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We take great pleasure in presenting you, together with our compliments, the "midsummer issue" of the Courier. We feel—we know, that it will be welcomed by old and new friends alike, who will gladly peruse its pages and appreciate the effort which sent it forth. Hoping to see you with us next September, we are Very Respectfully,
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Special Courses offered in Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Natural History and Applied Chemistry. Tuition Free.
The University of Kansas, opened to students in 1866, has enjoyed phenomenal prosperity and has made a growth surprising even to its friends. During the past year over five hundred students have received instruction within its walls, and the special advantages offered during the coming year under an able and efficient corps of thirty-four Professors and Instructors, promises to largely increase the attendance and make it a year of unequaled prosperity.
For the University ranks high among the colleges of the Union. No institution in the state can compare with it in advantages offered and in work done. Indeed, full credit is given at Harvard for work done here,
This prosperity is rendered all the more certain by the action of the last legislature in making the tuition absolutely free in all departments. This institution is supported by the state and belongs to the people of the state, who may well be proud of its work.
privilege and an honor enjoyed by no other institution west of Ann Arbor. The work done here is intended to fit the young men and women of Kansas for the active work of life, by giving them a thorough practical education. Thoroughness of preparation is insisted upon as the necessary groundwork for specialization, and every effort is made to develop all the possibilities of the student's mind and not to dwarf it by strict confinement to some narrow line of work or thought. In other words it is intended that this shall be a University in the broadest and most complete sense of the word, where the mind may receive that full rounding out and development so necessary to the successful prosecution of any special line of work, and where also may be offered the student so prepared, the very best facilities for prosecuting special work.
The three buildings situated on a beautiful campus overlooking the city, furnish ample room:
THE MAIN BUILDING 246 feet in extreme length,98 feet wide in center, wings 62 feet each, and completed at a cost of $175,000.
There are 54 rooms in this building, of which one, the main audience room, is 94 feet long and 56 feet wide. It has a seating capacity of about 1,200. There are also in Main Building 18 lecture rooms, each large enough to accommodate classes of 75 to 80 students. The south rooms of the basement and the south lecture room of the first floor are devoted to the Department of Physics. The Library, Reading Room and Law School occupy the entire first floor of the north wing, and on the same floor are the Departments of English, and of History and Political Science. On the second floor are the Departments of Latin, Greek, German, French, and Mathematics. The Departments of Civil Engineering, Art and Music, are found on the third floor. Here also are rooms for two of the Literary societies. The center of the building is occupied by the Regents' room, office, cloak rooms and University Hall.
THE CHEMISTRY BUILDING, erected at a cost of $12,000, upon the most approved plans and furnished with all needful appliances for instruction, has, on the ground floor, the assay room with crucibles and muffled furnaces and complete apparatus for the fire assay of ores, while the main floor is occupied by the lecture room capable of seating 100 students, and by the laboratories for qualitative and quantitative analysis, fully supplied with cupboards, sets of re-agents' bottles, etc. On the ground floor is also found the laboratory of the Department of Pharmacy. This department shares with
THE CHEMISTRY BUILDING.
SNOW HALL OF NATURAL HISTORY, erected at a cost of $50,000, is a beautiful building faced with cottonwood stone and is devoted to the use of the Natural History Department.
that of Chemistry the lecture room and other facilities offered for such studies in a well-equipped chemical building.
Important aid in the study of Natural History is afforded by the cabinet collections, which contain upwards of 150,000 specimens, illustrating chiefly the Departments of Botany, Zoology, and Geology. These collections have been chiefly obtained during the past ten years by the voluntary contributions of exploring parties in western Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, in charge of the professor of Natural History. By means of the material thus accumulated, a system of exchange has been established with leading institutions and naturalists in all parts of the United States, so that the cabinets contain a very satisfactory representation of the plants, insects, birds, minerals and fossils, not only of the state of Kansas, but also of the whole of North America.
Its museums are designed to make a complete exhibit of the various cabinets in Zoology, Geology and Botany, and its laboratories are so related to the various cabinets as to secure the utmost convenience. The lecture room, extending through the basement and first story, and arranged in amphitheater style, will accommodate 200 students. This building, finished and furnished with the best appliances for investigation and instruction in Natural History, adds materially to the educational advantages offered by the University,
THE COLLEGIATE COURSES of study are four, viz., Classical, Latin Scientific, Modern Literature and General Scientific, each requiring four years for completion, and each embracing the studies found in like courses in our best colleges.
