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DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



The topics taught m each class are, I think, fully indicated in the catalogue. 

 The following in tabulated form will probably confer any information desired 

 respecting the class work: 



TABLE. 



.Study. 



Civil Engineering 



Agricultural E n g i - I 

 neering f 



Agricultural E n g i - I 

 neering f 



Astronomy. 



Mechanics 



Surveying 



Trigonometry 



Algebra. 



Drawing (Mechanical). 



Remarks. 



Elective — Spring Tarm. 



Elective— Fall Term, 1884. 



Elective— Fall Term, 1885. Same 

 hour with Psychology. 



Elective— Summer Term. 

 Required— Summer Term. 

 Required — Spring Term. 

 Required— Spring Term. 

 Required— Fall Term, 1884. 

 Mechanical Students. 



In addition to the class work I have attended to the following college duties: 

 I have superintended and designed repairs to the steam works, pumps, 

 engines and machinery. Since September 1st I have had supervision of the 

 work of college carpenter. I also prepared drawings and specifications for tho 

 new mechanical Luilding and I have had charge of the shop work of the 

 students in the mechanical department. A separate report of the repairs iii 

 brick, iron and wood, and of the improvements needed, will be submitted. 



COUESE IN MECHANIC ARTS AND ENGINEERING. 



In this course I have charge of the shop work and drawing, both of which 

 pertain to the province of engineering. 



Our building for shops not being completed it became impossible to carry 

 out the systematic shop work which had been planned. At one time it was 

 questioned whether any shop instruction better be attempted until the new 

 shop Avas completed, it Avas finally decided, however, to give all the shop 

 instruction possible in our existing buildings. Accordingly benches were fitted 

 in all available parts of the boiler house, forges were erected near the boilers, 

 and such money as could be afforded was invested in tools for iron and wood 

 working. Boom for six students to work in Avood was found in the old brick 

 carpenter shop. Places were found for twenty-five students, or for nearly all 

 entering that course. 



Subsequent events proved the wisdom of the latter course, for more has been 

 accomplished than the most sanguine expected. 



Our policy of managing the shops is to keep the labor, so far as it possibly 

 can be made educational, employed on objects of utility. No wages are paid 

 for this labor, but a time account is kept against each piece of Avork. Tho 

 students have been very enthusiastic in the work. In the ATOod shop, the 

 young men acquired considerable skill in the use of the saAV, plane, square, 

 hammer, and in making glue joints, while at the same time the work has been 



