Webster, Sumner's Andrew Jack-
son.

LATIN.

The objects kept in view in this department are: An
accurate knowledge of the forms and syntax; a famil-
iarity with Latin words, their etymology and their Eng-

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lish derivatives; an appreciation of Latin literature and
an intelligent conception of Roman history and civiliza-
tion, both in themselves and in their effect on the mod-
ern world.

A systematic course of instruction is given in the forms and
syntax. These are taught both deductively from a grammar and
inductively from the text read. Translation is constantly practiced,
sometimes at sight, sometimes after being assigned for preparation.
English passages based on the author read or illustrative of special
constructions are put in Latin, both orally and in writing. Great
emphasis is laid on the etymology of the words in the text read.

In connection with every author studied in class a course of
reading in English is prescribed descriptive of his life work and
times. The historical setting and the literary value of his writ-
ings are carefully discussed and frequent comparisons are made
with modern authors.

For the benefit of students who do not study the Latin language
a series of popular lectures will* be given upon the great Latin
writers. Especial emphasis is laid on proficiency in writing Latin
exercises and in translating Latin prose at sight.

Text-Books,

Freshman Class. — Allen & Greenough's Grammar, Exercises,
Nepos, Sallusit or equivalent.

Sophomore Class. — Cicero, Allen & Greenough's Grammar Ben-
nett's Latin Composition.

Junior Class— Virgil, Horace, Allen & Greenough's Grammar, Ex-
ercises, Guerber's Mythology, Preston & Dodge's Private Life of the
Romans.

Senior Class.— Livy, Tacitus, Wilkins's Latin Literature, Exer-
cises, History of Rome.

MODERN LANGUAGES.

PROFESSOR WIATT.

The chief aim in this department is to give the stu-
dent a thorough and accurate knowledge of the element-
ary principles of the subjects taught, and to enable him
to read with facility the ordinary French and German

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at sight. To train the ear, acquire a correct pronuncia-
tion and some facility in speaking, all recitations are
supplemented, as far as practicable, by oral exercises in.
the languages themselves.

The following regular courses are given in French and
German.

French — First Year. Three recitations a week. Dur-
ing this year the principal object is to acquire a knowl-
edge of the elements of grammar and a correct pronun-
ciation,, together with a facility in translating ordinary
French. Reading is begun at an early stage, and the
principles of grammar are illustrated and impressed
by frequent exercises in rendering English into French.

Second Year: Three recitations a week. During thi&
year almost the same line of work is pursued as that

begun the previous year. More difficult and varied
French is read, and instruction is given upon the laws of
grammar, the construction of the language, and the
history of the literature. Special attention is given to
sight translation.

German — Two Y<ars: 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..

The students in this department will meet the pro-
fessor twice per week, from 4 to 5 p. in. during the first
term, and the third term, for exercises in conversation in
French and in German- ^

Text-Books.

French — First Year: Edgren's Grammar and Locard's Supple-
mentary Exercises. Super's Reader.

Second Year. — Feuillet's Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre,
Racine's Esther, Corneille's Le Menteur, Moliere's Le Bourgeois;
Gentilhomme, selected plays, Whitney's Grammar, original exer-
cises.
German — First Year: Joynes-Meissner's Grammar and Reader-
Second Year: Der Bfbliothekar, Wilhelm Tell, Whitney's Grami-
mar and Exercises, selected plays, original exercises.

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graduate course.

This course is offered for the benefit of those students
who wish to pursue the study of these subjects beyond
the scope to which a two-year course necessarily limits
them. Here, in addition to the authors studied in the
lecture room, a wide and extensive reading of authors
and literature is prescribed.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

PROFESSOR DUNSTAN.

ASSISTANT JEPSOX.

JUNIOR YEAR.

The students in this course study English, French or German,
Physics, Mathematics, etc., as prescribed for the course of Civil
Engineering in the junior and senior years and in addition thereto
prosecute their studies in electricity and mechanics as herein pre-
scribed.

Instruction is i>iven by lectures and recitations.

First Term : Four hours per week are devoted to the
study of the principles of electricity and magnetism,
with especial reference to their industrial applications.
The subject of electrical measurements is also treated in
detail.

Second Term: Incandescent lighting, four hours per
week.

Third Term: Arc lighting and wiring, four hours
per week.

Text-Books.

Ayrton's Practical Electricity. Houston and Kennelly's Incandes-
cent and Arc Lighting. Cushing's Standard Wiring.

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Laboratory Work.— Four hours per week are given
to work in the laboratory. This includes management
of batteries, construction of instruments, electro-plating,
electrical measurements, verification of the principles
upon which the measurements of current, electromotive
force and resistance are based, etc.

SENIOR YEAR.

First Term: Dynamo electric machinery, five hours
per week.

Second Term : Alternating currents and alternating
current machinery.

Third Term : Polyphase machinery and power trans-
mission, five hours per week.

Text-Books.

Dynamo Electric Machinery, Thompson. Alternating Currents,
Franklin and Williamson. Standard Polyphase Apparatus, Oudin.

Laboratory Work. — Six hours per week are devoted
to practical laboratory w r ork, electrical measurements,
relation of electric currents to heat and mechanical
work, care and tests of dynamo and motors, calibration
of voltmeters, ammeters and watt-meters, electric light-
ing, management and care of accumulators, energy con-
sumed 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 alternating motors, etc.

Drawing and Construction. — Two hours per week in
the senior ve?r are devoted to the design and eonstrur
tion of electrical machinery.

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.

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In addition to the usual laboratory work, senior stu-
dents spend a portion of their time in the boiler room,
learning the management and care of the steam plant,
and in turn take charge of the lighting plant, thus be-
coming familiar with running the engines and dynamos.

Post Graduate Course. — To graduate students more
advanced courses in the theorj^ and applications of alter-
nating currents and alternating current machinery are
given. The courses will be varied slightly from year to
year to suit the needs of those taking the course.

In connection with this work suitable laboratory work
will be given.

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equipment.

The laboratory is well supplied with batteries, storage and pri-
mary, telephones, plating apparatus and similar minor apparatus.
Among the instruments of precision may be noted Kelvin ampere
balances, graded current and potential galvanometers alternat-
ing and direct current ammeters and voltmeters of various ranges,
from Weston, Queen, Jewell, Hartmann & Braun, Despretz, Fein,
General Electric Company and other domestic and foreign makers.
There are also direct reading and recording watt meters, dynamom-
eters reading from .0001 ampere to 100 amperes, a number of
resistance boxes and bridges, condensers, keys, galvanometers of
various types, magnetic testing apparatus, portable and fixed, pho-
tometers, high potential testing apparatus, portable testing set,
cradle dynamometer, a special instrument for comparing induct-
ances, self and mutual, and capacities.

This department, being provided with Lord Kelvin's standard
electrical instruments for exact measurements, will calibrate free
of expense, any ammeter or voltmeter that may be sent to the Col-
lege.

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 Ideal 5 kilo-watt three
phase alternator; one Thompson-Houston 9 arc light dynamo with
lamps; one Edison compound wound 12 kilo- watt generator; a
Thompson-Houston 110 volt, 75 ampere generator; two street car
motors used as either direct or alternating current gen-
erators or motors; two polyphase induction motors; one General
Electric 5 horse-power induction motor, mounted on cradle dyna-
mometer; General Electric 20 horse-power motor; one Stanley in-
duction motor with conaensers; Edison Zy 2 kilo-watt generator;
a Crocker-Wheeler one horse-power motor and rheostat, and one
bi-phase alternator, and 500 volt generator, made by special stu-
dents, furnish current to laboratory and light up the different build-
ings. A lamp board with a capacity of 210 lamps has been installed
and is used for testing purposes.

The dynamos occupy a separate brick building 50x32 feet, and are
operated by a 35-horse power Westinghouse vertical engine, and a 25-
horse power Atlas engine.

An electric motor, made by students, supplied with current from
a generator at a distance of 3,000 feet, operates a gin, gin press,

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ensilage cutter and feed cutter at the experiment station farm.
This motor not only subserves a usefui purpose in the operation
of these machines, but is an excellent illustration of the electric
transmission of power.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANIC

ARTS.

PROFESSOR WiLMORE.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CRENSHAW.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FULLAN.

INSTRUCTOR TRAMMELL.
ASSISTANT HILL.

The course in manual training covers three years, as
follows: First year, wood-working — carpentry and
turning; second year, pattern making and foundry and
forge work— molding, casting and smithing; third year,
machine shop — chipping and filing and machine work in
metals.

This course is obligatory upon the students of the
two lower classes. For satisfactory reasons a student
may be excused from this laboratory work by the Fac-
ulty.

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 Harris-Corliss automatic en-
gine. 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, and a 100-horse power
Heine boiler installed.

The equipment for the wood-working shops comprise the fol-
lowing: 30 wood-working benches, each with complete set of car-
penter's tools; 24 turning-lathes 10-inch swing each with complete
set of tools; 1 double circular saw; 1 band saw; 1 board-planing

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machine; 1 jointer; 1 pattern-maker's lathe 16-inch swing; 1 36-inch
grindstone. The tool room is supplied with a variety of extra hand
tools for special work and in addition to the regular carpenters'
tools in the benches each student is supplied with a set of chisels
and plane irons with a locker to keep them in and is held respon-
sible for their care and condition.

The equipment for the foundry consists of molding benches for
18 students, each supplied with a complete set of molder's tools; a 23-
inch Colliau cupola, with all modern improvements, capable of melt-
ing 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 molding flasks, a
foundry crane, special tools, etc.

The forge shop equipment consists of 24 down draft forges of new
pattern each with a set of Smith's tools, anvil etc. The blast for
all the forges is supplied with a No. 3 Sturtevant steel pressure
blower (which also furnishes blast for the foundry cupola), and a
60-inch underground 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 eight engine-lathes (screw-cutting 14-inch swing,
six foot bed; 2 engine lathes, 16 inch swing (one with taper attach-
ment) ; 1 engine lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound rest and taper
attachment; 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
x22-inchx5 feet planer; 1 universal milling machine, 1 corundum tool
grinder (14-inch wheel); 1 bench grinder; 1 post drill press; 1
Brown and Sharpe universal grinding machine; 1 power hack
saw. A part of the room is set apart for vise work, chipping and
filing; and benches for twelve students are provided, each with vise
and set 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 ma-
chine work, with machine for grinding twist drills.

The nature of the work in each department is as fol-
lows :

First Yeab.

I. A course of carpentry or hand work covering the first two
terms.. The lessons include instruction in the nature and use of
tools, instruction and practice in shop drawing, elementary work

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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 nature and use of lathe and tools, plain straight
turning, caliper work to different diameters and lengths, simple and
compound curves, screw plate and check work, hollow' and spherical
turning.

Second Year.

I. 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, 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 students familiarity with the use of pat-
terns for general molding.

III. A course in molding 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, but a sufficient variety of forms
are introduced for the student to acquire a good general and prac-
tical knowledge of the usual methods and appliances used in light
foundry work. Most of the work is in greensand 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 practice is given in working the

cupola.

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.

Thibd Yeae.

I. Conrse 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 flnishmg to

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line (straight and curved), surface filing and finishing, fitting,
slotting, dovetail work, sawing, pin and screw filing, surface finish-
ing 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 ma-
chine, including exercises in making taps, reamers, 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
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.

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.

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 mechan-
ics of liquids, gases and vapors are studied.

Kinematics.— Three recitations per week during 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 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
drawing to exact scale, of some of the simpler machines. The stu-
dent takes his own measurements and makes his own sketches from
which to make the finished drawing.

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Text-Books.

Wood's Elementary Mechanics, Barr's Kinematics of Machinery.

SENIOR YEAR.

Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants.— The first
terpi five hours per week is given to the study of the
practical applications of steam machinery. It is be-
lieved that a thorough knowledge of the apparatus in
actual practical use is the best preparation a student can
have for the study of the theory, and to that end, the dif-
ferent types of engines, boilers, pumps, condensers, and
other auxiliary apparatus are taken up and studied in
detail, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
discussed. Extensive files of manufacturer's catalogues
are kept and the technical papers and magazines in the
library are freely used in order to keep in touch with the
latest and best practice in engineering work.

Steam Engine.— The second 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 con-
densation in cylinder, action of fly wheels, effects of jack-
eting, ete. Simple 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.

Applied Mechanics.-The third term, four hours per
week is given to work in this subject. Applications of
the mechanical principles previously learned, are made
to the solution of practical problems. Considerable at-
tention is given to graphical methods, these being used
in preference to the analytical when possible.

One hour a week for the third term is given to a series
of lectures on mechanical refrigeration and gas and gaso-
lene engines.

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Machine Design.— The subject of machine design is
made a continuation of the junior course and runs
throughout the year, two hours a week. The general
plan of the work follows the text-book adopted, but va-
riations are made and additional exercises given when
found desirable. The strength and proportion of joints,
fastenings and machine details are studied. Problems
are given, the dimensions worked out and the drawings
made. It is the purpose of the course, as far as time will
permit, to prepare students for practical drawing-room
work.

Laboratory Work. — The students are not only taught how to cali-
brate and use the different instruments, but they are brought in con-
tact 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 wiith 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.

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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 machine, and Henning micrometer
extensometer, a Carpenter calorimeter with auxiliary apparatus
for determining the heating value of different fuels, a draft gauge,
and a Henning pocket recorder.

Text-Books.

Hutton's Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants, Holme's Steam
Engine, Reid's Machine Design, Perry's Applied Mechanics.

, 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.

The following course has been arranged and represents the
amount of work required. Hydraulics may be substituted for
thermodynamics if the members of the class are unanimous in
wishing the change. Other substitutions may be made at the
option of the professor, provided they represent an equivalent
amount of work and are in the general line of the course selected.

Dynamometers— This includes dynamometers and the measure-
ment of power. Absorption and transmission dynomometers are
studied, with their application and use in testing steam engines.

Valve Gears.— The different forms of valve gears of steam en-
gines are studied, and problems in designing gears are worked out.

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.

Flatter's Dynamometers and Measurement of Power, Spangler's
Valve Gears, Peabody's Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine, Mer-
riman's Hydraulics.

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AGRICULTURE.

PROFESSOR DUGGAR.

Instruction in agriculture is given by means of lec-
tures, text-books, bulletins of the agricultural experi-
ment 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 this 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 charac-
teristics, uses, management and adaptability to the
South. Practical work in judging live stock is included
in the course. Five breeds of cattle and two of hogs are
represented in the herd maintained by this department.
The first term of the sophomore year is devoted to
dairying 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 follow-
ing subjects are studied : Soils — chemical and physical
properties, defects, and means of improvement ; the con-
trol 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 im-
provement 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 re-

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quirements, 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
building, silos and silage, care of farm manures, com-
posting, choice and methods of applying commercial fer-
tilizers for different crops and soils, and economical
methods of improving exhausted soils.

In every class the student is encouraged 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 conaitions of soil, climate, capital, market, etc. The suc-
cessful farmer must be a thinker rather than a blind follower of
inflexible rules.

The effort is made to keep before the student the difference be-
tween the widely applicable principles on which every rational sys-
tem of farming rests and the details that vary with changing con-
ditions. The conditions of soil, climate, etc., prevailing in different
parts of Alabama are kept constantly in view. \

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.

BEFEBENCE BOOKS.

Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine, by Curtis; The Study of Breeds,
by Shaw Milk and Its Products, by Wing; Dairyman's Manual, by
Stewart; Soils and Crops of the Farm,Morrow & Hunt; Forage Plants
by Shaw; The Fertility of the Soil, by Roberts; Corn Culture, by
Plumb; The Soil, by King; Manures and the Principles of Manuring,
by Aikman; Drainage for Profit and Health, by Waring; Agriculture
in Some of its Relations with Chemistry, by Storer; ^£*£
Feeding by Armsby; Feeds and Feeding, by Henry; Stock Breeding
by Miles; Hand-book of Experiment Station WrJ -«JJ
lected publications of the various divisions of theU S. Department
of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations.

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BIOLOGY AND HORTICULTURE.

PROFESSOR EARLE.

ASSISTANT MASON.

The subject of biology is required of the senior class
in the courses of chemistry and agriculture, and of phar-
macy. It occupies five hours a week for three terms of
the senior year. The work in this department will be
largely confined to the study of the lower forms of plant
life and to vegetable physiology, or the study of plants
as living beings. Under the first head special attention
will be given to the bacteria and other diseases produc-
ing organisms of man and the higher animals; and to
the parasitic fungi that cause diseases of plants. Under
vegetable physiology those problems that explain the
foundation for correct agricultural practices will be
made most prominent. This will include the germina-
tion of seeds, the food and nutrition of plants, the cir-
culation of sap, the processes of reproduction, plant
variability, etc.

The instruction will be by text-book, supplemented by lectures
and by practical laboratory work.

The students will be required to make careful microscopic draw-
ings of objects studied. They will also collect material in the fields
and determine it so far as their instruction will admit.

The equipment for instruction in this department comprises,
besides a sufficient lecture room a students' laboratory and two small
glass rooms for cultural and bacteriological work. These are sup-
plied with water, gas and all necessary appliances for thorough
primary and advanced work, including compound and dissecting
microscopes for each student, microtomes, parafine baths, incubators,
steam and dry sterilizers, instantaneous water heaters, Pasteur filter,
chemical and common balances, set of Brendel's models of para-
sitic and other fungi, besides a large and well selected stock of
glassware, staining fluids, chemical re-agents, culture, media, etc.

In the private office of the department, which is fitted up as a spe-
cial laboratory for the use of the professor in charge, is located a

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good reference library and the scientific collections of the depart-
ment. At present these consist of about 17,000 named specimens
of fungi, and of the other groups of cryptogams. These books and
collections are accessible to the students, and constitute, with the
other resources mentioned, a superior equipment for advanced bio-
logical instruction.

HORTICULTURE.

At present special horticultural instruction is con-
fined to the spring term of the junior year in the course
of chemistry and agriculture, and to some practical work
and "field lectures" to the students of the same course
during the sophomore year. Instruction is given by lec-
tures and text-book and Iby courses of reading, using
the green house and orchards and gardens of the experi-
ment station to give practical illustrations of the sub-
jects taught.

Attention is called to the various fruits and vegetables that can
be successfully cultivated in Alabama, and methods of propagation,
cultivation and marketing are discussed. Particular attention is
called to the diseases and insect enemies to which each of these
crops are liable, and careful directions are given as to the best
known means of combatting them. The construction and man-
agement of gree-houses, hotbeds and cold frames receive special
attention, while such topics as floriculture, landscape gardening
and forestry are discussed in a general way only.

Special work will be arranged for any student desiring W take a
extended course in horticulture.

MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.

COL. B. S. PATRICK, COMMANDANT.

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 inca-
pacitated 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.

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Under section 1225, U. S. Revised Statutes, the Col-
lege is provided with modern cadet rifles and accoutre-
ments. Ammunition for practice firing is used under the
direction of an experienced officer. The exercises in
target practice begin the first day of the third term.

The following uniform of standard cadet gray cloth
has been prescribed for dress. Coat and trousers as
worn for fatigue at West Point, with dark blue cadet
cap. A neat and serviceable uniform can be obtained
here at $15 to $16. This is less expensive than the usual
clothing. All students are required to wear this uni-
form during the session. ♦

The entire body of students is divided into companies.
The officers are selected for military efficiency, good
conduct and scholarship. The commissioned officers will
be selected either from the senior or junior classes, and
promotion will depend on merit and not wholly on se-
niority.

A band, composed of cadets, furnishes appropriate
music at all reviews and parades, and on other special
occasions.

A student who has once accepted an office cannot resign it except
for reasons entirely satisfactory to the President and Commandant.
The resignation of his office by a minor will usually not be con-
sidered without first placing all the circumstances of the case be-
fore his parent or guardian.

Candidates for appointment or promotion may be required to
stand an examination. Moral fitness, including demerits, will be
considered.

Examinations will be conducted by a board of officers, to be com-
posed of the Commandant of Cadets and two commissioned officers,
to be designated by him. The proceedings of the board are sub-
ject to revision and approval by the President of the College.

Each company is officered by one captain and two first lieutenants,
one second lieutenant, and with a proper number of non-commis-
sioned officers. The officers and non-commissioned officers are dis-
tinguished by appropriate insignia of rank. These appointments

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are confirmed by the President on nomination of the Commandant.
The junior class recites once a week in the United States Infantry
Drill Regulations.

The senior class recites once a week in Wagner's Security and
Information, and Manual of Guard Duty, U. S. Army.

On the graduation of each class the names of such students as
have shown special aptitude for military service will be reported
to the Adjutant-General of the U. S. army and the names of the
three most distinguished in military science and tactics will be
inserted in the U. S. Army Register, and published in general or-
ders from headquarters of the army.

PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR CARY.

ASSISTANT DUNCAN.

PHYSIOLOGY.

The sophomore class studies human anatomy, physi-
ology and hygiene during the entire college year.

It is the aim of the department to give the students
practical and real knowledge of the gross anatomy and
functions of the various parts of the human body. Due
attention is given, also, to the laws of health--the con-
ditions mo^t favorable to a continuous healthy action of
the organs of the human body.

Instruction is given by lectures and by text-books,
supplemented by blackboard drawings, charts, models
of organs, a human skeleton and by dissections of some
of the smaller animals (dog, cat, etc).

• Martin's Human Body is used as a text and reference
book, and several other works w anatomy, physiology
and hygiene may be consulted in the college library.

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VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART.

