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 INTERMEDIATE STATEMENT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 
 
 OF 
 
 IOWA, 
 
 MADE FOR 1876. 
 
 'ING THE Y 
 
 )IAE BETWEEN THE BIENNIAL 
 
 SESSION* OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
 
 AMES, K; 
 ^RICULTUBALCptLEOE STEAM PRINT. 
 
INTERMEDIATE STATEMENT 
 
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 
 
 IOWA, 
 
 MADE FOR 1876. 
 
 BEING THE YEAR INTERMEDIAE BETWEEN THE BIENNIAL 
 
 SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE. 
 
 AMES, IOWA : 
 
 AGBICUI/TUBAX COLLEGE STEAM PRINT. 
 1876. 
 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 Hon. SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD Iowa City. 
 
 WILLIAM B. TREDWAY Sioux City. 
 
 BUEL SHERMAN Fredericksburg. 
 
 C. C. WARDEN Ottumwa. 
 
 Hon. LAUREL SUMMERS Le Claire. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD, Chairman. 
 E. W. STANTON, Secretary. 
 WILLIAM D. LUCAS, Treasurer. 
 Gen. J. L. GEDDES, Deputy Treasurer. 
 
 STANDING COMMITTEES. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 
 
 KIRKWOOD, WARDEN and SUMMERS. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON FARM, STOCK AND HORTICULTURE, 
 
 SHERMAN and TREDWAY. 
 
BOARD OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 A. S. WELCH, LL. D., President, 
 Professor of Psychology and Political Economy. 
 
 GEN. J. L. GEDDES, 
 
 Professor of Military Tactics and Engineering. 
 
 W. H. WYNN, A. M., 
 Professor of English Literature. 
 
 C. E. BESSEY, M. S., 
 Professor of Botany, Zoology and Entomology. 
 
 A. THOMSON, C. E., 
 Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Supt. of Workshop. 
 
 F. E. L. BEAL, B. S, 
 
 Professor of Civil Engineering. 
 
 T. E. POPE, A. M., 
 
 Professor of Chemistry. 
 
 *G. E. MORROW, LL. B., 
 
 Professor of Practical Agriculture. 
 
 *H. H. McAFEE, 
 
 Professor of Horticulture and Forestry. 
 
 M. STALKER, B. S., 
 Professor of Agriculture and Veterinary Science. 
 
 J. K. MACOMBEE, B. S., 
 
 Assistant Professor of Physics. 
 
 ♦During 187G. 
 
E. W. STANTON, B. S., 
 
 Assistant Professor of Mathematics. 
 
 MARGARET P. McDONALD, Matron, 
 Instructor in English Literature and French. 
 
 J. S. LEE, B. S., 
 Assistant Professor of Chemistry. 
 
 MARY L. BARNES, 
 
 Teacher of Music. 
 
 Mrs. M. B.WELCH, 
 Teacher of Composition, and Lecturer on Domestic Economy. 
 
 Mrs. A. THOMSON, 
 
 Housekeeper. 
 
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION. 
 
 No student of either sex can be legally admitted under the age 
 of sixteen. No student will be admitted for less than a term, 
 and none will be permitted to leave before its close, except on 
 account of ill health or other serious reasons not foreseen at the 
 time of entering. 
 
 Applicants must be residents of the State and able to pass a ' 
 satisfactory examination in Heading, Spelling, Writing, Arith- 
 metic, Geography, and English Grammar. They are required to 
 understand the simpler processes of Algebra. 
 
 At their late meeting the Trustees decided that a sub-Fresh- 
 man class should be organized at the opening of the next 
 College year, (March, 1877), and that such students as desired to 
 prepare for the College courses should receive instruction in 
 Grammar, Arithmetic, Physiology, and the elements of Algebra. 
 This privilege is granted for the purpose of giving more thor- 
 ough preparation for College classes. Such students will be 
 furnished with rooms in the building if not needed for the 
 College students. 
 
 Candidates may make direct application by letter to the 
 President of the College. By law three are admitted from each 
 county; but should any county fail to apply, the deficiency may 
 be made up from other counties. 
 
 EXPENSES. 
 
 Students pay actual cost for board, fires, lights, laundry, 
 damages to college property when caused by themselves, care, 
 lighting, warming, and general repairs of the college building 
 and furniture, and such other incidental expenses as specially 
 belong to them as a body. Students pay nothing for tuition 
 nor for the general expenses of the College. Damages to 
 college property will be charged to the person damaging the 
 same when known, but if fts author is undiscovered it will be 
 assessed upon the section where it occurs, or upon the whole 
 school. Students supply themselves with pillows and other bed- 
 ding, with towels, and with carpets Lf they desire them. They 
 
supply themselves also with ticks, which can be filled with straw 
 after their arrival. The rates of charges are as follows : 
 
 Board, per week .$2.65 
 
 Fires and lights, per week 47 
 
 Incidental expenses, per week '. 25 
 
 Laundry, average per dozen, about?. 60 
 
 Room rent, average per term 3.00 
 
 As the boarding department of the College is self sustaining, 
 receiving no aid from the State, depending entirely upon receipts 
 from students to pay expenses, there can be no free admission to 
 its tables. Students or other persons bringing friends are re- 
 quired, therefore, to pay at the rate of twenty-five cents per meal 
 for each such friend before admission to the dining hall. 
 
 The conduct of students in the dining hall, during meals, is 
 under the supervision of one of the professors, and is required to 
 be in harmony with the strictest propriety. 
 
 The provisions purchased for the boarding department are of 
 the very best quality that can be procured in the market, the aim 
 being to furnish well cooked, substantial and nutritious food. 
 
 Students not boarding in the building will, by order of the 
 Board, be charged a Janitor's fee of $5.00 per term. 
 
 DEPOSIT. 
 
 Accepted candidates will deposit fifteen dollars each, with the 
 Treasurer, as a security for the payment of their bills, and have 
 their names entered upon his books ; after which they are consid- 
 ered members of the College, and are entitled to all its privileges. 
 
 MONTHLY SETTLEMENT. 
 
 Students will settle all bills for each month at the cashier's 
 office, on the second Saturday of the month following, the origi- 
 nal deposit being retained till final settlement. The necessity 
 for prompt settlement is imperative, and any student who neg- 
 lects this duty, except for reasons satisfactory to the President, 
 may be dismissed by him for such neglect. 
 
 CARE OF MONEY AND VALUABLES. 
 
 Students may, if they desire, deposit money and other valua- 
 bles with the Treasurer for safe keeping. "While the College 
 authorities will do all in their power to recover lost articles, and 
 to prevent and punish theft, the College cannot be responsible for 
 such losses or thefts from the persons or rooms of students. 
 
SPECIMEN EXAMINATIONS. 
 
 Below are given specimen examinations. It will be under- 
 stood that they are only specimens, and not the actual ones 
 which will be given to the applicant. Seventy-five per cent, of 
 the questions must be answered in order that the candidate be 
 received. 
 
 GRAMMAR. 
 
 1. Name and define the parts of speech in the following 
 sentence: 
 
 " Maud Muller on a summer's day 
 Raked the meadows sweet with hay." 
 
 2. Parse " had gone " and " came," in the sentence " Mary had 
 gone before her mother came." 
 
 3. Analyze the following sentence: 
 
 "His house was known to all the vagrant train ; 
 
 He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; 
 The long remembered beggar was his guest, 
 
 Whose beard, descending, swept his aged breast." 
 
 ARITHMETIC. 
 
 1. Divide 320,000,421 by 320, 
 
 2. Get the greatest common divisor of 7,030, 1,900 and 7,410. 
 
 3. Reduce ^~^ 2 to its simplest form. 
 
 4. Divide .00045 by .0000009. 
 
 5. Multiply 3,145 by .0004. 
 
 6. Divide 3 miles, 10 ft., 9 inches, by 10. 
 
 7. Get the bank discount on $720.34 for 1 year and 27 days, at 
 
 9% P er cen t- 
 
 8. If ten horses eat 180 bushels of oats in GO days, how long 
 will 240 bushels last 30 horses? 
 
 9. Get the square root of 81,039 to three decimal places. 
 10. Get the cube root of 65 to three decimal places. 
 
 ALGEBRA. 
 
 1. From 3 a^bc—21 a&d subtract 5 a 2 bc— 24 ab 2 c. 
 
 2. Divide -3a-* by a?. 
 
 3. Divide a^—fcc by a— b. 
 
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 4. Kesolve «i6— &16 into five factors. 
 
