OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION. President. JOHN D. RUNKLE, PH.D., LL.D. JOHN D. BUNKLE, PH.D., LL.D. Walker Professor of Higher Mathematics. JOHN B. HENCK, A.M., Hayward Professor of Civil and Topographical Engineering WILLIAM R. WARE, S.B., Professor of Architecture. WILLIAM P. ATKINSON, A.M., Professor of English and History. GEORGE A. OSBORNE, S.B., Professor of Mathematics EDWARD C. PICKERING, S.B., Thayer Professor of Physics, and Director of the Rogers Laboratory. SAMUEL KNEELAND, A.M., M.D., Professor of Zoology and Physiology. JOHN M. ORDWAY, A.M.,* Professor of Metallurgy and Industrial Chemistry. JAMES M. CRAFTS, S.B., Professor of Organic Chemistry. ROBERT H. RICHARDS, S.B., Professor of Mining Engineering, and Director of the Mining and THOMAS STERRY HUNT, LL.D., Professor of Geology. GEORGE H. HOWISON, A.M., Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science. WM. RIPLEY NICHOLS, S.B., Professor of General Chemistry. CHARLES P. OTIS, PH.D. Professor of Modern Languages. CHARLES H. WING, S.B., Professor of Analytical Chemistry. HENRY L. WHITING, U. S. Coast Survey, Professor of Topography. HENRY MITCHELL, A.M., U. S. Coast Survey, Professor of Physical Hydrography. ALPHEUS HYATT, S.B., Custodian of the Boston Society of Natural History, Professor of Palæontology. The instruction in Botany is at present given by Prof. Ordway. CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION. To be admitted as a regular student of the first year's class, applicants must have attained the age of sixteen years, and must pass a satisfactory examination in arithmetic (including the metric system of weights and measures), algebra through equations of the second degree, plane and solid geometry, including spherical geometry, French grammar through regular and irregular verbs, and the first two books of Voltaire's "Charles XII" (ie., about sixty pages) or the equivalent of the same, English grammar, including, especially, the ability to detect the parts of speech, to use correctly the conjugation of verbs regular and irregular, to classify terms as Singular, General, and Universal, and to analyze phrases and sentences, English composition, rhetoric (so much as is included in the first part of Bain's Rhetoric, or its equivalent), history of the United States, and geography. In general, the training given at the best High Schools, Academies, and Classical Schools, will be a suitable preparation for this School. Graduates of Colleges will, in general, be presumed to have the requisite attainments for entering the third year as regular students, and may do so on satisfying the department which they purpose to enter that they are prepared to pursue their studies to advantage. Such students, if deficient in any of the scientific studies of the first two years, will have opportunities for making them up without extra charge, and will be required to pass an examination in them before entering upon the studies of the fourth year. Should they be already proficient in any of the general studies of the third and fourth years, they will be excused, if they wish, from attendance on the exercises in these subjects. |