DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 47 



INSTRUCTION. 



We began the year with only three of the old teaching force, Assistant 

 Professor W. Babcock, Instructor A. H. Parrott and the writer. Besides 

 these, two others were engaged during the summer of 1902 and remained 

 with us during the year, namely Mr. L. A. Waterbury, Instructor in 

 Mathematics and Civil Engineering, and Mr. L. F. Harza, Instructor in 

 Mathematics. It was hoped that with five teachers we should be able 

 to meet the requirements of the teaching schedule, but with the advent 

 of a very large entering class in the fall of 1902 it was at once evident 

 that another assistant was needed. Accordingly Mr. W. A. Gardner 

 was engaged as Instructor in Mathematics and served in that capacity 

 from October 3, 1902, to the end of the year. 



Of the six teachers named above, three have resigned to take other 

 positions at the end of the school year, leaving us with a problem of re- 

 organization even more serious than last fall. Those who leave are In- 

 structors Parrott, Waterbury and Gardner. It is to be regretted that 

 funds are not available to enable us to retain tried teachers against the 

 competition of other institutions. 



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

 year: Beman & Smith's Higher Arithmetic for 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; 

 Wells' Geometry by mechanical students; 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; Merriman & Jacoby's 

 Bridge Stresses; Merriman & Jacoby's Bridge Design*; Nagle's Field 

 Manual for Railroad Engineers; Baker's Masonry Construction; Mur- 

 ray's Differential Equations. 



The tabulation below exhibits in detail the class work of the depart- 

 ment, the various assignments of instructors and other items necessary 

 to a complete record. 



