1. CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION. Every applicant for admission must be at least sixteen years of age, and must submit to the President proper testimonials of a good moral character. If an applicant for a State Scholarship, he must also present to the President a certificate of appointment from the County Superintendent. Examinations for admission will be held on the same days as for the Classical Department, viz.: On the Monday and Tuesday preceding Commencement, June 16th and 17th, 1890, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M. on Monday, in the President's office. Applicants for admission may also be examined on Tuesday, September 16th, at the same hour and place; but all students who can conveniently do so, are advised to be present in June. From certain preparatory schools of established reputation students are admitted without examination, upon the Principal's certificate that they have completed the required amount of work and are prepared to enter College. Blanks for such certificates will be furnished upon application to the Librarian, Mr. IRVING S. UPSON, or to the President of the College. Students may enter an advanced class either at the beginning of the College year or at other times, on condition that they sustain a satisfactory examination both on the preliminary studies and on those already passed over by the class which they propose to enter. Provision is made for such students as wish to devote themselves to special subjects, if they are prepared to study profitably with the regular classes in those subjects; but special students are required to take sufficient work fully to occupy their entire time. The following are the subjects in which those who wish to enter the Freshman Class of the Scientific Department are examined. Since all are such as can be acquired in our best common schools, it is insisted that the preparation in them shall be thorough and complete. The general regulations as to conditions and their removal will be the same as those which apply to the classical course, and may be found on page 18. 1. ARITHMETIC.-Fundamental Operations; Common and Decimal Fractions; Denominate Numbers, including the Metric System; Percentage, including Interest and Discount; Proportion; Square and Cube Root. 2. ALGEBRA through Arithmetic, Geometric, and Harmonic Progressions, or the first seventeen chapters of Bowser's College Algebra. 3. PLANE GEOMETRY.-The whole of Plane Geometry will be required. 4. ENGLISH GRAMMAR-including Spelling. 5. DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY. 6. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 7. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.-Johnston's History of the United States, or its equivalent. Students often lack thorough or recent preparation in this subject. A more accurate knowledge of American History has become necessary as preliminary to the systematic instruction now given on the duties and relations of American citizenship. 8. Such a knowledge of Elementary PHYSICS and CHEMISTRY as may be obtained from Peck's Ganot's Physics, or Wells's Natural Philosophy, and Valentine's Twenty Lessons in Chemistry, or Cooley's or Steele's Chemistry, is required for admission. 9. A short ENGLISH ESSAY is also required, to be written at the examination, on some theme drawn from books announced in advance; the essay to be correct in spelling, punctuation, division into paragraphs, grammar and expression. In June and September, 1890, the themes will be drawn from these books, which all students who apply for admission then should have read carefully Kingsley's Westward Ho!; Shakespeare's Macbeth; Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Longfellow's Miles Standish. In 1891, students should be familiar with Tennyson's Enoch Arden; Shakespeare's Tempest; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Wordsworth's Happy Warrior. In preparing the student for this course, it is recommended that he be drilled thoroughly in Arithmetic, as a clear understanding of its simple elementary and practical principles is essential to a good Mathematician. His preparation in Algebra should be very thorough. In addition to understanding the PRINCIPLES of the science, he must fix them in his memory, and learn their bearing and utility, and for this reason he should pay great attention to the solution of practical examples. What is needed is ability to solve ordinary examples with facility and to explain them thoroughly. Attention is specially called to the solution of Simultaneous Quadratic Equations, and of Equations of Higher Degrees than the Second, which may be reduced to the quadratic form, and then solved by the methods of solving quadratics. 