ORGANIC CHEMISTRY is taught by lectures and recitations. 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. Starting out from Methane, the various members of the Methane (mono-carbon) series are derived. When this series has been completed, the Ethane series is taken up and gone through with in the same manner. Then follow the Butane and Propane series, etc. At the end of each series a recapitulation of the typical reactions, and relations of each group is given. The manner of treating the subject is substantially the same as that introduced by Prof. Hofmann of Berlin. 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. 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 wasteproducts 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. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.-In the Junior and Senior years students may elect a course in Analytical Chemistry with Laboratory Practice and Lectures. The experimental studies in this department have proved attractive and profitable to those intending to devote themselves to Law or Medicine, or to business pursuits, as well as to men who intend to teach or to pursue lines of work immediately connected with chemistry and its applications. H During the first term of the Junior year, Blowpipe Analysis is taught. The students, after learning the necessary manipulations of blowing glass, repeat the experiments in Nason's Blowpipe Analysis. When conversant with the various reactions, they proceed to actual analysis, or detection of substances by the blowpipe. Commencing with substances containing a few elements, they are in a short time able to analyze complex compounds. Lectures and recitations are held during the course. The study of Qualitative Analysis is next taken up. Here, in a similar manner, the student learns the reactions, makes the tests, and proceeds rapidly from analysis of simple substances to the more complex. The method here followed of keeping notes of every step affords the student valuable practice in the three divisions of experimental science-Experiment, Observation, and Inference. The theory of analysis is explained in the lectures and recitations on the subject. Quantitative Analysis now follows. The student having learned the means of detecting the constituents of a substance, proceeds to the determination of their amount. Pure salts of known composition are analyzed at first, so that the results may be compared with the theoretical percentages. A sufficient degree of accuracy having been obtained, substances of unknown composition, as minerals, metals, ores, waters, urines, poisons, fertilizers, coals, etc., are analyzed. Having thus become thoroughly acquainted with the theory and practice of analytical chemistry, the student undertakes original experimental investigations in the various branches of pure and applied chemistry. Results obtained in investigations have been from time to time published in the scientific journals. RHETORIC AND METAPHYSICS. ELOCUTION.-During the Freshman year, lectures are delivered on the general principles of Elocution, and a practical application of these principles is made by appropriate exercises in Declamation, in which the members of the class are carefully drilled. In addition to this there are exercises in Oratory by all the students, both in the class-room and in the College Chapel. The Freshman and Sophomore classes speak selected pieces, and the Juniors and Seniors are required to deliver original orations. In the department of Rhetoric, begun during the Freshman year, an effort is made to teach the principles of Composition, not as laid down in mechanical rules, but as springing from psychological laws and relations. Ideas presented in accordance with various mental requirements and influences are shown to contain the true philosophy of rational and effective discourse. And illustrative references to the Masterpieces of Oratory, and to other forms of the best English Classical Literature are freely given. Essays are required throughout the entire course. MENTAL PHILOSOPHY. Porter's Elements of Intellectual Philosophy is employed as a text book during the first term and a part of the second term of the Junior year. The characteristic doctrines of the Distinctive Schools in Ancient and Modern Philosophy are presented in a course of Lectures upon the representative thinkers in these schools. Much attention is paid to the most important Philosophical and Metaphysical questions at issue among living speculators. And the results of recent critical discussions together with comments are interspersed with the daily recitations. The student is urged to become familiar with some of the works of Plato translated by Jowett, of Locke, Berkeley, Reid, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, Hamilton, Coleridge, J. S. Mill, Herbert Spencer; and with the summaries of the systems of Kant, Fichte, Shelling, Hegel, and of others found in Ueberweg's History of Philosophy. LOGIC is taught by a text-book, but special care is taken to enforce a practical application of logical formulas in the resolution of arguments, and the detection of sophistries. To this end illustrative examples are drawn from different authors and much oral instruction is given. HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. The scheme of studies in this department includes an outline sketch of Modern History, beginning with the downfall of the Roman Empire and tracing the formation and growth of modern States; a view of the philosophy of history as given by Guizot; and a study of the leading principles of Political Economy, Constitutional Law (with special reference to the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States) and International Law. Instruction is given by text-books, lectures and conversational discussions. The following, among others, are recommended to students as books of reference: Hallam, and Stubbs, on the English Constitution; the Federalist, Story, Kent, Jameson, Curtis, and Von Holst, on the Constitution of the United States; Kent, Woolsey, Wheaton and Phillimore, on International Law; Adam Smith (Roger's edition), Mill, Fawcett, Cairnes, and Carey, on Political Economy. These studies begin in the Sophomore year, and are continued during portions of the two following years. |