Students in the agricultural and chemical course of
study, during the entire junior and senior years, devote
to this work two hours per week in the class room and
three hours per week at practical clinics. Instruction in
veterinary science and art is given by lectures.

The lectures are arranged with special reference to
the students fcho are interested in horses or other do-
mestic 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 med-
icine, we attempt to present the general principles of
comparative medicine with such special applications
as are adapted to the conditions and wants of the stu-
dents.

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Lameness in the horse, minor surgery, the actions and uses of
the most common medicines, the principles and practice of compara-
tive medicine, and the ways of protecting the health of domestic
animals, are considered in as plain and practical a manner as the
time allotted to each subject will permit. Post-mortem examina-
tion and the dissection of domestic animals are used as object les-
sons in the study of general pathology and anatomy.

The senior class in pharmacy devotes three hours per week,
during the first and second terms to the study of therapeutics;
and three hours per week during the third term to class room and
laboratory work in bacteriology.

To the post-graduate student this department furnishes work in
histology, pathology, bacteriology, meat and milk inspection. This
work gives students who contemplate studying medicine excellent
preparatory work along that line. Such students may devote their
entire time to work in this department with the approval of the

faculty.

Pathology is studied in text and reference books and morbid his-
tology embraces naked eye and microscopic examinations of dis-
eased tissues in the laboratory. Quite a collection of diseased tis-
sues and animal parasites are found in connection with the labora-
tory.

The laboratory xs well fitted for the study of bacteriology. Bac-
teriological analysis of water, milk, sputum, pus, diseased tissues,
and of soils can be made. All of the practical operations in the
preparation of culture, media, sterilizations, inoculations of small
animals, straining, microscopical examinations, may be learned.
In the laboratory are 3 Bausch & Lomb and 2 Winkel microscopes,
each of which is supplied with oil immersion objectives, 2 oculars,
Abbe condenser, and iris diaphragm. Sterilizers, autoclaves, in-
cubators, and all the necessary apparatus required in bacteriological
work are to be found in the laboratory.

The department of physiology and veterinary scinece is now

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located by itself in a building which consists of a two-story portion
containing 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.

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 para-
sites.

The new veterinary hospital building contains five large box-
stalls, four open single stalls, an office and a feed room on the lower
floor; the upper floor is used as a storage room for hay, fodder
etc. The hospital is supplied with, fresh water.

A new brick and cement dissecting room (16x32) has just been
completed. It is supplied with extensive north sky-light and with
water and gas.

Every Saturday during the college year the department conducts
a free clinic for the benefit of the students in veterinary science and
art. Clinical cases have been various and numerous, giving the stu-
dents opportunity to see and study many diseases and lameness
and to become proficient in minor operations.

PHARMACY AND PHARMACOGNOSY.

PROFESSOR MILLER.

ASSISTANT MASON.

JUNIOR YEAR.

Pharmacy. — Class wt>rk, three horns a week. The dif-
ferent systems of weights and measures. Specific grav-
ity. Pharmaceutical problems. The fundamental opera-
tions in pharmacy. Apparatus used in pharmaceutical
processes. Discussion of all classes of pharmaceutical
preparations.

Laboratory, nine hours a week, Preparation of offi-
cial and non-official galenicals.

Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work,

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four hours a week. All official vegetable drugs studied
with aid of simple and compound microscope.

SENIOR YEAR.

Pharmacognosy. — Class work with laboratory work,
four hours a week. Study of important non-official veg-
etable drugs; of drugs of animal origin; of adulterants
and worthless drugs. Practical exercises in identifica-
tion of pharmaceutical preparations and chemicals.

The practical work in pharmacy includes the manufacture of not
less than two hundred pharamaceutical preparations and the com-
pounding of not less than fifty prescriptions.

The work in pharmacognosy includes the study of more than 300
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.

MISCELLANEOUS.

GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD.

The gymnasium is situated at the west end of the ath-
letic and drill grounds and contains one room, 80x40
feet, with strong beams above for fastening the usual

fixtures.
It is equipped with Spalding's gymnasium apparatus

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and is open to all students at stated hours, under the
care of an officer.

The athletic field has a quarter-mile cinder track and
ample space for football, baseball and general athletics.

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 in 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.

Students are not permitted to participate in any public enter-
tainment, or game, without previously obtaining the consent of the
faculty.

No cadet will be permitted, without the approval of his parent
or guardian, to take part in a public game of football; nor will per-
mission be given for any athletic game to a student deficient in his
studies.

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; privates of the senior class
are exempt.

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.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

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.

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This association is regulary organized and has a well furnished
room on the first floor of the main building set apart for its ex-
clusive use. Through its weekly meetings it exerts a wholesome
Christian influence among' the students.

Students are advised to unite with the Association when they
enter the Institute.

The ladies of the different churches in Auburn have recently
formed an auxiliary association to the Y. M. C. A. of this Institute.
Assisted by members of the faculty, they will hold monthly a joint
service of praise in the College chapel and will provide lecturers
for the occasion.

They have also undertaken to build a special hall for the use of
the Association, and will solicit subscriptions for that purpose.

The following are the officers:

A. F. Jackson, President.

G. W. Snedecor, Vice President.

P. S. Haley, Corresponding Secretary.

L. Whorton, Recording Secretary.

J. T. Letcher, Treasurer.

J. 0. Webb, Librarian.

LOCATION.

The Institute is situated in the town of Auburn, fifty-nine miues
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 twemty-six feet above tide-water. By statute of the State the
sale of spiritous liquors and keeping saloons of any kind are for-
bidden.

BOARDING.

The Institute 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.

REGULATIONS.

(1) Eash student upon entering is required to sign his name
in the matriculation book and pledge himself to obey the rules and
regulations of the College.

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(2) Every absence from recitation or examination is graded
zero.

(3) When the term grade of a cadet is lowered by reason of ab-
sence for which satisfactory excuse can be rendered, a special
term re-examination may be subsequently granted, and the grade
made on the special re-examination alone is substituted for that pre-
viously received.

(4) Only sickness, as reported by the Surgeon, or being absent
by reason of family sickness, will constitute a satisfactory excuse
for granting a re-examination.

When a cadet is called away from College by his parents his
zeroes for absences are not removed.

(5) The term grade of a student is the average of his daily ses-
sional and term examination marks, found by giving due weight to
the term examination.

No cadet can continue an officer in the corps who during a session
is classed in the fourth grade in two or more subjects at any term
examination, or in the fourth grade in one subject at two term
examinations; nor who receives during the session more than 60

demerits. For failures of officers re-examinations will not be granted.

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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 ninety per
cent.

Certificates of distinction are awarded in public on commence-
ment 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 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 ses-
sion, and have not received forty demerits during the year.

A distinction is not given in the senior class if the average grade
in any one subject is less than 75 per cent.

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honors.

Members of the senior class who attain distinction at the final ex-
aminations with an average grade, in the subjects required, of 95 per
cent, will be published as

GRADUATES WITH HIGHEST HONOR.

Those who attain distinction with an average grade of 90 per cent.,
and less than 95, are published as

Graduates with Honor.

Those who attain less than 90 per cent, and more than 60 per cent,
are published as Graduates.

Students, of 'the classes lower than the senior, who attain distinc-
tion with an average grade in the required subjects of 95 per cent,
are published in alphabetical order as having attained the Highest
distinction.

RECORDS AND CIRCULARS.

Daily records of the various exercises of the classes are kept by
the officers of instruction.

At the close of each term and at regular intervening intervals re-
ports, giving the grade made by each student, are sent to the parent
or guardian.

EXAMINATIONS.

Written examinations on ithe studies of the month are held by
each professor during the months of October, February and April.
Each examination occupies one hour.

At the end of each term written examinations or written and oral,
are held on the studies passed over during that iterm.

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-
tions, can be promoted to full standing in the next higher class only
on satisfactory examinations at the opening of the next session.

LIBRARY.

The library occupies an elegant, well-lighted room in the main
building, and also two smaller adjacent rooms. It contains over
15,000 bound volumes, including valuable reference and scientific

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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.

BOARDING HOUSES.

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.

Permission to board. and lodge at separate houses will be granted
only to seniors, to cadets twenty-one years of age and to those who
are on the "honor roll," except on special conditions.

EXPENSES.

There is no charge for tuition for a resident of Ala-
bama.

Incidental fee, per session f 5.00

Library fee, per session 2.00

Surgeon's fee, per session 5.00

$12.00
These fees are payable on matriculation. 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.

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For a non-resident of the State there is a charge for
tuition of $20.00 per session, payable on matriculation,
in addition to the annual fee of $12.00 payable by all
students.

Board, including lodging, fuel and lights, is furnished
at $12.50 to $15.00 per month.

The necessary Expenses for a session, not including
uniforms or books, are for a resident of Alabama, as
follows:

College fees f 12.00 $ 12.00

Board, lodging, fuel and lights 112.50 135.00

Washing 9.00 9 00

Total 1133.50 $156.00

By special arrangement with the College authorities,
Mrs. M. L. Mitchell, Mr. E. 8. Kutland and
Mr. B. T. Blasingame will accommodate students with
board, lodging, fuel, etc., for $9.50 per month.

Bv boarding at one of these houses the necessary ex-
penses may be reduced to $106.50 per session. This es-
timate does not include the cost of the uniform, about
$15,00, or of books, say from $5.00 to $15.00, or the
laboratory fees in the higher classes, $5.00 or $10.00.

LABORATORY FEES.

For each student in the junior or senior laboratory in
chemistry, or in electrical and mechanical engineering,
a fee of $5.00 per session is required. This fee is pay-
able on admission to the laboratory and is not remitted.

NON-RESIDENT STUDENTS. •

Tuition for students, not residents of Alabama, is $20.00 per ses-
sion, unless remitted by the Trustees to worthy students upon the
recommendation of the Faculty.

The remission of this tuition fee to non-resident students will be
granted in the form of a free scholarship for the succeeding year,

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to those who obtain a distinction the preceding year or who, by
reason of merit, are deemed worthy.

This tuition for non-residents is remtted to sons of ministers of
the gospel.

HONOR SCHOLARSHIPS.

The following non-resident students were granted, each by reason
of special merit in conduct and scholarship during the sessionl899-
1900, an honor scholarship, which exempted from tuition fees:

R. T. Arnold .Florida.

W. W. Askew Georgia.

R. Y. Buchanan Georgia.

D. Chipley Florida.

J. D. Elliott Minnesota.

F. C. Greene Georgia.

A. F. Jackson Georgia.

M. Ketchum. i : New York.

K. E. Lindrose. Louisiana.

J. H. Mitchell Georgia.

H. E. Werner Texas.

W. D. Willis Florida.

H. M. Yonge Florida.

J. E. D. Yonge Florida.

UNIFORM. ■

A uniform of cadet gray cloth is prescribed, which all under-
graduate students are required to wear during the session. The uni-
forms are made, by a contractor, of excellent cloth manufactured at
the Charlottesville mill. This suit, including cap, costs at present
$15.50. It is neat and serviceable, and less expensive than ordinary
clothing.

CONTINGENT FEE.

At the close of the session the whole of the contingent fee, or
the unexpended balance, is refunded to the student.

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amount of deposit.

Fees to be paid on entrance:

Incidental fee . $5 00

Library . . 2 00

Surgeon 5 00

Contingent fee 5 00

Uniform 5 15 50

For a resident of Alabama $32 50 $32 50

Tuition non-resident $20 00

For a non-resident $52 50

Besides the above, the student should deposit with the Treasurer
enough to pay for books, one month's board, incidentals, amount-
ing to, say, $27.50. Hence, a resident of Alabama should deposit
with the Treasurer $60,00, a non-resident, $75.00.

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 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 he held responsible for the expenses of a stu-
dent, unless the funds are deposited with the treasurer. No stu-
dent 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 a thesis, or oration and read and dehver the same at
commencement if reauired by the ^ cu ny. a

There may be presented, with tne appiov
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tory showing independent investigation and discussion of some
subject.

It must be given to the Professor of English by the first of May.

The subject must be submitted for approval by January 1st.

LITERARY SOCIETIES.

There are two literary societies connected with the
College — 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. A gentle-
man, selected bv the Faculty, is invited to deliver an ad-
dress before the Literary Societies at Commencement.

To encourage the literary societies the Trustees have
directed that a medal be awarded on commencement day
to the member of each society who is both efficient and
regular in attendance, and who is the best debater. The
method of selection to be determined by the Faculty.

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 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.

In 1885, the Alumni Society established "The Alumni
Scholarship." which makes an annual loan of one hun-
dred and seventy dollars to a beneficiary elected by the
society Young men have been thus enabled to go through
college. This scholarship is supported by annual con-
tributions from the Alumni and other friends of the in-
stitution.

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The beneficiary selected is admitted without charge
for tuition or college fees of any character.

Subscriptions should be sent to B. H. Crenshaw,
Treasurer, Auburn, Ala.

The annual alumni oration is delivered by a member
of the society, in Langdon Hall, on Alumni Day, Tuesday
of commencement week.

The following are officers of the society :

R. ap C. Jones. President.

B. B. Ross 1st Vice-President.

W. L. Fleming 2nd Vice-President.

B. H. Crenshaw Treasurer.

H. H. Kyser Secretary

A. A. Persons Orator for 1901.

J. F. Webb Alternate.

surgeon.

The surgeon is required to be present at the College
daily, to visit at their quarters the cadets that are re-
ported sick, and to give all requisite medical attention
without other charge than the regular surgeon's fee, paid
on entering college.

ACADEMIC YEAR.

The academic year for 1901-1902 commences on
Wednesday, 11th September, 1901 (second Wednesday
after the first Monday), and ends on Wednesday, 11th
June, 1902 (second Wednesday after first Monday),
which is commencement day.

It is divided into three terms. The first term extends
from the opening of the session to the 20th of Decem-
ber ; the second term begins January 2nd, and ends
March 18th ; the third term continues to the close of the
session.

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DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.

U. 8. Government— Public Documents, 376 volumes.

R. L. Thornton, Tuscaloosa, Ala.— History of the Indian Wars, by
Henry Trumbull.

Gen. J as. H. Lane, Auburn, Ala.— History of Randolph-Macon Col-
lege, by Richard Irby.

Dr. Geo. Petrie, Auburn, A la.— Proceedings of the First Annual
Meeting of the National Conference on University Extension, com-
piled by George Francis James. Handbook of University Exten-
sion, edited by George Francis James.

Handbook of University Extension (second edition, revised and
enlarged), edited by George Francis James.

Political Discussions — Legislative, Diplomatic and Popular, by
James G. Blaine.

Report of the Special Committee on the Troubles in Kansas.

Historic Towns of the Southern States, edited by Lyman P. Pow-
ell.

Mrs. N. T. Lupton. — Five hundred pamphlets and periodicals de-
voted to scientific subjects.
DONATIONS TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

The General Electric Co. — One kilowatt transformer.

The Pyle National Electric Headlight Co. — Complete electric
headlight equipment, consisting of compound steam turbine, dy-
namo, and projection lamp.

The Dressel Railway Lamp Works. — One eighteen-inch headlight
casing and reflector.

DONATIONS TO AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

Three sacks nitrate of soda from Dr. J. A. Myers, New York, N. Y.

Two and one-half tons kainit from German Kali Works, New
York, N. Y.

One ton muriate of potash from same.

One lot of seed corn from Curry-Arrington Co., Rome, Ga.

One lot of seed corn from W. S. Sanders, Danielville, Ga.

One lot of seed corn from Dr. W. C. Stubbs, Audubon Park, La.

One lot of seed corn from Prof. C. L. Newman, Fayetteville, Ark.

One lot of sorghum seed from Curry-Arrington Co., Rome, Ga.

One Hallock Success Weeder, from Hallock Weeder & Cultivator
Co., New York, N. Y.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

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DONATIONS TO COLLEGE MUSEUM
During Session of 1900-1901.

By E. M. Duncan, brown iron ore of Russellville, Franklin County,
Ala.; by I. Pickens, D. C. Thornton, E. Taylor, W. H. Chambers —
several lizzards.; by W. C. Martin, bead purse taken from Indians
in Barbour County during early settlement of that section; by L.
Whorton, mole; by J. S. Black, J. M. McNamee, water moccasin; by
G. F. Boyd, leather-winged bat; by S. H. Brown, snake; by J. 0. Gog-
gans, tanned snake skin; by R. G. Dawson, relic of Battleship Maine;
by H. E. Werner, fossils; by W. D. Willis, fossils and minerals, scale
of tarpon, specimen of coral formation, Indian relics, satin spar,
mummy clothes, variegated sandstone, fossils and shells; by W. S.
Rutledge, terrapin; by H. P. Powell, coal, tewenty-seven photographs
of cliff dwellings in New Mexico; by Dr. W. H. Blake, three 7-foot rat-
tlesnakes; by J. W. Boyd, Indian relics; by Dr. 0. D. Smith, gold ores,
quartz rock; by O. H. Alford, mineral ores, manganese ore; by W. L.
Thornton, box quartz; by G. 0. Dickey, white squirrel; by C. A. Col-
lins, white water-worn pebble; by E. A. Miller, Columbian half-dollar;
by W. S. Going, calcite from Pratt City, Ala.; by Miss E. B. Culver,
two snouts of saw-fish; by E. S. Killebrew, large cane reed; by W. L.
Anderson, gold-bug; by W. G. Little, herbarium

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DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.

U. 8. Government.— Public Documents, 376 volumes.

R. L. Thornton, Tuscaloosa, Ala.— History of the Indian Wars, by
Henry Trumbull.

Gen. Jas. H. Lane, Auburn, Ala.— History of Randolph-Macon Col-
lege, by Richard Irby.

Handbook of University Extension (second edition, revised and
enlarged), edited by George Francis James.

Political Discussions— Legislative, Diplomatic and Popular, by
James G. Blaine.

Report of the Special Committee on the Troubles in Kansas.

Historic Towns of the Southern States, edited by Lyman P. Pow-
ell.

Mrs. N. T. Lupton. — Five hundred pamphlets and periodicals de-
voted to scientific subjects.
DONATIONS TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

The General Electric Co. — One kilowatt transformer.

The Pyle National Electric Headlight Co. — Complete electric
headlight equipment, consisting of compound steam turbine, dy-
namo, and projection lamp.

The Dressel Railway Lamp Works. — One eighteen-inch headlight
casing and reflector.

DONATIONS TO AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

Three sacks nitrate of soda from Dr. J. A. Myers, New York, N. Y.

Two and one-half tons kainit from German Kali Works, New
York, N. Y.

One ton muriate of potash from same.

One lot of seed corn from Curry-Arrington Co., Rome, Ga.

One lot of seed corn from W. S. Sanders, Danielville, Ga.

One lot of seed corn from Dr. W. C. Stubbs, Audubon Park, La.

One lot of seed corn from Prof. C. L. Newman, Fayetteville, Ark.

One lot of sorghum seed from Curry-Arrington Co., Rome, Ga.

One Hallock Success Weeder, from Hallock Weeder & Cultivator
Co., New York, N. Y.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

DONATIONS TO COLLEGE MUSEUM
During Session of 1900-1901.

113

By E. M. Duncan, brown iron ore of Russellville, Franklin County,
Ala.; by I. Pickens, D. C. Thornton, E. Taylor, W. H. Chambers-
several lizzards.; by W. C. Martin, bead purse taken from Indians
in Barbour County during early settlement of that section; by L.
Whorton, mole; by J. S. Black, J. M. McNamee, water moccasin; by
G. F. Boyd, leather-winged bat; by S. H. Brown, snake; by J. 0. Gog-
gans, tanned snake skin; by R. G. Dawson, relic of Battleship Maine;
by H. E. Werner, fossils; by W. D. Willis, fossils and minerals, scale
of tarpon, specimen of coral formation, Indian relics, satin spar,
mummy clothes, variegated sandstone, fossils and shells; by W. S.
Rutledge, terrapin; by H. P. Powell, coal, tewenty-seven photographs
of cliff dwellings in New Mexico; by Dr. W. H. Blake, three 7-foot rat-
tlesnakes; by J. W. Boyd, Indian relics; by Dr. 0. D. Smith, gold ores,
quartz rock; by 0. H. Alford, mineral ores, manganese ore; by W. L.
Thornton, box quartz; by G. 0. Dickey, white squirrel; by C. A. Col-
lins, white water-worn pebble; by E. A. Miller, Columbian half-dollar;
by W. S. Going, calcite from Pratt City, Ala.; by Miss E. B. Culver,
two snouts of saw-fish; by E. S. Killebrew, large cane reed; by W. L.
Anderson, gold-bug; by W. G. Little, herbarium

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INDEX.

Page.

Academic Year Ill

Admission to College 41, 47

Admission to Higher Classes.. 47

Agricultural Experiment Station, 6

Agriculture. '. 8. 53, 58, 92, 95

Alumni 110,111

Astronomy 62

Athletics 100

Auburn 103

Auxiliary Schools 44

Band .... 40

Biology 12, 94, 95

Boarding 103, 106

Botany 12, 65, 67

Buildings of the College 16

Cadet Band 40

Cadet Officers 39, 40, 96

Calendar, 1901, 1902, second
page of cover.

Certificate Schools 44

Chemistry 10, 53, 72, 75

Civil Engineering 13, 54, 67, 69

Classification of Student* by

residence 38

Classification of Students by

studies 37

College buildings 16

College established 7

College, object of 7

Committees of the Faculty...;.. 5

Courses of Instruction 48, 61

Declamation-- Tl, HO

Degrees 48, 51

Page.

