TABLE 41.--Technical, professional, and special courses of study maintained by universities and colleges for men and for both sexes-Continued. [NOTE.-X indicates that the courses are offered by the several institutions.] TABLE 41.-Technical, professional, and special courses of study maintained by universities and colleges for men and for both sexes-Continued. [NOTE.-X indicates that the courses are offered by the several institutions.] TABLE 42.-Technical and special courses of study maintained by schools of technology. 1 Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College Colorado Agricultural College Colorado School of Mines Storrs (Conn.) Agricultural College.. Delaware College for Colored Students. Georgia School of Technology. Armour Institute of Technology. Purdue University. Rose Polytechnic Institute.. Iowa Agricultural College Kansas Agricultural College University of Maine Maryland Agricultural College Massachusetts Agricultural College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute Michigan Agricultural College.. Michigan College of Mines.. 2 3 Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts X New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts Stevens Institute of Technology. New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic New Mexico School of Mines Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial School of Technology Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituto North Carolina College of Agriculture and Me chanic Arts North Dakota Agricultural College Case School of Applied Science Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.. Oregon Agricultural College Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts... Clemson Agricultural College. South Dakota Agricultural College South Dakota School of Mines. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Utah Agricultural College Norwich University... Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Washington Agricultural College.. X X CHAPTER XXXVII. AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGES.1 CHANGES IN THE COURSE OR IN THE METHODS OF INSTRUCTION (FROM PRESIDENTS' REPORTS). Alabama Polytechnic Institute.-In the junior year students are permitted to elect any one of the following degree courses of study: Chemistry and agriculture, mechanical and civil engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering, or general course, including the Latin, French, and German languages, and pharmacy. Arkansas Industrial University.-Mineralogy has been grouped with geology, and the two made a separate department with a full professor. Civil and electrical engineering have each been made independent departments. The legislature has made appropriations for enlarging the equipment in mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering, and horticulture; also for the equipment and maintenance of a department of art, to be conducted with special reference to instruction in the practical branches of art as applied to the useful industries. Colorado State Agricultural College.-During the year covered by this report (1896-97) all the regular courses of instruction have been strengthened by the addition of another year's work. The change was found necessary in order the better to prepare students for the technical and scientific courses, for which the college makes provision. The scholastic standing of a graduate of the college at the present time is almost midway between that of a graduate of one of our best high schools and that of a graduate of one of our best universities. It is the purpose of the college management to maintain this standard. Efforts will be put forth to improve our methods of instruction and to make more efficient than ever before the literary, scientific, and technical work already provided for. Of course it must be understood that in fixing the standard of the college its work is widely differentiated from that both of the high school and the university. Delaware College.-The system of departmental libraries referred to in a former report has been maintained and a large well-lighted reading room established. The reading room contains a valuable collection of journals and periodicals and reference books upon the subjects of history, political and economic science, English language and literature, and science proper. These additional facilities, together with the increase in teaching force gained by a redistribution of work, have greatly enlarged our instruction in English and economics. Special attention has been given to the winter course of thirteen weeks in agriculture, with gratifying results. University of Idaho.-A ten weeks' course of instruction in dairying and another of ten weeks in domestic science have been added. University of Illinois.-A school of law has been established and a school of library economy. Purdue University.-We have greatly enlarged our courses in railway engineering. The number of students has increased, but it is our settled policy to use our efforts in the line of improving the quality of our work rather than in the line of increasing our attendance. More attention has been and will be paid to post-graduate work. It is worthy of note that we have enrolled 50 post-graduate students during the present year. Beginning with the next school year the degrees of bachelor of civil, of electrical, and of mechanical engineering will be abolished and we shall substitute in their places bachelor of science in civil engineering, etc. Iowa State College for agriculture and the mechanic arts.-An entire year has been added to the courses of study, excepting those of agriculture and veterinary medicine. 1 Compiled by Mr. Wellford Addis, specialist for obtaining and collating information regarding colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts. |