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not as superseding, but as alternative to the former five years'
course embracing these subjects, which is still retained. It is a
concession to the needs of many students, which has been made
without the sacrifice of the high standards hitherto maintained in
the matter of scholarship, and it has had a notable effect in increasing
the number of matriculates without impairing their quality.
The details of the two courses now available and the distinctions
between them will be found concisely stated in the Dean's report.
Your attention is particularly called to the success of the new
School of Architecture, which was the first to urge the adoption
of this plan, and which seems to so abundantly justify it by its large
accessions of students. Already you are called upon to increase
the force of instructors in this growing school for the coming year,
and there seems to be every reason why this should be done.
The school is fortunate in the warm support which it receives from
the members of the profession, and much valuable instruction is
given by them gratuitously as lecturers upon special subjects.
The Mechanital and Electrical Engineering course has
developed an unexpected strength during the last three years.
Through the exertions of Messrs. Merrick and Sellers of your
Board a very complete equipment of metal and wood-working apparatus,
together with engines for motive and for testing purposes,
was procured and placed in suitable apartments in College Hall,
which it was supposed would be sufficient for some-year's to come.
But the number of students attracted to the course under the
energetic administration of the professor in charge soon made"
it .impossible to conduct the instruction in such limited quarters.
Happily, the construction of the Heat and Light Station
gave an opportunity, at a minimum of expense, to provide
fully for requirements of the Department by the enlargement of
that building to the proper extent; and the result is that three
floors of 45 by 100 feet are devoted to the purposes of a
Mechanical Laboratory in addition to that occupied by the working
plant of the station, as heretofore described.
The Department of Chemistry is another in which- there
have been large accessions of students, and for which the quarters
assigned in College Hall have become entirely inadequate.