Departments of Instruction 62-101

Discipline 102

Distinctions 104

Distinguished Students 21,23

Donations 1 12, 113

Drawing 13, 67, 69, 88

Drill 102

Electrical Engineering 10. 11,

55. 80-82

Elocution 71, 72, 110

English 69-72

Examinations, entrance 34-45

Examinations, monthly and term 105

Expenses 106, 107, 108

Experiment Station 6

Faculty and Officers «% 4

Farm 8

Fees, Alabama Students 106-109

Fees, Non-residents 106-109

Fees, Contingent 108

Fees, Laboratory 107

French ••• ^9

Freshman Class, roll of 30-32

General Course 56

Geology 65 » 67

German.. ^ 9

Graduate Courses, see each

department, also.. 50, 51

Graduate Students, roll of 19

Graduates, 1900, roll of 10

Gymnasium • 101

History 76,77.78

Honor Certificates... 21, 22,23

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Honor (Jraduates 19

Honor Roll for Conduct 17, 18

Honor Scholarships 108

Honor Student* •• •• Hfc 2(>

Horticulture H > &4» - ,r>

32-84

20, 27

Irregular Students-. .....

Irregular Student s, roll of....

Junior Class, roll cf

Laboratories :
Agriculture & Horticulture.

Biology • • •■* 1-' ®*

Botany 12 ' ei5

Chemistry 1°» 72 - 73

Drawing • 1& 68 - K,s

Electrical Engineering 10, 11, SI

Mechanic Arts 8, 9.85-87

Mechanical Engineer's. 18 14. 85-91

$ Mineralogy 12

Pharmacy 1 4 ' l°°» 1()1

Physics l2 - ° 2 ' r>3

Physiology 14i 97

Veterinary Science ..14, 97-98

Laboratory Fees 1° 7

Latin 76,77,78

Library ^ ()i)

Literary SocietieH 110

Mathematics 68 " 65

Mechanic Arts 8, 9, 58, 85, 87

Mechanical Drawing *8

Mechanical Engineering 13,14,

J 55. 80, 91

111

102

39, 40

Medical Attendance

Mental Science

Military Drill

Military Organization.

Military Science and Tactics, 14, 95,96

Military Science & Tactics.
distinguished students in...

Modern Languages.
Museum

40, 97

78-80

100

Non-re3ident Students 107, 108

Objects of the College 7

Paqb.

39, 40

3,4

Officers, Cadet

Officers, College ,

Officers of Experim't Station

Orations

Pharmacy U, 57, 59, 100, 101

Philosophy ". 71,72

Physics ••••• 12,63

Physiology 14,97-100

Political Economy

Political Science

Professional Degrees

Records

Regulations

Religious Services

Reports •

Requirements for Admission

Sohedule of Exercises

SeniorClass, roll of

Societies. Literary

Society of the Alumni

Sophomore Class, roll of

Special and Irregular Stu-
dents, roll of • •••' 82-85

Special and Irregular Stu-
dents, regulations 46,47

Students, register of 24. 36

Sub- Freshman Class, roll of. 35-36

,.. • •• -*

69-72

76-78

105
103
102
105
41-17

60, 61

24-27

103

110,111

28-30

71. 72

109

Surgeon

Surveying

Text-Books, see each department.

Theme-writing

Theses

Trustees

Under- Graduate Student- • 24 " 36
Uniforms • 96,108

Veterinary Science 97-100

Woodwork 85 « 86

Women admitted to College 44, 45

Young Men's Christian As-
sociation

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Session Begins... .Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1902.

Examination for admission Wednesday, Sept. 10, 19^2.

First term begins Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1902.

Literary Society Celebration— Thanksgiving Day Nov. 27, 1902.

First term ends Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1902.

Second Term Begins Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1903.

Literary Society Celebration Monday, Feb 23, 1903.

Senior Class exercises Monday, Feb. 23, 1903.

Second term ends Saturday, March 14, 1903.

Third Term Begins Monday, March 16, 1903.

Senior Thesis Reported Frlaay> May u im

Sophomore Class exercises ./;..; Friday) May r 19o:

Field Day .....Friday, May 1, 1903.

Final examinations begin Fri day, May 29, 1903.

Commencement sermon Sundayj June 7 i903

Annual meeting of Trustees Monday, June 8, 1903

Military exercises, 4 p. m Monday> June g> im \

llumni T* Celebrat, ° n ' 8 P * m M <*W, June 8, 1903.

urnuJ 1 &7 ' \ ' Tuesday, June 9, 19tt3.

Military exercises, 5 p. m Tue3day , j une

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BENEFIT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS

AUBURN, ALABAMA

1902

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
THE BROWN PRINTING COMPANY, PRINTERS AND BINDERS

1902

TRUSTEES

His Excellency, W. D. JELKS, President Ex-Officio.

JNO. W. ABERCROMBIE, Superintendent of Education. .Ex-Officio.

TERM EXPIRES, 1907.

Jonathan Hakai.son . Montgomery, Ala.

Thomas Williams. Wetumpka, Ala.

J. A. Bilbro Gadsden, Ala.

TERM EXPIRES, 1905.

J. M Cabmichaei Ozark, Ala.

W. K. Terry Birmingham, Ala.

T. H. Frazer Mobile, Ala.

I. F. PuaSEB Opelika, Ala.

TERM EXPIRES, 1903.

R. F. Ligon Montgomery, Ala.

Tancred Betts Huntsville, Ala.

Wm. C. Davis • Jasper, Ala.

E. T. Glenn. Treasurer. J. H. Drake, M. D., Surgeon.

R. W. Burton, Secretary.

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6ARKSDALE

FACULTY AND OFFICERS

♦WILLIAM LeROY BROUN, M. A., LL. D.,

President.

OTIS DAVID SMITH, M. A., LL. D.,

Acting President, and Professor of Mathematics.

PATRICK HUGHES MELL, M. E., Ph. D.,
Professor of Botany and Geology.

JAMES HENRY LANE, C. E., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D.,

Professor of Civil Engineering and Drawing.

CHARLES COLEMAN THACH, M. A.,
Professor of English anu Political Economy.

GEORGE PETR1E, M. A., Ph. D.,
Professor of History and Latin.

BENNETT BATTLE ROSS, M. Sc,
Professor of General and Agricultural Chemistry and State Chemist.

JOHN JENKINS WILMORE, M. E.,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Laboratory.

CHARLES ALLEN CARY, B. Sc, D. V. M..
Professor of Physiology and Veterinary Science.

(a) EMERSON R. MILLER, Phaii. M., M. Sc,
Professor ol Pharmacy.

JOHN FREDERICK DUGGAR, M. Sc.;
Professor of Agriculture.

ARTHUR ST. CHARLES DUNSTAN, M. E., C. E.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics.

JOHN EDWARD WIATT, M. A.,
Proiessor of Modern Languages.

EDWIN MEAD WILCOX, M. A., Ph, D.,

Professor of Biology and Horticulture.

BOLLING HALL CRENSHAW, M. E.,
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics.

*Died January 23, 1902.

(a) Absent on leave, at University in Germany.

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Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
james powell cocke southall, m. a.,

Associate Professor of Physics.

BENJAMIN SWEAT PATRICK, E. & M. E.,

Commandant and Acting Professor of Military Science.

ENOCH MARVIN MASON. M. Sc,

Acting Professor of Pharmacy.

ROBERT JEFFERSON TRAMMELL, C. E.,

Assistant Professor of Mechanic Arts.

MICHAEL THOMAS FULLAN, M. Sc,
Assistant Professor of Mechanic Arts.

CLIFFORD LeROY HARE, M. Sc,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

WILLIAM OSCAR SCROGGS, M. Sc,
Assistant Librarian, and Assistant in English.

WILLIAM WELCH HILL, E. & M. E.,
Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

ARTHUR FLOURNOY JACKSON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Sub-Freshman English and Mathematics.

PAUL SHIELDS HALEY, B. Sc,
Assistant in Civil Engineering and Drawing.

JOHN TALBERT LETCHER, B. Sc,
Assistant in English.

(a) JAMES BAXTER JACKSON, B. Sc,
Assistant in Chemistry.

(&) MATTHEW SCOTT SLOAN, B. Sc,

Assistant in Electrical Engineering.

• JESSE WRIGHT BOYD, B. Sc,

Assistant in History and Latin.

( JAMES OLNEY GOGGANS, B. Sc,

Assistant in Veterinary Science.

HENRY EDWARD WERNER, B. Sc,

Assistant in Mechanic Arts.

(a) Appointed Jan. 2d, vice A. H. Mitchell, resigned.

(b) Appointed Jan. 2d, vice K. E. Lindrose, resigned.

COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY.

Committee on Discipline,
Professors Smith, Thach, Mell, Ross.

Committee on Entrance Examination,
Professors Smith, Thach, Petrie, Crenshaw.

Committee on Examination of Special Students,
Professors Wilmore, Dunstan, Miller.

Committee on Public Lectures,
Professors Petrie, Dunstan, Southall.

Committee on Library,
Professors Thach, Petrie, Wiatt.

Committee on Athletics,
Professors Ross, Mell, Dunstan, Thach.

Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings,
Professor Wilmore.

Curator of Museum,
Professor Mell.

Secretary of Alumni Record,
Professor Crenshaw.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT

STATION.

COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES ON EXPERIMENT STATION.

J. M. Carmichael Ozark, Ala.

Thomas Williams Wetumpka, Ala.

Jonathan Haralson Montgomery, Ala.

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STATION COUNCIL.

♦Wm. LeRoy Broun President.

°* a Smith • Acting President.

P. H. Mell . . . . v . . . Director and Botanist.

B. B. Ross m. i

* Chemist.

C ' A * Cary Veterinarian.

J ' R DuGGAR; • Agriculturist.

E. M. Wilcox Biologist and Horticulturist.

J. T. Anderson Associate Chemist.

ASSISTANTS.

C ' L ' Hake -First Assistant Chemist.

Thomas Bragg. ......; Second Assistant Cnemist>

J. C. Phelps Tnird Assistant Chemist

T. U. Culver ■. .... Superintendent of Farm.

LARK • Assistant Agriculturist.

LSTIX Assistant Horticulturist.

G. F. Freeman Student Assistant to Director.

M. J. LlDE. . r.1 ,

btudent Assistant to Director.

OFFICER IN CHARGE OF FARMERS' INSTITUTES,

Dr. C. A. Cary.
•Died Jan. 23d, 1902.

The Institute is a distinctive school of Science and
its applications; being also the State College for the
benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts estab-
lished by the State in 1872, by endowing it with the
land-grant appropriation made by the U. S. Congress
in 1862.

The leading object of the Institute, in . conformity
with the act of Congress and the acts of the State Legis-
lature, is to teach the principles and applications of

science.

In its course of instruction it gives prominence to the
sciences and their applications, especially to those that
relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts; and at the
same time the discipline and liberal education obtained
by the study of language and other sciences are not neg-
lected.

All students are required to study the English lan-
guage. 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.

In its different courses of education, work of great
value to the youth of the State is accomplished by fitting
them by a thorough science-discipline, in which manual
training in the lower classes is made a prominent fea-
ture for the successful and honorable performance of
the responsible duties of life.

While every attention is given to the mental disci-
pline 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. The Institute thus endeavors
to educate as well as instruct, to form character as well
as give information of value.

LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES FOR

INSTRUCTION.

The Institute now possesses facilities for giving
laboratory instruction in applied science in the follow-
ing departments:

I. IX AGRICTI/fUUE AND HORTICULTURE.

The farm contains 304 acres, and is supplied with
illustrative specimens of stock of select varieties.

The students of agriculture accompany the professor
in the field, garden, conservatory, stock-yard, etc., where
lectures are delivered in the presence of the objects dis-
missed, and during the year exercises in practical agri-
culture of an educational character are given the stu-
dents who enter upon this course of study.

IL IN MECHANIC ARTS.

™<* laboratory of mechanic arts is used as an aux-
iliary ,n industrial education, and as a school of man-
ual training in the arts that constitute the foundation
>f various industrial pursuits. The work performed
by the students is instructive in character, as in anv
other laboratory, and the classes are taught in sections
£ a senes of graded lessons under the supervS
the professor. I n the lower classes of the InstUuJe

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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 duties of life, whatever may he his voca-
tion. There is no attempt to teach students special
skill in constructing articles of commercial value, but
all the exercises are systematically arranged and de-
signed for purposes of education.

The wood department is located in a commodious hall,
90x50 feet, and is provided with a twenty-five horse-
power Corlias engine, a planer, circular saw, band-saw,
a buzz planer, a pattern maker's lathe, twenty-four
stands, each with a lathe and a full set of tools, and
thirty benches for carpenter work witli the tools requis-
ite for construction.

A brick building, 52xS7 feet, with two rooms, has
been constructed especially for instruction in working
iron.

One room is equipped with twenty-four forges and
tools requited for a forge department, and the other
with a Oolliau cupola furnace, a core oven, a brass fur-
nace, molding benches, foundry crane constructed by
students, and special tools for use in a foundry.

The forsre and foundry rooms are furnished witli a
fan and exhauster, supplied with power from an engine
constructed by the students in mechanic arts.

The machine department occupies a brick building,
30x100 feet, and is equipped with eleven engine lathes,
one speed lathe, one 20-inch drill press, one 10-inch
sensitive drill, one 16-inch simper, one 5-foot planer, one
6-foot planer, one universal milling machine, a corun-
dum tool grinder, a small emery grinder, a No. 1 Brown

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ft Bharpe universal grinding machine, a universal cutter

and reamer grinder, and a power hack saw.

The chipping and filing department is arranged with
benches, vises and tools for eighteen students.

Tin* 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.

III. IX PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

The chemical laboratory is supplied with modern ap-
paratus, and in its equipment affords excellent facilities
for instruction in practical chemistry and for investi-
gation.

The investigations that are undertaken in this labor-
atory by scientific experts, in 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
accommodates sixty students, a special laboratory for
Seniors that will accommodate thirty students, a lecture
room with a capacity for one hundred seats, and nine
other rooms, all appropriated to instruction and research
i ii chemistrv.

iv. in' electrical engineering.

The electrical laboratory is well supplied with mod-
ern appliances for instruction in electrical engineering
It occupies three large rooms in the basement and is
equipped with many line instruments of precision

In addition to resistance boxes, bridges, condensers,
galvanometers, dynamometers, wattmeters, photome-
ters, and other laboratory instruments, the department

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is supplied with representatives of the best types of
commercial electrical instruments from foreign and do-
mestic makers.

The laboratory is also equipped with apparatus for
making breakdown tests of insulating materials, up to
30,000 volts, also with spectroscopic apparatus for test-
ing the quality of arc light carbons.

The dynamos occupy a separate building and are oper-
ated by a twenty- five horse power Atlas engine, and a
sixty horse power Harrisburg standard engine. In this
building are installed the following dynamos :

Edison compound 12 Kilo-watt generator, Thompson-
Houston 150 light 110 volt dynamo, Weston 150 volt 25
ampere generator, Crocker- Wheeler one horse power
motor, Ideal 3 phase alternator, Brush 6 arc light dy-
namo with lamps, two Baxter street car motors, 20 horse
power each (so connected as to be used as direct or alter-
nating current motors or generators), one 5 horse power
three phrase motor, one General Electric 20-horse power
motor, one 10 light shunt dynamo, one Edison 3 Kilo-
watt generator, one Stanley induction motor with con-
densers, two bi-phase induction motors (built by stu-
dents), one 9 light Thompson-Houston arc machine, one
Fort Wayne 1 horse power alternating current motor,
a number of transformers, etc., two phase alternator and
500 volt 20 ampere generator, made by students. There
is also in connection with this department at the ex-
periment station, a ten horse power motor, made by
students, which is operated by the 500 volt generator in
the dynamo room.

V. IN PHYSICS.

The physical laboratory occupies two rooms, one of
these being permanently darkened for experimental
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Recently there has been added a concave grating spec-
trograph, a large induction coil of 12 inch spark, and
other apparatus of value.

VI. IN MINERALOGY.

This laboratory occupies a convenient room in the
basement, and is provided with tables and appliances
to accommodate thirty students, with an excellent col-
lection of minerals.

VII. IN BOTANY.

In the work of the agricultural experiment station
there is a botanical garden under the charge of the pro-
fessor of botany; investigations in botany are given spe-
cial attention, and opportunities are offered advanced
students for practical work in a laboratory especially
fitted with microscopes, tables, a dark room for photo-
graphic work, and appliances needed for instruction
and research. This department is provided with
Auzoux's clastic models of seeds and flowers for teach-
ing botany.

VIII. IN BIOLOGY.

The laboratory *>r plant morphology, histology, and
pathology adjoins the lecture room of the professor
and is well equipped with appliances for the investiga-
tion of these subjects.

A small laboratory and adjoining greenhouse are
being thoroughly equipped for work in experimental

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plant physiology and pathology. It is hoped that dur-
ing the coming year excellent facilities may then be of-
fered for the study of these objects.

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 obser-
vation and execution. A large, well-lighted drawing
room, which will accommodate fifty students, is pro-
vided with tables, lock-boxes, etc.

XI. IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

The mechanical course has been extended to include
experimental work in mechanical engineering.

The apparatus available for this instruction is as fol-
lows : A* 45-horse power Imperial Cross compound en-
gine, specially arranged for experimental work, sup-
plied with Wheeler surface condenser and Worthing-
ton air pump and circulating pump, a 25-horse power
Harris-Corliss engine, a 35-horse power Westinghouse
engine, two 9-horse power engines constructed by stu-
dents, the 100-horse power boiler belonging to the regu-
lar power plant, a Deane duplex steam pump, a 4-horse
power gasoline engine, an Ericsson hot air engine, a
New York air pump, a Westinghouse air pump, four
steam engine indicators, a separating calorimeter,
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gauge with apparatus for testing steam gauges, a Cros-
by dead weight tester with weights for correcting the
standard gauge, a 35,000-pound testing machine, a Hen-
ning micrometer extensometer, and a Carpenter calori-
meter with the necessary auxiliary apparatus for deter-
mining the heating value of different kinds of coal.

This work is now carried on in the lower story of the
annex to the chemical laboratory. This room is 30x60
feet in size, and was specially designed and fitted up
for this purpose. A three-inch steam main has been laid
from the boiler house, thus securing a steam supply in
the building for all work requiring it. The work is
thoroughly practical, and it is desired to extend it as
rapidly as the funds available for the purchase of ap-
paratus will allow.

XII.

IN PHYSIOLOGY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE.

There has been constructed for the veterinary depart-
ment a new and separate two-story building with nine
rooms. It is provided with lecture room, office, work-
ing and operating rooms for clinieal practice and
museum with skeletons of the domestic animals for in-
struction. Free clinics are given every Saturday for
the benefit of the students in veterinary science.

There is a separate dissecting room constructed with
cement floor and north roof light especially for this de-
partment. This Laboratory is used by the professor
and students each afternoon for three months.

XIII. IN PHARMACY.

The laboratory of this department occupies the sec-
ond floor of the annex to chemical laboratory, and is
prov.de,. *Jth a sufficient supply of drugs and appa
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The students work in the laboratory with the profes-
sor, from five to eight hours, six days in the week.
The facilities are increased 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 supplied with cadet rifles and
accoutrements for the corps.

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COLLEGE BriLDIXOS.

The frontispiece is a representation of the main College building.
It is 100x71 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, 90x50 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 this is a two-story structure, 40x60

feet, with a rear projection, 35x60 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 laboratory for advanced work in chemistry will accommodate
thirty students and is equipped in the same manner. Adjoining this
are two rooms which are used respectively as a balance room and
a rocm for work with spectroscope, polariscope, etc.

The second story contains a lecture room with seats and tablets
for eighty students. Around the lecture room are cases containing
crude and manufactured products, illustrating agricultural and
mechanical chemistry, prominent subjects taught in the institution.

ANNEX TO CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

This is a three-story brick building, containing rooms for phar-
macy, mechanical engineering and drawing
The Chemical Laboratory for the Agricultural Experiment Sta-
on occupies a building 60x26 feet and is appropriated exclusively
for chemical investigation and research, and not for instruction

QHEM1CAL LABORATORY,

HONOR ROLL FOR CONDUCT, 1902.

The names of the following cadets, who have received no de-
merits during the year, are placed upon the honor roll for good
conduct:

Hixon, C. B.
Holt, J. E.
Jackson, C. E.
Nelson, A. B.

Bonner, W. J.
Crumpler, L. H.
McLeod, H.
Jackson, E. C.

Allison, H. A.
Campbell, B. M.
Going, W. S.
Greene, J. B.
Hanby, E. K.
Jackson, C. J.
McAdory, I. S.
Meredith, W. M.

Burke, R. P.
Chipley, D.
Davis, H. E.
Foss, G. B.
Hill, G. B.
Hudson, J. D.
Hunt, F. E.
Kauffman, R.

SUB-FRESHMAN CLASS.

Rhodes, C. E.
Wilson, W. S.
Webb, T. J.
Webb, E. F.

SPECIAL STUDENTS.

McNeel, A. M.
Owen, W. F.
Sawyer, B. R.
Steele, B. W.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Middleton, F. S.
Newman, F. F.
Robinson, J. L.
ttiley, T. A.
Rogers, C. M. A.
Thomas, A. L.
Wood, J. W.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Matson, T. H.
Mitchell, J. H.
Rigney, P.
Rutledge, C. P.
Thornton, W. L.
Turnley, W. M.
Yonge, H. M.

