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until September 1st and at the opening of college on the 25th of the 

 same month the building was in a measure ready for use but the furni- 

 ture was not wholly in place until after January 1st of the present year 

 and the placing of apparatus equipment has been going on most of the 

 time since occupancy began. 



The building was formally dedicated on June 22, 1908, the principal 

 feature of the exercises being an address by Dr. R. C. Carpenter, '73, 

 of Cornell University, on the subject ''The Education of an Engineer." 

 This address is printed verl)atim at the end of this report. 



The building has added materially to the space and facilities for carry- 

 ing on the work of the engineering departments. Some idea of its 

 usefulness may be gathered from the statistics presented in Table I 

 which shows the number of student-hours of work handled in each term 

 of the year past. 



Table I. 



Student-hours of Instruction in Engineering Hall for the College 

 Year, 1907-8. 



Subjects. Fall. Winter. Spring. 



Civil Engineering 1006 1207 1269 



Drawing and Design . 2647 2812 1654 



Electrical Engineering 381 267 217 



Mechanical Engineering 1554 • 1409 1349 



Mathematics 1865 1386 1974 



Phvsics 730 1204 1097 



English 56 642 184 



Totals 8189 8927 7744 



Department. Fall. Winter. Spring. Average. 



Civil l^ngineering & ^lathematics. . 2871 2593 3243 2902 



])rawing and Design 2647 2812 16.54 2371 



Electrical Eng. and Phvsics 1061 3471 1314 1282 



Mechanical Engineering 1554 1409 1349 1437 



English .' 56 642 194 297 



*!->' 



Totals 8189 8927 7754 8289 



Table I also shows that some space was utilized by the l^nglish de- 

 partment, and considerably more by the work in mathematics and 

 physics which are allied organically with the departments of Civil En- 

 gineering and Electrical Engineering respectively. 



Some of the instruction given in the building in mathematics, physics 

 and drawing has been for students in agriculture and home economics. 



The floor space in the building, exclusive of the halls, toilet rooms, 

 and librarv have been assigned to the several departments as follows: 



