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offered to his attention in detail ; and finally, means will be pro- 

 vided to familiarise him with them, by experience and actual 

 manipulation, as well as by oral teaching. 



It has been accordingly arranged, that the first year of the 

 student's course is to be passed in those studies which are prescribed 

 by the University to Students in Arts of the same standing. This 

 course, you are aware, embraces the elements of geometry, trigo- 

 nometry, and algebra, all of which are necessary to the engineer 

 student as necessary as arithmetic is to the merchant ; and, in add- 

 ing to these the amount of classical knowledge required in the Junior 

 Freshman year, it is conceived that the indirect advantages of even 

 a partial classical education will more than outweigh those which 

 might be derived from the employment of the same time in purely 

 professional study. After the expiration of a year, so employed, 

 the engineer student will commence his professional course, under 

 the teaching of the professors connected with the school, and their 

 assistants. In the first year he is required to attend three courses 

 of lectures. The first of these comprises the branches of mathe- 

 matics which are specially required by the mechanical and con- 

 structive engineer, as logarithms, the applications of trigonometry, 

 and the elements of solid and descriptive geometry. The second 

 course comprehends the principles of mechanical science ; and the 

 third, the elements of chemistry and geology, and the application 

 of these sciences in the arts of construction. The courses prescribed 

 for the second year are more exclusively practical ; and are, first, a 

 course of practical mechanics, including the theory and construction 

 of the steam-engine ; and, secondly, a course on the practice of engi- 

 neering itself. Each of these years of study will close with an 

 examination, to be conducted by the professors connected witli 

 the school ; and at the end of the second, or concluding year, a 

 diploma will be conferred by the University upon those who shall 

 have attended all the prescribed courses, and acquitted themselves 

 with credit at the examinations. 



I must pause here; for here terminate the arrangements, so 

 far as they are at present defined. These arrangements, however, 

 will certainly require and receive a further extension, as they are 

 brought into operation ; and means will doubtless be provided to 

 instruct the student in drawing, both mechanical and constructive, 

 and to render him familiar with the manipulations of the labora- 

 tory, the workshop, and the field. 



