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The Tech.VOL, IV. BOSTON, NOV, 5, 1884. No. 2.

THE TECH.Published on alternate Wednesdays, during the school year, by the

students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 1884-5.ALEX. RICE McKIM, '85, Pres. SIDNEY WILLIAMS, '83.W.H. CHADBOURN,JR.,'86,, ec. HOLLON a. SPAULDING, '87.JAS. E. I.IMPSON, '86, Treas. , '88.

EDITORS.THOMAS W. FRY, '85, Editor in Chief.

HAMMOND V. HAYES, '85. WALTHER R. INGALLS, '86.HUGH MAcRAE, '85. BENJAMIN C. LANE, '87.JOHN G. HOWARD, '86. F. MAN., I'ON WAKEFIELD, '87.

THEODORE STEBBINS, Adv. Agt.

Subscription, $2.00 per year in advance. Single copies, 15 cents each.

ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, 24 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.

_ A~- C.I_ N some of our railroad· e t: -- - A papers there has lately·- .'"'~ -: ' been a discussion of aai t :..- .j/... '~'. veryinterestingandim-

- ...l{d1-~. ~"- Do portant branch of engi-neering which has re-cently been brought tothe immediate noticeof educators here andin Europe. A schoolfounded in Vienna forthe education of rail-

road employes in the subjects of particular use-fulness in their profession has completed itsfirst year with great success. The school issupported by the railroads of the immediatevicinity, and the recitations are so timed thatmen engaged in business during the day can at-tend them without inconvenience. The course,quoted from the Railroad Gazette of Oct. I7, isas follows: -

"First Year. - Railroad Technology, TradeGeography, :Political Economy, Book-keeping.

"Second Year. - Railroad Law and History,Theory of Railroad Rates, Statistics of Tradeand Trade Goods, Railroad Administration, Tax

Laws and Procedure, with Electrical Engineer-ing as an extra subject."

At Yale, an extended course of instruction onrailroad subjects is to be given by Mr Arthur T.Hadley, including "Railroads: Their History,their Business Methods, and the Social Problemsconnected with them." The scheme of studiesis far too large to reprint here, but it consists ofa resume' of all that a railroad man could desire toknow with special reference to his employment.

Now there are men graduating every yearfrom the Institute who go, and have all alongintended-to go, into ai iness .;_nduntil now, they have had a great advantage inso doing over most of the young men enteringthe same profession. They have received mostexcellent training as mechanical or civil engi-neers, and so far are on a strong basis; but nowthat these other schools are springing up, nowthat the colleges are beginning to give instruc-tion in what is the especial province of theInstitute, yet in which the Institute fails in agreat degree to give instruction of any kind,we cannot hope any more to compete with theseother institutions in this respect, nor any longerto send our men out thoroughly fitted to copewith those who have received the more distinc-tive training.

There may be a question as to the advisabilityof forming a new course in the Institute for menwho intend to make themselves proficients inrailway business. The need may not be sourgent as that which was recognized when thecourse in electrical engineering was organized,but it has become sufficiently prominent todemand some attention and consideration onthe part of those who have charge of our pro-fessional training. There can be little objectionto admitting into one or more of the existingcourses some of the most important subjects inthe courses at Yale and the Vienna school.

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T is with regret that we have to notice thecontinued want of interest at the Institute in

most of those things in which so much enthusi-asm is shown at our sister colleges. Lack of.time, lack of time, is the ever-recurring pleawhen we ask the students why they do not goto the foot-ball and athletic games, the concertsof the Glee Club, class meetings, and the like.

There was a time when the Institute couldput a victorious foot-ball eleven into the field,when records were broken at our athletic games,and when our tug of-war teams could pull allcomers. Now, the latter is about the only thingwhich can be done here. If the present con-dition of affairs at the Institute had existedwhen it was smaller, there would have beensome excuse on that account; now, that excusehas disappeared. With our exceedingly largeFreshman classes of the past three years, thereought certainly to be material enough from whichto select a successful foot-ball eleven. As a mat-ter of fact, out of the present Freshman class ofover two hundred and fifty, not a half-dozen putin an appearance to try for the team.

As our upper classes will in the future, as inthe past, probably continue to be small in num-bers, it is to the Freshmen that our organizationsmust look for support. As yet we have notheard of any extraordinary assistance that theyhave given to either the Athletic Club, the Foot-ball Association, the Glee Club, or THE TECH.

It is, practically, the same set of men who, eachyear, are the chief support of the whole of thesethings which should be the concern of the wholemass of students. It is to be hoped that we arenot all becoming a set of digs, who have no timefor anything but their studies. We have heardof men who have graduated from the Instituteand not once attended a class meeting duringtheir whole residence here. With the exceptionof the torchlight, it has been our experience thatour class dinners are the only occurrences whichcan evoke real general enthusiasm amongst us.

We know that these matters have been writ-ten about over and over again in almost everycollege paper; but this article is especiallydirected to the Freshmen. Subscribe for THE

TECH; join the Athletic ClubT; if you have anymusical ability, join the Glee Club or the neworchestra which is now forming; if an athlete,go to work in the gymnasium, and help try togive the Institute a better showing at the nextathletic games.

Electrical Engineering.T HIS year there will graduate from the Insti-tute of Technology the first class that has

ever completed the work in the course in elec-trical engineering. Although other scientificschools have already prepared men for this pro-fession, yet the Institute is a pioneer in thisbranch of education. Already the electrical en-gineering department is one of the largest in theschool, and, in spite of the fact that until a yearor two ago no connected work had been done inthis branch of instruction, the arrangement ofstudies has been wonderfully well plannt.d, anddoes great honor to the Faculty, and especially tothe head of the department.

We find everywhere young men who, wishingto gain a practical education, think they can findan opening in the field of electrical work. Thereis something about electricity and its applicationswhich is very attractive. The uncertainty as tothe true nature of electricity is to many minds acharm. A more practical reason for the popu-larity of the electrical department is that therehas been a demand for men in the profession,and, consequently, an apparent lack of competi-tion. This can last but a short time, and a sci-entific and thorough education, such as theInstitute now gives, will soon be essential.

