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HOUSTON TEXAS

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE
ACADEMIC YEAR BEGINNING SEPTEMBER
NINETEENTH NINETEEN HUNDRED

AND SEVENTEEN

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A UNIVERSITY OF

LIBERAL AND TECHNICAL
LEARNING

FOUNDED IN THE CITY OF HOUSTON TEXAS

BY WILLIAM MARSH RICE

AND DEDICATED BY HIM TO THE

ADVANCEMENT OF LETTERS

SCIENCE AND ART

OPENED FOR THE RECEPTION OF

STUDENTS IN THE AUTUMN OF

NINETEEN HUNDRED

AND TWELVE

EDGAR ODELL LOVETT : PRESIDENT

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JAMES ADDISON BAKER : CHAIRMAN

WILLIAM MARSH RICE JR. : VICE-CHAIRMAN

BENJAMIN BOTTS RICE : SECRETARY-TREASURER

CESAR MAURICE LOMBARDI

EDGAR ODELL LOVETT

JOHN THADDEUS SCOTT

CALENDAR

September 19-22
September 21-22
September 24
November 29
December 21

January 3

February 22 .

March 2 . . .

March 15 . .

March 18 . .
April 21 .

May 20-25 .

June 7 . . .
June 8-10

1917
Entrance Examinations
Registration
Lectures begin
Thanksgiving Day
Autumn term ends

1918

Winter term begins

Washington's Birthday

Texas Independence Day

Winter term ends

Spring term begins

San Jacinto Day

Entrance Examinations

Spring term ends

Third Annual Com-
mencement

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THE NAME

THE new institution bears the name of the founder,
the late William Marsh Rice. It aspires to university-
standing of the highest grade. Dedicated to the ad-
vancement of literature, science, and art, the educational
programme of liberal and technical learning now being
developed may justify the designation "Institute" as
representing the functions of a teaching university and,
at least in some of its departments, those of the more re-
cent research institutions established in this country and
abroad.

BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH

It is now rather more than twenty-five years since sev-
eral public-spirited citizens of the community asked Mr.
Rice to bear the expense of building a new public high
school for the city of Houston. This direct gift to the
city's welfare Mr. Rice was unwilling to make, but a few
months later, taking into his confidence a half-dozen
friends, he made known to them his desire to found a
much larger educational enterprise for the permanent

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benefit of the city and State of his adoption. These gen-
tlemen were organized into a Board of Trustees for the
new foundation, which was incorporated in 1891 under a
broad charter granting the trustees large freedom in the
future organization of a non-political and non-sectarian
institution to be dedicated to the advancement of letters,
science, and art. As a nucleus for an endowment fund,
Mr. Rice at this time made over an interest-bearing note
of two hundred thousand dollars to the original Board of
Trustees, consisting of himself, the late Messrs. J. E,
McAshan, E. Raphael, F. A. Rice, and A. S. Richardson,
and Messrs. James Addison Baker and Cesar Maurice
Lombard!. Under the terms of the charter, the board is a
self-perpetuating body of seven members elected for life:
vacancies since its organization have been filled by the
election of Messrs. William Marsh Rice, Jr., Benjamin
Botts Rice, Edgar Odell Lovett, and John Thaddeus
Scott.

It was the unalterable will of the founder that the de-
velopment of the work which he had conceived should
progress no further during his lifetime. However, in the
remaining days of his life he increased the endowment
fund from time to time by transferring to the trustees the
titles to certain of his properties, and in the end made the
new foundation his residuary legatee. Upon the termi-
nation of the long years of litigation which followed Mr.
Rice's death in 1900, the Board of Trustees found the
Institute in possession of an estate whose present value is
conservatively estimated at approximately ten million
dollars, divided by the provisions of the founder's will
into almost equal parts, available for equipment and en-

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dowment respectively. It may be remarked in passing
that it is the determined poHcy of the trustees to build and
maintain the institution out of the income, thus preserv-
ing intact the principal not only of the endowment fund
but also that of the equipment fund. While proceeding
to convert the non-productive properties of the estate into
income-bearing investments, the trustees called Mr. Ed-
gar Odell Lovett, a professor in Princeton University, to
assist them in developing the founder's far-reaching
plans. Before taking up his residence in Houston, the
future president visited the leading educational and sci-
entific establishments of the world, returning in the sum-
mer of 1909 from a year's journey of study that extended
from England to Japan. About this time negotiations
were completed by which the Institute secured a campus
of three hundred acres situated on the extension of Hous-
ton's main thoroughfare, three miles from the center of
the city — a tract of ground universally regarded as the
most appropriate within the vicinity of the city.

Another early decision of the trustees of the Institute
was the determination that the new university should be
housed in noble architecture worthy of the founder's high
aims ; and upon this idea they entered with no lower am-
bition than to establish on the campus of the Institute a
group of buildings conspicuous alike for their beauty and
for their utility, which should stand not only as a worthy
monument to the founder's philanthropy, but also as a
distinct contribution to the architecture of our country.
With this end in view they determined to commit to
Messrs. Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, of Boston and
New York, the task of designing a general architectural

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plan to embody in the course of future years the realiza-
tion of the educational programme which had been
adopted for the Institute. Such a general plan, the work
of Mr. Ralph Adams Cram, L.H.D., exhibiting in itself
many attractive elements of the architecture of Italy,
France, and Spain, was accepted by the board in the
spring of 1910. Immediately thereafter plans and specifi-
cations for an administration building were prepared, and
in the following July the contract for its construction was
awarded ; three months later the erection of a mechanical
laboratory and power-house was begim, and by the next
autumn the construction of two wings of the first resi-
dential hall for men was well under way. In the prepara-
tion of preliminary plans for its initial building operations
the Institute enjoyed the cooperation of an advisory com-
mittee consisting of Professor Ames, director of the
physical laboratory of Johns Hopkins University; Pro-
fessor Conklin, director of the biological laboratory of
Princeton University; Professor Richards, chairman of
the department of chemistry, Harvard University; and
Professor Stratton, director of the National Bureau of
Standards. In 191 1, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of
Texas Independence, the corner-stone of the administra-
tion building was laid by the trustees. This building, the
mechanical laboratory of the engineering quadrangle, the
power-house, and the first two wings of the first residen-
tial hall for men were ready for occupancy at the begin-
ning of the first academic year in the fall of 191 2. The
third wing of this residential hall, begun in 191 3, was
occupied by students in the autumn of 19 14; while the
construction of the physics laboratories and lecture amphi-

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theater, begun also in 191 3, was completed in the summer
of 1 9 14 from plans prepared by Messrs. Cram and Fer-
guson under the direction of Mr. H. A. Wilson, D.Sc,
F.R.S., resident professor of physics in the Institute. In
January, 19 16, ground was broken for the first wing of
the second residential group for men; the construction
of this wing was completed by September, 19 16. The
building schedule for the near future includes also special
laboratories for instruction and investigation in chemistry
and biology, and in the applications of these sciences to
the arts of industry and commerce.

The actual work of instruction of the first academic
year began on the 23d day of September, 19 12, the an-
niversary of the death of the founder. In the presence
of the trustees of the Institute, members of the teaching
staff, and representative citizens of the community, the
first class of students was received in the faculty chamber
of the administration building with appropriate cere-
monies on September 26th. The scholastic work of the
first academic year was limited to a single class of fresh-
men of a standard of preparation as high as the best
public and private high schools were capable of producing.

In the early autumn of 191 2 an academic festival in
observance of the formal opening of the Institute was
held under most favorable conditions of weather, most
generous cooperation of the community and common-
wealth, and the heartening encouragement of several
hundred scholars and scientists who came to Houston to
assist in the launching of the new university. Chief
among these distinguished representatives of life and
learning were the twelve foreign savants who had con-

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sented to participate in the inaugural programme by pre-
paring series of lectures in the liberal humanities of
philosophy, history, letters, and art, and in the funda-
mental sciences of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and
biology. A complete account of the proceedings occupy-
ing the four days devoted to this celebration has been
embodied in publications issued in commemoration of that
occasion. In the latter appear in full the inaugural lec-
tures of Professor Rafael Altamira y Crevea, of Madrid,
Spain; Professor Emile Borel, of Paris, France; Senator
Benedetto Croce, of Naples, Italy; Professor Hugo de
Vries, of Amsterdam, Holland; Professor Sir Henry
Jones, of Glasgow, Scotland; Privy Councilor Baron
Dairoku Kikuchi, of Tokyo, Japan ; Professor John Wil-
liam Mackail, of London, England ; Privy Councilor Pro-
fessor Wilhelm Ostwald, of Gross-Bothen, Germany ; the
late Professor Henri Poincare, of Paris, France; the late
Professor Sir William Ramsay, of London, England;
Professor Senator Vito Volterra, of Rome, Italy; Profes-
sor Carl Styirmer, of Christiania, Norway, In these com-
memorative volumes there appear also reproductions of
responses from American and foreign universities and
scientific societies to the invitation of the Institute; the
addresses of Governor Colquitt, Chief Justice Brown of
Texas, Bishop Gailor of Tennessee, the inaugural poem
of Dr. Henry van Dyke of Princeton, and the dedicatory
sermon by Dr. Charles F. Aked of San Francisco; to-
gether with the addresses delivered by the presidents or
other official representatives of Amsterdam, Glasgow,
London, Oviedo, Paris, Rome, Baylor, Chicago, Colum-
bia, Lehigh, Princeton, Texas, Vanderbilt, and Virginia

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universities; and a variety of other literary and artistic
performances which are not easily classified in a brief
resume.

THE FACULTY

For the staff of the Institute the best available instructors
are being sought in the hope of assembling in Houston a
group of scientists and scholars through whose produc-
tive work the new university may come into a place of
importance among the established institutions of the
country. Of those selected for positions on the staff it is
possible to announce at this time the following appoint-
ments, the names appearing in alphabetical order :

Edgar Altenburg, M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia), of EHza-
beth. New Jersey ; Assistant in Biology at Columbia Uni-
versity ; Instructor in Biology.

Philip Hechman Arbuckle, Ph.B. (Chicago), of
Georgetown, Texas; Director of Athletics in Southwest-
ern University ; Instructor in Physical Education at the
Rice Institute ; Assistant Professor of Physical Education
and Director of Athletics.

Stockton Axson, M.A. (Wesleyan), Litt.D. (Pitts-
burgh), L.H.D. (Wesleyan), of Princeton, New Jersey;
formerly of the University of Vermont and of Adelphi
College; Professor of English Literature in Princeton
University; Professor of English Literature.

Walter Arthur Blakeslee, B.Sc. in M.E. (Illinois), of
Kansas City, Missouri ; formerly with the Westinghouse
Machine Company and lately with the Ford Motor Com-
pany ; Instructor in Mechanical Engineering.

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Thomas Frederic Blanchard, Litt.B. (California),
M.A. (Yale), of Berkeley, California; formerly Califor-
nia Alumni Fellow and Assistant in Rhetoric at Yale Uni-
versity; Instructor in English at the University of
California; Assistant Professor of English.

Thomas Lindsey Blayney, M.A. (Centre), Ph.D. (Hei-
delberg), of Danville, Kentucky; Professor of European
Literature and the History of European Art in Central
University of Kentucky; Professor of German.

Robert Granville Caldwell, B.A. (Wooster), Ph.D.
(Princeton), of Wooster, Ohio; formerly Fellow of
Princeton University; Professor of Economics in the Col-
lege of Wooster; Assistant Professor of History.

James Henry Chillman, Jr., M.Sc. in Architecture
(Pennsylvania), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; formerly
Alumni Fellow in Architecture at the University of Penn-
sylvania ; Instructor in Freehand Drawing at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania; Instructor in Architecture.

Percy John Daniell, M.A. (Cambridge), of Liverpool,
England ; Senior Wrangler and Rayleigh Prizeman of the
University of Cambridge; formerly Lecturer in Mathe-
matics at the University of Liverpool; Research Associ-
ate of the Rice Institute; Assistant Professor of Applied
Mathematics.

Nicholas Diamant, B.A. (Robert), M.Sc. in E.E.
(Union), of Schenectady, New York; formerly Instruc-
tor in Hydraulics and Mathematics at Union College;
Fellow in Physics at the Rice Institute ; Instructor in En-
gineering.

Griffith Conrad Evans, Ph.D. (Harvard), of Boston,
Massachusetts; formerly Instructor in Mathematics at

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Harvard University; Sheldon Fellow of Harvard Univer-
sity at the University of Rome; Assistant Professor of
Pure Mathematics at the Rice Institute; Professor of
Pure Mathematics.

Major Joseph Frazier, United States Army, Retired;
Graduate United States Military Academy at West Point ;
sometime Professor of Military Science and Tactics and
Commandant of Cadets, University of Missouri; lately
Major of the First Infantry and Twenty-sixth Infantry,
United States Army; Professor of Military Science and
Tactics.

Gerald Fogarty Galloway, B.Sc. in E.E. (Colorado),
of Lincoln, Nebraska; formerly with the Engineering De-
partment of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad;
Instructor in Engineering.

Denton Loring Geyer, M.A. (Wisconsin), Ph.D. (Illi-
nois), of Roswell, New Mexico; formerly Fellow and
Assistant in Philosophy at the University of Illinois ; As-
sistant in Philosophy and Education at the Rice Institute ;
Instructor in Philosophy and Education.

Clyde Chew Glascock, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), of
New Haven, Connecticut; formerly Fellow of Johns
Hopkins University; Assistant Professor of German in
Yale University; Assistant Professor of Modern Lan-
guages.

William Caspar Graustein, M.A. (Harvard), Ph.D.
(Bonn), of Cambridge, Massachusetts; formerly Sheldon
Fellow of Harvard University; Instructor in Mathematics
at Harvard University; Assistant Professor of Mathe-
matics.

Albert Leon Guerard, B.A. (Paris), Agrege de I'Uni-

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versite de France, of Palo Alto, California; formerly
Junior Professor of French Literature and Examiner in
History, State Normal School, Paris; later Instructor in
the Romanic Languages at Williams College; Associate
Professor of French in the Leland Stanford Junior Uni-
versity; Professor of French.

Raymond Preston Hawes, M.A. (Brown), of Ithaca,
New York; Susan Linn Sage Scholar in Sage School of
Philosophy, Cornell University; Instructor in Education.

Claude William Heaps, B.Sc. (Northwestern), Ph.D.
(Princeton), of Columbia, Missouri; formerly Class of
i860 Experimental Science Fellow of Princeton Univer-
sity; Instructor in Physics at the University of Missouri;
Instructor in Physics.

Arthur Romaine Hitch, B.A., M.Sc. (Washington
College), Ph.D. (Cornell), of Syracuse, New York; for-
merly Assistant Instructor in Chemistry at Cornell Uni-
versity; Research Chemist for the Solvay Company; In-
structor in Chemistry.

Arthur Llewelyn Hughes, B.A. (Cambridge), D.Sc.
(Liverpool), of Cambridge, England; Research Scholar
of Emmanuel College, MacKinnon Student of the Royal
Society of London, Assistant Demonstrator in Physics at
the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University; As-
sistant Professor of Physics.

Herbert Kay Humphrey, B.Sc. in E.E. (Illinois),
M.Sc. in E.E. (Union), E.E. (Illinois), of Schenectady,
New York ; Assistant Consulting Engineer of the General
Electric Company; Instructor in Electrical Engineering.

Julian Sorell Huxley, B.A. (Oxford), of Oxford,
England; Newdigate Prizeman of the University of Ox-

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ford; formerly Lecturer in Biology in Balliol College,
and Intercollegiate Lecturer in Oxford University; Re-
search Associate of the Rice Institute; Assistant Profes-
sor of Biology.

Frederick J. Lewis, B.Sc. in C.E. (Maine), of Spring-
field, Massachusetts; Instructor in Civil Engineering at
Pennsylvania State College ; Instructor in Civil Engineer-
ing.

Roy Petran Lingle, Litt.B. (Princeton), of Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania; Master in English at the Episcopal
Academy of Philadelphia; Instructor in English.

Edgar Odell Lovett, Ph.D. (Virginia and Leipsic),
LL.D. (Drake and Tulane), of Houston, Texas; formerly
Professor of Mathematics in Princeton University, and
later Head of the Department of Astronomy in the same
institution; President of the Institute; Professor of
Mathematics.

Lawrence Francis Hawkins Lowe, M.A. (Princeton),
of Cleveland, Ohio; Instructor in French at Hoosac
School; Instructor in French.

John Thomas McCants, M.A. (Virginia and Yale), of
Houston, Texas; formerly Scholar at the University of
Virginia, and University Fellow at Yale University ; Sec-
retary to the President ; Instructor in English.

Hugh Miller, C.E. (Princeton), of Potsdam, New
York; Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering at
the Clarkson College of Technology; Lecturer in Civil
Engineering.

Hermann Joseph Muller, Ph.D. (Columbia), of New
York City; Assistant Instructor in Biology at Columbia
University ; Instructor in Biology.

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Frank D. Murnaghan, M.A. (National University of
Ireland), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), of Baltimore, Mary-
land; Fellow by Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University;
Instructor in Mathematics.

Joseph Horace Pound, B.Sc. in M.E. (Missouri), of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Instructor in the School of the
Westinghouse Machine Company ; Instructor in Mechani-
cal Engineering.

Michael James Roach, B.Sc. in C.E. (Clarkson), of
New York City; formerly with the Turner Construction
Company of New York; Instructor in Civil Engineering.

Herbert Nelson Roe, B.A. (Colorado), of Chicago,
Illinois; Director of Physical Education in the Public
Schools of Rock Island, Illinois; Instructor in Physical
Education.

Frank Barron Russell,^ Ph.B. (Chicago), M.A. (Har-
vard), of Chicago, Illinois; Instructor in English at the
University of Minnesota; Fellow in English at the Uni-
versity of Chicago; Instructor in English.

John Clark Tidden, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Fellow and Traveling Scholar of the Pennsylvania Acad-
emy of Fine Arts; Instructor in Architectural Drawing
and Painting.

Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff, B.A. (Oberlin), Ph.D.
(Cornell), of Worcester, Massachusetts; formerly Sage
Fellow of Cornell University; Instructor in Philosophy at
Clark University; Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Charles Frederick Ward, M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D.
(Chicago), of Calgary, Canada; Associate Professor of

^Died March 27, 1917.

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French and German in Calgary College; Instructor in
French.

William Ward Watkin, B.Sc. in Arch. (Pennsylvania),
M.A.I. A., of Houston, Texas ; formerly Scholar in Archi-
tecture in the University of Pennsylvania ; local represen-
tative of Messrs. Cram and Ferguson, the supervising
architects of the Institute; Instructor in Architecture at
the Rice Institute; Assistant Professor of Architecture.

Rolf Felix Weber, Ph.D. (Berlin), of Berlin, Ger-
many; Lecturer and Instructor at the University of Penn-
sylvania; Instructor in German.

