78 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND 



CIVIL ENGINEERING. 



To the President: 



Sir — The work of this Department for the past year has yielded re- 

 sults much better than we had reason to expect. The disadvantages 

 under which the work was carried on were manifold, but loyalty and zeal 

 on the part of instructors and energetic endeavor on the part of the stu- 

 dent bod}' have minimized the effect of hindrances. 



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

 ant Professor W. Babcock, Instructor L. F. Harza and the writer. 

 Besides these, four other instructors were provided and shared the 

 work of teaching, namely Mr. R. Hopkins, Instructor in Mathematics 

 and Civil Engineering, and Messrs. W. J. Carrel, G. W. Hartwell and 

 A. E. Jones. Instructors in Mathematics. Instructors Harza and Carrel 

 have resigned, and will leave us at the end of the school year. 



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

 year : Beman & Smith's Higher Arithmetic for plasses in mensuration ; 

 Beman & Smith's Academic Algebra for all beginning classes formed by 

 women and agi'icultural students; Wells' Essentials of Algebra for the 

 fall term work of women and agricultural students; Van Velzer & 

 Slichter's University Algebra for all engineering students; Wells' 

 Geometry for engineering freshmen ; Wentworth's Geometry for all 

 other classes; Ashton & Marsh's Trigonometry; Tanner & Allen's 

 Analytic Geometry; Taylor's Calculus; Hodgman's Surveying; John- 

 son's Surveying for all classes in higher surveying; Church's Mechanics; 

 Merriman & Jacoby's Graphic Statics; Merriman & Jacoby's Bridge 

 Stresses ; Merriman & Jocoby's Bridge Design ; Nagle's Field Manual for 

 Railroad Engineers; Baker's Masonry Construction; Murray's Differ- 

 ential Calculus; Baker's Roads and" Pavements. 



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. 