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junior CLASS.

Atkinson, F. C.
Ellis, M.
Collins, C. A.
Dawson, R. G.
Feagin, C. E.
Hamilton, W. B.
Herndon, D. T.

Arnold, R. T.
Bradford, K.
Bragg, T.
Conner, H. H.
Eagar, W. H.
Felton, L. M.
Foy, J. D.
Ha gler, W. H.
Haley, P. s.
Jackson, A. F.
Jackson, J. B.
Kahn, M. D.
Kauffman, C.

Kyser, J. A.
Lide, M. J.
Snedecor, G. W.
Webb, J. 0.
Willis, W. D.
Yonge, J. E. D.

SENIOR CLASS.

Kiilebrew, E. S.
Letcher, J. T.
Lindrose, K. E.
Noll, W. L.
McCrary, W. D.
McGehee, W. B.
Parker, D. J.
Pnelps, J. C.
Stickle, H. S.
Turpin, M. C.
Werner, H. E.
Whitfield, G.
Williams, J. C.

GRADUATES IN 1901.

CLASS OF 1901.

• HONORS.

Members of the Senior Class who attained distinction with a grade
of 95 per cent, are Graduates with Highest Honor. Those who at-
tained a distinction with a grade of 90 per cent, and less than 95,
are Graduates with Honor. Those who attained less than 90 per
cent, and more than 60 per cent, are Graduates.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.
GRADUATES.

Robertson Tanner Arnold Florida

Idaline Bell Lee

Kenneth Bradford Montgomery

Samuel Hamner Browne ........... • • • • • • • • Tuscaloosa

Salmon Holmes Burns Lee

David James Castleman Hale

LeRoy Madison Felton South Carolina

James Olney Goggans Tallapoosa

Walter Lee Greene Lee

William Hope Haigler Montgomery

Michael Smith Harvey Lee

Charles Henry Haynes Bullock

Daniel Hagood Haynes Dallas

Arber Samuel Hertz Georgia

Robert Holland Hood ••• Jefferson

Arthur Flournoy Jackson Georgia

James Baxter Jackson Le€

Jefferson Franklin Jones • Sumter

Claude Kauffman Mobile

Bmmett Stephens Killebrew Dale

William Reid Lancaster Lee

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Walter Deems McCrary Lee

William Boyd McGehee Montgomery

Benjamin Baldwin Meriwether Montgomery

Isaac Lenoir Moore Lee

Merrill Hastings Moore Montgomery

William Louis Noll Tennessee

James Cochran Phelps Lee

James Blackmon Powell Bullock

Shepherd Harrison Roberts Montgomery

Harvey Owen Sargent Franklin

.Lyman Hall Shaw Sumter

Henry Alexander Skeggs -.Morgan

Matthew Scott Sloan , Mobile

Holland McTyeire Smith Lee

Louis Sternfeld . . . Montgomery

Leonidas Wharton Cherokee

Gaius Whitfield Marengo

Jere Crawford Williams Lee

John Rutledge Williams Jefferson

Edward Houston Wills Lee

GRADUATES WITH HONOR.

Herschel Winston Bass gt ciair

Thomas Bragg Lee

Herschel Henry Conner Macon

William Hamilton Eagar ..:.... Winston

Eugene Flynn Enslen V.'. V.V.Jefferson

John Drewry Foy Barbour

Myron Daniel Kahn L

Karl Edward Lindrose VVVVVVVVVV* .'.'.' Mississippi

Dorsey Julian Parker Escambia

Oscar Menderson Schloss Barbour

John Hunt Skeggs „

_ „ M e Morgan

Godfrey Rhodes Thomas «

,, , __ bumter

Manly Curry Turpin „. , ,

„ , Virginia

Henry Edward Werner .. m

. Texas

GRADUATES WITH HIGHEST HONOR.

Paul Shields Haley Walker

John Talbert Letcher M

Abram Hill Mitchell ° n

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POST-GRADUATE DEGREE.
MASTER OF SCIENCE.

Idaline Bell Lee

Emma Beall Culver Lee

Charles Lewis Harold Escambia

Mabel Heard Lee

John William Jepson South Carolina

Enoch Marvin Mason Conecuh

James Richard Rutland Chambers

Harvey Owen Sargent • . .Franklin

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DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS.

DISTINCTIONS.

Students who receive a grade above 90 per cent, and less than
95 in three studies in the Freshman class, in four in the Sopho-
more class, in five in the Junior, and in six in the Senior, are dis-
tinguished for excellence in scholarship, and are awarded Certifi-
cates of Distinction. Those who receive a grade above 95 per cent.
are awarded Certificates of Hignest Distinction.

JUNIOR CLASS.

DISTINCTION.

William Cruse Coles . Marshall

James Browder Garber Hale

William Bulger Hamilton Elmore

Gaston Joel Lipscomb Marengo

Walker Dorr Willis Florida

HIGHEST DISTINCTION.

Marvin Ellis Morgan

James Allen Kyser , Da ilas

Martin James Lide .Dallas

Richard Blount Shepard Mobile

George Waddell Snedecor .Jefferson

John Eayres Davis Yonge ; .Florida

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

DISTINCTION.

Rush Pearson Burke Montgomery

Dudley Chipley Flmm

Sidney Cornell Jefferson

Howard Kills Davis Mobl]e

Thomas Joseph Dowdell Montgomery

George Bridges Poss Etowa]i

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Roy Kauff man . Mobile

Walter Joseph Knight Mobile

William Lawson Thornton Talladega

HIGHEST DISTINCTION.

None.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

DISTINCTION.

Julian Sidney Chambers Montgomery

James Henderson Childs Georgia

William Lawrence Dumas Mobile

James Buchanan Green Crenshaw

Chauncey Smith Joseph Montgomery

John McDuffie t • • '• -Monroe

Frederick Shealy Middleton Chambers

Fenton Forest Newman Talladega

HIGHEST DISTINCTION.

Frederick Emanuel Geibel Montgomery

John William Mcconnell Jefferson

William Martin Shepard Mobile

Berner Leigh Shi Georgia

SPECIAL STUDENTS.

DISTINCTION.

T pft

Ethel Julia Harwell

Mollie Hal Hollifield : Lee

Pike
Herbert McLeod

Sallie Fleming Ordway Tennessee

M -. _.. .. Lauderdale

Henry Sleeth Stickle "

CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS

FOR SESSION OF 1901-1902.

GRADUATE STUDENTS.
(Residence in Alabama when State is not given.)

^ f/y//e - Residence.

Hem-hel Winston Bass St. Clair

Idaline Bell Lee

Jesse Wright Boyd Lee

.Alary Wright Boyd. . . Lee

Thomas Bragg # Lee

Marion Lara Brown Georgia

Emma Beall Culver Lee

James Olney Goggans Tallapoosa

Paul Shields Haley \_ .Walker

Michael Smith Harvey Lee

Arthur Flournoy Jackson Georgia

James Baxter Jackson Lee

Kate Meade Lane T ^

jjee

John Talhert Letcher Macon

Karl Edward Lindrose ../.'.'.'.'. ' Louisiana

Frederick Greenville Matthews L ee

Ahram Hill Mitchell Lee

Augustus Young Napier Lee

James Cochran Phelps L

Matthew Scott Sloan . ' . '. Mobile

Henry Edward Werner '.'.'.' Texag

Edward Houston Wills ['" L

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undergraduate students,
senior class.

Oliver Hannibal Alford Marshall j I

William Marvin Askew Georgia H

Frederick Cornelius Atkinson Dale

Charles Homer Billingsley . Elmore ■

Edward Lambeth Carroll Florida ■

William Cruse Coles . *. • Marshall , j • j

Clyde Allen Collins Hale

Alpheus Mallette Davis Florida

Robert Geoghegan Dawson Montgomery

Jesse Duncan Elliott Minnesota

Marvin Ellis . . . . . Morgan

James Douglas Farley I jee

Clarence Eugene Feagin Bullock

James Browder Garber . Hale

Arthur Rodfer Gray • Florida

Jeremiah Warren Gwin Jefferson

William Houston Gwin • • • Jefferson

William Bulger Hamilton Elmore ■

Clifton Duane LTaynie Lee ■

William Tillman Heard • • Lee

Dallas Tabor Herndon Henry

Mollie Hal Hollifield Lee

Franklin Jerome Houston .Jefferson

Collins James Johnson Missouri

Morris Ketchum ^ York . I

Howard Malcolm Kilpatrick Georgia H

Martin James Lide Dallas

Gaston Joel Lipscomb Marengo j

Earle Irwin McBryde AN ll( ^ x ■

Thomas Michael McCarroll Florida ■

Henry Bigham Park Georgia ■

Douglass Welles Peabody Illinois

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George Clement Sequiera Nicaragua

Brady Wilkinson Steele Autauga

Richard Blount Shepard Mobile

Enrico Alfonso Washington .Georgia

John Osceola Webb Coosa

Walker Dorr Willis Florida

John E-.iyres Davis Yonge Florida

JUNIOR CLASS..

Albert Miner Avery . . Florida

Marshall Leonard Bize Georgia

James Victor Blackwell Calhoun

Stewart Dixon Brown Henry

fRyland Crews Bryant Jefferson

Bush Pearson Burke Montgomery

Robert Wright Cabaniss Jefferson

Thomas Arthur Caddell Etowah

f William Julius James Chase. Georgia

Dudley Chinlev ™ ^

vtn\u ' * * ' Florida

>> imam Hudmon Cooper Lee

Sidney Cornell '* V. V/. Jefferson

( buries Sanders Culver t

Howard Ellis Davis . . . , \ \ " \ [ ] \ ',[ } [ [ \ ' ' ;. ' ; ] ' [ \ ^

Wi ham Watson Dam MoWle

V HI .am Wert Dinsmore M

I homas Joseph Dowdell Montgomery

tWffliam Eugene Finch ......... fV rida

George Bridges Fobs Etowah

George Fouche Freeman .'.".Cherokee

i;*^ Madison

earnest Cecil Haynie

Hell George Hazard n',\.

HenrvHiden Calhoun

George Bloise Hill V. if* e f ° n

Wilhurn Hill . ' ; Talladega

Etowah

t Not hi full standing.

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Alexander Grice Horn ... Sumter

James Daughtry Hudson Georgia

Roy Kauffman . . . . Mobile

Walter Joseph Knight • • -Mobile

George Duncan Lesesne Mobile

Percy McLean Marshall Georgia

Winfield Scott Martin Jefferson

John VanValkenburg Matthews Madison

Robert Peyton Mims * Jefferson

John Harris Mitchell . , Georgia

Thomas William Morgan Jefferson

Frank Elmer Miller Calhoun

Sallie Fleming Ordway Tennessee

James Porter Paterson Montgomery

f David Philips Pruett Bullock

Wallace Powell Pruitt • -Lowndes

f George Daniel Handle • • Jefferson

John Patrick Rembert Mississippi

Paul Rigney Madison ^

William Richard Rison . . . . Madison

Tod Hewitt Roberts Jefferson

Carl Robinson Tallapoosa

William Watson Rutland Chambers

Clifford Philip Rutledge Lee

Hans Schmidt Jefferson .

John Rice Searcy Conecuh I

Walter Otey Shivers Perr ^ j

Edmund Rhett Taber .... . Montgomery j

Edward Taylor ..Marengo

Louis Earle Thornton Florida

William Lawson Thornton Talladega

Holmes Fielding Troutman • • • Georgia

Filo Harris Turner .•• ...Florida

William Micou Turnley Elmore

Joseph Dorrah Walker • Jefferson

Henry Matthew Yonge Honda

f Not in full standing.

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SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Henry Alexander Allison Sumter

William Leroy Alston South Carolina

John Shillman Arnold Florida

Frank Gordon Bell Lee

John Ambrose Beckham Lee

William Arthur Branan Georgia

Jefferson Edward Brown Jefferson

Andrew Duke Cameron Macon

f Borden Montgomery Campbell Greene

Emmett Tulane Camp Etowah

Julian Sidney Chambers Montgomery

Alan Armistead Chester New York

James Henderson Childs Georgia

Victor Hugo Clements Limestone

William Shapard Dowdell Lee

William Lawrence Dumas Mobile

George Dunglingson '/.. Talladega

Verlie Boy Emm* Jefferson

Devotie Glover Ewing .Lowndes

Edwin Washington Ewing Lowndes

Clarence Evelyn Field Jefferson

Walter Summerville Going Jefferson

Jarne* Buchanan Green . . .'.Crenshaw

Ieyinan Hagedorn Geor ^ a

Leonard Park Hall Jefferson

W alter Leonidas Harwell j ^

Guy David Hawkins .' .' [[ [ [',[j e&er ^ u

TJohn David Hudson T

Charles Jefferson Jackson [[[.]] ] [ [ Montgomery

Donald Van de Water Jenkins ^eg»

Walter Wier Johnston Calno * n

Allen Green Jone, Dallas

Hilary Boston Jones Washington

Chauncey Smith Joseph Montgomery

t Not in full standing.

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Isham Kimbell Clark

Frank Ragan King Jackson

Edward Philip Lacey Jefferson

Harry Thomas Landrum Jefferson

Tracy Lay Etowah

Henry Richard Lurcher Mobile

Isaac Sadler Mc Adory Jefferson

John William McConnell Jefferson

John McDuffie Monroe

Henry McDonnell Madison

Thomas Pettus McElderry Talladega

William Hugh McEniry .Jefferson

William Monroe Meredith Greene

Arthur Wilhelm Merkel Jefferson

Frederick Shealy Middleton Chambers

William Pittman Moon Coosa

Lee Penn Montgomery Lee

Edward Owen Perry • • .Georgia

t Anderson Petrinovich • • • • Mobile

Forney Renf ro kee

Thomas Shepard Roche Mobile

James Lon Robinson Jefferson

Charles McPherson Rogers Sumter

James Emmet Seale Sumter

William Martin Shepard Mobile

Berner Leigh Shi ..•• Georgia

Washington Irving Shi • Georgia

Solomon Kauffman Simon • • Marengo

fJohn Floyd Smith Calhoun

Zachary Pope Smith • • • • .Jefferson

Paul Stewart Jefferson

Joseph Churchill Strong Mobile

John Randolph St. John M °bile

Albert Lee Thomas « Lee

f Not in full standing.

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Thornton Albert Ward Lee

William Francis Ward Lee

f Francis Hobbs Watson Dallas

William Clifford Wear Lee

Robert Eubank Williams Jefferson

John Mayer Wilson Clark

William Mason Wilson Etowah

Cullen Haddley Wimberly Sumter

John Washington Wood Jefferson

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Hiram Victor Arnold Florida

Eric Alsobrook Lee

Franklin King Beck Wilcox

Frederick Rudolph Bell Lee

Theodore Chesbro Bowling Washington

James Seaborn Boyd Montgomery

Thomas Cobb Bradford Lee

Samuel Davis Brown Georgia

Sylvanus Burney Chambers

Dugald Herbert Carmiehael Jefferson

f Frank Furness Cawthon ... Dallas

Lambert Alexander Chambliss Autauga

Lemuel Jackson Cobb .'.Cherokee

Lynn Lewis Conner Macon

Balius Pinckney Cooper '. Washington

Robert Cummins Dallas

l^dward James Duncan \\\\\\ [ \ '. Ta'liapoosa

Robert Lee Ellis Aut

James Chester Elmer . .. Mississippi

^f r ^T^f linger Ma ^on

fClaud Belle Etheredge Dalla

Willis Marone Etheridge \ . \\\\\\\\ V///^^

Frank Trimble Evans . r

Bertram Ezekiel .... Georgia

• Butler

f Not in full standing.

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Edgar Earl Ferrell Greene

f John Heggie Findlay Hale

Welham Humphrey Foy Barbour

Mither William Francis .Randolph

f Benjamin Shields Gilmer Choctaw

Frank Lovell Gonce Tennessee

Edward Alexander Graham Autauga

Edward Servanios Hitch Georgia

f James Elliott Holt . . Russell

Frank Parkinson Howard Macon

Percy Wilbur Hudson Lee

Frank Paul Hurt Jackson

Charles Edwin Jackson • . Madison

George Wallace Jackson Lee

Frederick McClendon Jenkins Georgia

Earl Eugene Jenks Mobile

Arthur Dean Jones • • ; • • ^^ e

Earl Kauffman ......../ .Mobile

Albert Roy Killebrew Dale

Bertram Joseph Lane Tall dega

fMcCloy Harding Martin .. Lee

Coke Smith Matthews , • Jefferson

Charles Whitaker May • • • • • Russell

George Elisha McCord Jefferson

Richard McCulloh Louisiana

Claude Cooper McLean Covington

Louis Walton Montgomery Lee

Harry Redwood Murray Mobile

Cicero Lewis Nelson • • Baldwin

John Haygood Paterson • • • • Montgomery

Wert Horace Peace • • • • -Jefferson

John Henry Peebles Limestone

Monroe Thomas Penn Lee

I^nry Clarence Perkins Barbour

f Not in full standing.

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John Ross Philips St. Clair

George Wallace Poste.il Jefferson

John* Henry Powell Lee

Marshall (lowan Price Marengo

Francis Esten Purifoy Wilcox

Frank Bellamy Rutledge Lee

Robert Hyde Sanders . .. Hale

Walter Robert Samford Lee

Batt Lockard Spain Texas

Linwood Seale '. Sumter

Marvin Pearce Summers Lea

G rover Cleveland Thompson Macon

John Edward Thigpen Lowndes

Henry Howard Thornton Talladega

William Biggers Tucker Lee

Perry Williams Turner ... . . .Colbert

Charles Spurgeon Waldrop Jefferson

Walter Van Weatherby Mississippi

Elbert Pain Webb Cherokee

Fletcher Gordon Webb Lee

James Samuel Webb ' Lee

Samuel Borders Wilson '. . . . V. TaHadeo^a

, John Douglas Wilkins Marengo

•Edward Louis Wright L * e

Oliver Earle Young gumter

SPECIAL AND IRREGULAR STUDENTS.
Abbreviations: Ph-Pharmacy; E. & M. E.-Electrical and Mechan-
ical Engineering; C.-Chemistry; Ag.-Agriculture; C E -Civil

Engineering; Mech. A.-Mechanic Arts; E . E.-Electrical En^in-
eering. °

Bessie Susan Alvis T

• Lee

Ralph Calloway Armstrong . . Ph Lc

Robert Trammell Babgy C. E Lee

Martin Vanburen Beason . . . Mech. A St Clair

Herman Davidson Blake. . . Mech. A. ......... . Florida

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Hyman Blumberg Chambers

William Bonner E. & M. E Wilcox

Marvin Fitzpatrick Boykin Lee

Charles Franklin Bradshaw Randolph

William Jefferson Bruister. . .Ag Choctaw

Frank Barnard Clark Mobile

Willis Gaylord Clark . . . . E. & M. E Michigan

William Bather Coleman . . . . C. E Colbert

Henry Denegre Jefferson

Woodson Lea Ennk Ag Sumter

Arthur Fincher Ph Lee

James William Flanagan Ph Lee

Daisy Douglas Foster Lee

Marcus Luculus Foster E. E Etowah

William Alexander Frazer. . . Ph Lee

Charles Williams Gonce Tennessee

Alexander Hamilton Green ...... Florida

Kernon Hugh Gaines Chambers

Leonard Graham Gresham . Mech. A. Autauga

James Coulson Harper C. E Mississippi

Ethel Julia Harwell . . . • • • Lee

Robert Hinton Hogg Georgia

William Dana Hubbard . . E. & M. E Dallas

Mell Frazer Jackson . . .Ph tee

John Sandford Jewett Ph Florida

William Micou Jordan ...... Ph Elmore

Walter Maurice Jones-
Williams EL E Lee

William Jackson Marsh. . . .Ph Lee

Allen Davis McLain Ph Lee

Herbert McLeod Ph Crensba.w

Allen Massilon McNeel . . . E. & M, E Montgomery

George Newburg Montgomery Mobile

Jabez Curry Nelson C. E Jefferson

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Fenton Forest Newman Talladega

Louis Milton Noll Ph Jeffenson

Albert Welman Pratt C. Madison

Laurens Walter Pierce. ..E. & M. E Elmore

John Vincent Pierson C Perry

Oscar Early Rutland Mech. A Lee

William Harvey Robertson . . . . Ph Jackson

Benjamin Riley Sawyer Ph Calhoun

Edward Ramsey Scott Tennessee

Fletcher Porter Sewell Ag Cherokee

Rufus Pew Shuptrine Ph Dallas

Julian Cassius Smith E. & M. E .Macon

Hunter Molton Smith E. E Jefferson

Robert Ware Sistrunk Elmore

Quinton Sorrell C Talladega

Cecil Pitts Stowe Ph Lee

Benjamin Walton Taylor ... .Jefferson

Roy Lee Thornton Ph Bullock

James Feagin Tompkins. . . . Ag .Lee

Alma Cole Tompkins Lee

Conrad Lee Thompson Mobile

James Cooper Usrey Ph Jefferson

Fletcher Peavey Whatley . . Mech. A Lee

Judson Franklin Webb. . . . C. E Lee

St. John Wilson Mobile

Walter Rivers Whitman ..... Ph [ Lee

Abner Melvin Windham Ph Dale

SUB-FRESHMAN CLASS.