The ignorance of some of the present electri-cal engineers or the superficial nature of theirknowledge is frequently brought to notice; buthenceforth we may expect to see only the ableand well educated hold positions of trust and re-sponsibility. The field is large enough for all whogo into it well prepared, and the experimentalwork especially offers great inducements. Wecannot too strongly urge young men who possessmechanical taste and aptitude to devote them-selves to electrical work, especially to the higherbranches of original and experimental research.

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Doubt.'

I long to goAnd clasp once more the hand that holds my chain,And feel her presence, whose delicious reign

Enthralls me.

I long to stay;For what if Love forget the silence taught,And win but cold contempt ? The thought

Appalls me.

So in uncertainty,Whose dusky cloud my universe doth cover,With drooping wing my soul doth vainly hover

Eternally. L.

Peradventure.

R. JOHN SELWYN sat in his easy-chairat Rivermouth toasting his feet at the

open fire. It was in the latter part of October,and just the delicious hour between light anddarkness, when one, as he grows old, likes to sitbefore the glowing coals and reminisce, if Imay coin an expression. To explain a littlefarther, I had been spehding some time in re-laxation from business cares with my old collegefriend, and we used to delight in this quiet hourbefore dinner Mr. Selwyn was one of thosevigorous elderly gentlemen whose minds seemonly to polish with the friction of the years, andhis conversation was very charming, - like thatof Josiah Quincy, whose contemporary andfriend he was, in fact.

We had just come in from a six miles' walkabout the beautiful shores of the Colonna whereit flows into the broad Atlantic at the base ofHolbachs Tower, where

" We heard the sea-maids on the outer rocksSplash in the falling tide, and dimly sawWhat seemed their tresses, undulating there."

There had been a few minutes' silence, whichmy friend ended by a slight exclamation, andthen began talking: "Rather a startling experi-ence happened to me in this room about fiftyyears ago. As you perhaps know, my fatherbuilt this house with a wooden L and largehalls running to the top after peculiar ideas of

his own about ventilation. As a matter of fact,however, all noises below came up in this waywith great distinctness. One evening I hadbeen out playing chess until quite a late hour,and, on reaching the house here, found it alldark, and, as I'supposed, everybody in bed andasleep. So, entering and shutting the door asquietly as possible, I made my way as best Imight to my room in the third story, and, light-ing the candle, was preparing to retire when apeculiar noise attracted my attention. Thehouse was otherwise perfectly quiet, and, afterlistening attentively, I perceived that the soundscame up through the hallway from the windowson the ground floor, apparently, as if some onewere trying the catches. The noises increased.Doubtless some one was trying to enter thehouse, I thought. So, putting on my coat andtaking down a couple of pistols which I hadbought the winter before in Paris, but had asyet never used, I proceeded cautiously down-stairs. Cautiously, but not from timidity. I amnot easily alarmed, even now, and my nervesthen were as firm as health and confidencecould make them.

"As I neared the lower part of the house, thesounds seemed to centre and proceed from thedining-room, which was formerly this room. Itwas brilliant moonlight, and, as I reached thedoor, there, sure enough, was a man with his bodyhalf in and half out of the farther window, andof course entirely unaware of my presence.I had him so completely at the mercy of mypistol that I indulged in a little indignationbefore shooting him, and said gruffly, 'Whatare you doing there?'

" Oh, is that you, John ?' said the man, turn-ing around. ' I heard these blinds rattling, andthought I would come down and fasten themback; the wind has come around to the east.'

"It was my father!"My feelings can be more easily conceived

than described. To have come so within anace of shooting my own father, to have with-held my fire from the merest chance and whimof over-confidence, was rather a shock, I mustsay. I put up the pistol which had so nearly

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accomplished a tragedy, and, with a rather inco-herent explanation that I didn't know it was he,left the room and went to bed. Narrow escape,wasn't it ?"

I thought it was, decidedly, and so expressedmyself. The story produced that- curious sen-sation within me which will be readily under-stood if I have been at all successful in relatingit here as it was told. The conversationafter that was about the characteristics which'different men exhibit in emergencies, whenJames, the butler, came to announce that din-ner was served; so we went out of the dark-ness into the bright light of the dining-room,and forgot housebreakers in the absorbingduties incident to dining off roast venisoncooked with gravy in a chafing dish.

THADDEUS PELL.

In Clover.

'T WAs ere the mellow autumn moonShone down on happy lovers,

That she and I, one afternoon,.Went seeking four-leafed clovers.

No cloud bedimmed our leafy path,No care our hearts came over,

As, wandering in the aftermath,We looked-for four-leafed clover.

A trick of Cupid's this, they say,To put on one leaf over,

That lucky men may find a kissWith every four-leafed clover.

I fear her blushes did betray,For how could they discover

That I - that we -that summer dayFound- several four leafed clovers?

F. M. W., '87.

Trip of M. I. T. Students to the Mines andMineral Localities of Nova Scotia, July,I884.

'rO()WARD the close of last term arrange-ments were made for a party fr om the Insti-

tute to visit the more prominent mines and

I mineral localities of Nova Scotia, under the di-rection of Prof R. H. Richards. This party,consisting of five students, two assistants, anda gentleman and his wife from Cambridge,began their journey on the last day of June,leaving Boston on the International Line steamer" New Brunswick" The day was pleasant, andwe had a fine sail to Portland, where advantagewas taken of a short stay to stretch our legs onshore. On leaving this port in the evening, wefound more of a swell outside, and before longmany of the ladies had disappeared, and someof the gentlemen did not feel entirely comfort-able. The next morning found us enveloped ina dense fog, which continued during the day,our only guidance being the compass and thefog-whistles. Just before noon we caught aglimpse of the coast, and soon found ourselvesrounding the island of Campobello, which liesoff Eastport Harbor. In shore the fog had lifted,giving us a fair view of the harbor as weentered. A stay of two hours enabled us toappreciate the good dining facilities of thePassamaquaddy House. Here also our partywas increased by the addition of one morestudent. During the remainder of our voyagethe fog was very dense, and, as we entered St.John, we saw nothing of the town till we werealongside of the pier. I think all were heartilyglad to be once more on land. At the RoyalHotel, we enjoyed a warm supper and a goodnight's rest.