Besides the collegiate courses the University offers excellent special and technical courses to which, as in the collegiate courses, tuition is absolutely free. Perhaps the most prominent of these courses at the present time is the course in
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science. The rapidly increasing demand for well-trained Electrical Engineers, has led the University to provide a course of theory and practice in both light and heavy Electrical Engineering fully equal to similar courses in the best equipped institutions in this country. To this end, the curriculum comprises, in addition to the study of applied electricity, full courses in general
physics and chemistry, such training in mathematics as is necessary to the proper understanding of the theories of electricity and magnatism; in French and German as will enable the student to read scientific works in those languages; and in mechanical drawing as is required in the preparation of making drawings of machinery. Such studies in Civil Engineering as are deemed essential to the Electrical Engineer are also included in the course.
Excellent facilities for practical work in general physcs, chemistry and light Electrical Engineering are provided In the very completely equipped laboratories of the University.
Beginning with the Fall term of 1889, mechanical practice in the repair shop connected with the Department of Physics and under the direction of the mechanic of the department1 will form a part of the instruction.
A large number of instruments for exact electrical and magnetic measurements has recently arrived from Hartmann, Edelman, Elliott Bros, Carpentier, and other best makers in Europe and in this country. An ample engine house, erected in the summer of 1887, contains a battery of three boilers, the machinery and apparatus for heavy Electrical Engineering, and a repair shop to be provided with machinery and tools for the repair and construction of dynamos, and of general physical apparatus. A skilled mechanic is in charge. A 35-horse power Armington & Sims engine, made expressly for the university, provides power for various types of dynamos and motors. Complete installations for are and incandescent lighting, storage batteries, and other appliances, are being rapidly added. In connection with these electric plants, students are constantly at work upon practical problems such as characteristic curves, efficiency, etc., duty tests of the boilers, use of indicator cards, and dynamometer tests.
Two thousand dollars will be expended in this department alone for apparatus the coming year.
SPECIAL STUDENTS.—It is designed to give every opportunity for study and research to persons n't enrolled as regular students, who wish special practical work in applied electricity. Courses will be arranged for such individually, as their experience and training has qualified them. It is believed the equipment of the University for this special work is superior to that of any institution west of the Mississippi river.
DEPARTMENT OF LAW.
The demand on this department for electrical engineers is greater than the supply. Good positions are open waiting for all graduates.
The design of this Department is to furnish a complete course of legal instruction for persons intending to practice at the bar in any State of the Union. The plan of instruction includes the principles of Constitutional Law, International Law, Merchantile Law, the Law of Contracts, Corporations, Insurance, Torts, Domestic Relations, Real Property Law, Equity, Jurisprudence, Evidence, Pleading and Practice, and Criminal Jurisprudence.
Experience proves that the principles of Law are best taught when those methods are followed which have been found most successful in teaching the sciences. Instruction is therefore given by daily recitations upon assigned portions of text-books, the drill of the recitation room being supplemented by lectures. In addition to their law studies the students of this Department may have the privilege of recitations and lectures in the Department of Science, Literature and the Arts, with access to the Laboratories, Library, etc.
The Law Library contains over 5,000 volumes, consisting of Text-Books, State and National reports,dlgests, etc.
The complete course includes two annual terms, each of which occupies eight and one-half months. Tuition free.
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND SOCIology Instruction in History, Politics, and Sociology is given by means of lectures, recitations, discussions, conference, and personal direction in study and research. Special pains are taken to facilitate the use of the University library by students taking these topics; authorities closely connected with the work in hand being withheld from general circulation, and rendered more available by carefully prepared card indexes.
Treats of American History in its constitutional and political bearings, Local Administration and Law, Public Finance and Banking, Constitutional Law and International Law and Diplomacy. In this work constant effort is made to determine the historic facts (as opposed to mere theorizing), to secure a fair presentation of opposing views, to promote free discussion and inquiry, to encourage as complete personal investigation of all authorities as the University library permits. This method is thought to furnish the best conditions for sound opinion and individual judgment, while controlling neither.
The courses are English History, Intellectual Development of Europe, Political Economy, Institutional History, The Rise of Democracy, Elements of Sociology, Land and Land Tenures, and a Practice Course in Economics.
AMERICAN HISTORY AND CIVICS,
A very complete outline of the work done has been prepared by Prof. Canfield and will be sent on application.
The aim in the following courses is to give a comprehensive knowledge of the great topics of his ory, and to investigate general social, political, and economic phenomena and theories—especially those of Europe.
HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC. The department of Music is organized to meet the increasing demand for general and special instruction in music of a high grade. The plan of instruction includes thorough courses
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