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300 SIBLEY COLLEGE.
ate courses may begin to specialize in their sophomore year by elect
ing problems related to locomotive details in course D. 5, Mechanical
Drawing. In the junior year, those who are ahead of their course
and have the proper preparation and time, may still further specialize
by elections from the senior courses in the Railway School. In the
senior railway year, about half the student's time is devoted to rail
way subjects. The graduate year carries the specialized instruction
to far greater thoroughness, handling the various problems with the
strictly engineering completeness of the actual railway motive power
department. Railway seniors, who have the available time, may
elect some of this advanced graduate work. In general, with the
above additions, the railway course is identical with the regular course
in mechanical engineering for the first three years.
Graduates of engineering schools who have had the equivalent of
the senior year in the regular course, can take a special graduate year,
made up of the senior railway subjects and such electives from the
graduate subjects as may be desired.
Particular attention is called to the opportunity offered for practical
experience in railway and locomotive shops during the summer vaca
tion. In 1S99 there were twenty shops open to the students for this.
three months of work, at wages more than covering expenses, of
which sixty students availed themselves. The importance of this
work, as preparatory to the courses of the Railway School,
cannot be
overestimated. The notice of such students, by the railway officers-
and locomotive builders employing them, should also not be ignored.
[Circulars of Schools will be sent on application to the department.}
Courses in Chemical Engineering may be arranged.
Special Students. Special students are sometimes admitted who
are expected to follow as closely as possible a course of instruction
planned with reference to their needs. This instruction does not lead
to a degree and is only intended for students who are unable to
pursue a complete college course, or who desire special instruction in
advanced and graduate work.
Non-Resident Lecturers, etc. Supplementing the regular course
of instruction, lectures are delivered from time to time by the most dis
tinguished men and the great specialists of the profession. Extended
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Inspection Tours
are made to the great cities and manufacturing
establishments during the spring vacation, when sufficient numbers
are enrolled.
Persons desiring more information in regard to subject con
any
nected with Sibley College should address "The Director of Sibley
College."