 5. Find the greatest common divisor of Sx^-{-4x3— Qa$— 12a? 
 -5 and 3a£-6a?4— 18a?3-f I2a?2-f 39a?-|-18. 
 
 GEOGRAPHY. 
 
 1. Bound New York, Alabama, Michigan, and Texas, and 
 name their capitals and chief cities. 
 
 2. On a voyage by water from Duluth to New York City, 
 through what waters would you pass, near what States, and 
 what important cities would you pass ? 
 
 3. How would you go by water from Chicago to St. Petersburg ? 
 
 4. Name the important seas, countries and cities of Europe 
 and Asia. 
 
 5. Name the most important rivers of South America, and 
 give their positions. 
 
 6. On a voyage from Portland to Vancouver's Island, 
 through what waters would you pass ; what capes and large 
 cities would you go near? 
 
 
 SPELLING, 
 
 
 Intelligent, 
 
 Courageous, 
 
 Ketina, 
 
 Panegyric, 
 
 Efficient, 
 
 Traveler, 
 
 Evanescent, 
 
 Embrasure, 
 
 Literally, 
 
 Actuate, 
 
 Whipped, 
 
 Satirical, 
 
 Especially, 
 
 Until, 
 
 Dactyl, 
 
 Occurred, 
 
 Separate, 
 
 Operate, 
 
 Courtesy, 
 
 Panoply, 
 
 Ambulance. 
 
GOVERNMENT AND CODE. 
 
 The system of government under which the institution is 
 conducted, has grown out of its organization and the purposes 
 it is designed to accomplish. The addition of manual labor to 
 the various courses, makes perfect regularity and promptness 
 indispensable on the part of every student. Young men and 
 women are earnestly advised not to apply for admission to the 
 college, unless they can cheerfully submit to wholesome regu- 
 lations. 
 
 The following well considered rules, if obeyed, give the insti- 
 tution the highest efficiency, and secure for the student the largest 
 possible return for time and expense. 
 
 SYNOPSIS OF THE COLLEGE CODE. 
 
 STUDY, RECITATION AND LABOR. 
 
 1. The hours from seven to ten o'clock on week-day evenings, 
 and from 7:15 a.m. to 12 m., and 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p. m., of all 
 week-days except Saturday, are devoted to study, recitation and 
 labor. 
 
 2. Students shall attend promptly all exercises of classes to 
 which they belong. The recitation for an excused absence from 
 class shall be made up within two weeks from such absence, 
 
 3. Examinations shall be conducted in writing, when possible, 
 upon questions proposed by the instructors of the various 
 classes, and no special examinations will be granted except in 
 cases of sickness or unavoidable absence. 
 
 4. No student shall graduate from this college who has not 
 passed an examination and obtained a standing of three (four 
 being perfect) on each of the studies of the course in which he 
 proposes to graduate. Studies which are pursued for a part of a 
 term, or a part of the time during any term, shall be counted 
 proportionately to such part. 
 
 6. All students who labor are detailed by the President, and 
 work an average of two hours and one-half each day, for five days 
 in the week. 
 
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 COLLEGE SOCIETIES. 
 
 The President or Faculty must in all cases be consulted by 
 the students, before organizing any literary, scientific, or other 
 society. The members of such duly organized society may meet 
 for improvement, during the study hours of such evenings as 
 may be designated by the President or Faculty. Their meetings 
 may, if necessary, hold till 10 p. m., and in such cases the retiring 
 bell shall be rung at 10 :30 p. m. ; but in no case shall attendance 
 upon the meeting of any society be construed to excuse students 
 from a strict observance of study hours after adjournment. 
 
 THE SABBATH, AND WORSHIP. 
 
 1. Students shall duly observe the Sabbath by maintaining a 
 proper degree of quiet and order in and about the college. 
 
 2. Students will assemble in the Chapel once in each day for 
 prayers, and on every Sabbath afternoon for public worship. 
 
 INSPECTION. 
 
 On each week-day morning, at inspection hour, students shall 
 have their rooms open and ready for inspection, and upon Satur- 
 day morning, at least one occupant, or some representative, shall 
 be present at such inspection. 
 
 EXCUSES. 
 
 1. When students have been absent from any exercise, they 
 shall in person, as soon as possible, present their reasons for such 
 absence, to the President. 
 
 OBSERVANCE OF BY-LAWS. 
 
 2. Students shall strictly observe the by-laws pertaining to 
 any of the departments of the College. 
 
 PROHIBITORY LAWS. 
 
 1. Students may not leave the vicinity of the College building 
 at any time without permission from the President. General 
 permission to be absent on Saturday, is given by the President. 
 
 2. Loud talking, whistling, scuffling, gathering in halls and 
 staircases, and boisterous and noisy conduct, are at all times 
 forbidden. 
 
 3. During study hours, when not engaged in work or recita- 
 tions, students may not leave their rooms except for unavoidable 
 reasons approved by the presiding officer of the section. 
 
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 4. At ten o'clock p. m., lights shall be extinguished, and from 
 this time to the rising bell no student may be out of his room, 
 except for unavoidable reasons, nor shall he in any way disturb 
 his neighbors. 
 
 5. Students may not abstract or remove any article, whether 
 clothing, food, furniture, tools, fruit, or any other property 
 belonging to the College. 
 
 6. Card playing, and other games of chance, cooking, and the 
 use of tobacco and intoxicating beverages, are strictly forbidden 
 in any of the College buildings. 
 
 STUDENT GOVERNMENT. 
 
 1. At the beginning of each term, there shall be elected from 
 each section, one Councilman, one Captain, and one Lieutenant, 
 and such election shall be valid upon approval by the President, 
 provided, that no student who is a lawbreaker shall be eligible 
 to such offices. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of each Captain, or, in the Captain's 
 absence, of the Lieutenant, to preserve order in his section, ac- 
 cording to law, and to report all violations of law to the Council- 
 man of his section, who shall present the same to the Council 
 at its next meeting. The Captains and Lieutenants will meet 
 once each week with the President of the College, for informal 
 report as to the condition of the government in their sections, 
 and to consult as to the. best means of securing harmony and 
 efficiency of action. 
 
 3. The Council shall organize by choosing a president and a 
 secretary from its own members, whose duties shall be the ordi- 
 nary duties of such officers in deliberative assemblies. The 
 Council shall hold regular meetings each week for the purpose of 
 trying such offenses, and only such, as are reported. 
 
 4. In all trials, the President of the Council shall preside as 
 Judge, and he shall appoint one member thereof to conduct the 
 prosecution. The accused shall be present during his trial. He 
 may have a member of the Council appointed as his attorney, 
 and he shall have the privilege of cross-questioning witnesses in 
 person or by his attorney. 
 
 5. In any trial, the testimony of the officer reporting the 
 offense, that of all other competent witnesses, and admissions 
 made by the accused, shall be received in evidence. 
 
 6. The verdict, and the number of demerits, shall each be 
 
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 given by vote, in which the President shall have only the casting 
 vote, and no member shall be debarred from voting on account 
 of giving evidence in the case. 
 
 7. It shall be the duty of the Council to report its proceedings 
 to the Faculty, weekly, for approval. 
 
 8. When a student officer has been reported to the Council for 
 any misdemeanor, the Council shall, without trial, refer the case 
 to the Faculty. 
 
 9. "Whenever it shall appear that the members of any section 
 are not able to maintain good order, and the disorder shall not 
 seem curable by other and milder means, the President of the 
 College may vacate the rooms in such section. 
 
 10. When the demerits of any student reach five in number, 
 he will be warned by the Secretary of the Faculty ; when his 
 demerits reach ten, the Secretary will again w r arn him, and advise 
 his friends of such action, w r ith the reasons therefor; for fifteen 
 demerits he shall be requested to withdraw from the College. 
 
 11. The Faculty reserve the right to try or rehear all cases of 
 disorder, disobedience or immorality, when circumstances de- 
 mand it. 
 
 12. The Faculty reserve the right to expunge the demerit 
 marks of any student upon his subsequent blameless conduct. 
 
MANUAL LABOR 
 
 The following rules, regulating manual labor, were established 
 by the Trustees, at their Spring meeting, 1876, and have been in 
 successful operation during the last college year. 
 
 1. The manual labor required by law, of students in the 
 College, is divided into two kinds, viz: uninstructive labor, 
 which shall be compensated by the payment of wages; and 
 instructive labor, which shall be compensated by the instruction 
 given and the skill acquired. 
 
