will be drawn on the scale of two inches to the mile, and will include the geology of the country for a radius of twenty miles from the University. COURSE IN GEOLOGY. I. GENERAL GEOLOGY. Fall, winter and spring terms; five hours per week; forty hours field work and a Required of seniors. thesis. II. weeks. MINERALOGY. Five hours per week for twelve Elective III. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. Five hours per week for twelve weeks; twenty-four hours field work. for seniors. IV. PALEONTOLOGICAL GEOLOGY. Five hours per week for twelve weeks. Elective for juniors and seniors. FIELD WORK AND THESIS. Five hours per week for twelve weeks; sixty hours in field work. V. tive for seniors. Elec Text and reference books used: Dana, Geikie, Kemp, Le Conte, Williams, Tarr, and Nicholson. HISTORY. As the aim of this department is to create a taste for historical reading, the course has been arranged so that a student may take some subject of history each year. The courses taught are as follows: I. UNITED STATES. Barnes' United States history; Fiske's civil government. Lectures; essays. Required of sub-preparatory students. [The Board of Trustees having abolished the subpreparatory class, this course will not be given in the future.] II. ENGLAND. Montgomery's history of England. General outline taught by text-book; lectures and essays. Required of freshmen. III. GENERAL HISTORY. Myer's general history and various reference works. Required of freshmen. IV. FRANCE. Montgomery's French history, supplemented by general reading and lectures. Required of sophomores. V. and Schwill. MIDDLE AGES. Emerton; Church; Thacher Lectures; essays. Elective for sophomores. VI. HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION. Adams; Guizot; and various books of reference. Elective for juniors. VII. SPECIAL PERIOD. Seminary study of some epoch, such as the reformation or the rise of Prussia. Elective for seniors. VIII. PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. Taught entirely by lectures and quizzes. Many books of reference are used. Required of seniors. ENGLISH. At the opening of the fall term the English department was relieved of its sub-preparatory course, and its work was enlarged and strengthened. During the past year one hundred and thirty students have received instruction in this work. The following courses have been given: I. Lockwood's lessons; English classics. Selections from the following authors were read: Irving, Longfellow, Whittier, Hawthorne, Holmes, Lowell, and Bryant. Required of preparatory students. II. Essays upon the following works and the authors represented Shakespeare's As You Like It; DeFoe's History of the Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveler; Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales; Longfellow's Evangeline; Eliot's Silas Marner. Required of freshmen. III. Pancoast's history of English literature. Six representative writers; early English. Required of juniors. IV. Genung's rhetoric and rhetorical analysis; English drama and Shakespeare; English lyric and English prose; American literature. Required of seniors. V. Whitney's life and growth of language; AngloSaxon; middle English. Elective for seniors. RHETORICALS. As The work in elocution and oratory is of a practical character. The aim is to give students such training as shall best prepare them for the duties of citizenship. far as possible the instructor gives each student personal attention, that the respective needs may be learned, and that such instruction may be imparted as shall be productive of the best results. This work is done through literary divisions and through the special oratorical drill of the senior year. One hundred and twenty-two students have during the past year received practice through frequent exercises in the delivery of original composition or of selections from standard authors. MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS. The total number of students admitted to the military department for the year is as follows: Winter term, thirty-three (33.) Spring term, thirty-six (36.) Fall term, forty-nine (49.) Average for three terms, thirty-nine (39.) It will be seen that the numbers are increasing. As a rule these students have reported for instruction. four times per week. The equipment and instruction is the same as reported heretofore. MATHEMATICS. The following courses are taught: Fundamental opera I. ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA. tions, factoring, fractions, simple equations, involution, evolution, radicals, surds, quadratic equations, simultaneous equations above the first degree, and theory of indices. Required of freshmen. II. PLANE GEOMETRY. Including the general properties of regular polygons. Great stress is placed upon the solving of original problems. Required of sopho mores. III. SOLID GEOMETRY. Required of juniors. IV. ADVANCED ALGEBRA. Functions and their notations, series and the theory of limits, general theory of equations, imaginary quantities, and the theory of elimination by determinants. Required of freshmen. V. PLANE TRIGONOMETRY. The development of the general formulae, and their application to the solution of triangles, polygons and original field problems. Required of juniors. VI. ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY. The analytical geometry of the straight line, circle, and conic sections, including a discussion of the general equation of the second degree, and some special examples in higher loci. Required of mechanical juniors. VII. DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS. Development of the fundamental principles and formulae of the differential calculus; derivatives of higher orders, successive derivatives, development in series, maxima and minima of functions. Required of mechanical juniors. VIII. INTEGRAL CALCULUS. Elementary forms of integration, double integral, triple and multiple integrals, lengths of curves, areas, volumes, etc. Required of mechanical juniors. IX. SURVEYING. Chain surveying, compass and transit surveying, declination of the needle, laying out and dividing land, plane table surveying, the survey of the public lands, city surveying, mine surveying, and the judicial functions of the surveyor. Required of mechanical sophomores. X. ANALYTICAL MECHANICS. Required MECHANICS OF MATERIALS. | of The chief aims of the department of physics are to assist students in acquiring a thorough and practical knowledge of physical phenomena through work performed in the laboratory, and to aid them in becoming skilled in laboratory methods. The courses have been somewhat modified from those presented last year, and two additional electives are offered, one in Electrostatics and the other in Electrodynamics. In all courses laboratory work of a quantitative |