Harry Boyer Weiser, M.A. (Ohio State), Ph.D. (Cor-
nell), of Memphis, Tennessee; formerly Assistant In-
structor in Chemistry at Cornell University; Assistant
Professor of Chemistry in the University of Tennessee;
Instructor in Chemistry.

Gerald Louis Wendt, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts ; Austin Teaching Fellow of Harvard
University ; Instructor in Chemistry.

Harold Albert Wilson, F.R.S., M.A. (Cambridge),
D.Sc. (London), of Montreal, Canada; Fellow of Trin-
ity College, Cambridge University; formerly Professor
in King's College, London; Research Professor of Phys-
ics in McGill University; Professor of Physics.

Stanley D. Wilson, M.A. (Wesleyan), Ph.D. (Chi-
cago), of Chicago, Illinois; formerly Instructor in Chem-
istry at Washburn College and the University of Kansas;
Instructor in Chemistry at the University of Chicago;
Instructor in Chemistry.

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ASSISTANTS AND FELLOWS

Hubert Evelyn Bray, B.A. (Tufts), M.A. (Harvard),
of Great Yarmouth, England; formerly Instructor in
Mathematics at Tufts College and at Lafayette College;
Fellow in Mathematics.

Walter Lynn Cheney, B.A. (Oberlin), M.A. (Ne-
braska), of Lincoln, Nebraska; Graduate Assistant in
Physics at the University of Nebraska; Fellow in Physics.

Robert Emmett Cummings, B.A. (Rice), of Houston,
Texas ; Assistant in Physical Education.

Alfred Alexander Dixon, B.Sc. (Guilford), M.A.
(Haverford), of Guilford, North Carolina; Professor of
Physics in Guilford College; Fellow in Physics,

Thomas Paul Frizzell, B.A. (Texas Christian Univer-
sity), of Knox City, Texas; Fellow in Biology.

Frederick R. Lummis, M.D. (Pennsylvania), of Hous-
ton, Texas; Medical Adviser to the Committee on Out-
door Sports.

Samuel Glenn McCann, B.A. (Wooster), of Dresden,
Ohio; Principal of the high school at Navarre, Ohio; Fel-
low in History.

Norman Hurd Ricker, B.A. (Rice), of Galveston,
Texas ; Fellow in Mathematics.

Jacob L. Sherrick, B.Sc. (Penna. State), of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Assistant Chemist in the United States
Bureau of Mines ; Fellow in Chemistry.

Arthur S. Winsor, B.A. (Mt. Alhson), of Woodstock,
New Brunswick ; Fellow in Mathematics.

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FELLOWSHIPS

While seeking to develop its students in character, in cul-
ture, and in citizenship, the Rice Institute will reserve for
scholarship its highest rewards and in particular for evi-
dences of creative capacity in productive scholarship. To
encourage this devotion to learning a series of under-
graduate scholarships and graduate fellowships will be
devised to be awarded preferably to those students who
have been in residence at the Institute for at least one
year. Moreover, the varied opportunities for self-help in
a growing institution in a large city should aid in enabling
any young man of determination to earn his education in
a thoroughly democratic college community. There may
thus be realized the founder's desire that the advantages
of his philanthropy should be brought within the reach of
the promising student of slender means.

Furthermore, the Institute would interpret in a very
large way its dedication to the advancement of letters, sci-
ence, and art. It would not only look to the employment
of these disciplines in the development of the life of the
individual and in that of the race, but it would also play
its part in the progress and enlargement of human know-
ledge by the contributions of its own resident professors
and scholars. Accordingly there should always be asso-
ciated with the staff of the Institute a group of advanced
students in training for careers both as teachers and re-
searchers : with this end in view, graduate fellowships will

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be awarded from time to time to degree-bearing students
of the Institute or other educational foundations of sim-
ilar standing.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

Candidates for admission to the Institute who present
satisfactory testimonials as to their character will be ac-
cepted either upon successful examination in the entrance
subjects or by certificate of graduation from an accred-
ited public or private high school. The standard require-
ments for matriculation are determined by the system of
units given below. A unit represents a course of study
pursued five hours a week for an academic year. Four-
teen such units are required for entrance in full standing
to the freshman class of the Institute. A candidate offer-
ing twelve units may be accepted with conditions, but all
deficiencies must be removed, in accordance with regula-
tions published elsewhere in this announcement, before
the student will be recognized as a candidate for any de-
gree.

From the following list every candidate will be re-
quired to present three units in English, two and one-half
units in mathematics, two units in history, and three units
in one foreign language or two units in each of two mod-
ern languages. For the present, in the case of mature
candidates whose preparation has not been adequate, com-
pliance with the requirements in foreign languages may
be temporarily deferred. No student will be admitted to

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a special schedule who has not satisfied in full the re-
quirements for admission to the freshman class.

Entrance examinations will be held at the Institute be-
ginning September 19th, 191 7, and again during the week
beginning May 20th, 1918. Applications for the privilege
of taking these examinations must be received at the Uni-
versity Office three weeks in advance of the beginning of
the examinations. Such applications must be accompanied
by statements and records from schools attended by candi-
dates. Appropriate blanks for such applications and rec-
ords may be obtained from the University Office of the
Rice Institute on request.

LIST OF SUBJECTS WITH VALUES
IN UNITS

Botany i ; Chemistry i ; English (Reading and Practice
2, Study and Practice i) ; French (Elementary 2, Inter-
mediate i); German (Elementary 2, Intermediate i);
Greek (Grammar and Elementary Prose Composition i,
Xenophon i, Homer — Iliad, Books I-III i); History
(Ancient i, Mediaeval and Modern i, English i, Ameri-
can i) ; Latin (Grammar, Elementary Prose Composition
and Caesar 2, Cicero i, Virgil i) ; Mathematics (Algebra
i^, Plane Geometry i, Solid Geometry ^, Trigonom-
etry ^) ; Spanish (Elementary 2, Intermediate i) ; Phys-
ics I ; Physical Geography 5^ ; Physiology ^ ; Zoology i.
Substitutes for certain of these subjects may be consid-
ered in individual cases.

The terms of admission to the Institute are based on

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the recommendations of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching as expressed in the Documents
of the College Entrance Examination Board. Complete
information with respect to further details of these re-
quirements will be forwarded by the Institute to any
candidate upon receipt of a request addressed to the Uni-
versity Office of the Institute.

EXPENSES

The opportunities for study and research offered by the
Rice Institute are open without tuition both to young men
and to young women. A small deposit will be required to
cover possible breakage in the laboratories and losses
from the libraries ; the balance from this contingent fee is
returnable after the close of the session.

Students, of course, are expected to meet all expenses
incurred in the purchase of text books, note books, exami-
nation papers, drafting instruments and the materials ac-
tually used up in the elementary courses in pure and
applied science.

No student in arrears in his bills to the Institute will be
admitted to any of the examinations.

Rooms in the residential halls for men, completely fur-
nished exclusive of linen, together with table board at the
Institute commons, may be had at prices ranging from
twenty-two dollars a month of four weeks, payable
monthly in advance. These residential halls are of abso-
lutely fireproof construction, heated by steam, lighted by
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with the most approved form of sanitary plumbing, pro-
viding adequate bathing facihties on every floor. The
rooms will be let in the order of applications received.
Applications must be accompanied by deposits of ten dol-
lars. Inasmuch as each year the accommodations now
adequate to house some three hundred and fifty men have
all been engaged before the opening of the session, reser-
vations should be made early. Diagrams showing the
floor plans will be sent on request to any one who may be
interested.

Accommodations for the residence of young women on
the university grounds are not available at present. How-
ever, while attending to their duties on the campus the
young women of the university have access to adequate
rest rooms, tennis courts, and other forms of recreation
under the constant supervision of Mrs. Sara Stratford,
Adviser to Women. Information concerning desirable
places of residence for young women students may be
had at the University Office.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
FOR DEGREES

Although it is the policy of the new institution to de-
velop its university programme rather more seriously
from the science end, there are also being provided facil-
ities for elementary and advanced courses in the so-called
humanities, thereby enabling the Institute to offer both
the advantages of a liberal general education and those of
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courses in the various domains of scientific knowledge
will be available, but in the main the programme consists
of subjects carefully coordinated and calling for consid-
erable concentration of study. These programmes have
been so arranged as to offer a variety of courses in arts,
in science, in letters, and in their applications to the sev-
eral fields of engineering, architecture, and other regions
of applied science, leading after four years of under-
graduate work to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. De-
grees will also be offered in architecture and in chemical,
civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Further-
more, for the degrees of Master of Arts, Doctor of Phi-
losophy, and Doctor of Engineering, every facility will be
afforded properly qualified graduate students to under-
take lines of study and research under the direction of the
Institute's resident and visiting professors.

The academic programmes of study leading to the
degree of Bachelor of Arts after four years of study are
of a common type for the first two years, but for the
third and fourth years are differentiated into two forms :
first, general courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, either with some grade of distinction or without
special mention, and second, honors courses leading to
the degree with first, second, or third class honors. These
two types will be referred to in the sequel as general
courses and honors courses respectively.

The general course leading to the degree of B.A. has
been arranged to give thorough training to those students
who are seeking university instruction in literary and sci-
entific subjects either as a part of a liberal education or as
preliminary to entering upon a business or professional

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career. The general course therefore involves the study
of several subjects up to a high university standard but
does not include a highly detailed specialized study of any
one subject such as is necessary before research work or
university teaching can be profitably undertaken. Stu-
dents wishing to specialize with a view to research work
and university teaching may either take an honors course
and then proceed by graduate study to. the degrees of
M.A. and Ph.D., or they may first take a general B.A.
course and after completing it proceed by graduate study
to the higher degrees.

The attention of students intending to enter the profes-
sion of engineering or architecture is called to the great
advantages in first taking a general or honors academic
course before beginning special study in engineering or
architecture. At present the Institute is not offering
courses leading to degrees in law and medicine, but stu-
dents looking forward to such careers will find in the
earlier years of the B.A. course all the requirements for
admission to many medical and law schools, provided
suitable subjects are chosen. However, attention is called
to the fact that several professional schools of law and
medicine are now requiring bachelor degrees for admis-
sion.

As has already been intimated, the course for the de-
gree of B.A. extends over four years. During the first
two years a considerable part of the work is prescribed,
while during the last two years each student is allowed,
within certain restrictions, to select the subjects he studies.
In the majority of the courses the formal instruction
offered consists of three lectures a week together with

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laboratory work in certain subjects. Examinations are
held from time to time and at the end of each term.
These examinations are conducted under a student honor
system. In determining the standing of a student in each
class both his work during the term and the record of his
examinations are taken into account.

Of subjects included in the B.A. courses the following
are now available.

Group A

Group B

I.

English

J.

Pure Mathematics

2.

French

2.

Applied Mathematics

3-

German

3-

Physics

4-

Spanish

4-

Chemistry

5-

Economics

5-

Biology

6.

Education

6.

Chemical Engineering

7-

History

7-

Civil Engineering

8.

Philosophy

8.

Electrical Engineering

9-

Architecture

9-

Mechanical Engineering

Instruction in advanced Latin is also offered.

Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts of the
Rice Institute will be required to select studies from the
preceding groups according to the yearly programmes
exhibited below.

At the beginning of each year of his residence at the
Institute, each student is assigned to some member of the
faculty who will act as the student's personal adviser in
the selection of his studies and courses and in other mat-
ters pertaining to life at the Institute.

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First Year

( 1 ) Pure mathematics

(2) English

(3) A modern language

(4) A science

(5) One other subject

Second Year

( 1 ) Pure mathematics or a science

(2) Enghsh

(3) A modern language^
(4-5) Two other subjects

At the beginning of the third year students may elect
to take either a general course or an honors course.

Third Year General B.A. Course

Four subjects, of which two must have been taken in
the second year and one in both first and second. At least
one subject from each of the groups A and B must be
taken. Students will receive advice in the selection of
their subjects.

Fourth Year General B.A. Course

Four subjects, two of which must have been taken in
the third year and one in both second and third or in first

^ Students who enter with credit in two modern languages may
substitute another subject for (3) in the second year.

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and third. At least one subject from each of the groups
A and B must be taken.

To students who have completed the general course the
B.A. degree will be awarded either with some grade of
distinction or without special mention.

The third and fourth year honors courses are intended
for students who wish to specialize in particular branches
of knowledge with a view to research work or teaching or
later professional studies.

In view of these special objects the requirements in
such courses will be more severe than in the general
courses in the same subjects. For this reason it is recom-
mended that students exercise due caution and seek advice
before electing to take an honors course. Only those
students who have shown in their first and second years
that they are especially well qualified will be permitted to
take an honors course. A student proposing to take an
honors course must satisfy the department concerned that
he is qualified to proceed with the study of that subject.
He will be required to take the lectures and practical work
provided for honors students in that subject during each
of the two years and in addition certain courses in allied
subjects.

In 1916-17 honors courses will be available as follows :

( 1 ) Pure and applied mathematics

(2) Theoretical and experimental physics

(3) Modern languages and literatures

(4) Biology

(5) Chemistry

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The following programme of honors courses in physics
may be taken as typical of such courses :

Third year, five subjects : (i) mathematics, (2) physics
300, (3) physics 310, (4) physics 400, (5) one other
subject.

Fourth year, five subjects: (i) mathematics, (2) phys-
ics 400, (3) physics 420, (4) physics 500, (5) one other
subject.

The degree of B.A. with first, second, or third class
honors will be awarded at the end of the fourth year to
students who have completed an honors course. Candi-
dates for honors who fail may be excused such part of
a general course as may be equivalent to the work they
have done. Candidates for honors who are not making
satisfactory progress may be required to discontinue their
honors course and may be excused such part of a general
course as may be equivalent to the work they have done.

A student who has completed a general or an honors
course for the Bachelor of Arts degree may obtain the
Master of Arts degree after the successful completion of
one year of graduate work. A candidate for the degree
of Master of Arts must select a principal subject and will
be required to take such courses in that subject and allied
subjects as may be determined for each individual case.
He must also undertake research work under the direction
of the department of his principal subject and submit a
thesis embodying the results of this work.

A student who has completed a general course for the
Bachelor of Arts degree may obtain the degree of Doctor

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of Philosophy after not less than three years' graduate
study and research work. A student who has obtained
the Bachelor of Arts degree with first or second class hon-
ors may obtain the Doctor of Philosophy degree after not
less than two years' graduate study and research work.
Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy must
submit a thesis and pass a public examination.

STANDING IN SCHOLARSHIP OF
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Removal of entrance conditions and fulfilment of
Freshman and Sophomore requirements. — A student hav-
ing entrance conditions should remove them before the
beginning of his third year of residence, and may not,
after that time, remove them by passing entrance exami-
nations. A student who has failed to remove his en-
trance conditions by the beginning of his third year of
residence, or who has not by that time completed the
prescribed Freshman courses (in mathematics, English,
foreign languages and science), will not be allowed to
carry more than the regular schedule during his third
year of residence. And if, by the beginning of his fourth
year of residence, a student has not also completed the
prescribed Sophomore courses (in English, foreign lan-
guages, and mathematics or science), he will not be al-
lowed to carry more than the regular schedule during his
fourth year of residence.

Dropping of students for deficiencies in scholarship. —
A student will be required to withdraw from the Institute

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if he fail in as much as one-half of the work of his sched-
ule.

Probation. — A student who has passed in more than
one-half of his work may, nevertheless, be placed on pro-
bation if, during his Freshman or Sophomore years, he
has received in any one term, V's^ in two courses, or has
failed to obtain a grade of III or better in at least one
course, and if, during his Junior and Senior years, he has
received in any one term a V in one course, or has failed
to obtain a grade of III or better in at least one course.
A student who is carrying less than full schedule may be
placed on probation if he has received in any one term a
V in one course, or has failed to obtain a grade of III or
better in at least two courses. Students who carry a sched-
ule of two courses or less are expected to obtain a grade
of III or better in each course. If a student who has thus
been placed on probation fails to improve materially in
his standing, he is dropped from the Institute. The length
of the period of probation during which a student who is
on probation may remain in the Institute is determined in
each special case by the Faculty. A student on probation
may be dropped at any time at the discretion of the Fac-
ulty. A student who is on probation must concentrate his
energies on his academic work and may not take part in
extra-academic activities.

Promotion.— To attain Sophomore standing, a student
must have obtained in four of the five courses of the
Freshman year courses, passing grades of which two must
have been III or better. To attain Junior standing, a

1 The symbols have the following meanings: I Very high standing,
II High standing, III Medium standing, IV Low standing, V Failure.

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student must have obtained in at least nine of the ten
courses of the Freshman and Sophomore years' courses,
passing grades of which four must have been III or bet-
ter. To attain Senior standing, a student must have
obtained passing grades, of which six must have been III
or better, in at least thirteen courses of the five courses of
the Freshman year, the five courses of the Sophomore
year, and the four courses of the Junior year, required
for full Senior standing. To obtain the degree of Bach-
elor of Arts, a student must have obtained passing grades,
of which eight must have been III or better, in five Fresh-
man courses, five Sophomore courses, four Junior courses,
and four Senior courses, required for the first degree.
Attention is called to the fact that this four years' course
is built up by years. Accordingly four courses of the
Freshman and Sophomore years respectively will not be
credited as the equivalent of four courses of the Junior
and Senior years respectively. A higher standard and
wider range of collateral work is required of Juniors and
Seniors who elect in either of those years an elementary
subject of the Freshman and Sophomore years.

Beginning with the academic year 191 7-18 courses in
military science and tactics will be required of all students
in addition to their regular academic schedules.

SUBJECTS OF INSTRUCTION FOR 1916-17

Of the courses to be offered during the scholastic year
19 16-17 it is possible to announce those described below.
The numbers designating the courses have the following

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signification: courses whose numbers begin witli i are
open to all students of the Institute; courses whose num-
bers commence with 2 are open to sophomores, juniors,
and seniors; those beginning w4th 3 are open to juniors
and seniors; those beginning with 4 are senior courses.
In this connection it may be remarked that seniors were
admitted to the Institute for the first time in 191 5-16.
Courses whose numbers end in o extend throughout the
year; those ending in i, 2, 3, are first, second, and third
term courses, respectively. Unless otherwise indicated,
all courses consist of at least three exercises a week.

For each course the days of the week and the hours
have been indicated. The Roman numerals refer to the
group in the examination schedule. In general, subjects
which fall in the same group may not be taken in the same
year. Any possible exceptions to this rule must be ar-
ranged through the University Office at or before the
time of registration.

English 100. A course in rhetoric, with the use of
a text-book, and constant practical exercise in writing.
Selected English authors will be read, primarily with the
purpose of giving the student some sense of literary
values and standards of literary style. It is a course in
appreciation and expression.

M W F 9:30, 10:30, or II 130 II

English 200. A systematic study of the history of
English literature from its beginnings, by the use of text-
books and by lectures. In addition to the formal study
of the history, there will be a rapid reading of some of
the works of authors representative of the chief epochs

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in literary history. In connection with the Elizabethan
age Shakespeare will be studied in some detail.