Going out upon the street in the evening, wefound the town celebrating the anniversary ofthe union of the Provinces, which occurredseventeen years ago. This celebration corre-sponds very much to ours of the Fourth of July.The next morning we passed through a ratheruninteresting section of country, upon the In-tercolonial Railway. Moncton and Amherstwere the larger places on our route. At thelatter we stopped for dinner, and were theremet by Mr. B. B. Barnhill, a former student ofthe Institute, and at that time superintendent ofthe Joggins Coal Mine.

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over a hard, rough road, we arrived at the Jog-gins Mine, and put up at the only hotel, a truebackwoods hostelry. In order to make the mostof our time, we delayed our supper till afterdark, and descended the cliff, the base of whichis washed by the waters of the Bay of Fundy.Here we found exposed a very fine and interest-ing geological section sixty or more feet in height.The strata have a southerly dip of I5 ° to I8°,and vary in thickness from only a few inchesto three feet. They consist, to a great extent,of. sandstones and grit. This is said to be thebest stone for grindstones found in America,and a large amount is quarried. Interstratifiedwith the sandstone are numerous beds of coal,varying from the thickness of a sheet of paperupwards. There are also several layers of lime-stone, much of it so black and carbonaceousthat it is easily mistaken for some other ma-terial. Fossils, such as leaves of the variouscoal plants, portions of sigillaria, stygmaria,and calamites, are very abundant. Of the lat-ter we obtained a large collection to ship toBoston.

The next morning, Mr. Barnhill took usdown into the mine, and explained the methodsof work; of these I will speak in a laterarticle.

In the afternoon we drove to Parrsboro, adistance of about thirty miles. Most of thecountry through which we passed is coveredwith small wood, and the drive was highly ex-hilarating, owing to the way they make theirwagon springs up there. However, there wasone very interesting feature; for nine mileswe rode along on the top of a ridge from tento twenty feet above the common level of thecountry, and only about wide enough for theroadway. This ridge is locally known as the"Boar's Back." Geologically, it is a fine ex-ample of the kames, which are quite common inthis part of America.

The next day we devoted to hunting for min-erals along the cliffs of Partridge Island. Thisso-called island is a large mass of trap, with pre-cipitous sides rising between one and two hun-dred feet above the sea. The seams and fissures

in this trap are filled with minerals, which arecontinually exposed by the action of atmosphericagencies. Stilbite seemed to be the mostabundant, and we obtained large quantitiesof fine specimens. We also found consider-able chabazite, with some apophyllite, analcite,etc.

The next day, through the courtesy of Supt.Leckie, we visited the Spring Hill Coal Mines,which have shafts in three seams of coal in fineworking order. Though quite rainy, we enjoyedour visit. Mr. Leckie kindly furnished us witha special train.

Sunday being very rainy, we remained in thehouse all day.

Our chief object in visiting Parrsboro hadbeen to cross over to Cape Blomidon, on the op-posite shore. The current here is very strong,and a stiff breeze is necessary in order to cross.During our entire stay, the wind was very light,and we were obliged to give it up. We spentour last day in a sail to Wasson's Bluff and TwoIslands. At the former place we found largequantities of very fine analcite crystals, and atthe lattertanalcite and laumontite. The rockformation at both places is trap similar to Par-tridge Island.

That night we went to Spring Hill Junction,Mr. Leckie again giving us a special train, andthe next day visited the Londonderry limonitemine, walking from the station, a distance oftwo miles, in a pouring rain. The iron occupiesa seam passing directly through a hill, and isworked from both sides directly along the seam,and also by a shaft sunk from the summit. Weinspected the workings by riding in on a car,and then ascended to the summit by the elevator.During the afternoon we visited the foun-dries, and were shown the processes of tappingand charging.

The next morning we drove out to Maitland,a distance of twelve miles, to see the "bore"as it enters the Shubenacadie River. In theappearance of this phenomenon we were con-siderably disappointed. As the tide came upthe river against the current, it at no time rosemore than two feet above the general level of

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the water, and sometimes was almost oblit-erated. By measuring a distance along theshore and taking the time of the passage of the"bore" through this distance, we estimated itsspeed at about eight miles per hour. The sur-face of the river now became very rough andturbulent, and the ferry-boat, in crossing, wastossed about like an egg-shell. The verticalrise of the tide was very rapid, being abouttwenty-six inches in eight minutes. Its en-tire rise is about fifty feet at this point.

The next day we went to New Glasgow, andvisited the Albert Coal Mines, where an ex-tensive explosion took place three years ago,by which some seventy men lost their lives.After the explosion the workings were at onceflooded with water to extinguish the fire. Thiswater has never been pumped out, and, conse-quently, the bodies of the men have never beenrecovered. The old workings having all beenabandoned, the company has sunk slopes andbegun working on new seams.

The next day we visited another coal mine,going up from Stellarton on the company's en-gine. After inspecting the works, we returned,and went to Pictou, where we dined, and spentmost of the afternoon in a delightful sail aroundthe harbor.

WVe returned to Truro for the night, and nextmorning went to the gold mines at Oldham,which we reached by a four-miles' drive from thenearest station. Here we visited several pits,some of which were being worked and othersnot, the manner of working being very desultory-and loose. The miners, after having made alittle "pile," cease to work until that is spentand they want more. This is not conducive tothe best methods of working.

Sunday and Monday we spent at Halifax.Monday morning, in charge of Dr. Honeyman,the local geologist, we visited the glaciated areanear the fort, where are exposed some of thefinest striations known. In the afternoon' Mr.Gilpin, inspector of mines, gave us much infor-mation regarding the mines of Nova Scotia, andkindly showed us over the Province buildings.

The next day we visited the Mt. Uniacke

gold mines, which we reached by an extremelyrough ride of four miles from the station. Thesemines we found in successful operation, andproducing a very rich ore.

Going to Winsor that night, we visited thegypsum quarries there, collected some veryfine selenite, spent some little time the nextmorning looking at the quarries, and then cameby railroad and a nine-mile wagon drive througha very pretty country to Margaretville. Herethe shores along the bay are cliffs of trap, andwe found quantities of laumontite, with someother zeolites. This was our last point of inter-est, and the next morning we turned our faceshomeward, touching at Annapolis, on the wayto St. John, where we went on board the steamerfor Boston.

The Republican Torchlight Procession.

THE final demQnstration in Boston of thePresidential campaign was the Republican

torchlight procession, which took place the nightbefore election. In it the Institute, as has beenits custom, took part. The daily papers havedescribed sufficiently the events of the eveningin general, and it devolves upon THE TECH toadd some account of the affair, considered withspecial reference to friends of the Institute.