 2. Uninstructive labor shall comprise all the operations in 
 the workshop, garden, dining room, upon the farm, and else- 
 where, in which the work done accrues to the benefit of the 
 College and not to the student; instructive labor shall embrace 
 all those operations in the workshop, museum, laboratory, dining 
 room, upon the farm, and elsewhere, in which the sole purpose of 
 the student is the acquisition of skill and practice. 
 
 3. Members of the Freshman class shall engage in uninstruc- 
 tive labor 12% hours each week of the term, at the rate of from 
 4 to 9 cents per hour. 
 
 4. The members of the higher classes shall engage in instruc- 
 tive labor in the presence and under the instruction of the 
 Professor in charge, and the amount and time of such labor 
 shall be determined by the Industrial Committee. 
 
 5. Special details shall be given, on application, to the most 
 faithful and meritorious students of the higher classes, at the 
 rate of pay for uninstructive labor. 
 
 6. Students of the higher classes may, at their option, engage 
 in uninstructive labor, for not less than one month, at the same 
 rate and under the same conditions as the Freshman class. 
 
 7. Students capable of acting efficiently as foremen, on ap- 
 pointment to such duty by the Industrial Committee, may 
 receive increased pay, not exceeding 14 cents per hour. 
 
 8. Students, whose promptness, punctuality, efficiency and 
 good conduct shall be found of a high character, may be recom- 
 mended by the Professor in charge, at the close of each month, 
 to the Industrial Committee for pay, during the past month, at 
 the rate of ten cents per hour. 
 
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 9. The Industrial Committee shall be composed of the super- 
 intendents of the industrial' departments, viz: the Professor of 
 Practical Agriculture, the Superintendent of the farm, the Pro- 
 fessor of Horticulture and Forestry, the Professor of Mechanics, 
 the Steward, the Preceptress, and the Superintendent of the 
 dining room and kitchen. The President of the College shall be 
 chairman. This committee shall have power to try all offenses 
 of students while engaged in labor, and to vote demerit marks 
 for the same, the student having the privilege of appeal to the 
 Judiciary Committee. 
 
COURSES OF STUDY. 
 
 AGRICULTURAL COURSE. 
 
 FRESHMAN YEAR. 
 
 First Term. Second Term. 
 
 Algebra. Geometry. 
 
 Book-keeping. Physiology. 
 
 Analysis of English Language. Elements of Criticism. 
 
 Rhetoric. Agriculture. 
 
 Free-hand Drawing. Free-hand Drawing. 
 
 Elocution; English Composi- Elocution ; English Composi- 
 tion, tion. 
 
 French or Latin. (Optional to French or Latin. [Optional.) 
 proficients in Analysis). 
 
 SOPHOMORE YEAR, 
 
 First Term. Second Term. 
 
 Plane Trigonometry and Sur- Inorganic Chemistry : Qualita- 
 
 veying. tive Analysis. 
 
 General Chemistry. Botany. 
 
 Botany. Zoology; Entomology. 
 
 Physics. Agriculture : History, races, 
 
 breeding and management of 
 domestic animals. 
 Physics. 
 
 JUNIOR YEAR. 
 
 First Term. Second Term. 
 
 Organic Chemistry, and Quan- Agriculture: Farm engineering 
 titative Analysis. and architecture ; draining ; 
 
 Botany. road making; water supply; 
 
 Physics. plans for farm buildings. 
 
 Horticulture: Propagation of Agricultural Chemistry: Analy- 
 plants, seedlings, grapes and sis of soils, etc. 
 fruits; fruit culture; forestry. Comparative Anatomy and 
 
 Physiology. 
 Physics : Meteorology. 
 Elocution: Reading of Shaks- 
 
 peare. 
 Landscape Gardening. 
 Addresses in Chapel. 
 
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 SENIOR YK A 11. 
 
 First Term. 
 Psychology. 
 Geology. 
 
 Agricultural Chemistry. 
 Veterinary Science. 
 Addresses in Chapel. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Political Economy. 
 Constitutional History and Law. 
 Science of. Language. 
 Veterinary Science and Practice. 
 Laboratory work: Food analysis. 
 
 COURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. 
 
 FRESHMAN YEAR. 
 
 Identical with the course in Agriculture. 
 
 SOPHOMORE YEAR. 
 
 First Term. Second Term. 
 
 Identical with the course in Analytical Geometry. 
 Agriculture. Descriptive Geometry, Church. 
 
 Inorganic Chemistry: Qualita- 
 tive Analysis. 
 Physics. 
 
 JUNIOR YEAR, 
 
 First Term. 
 
 Differential and Integral Cal- 
 culus, Buckingham. 
 
 Shades, Shadows and Perspec- 
 tive, Church. 
 
 Physics. 
 
 Theoretical Mechanics, Peck. 
 
 Second Term. 
 
 Exercises in Mechanical Draw- 
 ing, Warren. 
 
 Applied Mechanics: Strength of 
 Materials, Wood. 
 
 Physics: Meteorology. 
 
 French. 
 
 Addresses in Chapel. * 
 
 SENIOR YEAR. 
 
 First Term. 
 Psychology. 
 Geology. {Optional.) 
 Principles of Mechanism. 
 Machine Drawing. 
 French. 
 Addresses in Chapel. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Political Economy. 
 Constitutional History and Law. 
 Theory of Motors, Rankine. 
 Designs, Details, and Estimates 
 for Machinery. 
 
 COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. 
 
 For the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Years, the course 
 is identical with the course in Mechanical Engineering. 
 
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 SENIOE S : 
 First Term. Second Term. 
 
 Psychology. Political Economy. 
 
 Geology. {Optional) Constitutional History and Law. 
 
 Civil Engineering: Materials Civil Engineering: Combined 
 
 and structures. structures. 
 
 Field practice: Surveys for Designs and detailed drawings 
 
 railways and other works, for Bridges and other Civil 
 
 with maps and plans in de- Constructions. 
 
 tail for their construction. 
 French. 
 Addresses in Chapel. 
 
 COUKSE IJST GENERAL SCIENCE FOR LADIES. 
 
 For the Freshman year the course is identical with the course 
 in Agriculture. 
 
 First Term. 
 General Chemistry. 
 Botany. 
 
 English Literature. 
 Physics. 
 
 Plane Trigonometry. (Option 
 al.) 
 
 SOPHOMORE YEAR, 
 
 Second Term. 
 Inorganic Chemistry : 
 
 tive Analysis. 
 Botany. 
 
 Zoology : Entomology. 
 Physics. 
 
 Qualita- 
 
 First Term. 
 Organic Chemistry. 
 Botany. 
 
 Domestic Economy. 
 Physics. 
 
 First Term. 
 Psychology. 
 Geology. 
 French. 
 
 Addresses in Chapel. 
 
 JUNIOK YEAE. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Comparative Anatomy and 
 
 Physiology. 
 Physics : Meteorology. 
 French. 
 
 Domestic Economy. 
 Domestic Chemistry. 
 Landscape Gardening. 
 Elocution : Reading Shakspeare. 
 Addresses in Chapel. 
 
 SENIOR YEAR. 
 
 Second Term. 
 Political Economy. 
 Constitutional History and Law 
 Science of Language. 
 
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 NORMAL COURSE. 
 
 The course of lectures for the Normal Department includes 
 the following subjects : Organization and Government of Schools ; 
 Methods of Teaching; Primary Instruction; Natural order of 
 studies corresponding- to the order of evolution of the intellectual 
 powers; Mental Philosophy as applied to the work of the school 
 room; Rigid review of the common branches. 
 
 The above course of lectures will be given during the last 
 month of the College year. 
 
 SPECIAL COURSES. 
 
 For the purpose of enabling students of the Junior and Senior 
 classes to attain a high degree of proficiency^ in any special 
 branch of industrial science or art, the Faculty permit a choice 
 of some single study and the omission of others as given below. 
 It is understood that the student will devote double the usual 
 time to the study so chosen. 
 
 The special student in Chemistry may omit, in Junior year, 
 first term, Botany or Physics ; second term, Comparative Anat- 
 omy or Physics : Senior year, first term, Geology and Veterinary 
 Science ; second term, Veterinary Science and Practice. 
 