T Th S 9 -.30 or 10:30 II

English 300. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
English Literature. A study of the literature of England
from Alexander Pope to the end of the nineteenth cen-
tury. The first part of the course will be devoted to the
poetry and prose of the eighteenth century, with especial
emphasis on the Romantic-Naturalistic movement. The
remainder of the course will be given to the study of
representative poets and essayists of the nineteenth cen-
tury; consideration of the nineteenth century novelists
will be taken up in the English 400 course. Among the
poets and essayists studied will be Wordsworth, Cole-
ridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning,
Arnold, De Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Ruskin. It
is the aim of this course to combine literary interpretation
and appreciation with some exposition of the historical,
political, social, and philosophical aspects of literary his-
tory. Written exercises will be required of those who
take the course. M W F 11:2,0 II

English 400. Modern English and American Litera-
ture. There are three elements in this course: (i) Nine-
teenth Century British and American Fiction, involving
a study of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith,
Kipling, Hawthorne, and Poe; (2) American Literature,
a review of the course of the literature of America from
Benjamin Franklin to the present time, based, in part,
upon books of selected readings from American poets,
essayists, and humorists; (3) Modern Drama, a study of
representative dramatists from Ibsen to the present time,
based on the reading of plays English, American, and

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European in translation. Written work will be required
of students who take the course. M W F 10:30 II

French 100. Elementary French. A general intro-
ductory course, in which the method adopted is based on
extensive and rapid reading, without sacrificing the study
of grammar and the practice of conversation.

MWF 8:30 orTThS 8:30 III

French iio. Elementary French. A general intro-
ductory course, specially intended for students who desire
to take more than one year of French.

MWF 8:30 orTThS 8:30 or 9:30 III

French 200. Second Year French. Syntax, compo-
sition, conversation based on rapid reading, and general
survey of French literature.

MWF 9:30 or 10 130 III

French 300. Third Year French. Advanced compo-
sition, themes, lectures in French, discussions and read-
ings on classical French literature of the sixteenth, seven-
teenth, and eighteenth centuries. MWF 9 130 III

French 400. Fourth Year French. Composition
(themes and essays); literary translation; lectures, dis-
cussions, and readings in nineteenth century literature.
(Not offered in 1917-18). T Th S 11 130 XI

French 410. History of French Civilization. A gen-
eral survey of political, social and cultural conditions
from the earliest times to the present day. Lectures in
French. Assigned readings, essays, reports and debates.
Special library provision has been made for this subject.
Prerequisite : French 300 or preferably French 400.

TThS 8:30 III

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German ioo. Elementary German. Grammar, read-
ing, conversation, and composition. Collateral reading in
history.

MWF 9:30 or 1 1 130 or T Th S 10:30 VII

German 200. Second Year German. Historical, de-
scriptive, and narrative prose. Elements of the history of
German civilization. Lectures and collateral reading.

MWF 8:30 or 1 1 130 VII

German 300. Third Year German. The literature
and civilization of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
in Germany. Written reports in German, lectures, and
collateral reading T Th S 9 130 VII

German 310. Third Year German. Alternate course.
The Middle High German Epic. Introduction to the
literature of chivalry. T Th S 10:30 VII

German 400. Fourth Year German. Intensive study
of some period or group of writers in the eighteenth or
nineteenth century. Lectures and discussions ; essays and
reports in German ; collateral reading.

T Th S 8 :30 VII

German 410. German Literature in the Twelfth and
Thirteenth Centuries. This course is primarily for ad-
vanced students specializing in German, and is intended
to give a reading knowledge of Middle High German.
Selections from the writings of Walther von der Vogel-
weide, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and
Wolfram von Eschenbach will be read. Lectures and
discussions; translation; collateral reading; essays and
reports in German. T Th S 9 :30 I

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Spanish 300. Elementary Spanish. Grammar, com-
position, and selections for reading from modern Spanish
authors. Stress is laid on accurate Castilian pronuncia-
tion, on the essentials of grammar, and on careful trans-
lation into idiomatic English of simple Spanish prose.

TThS 11:30 XII

Spanish 310. General survey of Spanish literature
and in particular that of the nineteenth century. The
readings will include selections from Cervantes, Lope de
Vega, Calderon, Pereda, Galdos and Valdes.

MWF 11:30 XII

Latin 100. Selections from Cicero, Nepos, Ovid,
Sallust, and Livy. Course in Latin grammar. Latin com-
position and essays. Roman literature.

T Th S 9 :30 IX

Latin 200. Selections from Cicero, Livy, Virgil,
Horace, and Tacitus. Roman literature. Latin compo-
sition and essays. MWF 9 :30 XI

Latin 300. Extensive reading in Ovid, Horace, Juve-
nal, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Plautus, and Terence. Essays
and advanced composition. Versification, Roman litera-
ture. Chapters in J. E. Sandys' "Companion to Latin
Studies" on epigraphy, palaeography, art, and textual
criticism.

Mathematics 100. Trigonometry, Analytic Geom-
etry, and Advanced Algebra, constituting the freshman
course in mathematics which is required of all students in
the Institute.

MWF 8 :30 or 9 :30 or T Th S 8 :30 or 9 :30 I

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Mathematics iio. Plane Analytic Geometry, Topics
from Algebra and Analytic Geometry of Three Dimen-
sions. For students who are already well grounded in
trigonometry. The course will be given if applications
are received from a sufficient number of properly quali-
fied students. TThS 8:30 I

Mathematics 200. Differential and Integral Calcu-
lus. This course, including the study of derivatives, in-
definite and definite integrals, infinite series, and Taylor's
theorem, is the foundation of theoretical physics and ad-
vanced mathematics, and the ideas introduced are, as
ideas, of fundamental importance in many branches of
modern thought. T Th S 8 130 I

Mathematics 210. Differential and Integral Calcu-
lus. This course covers the ground of Course 200, but is
more complete and goes further. It is intended for stu-
dents who have greater facility in mathematical reason-
ing. It is a sufficient introduction to Mathematics 310,
320, and 330, and is open to students who obtain high
grades in Mathematics 100 or otherwise satisfy the in-
structor of their fitness to take the course.

TThS 8:30 I

Mathematics 220. Modern Geometry and Algebra.
Introduction to modern methods in geometry and alge-
bra; abridged notation; line coordinates; reciprocal
polars; cross ratio; projection; linear transformations;
inversion. T Th S 9 130 XII

Mathematics 300. Advanced Calculus and Differen-
tial Equations. Differentiation and integration of func-
tions of several variables; muhiple integrals; introduc-
tion to the theory of differential equations. This course

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or Mathematics 310 should be taken by students whose
major interest Hes in physics or engineering; it is open to
those who pass successfully in Course 200 or 210 in
mathematics. M W F 8 130 I

Mathematics 310. Advanced Calculus and Differen-
tial Equations. Applications of calculus to the study of
curves and surfaces ; differential equations ; multiple and
improper integrals ; Fourier's Series. This is a more ex-
tended course than Course 300, and is intended for stu-
dents who have greater facility in mathematical reason-
ing. It is recommended to students who are specializing
in mathematics, physics, and engineering.

MWF 8:30 I

Mathematics 400. Theory of Functions of a Real
Variable. This course consists of the theory of sets of
points, the Lebesgue and Stieltjes integrals; integral
equations ; divergent series, and their applications to
analysis.

Mathematics 410. Theory of Functions of a Com-
plex Variable. An introductory course in the general
theory of functions of a complex variable. Open to stu-
dents who satisfy the instructor that they are prepared to
take the course. Not offered in 191 7-1 8.

Mathematics 420. Differential Equations. Ordi-
nary and partial differential equations, with an introduc-
tion to integral equations. This course is designed to
follow Course 310. T Th S 11 130 I

Mathematics 430. Line Geometry. A study of the
geometry in which the line is the fundamental element.
Open to students who satisfy the instructor that they are
prepared to take the course. MWF 11 130 X

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Applied Mathematics 200. Mechanics. A study of
the fundamental principles, with applications to machines
and structures. It includes elementary statics, dynamics,
and hydraulics. This course is a necessary part of the
engineering course and is recommended to students of
physics. MWF 10:30 XII

Applied Mathematics 310. Statistical Economics.
An analysis of statistics as applied to economics and
biology, theory of probability, mathematical theory of
investment. T Th S 9 :30 V

Applied Mathematics 410. Aerodynamics and Bal-
listics. This course investigates the dynamics of aero-
planes and projectiles, in particular, problems of resis-
tance, stability, and trajectory. MWF 9:30 XII

Besides these courses as listed above, to be given dur-
ing the academic year 191 7-18, others may be given to
suit the needs of students. Reading courses are also
offered in analysis, geometry, and applied mathematics.

Physics 100. A course of three lectures and three
hours of practical work per week on heat, light, sound,
and experimental dynamics. The lectures are fully illus-
trated by experiments.

TThS 9:30 IX Laboratory T or Th 1:30-4:30

Physics 200. A course of three lectures and three
hours of practical work per week on electricity and mag-
netism. The lectures are fully illustrated by experiments.
MWF 9 :30 IX Laboratory M i :30-4 :30

Physics 300. A course of three lectures and three
hours of practical work per week on properties of matter,

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thermodynamics, theory of vibrations and geometrical
optics.

M W F 9 130 IX Laboratory F i :30-4 :30

Physics 310. A course of three lectures and three
hours of practical work on electricity and magnetism and
physical optics.

MWF 10:30 XII Laboratory W 1:30-4:30

Physics 400. Physics Colloquium. One meeting a
week at which researches in physics will be discussed.

Physics 410. This course consists of about nine hours
a week practical work on exact measurements and re-
search work in some branch of physics.

Physics 500, 510. A course consisting of three lec-
tures a week extending over two years on various mod-
ern developments in physics, including theory of heat
conduction, advanced thermodynamics, electromagnetic
theory of light, discharge of electricity through gases,
Roentgen rays, electrical properties of flames and hot
bodies, photo-electricity, theory of radiation, electron
theory of properties of insulators and conductors, and
constitution of matter. MWF 11 :30 IX

Physics 520. Research work in Physics.

Chemistry 100. Elementary Chemistry. Two lec-
tures, one recitation and three hours of laboratory work
a week throughout the year. This course includes the
general principles of theoretical chemistry, a description
of the elements and their compounds, a brief survey of
organic chemistry, and discussions of the common and
industrial applications of the subject. The laboratory

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work is illustrative of the facts and theories discussed in
the lectures, with special attention to the laws of physical
chemistry, and includes an introduction to the processes
of qualitative and quantitative analysis.

M W F 9 130 V Laboratory M or T i :30-4 130

Chemistry 200. A condensed course giving the ele-
ments of qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, and
organic chemistry for students who are preparing for the
study of medicine, for engineers (excepting chemical en-
gineers), and for students specializing in biology or
related sciences. Lectures : three hours a week. Labora-
tory : six hours a week for the year. Prerequisite : Chem-
istry 100. This course will not be accepted as a pre-
requisite to any of the advanced courses in Chemistry
except Chemistry 320 and Chemistry 410. Not offered
in 1917-18.

Chemistry 210. Qualitative Analysis. Two lectures
and six hours of laboratory work a week throughout the
year. Prerequisite : Chemistry 100. A thorough discus-
sion of the physical chemistry of solutions and the prin-
ciples underlying chemical reactions precedes a study of
the qualitative detection and separation of the commoner
metals and acids. The laboratory work includes the
analysis of a large number of solid mixtures, minerals,
alloys, and commercial products, as well as an introduc-
tion to mineralogy and blowpipe analysis.

MW 10:30 V Laboratory TW 1:30-4:30

Chemistry 220. Quantitative Analysis. Two lectures
and six hours of laboratory work a week throughout the
year. This course is open to students who have taken or
are taking Chemistry 210. It embodies a study of repre-
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the common metals and acids and a discussion of general
analytical practice in science and the industries. Gravi-
metric, volumetric, and electro-analysis are included, with
special emphasis on chemical mathematics and stoichei-
ometry.

T Th II :30 VI Laboratory Th F i :30-4 130

Chemistry 300. Organic Chemistry, Lectures, reci-
tations, and laboratory practice. Lectures : three hours a
week. Laboratory: six hours a week. Prerequisite:
Chemistry 210, except by permission of the Instructor in
charge. The lectures treat of the elements and principles
of organic compounds. The laboratory work consists in
the preparation of typical carbon compounds, including
some work in proximate organic analysis.

M W F 9 :30 XI Laboratory W F i :30-4 :30

Chemistry 310. Physical Chemistry. Lectures : three
hours a week. Laboratory : six hours a week. Prerequi-
site: Chemistry 220, Physics 200 or taking 200, and
Mathematics 200 or taking 200. A systematic presenta-
tion of modern chemical theories and their applications.
M W F 8:30 V Laboratory Th S 9:30-12:30

Chemistry 320. Technical Chemistry. Lectures:
two hours a week. Laboratory : six hours a week. Pre-
requisite : Chemistry 200 or 220. The lectures deal with
the theory and practice of the methods as outlined in the
laboratory work, as well as the technical processes calling
for such tests. The laboratory work consists in the analy-
sis of coal and coke, cements, fertilizers, minerals, iron
and steel, and gases; the determination of the heating
value of gaseous, liquid, and solid fuels; the sanitary
analysis of water, the analysis of boiler waters and scale,
petroleum oils, vegetable oils, and experience in the ma-

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nipulation of many types of apparatus used in manufac-
turing plants. Within certain limits the work may be
selected to suit the requirements of the individual student.
MW 10:30 VIII Laboratory MT 1:30-4:30

Chemistry 400. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. Pre-
requisite : Chemistry 310. Three lectures a week devoted
to special topics in the field of inorganic chemistry, includ-
ing the modern theories of the structure of the atom and
the nature of matter.

Chemistry 410. Colloid Chemistry. Lectures: three
hours a week. Laboratory: three hours a week. Pre-
requisite: Chemistry 200 or 220 or taking 220. The
course treats of the theories of colloid chemistry and their
applications in biology and the arts.

Chemistry 420. Electrochemistry. Lectures: two
hours a week. Laboratory : six hours a week. Prerequi-
site: Chemistry 310, Physics 200. An exposition of the
fundamental principles of the subject and their applica-
tion to industrial processes. The laboratory work in-
cludes practice in the measurement of electrical constants ;
the conditions affecting electrolytic reactions ; determina-
tion of current and energy efficiencies in electrolytic and
electrothermal work; electroplating and electrorefining;
tests of storage batteries; electrolytic and electrothermal
preparations.

TTh 8:30 VIL Laboratory MW 1:30^4:30

Chemistry 430. Advanced Organic Chemistry. Lec-
tures, recitations, and laboratory practice. Lectures : three
hours a week. Laboratory: six hours a week. Pre-
requisite : Chemistry 340. A course in advanced topics in
organic chemistry, including stereochemistry.

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Chemistry 450. Advanced Quantitative Analysis.
Prerequisite : Chemistry 230. Two lectures and 9 hours
of laboratory work a week. The exact determination of
a number of constituents in complex and difficultly solu-
ble minerals and practice in the uses of the more refined
procedures and instruments in gravimetric, volumetric,
and gasometric analysis.

Chemistry 470. Chetnical Research. Chemical en-
gineers and students who are specializing in chemistry
may elect in their senior year at least nine hours a week
in research under the direction of some member of the
staff of instruction.

Chemistry 480. Chemical Seminar. One hour a
week. Participation in the seminar is required of all
chemical engineers and students specializing in chemistry
after the completion of their third year. Attendance is
open to all members of the Institute. Discussions of gen-
eral topics or of recent advances in the progress or the
applications of chemistry. M 9 :30

Chemistry 500. Chemical Research. Chemical en-
gineers or students who are specializing in chemistry are
expected in their fifth year to elect at least nine hours a
week in research under the direction of some member of
the staff of instruction.

During the academic year 191 7-1 8 the following
courses outlined in previous announcements will, except
in case of special requirement, be omitted : Chemistry 440,
Advanced Qualitative Analysis ; Chemistry 460, Indus-
trial Chemistry; Chemistry 510, Theoretical Chemistry
and Thermodynamics.

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Biology ioo. General Biology. This course will in-
clude a general study of the origin and constitution of
living matter; the fundamentals of morphology and
physiology as illustrated by selected animal and plant
types; the development of the individual and of the race;
together with a brief introduction to other biological ideas
that are of general interest. The course is planned to
meet the needs not only of those who intend to continue
the study of biology, but also of those who wish to spe-
cialize in other subjects, but yet are desirous of getting
some general knowledge of biology. It is a prescribed
subject for those who wish to enter a medical college
later, and it is thought that this course will prove valu-
able to those intending to study theology, philosophy, psy-
chology, economics, or agriculture. Three lectures and
one three-hour laboratory period a week.

T Th S 1 1 130 X Laboratory W or Th 1 130-4 130

Biology 200. Cellular Biology. This course is the
logical sequel to Biology 100, and undertakes a more
scientific examination of the foundation principles of life.
It is essential for those who wish to continue in biology,
but it should be of interest to students of other subjects
as well. The course is very general in scope, including a
study of all the important features of cell structure and
activities, such as the constitution of protoplasm ; its nu-
trition, metabolism, and mode of motion ; irritability and
the properties of nerve cells; the mechanism of develop-
ment; youth and old age ; and the physical basis of repro-
duction and heredity. Recent lines of experimental work
in general physiology, embryology, and cytology will re-
ceive special attention. In the laboratory students will
have an opportunity to study living and prepared speci-
mens illustrating the course, and to become acquainted

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with some of the methods of modern biological experi-
ment and technique. Chemistry (high school or college)
is prerequisite, or may, in special cases, be taken as a
parallel course. Three lectures and six hours of labora-
tory a week. Given alternately with Biology 300; not
ofifered in 191 7-1 8.

Biology 210. Morphology of Animals. This course
is intended chiefly for students who expect to continue in
biology. It includes a study of the structure of typical
representatives of each group (order) in the animal king-
dom, together with a general survey of the related forms.
The probable course of evolution of the various groups
will also be considered. Three lectures and five hours of
laboratory a week. This course is given alternately with
Biology 310, to which it is prerequisite, and will be given
in 1917-18.

T Th S 9 130 IX Laboratory T F i 130-4 130

Biology 300. Heredity and Evolution. This course is
open to juniors, and also to those sophomores who have
obtained a grade of III or better in Biology 100. In the
subject of heredity, special emphasis will be laid on the
most modern advances, as this science has been revolu-
tionized in recent years. Mendelism, mutation, and the
constitution of the germ plasm as disclosed by breeding
experiments and microscopic investigation, will be among
the topics studied. Older theories, such as the inheritance
of acquired characters, and applications of heredity, such
as eugenics, will be considered in the light of the newer
knowledge. Students will also receive training to enable
them to work out actual cases of heredity. The labora-
tory work, which will consist of breeding experiments on
Drosophila, will occupy about three hours a week, but

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will not be at set hours. In the third term the chief topics
will be : the general principles of evolution ; the courses
which evolution has taken in the plant and animal king-
doms; the descent of man; evolution in man to-day; also
a brief discussion of cosmic and geological evolution in
their relation to that of the organic world. In this term
there will be theses and required reading, but no labora-
tory work. The course is given alternately with Biology
200, and will be given in 191 7-1 8. MWF 9:30 X

Biology 310. Embryology. This course will consider
in detail the development of typical representatives of the
various groups of animals, invertebrate and vertebrate.
It is intended for students who wish to continue in biol-
ogy, and Biology 210, which is given alternately with it,
must be taken as a prerequisite. Not offered in 1917-18.