The committee, to whom a mass meeting ofstudents had given control, provided uniforms,each consisting of a loose robe of gray cloth,trimmed with cardinal, representing, as nearlyas possible, the Institute colors, a close-fittingbreast-piece, gray, displaying the year of theclass to which its wearer belonged, a mortar-board cap in the same colors, with a white tasselfalling from its brilliant cardinal surface, and atorch; officers were distinguished by swords andan interchange of colors in breastplate and cap.

The regiment, headed by its own drum andfife corps and the Boston Cadet Band, formednear the gymnasium. '85, as Senior class, oc-cupied the place of honor on the right of theline, followed in order by '86, '87 and '88, num-bering, in all, about four hundred.- Marching

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to its place in the column on CommonwealthAvenue, the command was joined by two ba-rouches, containing a number of '84 and '85men. The head of the column started a fewminutes after eight o'clock; the line of marchwas Commonwealth Avenue, north side, to WestChester Park, return south side to Dartmouth,and through Dartmouth, Boylston, Berkeley,Columbus Avenue, Chester Park and Square,Washington, Worcester, Tremont, Eliot, Wash-ington, Hanover, Court and Tremont to ParkStreet.

During the countermarch on CommonwealthAvenue, nothing of note occurred; the greatestinterest was centred at the Brunswick Hotel,where Mr. Blaine reviewed the procession, andit was here that every one endeavored to appearat his best. The Institute companies made somegood wheels from Dartmouth Street to Boylston,and preserved excellent lines while passing inreview, cheering without halting; opposite theRogers Building, however, the crowd had pressedforward so far that the lines were somewhatbroken, though still in good condition. Whilepassing this block, the attractive uniforms andsoldierly appearance of the Institute regimentcalled forth many favorable comments fromstrangers as well as from the friends collectedin and about the Institute buildings. Attentionwas also paid at many places in the line ofmarch by applause, and by the letters M. I. T.,conspicuously displayed. In short, the Insti-tute regiment was generally considered to beone of the best appearing in the procession.Considerable amusement was afforded by thesurgeon, armed with a huge saw, and by thechaplain, whose "prayer-book" contained sev-eral good selections, such as "Papyrographs'ust go." These personages, as well as the resto' the staff, carried colored conductors' lanterns.

Through the South End and business dis-t'ict many residences, stores, and offices werei luminated, and the streets were bright withtn almost continuous display of Bengal lightstnd Roman candles, increased by the glareAf the torches. The route was passed overnainly in column of companies, with no long

halts. About two hours and a quarter were re-quired for the fourteen thousand participantsto pass a given point. At the Tremont Housethe procession was reviewed by G3v Robinson,and from here to Park Street, the sidewalk waslineJ with horsemen. Passing these, the Insti-tute regiment, with constantly decreasing num-bers, continued its march to its place of dismissalin front of the new building, which it reachedabout half past eleven.

Transparencies, in considerable numbers, werecarried by the Institute, their sentiments vary-ing through a wide range. The principal onewas a massive affair, on which appeared the nameof the school, the presidential preferences, ascanvassed, viz., Blaine, 37I; Cleveland, 156;St. John, I8; Butler, I; Belva, I; and the in-scription, -

THE FACULTY

"Who first invented work, and bound the freeAnd holiday-rejoicing spirit down."

Unfortunately, this transparency, at first borneat the head of the regiment, proved too much forone man power, and was relegated to a barouchefarther back. Deprived of this distinguishing fea-ture, the first Institute companies were mistakenfor butchers, bakers, Harvards and Chinamen.

Observers have said that the tendency of theTechs was to over-sedateness. It may be saidthat this tendency was due to the fact that eachone entered the procession with the combinedidea of enjoyment and good appearance, and.all found that enjoyment could be secured with-out the sacrifice of order, and without descend-ing to rough and ungentlemanly actions. Thecheering was not so effective as could have beenwished, owing to the distance between compa-nies, which prevented united action in this mat-ter. Class cheers were, however, heartily given.

The thanks of the school are due PresidentWalker for his hearty co-operation with thecommittee, to the committee itself for val-uable time spent and services rendered, and tothe colonel of the regiment, Charles R. Rich-ards, '85, to whose popularity, energy, and exec-utive ability much of the success of the Insti-tute's share in the procession is due.

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Foot-Ball.S ATURDAY, Oct. i8, the eleven went to

Williamstown, and were defeated by theWilliams eleven. The afternoon was rainy,and the grounds were unfit to play upon. Inthe first inning neither eleven scored. In thesecond, Williams made two touchdowns, fromone of which a goal was kicked.

The score: Williams, ro; Tech, o.On the following Saturday, Harvard played a

return game on the Union grounds. Harvardwon an easy victory, as was expected, but madeno larger score than in the game two weeksprevious, although the Techs presented a muchweaker team than then, five of the men beingsubstitutes. The Techs kicked off, and the ballwas soon rushed to their goal, but Harvardfailed in repeated attempts . for touchdowns.For a while it seemed as though the Techsmight keep the Harvard score down to a lowfigure, but they soon became rattled, and Har-vard rapidly made point after point. In thelatter part of the inning, the Techs rushed theball well down to Harvard's end of the field,and Twombly made an attempt for a goal, butfailed. The second inning was but a repetitionof the first. At the end, the score was, Har-vards, 43; Techs, o. Ladd, Twombly, Pratt,and Fletcher did the best work for the Techs,especially by their good tackling. The teamsuffers a great loss in its captain, P. Winsor,who is obliged to stop playing on account of illhealth.

0r mmt;uaX atilas,(The editors do not hold themselves responsible for opinions

expressed by correspondents. )_. . o . _s.

To THE EDITOR OF THE TECH: Four yearsago, Prof. Howison severed his connection withthe Institute of Technology, and closed a ser-vice which had been of value to every student,a credit to himself, and an honor to the school.Had his departure meant merely a change inthepersonnel of the Faculty, the issue would havelong since been dead; but when we considerProf Howison as a man equal in ability to the

greatest of his coadjutors, and of such a charac-ter that, while teaching subjects distasteful toa large number of his pupils, he retained notonly the respect but the esteem of every-student, we recognize in the event the aboli-tion of logic and philosophy from the curriculumof the school.