 The special student in Botany may omit, in Junior year, first 
 term, Chemistry or Physics ; second term, Chemistry, Physics, or 
 Comparative Anatomy: Senior year, first term, Geology or 
 Veterinary Science ; second term, Veterinary Science and Practice. 
 
 The special student in Physics may omit, in Junior year, first 
 term, Chemistry or Botany ; second term, Chemistry or Compar- 
 ative Anatomy : Senior year, first term, Geology, or Veterinary 
 Science and Agricultural Chemistry ; second term, Veterinary 
 Science and Practice, 
 
 The special student in Agriculture may omit, in Junior 
 year, first term, Horticulture and Physics; second term, Physics 
 
 The special student in Horticulture may omit, in Junior 
 year, first term, Physics; second term, Agriculture and Physics. 
 
 The special student in Geology may omit, in Senior year, first 
 term, Veterinary Science and Agricultural Chemistry; second 
 term, Veterinary Science and Practice. 
 
 The special student in Veterinary Science may omit, in 
 Junior year, first term, Botany or Chemistry; second term, Agri- 
 cultural Chemistry or Physics. 
 
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 The special student in Mechanics may omit, in Junior year, 
 first term, Physics; second term, Physics: Senior year, first 
 term, Geology and French. 
 
 The special student in Civil Engineering may omit, in Senior 
 year, first term, Geology or French. 
 
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 • Tri-weekly. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 
 
 f Semi-weekly. On Tuesdays and Thursdays. 
 
 JThe Freshman class is divided into lour divisions, A, 13, C,D. 
 Whereof: On Monday A and 13 have Free-hand Drawing, C 
 Elocution, 1) English Composition. 
 
 On Tuesday A has Elocution, B English Composition, G and 
 
 I Free-hand Drawing. 
 
 On Wednesdays the whole class has Military Drill. 
 
 On Thursdays A and 13 have Free-hand Drawing, C English 
 Composition, D Elocution. 
 
 On Friday A has English Composition, T3 Elocution, C and D 
 Free-hand Drawing. 
 
 On Tuesdays the Sophomores have Military Drill from 10 to 11 . 
 
 On Thursdays the Juniors " " " "9 to 10. 
 
 On Mondays the Seniors " " " " 9 to 10. 
 
 § The Sophomore class is so arranged that during the Spring 
 Term each student spends two afternoons per week in the Chem- 
 ical Laboratory, and one afternoon per week in the field Sur- 
 veying, throughout the term. 
 
 TT The Sophomore class is so arranged during the Fall Term 
 that each student spends three afternoons per w r eek in the Chem- 
 ical Laboratory. 
 
 In place of Trigonometry and Surveying the ladies have 
 English Literature at the same hour. 
 
 Other special studies in the Ladies' course will have the time 
 for their recitation arranged when the classes are formed. 
 
 The hours for lessons and practice in Music are arranged pri- 
 vately by the teacher with each pupil. 
 
DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
 
 The aim of this department is to add skill in the various actual 
 operations of the farm, to a complete understanding of those 
 operations, and a thorough knowledge of the principles which 
 underlie them, to impart a thoroughly scientific knowledge of 
 the entiology, pathology and treatment of the various diseases to 
 which our domestic animals are subject. 
 
 The preliminary studies are pursued in the departments of 
 Mathematics, Chemistry,- Botany, Zoology, and Physiology, and 
 upon the perfect mastery of these, depends largely the student's 
 success in the later and more comprehensive study of these sub- 
 jects. 
 
 The theoretical study of Agriculture proper, occupies two 
 years and is divided at present between President Welch, 
 Professors Stalker and Bessey and the Professor of Horticulture. 
 
 Instruction in Agricultural Chemistry and analysis of soils, is 
 given by the Professor of Chemistry during the Junior and 
 Senior years. Instruction in the management of the domestic 
 animals, rotation of crops, use of manures, raising of crops etc. 
 is given by Professor Stalker. Lectures on the formation of soils 
 and kindred topics, are given by the Professor of Geology. 
 
 FRESHMAN YEAR. 
 
 During the second term of this year, Professor Stalker gives 
 two lectures per week on the history of Agriculture and the 
 most approved method of farming in our own State. 
 
 SOPHOMORE YEAR. 
 
 The history, races, breeding and management of domestic 
 animals. President Welch lectures upon cattle during the sec- 
 ond term, and Professor Stalker upon horses and swine. 
 
 JUNIOR YEAR. 
 
 First Term. — Propagation of plants, seedlings, grapes, and 
 fruits, orcharding, fruit culture and forestry. 
 
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 The Professor of Horticulture gives lectures upon all these 
 topics. 
 
 Second Term.— Farm engineering and architecture, embracing 
 drawing, road making, water supply, farm machinery, plans for 
 farm houses, etc. AVeekly practice is given the class in survey- 
 ing and leveling. 
 
 SENIOR YEAH. 
 
 First Term.— Professor Stalker gives three lectures per week 
 on Veterinary Anatomy, including osteology, myology, digestive 
 apparatus, the circulatory and nervous systems, etc. All these 
 lectures are fully illustrated by skeletons and carefully prepared 
 specimens of the various organs. 
 
 Second Term,— Professor Stalker gives three lectures per week 
 on pathology, the cause and treatment of diseases of domestic 
 animals and the action and uses of medicines in veterinary prac- 
 tice. The class will have the advantage of a clinic once each 
 week. 
 
 The above lectures are given either in class-room, field or 
 stable as the subject requires. The practical operations in agri- 
 culture are fully illustrated in the management of the large farm 
 attached to the College upon which a course of mixed hus- 
 bandry is pursued under the superintendence of Professor 
 Stalker. In addition, the orchards, nurseries, vineyards, and 
 small fruit gardens are under the immediate charge of the Pro- 
 fessor of Horticulture. This gentleman employs students to 
 do the work in his department and trains them in all the 
 operations connected therewith. The College Farm has great 
 variety of soil, necessitating a varied culture. For its cultiva- 
 tion it has all the more approved farm machinery, and for the 
 purpose of illustration it is stocked with many of the more 
 important breeds of cattle, sheep, swine and fowls. 
 
 HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 
 
 This department embraces the instruction and practice in culi- 
 nary horticulture, floriculture, pomology, and forestry, and com- 
 prises class-room exercises and field lectures in the presence of the 
 objects to be studied, together with daily practice in all the man- 
 ipulations of 'the work of the gardens, nurseries, orchards, for- 
 
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 estry plantations, flower borders, hedges and ornamental grounds. 
 The instruction is imparted principally by lectures, and the 
 
 topics are considered in the following order: First, general horti- 
 culture, embracing physics of the soil, plant development and 
 nutrition, and external influences upon plants; second, technical 
 horticulture,* embracing descriptions and studies of implements, 
 processes, and plants and their products. 
 
 The teaching is supplemented, as far as may be, by practice 
 on all the operations and details of the work which is always in 
 progress while the College is in session ; and principles and facts 
 are fixed in the mind by the use of visible objects of study 
 always accessible to the student. 
 
 The means of practical illustration at the command of the 
 department are as follows: 
 
 The vegetable gardens, planted in all descriptions of culinary 
 crops. 
 
 The nurseries, planted with such stock as will best illustrate 
 our work. 
 
 The orchards, planted with seventy varieties of apples, four- 
 teen varieties of pears, five varieties of cherries, and three vari- 
 eties of plums. 
 
 The small fruit plantations, planted with the hardiest and best 
 varieties of grapes, raspberries, currants, strawberries, etc. 
 
 The forestry plantations, planted with such trees as are best 
 adapted to climate and location. 
 
 The ornamental grounds, planted with one hundred and fifteen 
 varieties of trees and shrubs. 
 
 The flower gardens, upon which a large variety of hardy flow- 
 ering shrubs and plants are grown. 
 
 In addition, collections are in hand, or being made, as follows: 
 
 A set of facsimile casts of the fruits of Iowa, native and 
 introduced. 
 
 A set of the native woods of Iowa, with their leaves and fruits. 
 
 A set of sections of the cultivated w r oods of Iow r a, to show the 
 rate of growth under culture. 
 
 A set of insects injurious to objects of culture in this depart- 
 ment. 
 
 A set of insects and animals beneficial in horticulture, by 
 being predatory upon destructive insects. 
 
 A set of abnormal and of diseased growths. 
 
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 CHEMISTRY. 
 
 FACILITI is. 
 