Biology 500. Advanced Genetics. Reading and semi-
nar work in modern genetics, accompanied by practical
work and problems. Students will also be given research
work to carry on in conjunction with the course. Gradu-
ate course.

Biology 510. General Problems of Biology. Read-
ing, themes, and seminar work on advanced general topics
of biology. Graduate course.

Biology 520. Special work in Biology. This course
will consist of advanced work in some special field of
biology and will be adapted to the needs of the particular
student.

Economics 200. Elements of Economics. An intro-
duction to the fundamental theories of economics and to
their applications, with special reference to the problems
of money, banking, transportation, international trade,

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and business organizations. This course is planned to
meet the requirements in industrial economics on the
schedules of all engineering students.

TThS 11:30 XI

Economics 310. Money and Banking; Principles of
Business Administration ; Business Law.

MWF 11:30 XI

Education 100. An introductory course in educa-
tional psychology, school and class management, and
methods of teaching. Members of the class will study
methods in use in the city schools, and will be given an
opportunity there to conduct a class under the supervision
of its regular teacher.

TThS 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, or II :30 IV

Education 200. History of Education. A compre-
hensive survey of the development of educational theory
and practice, including the reading of educational classics.

MWF 9:30 IV

Education 300. Philosophy of Education. The fun-
damental problems of aim and method in their relation
to the problems of philosophy. A study of the relation of
the school to the state and to other educational forces
within the state, and a discussion of the types of education
appropriate to democracy. MWF 10:30 I

Education 400. Administration and Supervision.
An account of the organization of state and city school
systems, considering such topics as school finance, local
versus centralized control, educational surveys, the selec-
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measurement of educational products, supervision of spe-
cial subjects, and the treatment of defective and subnor-
mal children. American and other school systems will be
compared. M W F 1 1 130 IV

The Department of Education of the State of Texas
will grant without further examination, a State first
grade teachers' certificate, valid for four years, to stu-
dents who complete at the Institute a year's work consist-
ing of one course in Education and four other courses. A
person who has received one State first grade teachers'
certificate valid for four years based upon four full col-
lege courses and one full course in the department of
education may receive another such certificate by offering
one additional course in education and four other courses,
no one of which was offered for the first certificate. Ap-
plications for such certificates may be made at any time
following the completion of the necessary work ; the cer-
tificates expire on the fourth anniversary of the thirty-
first day of August of the calendar year in which they are
issued.

The Department of Education of the State of Texas
will grant without further examinations a State perma-
nent teachers' certificate to persons holding the B.A.
degree from the Rice Institute who have completed four
of its courses in education and also to persons holding the
B.A. degree from the Rice Institute who have taught
three full years of not less than six months each in the
schools of Texas. The three years' teaching experience
may be secured prior to, during the time of, or after the
completion of the college work leading to the B.A. degree.

History 100. European History. A general survey of
the intellectual, social, and political development of Eu-

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rope from the fourth century through the nineteenth.
Lectures and required reading,

MWF 8:30 or 9:30 VI

History 200. Constitutional Government. The
origins and operation of constitutional government, the
formulation of public poHcy and the conduct of public
business, with special reference to England and the
United States. MWF 10:30 VI

History 300. The Historical Development of the
United States, with special reference to the period since
the adoption of the Constitution. T Th S 10:30 VI

History 500. The interpretation of the Constitution
by the courts. An advanced seminar course.

Philosophy 201-2. Logic. A study of the process
of thinking and the nature of truth. The first part of the
course is devoted to the elements and laws of deductive
and inductive reasoning, from which the student advances
to the consideration of such problems as the nature of
thought, the characteristics and types of judgment, and
the unification of knowledge. Considerable time is spent
in the critical analysis of arguments with a view to devel-
oping the student's power of detecting fallacies, of clear
consistent thinking, and of efficient argumentation.

TThS 10:30 VIII

Philosophy 203. Problems of Philosophy. A brief
elementary discussion of the problems, significance, and
value of philosophy ; the part it has played in the develop-
ment of human thought, and its importance in the attain-
ment of true culture. This course follows Philosophy
201-2, and taken together with it comprises a year's
credit in philosophy. TThS 10:30 VIII

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Philosophy 300. History of Philosophy. An his-
torical survey of the essential features and main currents
of philosophic thought, ancient, medieval, and modern.
The bearing of philosophy on the trend and development
of science, art, morality, and religion is emphasized
throughout the course. Not offered in 191 7-18.

Philosophy 310. Ethics. An account of the origin
and development of moral ideals, the essentials of the
main ethical theories, and the problem of morality, indi-
vidual and social, at the present time. A direct study will
be made each year of at least one masterpiece of ethical
theory. T Th S 9 130 V

Philosophy 400. Types of Philosophical Theory.
This course is intended to acquaint the student somewhat
more intimately with the several distinctively philosophi-
cal problems and with the main types of philosophical
theory, through lectures and discussions, and more espe-
cially through a direct study of some selected master-
pieces of ancient and modern philosophy. The works
chosen for direct study will vary from year to year.

MWF 9:30 VIII

Philosophy 410. Philosophy of Religion. An in-
troduction to the historical-philosophical study of re-
ligion, designed to acquaint the student with the main
facts in the evolution of religion and the part it has played
in the history of human culture. The course will begin
with an examination of several theories concerning the
origin of religion and a brief survey of religious worship
in primitive life; will proceed to an elementary study of
the great historic religions and of their sacred books ; and
will end in a consideration of the more fundamental prob-
lems of the religious consciousness. Attention will be

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paid to the relation of religion to magic, mythology, the-
ology, art, morality, science, and philosophy. Lectures,
assigned readings, discussions. Not offered in 191 7-18.

Philosophy 500. Philosophy Seminar.

PHYSICAL TRAINING

In the arrangements for required physical training,
students will be given every opportunity to allow the
competitive and purely recreational elements to enter into
this work, which will be more properly athletic than gym-
nastic in character. The classes will be organized in such
divisions as to eliminate the possibility of the weaker stu-
dent being compelled to compete with the stronger. So
far as may be possible, each student will be allowed to
choose his own recreation, but he will be expected to vary
his schedule during the year. The classes will take up
boxing, wrestling, athletic dancing, shadow boxing, bas-
ketball, soccer football, indoor and outdoor baseball, track
work, and the like. Each student will be subjected to two
thorough physical examinations, one at the beginning and
one at the end of the year. These examinations will deter-
mine in large measure the character of work that the indi-
vidual student will be permitted to take. Lectures will be
given on personal hygiene and the general principles of
health.

This programme in physical training, which has been
effective in previous years, will of necessity be modified
during the coming year to conform with the new pro-
visions for military training at the Institute.

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COURSES IN MILITARY SCIENCE
AND TACTICS

Application has been made to the War Department for
the establishment of one or more units of the Reserve
Officers' Training Corps at the Rice Institute under the
National Defense Act of June 3rd, 1916. The first step
towards the establishment of such a unit was made by the
War Department on May 12, 191 7, by the detailing of
Major Joseph Frazier, United States Army, Retired, as
professor of military science and tactics at this institution
for the next four years. Major Frazier reported promptly
for duty and effected a military organization of the stu-
dents. During the coming year the standard courses of
the War Department as outlined in General Orders No.
49 will be offered at the Institute. These courses cover
four years of theory and practice in military science and
tactics. They will be required of all students, in addition
to their regular academic schedules, and without regard
to class standing; however, applications for exemption
will be considered. Appropriate modification of these
standard courses including physical training, hygiene, and
first aid to the injured will be required of all the women
students in addition to their regular academic schedules.
The classes for the women will meet three times a week
and those for the men five times a week. Uniforms will
be worn by all students. Specifications concerning these
uniforms will be issued in a circular letter, copies of which
may be had on request. It thus appears that as far as
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Rice Institute, the conduct of the life of the place, includ-
ing that of the campus and the residential halls, will be
under military regulations, certainly as long as the war
continues.

Military Science and Tactics ioo. A. i. Practical.
Physical drill (Manual of Physical Training— Koehler) ;
Infantry drill (U. S. Infantry Drill Regulations), to in-
clude the School of the Soldier, Squad and Company,
close and extended order. Preliminary instruction sight-
ing position and aiming drills, gallery practice, nomen-
clature and care of rifle and equipment. 2. Theoretical.
Theory of target practice, individual and collective (use
of landscape targets made up by U. S. Military Discipli-
nary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) ; military
organization (Tables of Organization); map reading;
service of security; personal hygiene. B. i. Practical.
Physical drill (Manual of Physical Training — Koehler) ;
Infantry drill (U. S. Infantry Drill Regulations), to in-
clude School of Battalion, special attention devoted to fire
direction and control; ceremonies; manuals (Part V, In-
fantry Drill Regulations); bayonet combat; intrench-
ments (584-595, Infantry Drill Regulations) ; first-aid
instruction; range and gallery practice. 2. Theoretical.
Lectures, general military policy as shown b}'- military
history of United States and military obligations of citi-
zenship; service of information; combat (to be illustrated
by small tactical exercises) ; United States Infantry Drill
Regulations, to include School of Company; camp sani-
tation for small commands.

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Military Science and Tactics 200. A. i. Practi-
cal. The same as Course 100. B. i ; combat and collec-
tive firing. 2. Theoretical. United States Infantry Drill
Regulations, to include School of Battalion and Combat
(350-622) ; Small-arms Firing Regulations; lectures as
in Course 100. B. 2.; map reading; camp sanitation and
camping expedients. B. i. Practical. The same as
Course 100. B. i ; signaling; semaphore and flag ; first aid.
Work with sand table by constructing to scale intrench-
ments, field works, obstacles, bridges, etc. Comparison
of ground forms (constructed to scale) with terrain as
represented on map; range practice. 2. Theoretical.
Lectures, military history (recent) ; service of informa-
tion and security (illustrated by small tactical problems
in patrolling, advance guards, rear guards, flank guards,
trench and mine warfare, orders, messages, and camping
expedients) ; marches and camps (Field Service Regula-
tions and Infantry Drill Regulations).

MWF 7:30 TTh 4:40

Military Science and Tactics 300. A. i. Practi-
cal. Duties consistent with rank as cadet officers or non-
commissioned officers in connection with the practical
work and exercises laid down for the unit or units. Mili-
tary sketching. 2. Theoretical. Minor tactics; field
orders (studies in minor tactics. United States School of
the Line) ; map manoeuvers. Company administration,
general principles (papers and returns). Military his-
tory. B. I. Practical. Same as Course 300. A. i.
Military sketching. 2. Theoretical. Minor tactics (con-
tinued) ; map manoeuvers. Elements of international
law. Property accountability ; method of obtaining sup-
plies and equipment (Army Regulations).

MWF 7:30 TTh 4:40

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Military Science and Tactics 400. A. i. Practi-
cal. Duties consistent with rank as cadet officers or non-
commissioned officers in connection with the practical
work and exercises scheduled for the unit or units. Mili-
tary sketching. 2. Theoretical. Tactical problems, small
forces, all arms combined ; map manceuvers ; court-mar-
tial proceedings (Manual for Courts-martial). Interna-
tional relations of America from discovery to present
day; gradual growth of principles of international law
embodied in American diplomacy, legislation, and
treaties. Lectures : Psychology of war and kindred sub-
jects. General principles of strategy only, planned to
show the intimate relationship between the statesman and
the soldier (not to exceed five lectures). B. i. Practical.
Same as Course 400. A. i. 2. Theoretical. Tactical
problems (continued) ; map manceuvers. Rifle in war.
Lectures on military history and policy.

MWF 7:30 TTh 4:40

COURSES IN ENGINEERING

Courses will be offered in chemical, civil, electrical, and
mechanical engineering. A complete course in any one of
these branches will extend over five years. A student
who has successfully completed the first four years of a
course will be awarded a bachelor's degree, and after suc-
cessfully completing the remaining year of his course he
will be awarded a master's degree. The work of the first
three years will be practically the same for all students,
but in the last two years each student will be required to
select one of the special branches mentioned above.

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The work of the first two years will consist chiefly of
courses in pure and applied mathematics, physics, chem-
istry, and other subjects, an adequate knowledge of which
is absolutely necessary before the more technical courses
can be pursued with advantage. During the first two
years, however, a considerable amount of time will be
devoted to engineering drawing and the elements of sur-
veying.

Technical work will begin in the third year with courses
of a general character in mechanical engineering, civil
engineering, and electrical engineering, all three of these
branches to be taken by all engineering students, with a
slight change in schedule for those in chemical engineer-
ing. These courses will form an introduction to the tech-
nical side of each branch and should enable students in-
telligently to select a particular branch at the beginning
of their fourth year.

In the third year instruction will also be begun in shop-
work. The classes in shopwork are intended to give
familiarity with workshop methods. The object of these
classes is not primarily to train students to become skilled
mechanics, but to provide such knowledge of shop meth-
ods as is desirable for those who may be expected as en-
gineers to employ mechanics and to superintend engineer-
ing shops. It is intended in the engineering courses to
pay special attention to the theoretical side, because ex-
perience has shown that theoretical knowledge is difficult
to obtain after leaving the university, and without it a
rapid rise in the profession of engineering is almost im-
possible. On the other hand, it is not intended to disre-

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gard practical instruction; for this reason the last three
years will include besides shopwork a variety of practical
work in engineering testing laboratories. It is recom-
mended that students obtain employment in engineering
work during the summer vacations, for it should be re-
membered that no amount of university work can take
the place of practical experience in engineering establish-
ments and in the field. The courses in engineering are
not intended to take the place of learning by practical
experience, but are designed to supply a knowledge of the
fundamental principles and scientific methods on which
the practice of engineering is based and without which it
is difficult, if not impossible, to succeed in the practice of
the profession.

Students who can afford the time are recommended to
devote three or four years to preliminary work instead of
two, taking the B.A. at the end of four years and an en-
gineering degree at the end of six or seven years. Stu-
dents proposing to do this are advised to take a course
devoted largely to mathematics, physics, and chemistry,
or an honors course in either mathematics, physics, or
chemistry. The subjects taken during the years of pre-
paratory work must include those of the first two years in
the general engineering course, which may be substituted
for options in the academic B.A. course. The honors
course in physics is strongly recommended for those who
wish to become either electrical or mechanical engineers.

The following are the schedules for the five-year course
leading to a bachelor's degree in four years and an en-
gineering degree in five years :

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First Year

( 1 ) Mathematics

(2) Physics

(3) EngHsh

(4) French or German^

(5) Engineering Drawing and Surveying

Second Year

( 1 ) Mathematics

(2) Mechanics^

(3) Physics

(4) Chemistry

(5) . Engineering Drawing -

Third Year

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING

( 1 ) Mathematics 300

(2) Mechanical Engineering 300

(3) Electrical Engineering 300

(4) Civil Engineering 300

(5) Mechanical Engineering 310

CIVIL ENGINEERING

( 1 ) Mathematics 300

(2) Mechanical Engineering 300

1 Chemical engineers take Cliemistry.
^Chemical engineers take French or German.

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(3) Electrical Engineering 300

(4) Civil Engineering 300

(5) Civil Engineering 310 ''

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

(l)

Chemistry 300

(2)

Chemistry 310

(3)

Chemistry 320

(4)

Physics 200

(5)

Electrical Engineering 300

(6)

Civil Engineering 300

Fourth Year

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

(i) Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (M.E. 400)

(2) Machine Designs (M.E. 410)

(3) Heat Engines (M.E. 420)

(4) Industrial Management (M.E. 430)

(5) Gas Engines and Producers (M.E. 440)

(6) Economics 200

(7) Seminar (Eng. 400)

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

(i) Alternating Currents (E.E. 400)

(2) Electrical Engineering Laboratory (E.E. 410)

(3) Electrical Design (E.E. 420)

(4) Industrial Management (M.E. 430)

(5) Economics 200

(6) Seminar (Eng. 400)

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CIVIL ENGINEERING

( 1 ) Graphic Statics and Masonry (C.E. 400)

(2) Roofs and Bridges (C.E. 410)

(3) Municipal Engineering (C.E. 420)

(4) Chemistry 200
( 5 ) Economics 200

(6) Seminar (Eng. 400)

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

(i) Applied Electrochemistry (Chem. 420)

(2) Chemistry (Elective)

(3) Economics 200

(4) Seminar (Eng. 400)

(5) Seminar (Chem. 480)

(6) Mechanical Engineering 300

Fifth Year

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

(i) Advanced Machine Design (M.E. 500)

(2) Mechanical Processes (M.E. 510)

(3) Power Plant Design (M.E. 520)

(4) Thesis (M.E. 530)

(5) Heating, Ventilation, and Refrigeration (M.E.
540) ; or Turbine and Boiler Design (M.E. 550)

(6) Chemistry 200

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

( 1 ) Advanced Alternating Currents (E.E. 500)

(2) Thesis (E.E. 510)

(3) Heat Engines (M.E. 420)

(4) Seminar (Eng. 400)
( 5 ) Elective

CIVIL ENGINEERING

(i) Structural Design (C.E. 500)

(2) Hydraulic Design (C.E. 510)

(3) Sanitary Engineering (C.E. 520)

(4) Thesis (C.E. 530)

(5) Technical Analysis (Chem. 320)

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

(i) Chemistry Research (Chem. 500)

(2) Two courses in chemistry

(3) One course in engineering

(4) Seminar (Chem. 480)

(5) Seminar (Eng. 400)

Engineering 100. This course embraces Mechanical
Drawing and Plane Surveying. Mechanical Drawing:
The use of instruments, lettering; drawing figures in
isometric, cabinet, and orthographic projection ; intersec-
tions and developments. Plane Surveying: The study of
the uses and adjustments of surveying instruments. Prob-

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lems are given in field work to familiarize the student
with the chain, compass, level, and transit. Plotting and
compilations from field notes.

M 10:30 W Th 1:30-4:30 S 10:30-12:30
or T 1 1 :30 M T F i :30-4 :30 VIII

Engineering 200. This course embraces Descriptive
Geometry, Kinematics, and Engineering Drawing. De-
scriptive Geometry: Orthographic projection of points,
lines, planes, warped surfaces, etc., in the four angles of
projection; intersections and developments. Kinematics:
The study of relative motion of parts of machines, in-
stant centers, velocities, gearing and wrapping connectors.
Engineering Drawing: Lettering; plotting field notes;
working drawings and tracings of structural details, etc.
WF 8:30 and T Th 9:30-12:30 VIII

Mechanical Engineering 300. Prime Movers. A
general course dealing with the characteristics, fields of
usefulness, operation, and test of fuels, engines and tur-
bines, boilers, pumps, condensers, and auxiliaries; prop-
erties of steam ; valve gears. Laboratory and text work
are coordinated as nearly as possible, and numerous prob-
lems illustrate the theory discussed. Two recitations and
one three-hour laboratory period a week throughout the
year. Prerequisites: Physics and Chemistry 100.

