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

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AZesse Cato, THE CHEMICAL LABORATORY AND SHOPS.

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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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