 For an earnest student, one desirous of obtaining a practical 
 and available knowledge of Chemistry, this College certainly 
 affords superior advantages. The laboratories are well supplied 
 with the advances of recent years, giving to each student the 
 benefits of a table, gas, water, and chemical apparatus for his 
 exclusive use. There are one hundred of these tables, made of 
 black walnut, at which all the experiments of agricultural and 
 inorganic chemistry may be performed, also benches covered 
 with tiles, where organic work may be done. ISTo expense has 
 been spared to fit these laboratories up and add such new appa- 
 ratus as the advances in Chemistry demand. Particular advan- 
 tages are offered to those students who wish to make chemistry 
 a special study, also for our own graduates and those of other 
 colleges to take an advanced course. 
 
 SOPHOMORE YEAR. 
 
 First Term. — General Inorganic Chemistry. Recitation three 
 times and Laboratory practice twice each week. The topics 
 discussed in the text books and lectures, are illustrated by 
 experiments in the Laboratory, which the student is required to 
 perform. 
 
 Second Term. — General Inorganic Chemistry and Qualitative 
 Analysis. The recitations comprise a careful review of the pre- 
 vious term's work. The laboratory practice (three afternoons in 
 the week) embraces a thorough course in Qualitative Analysis. 
 Roth the simple and complex substances, which the student is 
 tematically taught to analyze, well fit him for future useful- 
 in tli is important branch of the science. 
 
 JUNIOR YEAH. 
 
 / Term— Quantitative Analysis. Recitations three times 
 a week. Laboratory practice daily. With good facilities the 
 are taught to analyze coal, water, manures, fertilizers 
 etc. The ladies' course embraces the detection of adulterations 
 in food, value of soap, analysis of water, etc., thus bringing 
 Chemistry in i every day life and particularly into household 
 affairs. 
 
 ■id Term.— Quantitative Analysis. Organic Chemistry. 
 
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 Recitations and laboratory practice each twice a week. Organic 
 Chemistry is taught by text book and lectures. The student 
 now takes up food analyses, (the fat and muscle producers), and 
 begins to apply his chemistry directly to the farm and its 
 products. Different kinds of soil and their relations to plants, 
 now are studied and fit the student for the studies in the Senior 
 year. The ladies' course includes the study of Domestic Chemis- 
 try, taught once a w r eek by lectures, affording instruction in such 
 subjects as the chemistry of cooking, in all its branches, ventila- 
 tion, diet in sick room, remedies for poisons and cases of emer- 
 gency, etc. 
 
 SENIOR YEAR. 
 
 First Term.— Agricultural Chimestry, taught by lectures twice 
 a week. The student now studies the chemistry of the soil ; the 
 enriching of it when deficient in any element, by manuring; the 
 chemistry of the plant and the influence of the weather on it, 
 and the use to the animal in fattening and producing muscle. 
 
 Second Term. — Quantitative Analysis of Food. In this term 
 the student works in conjunction with experiments tried on the 
 farm ; finds by analysis how much of the food is assimilated by 
 the animal, how much w r asted; how crops vary in their chemical 
 constituents when grown on different soils and climates, and 
 thus deduce which crops are best fitted for our own soil. 
 
 PHYSICS. 
 
 Physics is studied through the Sophomore and Junior years. 
 During the first term, the Sophomores study the mechanics of 
 solids, liquids and gases. The subjects of Light and Sound 
 are considered during the second term, while Heat occupies the 
 Junior class for the first half of the year. Electricity, magnet- 
 ism and Meteorology complete the course during the second 
 term of the Junior year. A physical cabinet, which has cost 
 about .$5,000, furnishes excellent facilities for illustrating the 
 principles of Physics, and the new Physical Laboratory, with its 
 well ordered lecture room, affords all the conveniences for mak- 
 ing this study profitable. 
 
 SPECIAL COURSE IN PHYSICS. 
 
 This course occupies the Senior year. During the first term 
 the student is taught the methods of physical investigation. 
 
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 Jevons' Principles of Science is read, with laboratory practice 
 twice each week. Astronomy is taught during the second term, 
 and the student is required to solve practical problems in Physics. 
 Laboratory practice twice each week. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF J3IOLOGY. 
 
 Instruction in Biology extends through two and a half College 
 years, beginning with the second term of the Freshman year. 
 It includes Human Physiology, Botany, General Zoology, Ento- 
 mology and Comparative Anatomy. 
 
 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. 
 
 The Freshmen of all the courses are required to attend three 
 recitations or lectures per week on Human Physiology, during 
 the second term of the college year. Each student familiarizes 
 himself with the form and position of the bones of the human 
 body by a direct examination of the skeleton. The compound 
 microscope is used frequently for showing the more important 
 objects which are too minute for the naked eye. The object of 
 this study in this place in the College curriculum, is to give to 
 the student, as early as possible, such a knowledge of the struc- 
 ture of his own body as will enable him to take reasonable care 
 of it during the trying work of his College course. The text-book 
 used is Hutchinson's ''Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene," 
 and every student is recommended to provide himself also with 
 Mivart's "Lessons in Elementary Anatomy," as a book of refer- 
 ence. 
 
 BOTANY. 
 
 During the first term of the Sophomore year, students of all 
 the courses have three recitations or lectures, and three hours of 
 laboratory practice each week in Elementary Botany. The general 
 structure and the external conformation of plants are taken up by 
 the student, and he is further reqi ired to familiarize himself 
 with these, by making careful analyses of at ^east twenty plants, 
 recording his observations and submitting them to the professor 
 for examination. He also prepares and i lassifies fifty herbarium 
 specimens, which are submitted at the end of the term, for 
 examination and correction. For this work each student sup- 
 
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 plies himself with a good hand lens, dissecting needles, forceps, a 
 note book, etc. The text-book used is Gray's "School and Field 
 Book of Botany." 
 
 In the second term of the Sophomore year, two hours each 
 week are spent in lectures or recitations on Systematic Botany. 
 The laboratory practice for this term consists in the dis- 
 section and classification of Grasses, Composites and some 
 other difficult orders of plants. The leaf-forms of our native and 
 cultivated tress are studied and drawn, and the differences 
 between species are accurately pointed out. Fifty additional 
 herbarium specimens are prepared, as in the first term, and added 
 to each student's collection. The text-book used is Gray's " Manual 
 of the Botany of the Northern United States." Books of Pbefer- 
 ence, Torrey and Gray's " Flora of N". A.," LeMaont and Decaisne's 
 "General System of Botany," DeCandolle's " Prodronms." 
 
 In the Junior year, during the first term, students in Botany 
 have five recitations or lectures and three hours of laboratory 
 practice each week. This constitutes the advanced course, and 
 includes (1) a careful study of the deeper questions in Vegetable 
 Anatomy and Physiology, (2) Economic Botany, (3) the outlines of 
 Cryptogamic Botany, which are taken up in the order given, the 
 term being about equally divided among the three topics. The 
 laboratory practice consists in examinations made by means of 
 the compound microscope. The Botanical Laboratory possesses 
 seven good instruments, and other needful apparatus, and with 
 these the student prepares his own specimens and makes his 
 investigations. Textbooks and books of reference, Gray's 
 "Structural and Systematic Botany," Sach's "Text Book of 
 Botany," Johnson's "How Crops Grow," Smith's "Domestic 
 Botany," Berkley's "Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany," 
 Cooke's "Handbook of British Fungi." 
 
 The means of illustration throughout the whole course in 
 Botany are: (1), The college herbarium; (2), a collection of billets 
 of various kinds of w T o:xls; (■)), a collection of grasses; (4), a col- 
 lection of c nes of evergreens; (5), a set of diagrams and charts; 
 (6), seven compound microscopes; (7), alcoholic and dry material 
 for examination in Botanical Laboratory; (8), students also have 
 access to the collections of mosses, lichens and fungi, belonging 
 to the professor in charge. 
 
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 GENERAL ZOOLOGY. 
 
 The course in general Zoology occvpies a portion of the last 
 term of the Sophomore year. The method of instruction is a com- 
 bination of the recitation system with lectures and museum study: 
 lessons from a text book are assigned daily, and these the stu- 
 dents are required to carefully prepare and recite; lectures are 
 given from time to time upon the more important topics which 
 are not sufficiently dwelt upon in the text book ; and through- 
 out the term the student spends three hours each week in the 
 study of the specimens in the museum. The text books used 
 are Orton's "Comparative Zoology," and Jordan's "Manual of the 
 Vertebrates of the Northern United States." Dr. Coues' "Key to 
 N. A. Birds. ' Van Der Hoeven's "Hand-book of Zoology," and 
 Carpenter's Zoology are. recommended for reference. 
 
 ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 
 
 During a portion of the fall term of the Sophomore year, En- 
 tomology takes the place of General Zoology. After obtaining 
 from the text book a general knowledge of the structure and 
 classification of insects, the student attends a course of lectures, 
 in which all the more prominently harmful insects are taken 
 up and discussed. In each case the life-history of the insect is 
 dwelt upon, as of the greatest importance in enabling the farm- 
 er or gardener to suggest remedies ; the various checks and rem- 
 edies are taken up and discussed, and the student is invited to 
 freely give his opinion as to their value and practicability. Text 
 books and books of reference, Packard's "Guide to the Study of 
 Insects," Riley's "Reports upon the Insects of Missouri," Harris' 
 "Insects Injurious to Vegetation." 
 
 The College possesses a valuable cabinet of insects, which is 
 accessible to the students -of this department. 
 
 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 
 
 This study is designed to familiarize the student with the 
 general anatomy, physiology and development of all the great 
 groups of animals. The method of instruction is by means of 
 daily lectures supplemented by an examination of books of 
 reference. Three hours of laboratory practice each week, enable 
 the student to make dissections of animals, and to examine 
 many of the minuter parts by means of the microscope. Books of 
 reference, Carpenter's " Principles of Comparative Physiology," 
 
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 Packard's "Life Histories of Animals," Clark's "Mind in Na- 
 ture," Foster & Balfour's" Elements of Embryology," Carpen- 
 ter's "Mental Physiology," Darwin's "Origin of Species," "The 
 Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication," 
 Deckel's "History of Creation." 
 
 GEOLOGY. 
 
 This study is pursued by the Senior class during the first term. 
 The subject of Mineralogy is first studied by means of lectures 
 and specimens from the Museum. Dana's text-book of Geology 
 is then completed, and afterwards, the class spends from two to 
 three weeks studying the Geology of Iowa. A course of lectures 
 is then given upon Geology as related to Astronomy, and on 
 various other important subjects, such as: Iowa coal mines, 
 petroleum, salt and gypsum, origin of the prairie, and kindred 
 subjects. As aids to the study, the Museum' is furnished with a 
 full series of Wards geological casts, giving examples of the 
 fossils peculiar to every stage of the world's history. The Muse- 
 um also has a valuable collection of the more important minerals 
 and rocks, and additions are being made thereto every year. 
 Occasional excursions are made by this class, accompanied by 
 the teacher, to places in the vicinity which will afford the best 
 opportunity for the study of practical Geology. 
 
 DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
 
 Domestic Economy is taught to the young ladies of the Junior 
 class by lectures on the following topics : House furnishing, 
 ventilation, water supply, cooking, sewing, management of 
 help, care of the sick, training of children, dress, etc. 
 
 MATHEMATICS. 
 
 There are two courses in mathematics, a lower and a higher. 
 
 The lower course embraces : 
 
 Freshman Year. — Algebra and Geometry. — Loomis. 
 
 o< 7 ™™.„ -tz™*. i Trigonometry. — Church. 
 Sophomore Year.- j Su £ e ying.-&flfe^ 
 
 The higher course embraces : 
 
 a 7, ^ ~„ tt^„ S Analytical Geometry. — Chauvenet. 
 Sophomore Year.- j Descriptive Q e0 metvy. -Church. 
 
 i Differential and Integral Calculus. 
 Descriptive Geometry, Shades, Shad- 
 ows, and Perspective. — Church. 
 
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 The lower course is designed for all the students, and the 
 higher course especially for those who pursue the studies in 
 Mechanical or Civil Engineering. 
 
 Instruction is given by text-books, daily recitation, and 
 lectures. The subject is illustrated, and the theory applied 
 by the construction and solution of numerous problems. Stu- 
 dents in surveying are required to practice daily, by divisions, 
 in the field during the latter part of the spring term. They use 
 the instruments, keep the notes, plat the surveys, and obtain a 
 thorough knowledge of all practical operations. 
 
 BOOK-KEEPING. 
 
 The instruction in book-keeping is given in connection with 
 the lessons and exercises in Bryant & Stratton's larger text-book. 
 Each student opens and keeps a full set of books in double 
 entry ; writes business letters, contracts, receipts, bank checks, 
 accounts of sales, bills of lading, and other business and legal 
 papers ; rules, and keeps the various auxiliary books useful in 
 business ; files and preserves vouchers, and in general, does 
 what he would be called upon to do in actual business. In ad- 
 dition, tri-weekly recitations are made upon the principles in- 
 volved and their applications. 
 
 CIVIL ENGINEEKING. 
 
 It is the purpose of this department to afford to the 
 student a plain and practical, but thorough course in the 
 application of the mathematical and physical sciences to the 
 profession of Civil Engineering. The first step in this course 
 is taken in the Sophomore year, in the study and practice of 
 Land Surveying. The instruction in the class room is supple- 
 mented by work in the field, where the student becomes ac- 
 quainted with all the manual portions of the business and 
 acquires proficiency in the use of the chain, compass, transit, and 
 other instruments. The data taken in the field are kept as 
 in actual work, and from them the areas are calculated and the 
 fields plotted. 
 
 In the Junior year the study becomes more strictly technical. 
 The student now studies the various methods of laying out 
 railway curves, putting in switches and side-tracks, and set- 
 ting slope-stakes. Nearly all of the important problems inves- 
 tigate I in the class room are taken into the field and staked out 
 
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 upon the ground. Data are taken in the field for problems in 
 earth-work, both excavations and embankments, whose con- 
 tents are calculated. In the latter part of the year the general 
 principles of the construction of roads, railways, canals, water- 
 works, &c. are studied, with problems upon the flow of fluids 
 and the general principles of hydraulics. During this year also, 
 a practice survey of a portion of a line of railway is undertaken, 
 and the engineering of the work carried as far as is possible 
 without the actual construction. The line is run, the curves 
 put in, the profile taken, the grades established, and it is then 
 cross-sectioned and left ready for the contractor. The notes of 
 this work are kept exactly as in actual practice, and from them 
 a profile and plan in detail are drawn, including also the more 
 important topographical features of the adjoining lands. 
 
 During the Senior year the student devotes himself to the 
 study of the higher problems of engineering, such as the sta- 
 bility and strength of arches and suspension bridges, the con- 
 struction of bridge and roof trusses and girders, and the laying 
 of foundations. A portion of the last term of this year is de- 
 voted to the designing of structures and calculations of their 
 strength, with detailed drawings of the same, in a word the 
 " office work " of a constructing engineer. 
 
 MECHANICS. 
 
 During the past year the students in the wood-working 
 department have made several articles of furniture, a first-class 
 cabinet work-bench, and prepared much of the material used 
 in wainscoting and repairing the college building. The stu- 
 dents in the machine shop have constructed from working draw- 
 ings a four horse-power engine, which is now set up in the 
 Printing Department and is used to run the printing presses. 
 They have made many tools and attachments to the machines 
 in the shop, such as taps, drill chucks, planer chucks, standard 
 face plates, etc. 
 
 "With the shops as now equipped a limited number of stu- 
 dents can receive instruction in workshop practice, equal to 
 that received in any workshop, with this difference : here he 
 enters into the work with special reference to instruction, and 
 not for the purpose of enriching the profession, as is the case 
 while serving an apprenticeship. 
 
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 The Department of Mechanics is intended to prepare students 
 for the profession of mechanical engineering, and is pursued 
 during the Junior and Senior years by those who complete the 
 course. 
 
 It is intended to supply a class of men who are not merely 
 practical nor wholly theoretical ; but who, guided by correct 
 principles, shall be able to invent, design, construct, or manage 
 machinery in any of the industrial pursuits. 
 
 To this end the plan of instruction is two-fold. First, the- 
 oretical; second, practical ; hence, practice in the workshop is 
 required of all who complete the course. The theoretical instruc- 
 tion is imparted by means of recitations from text-books and 
 lectures, illustrated by models and plates. 
 