Leslie Sheldon Abercrombie Macon

Leo Abraham Montgomery

Thomas Eaton Alexander Marengo

Ignacio Alfonso * * Cu £ a

Otis DeWitt Alsobrook Lee

Thomas Henry Bass Butler

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Walter Pendleton Bass . Butler

Conner Benbow Crenshaw

Robert Leroy Bowling Washington

Edwin Matherson Bragg Lee

Edward Crawford Florida

Charles Edward Crawford Talladega

Benjamin Harris Cross Lee

James Lile Cross Lee

Shelby Montgomery Cullom Jefferson

Benjamin Cropp Davis Mobile

John Carter Detwiler . Montgomery

Walter Dean . Cullman

Pedro Echezabal Cuba

George Hardaway Frazer Lee

Raphael Garcia Cuba

Edward Daniel Gates . Dallas

Raymond David Gillespie Jefferson

Howard Wilson Going . . . . . Jefferson

William Minthon Goodger v . . Perry

Carlos Houghton Cuba

Frank Brown Johnston Dallas

Washington Cleveland Jones • • . Pike

Clyde White Jones i Bibb

Carter Wallace King Florida

Michael King • • • .Florida

Cornelius Malone Greene

Ulysses Claud Martin Dallas

Adalberto Masvidal Cuba

John Quarterman McCaskill Florida

Benjamin McMillan Mobile

Frederick Augustus Miller Covington

David Minge • Hale

William Leroy Mitchell Lee

Vernon Moore Hale

John Bobbins Nettles Monroe

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James Hudson Otey — . Perry

Thomas Henry Pattison Lee

William Britain Powledge Lee

Jesse Henry Pryor Perry

Claude Hughes Scheiffelin Mobile

Edward Cooper Smith Georgia

Guy Clarence Stuart .. Washington

Robert Wilson Trimble Jefferson

Charles Winston Thompson Macon

Carl Venable Jefferson

Ross Myron Vest Jefferson

James Pennington Vickers . . . Clark

Joaquin Nilo Vila Cuba

Emique Vila .Cuba

Lee Anderson West Perrv

Willis Carter W T est Perry

Dinnis Timothy Williamson . . . . . Covington

SUMMARY.

( rraduate Students [ 22

Senior Class 39

Junior Class -

feophomore Class 77

Freshman Class . ' ['- ^

Special and Irregular Students ........ 65

Total in College Classes U8

Sub-Freshman Class [ 58

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NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EACH SUBJECT OF STUDY.

English 338

History 227

French 31

German 38

Latin 101

Mental Science 8

Political Economy .... 33

Mathematics 333

Chemistry 156

Chemical Laboratory . . 146

Agriculture 97

Physics 216

Botany 109

Horticulture 17

Geology 43

Civil Engineering .... 29

Electrical Engineering. 57

Mechanical Engineer'g. 55

Biology 12

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Drawing 293

Mechanic Arts 267

Military Department .. 378

Mineralogy 21

Physical Laboratory. . . 46

Physiology 83

Veterinary Science ... 17

Pharmacy 41

Bacteriology 15

RESIDENCE BY STATES.

333
24
23

6
4

Alabama

Georgia

Florida

Cuba

Mississippi

Tennessee

Louisiana *

].......... 1

.......... 1

Texas . .
Missouri
Michigan
Illinois . .

New York •••• • • • • • 2

Nicaragua
Minnesota ....
South Carolina

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MILITARY ORGANIZATION.

1901-1902.

President,
*W. L. BROUN.

Acting President,
0. D. SMITH.

Commandant,
COL. B. S. PATRICK.

Surgeon,
J. H. DRAKE.

Battalion Staff:

Cadet Captain W. D. Willis, Assistant to Commandant.
Cadet First Lieutenant, D. W. Peabody, Adjutant.
Cadet Captain C. A. Collins, Quartermaster.
. Cadet First Lieutenant M. Ketchum, Assistant Adjutant.
Cadet Sergeant W. J. Knight, Sergeant Major.
Cadet Sergeant L. E. Thornton, Quartermaster Sergeant.

Cadet Captains:

1. J. E. D. Yonge. 3. W. C. Coles.

2. J. B. Garber. 4. H. B. Park.

Cadet First Lieutenants:

1. J. D. Farley. 5. D. T. Herndon.

2. F. J. Houston. 6 . B . W. Steele

3. J. O. Webb. 7. E. A. Washington.

4. W. B. Hamilton. 8. E. I. McBryde.

Cadet Second Lieutenant:

1. E. L. Carroll. *

Cadet First Sergeants:
1. H. E. Davis. 3 . D . Chipley

, 2 - W - W - Davis - 4. H. M. Yonge.

♦Died January 23, 1902.

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Cadet Sergeants:

1. T. J. Dowdell.

2. A. M. Avery.

3. P. M. Marshall.

4. W. W. Rutland.

5. J. H. Mitchell.

6. W. L. Thornton.

7. E. Taylor.

8. W. W. Dinsmore.

9. J. D. Walker.

1. B. L. Shi.

2. J. H. Childs.

3. J. McDuffie.

4. P. S. Middleton.

5. W. L. Dumas.

6. C. S. Joseph.

7. W. M. Wilson.

8. J. L. Robinson.

10. G. B. Hill,

(Color Sergeant.)

11. P. Rigney.

12. R. P. Burke.

13. W. M. Turnley.

14. G. F. Freeman.

15. T. A. Caddell.

16. E. C. Haynie.

17. H. F. Troutman.

Cadet Corporals

9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.

T. Lay.

J. S. Chambers.
W. S. Going.
C . J . Jackson .
T. P. McElderry.
H. R. Luscher.
A. G. Jones.
W. L. Harwell.

R. C. Armstrong.
H.V.Arnold.
F. C. Atkinson.
A. M. Avery.

F. G. Bell.
H. Blumberg.
L. J. Cobb.
M. Ellis.

V. R. Emrick.

G. H. Frazer.
W. L. Harwell.
G. D. Hawkins.

THE A. P. I. CADET BAND.
M. Thomas Fullan, Bandmaster.
J. C. Harper, Principal Musician.

H. Hagedorn.

J. D. Hudson.
A. W. Merkel.
G. JST- Montgomery.
J. P. Rembert.
G. C. Sequiera.
S. K. Simon.
J. R. St. John.
E. R. Taber.
A. L. Thomas.
A. Petrinovich.
W. V. Weatherby.

Cadets of the graduating class who were reported to the Adjutant
General, U. S. Army, for publication in the "Official Army Register
as having ranked highest in the Military Department:

" 1889 189 °-

«J*J P. D. Milstead.

A. St. Dunstan. *

B. H. Crenshaw. J. W. Bivins.
A. J. Burr. G.W.Emory.

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1891.

L. E. Baker.
C. C. Johnson.
F. J. Bivins.

1892.

H. F. Dobbin.
A. L. Jones.
C. L. Brown.

1893.

Joel Dumas.
C. H. Smith.
J. F. Webb.

1894.

C. S. Andrews.
P. P. McKeown.
R. T. Dorsey.

1895.

S. L. Coleman.
H. H. Smith.
L. B. Gammon.

A. L. Alexander.
W. L. Fleming.

1897.

P. G. Clark.
G. M. Holley.
G. N. Mitcham.

1898.

A. H. Clark.

A. McB. Ransom.

John Haralson.

1899.

I. F. McDonnell.
A. H. Feagin.
T. W. Wert.

1900.

E.M . Mason.
H. P. Powell.
C. W. Nixon.

1901.

A. F. Jackson.
J. D. Foy.
P. S. Haley.

1896.

W. M. Williams.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

All applicants for admission should present testi-
monials of good moral character, and those who come
from other colleges must present certificates of honor-
able discharge.

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 sub-
jects :

1. Geography and History of the United States.

(a) Reading, The composition of 3902 will be upon
subjects drawn from one or more of the following works
in English Literature: (1) Hughes's Tom Brown at
lluqby; (2) Southey's Life of Nelson; (3) Shakes-
peare'^ JuHm Caesar; (4) Longfellow's Erangeline;
(5) Scott's Ivanhoe; (0) Shakespeare's Merchant of
Yenice; (7) Irving^ Sketch Book; (8) Macaulay's
Essay 'on Milton; (9) Scott's Mamiion; (10) Dick-
ens's David Gopperftcld.

The candidate will be required to present evidence of
a general knowledge of the subject matter, and to an-
swer simple questions on the lives of the authors. This
part of the examination is intended only to test a gen-
eral knowledge of the substance of the books.

(b) Study and Practice. This part of the examina-
tion presupposes.the thorough study of the style of the
work, and will be upon Julius Vaesar and the Essay
on Milton.

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Preparation and examinatvon on these works will be
necessary before the student is classed as regular in any
course.

3. Mathematics — (a) Arithmetic, including funda-
mental operations!; common and decimal fractions; de-
nominate numbers; the metric system; percentage, in-
cluding interest and discount ; proportion. ( b ) Algebra
to quadratic equations; especial preparation is urged in
fundamental operations, factoring, multiples, divisors
and fractions; two books of geometry.

4. Those applicants who desire to continue the study
of Latin should be qualified to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination in Latin grammar and the first two books of
Caesar, in addition to the above subjects.

In pronouncing Latin it is recommended that a be pronounced as
in father, a as the a in Cuba;~e as in prey; e as in men; t as in ma-
chine, i as in cigar; o as in old; o as in obey; u as in rule; u as in
full; j as y in yard; c, always as k in king; g always as g in get.

For admission to the higher classes, students should
be prepared to stand satisfactory examination in all
of the studies of the lower classes, as shown in the course
of study. Students applying for admission to the sopho-
more class will be examined in mathematics through
quadratic equations and logarithms in Algebra, and on
seven books in geometry. 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 satisfactory. But if not
prepared to pass an examination in history and chem-
istry at the time of application, the applicant will be re-
quired before graduation to- pa* a satisfactory exami-
nation on these subjects.

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It is absolutely essential that students who hope to
succeed should be well grounded in Arithmetic, Algebra,
and Geometry.

A working knowledge of the metric system should also
be obtained.

ADMISSION ON CERTIFICATE.

Appicants will be admitted without examination on presenting 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, ana
are granted the privilege set forth in the following:

"Students from certificate schools will be admitted to the fresh-
" man class without examination upon the certificate of the presi-
dent 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."

The privilege of admitting students of the Sophomore class on
certificate will be granted only to those approved schools that have
had a continuous existence for five years or more and have pre-
viously had pupils admitted to that class without conditions.

The following form of certificate will be used:

I hereby certify that A , B has attended the

{name the school or academy) for years and has studied

the following subjects:

in History (name the books)

in English..... • (name the books)

in Algebra. . (state amount accomplished)

in Geometry ( state amount accomplished)

in Latin....'.'.'.'....... • ^ state books r6ad)

and having passed a satisfactory examination on these subjects as

required in the Catalogue for admission to the • • -class,

I recommend him for the same.

Admission by certificate is regarded as provisional.

That is though admitted to the class for which, the certificate
calls, the aoplicant may be required to take special examination
in any subject in which his preparation proves unsatisfactory, or,
after a fair trial, he may be dropped to a lower class, if he fails to
maintain standing in the class to which he may be admitted.

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CERTIFICATE SCHOOLS.

University Military School, Mobile J. D. Wright.

Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa W. H. Verner.

University School, Montgomery J. M. Starke.

Mt. Willing High School, Mt. Willing J. Knight.

State Normal School, Jacksonville. C. W. Daugette.

Male Academy, Huntsville F. Puryear.

Furman Academy, Livingston L. A. Cockrell.

High School, Opelika J. M. Smallwood.

University Military School, Clanton E. Y. McMorries.

Eighth District Agricultural School, Athens M. K. Clements.

Sixth District Agricultural School, Hamilton G. A. Holley.

Eutaw Male Academy, Eutaw . . H. C. Horton.

Boys' High School, Anniston H. C. Gunnels.

Taylor's School, Birmingham . . W. P. Taylor.

University High School, Birmingham. . I. J. White, M. B. Dickinson.

Fourth District Agricultural School, Sylacauga A. G. Seay.

Gaylesville High School John R. Ray.

Carrollton Academy l. V. Rosser.

Ninth District Agricultural School, Blountsville J! A. B. Lovett.

Gadsden High School I. W. Hill.

Boyd High School, Ramer B. H. Boyd.

Dadeville High School j. D . La ne.

Prattville High School A . w . Holstun.

Eufaula High School F> L . McCoy.

Union Springs High School j. M . Sanders.

Montgomery High School c L . Floyd.

Calera Academy C.C. Slaton.

Southern Agricultural School, Abbeville J. B. Murphy.

Barnes's School, Montgomery E# R> Bames *

Jackson Agricultural School j B Murphy.

Spring Lake School w c Griggs '

Pensacola Classical School H C Armstrong

Eufaula District Academy ; . . R . E Brookg ;

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 seventeen years of age, and if a
candidate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination 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,
and may be admitted at an age less than seventeen, with
a resident of Auburn acting as guardian, if application
is approved by the Faculty.

(a) In English — Proficiency in spelling and punctuation; Gram-
mar (Lock wood-Whitney) ; Rhetoric (Lockwood's Lessons and Car-
penter's Rhetoric); Scudder's Masterpieces of American Literature;
Syie's From Milton to Tennyson.

For requirements in reading in literature see page 41.

(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 Spherical Trigonometry, as in Wentworth.

(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.

Botany will constitute a required part of the general course for
young women who are candidates for a degree.

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.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

Entrance examinations will be held on Wednesday,
the 10th of September, the day on which the session
opens. Candidates will also be examined during the
session, when application is made for admission.

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certificate schools.

University Military School, Mobile J. D. Wright.

Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa W. H. Verner.

University School, Montgomery J. M. Starke.

Mt. Willing High School, Mt. Willing J. Knight.

State Normal School, Jacksonville C. W. Daugette.

Male Academy, Huntsville F. Puryear.

Furman Academy, Livingston L. A. Cockrell.

High School, Opelika J. M. Smallwood.

University Military School, Clanton E. Y. McMorries.

Eighth District Agricultural School, Athens. M. K. Clements.

Sixth District Agricultural School, Hamilton G. A. Holley.

Eutaw Male Academy, Eutaw H. C. Horton.

Boys' High School, Anniston H. C. Gunnels.

Taylor's School, Birmingham w. P. Taylor.

University High School, Birmingham. . I. J. White, M. B. Dickinson.

Fourth District Agricultural School, Sylacauga A. G. Seay.

Gaylesville High School John R. Ray.

Carrollton Academy . ...L. V. Rosser.

Ninth District Agricultural School, Blountsville j; A. B. Lovett.

Gadsden High School I. W. Hill.

Boyd High School, Ramer B. H. Boyd.

Dadeville High School j. D . La ne.

Prattville High School A . w . Rolstun.

Eufaula High School P L McCoy.

Union Springs High School j. M . Sanders.

Montgomery High School c L . Floyd

Calera Academy C. ' C. Slaton.'

Southern Agricultural School, Abbeville j. b. Murphy.

Barnes's School, Montgomery E R Barnes.

Jackson Agricultural School j B Murphy

Spring Lake School w c Griggs '

Pensacola Classical School H . C. Armstrong.'

Eufaula District Academy R E Brookg

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 seventeen years of age, and if a
candidate for a degree, be able to pass a satisfactory ex-
amination 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 pa«s a
satisfactory examination in two of the subjects named,
and may be admitted at an age less than seventeen, with
a resident of Auburn acting as guardian, if application
is approved by the Faculty.

(a) In English — Proficiency in spelling and punctuation; Gram-
mar (Lockwood-Whitney); Rhetoric (Lockwood's Lessons and Car-
penter's Rhetoric); Scudder's Masterpieces of American Literature;
Syie's From Milton to Tennyson.

For requirements in reading in literature see page 41.

(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 Spherical Trigonometry, as in Wentworth.

(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.

Botany will constitute a required part of the general course for
young women who are candidates for a degree.

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.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

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Applicants who are not prepared to stand the entrance
examinations for full admission to the freshman class
are admitted to the sub-college department, provided
they are fifteen years of age, and are found after exami-
nation qualified to profit by the instruction given. Those
who, after admission, are inattentive to their studies,
and neglectful of their duties will be required to with-
draw, but those who are studious and make sufficient
progress will be advanced to full admission to the fresh-
man 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 prescibed course for which he is qualified;
and 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 studv for
which they may be qualified.

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For an applicant to enter upon the study of Electrical
and Mechanical Engineering as a special or irregular
student, he must have studied algebra through quadrat-
ics and logarithms, plane geometry, and plane trigonom-
etry.

The professor in charge of a department will decide
by examination whether a special student is prepared
for admission to his class.

A student who does not take all the studies in a class of one of
the degree courses, as prescribed in the catalogue, and is permitted
to take an irregular course, will be assigned to a member of the
Faculty, who will act as his special adviser, and when his course of
study has been approved by the Faculty, no other change will be
permitted without the endorsement of his adviser.

found deficient.

ADMISSION TO HIGHER CLASSES.

At the beginning of each term a student in the sub-freshman class
may, on application approved by the Faculty, be examined for ad-
mission to the freshman class in history, English, mathematics, and
be admitted to the freshman class in that subject only.

Students who have completed satisfactorily all the studies of the
sophomore class, as prescribed in the catalogue, in any one of the
regular degree courses, can enter, without condition, the junior
class in any course, except in the general course, or the course m
pharmacy, in which Latin is required.

Students who are admitted to the junior class from other institu-
tions, on examinations in English, Latin, and mathematics, and who
have not completed all the studies of the sophomore class, in order
to graduate, will be required to complete the course in chemistry
and history as taught in the sophomore class.

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COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

The courses of study include the Physical, Chemical,
and Natural Sciences, with their applications; Agri-
culture; Biology; Mechanics, Astronomy, Mathematics;
Drawing; Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineer-
ing; Physiology and Veterinary Science, Pharmacy;
English, French, German and Latin Languages; His-
tory, Political Economy; Mental and Moral Sciences.

The studies are arranged in regular courses so as to
offer liberal and practical education as a preparation
for the active pursuits of life.

There are six degree courses for undergraduates, each
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science, (B. So.)
and requiring four years for its completion.

I. Course in Chemistry and Agriculture.

II. Course in Civil Engineering.

III. Course in Electrical and Mechanical En-
gineering.

TV. General Course.

V. Course in Pharmacy.

VI. Course in Chemistry and Metallurgy.

There are also three partial courses, each requiring
two years for its completion :

VII. Two- Year Course in Agriculture.

VIII. Two- Year Course in Mechanic Arts.

IX. Two- Year Course in Pharmacy.

Course I. includes theoretical and practical instruc-
tion in those branches that relate to chemistry and api-
culture, 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

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and is adapted to those who expect to enter that pro-
fession.

Course III. includes, besides the general principles
and applications of the sciences, a special course in
the applications of electricity and mechanics, and is ar-
ranged for the profession of electrical and mechanical
engineering.

Course IV. has been arranged to give a general and
loss technical education in subjects of science and lan-
guage 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 professional business. -

Course VI. provide® for thorough theoretical and prac-
tical instruction in pure and technical chemistry and
metallurgy, and in the scientific branches relating
thereto. Students taking this course also pursue the
study of German and French during the Junior and
Senior years, and are thus prepared to utilize for ref-
erence the scientific journals and works published in
those languages.

Courses VII. VIII. IX. 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.

A student who completes satisfactorily all the work of the senior
class in a department, including the laboratory work, will be awarded
a certificate of proficiency in said subject.

Students who complete either of the two-year courses will, on

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passing a satisfactory examination, receive certificates indicating
their attainments.

No degree or certificate of proficiency will be given in any course
unless the applicant has passed a satisfactory examination in ele-
mentary English. Every candidate for a degree will be required to
stand this special examination during the second term of the Senior
year.

Declamations and themes or orations are required of all regular
students pursuing courses leading to a degree.

POST-OKA I >UATE COURvSES.

A more extended post-graduate course of study may
be takes by a graduate of this College or of any other
institution of equal grade. The completion of a course
which leads to a post-graduate degree of Master of Sci-
ence requires one year's residence at the College, spent
in the satisfactory prosecution of a course of study, with
such laboratory work as may be approved by the Faculty.

The subject of the thesis must be submitted to the Faculty for
approval prior to January 1st, and the thesis given to the professor
by May 1st.

The following courses are prescribed for the degree named:

2. Master of Science in Pharmacy.— Pharmacy and Chemistry.

3. Master of Science in Civil Engineering.— Civil Engineering,
Mathematics, Analytical Mechanics.

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4. Master of Science in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. —
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering.

5. Master of Science in Mining Engineering. — Students who have
receive the degree of B. Sc. in engineering, civil, or electrical and
mechanical, or in the course of chemistry and mettallurgy, 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:

The student, if a candidate for a degree, will also be required to
prosecute the necessary studies in that course of engineering in
which he has not graduated. This course of study will be under the
charge of the professors in the different engineering departments,
the professor of Chemistry, and the professor of Mineralogy and
Geology.

Special Students in Post-Senior Studies.— Students who are not
graduates, but are qualified in special subjects to prosecute post-
senior studies, and desire to prepare themselves more thoroughly
for professional or special work in any one of the departments of en-
gineering, in chemistry or pharmacy, veterinary science, or other
subjects in which instruction is given, may, when qualified, with ap-
proval of the Faculty, enter this higher department of study and
have all the privileges of post-graduate students.

A certificate of proficiency will be given when any one subject of
a post-graduate course is satisfactorily completed.

Two degrees will not be given the same year.

PROFESSIONAL DEGREES.

