SCIENTIFIC FACULTY OF 1897-98. 



The scientific faculty for the current year includes six men. be- 

 sides electrician, engineer, instructors in the academic department, and 

 janitors. 



'-■■John L. Gilpatrick, A.M., Ph.D., Benjamin IJarney Professor 

 of Mathematics, was born in Granger, New York, January 12, 1845 

 He received his early education in the common schools of Granger and 

 at the age of thirteen moved to Ohio with his parents. He graduated 

 with the degree of B A., in 1867, from Kalamazoo, Mich , as valedic- 

 torian of his class. After teaching one year in the country schools 

 he became superintendent of the public schools of Ft. Dodge, Iowa, Gos 

 port, Ind., and Bowling Green, Ohio. He was Instructor in Mathe- 

 matics in the University of Michigan from 1873 to 1874. Since 1874 

 he has occupied his present position in the chaii' of Mathematics. He 

 is at present the senior member of the University Faculty and was for 

 many years the University Treasurer. He is President of the Society 

 of Civil Engineers of Ohio. 



The work in his department embraces the following subjects : 



y^/gc/>f(i An advanced course. Geometry. Trigonometry — Plane 

 and Spheric id. General Geometry and Calculus. 



Instruction in Civil Engineering is given by actual field practice in 

 Land Surveying, in Laying out Roads and Railroads, and in Leveling. 

 Johnson's Plane Surveying and Henck's Field Book for Engineers 

 are the te.xt books used. The University is siip[)lied with good instru 

 ments for field work. 



A course in Descriptive Grometty is open to those who have had 

 Elementary Algebra, Elementary Mechanical Drawing, and Plane and 

 Spherical Geometry. 



*The department of mathematics, pure and applied, is not now located in 

 I'.arney Memorial Hall, hut occupies several large and commodious rooms in 

 College Hail, which were vacated by the other scientific departments when they 

 moved to tlieir new quarters in Memorial Hall. Tliese rooms were remodeled 

 and filled up especially for llio mathematical department and arc well supplied 

 with tlie best apparatus. 