In the revolt against the system of the clas-sics, the iconoclastic scientist of to-day rejectseverything that bears the mark of age.

To say that these studies do not directlyproduce dollars, is to deride rhetoric, grammar,history, and other necessities of common edu-cation, as well as botany, zoology, and higherbranches of learning.

To say that the Institute has no time to de-vote to more work, is to beg the question of ahigher grade of entrance.

Repeat the old saw, that logic is intellectualgymnastics, and we will answer that it is onlyby gymnastics that the body is trained andstrengthened systematically and proportionally.

Grant that Aristotle and Plato are dreamersthat have long since passed away, that Des-cartes, Kant, and Hume are theorists who aredead, the fact remains that without their specu-lations modern thought could not exist. Fromtheir pregnant ashes have arisen men like Hux-ley and Darwin, Thompson and Spencer.

The aim of education is not to make encyclo-pedists, but thinkers. It is certainly absurd tograduate from a seat of highest learning menwho have never thought of the infinite in con-tradistinction to the limited, save as the impos-sible numerator or denominator of a ridiculousfraction; who have spent years in the study ofthe attributes of time and space, but think onlyof these concepts as a priori self-existent en-tities.

The Institute may be forgiven for tempori;;-ing in past financial straits; but as it never hasabandoned its motto of doing well what it doesat all, so let it not rest until, in these daysof its prosperity, it replaces what must alwaysbe the foundation of every perfect scheme ofthought.

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The fourth-year miners have been on a num-ber of geological excursions recently with Prof.9~~~~~~~~~~~~

Crosby.The third-year miners have finished their fall

field-work in surveying, of making a contour ofSouth Boston.

At a meeting of the New England CottonManufacturers' Association, held at the Insti-tute, Friday, Oct. 24, Assistant Professor C. H.Fisher read a paper on the influence of varyingconditions of moisture and electricity in the at-mosphere upon the manufacture of cotton.

The Utica Steam Gauge Company, of Utica,N. Y., has presented the Institute (MechanicalEngineering Department) with a steam gaugeand apparatus for testing steam gauges, con-sisting of a standard square inch valve, hydrau-lic pressure piston and connections. The gifthas been placed in the mechanical laboratory, towhich it is a valuable addition. The departmenthas also received a low-water detector, presentedby the Ashcroft Manufacturing Company; thiscompany has kindly loaned one of its combina-tion gauges for the illustration of fourth-yearmechanical lectures.

The architects got to work very soon afterthe term began. The problem of an art museumwas assigned to the Seniors. There are butthree who are taking this series of problems,which, when the course is fully settled, will cor-respond to the work of the regular fourth year.The problem is to be completed as soon as pos-sible, no time being set for it to be handed in,a course justified by the small number of thosewho are ta king the advanced work. The sec-ond-year men are working utip a problem similarto the one which was assigned first last year.It consists of a drawing of a Boston dwelling-house, rendered in color, with details. A sup-plementary problem is to be a sheet of dormersand wrought-iron work from the vicinity. Everymoment when the sun shines is improved bythe sketchers, who must have both problemsdone by Thanksgiving day.

Former Classmates.

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Oakes Ames, with Ames Plow and ShovelCompany, North Easton, Mass.

Harry P. Barr, in Manchester Cotton Mills,Manchester, N. H.

B. F. Copeland, farming at West Dedham.F. H. Cutter, in Electrical Department of the

Boston and Albany Railroad.Lansing 0. Kellogg, at Sheffield Scientific

School, New Haven.T. M. Kellogg, in Boston office of McKim,

Meade & White, architects, of New York.Isaac W. Litchfield, with Metropolitan Tele-

phone Company, New York.Arthur D. bittle, in Rumford Paper Mills, at

Rumford, R. I.W. E. Spaulding, in First National Bank,

Nashua, N. H.

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A. H. Brown, with Thomson-Houston ElectricManufacturing Company, Lynn, Mass.

W. H. Ellis, Ute Creek, Colfax County, NewMexico.

Miss Alice M. Getchell, married to W. H.Kerr, '83, Durham, N. C.

C. C. Pierce, with John Roach & Son, NewYork.

Edward Shove, in office of Granite Mills, FallRiver, Mass.

F. E. Wetherbee, in the Engineer Depart-ment, Boston and Lowell Railroad.

By an unfortunate error, a poem, "I saw,"clipped from the Columbia Spectator, was insertedin the last T-ECH among our general readingmatter, without being credited to the Specator.

The great delay in publishing the first num-ber of THE TECH was due to the trouble of theprinters in procuring the paper upon which it isprinted. While we hope that this delay will notagain occur, still, in consideration of the amountof work required of the editors, we must ask thetolerance of our subscribers if it does happen.

THE TECH.

List of Publications, M. I. T.MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Condensed In-

formation, with reference to the Mass. Institute of Tech-nology. Pph., 8vo, pp. I6. Boston, 1884.

Schedule of the Regular Courses of Study ofthe School of Industrial Science, I884-I885. Pph., 8vo,pp. II.

SOCIETY OF ARTS. Abstract of the Proceedings ofthe Society of Arts for the 2od Year, 1883-84. Pph,8vo, pp. 130. Boston, 1884.

CLASS OF '84 First Annual Directory, June, I834.Pph., 12mo, pp. I. Boston, 1884.

ATKINSON, W. P. (Prof.). On History and the Studyof History. Cloth, I2mo, pp. O107. Roberts Bros., Bos-ton, 1884.

CROSS, CHAS. R. ('70). The Determination, History,and Present Standards of Musical Pitch. Proc. Soc.Arts, M. I. T., i883-84, 107-III.

-Lockwood's Electricity. Review. Science, III.(t884), 729.

Fiske's Electricity. Review. Id., IV. (I884), 19.

GALE, HORACE B. ('83). Experiments on the Efficiencyof Incandescent Electric Lamps. Van Nros/rand's Eng..ag., XXX I. (1884), 57-63.

LYLE, CAPT. D. A., U. S. A. ('84). The Rise, Progressand Methods of the U. S. Life-saving Service. 'roc.Soc. Arts, Al. I. T., i883-84, 56-72.

