Rose Hulman Institute of Technology - Modulus Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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for the Freshman class is now eighteen or over. In spite of added requirements, the number of students has increased from year to year, and the limit to the capacity of the lower classes has long since been reached. The Institute has had three Presidents: Dr. C. O. Thompson serving two years, Dr. T. C. Mendenhall three years, and the present incumbent, Dr. H. T. Eddy, about two years. An interregnum occurred after the death of President Thompson, and another after the resignation of President Mendenhall. These seem, however, to have produced no serious consequences, the Faculty in each case having distributed the President’s duties among themselves, and successfully performed them. Changes in the Faculty have been quite frequent, but one member of the Faculty as existing in March, 1883, being still connected with the Institute. The additional Faculty positions, Instructor in Physical and Engineering Labora- tories, and Junior Professor of Drawing, have been created since 1889. Students come to the Institute from almost all parts of this country as well as from others. Students have entered from Canada, United States of Colombia, Japan, Russia; and in our own country from California, Colorado, Utah, Wash- ington, Oregon, Dakota, Florida, Arkansas, Texas, Connecticut, New York, Penn- sylvania, and from all the neighboring States. The proportion of students from Terre Haute varies from 12 to 20 per cent. of the total enrollment, being now about 13 per cent. The Institute is the only exclusively engineering school in this part of the country, although many of the other colleges have technical courses. There are more colleges of this character in the east, but it may be said that the United States is behind the European nations in regard to the number of scientific schools. Belgium has founded thirty-six industrial schools, with an attendance exceeding twenty-five thousand; in both England and Belgium the number of pupils in pro- portion to the population is about the same—that is, forty-two to each one thou-

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Rose Polytechnic Institute. pte bd HE ROSE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE originated with Chauncey Rose ah prior to 1874. The body corporate formed under the laws of Indiana on the 10th of September of that year, took out articles of incorporation for the es- tablishment of an institution for the intellectual and practical education of young men, to be known as the “Terre Haute School of Industrial Science,” and to be administered by a board of managers. On the 10th of October the board was organized, and a committee appointed to mature plans. On the 11th of January, 1875, the corner stone of the main edifice was laid with appropriate ceremonies and addresses, and the name changed to “ Rose Polytechnic Institute,” a change persistently opposed by Mr. Rose. Gifts to the amount of over $300,000 had been made to the Institute at various times up to June 2d, 1877, when Mr. Rose resigned from the board. He died on August Ist, leaving a specific bequest to the Institute of $100,000, and constituting the same his residuary legatee. The Institute was opened on the 7th of March, 1883, under President Charles O. Thompson. The school has grown in accordance with plans at first laid down. There has been little expansive, but considerable intensive development. The curriculum at first embraced courses in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineer- ing and Chemistry, and to these has been added only a course in Electrical En- gineering. This policy consistently pursued has raised the school, we may cer- tainly say, to the first rank of special schools of applied science. The grade in the general departments, obligatory upon all students, has been constantly raised. Much better preparation and more maturity are now necessary to enable students to undertake and complete the course successfully. The average age of candidates 2»

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