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SIBLEY COLLEGE.
HORACE MARSHALL,
ALONZO WHITLOCK, Lineman.
Engineer of Light and Power Station.
WILLIAM WESTCOTT, First Assistant Engineer.
ALBERT TUCKER, Second Assistant Engineer.
TRACEY HISCOCK, Assistant in Charge of Boilers.
The Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering
and the Me
chanic Arts, as its name implies, is organized as a technical and pro
fessional college in Cornell University. Its courses are planned and
conducted with a view, primarily, to the promotion of the funda
mental ideas of the law establishing that institution and the most
cherished plans of its Founders -the advantage of the
' '
industrial
classes", through training in the industrial arts and professions, as
supplementary to so much of academic education as its students may
have found it practicable to secure. Before preparing for or en
tering upon such courses of instruction as are here offered, it is pre
sumed that the student has secured as complete a general education
as time and means permit, and that he is ready to give all his thought
and energy to business. For him, these courses constitute the first
step in his business career and it may be expected that they will be
so regarded, both by him and by his instructors. The methods of
the college will be, as far as practicable,
those of the business es
tablishment or engineer's office, and admission and discharge will
be governed as far as possible by business rules. Men of ambition
and business holding to principles and methods will be given every
assistance in their endeavors to obtain a professional training ; others
will be directed into other departments of study or into other lines of
business.
Candidates for admission are reminded that these courses are in
tended solely for the student proposing to enter the professional work
into which these lines of study lead, and that it is assumed that his
general academic education has been completed to the full extent of
his available time and means. He is advised, in all cases, to secure,
before entering Sibley College, a good academic education, including,
if practicable, a liberal college course. His success in the practice of
his profession will be found to depend, more and more, in the future,
and always in large degree, upon the position which he may be able
to assume among men of education and culture. The courses here
offered are not intended to give him more than a technical preparation
for the special professional work of his business life. Even the entire
devotion of four years to this specific and limited purpose will be