MINOT, CHAS. SEDGWICK ('72). Researches onGrowth and Death. Proc. Soc. Arts, Af. I. T., I883-84,5.9-56.

Development of the Thyroid and ThymusGlands and the Tongue. Science, III. (1884), 725.

The Organization of an International ScientificAssociation. Id., IV. (1 884), 80.

NICHOLS, W. R. ('69), with L. M. Norton. Labora-tory Experiments in General Chemistry, compiled for theuse of Students of the Mass. Institute of Technology.Pph., 12mo, pp. 58 and viii. Printed, not published.Boston, x884.

NILES, W. H. (Prof.). Report of the MeteorologicalCommittee. Proc. Soc. A4rts, Al. I. T., i883-84, I: 2,

113.

NORTON, L. M. (Certif. '75). See W. R. Nichols,above.

RICHARDS, ELLEN H. ('73). Guides for ScienceTeaching, No. XIII. Boston Society of Natural History.First Lessons on Minerals Pph , 16mo, pp. 50. Bos-ton, 1884.

RUNKLE, J. D. (Prof.). Report on Industrial Educa-tion. Pph., i6mo, pp. 34. Boston [1884].

WVOODBRIDGE, S. H. (Instr.). The Heating and Ven-tilation of the New Building of the Mass. Institute ofTechnology. Proc. Soc. Arts, Ml. I. T., 1883-84, 119-I130.

Noticeable Articles.THE discussion of the burning question of the House

of Lords is carried on in an article by the learned Mr.Freeman, in the Contelmorary for October, entitled"Reform of the House of Lords," and by another inthe Fortnzzgtly for October, entitled 6" The Lords as aSenate," by Percy Greg. Prof. Seeley prints a secondpaper on Goethe in the Contemniorary. Mr. Swinburne,the poet, writes of Charles Reade in the Contemnhorary,and Mr. Courtney of Charles Reade's novels in the Fort-nigh4tly. Lady Verney, in an article in the Contemporaryentitled " The Americans painted by Themselves," givesa very uncomplimentary account of American womankind,for which we have to thank Mr. James and Mr. Howells,and the authors of "Democracy" and "The Bread-winners," who give her the opportunity.

That patriotic and benevolent Irish lady, Miss Char-lotte O'Brien, gives in the Vineteenlh Centuiry, in a paperentitled " The Emigrant in New York," the results of per-sonal observation and experience.

Sir John Lubbock writes in the Contemplorary of "ANational School of Forestry," a subject which will soonhave to receive attention in this country, where we areso wastefully destroying our forests, and drying up therivers that depend on them.

The Atlantic for November has a paper on "CrudeScience in Aryan Cults," which is interesting in connec-tion with the English lessons of the second year, anrd agood paper by Brooks Adams, grandson and great-grand-son of a President, entitled "The Embryo of a Com-monwealth," on the settlement of Massachusetts, whichwill come in very well in connection with the Constitu-tional history lessons of the third year.

The epithet "tough," applied to old Hobbes in the lastnumber, was my own, and not, as printed, a part of thetitle of the article. w. P. A.

In its November number, the first of a new volume,The Century begins several enterprising features, whichare to be continued during the year. The most im-portant of these are a series of papers on the civilwar, by Gens. Grant, Longstreet, McClellan, Beauregard,Rosecrans, Hill, Admiral Porter and others, and a newnovel by W. D. Howells.

The Century will publish, during the coming year, anovel by Henry James, a novelette by Grace Denio Litch-field, and short stories by "Uncle Remus," Frank R.Stockton, H. H. Boyesen, T. A. Janvier, H. H., JulianHawthorne, and other well-known writers. Contributionswill be made by E. V. Smalley, Lieut. Swatka, Prin-cipal Grant, Prof. Langley, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Col.George E. Waring, Jr., E. C. Stedman, Edmund Gosse,George W. Cable, John Burroughs, and others, on allleading subjects that may properly come within theprovince of a monthly magazine.

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" I told you so."Rainy, as usual, election day.Recovered from election night yet ?Did you win or lose on the election ?No more torch-lighting for four years.Why not lay a sidewalk in the rear of the

N. B.?The popular Mr. Bunce, '84, was a recent vis-

itor at the Institute.The Freshman's hands already begin to show

the marks of nitric acid.It is rumored that the Freshmen are about to

subscribe in a body for THE TECH. The rumoris too good to be true.

The unfavorable weather necessitated a post-ponement of the athletic sports, which were tohave taken place Nov. r.

The foot-ball team has been accused of nothaving any sand. They certainly had plenty ofmud at the Williams game.

By accessions, since our schedule was pre-pared, the number of students at the Institutethis year has been increased to 7[2.

Messrs. Barr, Dawes, Fiske, Little, and Spald-ing, of '85, who have left the Institute, returnedto take part in the procession.

AT THE FOOT-BALL GAME. - Ur'chilZ (to coZn-panion): "It's 'I beg you pardon,' they're allthe time saying, and then they hit each other acrack in the head."

One of the best friends of THE TECH in theFaculty displayed his chemical proclivities soearly as to earn for himself, while in college, thenickname of P0 5.

The supply-boy in the assay laboratory evincesgreat solicitude as to whether he serves out tothe students "common salt " or "salt NaCI., --"salt nakle " he calls it.

There is considerable talk about the need ofa co-operative society at the Institute. Whydoes not some energetic spirit take hold andpush the enterprise ?

To the Athletic Club. The national standardof physical measurements, suggested at Phila-delphia, does not refer to personal examinationby gymnasium superintendents.

O/lting is one of the best publications that wereceive. The November number is particularlyinteresting. Subscribers will find it in thebinders on the table in the reading-room.

The advance sheets of the register of studentshas been posted on the bulletin for the correc-tion of errors. It is to be hoped that the cata-logue will be published sooner this year thanlast.

The theatre party, which took place at thevery first of the term, consisting of about twenty-five members of '87, who attended "Nunky,"was such a success that a second would proba-bly "take" well among Institute theatre-goers.

The practical illustration of Mr. Wcodbridge'slectures on heating and ventilating, by visits tobuildings where the different methods are inactual operation, will not begin until the coldweather necessitates the heating of the build-ings.

In the last number of THE TECH we omittedto state that the places of Messrs. Lund andUnderwocd in the Quantitative Laboratory arenow filled by Mr. William B. Lindsey, '8I, andMr. Prescott, formerly of the Freshman Labora-tory.

