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efficiency, and therefore are to be regretted. They are probably penalties 

 we suffer for being overbid in the market for teachers. 



At their first meeting for the fall term the faculty considered my 

 recommendation of last year's report that some civil engineering studies 

 be added to the mechanical course as options. The matter was referred to 

 a committee of five, who reported to the faculty Nov. 4, 1901, recom- 

 mending a schedule of options which was approved by the faculty, and 

 later, Dec. 4, 1901, was adopted by the Board of Agriculture. The studies 

 added to our curriculum by this action include topographical drawing 

 and sketching, shades, shadows and perspective, railroad surveying, bridge 

 analysis and design, masonry, arches and pavements. Seventeen mem- 

 bers of the junior class decided to elect this optional course and entered 

 upon the work as outlined. 



The following text-books have been used in our classes during the 

 year : Beman & Smith's Higher Arithmetic by the classes in mensuration ; 

 Wells' Essentials of Algebra by the women and agricultural students; 

 Hall & Knight's College Algebra (Sevenoak's revision) by mechanical 

 students; Wentworth's Geometry by women and agricultural students; 

 Phillips & Fisher's Geometry (abridged) by mechanical students in the 

 fall term; Wells' Essentials of Geometry by mechanical students in the 

 spring term ; Jones' Trigonometry ; Tanner & Allen's Analytic Geometry ; 

 Taylor's Calculus; Hodgman's Surveying; Johnson's Surveying for all 

 classes in higher surveying; Church's Mechanics; Merriman & Jacoby's 

 Graphic Statics. A comparison of this list with last year's will show 

 that we have made only one change of text during the year. 



The assignments of our teachers to class work, the number of students 

 enrolled, etc., are shown by the following tabulation. 