The professional degree of Civil Engineer, Electrical Engineer,
Mechanical Engineer, Mining Engineer, or Pharmaceutical Chemist
will be given two years after receiving the degree of Master of
Science, provided the intervening time of two years has been spent
in a responsible position in practical engineering work in that de-
partment in which he received the degree of Master of Science, or
in practical pharmacy, and an approved thesis is submitted to the
Faculty, with a report of the character of the work done.

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

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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.

PHOTOGRAPHY.

LABORATORY INSTRUCTION.

Laboratory instruction constitutes an important fea-
ture in the courses of education provided for the students
of this Institute, and as far as possible all students are
required to enter upon laboratory work in some one de-
partment.

Laboratory instruction and practical Work are given
in the following departments :

I. Chemistry.

II. Civil Engineering, Field Work, Surveying, Etc.
III. Agriculture.
IV. Botany.

V. Mineralogy.

VI. Biology.

VII. Technical Drawing.
VIII. Mechanic Arts.
IX. Physics.

X. Electrical Engineering.
XL Mechanical Engineering.
XII. Physiology and Veterinary Science.
XIII. Pharmacy.

No TE . 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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I. COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per

week.

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.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

2. Physiology.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

FRESHMAN CLASS.
Second Term.

5. English. 5.

2. History. 3.

5. Mathematics. 5.

3. Elementary Physics. 2.
3. Drawing. 3.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6.
3. Military Drill. 3.

Third Term.

English.

History.

Mathematics.

Agriculture.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Military Drill.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term.

3. English.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.
2. Physiology.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

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.
2. Physiology.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term.

3. English. 3.

3. Physics. 3.

3. Industrial Chemistry.3.
2. Agriculture. 2.

4. Botany (Lab'y.) 4.

1. Military Tactics? 1.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9.

2. Veterinary Science. 2.

2. Clinical Lab'y. 2.

3. Military Drill. 3.

First ferm.

2. English Literature. 2.

2. Mental Science (d). 2.

2. Physics. 2.

2. Geology. 2.

5. Biology. 5.
2. Agricultural Chemis. 2.

1. Military Science. 1.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9.

2. Veterinary Science. 2.
2. Clinical Lab'y. 2.

Second Term.

English. 3.

Physics. 3.
Industrial Chemistry.3.

Agriculture. 2.

Botany (Lab'y.) 4.

Military Tactics. 1.

Chemical Lab'y. 9.

Veterinary Science. 2.

Clinical Lrab'y. 2.

Military Drill. 3.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

, Political Economy. 2.

Mental Science (d). 2.

Astronomy. 2.

Geology. 2.

Biology. 5.
Agricultural Chemis. 2.

Military Science. 1.

Chemical Lab'y. 9.

Veterinary Science. 2.

Clinical Lab'y. 2.

Third Term.

English.
Physics.

Industrial Chemistry.
Horticulture.
Botany (lrab'y.)
Military Tactics.
Chemical Lab'y.
Veterinary Science.
Clinical Lab'y.
Military Drill.

Third Term.
Political Economy.
Mental Science (d).
Astronomy.
Geology.
Biology.

Agricultural Chemis.
Military Science.
Chemical Lab'y.
Veterinary Science.
Clinical Lab'y.

(a) Begins March 1st. (b) Also Practical Agriculture w^* M *~,
(c) Begins Feb. 15th. (d) French or German may be substituted.

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II. COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per

week.

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.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. General Chemistry.
2. Agriculture (b).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.

3. English, French or

German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.

5. Drawing.

1. Military Tactics.

6. Lab'y. Mechanic

Arts (c).

1. Field Work, Engi-
neering.

3. Military Drill.

FRESHMAN CLASS.
Second Term.

5. English.

2. History.

5. i.^atnematics.

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).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

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. Mechanic

Arts fc^

1. Field Work, Engi-
neering.

3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.

First Term. Second Term.

2. English Literature, 2. Political Economy,

(d).
2. Physics.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

Id)
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

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).

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. English, French or

German.
3. Physics.
5. Mathematics.
5. Civil Engineering.

5. Drawing.

1. Military Tactics.

6. Lab'y. Mechanic

Arts ( c}

1. Field Work, Engi-
neering.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

2. Political Economy,

(d).
2. Astronomy.

2. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

(a) Begins March 1st.

(b) For Agriculture may be substituted Physical Laboratory.

(d) For Eng. Lit. and Pol. Econ. may be substituted for French or
German.

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5. Civil Engineering.

5, Drawing.

1. Military Science.

4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y.
Field Work, Engi-
neering.

5. Civil Engineering.

5. Drawing.

1. Military Science.

4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y.
Field Work, Engi-
neering.

5. Civil Engineering.

5. Drawing.

1. Military Science.

4. Mech. Eng., Lab'y.
Field Work, Engi-
neering.

III. COURSE IN ELECTRICAL AND MECHANI-

CAL ENGINEERING.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number of **ours
week. In * reshman and bophomore classes the same studies
prescribed as in Course II in Civil Engineering.

per
are

First Term.

3.
5.
4.

4.
4.
6.
1.
3.

English, French or
German.

Physics.

Mathematics.

Electrical Engi-
neering.

Mechanical Engi-
neering.

Mechanical Drawing. 4.

Electrical Lab'y. 4.

Mechanic Art mb'y. 6.

Military Tactics. 1.

Military Drill. 3.

5.
4.

First Term.

2. Eng. Literature, 2

(a).

2. Physics. 2.

2. Geology. 2.

3. Mathematics. 3.
5. Electrical Engi- 5.

neering.

5. Mechanical Engi- 5.

neering.
2. Electrical Designing. 2.

6. Electrical Lab'y. 6.

4. Mech. Eng. Lab'y. 4.
1. Military Science. 1.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

English, French or 3.

German.

Physics. 3.

Mathematics. 5.

Electrical Engi- 4.

neering.

Mechanical Engi- 3.

neering.
Mechanical Drawing. 4.

Electrical Lab'y. 4.

Mechanic Art Lab'y. 6.

Military Tactics. 1.

Military Drill. 3.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

Political Economy, 2.

(a).

Astronomy. 2.

Geology. 2.

Mathematics. 3.

Electrical Engi- 5.

neering.

Mechanical Engi- 5.

neering.

Electrical Designing. 2.

Electrical Lab'y. 6.

Mech. Eng. Lab'y. 4.

Military Science. 1.

Third Term.

English, French or
German.

Physics.

Mathematics.

Electrical Engi-
neering.

Mechanical Engi-
neering.

Mechanical Drawing.

Electrical Lab'y.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Military i actics.

Military Drill.

Third Term.

Political Economy,
(a).

Astronomy.

Geology.

Mathematics.

Electrical Engi-
neering.

Mechanical Engi-
neering.

Electrical Designing.

Electrical Lab'y. .

Mech. Eng. Lab'y.

Military Science.

(a) French or German may be substituted.

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IV. CHEMISTRY AND METALLURGY.

The numerals opposite the subjects indicate the number 01 hours per
weeK. In the Freshman class and Sophomore classes uie same studies
are prescribe- as in either course I in Agriculture and Chemistry or
in course V in General Course.

First Term.

3. English.
3. Physics.
3. Industrial Chemis-
try.

2. Organic Chemistry.

3. German.

4.*Mineralogy (Lab'y.)
1. Military Science.

9. Chemical Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

3. English. 3.

3. Physics. 3.

3. Industrial Chemis- 3.
try.

2. Organic Chemistry. 2.

3. German. 3.

4. Mineralogy (Lab'y.) 4.
1. Military science. 1.
9. Chemical Lab'y. 9.
3. Military Drill. 3.

First Term.

2. English and Litera- 2.
ture.

2. Physics. 2.

3. German. 3.

2. Geology. 2.

3. French. 3.
2. Metallurgy and En- 2.

gineering Chem.

1. Analytical Chemisty. 1.

1. Military Science. 1.

9. Chemical Lab'y. 9.

SENIOR CLASS.

Second Term.

Political Economy. 2.

Physics. 2.

German. 3.

Geology. 2.

French. 3.

Metallurgy anu !hm- 2.

gineering Chem.

Analytical Chemisty. 1.

Military Science. 1.

Chemical l^ab'y. 9.

Third Term.

English.
Physics.

Industrial Chemis-
try.
Organic Chemistry.
German.

Mineralogy (Lab'y.)
Military Science.
Chemical Lab'y.
Military Drill.

Third Term.
Political Economy.

Astronomy.
German.
Geology.
French.

Metallurgy and En-
gineering chem.
Analytical Chemisty.
Military Science.
Chemical Lab'y.

V. GENERAL COURSE.

The numbers opposite the subjects indicate the number of hours per

week.

First Term.

3. English.

2. History.

3. Latin.

5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art
3. Military Drill.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Second Term.
3. English.

2. History.
5. Latin.

5. Mathematics.

3. Drawing.

Lab'y. 6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. Englisn.

3. History.

3. Latin.

5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

♦Mechanic Art. Lab. may be substituted.

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SOPHOMORE CLASS.

First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

Latin.

History.

Botany (a).

Mathematics.

Gen'l. Chemistry.

Gen'l. Cnemistry.

Gen'l. Chemistry.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Chemical Lab'y.

Chemical Lab y.

Military Drill.

Military Drill.
JUNIOR CLASS.

Military Drill.

First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

English.

Physics.

Mathematics.

French.

German.

Latin.

Military Tactics.

Military Tacttcs.

Lab'y. Work (b).

Military Drill.

Military Drill.
SENIOR CLASS.

Military Drill.

First Term.

Second Term.

Third Term.

English.

Pol. Econ. (c).

Political Economy.

Mental Science.

Physics.

Astronomy.

Geology.

Frencn.

French.

German.

Latin.

Military Science.

Lab'y. Work (b).

VI. COURSE IN PHARMACY.

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. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

Second Term.

3. English.

2. History.
5. Latin.

5. Mathematics.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. English.
3. History.
3. Latin.

5. Mathematics.
3. Drawing.

2. Agriculture.

6. Mechanic Arts.

3. Military Drill.

(a) Begins March 1st. (b) The student may elect the laboratory of
any department for which he may be qualified, (c) Begins Feb. 15

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First Term.

5. Latin.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Gen'l Chemistry.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

First Term.

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Botanical Lab'y.
3. English (b).

3. Pharmacy.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab.

4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

First Term.

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.
5. Pharmacy.

12. Pharmaceutical
4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Science
3. Materia Medica.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

Second Term.

5. Latin.
3. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Gen'l Cnemistry.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Military Drill.

JUNIOR CLASS.
Second Term.

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Botanical Lab'y.
3. English (b).

3. Pharmacy.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab.

4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

SENIOR CLASS.
Second Term.

5. Biology.

6. Chemical Lab'y.
5. Pharmacy.

Third Term.

5. Latin.

3. Botany (a).

5. Mathematics.

3. Gen'l Chemistry.

2. Physiology.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Lab'y.

2. Chemical La^ y.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. Physics.

6. Chemical Lab'y.

4. Botanical Lab'y.
3. English (b).

3. Pharmacy.

9. Pharmaceutical Lab.

4. Pharmacognosy.
1. Military Tactics.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

3. Biology.
6. Toxicology.
5. Pharmacy.

Lab.12. Pharmaceutical Lab.12. Pharmaceutical Lab.
4. Pharmacognosy. 4. Pharmacognosy.

1. Military Science. 1. Military Science.
G. Materia Medica. 3. Bacteriology.

VII. TWO-YEAR COURSE IN MECHANIC ARTS.

FIRST YEAR.

First Term.

5. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Laby
3. Military Drill.

First Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3. Physics.

3. Drawing.

12. Mechanic Art Lab.

3. Military Drill.

Second Term.
5. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.
3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Laby
3. Military Drill.

SECOND YEAR.
Second Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.
12. Mechanic Art Lab.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.
5. English.
2. History.

5. Mathematics.

2. Agriculture.

3. Drawing.

6. Mechanic Art Laby
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.
3. English.
5. Mathematics.
3. Physics.
3. Drawing.
12. Mechanic Art Lab.
3. Military Drill.

(a) Begins March 1st. (b) French or German may be substituted.

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VIII. TWO-YEAR COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.

First Term.
5. English.

2. History.

5. Mathematics.

3. Elementary Physics.

3. Drawing.

4. Mechanic Art Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

2. Practical Agricul-
ture.

First Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3. Gen'l. Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricul-
ture.

3. Military Drill.

' FIRST YEAR.

Second Term.

5. English. 5.

2. History. ,2.
5. Mathematics. 5.

3. Elementary Physics. 2.

3. Drawing. 3.

4. Mechanic Art Lab'y. 4.
3. Military Drill. 3.
2. Practical Agricul- 2,

ture.

SECOND YEAR.

Second Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3. Gen'l. Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary. Science.
12. Practical Agricul-
ture.

3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

English.

History.

Mathematics.

Agriculture.

Drawing.

Mechanic Art Lab'y.

Military Drill.

Practical Agricul-
ture.

Third Term.

3. English.

5. Mathematics.

3. Gen'l. Chemistry.

4. Agriculture.
2. Physiology.

2. Veterinary Science.
12. Practical Agricul-

. ture.

3. Military Drill.

IX. TWO-YEAR COURSE IN PHARMACY.

First Term.

3. Gen'l. Chemistry.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. English.

2. Physiology.

3. Pharmacy.

4. Pharmacognosy.
6. Mechanic Art

Lab'y (a).
3. Military Drill.

First Term.

5. Pharmacy.

5. Pharmacognosy.
12. Pharmaceutical

Lab'y.

6. Chemical Lab'y.
3. Materia Medica.
6. Botanical Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

FIRST YEAR.
Second Term.

3. Gen'l. Chemistry.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. English.

2. Physiology.

3. Pharmacy.

4. Pharmacognosy.
6. Mechanic Art

Lab'y (a).
3. Military Drill.

SECOND YEAR.

Second Term.

5. Pharmacy.

5. Pharmacognosy.
12. Pharmaceutical

Lab'y.

6. Chemical Lab'y.
3. Materia Medica.
6. Botanical Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.
3. Gen'l. Chemistry.

2. Chemical Lab'y.

3. Botany.

2. Physiology.

3. Pharmacy.

4. Pharmacognosy.
6. Mechanic Art

Lab'y (a).
3. Military Drill.

Third Term.

5. Pharmacy.

5. Pharmacognosy.
12. Pharmaceutical

Lab'y.

6. Toxicology.
3. Bacteriology.

6. Botanical Lab'y.
3. Military Drill.

(a) or Physical Laboratory.

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SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES.

HOURI

1 • • MONDAY.

TUESDAY.

WEDNESDAY.

THURSDAY.

FRIDAY.

SATURDAY.

4. Algebra.

4. Geometry.

4. Algebra.

4. Geometry.

Algebra.

3. Latin.

3. Agriculture.

3. Latin.

Latin.

2. Pharmacy.

3. Latin.

2. Pharmacy.

2. German.

Pharmacy.

8-9

2. Mec. Engineer'g.

2. German.

2. Vet. Science.

2. Botany.

Veterinary Sci.

Exercises in Elo-

1 and 2. Drawing.

2. Botany.

2. Mec. Engineer'g.

1 and 2. Drawing.

cution.

1. Elec. Enginer'g.

1 and 2. Drawing.

1. Biology.

1 and 2. Drawing.

Biology.

1. Biology.

1. Elec. Engineer'g.

1 and 2. Drawing.

1. Mental Science.

Elec. Engineer'g.

1. German.

1. Mental Science.

1. Elec. Engineer'g.
1. German.

1. Elec. Engineer g.

German.

4. English.

4. History.

4. English.

4. History.

English.

II.

3. Chemistry.

3. Physiology.

3. Chemistry.

3. Agriculture.

Chemistry.

2. Civ. Engineer'g.

Civ. Engineer'g.

Military Drill.

9-10

2. Elc. Engineer'g.

2. Botany.

Latin.

2. Latin.

2. Botany.

2. Latin.

2. Elc. Engineer'g.

Mec. Drawing.

1. Calculus.

1. Chemistry.

1. Calculus.

1. Chemistry.

Calculus.

1. Biology (Lab.)

1. French.

L. Vet. Science.
1. Pharmacognosy.

1. French.

Vet. Science.

3. English.

4. English.

3. English.

4. English.

English.

Mechanic Arts.

III.

2. Physics.

3. Botany, (2,3.)

2. Physics.

3. History (1, 2.)

Physics.

Chemical Lab'y.

1. Civ. Engineer'g.

3. History (1,2.)

1. Latin.

3. Botany, (2, 3.,

Civ. Engineer'g.

Electrical Lab'y.

L. Biology (Lab.)

1. French.

1. Civil Engineer'g.

2. French.

Pharmacognosy.

Physical Lab'y.

10-11

L. Latin. j

2. Mec. Drawing.

1. Biology.

1. Civ. Engineer'g.

History (3.)

Veterinary Clinics.

L. Mec. Engineer'g.

:
;

L. Machine Design.
L. Pharmacognosy.
L. Biology.
L. Civ. Engineer'g.
L. Mec. Engineer'g.

L. i.iec. Engineer'g.

1. Mec. Engineer'g.
1. Machine Desi'g.
1. Pharmacognosy.

Mec. Engineer'g.

Field Engineer'g.

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SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES — Continued

i i

HOURS .

MONDAY.

TUESDAY.

WEDNESDAY.

THUBSDAY.

FRIDAY.

■

SATURDAY.

[. Physics.

1. Latin.

4. Physics (1, 2.)

4. Latin.

4. Physics (1, 2.)

1. Pharmaceutical

IV. 4. Mechanic Arts.

1. Drawing.

4. Latin (3.)

3. Physiology.

4. Mechanic Arts.

Lab'y.

4. Agriculture (3.)

2. Horticulture.

4. Mechanic Arts.

2. Horticulture.

4. Agriculture (3).

3. Mechanic Arts.

11-12 1

t. Latin (i; 2.)

2. Mathematics.

3. History (1, 2.)

L Mathematics.

4. Latin (1, 2.)

Chemical Lab'y.

5. Drawing.

2. Chemistry Agr.

3. Botany ^2, 3.)

2. Chemistry Afe .

3. Drawing.

Electrical Lab'y.

1. Mathematics.

2. Pharmacognosy.

2. Mathematics.

1. French.

2. Mathematics.

Physical Lab y.

2. Chemistry.

1. French.

2. Chemistry.

1. Physics.

2. Chemistry.

Veterinary C.inics.

2. Pharmacognosy.

1. Physics.

2. Pharmacognosy.

Field Engineer'g.

1. English (1, 2.)

1. Military Science.

1. Pol. Econ. (2, 3).

1. Pol. Econ. (2, 3.)

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

4. Drawing.

3. Mathematics.

4. Drawing.

3. Mechanic Arts.

4. Mechanic Arts.

2. English.

1. Mechanic Arts.

2. English.

4. Mechanic Arts.

Chemical Lab'y.

3. Mathematics.

1. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

1. Geology.

3. Mathematics.

Electrical Lab'y.

2. English.

1. Pharmacy.

2. German.

1. Pharmacy.

2. Military Tactics.

Physical Lab'y.

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1. Elec. Design'g.

2. Anal. Chemist'y.

1. Elec. Designing.

Veterinary Clinics.

1. French.

1. Pharmacy.

Field Engineering.

1. Pharmacy.

1. Eng. Chem. and

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1. Eng. Chem. and

Metallurgy.

1. Elec. Designing.

P. M.!4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Mechanic Arts.

J4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Mechanic Arts.

4. Mechanic Arts.

3. Field Work Agr.

2. Mineralogical Lab.

3. Field Work. Agr.

2. Mineralogical Lab. 3. Field Work Agr.

vi, vn 1 & 2 Lab. Cheunsty.

Military Drill (*)

1 & 2 Laby. Chem.

Military Drill (*).

2. French.

1 & 2 Fielv. Work

1. Mech. Lab'y.

1 & 2 Field Work,

1. Mech. Lab'y.

1 & 2 Lab. Chem.

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Engineering.

I Elec. Lab'y. Work.

Engineering.

^lec. Lab'y. Work.

1 & 2 Field Work,

1 & 2 Mach. Work.

1 & 2 History.

1 & 2 Mach. Work.

1 & 2 History.

Engineering.

Elec. Lab. Work.

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1 & 2 Mach. Work.

Physical Lab y.

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Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Laby.

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Elec. Lab. Work.
Physical Lab'y.

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Departments of Instruction.

MATHEMATICS.

PROFESSOR SMITH,

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CRENSHAW.

INSTRUCTOR PATRICK.

The subjects taught in the different classes in this de-
partment are as follows:

Freshman Class. Algebra through quadratic equa-
tions and series, geometry (seven books Wentworth),
original solutions of exercises.

Sophomore Class. Solid geometry, plane and spheri-
cal trigonometry, surveying, mensuration.

Junior Class. Analytical geometry, descriptive
geometry, differential calculus.

Senior Class. Differential and integral calculus.

Two objects are sought to be obtained : First, mental
discipline; second, a thorough knowledge of the prin-
ciples of pure mathematics and their practical apppli-
cations.

Theoretical and practical instruction is given to the
sophomore class in land surveying, mapping, plotting
and computing areas, etc., also in the theory, adjustment
and use of instruments.

The class, in sections of six or eight, devote three
afternoons a week during the second and third terms
to field practice.

The completion of this course, common to all stu-
dents, lays the foundation for the pure and applied
mathematics of the mechanical and engineering courses.

BOTANICAL LABORATORY.