MW 10:30 T 1:30-4:30 IV

Mechanical Engineering 310. Machine Shop.
Through text-book and lectures dealing with general shop
practice and machine design, the course aims to produce
men with a general knowledge of engineering shopwork,
such as foremen and managers require. Practice with a
variety of bench and machine tools, carefully selected for
their fitness in illustrating the principles studied, affords

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actual contact with machine work and develops a certain
degree of skill and resourcefulness in the student. Three
periods a week throughout the year.

MW 1:30-4:30 S 9:30-12:30 X

Electrical Engineering 300. The fundamental
principles of dynamo machinery, both direct and alter-
nating current. The course includes laboratory work,
which as far as possible parallels the class-room work.
Two recitations and one laboratory period per week
throughout the year.

T Th 8 :30 Th i :30-4 :30 VI

Civil Engineering 300. Strength and resistance of
materials. Analysis of stresses in beams, columns, and
shafts. Hydraulics. The principles of hydromechanics.
The lacws of pressure and flow of water. Laboratory
work including tensile, compressive, torsional, and trans-
verse tests of materials. Three recitations and one labo-
ratory period per week throughout the year.

MWF 11:30 T 9:30-12:30
or Th 9:30-12:30 IX

Civil Engineering 310. Topographic, Railroad, and
Geodetic Surveying. The theory and practice of stadia
surveying; contour maps; topographic symbols. Trian-
gulation and base-line measurements. Quadrilateral
adjustments. The mathematics of simple, compound,
parabolic, and spiral easement curves. Computation of
earth work and estimate of cost. Reconnaissance, prelimi-
nary, and location surveys by methods used in actual
practice. Three recitations or practical periods through-
out the year. MWF i :30-4 :30 VIII

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Mechanical Engineering 400. Mechanical Engi-
neering Laboratory. An advanced course in general
steam, oil, water, and power-transmission machinery
operation and testing. Prerequisite : Mechanical Engi-
neering 300. Two laboratory periods a week throughout
the year. T Th 8:30-11:30 IV

Mechanical Engineering 410. Machine Design.
Calculations and drafting, supplemented by text-book and
reference work, involved in the design of machine parts,
considering both the theory and its modifications due to
shop practice and financial limitations. Prerequisite : En-
gineering 100 and 200, Mechanical Engineering 310, and
Engineering 330 (Mechanics of Materials). Three draft-
ing periods a week throughout the year.

TThF 1:30-4:30 II

Mechanical Engineering 420. Heat Engines. Gen-
eral thermodynamics ; applications of thermodynamics to
the design and operation of steam engines and turbines,
air and ammonia compressors, gas engines, and injectors ;
commercial forms of these machines. Prerequisite : Math-
ematics 200 and M.E. 300. Three recitations a week
throughout the year. M W F 8 :30 V

Mechanical Engineering 430. Industrial Manage-
ment. A study of principles and practice in the manage-
ment of manufacturing plants; location and layout of
works; organization of administration, sales, cost, and
production departments; selection of machinery, material,
and labor ; wage systems ; cost analysis ; welfare work and
efficiency methods. Two recitations a week throughout
the year. M W 11:30 VIII

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Mechanical Engineering 440. Gas Engines and
Producers. A study of the theory, design, and operation
of internal combustion engines and gas-producers. Must
be preceded or accompanied by M.E. 420. Three periods
a week throughout the year. M W F 9 130 X

Electrical Engineering 400. Alternating Currents.
A mathematical treatment of the theory of alternating
current phenomena, using Steinmetz's symbolic method.
The various types of alternating current generators and
motors; their characteristics and operation. Transform-
ers. Synchronous converters. Four recitations per week
throughout the year. M T Th S 9 130 VI

Electrical Engineering 410. Electrical Engineer-
ing Laboratory. A laboratory study of alternating cur-
rent circuits, instruments, and machines. Standard testing
of direct and alternating current machinery. Two labor-
atory periods per week throughout the year.

W F 1 :30-4 130 II

Electrical Engineering 420. Electrical Design.
Design of machinery for direct and alternating current.
Calculation of characteristics. Two drawing periods per
week throughout the year. W F 8 :30-i i :30 III

Civil Engineering 400. Graphic Statics. Design of
roof trusses. Masonry. Properties and uses of building
stone, brick, concrete, sand, gravel, broken stone, cement,
lime, etc. Foundations of various kinds under different
geological conditions. Design of masonry structures and
foundations. Three design periods or recitations a week
throughout the year.
T 1:30-4:30 Th 8:30-11:30 S 8:30-10:30 II

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Civil Engineering 410. Roofs and Bridges. Com-
putation of stresses in roof and bridge trusses; highway
and railway bridges; deflection and internal work; con-
tinuous, draw, cantilever, and suspension bridges. Struc-
tural design involving the principles enumerated above.
Three periods a week throughout the year and design
periods. M W F 9 :30 Th i :30-4 130 III

Civil Engineering 420. Municipal Engineering.
This course is divided into three equal parts. Water sup-
ply engineering: a study of rainfall, evaporation, seepage,
and run-off. Probability of droughts. Computations for
storage. Design, construction, operation, and maintenance
of filtration plants. Distribution systems for municipal
and irrigation purposes. Roads and pavements : Con-
struction and maintenance of earth, macadam, and bi-
tuminous macadam roads, asphalt, brick, wood block and
granite block pavements. Sewerage and sewage disposal :
Water-carriage system, separate and combined. Design,
construction, and maintenance of sewers and sewage dis-
posal plants. M W F 1 1 130 VII

Engineering 400. Seminar. A weekly meeting con-
ducted by the fourth year engineering students for the
discussion of current topics from the technical periodicals,
and of scientific and technical papers of general engineer-
ing interest. One meeting a week throughout the year.

S 10:30

Mechanical Engineering 500. Advance Machine
Design. The investigation of elaborate complete ma-
chines; original design of complete machines; design of
mill-building trusses, floors, and structural details.

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Mechanical Engineering 510. Mechanical Proc-
esses. A general course dealing with special plants and
processes, such as the manufacture of cement, metallurgy,
water-softening, etc., not covered by other special courses.

Mechanical Engineering 520. Power Plant De-
sign. A general text and design course covering details
of operation and design of power and heating plants.

Mechanical Engineering 530. Thesis. The inves-
tigation, under the supervision of the Mechanical Engi-
neering staff, of some undeveloped engineering problem,
either through experiment, design, or compilation of
available information.

Mecpianical Engineering 540. Heating, Ventilat-
ing, and Refrigeration. Text-book, lectures, and prob-
lems on the heating and ventilating of public and private
buildings and the manufacture of ice and maintenance of
low temperatures. Elective. Must be preceded by Me-
chanical Engineering 420.

Mechanical Engineering 550. Turbine and Boiler
Design. Text-book, lectures, and drafting practice re-
lating to the design of standard forms of steam turbines
and boilers. Elective. Prerequisite : Mechanical Engi-
neering 420.

Electrical Engineering 500. A continuation of
Electrical Engineering 400. Advanced alternating cur-
rents. Transients. Attention will be given to special
branches such as high voltage installations, high fre-
quency, illumination, telephony, wireless telegraphy, etc.
Three lectures and one laboratory period per week.

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Electrical Engineering 510. Thesis. A thorough
report on an engineering investigation selected and car-
ried out by the individual student. It is expected that a
great deal of time will be given to thesis work. The
course is considered the equivalent of a three-hour course.

Civil Engineering 500. Structural Design. Princi-
ples of economic design. Class-room designs of plate
girders, pin connected and riveted bridges. Steel frame
and reinforced concrete building construction. Three de-
sign periods a week throughout the year.

Civil Engineering 510. Hydraulic Design. Design
of dams, conduits, penstocks, and turbines ; irrigation and
drainage systems; sewers and sewage disposal plants;
water-supply systems and water-power plants. Three
design periods a week throughout the year.

Civil Engineering 520. Advanced sanitary engi-
neering. This course will consist of a detailed study of all
phases of sanitary engineering, including, besides water
supply engineering and sewerage, problems in garbage
disposal, ventilation, street cleaning, etc. Laboratory
work in water, sewage and other analyses will be given in
connection with the course. Prerequisite : Civil Engineer-
ing 420 or its equivalent.

Civil Engineering 530. Thesis. This will consist of
an original investigation along some approved line of civil
engineering work, an original design, or a critical review
of existing work. In every case a complete type-written
or printed report will be required, and this will become
the property of the Institute and be deposited in the gen-
eral or departmental library.

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COURSES IN ARCHITECTURE

To students of architecture the Institute offers a full
course extending over five years, leading to a bachelor's
degree at the end of the fourth year and to an architec-
tural degree at the end of the fifth year. It is the purpose
of the course in architecture to lead students during their
residence to a comprehensive understanding of the art of
building; to acquaint them with the history of architec-
ture from early civilization to the present age; and to
develop within them an understanding and appreciation
of those conceptions of beauty and utility which are
fundamental to the cultivation of ability in the art of
design.

In arranging the courses which follow it will be
observed that there are included certain indispensable ele-
ments of a liberal education and also such engineering and
technical subjects as are becoming more and more neces-
sary to the general education of a practising architect.
Of the more strictly architectural subjects, design is given
by far the largest place. As a matter of fact, the courses
in history and design and those in freehand drawing, in
water color, in drawing from life, and in historic orna-
ment have all a double object : to create in the student an
appreciation of architectural dignity and refinement and
to increase constantly his ability to express conception of
architectural forms. Accordingly, the training of the
student is not limited to the training in draftsmanship
alone, but all courses conspire to the cultivation of creative
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a view to keeping the student in touch with the progress
of his profession and with the daily routine and detail of
its practice, it is strongly recommended that he spend a
portion of each of his summer vacations in the office of
some practising architect.

The following are the schedules for the five-year course
leading to a bachelor's degree in four years and a degree
in architecture in five years :

First Year

( 1 ) Pure Mathematics

(2) English

(3) A modern language (French recommended)

(4) Physics

(5) Architectural subjects: architectural drawing,
elements of architecture, freehand drawing, and shades,
shadows, and perspective

Second Year

( 1 ) Pure Mathematics

(2) English

(3) A modern language^

(4) A science

(5) Architectural subjects: design, antique drawing,
history of architecture

1 Students who enter with credits in two modern languages may
substitute another subject.

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Third Year

( 1 ) English

(2) History or Economics

(3) Architectural subjects: design, antique drawing,
water-color drawing, history of architecture, pen and ink
rendering

Fourth Year

( 1 ) English or History

(2) Architectural subjects : design, construction, water
color drawing, pen and ink rendering, drawing from life,
history of architecture, historic ornament, special lectures,
materials

Fifth Year

Architectural subjects : design, construction, water
color drawing, drawing from life, history of painting,
architectural practice, special lectures

Architecture 100. Elementary training in drawing
of order plates, wash drawings, lettering, shades and
shadows, and perspective. Six hours a week.

M F 1 :30-4 130 VIII

Freehand Drawing 100. Elementary drawing in
pencil and charcoal of single simple objects and block
groups and casts. Four hours a week.

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Architectural Design 200. Rendered drawings
embracing the design of simple elements of buildings, to-
gether with advanced work in the use of the orders and
in composition. Eight hours a week.

TTh 1:30-4:30 WF 3:30-4:30

Freehand 200. Drawing in charcoal from simple
casts of classical ornament. Four hours a week.

TTh 10:30-12:30 XII

History of Architecture 200. Two lectures a week
on the history of ancient architecture, illustrated by lan-
tern slides, and two hours a week of research and tracing
of historic buildings. Four hours a week.

W F 1 :30-3 :30 IV

Architectural Design 300. The design of small
buildings. The problems average five weeks in duration
with twenty-four hours for the sketch problems at the
end of the major problems. Nine hours a week.

M W F 1 :30-4 :30

Freehand 300. Drawing from casts of antique sculp-
ture. Four hours a week. MF 8:30-10:30 X

Water Color 300. Elementary training in color
drawing and simple groups of still life. Tv^o hours a
week. W 8:30-10:30

History of Architecture 300. Two lectures a week
in the history of medieval architecture, illustrated by lan-
tern slides, and two hours a week of research in the study
of historic buildings. Four hours a week.

T Th I 130-3 130 IV

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Design 400. The design of public buildings and
groups of buildings. The problems average six weeks in
duration, alternating with twelve-hour sketch problems.
Twelve hours a week.

M 1:30-5:30 TWThF 3:30-5:30

Historic Ornament 400. The study of the history
of ornament, with a series of design plates in ornament
from historic periods of architecture. Six hours a week.

TThS 8:30-10:30 VI

Construction 400. Two lectures a week on masonry
construction, with one plate a week. This course alter-
nates with Construction 500 in successive years.

T Th 2 :30-3 :30 V

History of Architecture 400. Two lectures a week
on the history of modern architecture, illustrated by lan-
tern slides, together with appropriate problems in design.

W F 2 :30-3 :30 I

Freehand 400. Drawing from casts of full figure
and group, antique sculpture. Four hours a week.

MF 9:30-11:30 X

Water Color 400. Water color drawing and sketch-
ing in color, work advanced, subjects varied. Two hours
a week. W 9 :30-i i :30

Design 500. Thesis design. The problem for a thesis
may consist of a single building or group of buildings,
and must include large scale studies as well as general
drawings. The student may select his own problem, but
his entire programme is subject to the approval of the in-
structors in design. Sixteen hours a week.

TThS 8:30-12:30 MF 1:30-3:30

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History of Painting 500. One lecture a week on
the history of painting, together with two hours in the
Hbrary under the direction of the instructor.

W I 130-4 130 IV

Construction 500. Two lectures a week on carpen-
try construction and roof trusses, with one construction
plate a week. This course alternates with Construction
400 in successive years. T Th 2 :30-3 130 V

Life Drawing 500. Drawing and sketching from
the draped figure. Four hours. M W 10:30-12:30

Water Color 500. Rendered architectural details
and measured drawings in color. Two hours.

F 10:30-12:30

Special Lectures 400 and 500. Lectures on the pro-
fessional practice of architecture, including the business
relations of architect with client and contractor. One
lecture a week. T 3 :30-4 :30

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION LECTURES

To bring the people of the city and community into more
intimate touch with the academic life of the university,
and to carry the influence of that life directly to many
homes not represented on the rolls of its undergraduate
or postgraduate students, regular series of public lectures,
in the form of university extension lectures, are offered
without matriculation fee or other form of admission
requirement. These performances are authoritative in
character, but as non-technical and popular in treatment

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as their subjects will permit. From domains of literature,
history, science, art, philosophy, and politics subjects of
current interest as well as those of assured and permanent
value are chosen. The present plan for these university
extension lectures consists in giving each academic year
two regular series of thirty-six lectures each on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays, from the middle of November
to the middle of February, the second series running
similarly from the middle of February to the middle of
May. All these lectures are delivered in the lecture halls
and amphitheaters of the Institute, each afternoon lecture
beginning promptly at 4 130 and closing not later than
5 :30. In addition to the afternoon lectures, occasional
Thursday evening lectures are given.

RICE INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS

Among the publications of the Rice Institute are at pres-
ent included the Announcements, the Descriptive Bro-
chure, the Programmes of University Extension Lec-
tures, and the Rice Institute Pamphlets. The first three
of these have appeared at intervals and in several editions;
the Pamphlet, now in its third volume, is published quar-
terly in January, April, July and October, with a view to
giving wider publicity in permanent form to inaugural
and other lectures in letters, science, and art by visiting
lecturers and professors to the University. In this con-
nection the reader may wish to turn to the paragraph of
this Announcement concerning the formal opening of the
Institute.

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LIBRARY

Quarters for the Library of the Institute have been pro-
vided on the second floor of the Administration Building.
In its initial equipment the policy is being followed of
supplying such books as are necessary to supplement the
courses of instruction and to support the independent in-
vestigations of the staff and advanced students. In this
manner a high degree of efficiency becomes possible at the
very beginning of the Library's existence. Moreover, for
works of general and more popular interest the shelves of
the Carnegie Library of Houston are accessible to all
members of the Institute.

Besides several hundred current literary and scientific
journals, the Library of the Institute contains at present
back files of a number of periodicals ; among these may be
mentioned, exclusive of certain government publications,
the following: Acta Mathematica, American Historical
Review, American Journal of International Law, Ameri-
can Journal of Mathematics, American Machinist, Amer-
ican Political Science Review, Annalen der Physik,
Annales de la Societe Royale des Sciences Medicales et
Naturelles de Bruxelles, Annual Reports of the American
Historical Association, Architectural Record, Archiv fiir
Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen, Archiv fiir Zell-
forschung. Arts and Decoration, Berichte der Deutschen
Chemischen Gesellschaft, Berichte der Deutschen Physi-
kaHschen Gesellschaft, Bulletin of the American Mathe-
matical Society, Chemical Abstracts, Chemical News,
Contributions from the Jefferson Physical Laboratory of

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Harvard University, Educational Administration and
Supervision, Electric Journal, Electrician, Engineering
Index Annual, Engineering News, Engineering Record,
L'Enseignement Mathematique, Ergebnisse der Anatomic
und Entwickelungsgeschichte, Handbuch der Verglei-
chenden Physiologic, Hibbert Journal, International Jour-
nal of Ethics, International Studio, Jahrbuch der Radio-
aktivitat und Elektronik, Jahrbuch der Drahtlosen
Telegraphic und Telephonic, Jahrbuch iiber die Fort-
schritte der Mathematik, Journal de Mathematiques,
Journal de Physique, Journal of Animal Behavior, Jour-
nal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Journal of
Parasitology, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and
Scientific Methods, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Jour-
nal of Speculative Philosophy, Journal of the American
Chemical Society, Journal of the Chemical Society (Lon-
don), Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers,
Journal of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Larousse
Mensuel, La Lumiere filectrique (and L'ficlairage filec-
trique), Mathematische Annalen, Metallurgical and
Chemical Engineering, Mind, Monist, National Electric
Light Association Bulletin, National Municipal Review,
National Society for the Study of Education— Year-
books, New Republic, Philosophical Review, Physical
Review, Physikalische Zeitschrift, Power, Print Collec-
tors' Quarterly, Proceedings of the London Mathematical
Society, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London —
Series A and B, Proceedings of the Society for the Pro-
motion of Engineering Education, Publications of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Quarterly Journal
of Mathematics, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Sci-

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ence, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo,
Revue Philosophique de la France et de I'fitranger, Revue
Semestrielle des Publications Mathematiques, School and
Society, Science Abstracts— Series A and B, Social Hy-
giene, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Transactions
of the American Electrochemical Society, Transactions of
the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Transac-
tions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society,
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers, United States Supreme Court Reports, Zeit-
schrift fiir Analytische Chemie, Zeitschrift fiir Ange-
wandte Chemie, Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie,
Zeitschrift fiir Elektrochemie, Zoologischer Anzeiger,
Zoologische Jahresberichte.

