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ment a month of field practice after the close of the regular University year. Students will go into camp and engage in this field work. This practice is to be optional with those students now in school, but will be required of all entering the department hereafter.
The Civil Engineering Department of the University of Kansas is recognized among the best engineering schools of the country. Graduates of the school are to be found in almost every state holding positions of importance and trust.
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics has grown in the last few years both in the work it undertakes and does and in the number of students enrolled.
While various causes have contributed to this growth, the principal cause is the energy and activity of the head of the department, Prof. L.I.Blake.To Prof. Blake's ability as a teacher and organizer the school owes, in great measure, the prominent place it now holds among the electrical schools of the United States. Largely to his industry and brilliancy does the University owe the new Physics building. This building is but a just reward of the work of the man whose department will occupy it. This building when completed will be the most complete physical laboratory west of the Mississippi. It will be built expressly for the making of experiments in electricity and magnetism.
The work done in this department is of the most thorough character. In addition to the regular recitation and lecture work, students are required to spend considerable time in the Physical laboratory and in the machine shops.
The Physical laboratory is furnished with all the improved testing instruments and apparatus for experimenting. This laboratory is always crowded, and the increased facilities which the new building will give are very much in demand.
The machine shops take up a greater part of the floor-space of the engine house. In these shops are machine-lathes, screw-cutting machines, and other valuable machines. Students are practiced in all kinds of machine and
lathe-work and blacksmithing. To this department belongs also the electric lighting plant, which furnishes the current for the more delicate experiments of the laboratory, and for the lighting of the entire Main building.
This department, like all other departments of the University, is very crowded. Students come here from all the western states. With the fine laboratories which the new building will furnish and the increased facilities for original research which it will afford, there is no reason why the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering of the Kansas State University should not become the greatest school of its kind in the United States.
PHILOSOPHY.
"To think just to be thinking," is the definition which was once given for logic. To a certain extent this is true. But in the study of logic one is taught not alone to think but is practiced in the proper way of thinking. To think is natural, but to think aright is an acquired art. The first principles of right thinking are taught in the elementary course in logic offered by the department of philosophy. Offered with it and as supplementary to it is the course in psychology. In this study one is taught how he thinks and the effect his thinking has upon himself.
Following these elementary courses are the courses in experimental psychology and advanced Logic. In the course in experimental psychology the action of the brain and nerves in the lower animals is studied to show by analogy the action of the human brain and nerve centres. The first half of this course is spent in the laboratories of the department of anatomy, where by practical observation the action of the various nerves and nerve tissues are noted. The course in advanced logic is, as its name indicates, but a farther study of the right way of thinking, and gives the student a deeper insight into the power of thought.
Courses are also offered by this department in history of philosophy, metaphysics, and aesthetics.
This department like all other departments
opinions held by a portion of the brethren it is a sin to be manly, to take an active interest in athletics. A student is expected to do nothing but absorb great quantities of facts, and go to Sunday school. It is no matter if he breaks his health in study. He must not take part in vigorous games. One portion of the brethren have opposite opinions and have advocated football with more ardor than truthfulness, and are now undergoing the pleasure of a church trial for their pains.
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