Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn - Polywog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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23 history of philosophy, in resthetics, in advanced Icomposition, in historical research and municipal problems, and in such of the Junior electives as may not already have been taken. In both the junior and Senior years free-hand drawing is offered as an option. The Course in Arts may be pursued with profit by any student, whatever the profession or occupation upon which he may enter in after life, but, for those who intend to follow the law, teaching, medicine, journalism or literature, commerce, banking, manufacturing, or any other than a strictly technical career, it is believed that this course offers peculiarly advantage- ous preparation. Q cf? , '2vI1 . I ' his I 'sg ' -- rs, ARL ,Zi g 'smkj

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22 tastes. All studies are pursued in the historical and critical method, with a view to their interrelations and the gradual unfolding of human thought. Instruction is given by means of lectures, recitations, and reports and essays based on original research. ' In the Freshman year the prescribed courses embrace the study of the theory and practice of rhetoric, the study of debating, of plane trignometry and higher equations, of general chemistry, of mediaeval history, of the German and the French language and literature: and as options there are offered courses in oratory, in descriptive analytical geometry, in free-hand drawing, and in laboratory practice in chemistry. In the Sophomore year the prescribed courses include the history of the English language, the general outlines of English literature, as well as a detailed course in Elizabethan letters, courses in zoology and geology, in modern history, in the history of the Renaissance and Reformation or the history of France, in German and French literature, with an extended course in mechanics and a course in oratory as options. In the junior year the prescribed courses include the his- tory of the English novel or of English literature during the eighteenth century, a course in nineteenth century poetry, courses in electricity, sound, heat, light, English history, and American political history, the elements of political economy, logic, argumentative composition, and German literature, while as electives there are offered courses in the science of language, in the history of art, of architecture, of education, in public finance, and sociology, in general astronomy, in laboratory physics, and courses in the Spanish language and in French literature. In the Senior year the prescribed studies embrace an extended course in comparative literature, courses in psycho- logy, ethics, the history of philosophy, and one course in German, French, Spanish, or Italian literature, while as elec- tives there are offered courses in the theory and history of literary criticism, in Anglo-Saxon, in American literature, in Chaucer, and in the English romantic movement, courses in international law and comparative constitutional law, in the

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X INORGANIC 2-?Q,q,:,3g.i7 '-n'5 l ifs'X':.iiiuii THISIS ai mowpapr THIORITICAL Q x f 1 QUALITATIVE c H E M ' S T QUANTITATIVE HETALLURGY A T MINIRALOGY as 5 INDUSTRIAL jnwg ASSAYING if -we sf -' , . 'ugh 46 N nzcrno. oRcANnc .- llN6I'I 05 The Course in Chemistry offered by the Polytechnic Institute is designed for students who intend to become analytical or manufacturing chemists, and it is well adapted also to the needs of those preparing to become teachers in this science. The instruction is given by means of lectures and recitations supplemented by a large amount of laboratory practice, of which careful records are required from all. It is the aim of the course throughout to give the amplest opportunity for applying in practice the principles laid down in text-books and lectures. Thus, in general chemistry, lab- oratory work begins at once, and the student acquires facility in handling the various forms of apparatus used in preparing gases, acids, salts, and whatever substances with which he must deal in order intelligently to pursue the more advanced subjects. The analytical courses present at first a study of known compounds followed by a study of unknown minerals, ores, and rocks, whose elements and their percentage propor- tions are required to be determined. Electro-metallurgy affords practice in the use of the plating cells, the student being confronted with the exact conditions of the successful purification and deposition of copper, nickel, gold, and silvery and the assaying of gold and silver is carried on at the labora- tory furnaces. Frequent tours of inspection to the manufacturing plants of Greater New York and its vicinity exhibit chemical pro- cesses in active operation on the most extensive scale, and