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

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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

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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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25 serve to supplement the laboratory experience of the student to his infinite advantage. In addition to the benefits so derived, and to those accruing from the regular subjects of study, problems of-research are assigned in order to develop the student's ability to prosecute individual investigation, the end sought being to arouse his interest and assure him at once that he can acquire the skill successfully to carry on chemical enterprises with independence and confidence. Those completing the Chemical Course are equipped to undertake professional responsibility immediately upon grad- uation, and the range of options presented in the Senior year is intended to facilitate specialization with a view to definite preparation for the student's chosen department of future professional activity. For the Freshman year there are prescribed courses in English and debating, in trigonometry, in analytical geometry, in French or German, in drawing, and in general chemistry, with an optional course in oratory. In the Sophomore year the history of the English language, the outlines of English literature, French or German, descrip- tive geometry, mechanics, qualitative analysis and blow-pipe analysis constitute the subjects of prescribed courses, and Spanish is offered as an option. In the junior year the prescribed subjects are general oratory, heat, sound, light, electricity and magnetism, quanti- tative analysis, mineralogy, metallurgy, and industrial chem- istry. In the Senior year there are given prescribed courses in general oratory, organic chemistry and theoretical chemistry, with the thesis investigation, and in addition there are offered optional half-year courses providing specialized study and practice in oil and gas analysis, in water analysis, in medical chemistry, in the testing of fabrics, in advanced inorganic chemistry, in the assaying of gold and silver, in electrolysis and electro-synthesis of organic compounds, and in the deter- mination of molecular weights.