Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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' jQE ONONDAGAN SI ( allege of Applied i rintrc The College of Applied Science was started in the basement of Steele Hall in the year 1898, with nine students and two professors as a nucleus. Professor P. C. Nugent was in charge of the work-in civil engineering and Professor William P. Graham had charge of the work in electrical engineering. The first class to be graduated by Syracuse University, receiving an engineering degree, was in 1900. On June 12, 1900, Chancellor Day announced that Mr. Lyman C. Smith had promised a building for the College of Applied Science and on November 1, of that year, ground was broken for the building, which was occupied for the first time in January 1902. Charles L. Griffin was appointed Acting Dean on Sep- tember 26, 1902, and was succeeded by William Kent as Dean in 1903. He resigned in 1908. Professor George H. Shepard succeeded to the Deanship which he held for three years, Pro- fessor William P. Graham becoming Dean in 1911. The expansion of the college has been steady and from its original nine students has grown to three hundred and thirty-one, who are enrolled in the various departments of Civil, Mechan- ical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering. Twenty-nine

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