 The practical instruction will consist of projects, in which 
 the student shall be required to produce some machine of new 
 design, or one which shall be of practical utility to the College 
 or to those who may avail themselves of our advantages for 
 manufacturing. For this purpose, the student will have the 
 use of the machinery and tools in the workshop, under the di- 
 rection of the teacher ; the instruction being according to the 
 most approved methods of machine-shop practice. This will 
 teach the student the manner in which the mechanical engineer 
 carries his design into execution, and to so proportion and dis- 
 pose of the parts of a machine as to secure the greatest econ- 
 omy in construction and durability. The student will also take 
 indicator diagrams from the engine in the workshop, and deter- 
 mine from them the power developed by the steam while work- 
 ing with different degrees of expansion. 
 
 COURSE OF STUDY. 
 
 Analytical Mechanics.— Representation and measurement of 
 forces ; composition and resolution of forces ; center of gravity ; 
 elementary machines ; motion in straight lines ; uniform and 
 varied motion ; curvilinear motion; centrifugal force; moment 
 of inertia; laws of impact and center of percussion; work done 
 in overcoming resistance ; accumulation of work; work done 
 by motors. 
 
 Resistance of Matei'ials.—Lciws and coefficients of elasticity; 
 work of elongation and time of oscilliation, set, viscosity ; mod- 
 ulus of strength, safe limits, tension and compression; strength 
 of columns; theory of flexures and rupture, neutral axis; shear- 
 
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 ing stress, flexure of beams and columns ; tensions ; shocks ; 
 crystallization; experiments and practical formula. 
 
 Cinematics and Principles of Mechanism. — Relative motions 
 of points in any system of connected lines or pieces ; motion 
 considered independent of force ; velocity ratio ; investigation 
 of the motion of the different elementary parts of a machine ; 
 correct working gear; teeth;, gearing chains; escapements; 
 link work. 
 
 Machine Drawing. — Drawings of original design; drawings 
 completely finished in water colors, and in line drawing, and 
 detailed drawings for the workshop; such as are made in the 
 best manufactories of the country ; prime movers ; wind-wheels, 
 water-wheels, steam and hot air engines. 
 
 The course in the workshop is so arranged as to give the stu- 
 dent a thorough drill in the use of all tools for working wood 
 and iron ; and in the management of wood and iron working 
 machinery. 
 
 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP. 
 
 The wood-working shop is a two-story building, thirty by 
 fifty feet. It contains a fifteen horse-power Harris Corliss 
 engine ; a boiler with Stilwell heater ; eighty feet of 2 inch turned 
 shafting, with the most improved iron hangers and pulleys. It 
 also contains a Fay pony planer; a Fay gig saw; a Fay sash, 
 mortiser, and a circular saw ; six work-benches, with six full 
 sets of bench tools. The engine has a Richard's indicator fitted 
 to it for the purpose of taking diagrams. 
 
 The machine shop is in the basement of the new laboratory, 
 and is connected with the wood-working shop by means of a 
 wire rope transmission. It contains a line of shafting 62 ft. 
 long, which is fitted with the best self-oiling hangers ; a 20 in. 
 by 12 ft. Fitchburg lathe; a 16 in. by 8 ft. Washburn lathe; a 
 Washburn hand lathe; a 22 in. by 5 ft. Fitchburg planer; 
 an 18 in. Fitchburg drill; also a full set of fluted reamers, 
 flat reamers, twist drills, taps, dies, etc. 
 
 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 
 
 FRESHMAN YEAR.— ALL COURSES. 
 
 First Term.— Analysis of the English sentence (Welch's), and 
 Rhetoric. 
 Second Term.— Elements of Criticism.— (Karnes'). 
 
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 SOPHOMORE YEAR.— LADIES' COURSE. 
 
 This year embraces the course in English Literature, proper. 
 
 First Term. — English Literature, embracing the early history 
 of the English Language, and a critical study of the biography, 
 literary labors, style, etc., of the representative authors of the 
 marked epochs of English History, special stress being laid on 
 the political and religious influences at work in the times in 
 which they wrote. 
 
 SENIOR YEAR.— COURSE FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS 
 AND LADIES. 
 
 Second Term.— Science of Language. Prof. W. 1). Whitney's 
 work, entitled, " Language and the study of Language," is the 
 text-book used. In this study the student is made familiar 
 with the underlying principles of linguistic growth and decay, 
 and the processes of phonetic change, the genetic and morpho- 
 logical classifications of all the great families of tongues on the 
 face of the earth, and the conclusions reached by the great mas- 
 ters in comparative philology on the origin of language, its re- 
 lation to thought, and its bearing on the question of the unity 
 of the human race. 
 
 Two plays of Shakspeare are critically studied with the view 
 more particularly of fixing the import of the " Shakspearian 
 phraseology," and exercising the students' powers on obscure 
 and highly wrought passages. These plays are afterwards 
 made the material for elocutionary drill. 
 
 FRENCH. 
 
 French is studied during one year of the course by the ladies, 
 and by the gentlemen in the mechanical course. Fasquelle's 
 " French Course " is studied thoroughly, and then one term is 
 almost entirely occupied in making translations from Knapp's 
 French Reader. 
 
 PSYCHOLOGY. 
 
 The study of psychology occupies one hour daily through the 
 first term of the Senior year. It is pursued first by text-book 
 and recitations, afterw r ards by listening to familiar lectures, and 
 finally by the preparation and reading of essays on the most 
 important topics which the science presents. The purpose 
 sought in the study is not to acquire the habit of idly speculat- 
 
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 ing on questions which lie beyond the limits of human knowl- 
 edge, but rather to gain a thorough insight into human nature, 
 and the springs of human conduct. All intercourse with men 
 
 calls such knowledge into exercise 
 
 POLITICAL ECONOMY. 
 
 Political economy is the science of exchange. It presents and 
 expounds the laws of business in all their complexity. Indus- 
 trial education, especially at the present day, is incomplete 
 without a familiarity with the principles that underlie the 
 commercial transactions whether small or great. In nearly all 
 the vocations, a lack of such knowledge is almost a fatal 
 deficiency. Political economy.is studied during the senior term, 
 by means of recitations, discussions and essays. 
 
 COMPOSITION. 
 
 The Freshman class give, during the entire year, one hour a 
 week to careful .drill, in the class room, in English composition ; 
 essays and written discussions are prepared and brought to class 
 where they are criticised and corrected. 
 
 ELOCUTION. 
 
 The Freshmen have regular drill in Elocution once a week 
 during the whole year. Pieces are prepared in the class in 
 composition and then are practiced and spoken in the elocution 
 class. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 Music is not, by law,' a regular study in the College curricu- 
 lum. Opportunities are given, however, to such as desire it, to 
 take lessons upon the organ or piano, and also in vocal culture. 
 The rates of charge are as follows : 
 
 Lessons on piano, (one each week) $10 per term. 
 
 Lessons in vocal culture, (two each week) 12 per term. 
 
 Lessons on organ, (one each week^ with practice 
 
 every day 10 per term. 
 
 Students pay for tuning instruments twenty-five cents per 
 month. Sheet music extra. 
 
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 MILITARY TACTICS AND ENGINEERING. 
 
 This department, established pursuant to act of Congress, will 
 be conducted in strict conformity with United States Army Reg- 
 ulations, the course embodying the following branches of study : 
 
 Military Engineering— Yield and Permanent Fortifications; 
 military bridges ; mining; topographical and free-hand drawing. 
 
 Military Tactics.— Infantry, cavalry, artillery, bayonet and 
 broad-sword exercise. 
 
 Gunnery and Ordnance. — Theory of Projectiles, Siege, Artil- 
 lery and Mortar practice. 
 
 Military Law. — Practice of Courts-Martial; United States 
 Army Regulations. 
 
 Practical instruction will be given in some one of the differ- 
 ent arms of the service three times a week. 
 
 The following branches will be taught through the succes- 
 ive Collegiate years : 
 
 Freshman. — Schools of the Soldier and Company. 
 
 Sophomore. — Practical instruction in the schools of the Sol- 
 der and Company ; Field Artillery, Bayonet and Sword exercise. 
 
 Junior. — Schools of the Soldier and Company ; Bayonet and 
 Sword exercise. 
 
 Senior.— Military Engineering ; School of the Battallion ; Ord- 
 nance and Gunnery ; Cavalry Tactics ; Military Law. 
 
 Text Books.— The text books used are Upton's " Infantry Tac- 
 tics," McClellan's "Bayonet Exercise," Mahan's "Military Engi- 
 neering," Smith's "Field Artillery." Works of reference are the 
 following : Scott's "Military Dictionary," Duparco's "Military 
 Art and United States Army Regulations." 
 