2. COURSE OF STUDY. Three distinct courses of study are included in the schedule which follows: I. A COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS. II. A COURSE IN CHEMISTRY AND AGRICULTURE. III. A COURSE IN ELECTRICITY. IV. A SPECIAL COURSE IN AGRICULTURE. During the first year the studies of the two full courses are the same, and are designed to furnish a suitable introduction to the pursuit of the higher branches in either. ENGINEERING COURSE. During the last three years, the students in this course are instructed in Railroad Curves, Descriptive Geometry, Analytic Geometry, Differential and Integral Calculus, Analytic Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Bridge-Building and Geodesy; and have daily practice in Draughting, with Exercises and Problems in Geometrical Constructions, in Descriptive Geometry, Topographical, Mechanical and Architectural Drawing, and in Graphical Statics. Students in this course, and in the Chemical and Agricultural Course, in addition to the special and technical studies of their course, pursue such studies in English, Rhetoric, Elocution, French or German, Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, the Duties of Citizenship and the Natural Sciences as are calculated to make them broadly educated and intelligent citizens, and not mere narrow specialists. The course of study for the first year in this department is arranged so as to be complete in itself. It is especially designed to meet the wants of those who cannot take the entire four years' course, but who desire to fit themselves for Land Surveying. Students leaving at this period of the course, receive from the Faculty a certificate of their attainments. CHEMICAL AND AGRICULTURAL COURSE. During the last three years, the students in this course are instructed in General, Experimental, Theoretical, Organic and Applied Chemistry, Stoichiometry, Theory and Practice of Agriculture, Determinative Mineralogy, Blowpipe Analysis, Analytical Chemistry, including the Analysis of Ores, Minerals, Coals, Waters, Technological Products, Soils, Fertilizers, Agricultural Products and Foods, Poisons, Urine and Animal Products, and the Preparation of Pure Chemical Substances. Instruction is also given in Spectrum Analysis, and Microscopical Examination. The course of study depends, to some extent, upon the student's future pursuit in life. EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY is taught in the recitation-room by carefully conducted quizes and full work in the Laboratory. The student's first and general knowledge of chemistry is obtained by his own observation. BLOWPIPE ANALYSIS comprises the study of the various reactions and the analysis of a number of substances. The laboratory work is accompanied with constant quizzing in the recitation-room. General Chemistry, see page 33. STOICHIOMETRY, the mathematics of chemistry, is taught by lecture, recitation, and blackboard drill. During the course, a large number of problems are given for solution, special attention being paid to those occurring in technical work. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY is taught by lectures, recitations, and laboratory work. Beginning with the determination of the molecular weight of organic compounds, the student is led to examine the principles of substitution, valence and structure of organic compounds. As the various substances are considered, their relations to vegetable and animal life and to agriculture are pointed out. Attention is also given to their practical applications, as in food, medicines, dyeing, and in manufactures generally. The lectures are accompanied by full experimental illustrations. PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY is made the subject of lectures and class-room work. The chemical processes of animal and plant life are fully explained. APPLIED CHEMISTRY.-The applications of Chemistry to the arts and manufactures are taught by lectures and text-book. Whenever it is practicable, the actual products are exhibited to the students, and the manufacturing processes reproduced in miniature. Attention is drawn to the scientific relations and connections between the various manufactures. The great losses by imperfect methods of manufacture and by waste products are pointed out, and the student is taught to see the true economy of production. Illustrative of the lectures, visits are made to various manufacturing establishments, of which there are a number in and about New Brunswick, and an opportunity is given to see manufacturing operations in actual working. Principles and Theories of Chemistry are discussed and explained in a course of lectures to the Senior Class. A certain amount of the history of chemistry is also considered. COURSE IN ELECTRICITY. During the Freshman and Sophomore years, the studies are the same as those of the Chemical course. In the Junior and Senior years, mechanical drill and laboratory work in Physics are substituted for advanced work in Chemistry, and for Draughting. This preparation for ordinary mechanical emergencies, enables graduates to take such positions as do not demand the full mathematical equipment of a professional electrical engineer. And those who intend to pursue Electrical Engineering after graduation, are furnished with the necessary practical basis. Manual skill and preference for mechanical work are prime requisites in all electrical pursuits, |