LABORATORY INSTALLATION

The physics laboratories are located on the north side of
the academic court, adjoining the administration building,
and are connected with the latter by a continuation of the
original cloister. The buildings are constructed of brick
and marble, corresponding in design to the style as defined
in the administration building, but of a simpler character
expressing their purpose as laboratories. The physics
laboratory proper is a two-story building 275 x 56 feet,
connected with a large lecture amphitheater 121 ^.^2 feet.
The main building contains four large students' labor-
atories, two lecture rooms equipped for giving illustrated

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lectures, two class rooms, two dark rooms, a library, and
administrative offices. The principal room of the amphi-
theater wing is a large lecture hall with seating capacity
for about four hundred auditors. The room is fully
equipped for giving illustrated lectures and is arranged
with seats properly elevated to command a 28- foot lecture
table which is supplied with gas, hot and cold water, com-
pressed air, vacuum, and direct and alternating electric
currents. In this wing also are six rooms fitted for re-
search work in physics, a battery room in which a battery
of 60 Edison storage cells of 300 ampere-hours' capacity
has been installed with space provided for another equal
battery, a switchboard room where the wires from the
battery can be connected in any desired manner for use in
the laboratories, a motor generator for charging the bat-
teries, a vacuum pump, a liquid air plant, constant tem-
perature rooms, a preparation room, a large dark room,
and a fully equipped workshop. The floor of the work-
shop is supported free from contact with the surrounding
walls so that vibration from the machines does not affect
the building. Elevators for moving heavy apparatus are
provided, and all laboratories, lecture rooms, and research
rooms are equipped with individual service, for the stu-
dents, of gas, water, steam, compressed air, vacuum, and
both direct and alternating currents of electricity. The
laboratory now contains a fine collection of modern ap-
paratus suitable for teaching and research work in all
branches of physics. This collection includes about sev-
enty ammeters and voltmeters of all types, including a
Kelvin gauge reading up to 30,000 volts and standard
Weston instruments. About thirty resistance boxes of all

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kinds are also provided, and numerous galvanometers, in-
cluding a Paschen instrument. High potential batteries
are available for research work. A large Weiss electro-
magnet and a Leeds and Northrup potentiometer may be
specially mentioned among the other electrical instru-
ments. The optical instruments include a Hilger's wave
length spectrometer, monochromatic illuminator, spectro-
photometer, and quartz spectrograph; also a set of inter-
ferometers of various types. For work in heat, electrical
furnaces, various types of radiation pyrometers, resist-
ance thermometers, and standard thermocouples are avail-
able. The apparatus for general work includes several
Gaede pumps and a molecular pump; also standards of
weight, length, etc. The collection of apparatus for illus-
trating lectures is exceptionally complete.

The department of chemistry is for the present housed
in the mechanical laboratory and in an annex adjoining
the same. It contains three large laboratories with locker
space for three hundred and fifty students; two lecture
rooms ; four research rooms ; a department library room ;
a spacious stock room, offices, apparatus rooms. The de-
partment is splendidly equipped with modern apparatus
and materials for research and for lecture room and labor-
atory work in inorganic, organic, analytical, physical,
electro-, and industrial chemistry. Each laboratory room
is equipped with the necessary conveniences, such as
water, gas, alternating and direct current, air blast, hoods,
suction pumps, etc. The lecture rooms are suitably ar-
ranged for the illustration of lectures by experiment and
lantern projection. In the department library will be
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and standard textbooks on the different branches of chem-
istry. These books and periodicals are accessible to all
students.

The department of biology is for the present situated
in the west end of the main wing of the physics labora-
tories. It contains a laboratory capable of seating sixty
students ; a lecture room with lantern for microscopic and
other forms of projection; three research rooms, a prepa-
rator's room, store rooms, etc. The undergraduate courses
are cultural in their aim. Laboratory work is given in all ;
microscopes of the most modern type are provided for the
students. Six binocular microscopes, seven microtomes
of various kinds, thermostats, embedding baths, and con-
siderable accessory equipment, including physiological
apparatus, are available for research work. Most of the
important current zoological periodicals are to be found
in the library.

The department of architecture is located on the second
floor of the mechanical laboratory, and is equipped with
a large general drafting room modern in all its appoint-
ments, and with a large studio for freehand drawing and
water color. A working library of architecture adjoins
the drafting room and is equipped with the standard ar-
chitectural publications; current files of architectural
periodicals; plates, photographs, and lantern slides. The
freehand studio is well equipped with plaster casts from
the antique, and of historic ornament. The department
also possesses models for elementary instruction in the
orders, and models for the teaching of construction.

The civil engineering laboratory is fully equipped with
the usual surveying instruments, having ten transits,

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seven levels, four compasses, three traverse tables and one
plane-table, all of standard American makes. These in-
clude C. L. Berger and Sons, Buff and Buff, W. and L. E.
Gurle}^ Bausch and Lomb, Keuffel and Esser, Eugene
Dietzgen and Company, William Ainsworth and Sons
and Heller and Brightly. There is also a large assort-
ment of the necessary auxiliary equipment such as tapes,
rods, range poles, etc. The drafting room is fully
equipped with instruments not required by each individual
student, such as planimeters, protractors, special slide
rules, railroad curves and irregular curves consisting of
splines and weights. The materials testing laboratory of
this department is equipped with one 50,000 pound Riehle
universal machine; one 20,000 pound machine; and one
60,000 inch-pound Torsion machine of the same make ;
also a Fairbanks 2000 pound cement testing machine and
the necessary auxiliary apparatus for making the usual
tests. All these machines except the cement testing ma-
chine are operated by 220 volt, 3 phase, 60 cycle motors,
directly connected so as to avoid all shafting and belting.
It is planned to have a road materials testing laboratory
and also a sanitary engineering laboratory for advanced
students and research.

The electrical engineering laboratory is a long, high
room, well lighted and ventilated by many large windows
on the long sides. Those on the south are shaded by a
wide cloister. With the almost continuous sweeping of a
south breeze through the room, a more pleasant place to
work could hardly be imagined. The power supply, ar-
ranged to be independent of the general Institute lighting
and power system by running from a separate generator

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in the power house, is 220 and no volts, 3 phase, 60
cycles. Direct current for laboratory use is obtained from
a General Electric three wire generator of 35 kilowatt
capacity, 125-250 volts, driven from this alternating
source by a direct connected induction motor. The distri-
bution of power supply is accomplished by open overhead
busses to small switchboards. The circuitbreakers on
these distribution boards are of varied make, representing
Westinghouse, General Electric, I-T-E, Condit, and
Roller-Smith practice. The laboratory equipment is
ample for thorough study of both direct and alternating
current circuits and machinery. The direct current equip-
ment includes : a 5 kilowatt 1 10 volt Commercial shunt
generator; a i^ kilowatt 500 volt generator; a 5 kilowatt
Weston generator, a 3^ kilowatt Westinghouse genera-
tor, and a 4^ kilowatt Westinghouse generator with in-
terpoles, all flat-compound for no volts; two similar 5
kilowatt 125 volt General Electric generators with com-
mutating poles, either flat- or over-compound, for parallel
operation; a 2 horse-power Roth motor, a 7^ horse-power
Weston motor, a 10 horse-power Robbins and Myers
motor, and two similar 13 horse-power Crocker- Wheeler
motors, all shunt w^ound for 250 volts ; a 3 horse-power
250 volt General Electric variable speed shunt motor with
commutating poles, a 4 horse-power Sprague series motor.
The equipment of alternating current machinery includes :
two similar 7^ kilowatt General Electric 2-3-6-12 phase
synchronous generators which may be direct connected as
a frequency-changer set or, by means of shifting stators,
as a phase-displacement set, or used without mechanical
connection for parallel operation ; a 5 kilowatt General

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Electric 3 phase synchronous generator with distributed
field (round rotor) ; an 8 kilowatt General Electric syn-
chronous converter of the split-pole or regulating-pole
type; a 5 horse-power Fairbanks-Morse squirrel cage in-
duction motor; a 5 horse-power Westinghouse slip-ring
induction motor ; a 10 horse-power General Electric induc-
tion motor with internal starting resistance ; a yYz horse-
power Wagner unity power- factor single phase motor;
three 2 kilovolt-ampere Kuhlman 110/220: 110/220 volt
transformers; six 3 kilovolt-ampere Weston 110/220;
110/220 volt transformers with taps for Scott and other
connections; a 10 kilovolt-ampere General Electric 220
volt 3 phase induction regulator for raising or lowering
voltage 100%; reactances, both air and iron core; con-
densers ; rheostats ; etc. Loads for testing purposes may be
obtained by rheostat, lamp banks, or by three large iron
water-boxes. The equipment of meters consists of volt-
meters (a.c. and d.c), ammeters (a.c. and d.c), watt-
meters (single phase and polyphase), current and voltage
transformers, power-factor meters, frequency meters,
watt-hour meters, tachometers, synchronoscope, etc.
Elaborate short circuit tests are being made on a 45 kilo-
volt-ampere synchronous motor used as generator. The
equipment of this test, which is available on occasion for
student use, includes a 6 volt direct current generator with
Tirrill voltage regulator, capable of delivering 500 am-
peres, driven by a direct connected induction motor, a
solenoid operated oil switch, and an oscillograph com-
pletely equipped for taking and developing both rectan-
gular and circular records.

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The mechanical engineering laboratory equipment falls
into three general classes : steam machinery, hydraulic
machinery, and apparatus for testing fuels and lubricants.
The first class contains an 8 x i8 Murray-Corliss engine
equipped with rope brake ; a 7 x 7 vertical Wachs slide
valve engine with Stephenson reversing gear and Prony
brake ; a 6 x 4 x 6 duplex boiler feed pump ; a 20 kilowatt
direct current De Laval turbo-generator set, nozzled for
condensing and non-condensing operation and fitted with
a brake-pulley which may be substituted for the generator ;
a Westinghouse locomotive type air-compressor; and a
6 X 10x6 vertical compound Sturtevant engine. These
machines are piped to exhaust either into the power-house
stack or into three Wheeler surface condensers served by
circulating and wet vacuum pumps. A 15 horse-power
Foos oil engine equipped with two types of governors
gives opportunity for engine tests using either kerosene
or gasoline as fuel. Another type of oil engine is repre-
sented by a 3 horse-power Mietz and Weiss two-stroke
cycle unit, and a Ford automobile engine with water-
brake load is being erected. The hydraulic machinery
consists of a 3 inch centrifugal pump, driven by the
Wachs engine; a calibrated overhead tank; a concrete
storage cistern ; two Venturi meters ; a single tube manom-
eter; a steam pulsometer; a hydraulic ram; a wier box
and notch; a Pelton-Doble water wheel with plate glass
sides; orifices, water meters, weighing tanks and scales,
gauges, and the usual small accessories. In a separate
fuels laboratory room is the equipment for testing fuels
and oils. It includes complete Atwater and Parr coal-

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calorimeter outfits; analytical balances; a Moyer-Allen
flue-gas apparatus; a Scott viscosimeter; a Thurston
coefficient of friction machine; hydrometers and specific
gravity apparatus; a Junker type gas calorimeter; plati-
num ware, drying oven, ball mill, etc. In another small
room is a 20 horse-power vertical fire-tube boiler with the
pumps and weighing equipment necessary for boiler
tests.

In addition, the laboratory contains injectors, dead
weight pressure gauge tester, thermometer calibration ap-
paratus, hoists, tachometers, steam calorimeters, the most
popular gas and steam engine indicators, planimeters,
standard gauges and thermometers. For class-room dem-
onstrations, a Cussons valve-setting model, a steam pump
model, and a collection of blue-prints and curves are
available, and tests of heat-treated steel may be made with
the aid of the electric and gas furnaces, electric and op-
tical pyrometers, and scleroscope provided.

The machine shop contains machine tools of quite
varied character, each selected for its peculiar fitness to
illustrate the principles and common details of modern
shop tools and methods. The lathe equipment consists of
one 14 X 18 Le Blond cone-head lathe with taper attach-
ment and double back gears; one 14x6 Hendey cone-
head quick-change lathe ; one 14x8 standard lathe ; one
14x7 Prentice geared head quick-change lathe; one
14x6 geared head quick-change Lodge and Shipley lathe ;
one 14x6 motor-driven Lodge and Shipley selective head
lathe ; and one individual drive 14x6 American high duty
geared head engine lathe. The planer type of machine is
represented by a 16 inch back-geared Rockford shaper

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with compound head. All kinds of plane surfaces can
also be cut upon the No. i Kempsmith universal milling
machine, which is fitted with a good variety of cutters
and a dividing head for gear cutting, differential index-
ing, spiral grooving, etc. A No. 12 Brown and Sharp
motor-driven cutter and universal grinder serves as a
practical example of a high-class precision machine tool.
For miscellaneous work, a double-disc Gardner ball-bear-
ing motor-driven disc grinder, a work bench with vises,
a two-wheel hand-tool grinder, a power hacksaw, a forge,
a 20 inch drill-press, a sensitive drill, and an arbor press
are available. A sufficient supply of small hand and
machine tools, lathe sets, and precision measuring instru-
ments is issued on checks from a separate tool-room.
Most of the machines are driven through a line shaft by
a 15 horse-power motor. A supply of compressed air
offers opportunity to demonstrate pneumatic tools. The
shop is on the ground floor, well lighted and ventilated,
with ample provision of lavatories and lockers. The
students' work is arranged with the aid of a despatch
board and time-recording system, and early in the course
standard instruction sheets and tool-lists are issued.
Later, the student is thrown on his own resources. Dur-
ing the year inspection trips to local foundries, repair
shops, and machinery assembling plants bring the student
in touch with special machinery and processes not found
at the Institute. Similar trips are also made to power-
plants in the neighborhood.

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STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

In the residential halls for men, students and instructors
are already living in a common society a common life
under conditions the most democratic. They sit at a com-
mon table; they lounge in common club-rooms; they
frequent the same cloisters; in games they meet again
upon the same playing fields. The quadrangle is self-
governed, with no other machinery of government than
is necessary to conduct a gentleman's club. To the
quadrangle, as to the college, the only possible passports
are intellect and character. In the quadrangle, as on the
campus, the business of life is regulated by no other code
than the common understanding by which gentlefolk de-
termine their conduct of life, constantly under the good
taste, the good manners, the enduring patience of gentle
minds, among strong men who believe that he lives most
who works most, labors longest, worries least. The mili-
tary arrangements now being proposed for the Institute
while the national government is waging war may of
necessity modify in some details the machinery of gov-
ernment of the residential halls. However, the halls will
continue to have their literary and debating societies, re-
ligious associations, and musical and athletic organiza-
tions. From the very opening days of the new institution
the students of the Rice Institute, irrevocably committed
to canons of clean sport, have participated in the several
forms of intercollegiate athletic contests. Following the
organization of the Rice Institute Athletic Association,
the first society of students to be organized at the new

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University was the Young Men's Christian Association.
This step on the part of the young men was speedily fol-
lowed by a similar step on the part of the young women
in the organization of their branch of the college Young
Women's Christian Association. The founding of these
religious societies, both of which have contributed to the
social life and the religious spirit of the new University,
was followed promptly by the forming of three literary
societies, one by the young women, bearing the name of
Elizabeth Baldwin, wife of the founder of the Institute,
and two by the young men, known respectively as "The
Owl Literary Society" and the "Riceonian Literary and
Debating Society." These societies meet weekly, and
have held occasional intersociety meetings in public de-
bate. The three literary societies are maintaining at pres-
ent the first of the undergraduate periodical publications,
namely, "The Thresher," which has been appearing fort-
nightly since its initial number in January, 191 6. Pre-
vious to the organization of the staff of "The Thresher,"
the Class of 1916 made arrangements for the publication
of the first class annual of the Institute, "The Campanile,"
which appeared in the spring of 1916. The Class of 1917
is issuing the second volume of "The Campanile," and
the Class of 19 18 has appointed the staff for the third
volume of this annual. In addition to the student organi-
zations mentioned above, various departmental clubs and
scientific societies have been contributing to the intellec-
tual life of the Institute.

The extra-curriculum academic and athletic activities
of the Rice students have been stimulated by several
prizes donated by friends of the Institute : namely, the

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Lechenger silver cup, the gift of Mr. L. Lechenger, for
the winning debating team in the annual commencement
contest of the literary societies; the Shotwell and Harris
gold medal, the gift of Messrs. W. I. Shotwell and I.
Harris, for the winner of the annual oratorical contest of
the literary societies; the Wilson silver cup, the gift of
Mrs. H. A. Wilson, for the winning team of the annual
class debate of the young women's literary society; the
Kalb basketball memorial silver cup, the gift of Mr. E. F.
Kalb; and the Sweeney silver cup, the gift of the J. J.
Sweeney Company, to be contested for annually in class
track athletics. During the past year Mr. William M.
Rice, Jr., has provided a cabinet for the preservation and
exhibition of these and similar gifts and trophies of Rice
local and intercollegiate contests. This elaborate cabinet,
designed by Mr. R. A. Cram, supervising architect of the
Institute, is one of the most beautiful examples of wood
carving in America.

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FIRST ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

DEGREES IN COURSE CONFERRED
JUNE 12, I916

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FIRST ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT

At the first annual commencement convocation of the
Rice Institute held at the conclusion of the fourth aca-
demic session the baccalaureate sermon was preached by
the Reverend Peter Gray Sears, of Houston, and the
commencement address was delivered by Chancellor
David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University. On recom-
mendation of the Faculty and by authority of the Trus-
tees the President of the Rice Institute, at the final
ceremonies in the Academic Court on the morning of June
1 2th, 191 6, conferred on the first graduates the following
degrees,^ respectively :

Edmund McAshan Dupree, Bachelor of Science
Hattie Lei Red, Bachelor of Arts, with distinction
Bessie Walker Bankhead, Bachelor of Arts, with hon-
ors in German
James Lee Bramlette, Bachelor of Science
Harry Marshall Bulbrook, Bachelor of Arts
Ivan Roy Clede, Bachelor of Arts
Robert Emmett Cummings, Bachelor of Arts
Fay Earldine Dunseth, Bachelor of Arts, with dis-
tinction
Lenard Gabert, Bachelor of Science
Lela Jetta Goar, Bachelor of Arts
Oscar Frederic Green, Bachelor of Arts

^ The degrees were conferred in the above order. The first candi-
date was the first matriculate; the second, the senior matriculate of
the women graduates; the next twenty-five were also matriculates of
the original class, the Freshman class of 1912-13; and the remaining
candidates were listed in the order of their matriculation.

