COURSE V.-CIVIL ENGINEERING

This course is intended to prepare young men for entrance upon professional practice in some of the many branches of civil engineering, and also to meet the needs of those who, having been engaged in engineering work without a course of instruction, desire to equip themselves for more successful competition with those who have had such instruction.

In connection with the technical studies, liberal training is given in English, history, economics, pure mathematics and the physical sciences. The course will also be found to embrace the same amount of drawing, shop work, mechanical engineering and mechanical laboratory practice as the other engineering course.

The distinctive work pursued by students in this course includes the study of land surveying and plotting, topographic surveying and mapping; location, construction, and maintenance of roads, railroads, streets, and pavements; strength of building materials, masonry construction, foundations on land and in water; analytic and graphic investigations of stresses in girders, roofs, and bridges, and the design of these structures; the principles of hydraulics as applied to dams, reservoirs, canals, municipal water works, and the development of water power.

For fuller details, see descriptions of instruction in these subjects.

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COURSE VI.-TEXTILE INDUSTRY

This department was established primarily to direct young men in their study of the textile fibers, to teach their manipulation, and the after processes of manufacture required by the trade.

The principles underlying the art of manufacture are taught by lecture, text-book, and experiment; skill is acquired by intimate contact with the machinery equipment, which consists of various types of machines designed by the prominent builders of cotton machinery in this country.

The aim has been to arrange a course in which the student will be allowed the opportunity of acquiring a good general education along with this special training in textiles. For this reason, in order to allow time to be devoted to culture studies, and to instruction in the general principles of the sciences involved in manufacture, the course does not follow special lines closely until the junior year.

During the junior and senior years, in which more time is devoted to textile subjects, the student is brought face to face with facts and conditions, from the proper observation and study of which he may obtain information and experience that would take him years to acquire in the mills.

This course does not presume to fit one for the active management of a mill immediately upon graduation, but is intended to give the student a broad foundation on which to specialize, and the graduate is in possession of such information, and has acquired such experience and knowledge in handling raw materials and manufacturing machinery as, if supplemented by energy, application, and tact, will soon place him among leading cotton manufacturers.

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second term.

Special Courses

Besides students in the usual undergraduate courses, there may be farmers and others of mature age, including graduates of other instituions, who desire to avail themselves of the special privileges offered by the College. To such persons the opportunity is offered, under the advice of the director of the department in which work is contemplated, to pursue special lines of study or investigation in any of the subjects taught in the College, provided attention can be given to them without detriment to the regular classes. Such special students will be admitted after they have satisfied the director of the department that they are qualified to pursue the work with profit.

Special students are excused from military duty, but are subject to the general regulations of the College requiring good conduct and diligent prosecution of the course selected. They are not admitted to barracks, but rooms and board may be secured in the community at reasonable rates. They will be required to pay the usual fees, except the price of the uniform and board in barracks.

Special Course in Electrical Engineering

Students desiring to take a special course in electrical engineering should remember that no one can hope to become an electrical engineer who has not the necessary foundations in mechanical engineering, to which electrical engineering is a superstructure. Two-thirds of an electrical engineer's training must be mechanical. No special classes will be formed, and students desiring to enter the junior class will be expected to be prepared on elementary mechanical drawing, physics and chemistry, and on mathematics, through plane trigonometry. They will be expected to take with the junior class, in addition to their electrical studies, physics, mechanics, mathematics, mechanical drawing and machine shop work. Without these additional branches the student will not be prepared for the more strictly engineering work of the senior year.

To enter the senior class, a student must be proficient in the work of the junior year, in which physics and calculus are completed.

In addition to the electrical subjects prescribed for the