in tJie University of jyurham. 3 



gineers who have risen even to the highest rank in their pro- 

 fession have encountered the greatest difficulties in the early 

 part of their career, for want of sufficient training in the 

 course of their education. And although men of real talent 

 and great perseverance have by the effiarts of self-taught 

 genius successfully mastered the obstacles thus unnecessarily 

 thrown in their way, there can be little doubt that some even of 

 these men would have received benefit from more systematic 

 training, and that many others, who, under a proper course 

 of instruction in their youth, would have attained eminence 

 in their profession, have never risen above mediocrity. 



The University of Durham is the first public body which 

 has attempted to supply this deficiency in the system of edu- 

 cation pursued in this country. It appeared to them that it 

 was practicable to engraft the peculiar studies connected with 

 civil engineering and mining upon the more general course 

 of academical reading; and that, if such a union could be 

 made, great benefit might be anticipated from the association 

 of young men intended for the higher departments of civil 

 engineering, with those who were destined for the learned 

 professions, or for other stations in the higher or middle 

 ranks of life. With this view, it was deemed desirable that 

 the class of civil engineers should not form a separate body 

 in the University, composing a college appropriated to them- 

 selves, but be admitted on the same footing as other students, 

 subject to the same discipline, and engaged in a course of 

 study which should be assimilated, as far as was practicable^ 

 to the general system of the University. i 



The following Regulations were accordingly prepared after 

 much deliberation, and passed by the Senate and Convoca- 

 tion, in November 1837. 



Regulations for Students in Civil Engineering, in the Univer* 

 sity of Durham^ passed by the Senate and Convocation, 

 Nov. 22, 1837. 



1. Students shall be admissible, in conformity with the Re- 

 gulations, Title ii., § 1, 2, 3, as Members of the University, 

 subject to the ordinary University and College disciplincj to 

 go through a course of instruction in Civil Engineering. 



2. No such Student shall be admitted, unless he has passed 

 an Examination in the Latin language, in Arithmetic, and in 

 the Elements of Mathematics. 



This examination shall be conducted by two Examiners 

 appointed by the Warden. 



3. Every such Student shall be placed, like other Students, 

 under a Tutor named by the Warden, The Tutor shall 



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