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Nellie Grimes, Bachelor of Arts, with honors in

Mathematics
Opal Josephine Hall, Bachelor of Arts
Ervin Frederick Kalb, Bachelor of Arts
Hildegarde Elizabeth Kalb, Bachelor of Arts, with

distinction
Carl Milham Knapp, Bachelor of Science
Edith Jo Leeseman, Bachelor of Arts
William Max Nathan, Bachelor of Arts, with dis-
tinction
Norman Hurd Ricker, Bachelor of Arts, with honors

in Physics
Ruth Robinson, Bachelor of Arts, with distinction
Elmer Edward Shutts, Bachelor of Science
J. Browder Spiller, Bachelor of Arts
William Marion Standish, Bachelor of Science
Lenore Wall, Bachelor of Arts, with distinction
Margaret Amy Waples, Bachelor of Arts
Herbert Wray Wilber, Bachelor of Science
Clinton Harcourt Wooten, Bachelor of Arts
Alice Crowell Dean, Bachelor of Arts, with honors in

Mathematics
Ralph Dunning Longley, Bachelor of Arts
Casimir Perier McKenzie, Bachelor of Arts
Sarah Roach, Bachelor of Arts
Rollin Mont fort Rolfe, Bachelor of Science
Margaret Ellen Schultz, Bachelor of Arts
Mary Fox, Bachelor of Arts
Otto Olive Watts, Bachelor of Arts

Walter Winfield Marshall, Master of Arts ; B.A., Ohio
State University, 19 13.

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CANDIDATES FOR ADVANCED DEGREES

Bankhead, Bessie Walker .... Phoenix, Arizona

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
Bramlette, James Lee Tolar, Texas

B.S., Rice Institute, 1916.

Bray, Hubert Evelyn GreatYarmouth, England

B.A., Tufts College, 1910;
M.A., Harvard University, 1916.

Bulbrook, Harry Marshall . . . Greenville, Texas

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
Cheney, Walter Lynn Lincoln, Nebraska

B.A., Oberlin College, 1913;

M.A., University of Nebraska, 191 5.

Clyce, Wallace Perrin Sherman, Texas

B.A., Austin College, 1913.
Dean, Alice Crowell Houston, Texas

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
Dixon, Alfred Alex Guilford, North Carolina

B.S., Guilford College, 1909 ;

M.A., Haverford College, 191 1.

Frizzell, Thomas Paul Knox City, Texas

B.S., Texas Christian University, 1916.
Gabert, Lenard Houston, Texas

B.S., Rice Institute, 1916.
Green, Oscar Frederic Houston, Texas

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
Hall, Opal Josephine Houston, Texas

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
Kalb, Ervin Frederick Houston, Texas

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Kalb, Hildegarde Elizabeth . . . Bellaire, Texas

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
McCann, Samuel Glenn Dresden, Ohio

Ph.B., College of Wooster, 1914.
Perry, William Frederick .... Houston, Texas

M.A., Columbia University, 1909.
Porter, Everett Ellis Hughes Springs, Texas

B.A., Baylor University, 1916.
Ricker, Norman Hurd Galveston, Texas

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
Robinson, Ruth Clarendon, Texas

B.A., Rice Institute, 1916.
Rolfe, Rollin Montfort Dallas, Texas

B.S., Rice Institute, 1916.
Sherrick, Jacob L Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

B.S., Pennsylvania State College, 1910.
Standish, William Marion . . . Houston, Texas

B.S., Rice Institute, 1916.
Wilber, Herbert Wray Kingsville, Texas

B.S., Rice Institute, 1916.
Winsor, Arthur S Woodstock, N. B.

B.A., University of Mt. Allison, 1915.
Wood, Plelen May Bellaire, Texas

B.A., Drury College, 1909.

SENIOR CLASS

Bennett, Eleanor Dublin,Texas

Benton, Verner Loraine .... Houston, Texas

Bright, Will Drane Sherman, Texas

Bunting, Robert Lee Houston, Texas

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Cain, Otta Lee Yoakum, Texas

Chandler, Richard Olney .... Port Arthur, Texas

Daugherty, Ruth Houston, Texas

Eggers, G. W. Nordholtz .... Galveston, Texas

Fendley, Francis Tarrant .... Galveston, Texas

Fernandez, Rudolf o Hulen . . . Houston, Texas

Forrest, Robert Porter Mexia, Texas

Fulwiler, Howard D Abilene, Texas

Harris, Brantly Callaway .... Thomasville, Georgia

Harris, Fletcher Wootten .... Thomasville, Georgia

Heisig, Gladstone Bering .... Houston, Texas

John, Isabel Mary Houston, Texas

Lindley, Cleveland DanieU . . . Houston, Texas

Lokey, Clarence Walters .... Lubbock, Texas

Lowrie, Samuel Harman .... Goldthivaite, Texas

MacMaster, Helen Houston, Texas

McFaddin, William P. H., Jr. . . Beaumont, Texas

Michaux, Maud Houston, Texas

Millis, Eugene Russell Houston, Texas

Niland, John Emmet Galveston, Texas

Pattillo, Thomas Brewington . . Cisco, Texas

Rayzor, Jesse Newton Denton, Texas

Riley, Robert Milton Emporia, Kansas

Rothrock, Edward Streicher . . Mercedes, Texas

Sanders, Isaac C Tyler, Texas

Sanford, Clarence Morrow . . . Houston, Texas

Sullivan, Ruth Temple, Texas

Teal, Wiley Beecher Dallas, Texas

Tilley, Robert Nelson Huntsville, Texas

Tomfohrde, Albert Houston, Texas

Traylor, George Hamilton . . . Mount Pleasant, Texas

Underwood, Francis Joseph . . . Galveston, Texas

1 Died January 2, 1917.

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Underwood, Patrick Henry

Victor, Harry

Waggaman, Adele ....
Waters, James Stephen, Jr.
Weinberg, Helen Celestine
Whitfield, Voelian Winton
Willner, Zillah Longfellow
Woodruff, Lewis Jay . . .
Yeatman, Richard Preston

Galveston, Texas
Odessa, Russia
Houston, Texas
Galveston, Texas
Houston Heights, Texas
Morrisville, Texas
Houston, Texas
Blessing, Texas
Marion, Alabama

JUNIOR CLASS

Abbey, Wilbur Milo Port Arthur, Texas

Barber, Helen Browder Houston Heights, Texas

Barron, William Ralph Houston, Texas

Beraud, Louise Jane Sheridan, Texas

Brooks, S. Raymond Flournoy, Louisiana

Brown, W. Edward Beaumont, Texas

Bryan, Andrew Bonnell .... Felicia, Texas

Buse, Howard Emmett Houston, Texas

Cabaniss, Cramer Clark Lockhart, Texas

Carter, John Winston Houston, Texas

Coleman, Joseph Pickens .... Little Rock, Arkansas

Colston, Thomas Marshall . . . Kingsville, Texas

Cunningham, Kenneth Wallace . Beaumont, Texas

Delia Valle, Emil H Bridgeport, Connecticut

Duggan, Alston Hardy San Antonio, Texas

Ellis, Alline Marie Houston Heights, Texas

Ford, Fannie Rivers Houston, Texas

Fouts, Floyd Festus Cleveland, Texas

Harp, John Holland Mount Pleasant, Texas

Harris, Gwin Chandler Lubbock, Texas

Hathorn, Edwin Hall Mount Pleasant, Texas

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Hathorn, John Broadus
Hodges, Carrie ....
Hodges, Leland Allen
Ilfrey, Lawrence Galloway
Keiller, Thomas Mitchell
Markham, James Philip
McAllister, Florence Betsy
McFarland, John William
Meharg, Virgil Edward
Middleton, Edmund Burru
Middleton, Errol . . .
Morgan, Ethel ....
Reybaud, William Henry
Ricketts, Anna ....
Riglander, Hazel . . .
Rosenthall, Leon Chester
Rothrock, Ralph Kinnan
Rowe, Elsbeth Thompson
Rudd, Charles Maples .
Saper, Paul Gerson . .

South, Ira

Stockwell, Florence Elaine
Stone, Barton William .
Stratford, Mary Jane
Tillett, Henry Augustus, Jr
Waggaman, Camille . .
Wheeler, George Carlos
White, Lloyd Young . .
Worley, Florence . . .

. Mount Pleasant, Texas

. Nacogdoches, Texas

. Georgetozvn, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Galveston, Texas

. Victoria, Texas

. Camden, Arkansas

. Brownzvood, Texas

. Turnersville, Texas

. Eagle Lake, Texas

. Victoria, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Galveston, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Mercedes, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Temple, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Beaumont, Texas

. Georgetozvn, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Abilene, Texas

. Houston, Texas

. Bonhani, Texas

. Waco, Texas

. Houston, Texas

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SOPHOMORE CLASS

Ansley, John Sherwood La Porte, Texas

Bailey, Herbert A Pittsburg, Texas

Bailey, John Edwin Franklin, Louisiana

Banks, Reba Elizabeth Kirbyville, Texas

Bass, Henry K Abilene, Texas

Baty, Joseph Russ Palestine, Texas

Bayer, Robbie Elizabeth .... Huntingdon, Tennessee

Belcia, Ross Ivan Ged, Louisiana

Billups, Val T Winters, Texas

Brick, Shirley Eclipse Fort Worth, Texas

Briant, Willie Victor Houston, Texas

Campbell, Robert Keener .... Houston, Texas

Carr, Alfred Lewin Marlin, Texas

Carroll, Festus Royal Houston, Texas

Cockrell, Varue Odlea Hoviston, Texas

Cockrell, Maybelle Houston, Texas

Conyers, Henry Providence, R. L

Cotting-ham, Mary Cassidy . . . Houston, Texas

Crittenden, John Frank Houston, Texas

Dannenbaum, Maurice Nathan . Houston, Texas

Darling, Clarence Ransome . . . Houston, Texas

Davis, Glen Irving Greenville, Texas

Dawson, Harry Edward .... Floydada, Texas

Dodge, Harris Taylor Houston, Texas

Dormant, Julian Austin Houston, Texas

Drummond, John George .... Gatesville, Texas

Dukes, George Marshall .... Houston, Texas

Dutton, Daniel Fleming .... Beaumont, Texas

Easterwood, Charles Grandison . Hearne, Texas

Eisenlohr, Otto Hugo Dallas, Texas

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Erkel, Olive Lorraine San Antonio, Texas

Evans, Oliphant Shelley .... San Antonio, Texas

Farthing, Milton Ephraim . . . Houston, Texas

Fleet, Philip Berditchew, Russia

Frost, Kenneth Houston, Texas

Gaines, Ethel Conklin Houston, Texas

Gard, Edith Houston, Texas

Gemmer, Kathleen Helena . . . Houston, Texas

George, Alexander San Antonio, Texas

George, Berta Clare Waller, Texas

Gillespie, Margaret Elizabeth . . Houston, Texas

Gordon, Harry Houston, Texas

Greenman, Eric Raymond . . . Pueblo, Colorado

Gripon, Lee Hardy Beaumont, Texas

Hail, Jennie Jones Houston, Texas

Hammersmith, Minnie Houston, Texas

Hanna, Alma Bernice Houston, Texas

Haynes, Naomi Anna Houston, Texas

Heywood, Thomas Owen .... Mount Vernon, Texas

Hill, Lawrence Leslie Houston, Texas

Hirsch, Tillie Paulene Houston, Texas

Houck, Alexander Clyde .... Houston, Texas

Jackson, William Ralph .... Enloe, Texas

Kennedy, Mabel Louise .... Bay City, Texas

Killough, Joseph Evans .... Bonham, Texas

King, Paul Katy, Texas

Kingsland, Lawrence Myrick . . Houston, Texas

Knight, Orissa Houston, Texas

Kramer, Warren Alvin Franklin, Louisiana

Lamar, Lucius Mirabeau, Jr. . . San Antonio, Texas

Landram, Robert Bates, Jr. . . . Houston, Texas

Lane, Sarah Louise Houston, Texas

Lasay, Celeste Parellada .... Montblanch, Spain

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Leveridge, John Haywood . . . East Bernard, Texas

Lillard, Roy Embry Bowie, Texas

Lorehn, Edmond Louis Houston, Texas

Lovelace, Law Lawson San Angela, Texas

Manag-an, William Henry, Jr. . . Westlake, Louisiana

Manaker, Fred Philip Fulshear, Texas

Martin, Gladys Houston, Texas

McCarty, Mary Denoailles . . . Houston, Texas

McWhorter, Albert William . . . Houston, Texas

Minis, Walter Thompson .... Houston, Texas

Moore, Jack Wallace Comanche, Texas

Morgan, Joseph Guiton Dallas, Texas

Murphy, Thomas Elza Brownwood, Texas

Patten, Robert William Jasper, Texas

Payne, John Pierre Haskell, Texas

Peterman, Edward Hanson . . . Franklin, Louisiana

Pf euffer, Elsie New Braunfels, Texas

Rather, John Thomas, Jr Belton, Texas

Randolph, Thomas Worsham . . Huntsville, Texas

Saunders, John Bacon Bonham, Texas

Simons, Thomas Shirley .... Fort Worth, Texas

Snoddy, Elizabeth Houston, Texas

South, Ruby Bell Houston, Texas

Speer, May Aurelia Houston, Texas

Spiller, Joe Rice Esperansa, Texas

Stratford, William Malcolm . . . Houston, Texas

Streusand, Esther Houston, Texas

Sullivan, Frances Eudora .... Houston, Texas

Sutcliffe, John Robert San Antonio, Texas

Sweeney, Edward Morris .... Bonham, Texas

Swope, Juanita Helen Houston, Texas

Thomas, Esther Elizabeth .... Houston, Texas

Thomas, Talmage DeWitt . . . Greenville, Texas

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Turnbull, Pender Houston, Texas

Vernor, John Wilbur Lampasas, Texas

Wallace, John Homer Rockwall, Texas

Ward, Mavis Kathlyne Reagan, Texas

Ware, Zuleika Houston, Texas

Watson, David Robertson .... Austin, Texas

Wells, Tullis Pierce Fort Worth, Texas

Whitaker, Francis Hunter . . . Beaumont, Texas

Winston, John McClure .... Weather ford, Texas

Wolf, Freddie Sybil Houston, Texas

Yelverton, John Henry Riverside, Texas

Zuber, Philip Houston, Texas

FRESHMAN CLASS

Acree, James Leonard, Jr. ... Dothan, Alabama

Aleo, Peter George Houston, Texas

Alexander, Jay Dallas, Texas

Allen, Walter Payne, Jr Terrell, Texas

Almeras, Pierre Numa Galveston, Texas

Anderson, Guy Dillard Wichita Falls, Texas

Andrews, Mark William .... Browmvood, Texas

Andrews, Will Allen Texarkana, Texas

Aschbacher, Melba Rhea .... Victoria, Texas

Ashburn, Samuel Armstrong . . Bruceville, Texas

Atkinson, Charles Harold .... Del Rio, Texas

Badt, Clarance Lawrence .... Mount Pleasant, Texas

Baker, Peter Willis, Jr Carthage, Texas

Baker, Richard Royal, Jr Crockett, Texas

Baldwin, Lucille Coons Houston, Texas

Bales, Henry Olaf De Queen, Arkansas

Ballard, Raymond Marley . . . Goldthwaite, Texas

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Bartle, Will Otis Cleveland, Texas

Beazley, Hamilton La Porte, Texas

Bell, Hugh LeRoy Edniond, Oklahoma

Berwin, Lenore Judith Houston, Texas

Bianski, Andrew Chicago, Illinois

Birdwell, Glenn Dawson .... Overton, Texas

Blakeney, George Stuart .... Bonham, Texas

Block, Sadie Houston, Texas

Blumberg, John Robert Seguin, Texas

Bobb, Paul Frederick Livingston, Texas

Borum, Bertha Mae Houston Heights, Texas

Boyd, Laurence Everet Houston, Texas

Boyles, Reba Scott Houston, Texas

Bonner, John Wayne Glennwood, Arkansas

Bonner, Jesse Lafayette .... Lufkin, Texas

Bos, Herman Peter Port Arthur, Texas

Boynton, Paul Lewis Belton, Texas

Brand, Lucille Agnes Houston, Texas

Bradley, Max Peabody, Kansas

Bradley, Roland Barr Houston, Texas

Bradshaw, Dorothy Stutzman . . Houston Heights, Texas

Breen, Michael Mineola, Texas

Brennan, John Patrick Houston, Texas

Brevard, Horace Eddy San Marcos, Texas

Brockman, Mary Katherine . . . Houston, Texas

Brogniez, Frank Philip Houston, Texas

Bromberg, Leon Galveston, Texas

Brooking, Willard Tray lor . . . Sinton, Texas

Brooks, John Caperton Houston, Texas

Brown, George Rufus Temple, Texas

Brown, Homer Tyler, Texas

Bryant, David Ezekiel Pottsboro, Texas

Buchanan, Kate Harding .... Houston, Texas

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Buchanan, Ruth Alexander . . . Houston, Texas

Burnett, Thomas Jefferson . . . Fischer Store, Texas

Butler, Iva Alice Houston, Texas

Butler, Lawrence Oris Dallas, Texas

Butler, Minnie Joyce Houston, Texas

Byron, Ruth Shelby IVeatherford, Texas

Cain, Edgar Allan Yoakum, Texas

Carmichael, Roy Saint Jo, Texas

Carson, Clarence Leon Texarkana, Texas

Carson, Jack Harlyn San Antonio, Texas

Carter, Ike Newton Cuero, Texas

Cason, Dick Kendall, Jr Nacogdoches, Texas

Cherry, Edgar Lewis Beaumont, Texas

Chesnutt, William Bernard . . . Houston,Texas

Clark, Fred Paul San Angela, Texas

Clark, Wade Lewis Nocona, Texas

Clayton, Clyde Clement Houston, Texas

Coates, Thomas Lee Edna, Texas

Cockrill, Ben Rogers Smithville, Texas

Coghlan, Margaret Beatrice . . . Houston, Texas

Cohen, Herman M Houston, Texas

Coleman, Stewart Percy .... Corpus Christi, Texas

Comfort, Georgia Whitsette . . . Dallas, Texas

Combs, William Arthur .... Angleton, Texas

Corbett, James Louis, Jr Texas City, Texas

Corley, Vera Bonner Lufkin, Texas

Cox, Armand Vinicus Dallas, Texas

Crisp, Vachel Weldon Cuero, Texas

Dain, James Warren Smithville, Texas

Davis, Simeon Edison Houston, Texas

Davison, Frances Lucille .... Hubbard, Texas

Davison, Hugh Lloyd Hubbard, Texas

Del Barto, Pete Frank Orange, Texas

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Delahoussaye, Edward Anthony . Franklin, Louisiana