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Analytical geometry, descriptive geometry, and calculus
are pursued in the engineering courses. Especial atten-
tion is given to their practical applications.

Text-Books.

Wentworth's Algebra, Wentworth's Geometry, Wentworth's Trig-
onometry, Robbins' Surveying, Wentworth's Analytical Geometry,
Fannce's Descriptive Geometry, Taylor's Calculus, Johnson's Dif-
ferential Equations, Osborne's Problems, Peck's Determinants.

GEOLOGY AND BOTANY,

PROFESSOR MELL.

(teology. — Tin's subject is studied in llic 'senior class,
and extends through the entire session. Special atten-
tion is given to the greoloifV of Alabama, and many illus-
trations are drawn from the coal and iron fields and
other natural deposits of minerals in the Slate. Mineral
springs, the origin of ore deposits, and the geo logical
relations of soils are carefully studied.

There is also a course of advanced work in practical
geolouv for post -graduate students. This subject is
pursued by applicants for the degrees of master of sci-
ence and mining engineer.

The junior classes in civil and mining engineering,
chemistry and metallurgy, study mineralogy through
the entire session. This work consists of a thorough
course in blow-pipe analysis of the ordinary minerals,
and lectures niton crystallography, with instruction
bow to measure crystals and determine the physical eon-

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stants of minerals. An effort is made to familiarize the
student with all the economic ores and the rocks enter-
ing into the composition of soils.

Botany. — The students of the sophomore class begin
the study of botany the first of March, and continue it
through the remainder of the session. Careful experi-
mentis are conducted in the lecture room explaining the
formation and germination of seed, the growth into the
mature plant, and the various functions performed by
the plant in its development. Each student is required
to keep careful notes illustrated with drawings of the
various organs of the plant under examination. A lim-
ited amount of work is done in classification and nomen-
clature.

In the junior class, in the course of chemistry and
agriculture, two terms are devoted to systematic and
structural botany, and to advanced laboratory work
with the microscope in the preparations of specimens
showing plant structure; this work is sufficient to fa-
miliarize the students with the methods of plant build-
ing and cellular organization. Excellent microsopes
of the most improved patterns, and all necessary chem-
icals and apparatus for preparing and mounting vege-
table tissues, are used by the students.

The third term is devoted to the study of physiol-
ogy of plants in order to understand the functions of
the various organs after completion of the work in the
histological laboratory.

FACILITIES FOR WORK.

Geology.— The department is equipped with models of Mount
Shasta, the earthquake of 1887 in Japan, glass crystals for teaching
crystallography; charts and maps of the geology of America and
Europe; Colt's lantern complete with oil, oxy-hydrogen and auto-
matic electric lamps; a large assortment of fine lantern slides rep-
resenting geological formations in this country and abroad; well

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equipped mineralogical laboratory for thirty students, supplied with
a collection of -representative minerals, and models of crystals.

Botany. — The facilities for teaching this subject are as follows:
A.uzoux'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-eight students; dis-
secting and compound microscopes of Zeiss, Leitz, and Bausch &
Lomb; projection microscopic apparatus; microtomes by King and
Bausch & Lomb; all the necessary glassware and smaller dissecting
instruments required in a well equipped laboratory. The Zeiss com-
pound 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 lucida, polarizers, apo-
chromatic objectives (16mm, 8 mm, 4mm, and homogeneous immer-
sion), oculars (2, 3, 8, 12, 18), and photographic eye-pieces 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 4x5 to 6%x8% inches; Bausch & Lomb's pro
fessional photo-micro camera extending to eight feet; Zeiss's ana-
stigmat photographic lens, 6^x8 % fitted with Bausch & Lomb's
diaphragm shutter and Zeiss's wide angle lens, 6M>x8i/>, all mounted
in aluminum; Clark's lens fitted with diaphragm shutter; the ac-
cessory apparatus and chemicals required for first-class work in
photography.

Tae 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, Tarr's Economic Geology, Dana's Mineralogy,
Crosby's Tables for Determining Minerals, Bergen's Botany, Mell's
Laboratory Guide, and notes of lectures.

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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND DRAWING.

PROFESSOR LANE.

ASSISTANT HALEY.

The special studies in this department begin in the
junior class, and require a good knowledge of algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, and analytical mechanics.
They are as follows :

Junior Class. — Simple, compound, reversed and para-
bolical curves, turn-outs and crossings, leveling, gradi-
ent*, setting slope stakes, etc.

S]>ecial attention will be paid in this class to the loca-
tion, construction, drainage and maintenance of coun-
try roads; and the various pavements and foundations
for the same.

Senior Class — Classification, appearances, defects,
seasoning, durability and preservation of timber; classi-
fication and description of natural building stones;
bricks and concretes; cast and wrought iron, steel and
other metals; limes, cements, mortars and their manu-
facture; paints and other preservatives; 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, and location, and construction of rail-
roads; navigable, irrigation and drainage canals; rivers
and seacoast 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.

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DRAWING.

All of the students of the freshman and sophomore
classes are required to take drawing; but only the stu-
dent® in civil engineering in the junior and senior
classes.

The freshman class is taught linear and free-hand
drawing. The sophomore class is instructed in the
principles of orthographic and isometric projections,
shades, shadows, perspective and tinting. In the junior
class the instruction embraces a more extended course*
in orthographic and isometric drawing, perspective,
shades and tinting; also sketches of tools and machines,
plans and elevations and cross-sections of buildings,
and blue-prints. The senior class makes 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.

Text-Books.

Freshman Class— Kitchener's Geometrical Note Book, Webb,
Ware & Zaner's Practical Freehand Drawing.

Sophomore Class— Davidson's Projections, Davidson's Practical
Perspective, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.

Junior Class— Davidson's Building Constructions, Davidson's
Drawing for Mechanics and Engineers, plates belonging to the col-
lege, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.

Senior Class— French, English and American plates belonging to
the college, Keuffel & Esser's Alphabet.

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ENGLISH AND POLITICAL ECONOMY.

PROFESSOR THACH.
PROFESSOR WIATT.

i ASSISTANT SCROGGS.

ASSISTANT LETCHER,

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 education of whatsoever kind. A full course in Eng-
lish is, therefore, considered especially important in the
technical courses of study that do not include the an-
cient classics. Accordingly, the course in English is
continued throughout the four years of the college cur-
riculum, three hours a week, and is made obligatory up-
on 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 classi-
cal 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 stu-
dents in the principles of grammar.

Especial attention is given to the study of the writings them-
selves of leading English authors, since direct contact with litera-
ture is considered more profitable than information merely about
literature.

All students before classed as regular in any course leading to
a degree must conform to all the requirements in English for ad-
mission as set forth on page 41,

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For requirements as to thesis and as to proficiency in English
for certificates and degrees see pages 49, 50, and 109.

Declamation and themes (or orations) are required of all regular
students. For details see below.

COURSES 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.

Swinton's English Grammar, Lockwood's Rhetoric, 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.

G. R. Carpenter's Rhetoric, Genung's Rhetorical Analysis, Syle's
From Milton to Tennyson.

Junior Class — Three hours a week; lectures on the history of
English literature, critical study of English classics, essays.

Pancoast's History of English Literature; Pancoast's Standard
English Poems, Macaulay, Carlyle, DeQuincey, etc.

Senior Class — Two hours a. week, first term. Principles of Criti-
cism, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Hamlet, etc., Dowden's Shakes-
peare, etc.

THEMES 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 themes or orations are required of all stu-
dents: For the freshman class, ten themes a year; ten for the
sophomore; for the senior and junior classes, three orations each.

DECLAMATION.

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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 senior class pursues the study of intellectual sci-
ence, 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 hy lectures in combina-
tion with text-books.

Intellectual Science — Psychology defined. Value in relation to
moral culture, education and Natural Sciences. The relation of
the soul to matter. The arguments of the Materialist. Counter
arguments. The Faculties of the Soul. The nature of Consciousness.
Sense Perception. 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; tariff; education, etc. Lectures by Professor. Ely's Outlines
of Economics.

A Post-graduate course has also been established in English.
The following courses have been given:

(1) Shakespeare— Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice,
As You Like It, Henry IV., Part I., Richard III., King John.

(2) Dryden— Poetical Works (Christie); Essay on Dramatic
Poesy (Thomas Arnold); Essay on Satire, etc., (Yonge); Salis-
bury's Life of Dryden.

Pope— Poetical Works (Ward); Satires (Pattison); Stephen's

Life of Pope, Gosse's From Shakespeare to Pope and 18th Century
Literature.

(3) English Literature of the Eighteenth Century: Addison Pope,
Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, Burke.

(4) American Literature: Longfellow, Lowell, Poe.

(5) The Rise and Development of the English Essay: Bacon,
Addison, Steele, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Macaulay, DeQuincey,
Lamb, Carlyle.

(6) Milton— Poetical Works (Masson); Life, Patisson, Brooke.

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CHEMICAL LABORATORY (INTERIOR)

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CHEMISTRY.

PROFESSOR ROSS.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HARE
INSTRUCTOR PHELPS.

Instruction in this department embraces —

1. A course of lectures in general chemistry.

2. A course of lectures in industrial and engineer-
ing chemistry.

3. A course of lectures in organic chemistry.

4. A course of lectures in metallurgy.

5. A course of lectures in agricultural chemistry.
(>. Systematic laboratory work in connection with

each course of lectures, for the practice of chemical an-
alysis and chemical research.

1. Course* in general ehenjistry: This consists of a
series of lectures (three per week) extending through-
out the entire session, and includes a discussion of the
fundamental principles of chemical philosophy in con-
nection 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 chem-
istry to the arts and manufactures are discussed. The
apparatus used for experimental illustration is exten-
sive, containing the newest and approved improvements
necessary for presenting the subject in the most at-
tractive and instructive form.

KEFEKENCE BOOKS.

Roscoe & Schorlemmer, Fownes, Prankland, Remsen, Cooke's
Chemical Philosophy, Chemical Journals.

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2. Lectures in industrial chemistry (three per week)
extend throughout the session, and include a discus-
sion in detail of the processes and chemical principles
involved in the most important applications of chem-
istry in the arte and manufactures to the preparation
of materials for food and drink, for clothing, shelter,
illumination, cleansing, purifying, writing, printing,
etc.

These lectures are amply illustrated by means of
suitable 4 specimens of raw materials and manufactured
products, together with models and diagrams.

A course of lectures (two hours per week) on engi-
neering chemistry is given during the last half of the
senior j r ear, especial attention being given to the study
of the construction and equipment of chemical plants
devoted to the manufacture of the more important
chemical products. The study of textile chemistry will
also be included in this series of lectures.

Excursions to various chemical and metallurgical
plants during the course of the year will aid in familiar-
izing the student with the practical details of the ope-
rations of the leading industries.

REFERENCE BOOKS.

Thorp's Industrial Chemistry, Wagner's Chemical Technology;
Muspratt's Chemistry as applied to Arts and Manufacturing, Ure's
Dictionary, Watts's Dictionary, Richardson and Watts's Chemical
Technology, Sadtler's Industrial Organic Chemistry.

3. Course in organic chemistry: Instruction in
this subject embraces lectures and recitations (two
hours per week ) throughout the junior year, upon the
leading facts and principles of the chemistry of the car-
Jion compounds, and includes a study of the methods of
preparation of the more important compounds, their
properties, and their structural and stereo-chemical re^
lations.

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TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS.

Remsen's Organic Chemistry, Richter's Organic Chemistry,
Gatterman's Practical Methods of Organic Chemistry.

4. Course in metallurgy : This consists of lectures
and recitations (two per week, during the first half of
the senior year) upon the more important metals, such
as iron and steel, copper, lead, tin, silver, gold, mercury,
zinc, etc. It includes a discussion of the physical and
chemical properties of the metals and their alloys, the
ores and their treatment, and the processes by which the
metals are obtained from the ores, with chemical re-
actions involved.

5. Course in agricultural chemistry : This consists
of lectures on chemistry in its application to agriculture
(two per week, during second and third terms), and
includes a thorough discussion of the origin, composi-
tion 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 rotation of crops, the feeding of live stock, and the
various operations carried on by the intelligent and suc-
cessful agriculturist.

REFERENCE BOOKS.

Johnson's How Crops Grow, and How Crops Feed, Lupton's Ele-
mentary Principles of Scientific Agriculture, Johnson's and Cam-
eron's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Storer's Agriculture in
Relation to Chemistry, scientific journals, reports of the United
States Department of Agriculture, and the bulletins and reports of
the various home and foreign agricultural departments and sta-
tions.

6. The course of systematic laboratory work: This
course of practical work in the laboratory is carried on
in connection with each course of lectures. In the jun-

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ior year the work embraced the practical operations of
chemical synthesis and analysis and includes the prep-
aration of the non-metallic elements and their most im-
portant compound*, in addition to a systematic study of
the metals and their compounds, their separation and
identification. In the senior year students pursue work
in quantitative analysis, including analysis of fertiliz-
ers, soils, coals, ores, iron and steel, sugars and sugar
products, feed stuffs, mineral waters, fluxes, slags, cin-
ders, furnace gases, etc., the courses of work being
varied somewhat to suit the individual object of the stu-
dent.

In the course in Pharmacy, instruction in Toxicology
and Toxical Analysis is given during the last term of the
senior year.

All students during the sophomore year are required
to take two hours per week of practical laboratory work,
instruction being given in the simplest methods of
chemical manipulation.

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 qualitative and quan-
titative analysis, and in the methods of prosecuting chemical re-
search. 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 or 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 his contingent fee.

In addition to the laboratory work above described it
is designed to give a short course of laboratory work
in industrial chemistry, in which the student will ap-
ply upon a small scale the principles involved in the pro-
cesses of some of the more important chemical industries.

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Text-Books.

In qualitative analysis — Jones, Sellers, Fresenius, Plattner.

In quantitative analysis — Fresenius, Cairns, Sutton, Rose, Blair's
Analysis of Iron and Steel, Bunsen, Rickett's Notes on Assaying,
Mitchell's Manual of Practical Assaying, Stillman's Engineering
Chemistry, Lord's Metallurgical Analysis.

In agricultural chemical analysis — Official methods of the Asso-
ciation of Agricultural Chemists, Wiley's Principles and Practice
of Agricultural Analysis.

CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

[For description of the building see page 16.]
The chemical apparatus recently purchased for the laboratory
consists of a full supply of the most approved instruments for prac-
tical work and investigation. The building is supplied with water
and gas and every appliance required to meet the demands of mod-
ern scientific instruction and research. In addition to the apparatus
usually supplied to first-class laboratories, there have been im-
ported a new and improved Schmidt and Hensch's polariscope, eight
short-arm balances of latest pattern, Bunsen spectroscope, Abbe
refractometer and other instruments for delicate and accurate work.

PHYSICS.

PROFESSOR SOUTHALL.

The complete course of Physics extends over four
years, and is designed to give, as far as possible, an
adequate and correct idea of the methods of Physical
Science, and to lay the foundation for subsequent more
advanced work if (as must often be the case, especially
in an institution such as this) the student desires Jo
pursue the subject further or intends to engage m any
of the great engineering professions of which Phjwcs
is so important a basis. The lectures are illustrated by
experiment®; the students are required to work numer-
ous problems and exercises; recitations are held each
week.

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FRESHMAN COURSE.

This course is very elementary, and continues only
during the first and second terms. The object in view
is to make the student familiar with the fundamental
principles of Physics. The class meets three times a
week. (The text-book will be announced later.)

SOPHOMORE COURSE.

This is a laboratory course, and deemed especially
important' for students of engineering, and of great ad-
vantage to such as intend to pursue the subsequent
higher work in this department. The laboratory exer-
cises are carefully selected, being designed to illustrate
the fundamental methods and principles of Physics,
and, although the work is necessarily more or less ele-
mentary, at the same time such accuracy and precision
as the conditions admit of are insisted upon, so that the
student is expected to acquire a fairly correct idea of
modern experimental investigation. The exercises con-
sist of the fundamental measurements of Length, Mass.
Density, moduluses of Elasticity, pendulum experiments^
etc., together with a few more advanced experiments in
connection with the simpler properties of Liquids and
Gases, and the general phenomena of Heat and Sound.
The student is required to write a careful report of each
experiment, entering the results of observation in tabu-
lar form, and plotting a curve wherever practicable;
also describing the object, apparatus, and method, and
noting sources of errors, etc. Great stress is laid upon
this requirement, and reports are not accepted unless
they indicate that the student has done his best in every
way. Four hours per week throughout entire year.
(Text-book will be announced later.)

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JUNIOR COURSE.

Lectures and recitations three hours a week through-
out entire session. This is a more advanced course in
o-eneral physics required of all candidates for a degree.
The only preparation needed is a good working knowl-
edge of mathematics through plane trigonometry. The
course includes a series of illustrated lectures on the
principles of Dynamics, as applied to Solids, liquids, and
Oases, Sound, and Heat, in the order named. Written
exercises are required each week. (Text-hook to be an-
nounced later. )

SENIOR COURSE.

Lectures and recitations two hours a week through-
out the entire session. This course, although more ad-
vanced than the Junior course, and occasionally em-
ploying the higher Mathematics, is a continuation of
the work of the previous year. It might be called a
course in Elementary Mathematical Physics, and the
subjects, varying from year to year, that are treated in
the lectures are such branches of Physics as Kinematics
and Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Electricity, and Mag-
netism, Geometrical and Physical Optics, etc. The stu-
dent is encouraged to solve difficulties for himself, and
to read the standard treatises and original memoirs OB
the various topics that come under discussion.

The last term of the session will generally be devoted
to a brief course of lectures in Descriptive Astronomy.

The text-books in this class vary with the changing
subjects, and will be announced by the professor each
year.

GRADUATE COURSE.

This course will be designed to meet the needs of the
students who take it. It will include both heore .ea
and experimental work in more advanced Mathemafccal
Physics, or in Analytical Mechanics.

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HISTORY AND LATIN.

PROFESSOR PETRIE.

ASSISTANT BOYD.

; - ' HISTORY.

In this department the aim is not so much to memo-
rize facts as to understand them. Strong emphasis is
laid on the fart that history is not a succession of iso-
lated facts, hut a progressive whole, each 6vent 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 influences of men and cir-
cumstances. Frequent use is made of diagrams,, photo-
graphs, charts and maps, with which the department is
well equipped, Instruction is given by text-books, lec-
tures and class discussion, but a constant effort is made
to stimulate to wider reading and research in the
library.

The following courses are given :

Freshman Class— History of the United States, Ala-
bama, and England.

Text-books: Hart's "Formation of the Union," Wil-
son's "Division and Reunion," Brown's "History of
Alabama, " Montgomery's "History of England."

Sophomore Class— Political and Social History of
Europe, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern. The work is
conducted partly by lectures, partly by text-book.
Every week problems will be assigned for research.

Text-book : Myers's General History.

HISTORICAL LABORATORY.

In the junior and senior classes opportunity 'far spe-
cial work in United States history is given to those stu-

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dents of the General Course who elect it as laboratory
work, and to any others who are properly qualified.
The chief object kept in view is training in historical
research and in the formation of independent, but care-
ful opinions based on the original sources of informa-
tion, as well as on the standard authorities. Emphasis
is laid on the importance of securing proper material
for investigation, and every incentive is given to the
collection and use of new documents, papers and letters
illustrative of Southern, and especially of Alabama, his-
tory.

The method of work is as follows: Informal lectures are given
on important and suggestive points. After each lecture topics con-
nected with it are assigned to the students with an outline of the
points to be investigated. They report their results to the class
and a discussion follows. The final results are collected by each
student according to his own judgment in his note-book, which is
then passed in to the professor for correction and suggestion.

The following courses in laboratory work will be of-
fered during the session of 1902-03 :

Junior Class— The motive for American colonization ;
colonial governments; causes of the Revolution ; Declara-
tion of Independence; treaty of peace; Confederation;
Ordinance of 1787 ; Constitution.

Text-books: Frothingham's "Rise of the Republic,"
Lecky's "American Revolution/' Fiske's "Critical Per-
iod."

Senior Class— The rise of parties ; War of 1812 ; Mon-
roe Doctrine; Missouri Compromise; Nullification;
Annexation of Texas; Compromise of 1850; Kansas
Struggle; Dred Scott Decision; Secession.

Text-books: Moore's "American Congress," Burgess's
"Middle Period."

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GRADUATE STUDENTS.

Text-Books.

Rhodes's "History of the United States from the Compromise of
1850," Vols. 1 and 2; Stephens's "Constitutional View of the War Be-
tween the States"; Lives of Calhoun, Clay and Jackson; special read-
ing in connection with the research.

PRIZES.

The Eufaula Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution have offered a gold medal for the best
original historical research done during the session of
1901-02 by any young woman matriculated in college.

The Colonial Dames in Alabama have donated fifty
dollars toward the expenses during the session of
1902-03 of the }'oung man matriculated in college who
submits the best research on a specified colonial topic.

LATIN.

The objects kept in view in this department are: An
accurate knowledge of the forms and isyntax; a famil-
iarity with Latin Words, their etymology and their Eng-
lish derivatives; an appreciation of Latin literature and
an intelligent conception of Roman history and civiliza-
tion, both in themselves and in their effect on the mod-
ern world.

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English passages based on the author read or illustrative of special
constructions are put in Latin, both, orally and in writing. Great
emphasis is laid on the etymology of the words in the text read.

In connection with every author studied in class a course of
reading in English is prescribed descriptive of his life, work and
times. The historical setting and the literary value of his writings
are carefully discussed and frequent comparisons are made with
modern authors.