A traveller asked a railroad station keeper atthe Hoosac Tunnel for a pencil to mark somepackages with. The man, in response, broughtout a big lumber pencil. When asked what itwas made of, he said he wasn't sure, but thoughtit was a graphite of lumbago.

The following instructors, perhaps inspired bythe courage due to numbers, have " gone andgot married" during vacation: Prof. C. P.Otis, Assistant Professors A. E. Burton and S.W. Holman, and Messrs. G. H. Barton, F. W.Clark, and WV. II. Pickering. THE TECH offersits heartiest congratulations.

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Why not have a hare-and-hounds run duringthis fine fall weather ?

We came across the freshest Freshman theother day. When solicited to subscribe forTHE TECH, he declined, on the ground that hecould see it, every issue, in the reading-room,and would then have the money to subscribefor some other paper. Fortunately, the wholeclass is not animated by this spirit, else thefuture of THE TECH would look rather dark.

The Lowell Free Courses of Lectures, whichbegin Nov. io, are as follows: "Analytic Geom-etry," Prof. Runkle; "Structural Geology," Asst.Prof. Crosby; "Chemistry of the Aniline Col-ors," Asst.Prof. Norton; "Plane Trigonometry,"Asst. Prof. Wells; " Phenomena and Laws ofElectricity," Prof. Cross; "Old French," Asst.Prof Luquiens; "Principles and Instruments ofElectrical Measurements," Asst. Prof. Holman;"Fermentation and its Relation to Putrefaction,Digestion and the 'Germ' Theory of Disease,"Asst. Prof. Sedgwick.

NOTICE.-All Freshmen expecting to take thecourse in sub-basement engineering are re-spectfully requested to hand to Mr. J. G. Hadleya report of their doings and whereabouts, as wellas the way they spend their Sundays, in orderthat it may be known whether they are doingtheir duty. All reports of work should be onthe twenty-four-hours-for-thirty-days basis. Forinstance, beginning with Oct. I, they will countthe hours in order until Nov. I, and so on.This method has been tried with success inSouth Africa. The main points to be givenwith exactness are :

Who are you?What are you working at ?What are you working on ?What are you working over ?What are you working under?What are you working through ?How long do you expect it will take you ?What time did you begin ?What do you expect to do day before yester.

day ?Who was your nigger last year?Where did you do it?

The Gu11be ptnvr1d.DURING the week we have to chronicle two

changes in the examination system, at two ofour principal colleges. At Harvard, the per-centage required for promotion has been raisedfrom a general average of forty per cent to -fifty. This new standard will also be requiredto pass off all conditions. The amount requiredto simply pass an examination remains the sameas heretofore.

At Yale, the Faculty have voted that semi-annual examinations shall take the place of an-nuals; that is, that the December examinationsshall be final for the work that they cover, andthe June examinations shall only be on the sec-ond term's work. This is, practically, the sameas what our Sophomores vainly petitioned forlast spring. In that case, we think that the re-jection of .he petition by the Faculty was on thewhole better for the Sophmores, as the ex-amination on the first term's work often helpsthem to pass the examination on the harderwork of- the second term.

The chief reason assigned by the Yale Facultyis the unsatisfactoriness of the examination pa-pers on the studies of the first term.

Bowdoin and Cornell having done away withSaturday recitations, there is no longer anAmerican institution which inflicts this flagi-tious custom. -- x., via Cornell Era. Howabout the Institute? And we don't find thecustom so very flagitious either.

Many of our exchanges make their appearancethis year with new covers. Some are verygaudy, some very artistic and pretty. THETECH will have to look out for its laurels in thematter of covers.

The Cornell Era is one of the best edited pa-pers that comes to our table. Its articles arecertainly rather heavy; but it is not for THETECH to criticise in that direction.

The Williams Argo is as bright and interest-ing as ever. -We always like to read the Argo,when we have time; but an editor at the Institutedoes n't have much time to spare.

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Brown University is hoping to soon have a newgymnasium. - Cornell recently received a giftof $5o,o000o for the endowment of a chair ofMoral Philosophy. - Bowdoin expects to have astrong crew for the next intercollegiate regatta.

The numbers of the Freshman classes at someof the principal colleges, as far as we have beenable to learn from our exchanges, is as follows:--

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHarvard . . .

Cornell . . .

Yale . . . .

Columbia . . .

Lehigh . . .

Princeton . . .

University of WisconsinAmherst . . .

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Lafayette . .

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WilliamsUnion . . .

Rutgers . . .

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rI-'HE wheelmen of the Institute would do wellto assemble and hold a number of runs, be-

fore the cold weather prevents all further ridinguntil next year. A bicycle club, organized sim-ply for sociability in touring, has one conspicu-ous advantage over other societies, namely,the absence of assessments; and there is noth-ing more favorable to the development of thatfriendly feeling so desirable in colleges, than oc-casionally assisting a fellow-student to put him-self and his machine together after a disaster.The roads are generally at their best during thefall, and home work least pressing; while theconstant extension of good roads in the newRoxbury Park offers an inviting field to 'cyclistsfrom the " Hub."

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At theparty :-Slow, is n't it?Very, very.Let's go home?Can't. I 'm the host. -Berkleya;:.

A weather-vain - the leaky umbrella,From the small end of a horn when toss'd

by a bull.

" Forttizafortesjuvat," said the dairyman, ashe disposed of a lot of aged butter at a goodlyprofit.

A BUSINESS VIEW.--Aunty: Do you sayyour prayers in the morning, too, Johnny ?

sohnny (scorlfullv): Of course I don't. Ainy-body can take care of himself in the day time.-Life.

Old F2rmer (to engincer making preliminaysurvey): "You say that this road is going rightthrough my barn? Why, I can never put upwith that; it will take all my time opening andshutting the doors."

Yanitor (to his wife, who has hung the waterpail oni the gasjet) : " Bridget, me darlin', didMr. Levystrauss tell ye to put this pail on thegas ?"

Bridget: "No, Pat; but he was afther sayin'that the gas was laking, shure !" - WashingitonHatchet.

Board-School Visitor (examnining scholar)'-"Where is the north pole?"

