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Principles of Mechanism — Recitations from text-book and solutions 

 of problems in drawing room. 



Analysis of Structures, Graphical and Analytical — Open to those 

 who have had the mathematics of the Sophomore year and Mechanics. 



Strength and Resistance of Material — ( )pen to those who have had 

 Analysis of Structures. 



The work in Astronomy is at present in charge of this department. 

 The subject as presented in Young's General Astronomy, supplement- 

 ed by lectures, is offered. Moreover it is hoped that the depart- 

 ment of Astronomy may soon be put upon an independent basis and 

 furnished with a well etjuipped observatory. 



It is to be hoped, also, that the department of mechanical en- 

 gineering will be put upon an equal footing with the other scientific de- 

 partments, by the appointment of a professor and the equipment of the 

 necessary laboratories. The trustees have already shown an interest in 

 the development of this work which is receiving so much attention and 

 for which there is a real and growing demand among the students. 

 Their efforts in this direction will certainly be appreciated by the pa- 

 trons of the school and all those interested in the teaching of science in 

 Denison University. 



Alfred Dodge Cole, A.M., Henry Chisholm Professor of 

 Chemistry and Physics, was born at Rutland, Vermont, December i8, 

 i86f. He received his early education in the grammar and high 

 schools of Beverly, Mass. He entered Brown University in 1880. In 

 1883 he received the Howell Premium " for highest grades in Mathe- 

 matics and Physics," and was also appointed to the Oratio Latina at 

 Junior Exhibition, and the first Junior elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 

 He graduated from Brown as valedictorian of his class, with the A.B. 

 degree, in 1884. After spending one year in post-graduate study at 

 Johns Hopkins University, he took charge of the work in chemistry 

 and physics at Denison University, \vhich position he still occupies. 

 He was a member of the building committee of Barney Memorial Sci- 

 ence Hall, appointed by the trustees, and as he was constantly on the 

 ground the great burden of inspecting the details of construction fell 

 to his hands. This work he discharged with very great credit to him- 

 self and profit to the University. 