Denham, Jesse Eldon Bowie, Texas

Doney, Doris Louise Houston, Texas

Doughtie, Venton Levy Huf smith, Texas

Douthit, Walton Emory .... Rockdale, Texas

Dowell, Cleo Lafoy ...... Port Arthur, Texas

Downs, Bertha Anita Houston, Texas

Drummet, Paul Houston, Texas

Dunlap, Bernard Price Dallas, Texas

Dunn, Mary Ellen Houston, Texas

Egan, Herol Ward Mulvane, Kansas

Eaton, Thomas Benton Houston Heights, Texas

Edgar, Cecil Elmo Yoakum, Texas

Elder, John Clark Pilot Point, Texas

Ellis, Athna Bryan Palestine, Texas

Elliott, Grace Eleanor Rosharon, Texas

Embree, Elisha Davont Belton, Texas

Emden, Louis Houston, Texas

Ewell, Sylvester Harvey .... Roswell, New Mexico

Faber, Ernest Eagle Lake, Texas

Failor, Ellamarye Guy, Texas

Faught, Charles Burnett .... Houston, Texas

Filson, Katherine Houston, Texas

Finch, Henry Arthur, Jr McKinney, Texas

Finfrock, Jean Paul Houston Heights, Texas

Foote, Frances Terrell, Texas

Forbes, Arthur Lee, Jr Houston, Texas

Ford, William Ward Houston, Texas

Foster, Francis Margaret .... Houston, Texas

Fraley, Fred William Houston, Texas

Frost, Clarence Montgomery . . Houston, Texas

Fruit, Julian Elliot Timpson, Texas

Gallaher, Edith Catharine .... Houston, Texas

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Gamble, Loy Lee Memphis, Texas

Garbrecht, Charles San Antonio, Texas

Gaug-ler, Kurtz Edward .... Houston, Texas

Geary, Geneva Gladys Houston Heights, Texas

Gee, Worthy Holland Troup, Texas

Geller, Abram Lewis Houston, Texas

Gemmer, Edwin Philip Houston, Texas

Gerhardt, Manfred James . . . Houston, Texas

Giammalva, Joe Carlos Houston, Texas

Godwin, James Warren Houston Heights, Texas

Goldberg, Josh Seligman .... Dallas, Texas

Gomillion, Howell Montgomery . Lockhart, Texas

Gomperts, Anna Raymond . . . Houston, Texas

Goss, Warren Eldridge ^ . . . . Houston, Texas

Graves, Katherine Howard . . . Houston, Texas

Gray, David Fuqua Houma, Louisiana

Gray, Duncan Montgomery . . . Meridian, Mississippi

Green, George Maverick .... San Antonio, Texas

Griffin, Philip Clyde Itasca, Texas

Gross, Frances Barbara Marshall, Texas

Grun, Charles August Yorktozvn, Texas

Grunewald, Lillian Mary .... Houston, Texas

Guitar, Repps Bedford Abilene, Texas

Hall, Walter William La Porte, Texas

Haltom, Lee San Antonio, Texas

Hamilton, Willard Stephens . . . Thrall, Texas

Hammersmith, May Houston, Texas

Hanna, James Scott Galveston, Texas

Hardin, Robert Uvalde, Texas

Harrel, Arabella Houston, Texas

Harris, James Kilbourne, Jr. . . San Antonio, Texas

Hart, Louis Folwell Hillsboro, Texas

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Hayes, James Joseph, Jr Broivmvood, Texas

Haynes, Mary Louise Houston, Texas

Hays, Lydia Alice Kingsville, Texas

Hebert, Edmond Haile Timpson, Texas

Hedges, Kenneth Paul Houston, Texas

Heffernan, Helen Marie .... Houston, Texas

Helland, Sven Paul San Antonio, Texas

Heyvvood, Milton Scott Mount Vernon, Texas

Hig-gins, Loraine Reagan, Texas

Hilliard, Mollie Houston, Texas

Hilswick. Mildred Maurine . . . Houston, Texas

Hines, John Henderson Uvalde, Texas

Hinkley, Burt E., Jr Brozvnsville, Texas

Holley, Helen Beauregard . . . Houston, Texas

Holloway, Robert Randolph . . . Comanche, Texas

Hopkins, Ralph Goodrich .... Fort Worth, Texas

Hubbell, Olive Grace Bellaire, Texas

Humber, Jason Albany, Texas

Hurley, Charles Webster, Jr. . . Houston, Texas

Ingram, Genevieve Houston, Texas

Irby, Richard Edward Beaumont, Texas

Jackson, Mary Houston, Texas

Jackson, Thomas Hardy .... Houston Heights, Texas

James, John Kendrick Houston, Texas

Jarratt, John Archer Port Arthur, Texas

Jarvis, Barney Word Terrell, Texas

Jarvis, Dudley Crawford .... Terrell, Texas

John, Roberta Alexander .... Houston, Texas

Josey, Jack Evander, Jr Beaumont, Texas

Jungman, J. Frank Hondo, Texas

Juran, Max Osias ■ Houston, Texas

Kahn, Dan Benjamin Houston, Texas

Keeling, Arthur Wortham, Texas

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Keller, Helen Closner Houston, Texas

King, Leonidas McAdoo .... Houston, Texas

King, Loena Houston, Texas

King, Sidney Ercel San Angela, Texas

King, William Clark San Antonio, Texas

Kirby, Mrs. William Blain . . . San Angelo, Texas

Kirksey, Morris Marshall .... Palo Alto, California

Klotz, John Frederick Maxia, Texas

Knapp, Jack Lewis Houston, Texas

Knudsen, Bertha Arline .... Houston, Texas

Krause, Rudolph Edward .... Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lassetter, Gerald Culberson . . . Comanche, Texas

Latham, William Henry, Jr. . . . Franklin, Louisiana

Latimer, Emile Lee Gilmer, Texas

Lauterstein, Jennie Rose .... Llano, Texas

Lee, Dorothy Houston, Texas

Levy, Abe Houston, Texas

Levy, Amelia Houston, Texas

Lindley, Gladys Houston, Texas

Lockett, Annie Beth Houston, Texas

Logan, William Hamilton, Jr. . . Bellaire, Texas

Lottman, Otto John Houston, Texas

Lovett, Adelaide Houston, Texas

Lubbock, Katherine Adair . . . Houston, Texas

Luecke, Theodore Edward . . . Wichita Falls, Texas

Lunn, Edwin Noland Houston, Texas

Lyon, Shelby Bouldin Houston, Texas

Maas, Louis Littman Houston, Texas

MacMaster, Grace Fox Houston, Texas

Madero, Carlos Benjamin .... San Antonio, Texas

Mantooth, Mollie Lucille .... Lufkin, Texas

Marshall, Robert William Keifer . Temple, Texas

Matthews, Benjamin Rush . . . Harrisburg, Texas

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Matthews, Roberta Lee Harrisburg, Texas

Matthewson, Harold Grant . . . Dallas, Texas

Mayer, Benjamin Foster .... Port Arthur, Texas

McCollough, Byron Godfrey . . Houston, Texas

McCrummen, Robert Foy .... Lubbock, Texas

McFarland, Emmett Henry . . . Brownwood, Texas

McGlaum, Carl Edman Guffey, Texas

Mcllhenny, Isbell Franklin . . . San Antonio, Texas

Meador, Newton Eugene, Jr. . . Houston, Texas

Mears, Joe Leonidas, Jr Wichita Falls, Texas

Meek, Dudley San Antonio, Texas

Meitzen, Arthur Rudolph .... Bastrop, Texas

Mendlovitz, Harry Houston, Texas

Mendlovitz, Joe Houston, Texas

Merrick, Ward Mitchell .... Galveston, Texas

Michael, Vera Houston, Texas

Mickelborough, Reba Houston, Texas

Middleton, Wayne Victoria, Texas

Milburn, Douglas Mexia, Texas

Miller, Edward Dunlap Waxahachie, Texas

Miller, Kenney Nicholas .... Houston, Texas

Mills, Maurine Houston, Texas

Millsapps, Paul Houston, Texas

Milnes, Jean Bellaire, Texas

Mitchell, Jefferson Woolf .... Cincinnati, Ohio

Moechel, Renee Marie Pasadena, Texas

Moler, William Henry Broivnsville, Texas

Moore, Buhl Smithville, Texas

Moore, Mary Terese Houston, Texas

Moore, Willard Houghton . . . Dallas, Texas

Montgomery, William Galveston, Texas

Morales, Rita M Houston, Texas

Morgan, Herbert Bush Granbury, Texas

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Morrison, Lucy Vassar Houston, Texas

Mullane, William Adrian .... Houston, Texas

Munz, Lewis Edgar Texarkana, Texas

Nau, Capatolia Cecelia Houston Heights, Texas

Nelson, Edward Young .... Pittsburg, Texas

Neyland, Archie Jerome .... Charco, Texas

Neyland, Watson Augustus . . . Liberty, Texas

Nichols, George Hutchinson, Kansas

Nicholson, Lillian Louise .... Galveston, Texas

Nolf, Vera Mae Wadsworth, Ohio

Nugent, Ruth Houston, Texas

Nussbaum, Hervin Wolfe .... Eagle Lake, Texas

Nutter, Henry Coleman .... Henrietta, Texas

Ogilvie, Janie Houston, Texas

O'Leary, Lillian lone Houston, Texas

Omohundro, Philip Sherburn . . Beaumont, Texas

O'Roark, Walter Nathaniel . . . Guffey, Texas

Parker, James Franklin Houston, Texas

Parker, John Tyler, Texas

Patterson, Charles Hazen .... Houston, Texas

Patterson, Gladys Alleen .... Houston, Texas

Pearson, Ottis Amelia Houston, Texas

Penman, Marie Celeste Houston, Texas

Pennybacker, Charles Dana . . . Palestine, Texas

Pequigney, Frank Galveston, Texas

Peterson, Fendell B Bellaire, Texas

Peterson, Jesse Raymond .... Rosenberg, Texas

Peterson, Melvin Raymond . . . Kingsville, Texas

Piatt, Emma Lucissia Houston, Texas

Pollard, Mary Fuqua Houston, Texas

Porter, Mildred Armistead . . . Houston, Texas

Potts. James Putman Wichita Falls, Texas

Putnam, Irene Houston, Texas

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Putney, Alice Eagle Lake, Texas

Pyne, Carolee Dewitt Houston, Texas

Radoff, Morris Houston, Texas

Ragland, William Shaw .... Mercedes, Texas

Reavley, Thomas Mack, Jr. . . . Alba, Texas

Red, Samuel Clark, Jr Houston, Texas

Redfield, Helen Houston, Texas

Renick, Mary Louise Houston, Texas

Riddle, Nathan Gilbert Davis, West Virginia

Riedel, Wilfred Herman .... Yorktown, Texas

Robinson, Maynard William . . Temple, Texas

Robinson, Reid Vance Clarendon, Texas

Robinson, Wilbourn Thomas . . Huntsville, Texas

Rooke, Richard Durvant .... Nacogdoches, Texas

Russo, Samuel Anthony .... Houston, Texas

Salisbury, Samuel Wilson .... Crockett, Texas

Sanders, Ossie Alice Houston, Texas

Saunders, John Laroy Smithville, Texas

Schadt, William Frederick, Jr. . . Galveston, Texas

Schellhardt, Morris Adams . . . Smithville, Texas

Schirmer, Anna Gilliland .... Houston, Texas

Schlom, Louis Henry Houston, Texas

Shannon, Joseph Robert . ... La Porte, Texas

Shaw, Clifton Raymond .... Weatherford, Texas

Shaw, John Feary Houston, Texas

Sheffield, John Otis Bowie, Texas

Shriner, Helen Emma Houston, Texas

Skiles, William Sydney Richardson, Texas

Smilovitz, Maurice Houston, Texas

Smith, Blakely Houston, Texas

SoRelle, Heloise Many, Louisiana

Soroker, Mrs. Esther Nicholaijezv, Russia

South, Dudley Pritchett .... Houston, Texas

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South, Helen Houston, Texas

Sproles, William Soloman, Jr. . . Angleton, Texas

Starnes, Roy Wayne Galveston, Texas

Stephenson, Douglas Joseph . . Beaumont, Texas

St. John, Ralph Vaughan .... Palestine, Texas

Still, Ben Ivor Houston, Texas

Swilley, Mildred Lucille .... Houston Heights, Texas

Talbot, Mount William Lake Charles, Louisiana

Tate, Karl Franklin Comanche, Texas

Taylor, Roy Alfred Houston, Texas

Terrell, Mrs. Albert Langley . . Houston, Texas

Thomas, Albert Langston .... Nacogdoches, Texas

Thomas, Thelma Houston, Texas

Thornton, Horace Edward . . . Pittsburg, Texas

Timmins, Kathleen Henricks . . Houston, Texas

Todd, Wallace Wainwright . . . Dickinson, Texas

Tompkins, May Jewel Houston, Texas

Townsend, Fitzhugh Lee .... Houston, Texas

Trigg, Jack Albertus Nacogdoches, Texas

Trimble, Barrell Houston, Texas

Turney, Howard Nolen Houston Heights, Texas

Tyson, Joe Ellis New Boston, Texas

Vance, Griffin Duff San Antonio, Texas

Vanston, James Mueller .... Texarkana, Texas

Walker, William James Houston, Texas

Walling, Richard Burrowes, Jr. . Houston, Texas

Waltrip, John William, Jr. . . . Mart, Texas

Waring, John Dawson, Jr. ... Comanche, Texas

Welsh, Hugh Clayton Haskell, Texas

West, Mrs. Lida Holt Houston Heights, Texas

West, Norrie Austin Lufkin, Texas

Wharton, Thomas Heard .... Edna, Texas

White, Bessie Houston, Texas

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White, Florence Cassander . . . Houston, Texas

Wier, Mary Clarke Houston, Texas

Williamson, Milton Chapman . . Cisco, Texas

Willingham, Clovis Bertrand . . San Antonio, Texas

Wilson, Edgar Houston .... Houston, Texas

Wilson, Mabel Virginia Houston, Texas

Wilson, William Abner, Jr. . . . Houston, Texas

Winf ree, Mark King Crockett, Texas

Winston, Sarah Emily Houston, Texas

Wolf, Lillie Arabella Houston, Texas

Wood, Charles Edgar Houston, Texas

Wood, Velma Houston, Texas

Wooldridge, Horace Stuart . . . Gainesville, Texas

Worley, Margaret Houston Heights, Texas

Wortham, Cad Carter Houston, Texas

Zama, Augustus Van Hazelhurst, Mississippi

Zama, Henry Faravelli Hazelhurst, Mississippi

SPECIAL STUDENTS

Bertrand, Dorothy Richmond, Texas

Blanchard, Mrs. Mary Webster . , Houston, Texas

Cain, Carrie Anita Houston, Texas

Carson, Frederick Thomas . . . Barstow, Texas

Cottrill, Myrtle Agnes Houston, Texas

Dancy, Mrs. Marian Roberts . . Houston, Texas

Daniell, Mrs. Nancy Gertrude . . Houston, Texas

Dupre, Nancy Sophia Lubbock, Texas

Duval, Mrs. Murtel Olive .... Houston, Texas

Frankel, Julia Cerf Houston, Texas

Gray, Charles Walter Del Rio, Texas

Hall, Hally Ruth Houston, Texas

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Johnson, Gaylord Houston, Texas

Joy, Whitney Orvan Ingram, Texas

Marshall, Olive Adelaide .... Houston, Texas

Means, Bonner Houston, Texas

Otto, Doris Houston, Texas

Paterson-Smyth, Jessie Alice . . Montreal, Canada

Sewall, Mrs. Blanche Harding . . Houston, Texas

Shands, Mabel Houston, Texas

Taylor, Emily Houston, Texas

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Academic Course, 25
Admission, 2.2
Advisers, 28
Advisory Committee, 10
Applied Mathematics, 41
Architecture

Admission to, 2,2

Courses, 73

Equipment, 85

Tuition, 24
Architecture of the Institute, 9
Assistants and Fellows, 20
Athletic Association, 92, 93
Athletics, 55
Biology

Courses, 48

Laboratory, 85
Board and Lodging, 24, 25
Buildings, 10, 25, 82
Calendar, 3

Catalogues, Application for, 23
Certificate

Admission by, 22

Teachers', 52
Chemical Engineering

Admission to, 22

Courses, 59

Laboratories, 84

Tuition, 24
Chemistry

Courses, 43

Laboratories, 84
Christian Associations, 93
Civil Engineering

Admission to, 22

Courses, 59, 66, 69, 70, "^2

Laboratory, 85

Tuition, 24

Classes, 102

Commemorative Volumes, 79
Commencement, 95
Courses

Academic, 25, 28, 34, 35

Architecture, 25, 73

Engineering, 25, 59

Graduate, 25, 31

Military, 56
Degrees, 25, 31, 33, 59, 61, 62,

95
Deposit, 24

Dormitories, 24, 25, 92
Economics, 50, 51
Education, 52
Electrical Engineering

Admission to, 22

Courses, 59, dd, 69, 71, 72

Laboratory, 86

Tuition, 24
Employment, 21
Endowment, 8
Engineering, 59, 65 ; see also

Chemical, Civil, Electrical

and Mechanical Engineering
English, 35

Entrance Conditions, 32
Entrance Requirements, 22, 32
Ethics, 54
Examinations

Entrance, 22, 32

Physical, 55

Term, 2y
Expenses, 24
Extension Lectures, 78
Faculty, 13

Fees and Expenses, 24, 78
Fellows, 20, 1 01

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Fellowships, 21

Formal Opening, 11

Founder, 7

French, 37

Freshman Class, 109

German, 38

Graduate Courses, 25, 31

Graduate Students, 102

Graduates, 95

Historical Sketch, 7

History, 52, 53

Hono<- System, 27, 28, 73

Honors Courses, 26, 30

Hygiene, 55

Inaugural Lecturers, 12

Inaugural Lectures, 79

Junior Class, 104

Laboratories

Biology, 85

Chemistry, 84

Civil Engineering, 85

Electrical Engineering, 86

Machine Shop, 90

Mechanical Engineering, J

Physics, 82
Latin, 39

Lectures, Extension, 78
Library, 80
Literary Societies, 93
Logic, 53
Machine Shop, 90
Mathematics

Applied, 42

Pure, 39, 40
Mechanical Engineering

Admission, 2.2

Courses, 59, 66, 67, 70, 71

Laboratories, 89

Tuition, 24

Mechanics, 42
Military Science, 56
Name, The, 7
Organizations, 92
Pamphlet, 79
Philosophy, 53
Physical Training, 55, 56
Physics

Courses, 42

Laboratories, 82
Probation, 33
Publications, 79, 93
Requirements for Admission,

22
Residential Halls, 24, 92
Scholarship, Standing in, 32
Scholarships, 21
Self-help, 21
Senior Class, 102
Shopwork, 60, 90
Societies, 92, 93
Sophomore Class, 106
Spanish, 39
Special Students, 120
Student Government, 92
Students, Lists of, 99
Subjects of Instruction, 34,

65, 74

Tactics, 56

Teachers' Certificate, 52

Trustees, 8

Tuition, 24

Uniforms, 56

Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation, 93

Young Women's Christian
Association, 93

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