"I don't know, sir.""Don't know! Are you not ashamed that

you don't know where the north pole is ?""Why, sir, if Sir John Frahklin and Dr. Kane

and Capts. Vares and Markham couldn't find it,how should I know where it is? " -Ex.

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THE GREAT CONTEST BETWEEN THE GIANTS.

" It is re/orted that t/e FacultyO and students of fie A£. A. T. are not in accord zpon the present politicalIssues." - Boston Herald.

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" WHAT are you in here for ?" asked- the visi-tor at the penitentiary. "'Cause I was put in,"growled the poor prisoner savagely. "Yerdid n't think I came in here 'cause I liked it,did yer ? " - Burlington Hawkee.

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE IN GENERAL CHEMIS-

TRY. -Professor: "I will now treat," etc.Smithe (who has been dozing under the inzfuence

of recent potations, ha/f aroused by the familiarsowtdd): "Good f'r you, ol' boy."

ON A GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION. -Prof (sh/ow-ing Sop)h. a specimen of a rock): " That is a goodspecimen, Mr. ."

Sokph: "Yes, it is nice"Prof.: "You are mist

(gneiss).aken, sir; it is only

granite."Soph. (afterwards repeating to a fiend): " The

Professor showed me a specimen, and I told himthat it was nice, and he said, 'No, it is verygood.' "

According to the Railway Reviezu, an inter-esting experiment has recently, been tried inRussia in regard to using petroleum refuse asfuel in locomotives, apparently with good re-sults. Heretofore, the petroleum has been toocostly for such a purpose; but several recent in-ventions have made its use in certain regionseconomical.

The etymological lectures of Prof. Atkinsonto the second year have had a good effect. Withtheir aid, the class philologist has recently dis-covered the derivation of the word kazoo. Ka-zoos, as is well known, pertain to torchlights,and in ancient mythology all light or fire is con-sidered as emanating from the sun-god, - thesupreme deity of the Persians and other religioussects,- who corresponds to the Greek divinityZeus. Ka being evidently a relic of the agglu-tinative stage of language, we have only to com-pare the roots Zeus and zoos.

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business, to be specially trained in separate classes. Par-ticular oversight of the "Institute class" is held by theJunior Principal, Mr. M. Grant Daniell. In Geography andGrammar, this class is under the charge of Mr. 0. F.

. s I S~~ -?-^~ |Bryatnt, Associate Principal, who has been connected withthe school over twenty years; in Mathematics, it is taughtby Mr. R F. Curtis, head (f the mathematical department;in History and Literature, by Mrs. A. F. Harris, head of the

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THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,E3T0YLSTOLXT STE13ET 2BOSTO' ".

THIS school of industrial science was opened in February, 1865. The first class graduated in 1868.The school is devoted to the teaching of science as applied to the various engineering professions: viz., civil,mechanical, and mining engineering, as well as to architecture, chemistry, and natural history, physics andelectrical engTineering, and mnetallurgy.

Besides the above distinctly professional courses, the Institute offers scientific courses of a less technicalcharacter, designed to give students a preparation for business callings. A four years' course in biology, chem-istry, and physics has been established, as preparatory to the professional study of medicine.

Modern languages are taught so far as is needed for the ready and accurate reading of scientific worksand periodicals, and may be further pursued as a means of general training.

The constitutional and political history of England and the United States, political economy, and inter-national law are taught, in a measure, to the students of all regular courses.

Applicants for admission to the Institute are examined in Engllish grammar, geography, French, arithme-tic, algebra, and geometry. A fuller statement of the requirements for admission will be found in the catalogue,which will be sent without charge on application.

A clear admission paper from any college of recognized character will be accepted as evidence of prepara-tion, in place of an examination.

Graduates of colleges conferring degrees are presumed to have the necessary qualifications for enteringthe third-year class in any of the regular courses of the Institute, and will be so admitted provisionally, on thepresentation of their diplomas.

The feature of instruction which has been most largely developed in the school is laboratory trainingshop-work and field practice, to supplement, to illustrate, and to emphasize the instruction of the recitation andlecture room.

Surveying instruments are provided for field work in civil and topographical engineering. Extensiveshops have been fitted up for the use of both hand and machine tool; and a laboratory of steam engineeringhas been estalWislhed as a part of the instruction in mechlanical engineering. Several steam boilers and steamengines of various types are available for experiments and tests. The department of mining enginecring andmetallurgy has the use of laboratories in which the nmilling and smelting of lead, copper, silver, and other ores,in economic quantities, are regularly perfolmed by the students themselves. The classes in architecture supple-ment the work of the drawingr and designing rooms by the examination of structures completed or in course111) Z~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~c~r(of erection, and by practical experiment in the laboratory of applied mechanics, testing the strength ofmaterials an.! working out problems in construction. The Kidder Chemical Laboratories, just completed, con-tain desks for four hundred and twenty-six students, and aford the best miodJern facilities for the study of general,analytical, and organic chemistry. The Rogers Physical Laboratory has been greatly extended in every depart-ment during( the past year, especially in respect to facilities for instruction and research in electrical science.

On the successful completion of any one of the four-year courses of the Institute, a degree of bachelor ofscience will be conferred. The Institute is also empowered to confer the degree of doctor of science. Specialstudents are allowed to enter special divisions of any of the courses, on giviuM evidence that they are preparedto pursue with advantage the studies selected.

The Institute of Technology, as a recipient of a portion of the United States grant to colleges of agricul-ture and the mechanic arts, gives instruction in military tactics.

The fee for tuition of students taking the full course is $200 a year. Besides this, $25 or $30 are needed forbooks and instruments. There are no separate laboratory fees. Only payment of articles broken is required.

Attached to the Institute are also two special schools: viz., the "School of Mechanic Arts," and the"c Lowell School of Industrial Design." The former gives a training in the use of tools, together with elementarymathematics and drawing. English, French, and geography are also taught in this school. The fees for tuitionare $150 a year. The Lowell School teaches the making of designs for prints, carpets, wall-papers, laces, ging-

rnams, and other woven goods. A weaving department with a variety of looms is connected with this school.No charge for instruction is made.

FRANCIS A. WrALKER, President.

THE TECH.

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CABINETS, $5.00 PER DOZ. CARDS, $3.50 PER

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Terms, including Box, Measurements, Personal and Class Instruction,$8.00 per year; for three months, $5.00.

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