 Recitations and Drill. — Each class will recite or drill at least 
 •once a week in the following order, viz: 
 
 Freshmen, Wednesdays from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. 
 
 Sophomores, Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a. m. 
 
 Juniors, Thursdays from 9 to 10 A. m. 
 
 Seniors, Mondays, from 9 to 10 a. m. 
 The above classes will be organized into a College Battalion, 
 the officers for the same being appointed in the following man- 
 ner: Staff and Field officers from the Junior and Senior classes 
 and others from the Freshmen and Sophomore classes according 
 tj merit. The names of such as may be deemed eligible by the 
 •commandant of the Battalion and President of the College, will 
 
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 be forwarded through the Adjutant General's office to the Gov- 
 ernor of the State, for coin mission. 
 
 By the late action of the Board of Trustees of the College, all 
 students taking the military course must be uniformed. It will 
 therefore be necessary that those who intend entering the course 
 in the spring of 1877, be furnished with uniform this winter. 
 The uniform required will be one regulation hat, one, blue 
 blouse, one pair blue pants. The course is optional. 
 
 The whole cost will not exceed $20.00. The material will be of 
 good quality, and suitable for ordinary wear on the College Farm. 
 
 Send measurement and the money to Gen. Geddes, Deputy 
 Treasurer, as sooniis possible. 
 
 THE MUSEUM. 
 
 The College has a valuable and growing museum. Rooms 
 have been especially provided for the purpose, in the main Col- 
 lege building. The departments of Geology, Zoology, Entomol- 
 ogy and Anatomy, are well provided for by well preserved spec- 
 imens for illustration. Among the prominent and interesting 
 features of the museum may be mentioned a full set of the 
 Ward series of Geological casts. These casts are restored forms 
 of extinct animals. They are said by prominent naturalists, to 
 be superior for purposes of illustration, to the original speci- 
 mens from which they were copied, and represent the principal 
 extinct animals which have existed from the earliest times to 
 the present day. A valuable and well preserved set of Iowa 
 serpents has been collected. A set of the birds of the State 
 woods, shells, the more important minerals and rocks, fossils, 
 seeds, specimens of the plants of the West, mammals, etc., are 
 other interesting features of the museum. 
 
 THE NEW LABORATORY. 
 
 This building was completed last year. In size it is sev- 
 enty feet long, by forty in breadth, and three stories and a half 
 high, including the basement. This building, together with the 
 old laboratory which joins it, affords commodious apartments 
 for the purpose for which it was designed. The basement of the 
 new portion contains a boiler for heating the entire building, 
 and valuable machinery for working in iron ; power being trans- 
 mitted from the work-shop by means of an endless wire rope. 
 The old laboratory and the first floor of the new, are occupied 
 
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 solely by the department of Chemistry. The rooms are furnished 
 with tables, gas, water, and all conveniences needed in a first 
 class chemical laboratory. The second floor is occupied by the 
 department of Physics. An excellent lecture room, well fur- 
 nished, occupies the south half of the floor, and rooms for the 
 physical cabinet and private work the remainder. The upper 
 floor is lighted by skylights from the roof, and furnishes an ex- 
 cellent drawing-room for the Mechanical department, and a room 
 to be used as an observatory. 
 
 These conveniences furnish the departments of Physics and 
 Chemistry with very superior facilities for giving instruction to 
 advanced students. Opportunity is offered for the student to 
 study in the best possible way, by actually performing the ex- 
 periments for himself. Both Physics and Chemistry can be 
 taught to as good advantage as in any of the Western Colleges. 
 
 A good experiment, either in Physics or Chemistry, is never 
 forgotten. The student who actually handles the apparatus and 
 performs the experiments in chemistry for himself gets there 
 from a knowledge which cannot be obtained from books. The 
 beautiful lecture-room experiments upon light, heat and elec- 
 tricity appeal to the senses as well as to the intellectual faculties 
 andawaken an interest in study which can be stirred in no other 
 er way. The new education teaches the hand as well as the 
 head. It teaches things and not books. The Agr'cultural Col- 
 lege is in full sympathy with the new education, and opens wid.3 
 the doors of its new laboratory for the use of all lovers of sci- 
 ence with practice. 
 
 LIBRARY. 
 
 Early in the history of the College an appropriation of several 
 thousand dollars was made for the commencement of a library. 
 Every year an addition of several hundred volumes is made to 
 the original nucleus, so that the whole number of volumes is now 
 about five thousand. The library is designed to be a working 
 one. The books purchased are such as will most effectively aid 
 the teachers and students in the special work of the different 
 departments of the College. Pull sets of the most prominent 
 encyclopedias have been purchased ; such as the Encyclopedia 
 Brittanica, the American and Chambers', besides numerous 
 cyclopedias of dates and biography. The library is divided into 
 alcoves and well arranged and fitted with tables, shelving, etc. 
 
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 In one alcove may be found the works of the modern standard 
 
 poets, historians and writers of fiction ; such as Scott, Macaulay, 
 Dickens and Froude. Another alcove contains the standard 
 works upon Physics, Metaphysics, Geology and of the British 
 
 Essayists. On a little furter may be found the American Jour- 
 nals of Science for the past thirty years ; the prominent works on 
 Agriculture, Horticulture and Applied Science. 
 
 The naturalist can find the works of Audubon, with beautiful 
 plates of the birds and quadrupeds of America painted to na- 
 ture. The library is in receipt constantly of many of the prom- 
 inent daily and w r eekly newspapers of the State, and also of many 
 of the monthly magazins and periodicals of the United States 
 and Europe. It is open eight hours each day for the use of 
 students and teachers. 
 
MEANS OF ILLUSTRATION 
 
 In the Museum— 
 
 A collection of the principal minerals. 
 Geological specimens from the Iowa survey. 
 A set of models of the larger fossils. 
 Collections of mammals, birds and reptiles. 
 Seeds and products of agricultural plants.. 
 Collections of skulls and skeletons. 
 A cabinet of insects. 
 
 In tiie Herbarium— 
 
 A collection of the plants of Iowa. 
 
 A collection of Lake Superior plants. 
 
 Miscellaneous collections from the Eastern States. 
 
 Blocks of wood of trees and shrubs. 
 
 A set of the more important grasses. 
 
 Diagrams and charts. 
 
 Professor Bessey's collections of Mosses and Fungi. 
 
 In the Physical Cabinet— 
 
 A Holtz Electrical Machine. 
 
 A Stereopticon, with photographic slides. 
 
 A twenty inch Iiuhmkorf coil, made by Elliot, of London. 
 
 A Kitchie Atwood Machine. 
 
 A general collection of apparatus, including Melloni's 
 
 apparatus, Geissler's tubes, Hero's fountain, etc. 
 
 In the Chemical Laboratory— 
 
 Furnaces, sand-baths, hoods, balances, filter pumps and 
 other apparatus for general and analytical chemistry. 
 
 In the Mathematical Room— 
 
 Surveying and leveling instruments. 
 Draughting instruments, and tables. 
 Plates of machinery. 
 
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 In the Workshop— 
 
 A Corliss engine. 
 
 Lathes for wood and iron. 
 
 Scroll machine. 
 
 Dovetailing machine. 
 
 Mortising machine. 
 
 Planer. 
 
 Hand tools for wood and iron. 
 
 On the Farm—* 
 
 The farm itself of eight hundred acres of prairie and tim- 
 ber land, with the bams and stables thereon. 
 Herds of Short-horn, Devon, Ayshire, and Jersey cattle. 
 Spanish Merino, Cotswold, and Southdown sheep. 
 Berkshire and Poland-China swine. 
 A vegetable garden. 
 A small-fruit garden. 
 A young apple orchard. 
 Plantations of forest trees. 
 
 In the Armory— 
 
 Forty stand Breech-Loading Rifles. 
 Forty stand Enfield Rifles. 
 Forty Light Sabres. 
 A 12 pounder Bronze Cannon. 
 Drums and Fifes. 
 
CALENDAR FOR 1877. 
 
 First term begins Wednesday, March 7th. 
 
 First term examinations July 10th, 11th, 12th. 
 
 First term closes < July 12th. 
 
 Second term begins July 18th. 
 
 Second term examinations. November 12th, 13th, 14th. 
 
 Address before the Literary Societies .Monday evening, Nov. 12th. 
 
 Address before the Trustees Tuesday evening, Nov. 13th. 
 
 Commencement Wednesday afternoon, November 14th. 
 
 Term closes November 14th.