For the benefit of students who do not study the Latin language
a series of popular lectures will be given upon the great Latin
writers. Especial emphasis is laid on proficiency in writing Latin
exercises and in translating Latin prose at sight.

Text-Books.

Freshman Class— Allen & Greenough's Grammar, Exercises,
Nepos, Sallust or equivalent.

Sophomore Class— Cicero, Allen & Greenough's Grammar, Ben-
nett's Latin Composition.

Junior Class.— Virgil, Livy, Allen and Greenough's Grammar, Ex-
ercises, Guerber's Mythology, Botsford's "History of Rome."

Senior Class— Horace, Tacitus, Wilkins's Latin Literature, Exer-
cises, Preston and Dodge's "Private Life of the Romans."

MODERN LANGUAGES.

PROFESSOR WIATT.

The chief aim in this department is to give the stu-
dent a thorough and accurate knowledge of the ele-
mentary principles of the subjects taught, and to enable
him to read with facility the ordinary French and Ger-
man at sight. To train the ear, acquire a correct pro-
nunciation and some facility in speaking, all recitations
are supplemented, as far as practicable, by oral exer-
cises in the languages themselves.

The following regular courses are given in I reach and

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French— Fir st Year: Three recitations a week Dur-
ing this year the principal object is to acquire a knowl-

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edge of the elements of grammar and a correct pronun-
ciation, together with a facility in translating ordinary
French. Reading is begun at an early stage, and the
principles 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 the previous year. More difficult and varied
French is read, and instruction, is given upon the laws
of grammar, the construction of the language, and the
history of the literature. Special attention is given to
sight translation.

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.

The students in this department will meet the profes-
sor twice a week, from 4 to 5 p. in. during the first term,
and the third term, for exercises in conversation in
French and German.

TEXT-BOOKS.

Fhencii— First Year: Edgren's Grammar and Locard's Supple-
mentary Exercises. Super's Reader.

Second Year: Feuillet's Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre,

Racine's Esther, Corneille's Le Menteur, Moliere's Le Bourgeois

Gentilhomme, selected plays, Whitney's Grammar, original exer-
cises.

German— Fim Year: Joynes-Meissner's Grammar and Reader.
Second Year: Der Bibliothekar, Wilhelm Tell, Whitney's Gram-
mar and Exercises, selected plays, original exercises.

GRADUATE COURSE.

ELECTRICAL BUILDING.

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

PROFESSOR DUNSTAN.

ASSISTANT SLOAN.

JUNIOR YEAR.

First Term : Four hours per week are devoted to the
study of the principles of electricity and magnetism,
with special reference to their industrial applications.
The subject of electrical measurements is also treated
in detail.

Second Term: Incandescent lighting, four hours per

week.

Third Term : Are lighting and wiring, four hours per

week.

Text-Books.

S. P. Thompson's Electricity; Crocker's Electric Lighting, and
Cushing's Standard Wiring.

Instruction is given by lectures and recitations.

LABORATORY WORK.

Four hours per week are devoted to work in the labo-
ratory. This includes management of batteries, electri-
cal measurements, adjustments and testing of are lamps,
and a considerable amount of wiring and some electrical

construction.

SENIOR YEAR.

First Term: Dynamo electric machinery, live hours
per week.
Second Term: Alternating currents and alternating

current machinery.

Third Term: Polyphase machinery and power trans-
mission, five hours per week.

Text-Books.

Dynamo Electric Machinery, Sheldon. Alternating Currents,
Franklin and Williamson, Standard Polyphase Apparatus, Oudin.

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LABORATORY WORK.

Six hours per week during the entire senior year are
devoted to practical work in the dynamo laboratory.
The work includes the study and testing of various types
of dynamos and motors, the determination of various
constants, dynamo and motor efficiencies, transformer
testing, and the general management and installation of
electrical machinery.

ELECTRICAL DESIGNING.

During the first term each senior student is required
to design and prepare the necessary drawings for the
construction of a direct current dynamo or motor, and
during the third term the design of an alternator is com-
pleted.

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.

Post Graduate Course. To graduate students more
advanced courses of instruction in polyphase machinery
and power transmission are offered, the courses being
varied from year to year to suit the needs of those taking
them.

EQUIPMENT.

The laboratory is well supplied with batteries, storage and pri-
mary, telephones, plating apparatus and similar minor apparatus.
Among the instruments of precision may be noted Kelvin ampere
• balances, graded current and potential galvanometers, alternating
and direct current ammeters and voltmeters of various ranges,
from Weston, Queen, Jewell, Hartman & Braun, Despretz, Fein,
General Electric Company and other domestic and foreign makers.
There are also direct reading and recording watt meters, dynampm-
eters reading from .0001 ampere to 100 amperes, a number of re-
sistance boxes and bridges, condensers, keys, galvanometers of vari-
ous types, magnetic testing apparatus, portable and fixed, pho-

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tometers, high potential testing apparatus, portable testing set,
cradle dynamometer, a special instrument for comparing induct-
ances, self and mutual, and capacities.

This department, being provided with Lord Kelvin's standard
electrical instruments for exact measurements, will calibrate free
of expense, any ammeter or voltmeter that may be sent to the col-
lege.

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 Ideal 5 kilo-watt three
phase alternator; one Thompson-Houston 9 arc light dynamo with
lamps; one Edison compound wound 12 kilo- watt generator; a
Thompson-Houston 110 volt, 75 ampere generator; two street car
motors used as either direct or alternating current .generators or
motors; two polyphase induction motors; one General Electric
5 horse-power induction motor, mounted on cradle dynamometer;
General Electric 20 horse-power motor; and Stanley induction motor
with condensers; one Fort Wayne 1 horse-power alternating cur-
rent motor; Edison %% kilo-watt generator; a Crocker-Wheeler
1 horse-power motor and rheostat and one bi-phase alternator, and
500 volt generator, made by special students, furnish current to
laboratory and light up the different buildings. A lamp board with
a capacity of 210 lamps has been installed and is used for testing
purposes.

The dynamos occupy a separate brick building 50x32 feet, and
are operated by a 60 horse-power Harrisburg Standard engine, and
a 25 horse-power Atlas engine.

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
transmission of power.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEEUING AND MECHANIC

ARTS.

PROFESSOR WILMORB.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR c'uKNsn \\v,

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TRAMMELL.

ASSISTANT i'ROFESSOR Kl I. LAN.

[NSTRUCTOR HILL.
ASSISTANT WERNER.

Tlic course in manual training covers three years, as
follows: First year, wood- working — can>entrv and
turning; second year, pattern making ami foundry and
forge work — molding, casting and smithing; third year,
machine shop — chipping and filing and machine work in
metals.

This course is obligatory upon the students of the
.two lower classes. For satisfactory reasons a student
mav be excused from this laboratory work by the Fae-
ultv.

The full work of each class is six hours per wee 1 :, in
three exercises of two hours each

The power for running the apparatus in this department is de-
rived from a 25 horse-power Harris-Corliss automatic engine., 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, and a 100 horse-power Heine
boiler installed.

The equipment for the wood-working shops comprises the follow-
ing: 30 wood-working benches, each with complete set of car-
penter's tools; 24 turning lathes 10-inch swing each with complete
set of tools; 1 double circular saw; 1 band saw; 1 board-planing
machine; 1 jointer; 1 pattern-maker's lathe 16-inch swing; 1 36-Inch
grindstone. The tool room is supplied with a variety of extra hand
tools for special work and in addition to the regular carpenters'
tools in the benches each student is supplied with a set of chisels

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ami plane irons with a locker to keep them in and is held respon-
sible for their care and condition.

The equipment for the foundry consists of molding benches for
18 students, each supplied with a complete set of molder'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 molding flasks, a
foundry crane, special tools, etc.

The forge shop equipment consists of 24 down draft forges of
new pattern each with a set of smith's tools, anvils, etc. The blast
for all the forges is supplied with a No. 3 Sturtevant steel pressure
blower (which also furnishes blast for the foundry cupola), and a
GO-inch underground 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 30x100 feet and
is equipped with eight 14-inch screw cutting engine lathes with
six-foot bed; 2 engine lathes. 16-inch swing (one with taper at-
tachment); 1 engine lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound rest and
taper attachment; 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
x22-inchx5 foot planer; 1 2G-inchx26-inchxG foot iron planer; 1 uni-'
versal milling machine; 1 corundum tool grinder (14-inch wheel);
1 bench grinder; 1 post drill press; 1 Brown and Sharpe universal
grinding machine; 1 universal, cutter and reamer grinder; 1 power
hack saw. A part of the room is set apart for vise work, chipping
and filing; and benches for twelve students are provided, each with
vise and set 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.

Tli<> nature of the work in eac) departmeiil is as fol-
lows:

Fiust Yeak.

I. A course in carpentry or hand work covering the first two
terms. The lessons include instruction in the nature and use of
tools, instruction and practice in shop drawing, elementary work'
with plane, saw, chisel, different kinds of joints, timber splices,

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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 diameters and lengths, simple and
compound curves, screw plate and chuck work, hollow and spherical
turning.

Second Year.

I. 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 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 students familiarity with the use ol
patterns for general molding.

III. A course in molding and casting in iron and brass occupy-
ing 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 knowledge of the usual methods ami 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 son,
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 practice is given in working

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in connection with the second year work, a series of lectures i
given on the metallurgy and working of the metals used In th«
industr:alarts. cast and wrought iron, steel, brass, etc.

TiiiKD Yeab.

I. Course of chipping and tiling, covering the first term The
iessons comprise work en cast and wrought iron; chlpp n B tol.ne
on flat and curved surfaces, key-seating, etc.. "^ «4j£"££"
line (straight and cu.-vcJ). surface filing and fimslung, fit.mg,

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and plane irons with a locker to keep them in and is held respon-
sible for their care and condition.

The equipment for the foundry consists of molding benches for
18 students, each supplied with a complete set of molder'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 molding flasks, a
foundry crane, special tools, etc.

The machine department occupies a brick building 30x100 feet and
is equipped with eight 14-inch screw cutting engine lathes with
six-foot bed; 2 engine lathes, 16-inch swing (one with taper at-
tachment) ; 1 engine lathe, 18-inch swing, with compound rest and
taper attachment; 1 speed-lathe, 10-ihch swing; 1 20-inch drill press
(power feed); 1 10-inch sensitive drill; 1 15-inch shaper; 1 22-inch
x22-inchx5 foot planer; 1 26-inchx26-inchx6 foot iron planer; 1 uni^
versal milling machine; 1 corundum tool grinder (14-inch wheel);
1 bench grinder; 1 post drill press; 1 Brown and Sharpe universal
grinding machine; 1 universal cutter and reamer grinder; 1 power
hack saw. A part of the room is set apart for vise work, chipping
and filing; and benches for twelve students are provided, each with
vise and set 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 eac) department is a* fol-
lows :

First Year.

I. A course in carpentry or hand work covering the first two
terms. The lessons include instruction in the nature and use of
tools, instruction and practice in shop drawing, elementary work
with plane, saw, chisel, different kinds of joints, timber splices,

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Second Yeau.

I. Course in forge work in iron and steel, occupying the first
term. The lessons are arranged so tha f t 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 students familiarity with the use of
patterns for general molding.

III. A course in molding and casting in iron and brass occupy-
ing 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 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
complicated work. Instruction and practice is given in working

the cupola.

In connection with the 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.

I. Course of chipping and filing, covering the first term The
lessons comprise work en 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,

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slotting, dovetail work, sawing, pin and screw filing, surface finish-
ing 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 exercise in making taps, reamers, 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 use of the various machines, cutting tools, gearing, gauges,
screw threads, etc. During the last term some piece of construc-
tion work is given the classes.

All of the work is done from blue prints and blackboard sketches.
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 mechan-
ics of liquids, gases and vapors are studied.

Kinematics. — Three recitations per week during. 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 design-
ing 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.

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Mechanical Drawing. — Fours hours a week during the
year are devoted to drawing. During thp first part of
the year instruction is given in the conventional meth-
ods of representing standard materials, and in the de-
sign of fastenings and machine parts. Later on scale
drawings of simple machines are made from dimensioned
sketches which each student makes for himself from the
actual machine. Free hand lettering, tracing, and blue-
printing receive attention, and all the instruction is in-
tended to familiarize the student with modern drawing
office methods.

Text-Books.
Wood's Elementary Mechanics, Barr's Kinematics of Machinery.

SENIOR YEAR.

Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants.— The first
term, five hours per week, is given to the study of the
practical applications of steam machinery. It is be-
lieved that a thorough knowledge of the apparatus in
actual practical use is the best preparation a student can
have for the study of the theory, and to that end, the dif-
ferent types of engines, boilers, pumps, condensers, and
other auxiliary apparatus are taken up and studied in
detail, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
discussed. Extensive files of manufacturers' catalogues
are kept and the technical papers and magazines in the
library are freely used in order to keep in touch with the
latest and best practice in engineering work.

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and cut-off motions, and the principal types of modern
engines are studied. Special attention is given to the
steam engine indicator.

Applied Mechanics. — The third term, four hours per
week is given to work in this subject. Applications of
the mechanical principles previously learned, are made
to the solution of practical problems. Considerable at-
tention is given to graphical methods, these being used
in preference to the analytical when possible.

One hour a week for the third term is given to a series
of lectures on mechanical refrigeration and gas and gaso-
line engines.

Machine Design. — The subject of machine design is
made a continuation of the junior course and runs
throughout the year, two hours a week. The general
plan of the work follows the textbook adopted, but va-
riations are made and additional exercises given when
found desirable. The strength and proportion of joints,
fastenings and machine details are studied. Problems
are given, the dimensions worked out and the drawings
made. It is the purpose of the course, as far as time will
permit, to prepare students for practical drawing-room
work.

Laboratory Work.— The students are not only taught how to cali-
brate and use the different instruments, but they are brought in con-
tact with engineering appliances under practical working condi-
tions.

Thoroughness of work is sought rather than the performance of
a large number of experiments.

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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 100-horse
power Heine boiler, a 45-horse power Imperial cross compound en-
gine, especially arranged for experimental work, supplied with
Wheeler surface condenser and Worthington air pump and circulating
pump; of 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; a Duplex Deane
steam pump, an Ericsson hot air engine, a Westinghouse air pump,
four steam engine indicators, a separating calorimeter, 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 machine, and Henning micrometer
extensometer, a Carpenter calorimeter, with auxiliary apparatus
for determining the heating value of different fuels, a draft gauge,
and a Henning pocket recorder.

TEXT-BOOKS.

Hutton's Mechanical Engineering of Power Plants, Holmes's Steam
Engine, Reid'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.

POST-GRADUATE COURSE.

Considerable latitude is allowed in the selection of
post-graduate work, and the course is arranged each year
to suit the requirements of the class. One of the follow-
ing lines of work is recommended : Hydraulics, Ther-
modynamics, or Power Plant Engineering. The course
selected is accompanied by suitable laboratory work.

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TEXT-BOOKS.

Flather's Dynamometers and Measurement of Power, Peabody's
Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine, Merriman's Hydraulics.

AGRICULTURE.

PROFESSOR DUGGAR.

Instruction in agriculture is given by means of lec-
tures, text-books, bulletins of the agricultural experi-
ment 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 this 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 charac-
teristics, uses, management and adaptability to the
South. Practical work in judging live stock occupies
one afternoon per week during the second term. Five
breeds of cattle, Angus, Red Polled, Shorthorn, Jersey,
and Holstein, are represented in the herd maintained by
this department.

The first term of the sophomore year is devoted to .
dairying. Dairying is 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
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In the second term of the sophomore year the follow-
ing subjects are studied : Soils— chemical and physical
properties, defects, and means of improvement; the con-

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trol of water, including means of conserving moisture
in times of drought, terracing, underdrainagc, and open
and hillside ditches ; objects and methods of cultivation ;
agricultural implements; rotation of crops; and ini-
provement 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 re-
quirements, methods of planting and cultivating, and
uses. Practice is given in judging and selecting corn
and cotton and in the culture of these and other staple

and forage crops.

In the junior year the subjects of feeding animals,
principles of breeding animals, and of farm management
a.re studied. Among the topics included under the latter
heading are different systems of farming and stock grow-
ing, farm equipment and building, silos and silage, care
of farm manures, composting, choice and methods^ ap-
plying commercial fertilizers for different crops and
soils, and economical methods of improving exhausted
soils.

In every elass the student is encouraged 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 J he
successful farmer must be a thinker rather than a blind follower

of inflexible rules. .„ .

The effort is made to keep before the student the difference be-
tween the widely applicable principles on which every rational sys-
tem of farming rests and the details that vary with hanging con-
ditions. 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-

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tries, to the end that in future years the student may know where
and how to seek the information that he may need.

The equipment for carrying on the practical work of the depart-
ment consists of small herds of Red Polled, Shorthorn and Angus
cattle; a herd of dairy cows which are used each winter in testing
the relative values and profits in different foods; a small herd of
Poland China hogs; a few other miscellaneous specimens of live-
stock; the fields and large collections of growing plants on the Ex-
periment Station farm; the collection of agricultural implements em-
ployed in the work of the farm; and a working dairy, equipped with
necessary appliances for making butter and testing dairy products.

POST-GRADUATE COURSE.

Applicants for post-graduate work in agriculture are assigned spe-
cial research work and aided in the line of investigation deemed best
for each individual student.

TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS.

Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine, by Curtis; The Study of Breeds,
by Shaw; Milk and Its Products, by Wing; Dairyman's Manual, by
Stewart; Soils and Crops of the Farm, Morrow & Hunt; Forage
Plants, by Shaw; The FerULty of the Soil, by Roberts; Corn Cul-
ture, by Plumb; The Soil, by King; Physics of Agriculture, by King;
Manures and the Principles of Manuring, by Aikman; Drainage for
Profit and Health, by Waring; Agriculture in Some of Its Relations
wuh Chemistry, by Storer; The Feeding of Animals, by Jordan;
Feeds and Feeding, by Henry; Stock Breeding, by Miles; Hand-book
of Experiment Station Work; and selected publications of the vari-
ous divisions of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and of the
Agricultural Experiment Stations.

BIOLOGY AND IIORTICULTUKE.

PROFESSOR WILCOX.

1. Comparative Anatomy of the Spermatophytes.
A thorough study of the structure and activities of the
plant cell will be followed by an examination of the
typical tissues with special reference to their function.
Students are required to become acquainted with the

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general methods of botanical microtechnique, including
the killing, fixing, imbedding, sectioning, staining,
mounting and drawing of all the tissues examined.

Lectures and Recitations : Three hours per week dur-
ing the fall term of the senior year.

Laboratory Work: Two hours per week.

2. Phytophysiolouy. — This is a course of carefully
selected experiments, to be performed by each student,
supplemented by selected readings, conferences and lec-
tures) upon certain subjects. It will be the aim of this
course to develop a good, general knowledge of the most
important functions of seed-plants, such as absorption,
photosynthetic assimilation of carbon-dioxide, transpira-
tion and respiration.

Lectures and Recitations : Three hours per week dur-
ing the winter term of the senior year.

Laboratory Work: Two hours per week.

As a text, MacDougaFs "Practical Text-Book of Plant
Physiology" will be employed, while as a laboratory
guide Ganeng's "A Laboratory Course in Plant Physio-
logv" will be used.

3. Phytopathology. — The aim of this course is to
present a broad and comprehensive view of the subject.
A thorough study will be made of the principal sorbs of
parasitic fungi, but not to the exclusion of diseases pro-
duced by unfavorable surroundings and various inor-
ganic factors.

Lectures and Recitations : Three hours per week dur-
ing the spring term of the senior year.
Laboratory Work : Two hours per week.

4. Research and Thesis Work. — The following
lines of work are open to students during this year :

( 1 ) Comparative embryology of spermatophy tes.

(2) Ecology and ecological anatomy.

(3) Physiology and morphogenesis.

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(4) Advanced plant physiology.

(5) Advanced cytology.

It is expected that seniors will select work in one of
these groups and that the results of the research will
be presented as a thesis for publication.

HORTICULTURE.

At present special horticultural instruction is con-
fined to the spring term of the junior year in the course
of chemistry and agriculture, and to some practical work
and "field lectures'' to the students of the same course
during the sophomore year. Instruction is given by lec-
tures and text-books and by courses of reading, using the
green house and orchards and gardens of the experiment
station to give practical illustrations of the subjects
taught.

It is expected that more extensive courses in horticul-
ture will be provided for next year in connection with a
new course in botany and horticulture.

PHYSIOLOGY AND VETEKINAKY SCIENCE.

PROFESSOR CARY.

ASSISTANT GOGGANS. ■ .

• PHYSIOLOGY.

The sophomore class studies human anatomy, physi-
ology and hygiene during the entire college year.

It is the aim of the department to give the students
practical and real knowledge of the gross anatomy and
functions of the various parts of the human body/ Due
attention is given, also, to the laws of health— the con-
ditions most favorable to a continuous healthy action of
the organs of the human body.

Instruction is given by lectures and by text books,
supplemented by blackboard drawings, charts, models

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of organs, a human skeleton and by dissections of some
of the smaller animals (dog, cat, etc.)

Martin's Human Body is used as a text and reference
book, and several other works on anatomy, physiology
and hygiene may be consulted in the college library.

VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART.

Students in the agricultural and chemical course of
study, during the entire junior and senior years, devote
to this work two hours per week in the class room and
three hours per week at practical clinics. Instruction in
veterinary science and art is given by lectures.

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