University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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? r Department somewhat, but the war is over now and we hope the flu will soon vanish. The immediate future is uncertain but after conditions become adjusted to a peace basis, the outlook for engineering in general and civil engineering in particular should be good. All things point to a good enrollment next fall and we hope several of our civil engineering boys will be back from war service and bring some good new men with them. Acting Dean H. P. Bordman Id 24

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SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING SINCE the last Artemisia was published, the Civil Engineering Faculty has been increased in size and efficiency by the acquisition of Professor C. R. Hill, who came to the University of Nevada October, 1917. His particular branch of civil engineering is structural engineering and he came fresh from the bridge department of the New York Central Rail- road where he had worked for several years designing bridges and other structures. The department no longer being a one man department, is able to cover the broad field more effectively than formerly. The Packard Mining Camp was the scene of the struggles of the summer surveying class of 1917 and most of the members of that class have since done valiant service for their country, sometimes in camps affording no more of the luxuries of home life than did the three tents of the Packard Survey Camp. During the year 1917-18 most of the civil engineering students forsook the campus for more exciting fields of action and judging by their letters some of them found others besides college professors who demand strenuous mental effort. But one of our civil engineering students stayed long enough to earn his sheepskin in that eventful year, because it took Uncle Sam three trials to find out how to get him. That same Uncle Sam needed him so badly that he finally had to reach down one-half inch to get him, but did it just in time to snatch him away from final examinations. However, Billy made his com- mission in the Engineering Corps in spite of missing the important drill of Senior final examinations. The writer went East on United States Explosives Plant construction m March, 1918, leaving Prof. Hill to try out the one man department scheme for the balance of the year. Incidentally, in that Eastern job the writer noticed that among engineers from all parts of the country the Western men did not have to ask any favors of the Eastern men. The Section B, S. A. T. C, took most of the writer ' s time, October t6 December inclusive, again disorganizing the work of the Civil Engineering Qxz m !■ iW lHflifljWUMItMiliffiMHflM irtiMflWitHtiMaiB 23

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m IIIIIINIIIIIillllilllllllllllllllllllllNllilllilNIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllinillllllllllllllllllllllllllllNilllilllllllllllllllllNIII MACKAY SCHOOL OF MINES lllil!llllll{!lllllllllliillllllllllNllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|[||||]l!mil1lli|lllllll![| THE attendance at the Mackay School of Mine ' s was more seriously affected by the war than that of any other department of the Univer- sity, f alHng from 43 in 1 9 1 7 to 1 1 in the fall semester of 1918, or about one-fourth of the normal figure. The outlook for the future, however, is most encouraging as not only did the registration for the second semester increase, but there is every indication that a much larger class will enter in the fall of 1919. The total number of mining graduates to date is 141, while 7 honorary degrees of Mining Engineering have been granted. Owing to war conditions just noted there have been no mining graduates during the past two years, but the honorary degree of Mining Engineering was conferred upon Robert E. Tally of the class of 1899 who is now superintendent of the United Verde mine at Jerome, Ariz. The mining laboratory has been greatly improved during the past year by the installation of a compressor of sufficient size to run a small piston drill. This makes it possible to operate the machine drills belonging to the laboratory which could not be done with the old compressor on account of its slow speed. The number of drills belonging to the laboratory has been increased by the gift of a small piston drill and a hammer drill by the Cochise Machine Com- pany so that the laboratory now has six machine drills. The Wyoming Shovel Works also kindly donated ten varieties of mining shovels which will give students a chance to experiment with a muck stick. A new departure during the past year was the opening of the School of Mines Laboratories to the public under certain necessary restrictions. Prior to the recent action of the Board of Regents, anyone who wished to use the laboratories must first register as a graduate student, but this is now unneces- sary. The change is of great benefit to the mining industry of Nevada, since the state possesses no public testing laboratories. The Mackay Museum has recently been rearranged for the first time since the Panama-Pacific exhibits were installed. The left hand side of the Museum is now given up to a classified collection of minerals and rocks which will be specially valuable for the use of students, while the right hand side 25