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  `. The Chemical course is one of the several scientific courses oHered by {
if the College. It was nrst offered in 1894 with the view of preparing the stu- §
dent for life work in Chemistry, and also with the view of ntting him for Y
  { the study of medicine and kindred professions. To the accomplishment of
this purpose the following course of study, extending over a period of four
years, has been adopted. _
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The first year is devoted to the study of English, German, Physiology,
Free-hand Drawing, and Mathematics, including Plane Geometry, Trigo-
A nometry, and Algebra. The second year to German, Physics, Botany,
Chemistry, and Mathematics, including Solid and Analytical Geometry and
‘ Calculus. The third year to Theoretical Chemistry, English, Calculus,
i French, and laboratory work on the Chemistry of the metals and on Quali-
tative Analysis. The fourth year to Quantitative Analysis, Organic Chem-
i istry, Chemical Reading on advanced topics, and to Chemical Research,
I History and Political Economy, Logic and Mental Philosophy. `
i For further information as to requirements, the Schedule may be con-
; sulted, page 59.
T THE ·rnA1NmG IN CHEMISTRY Pnopi-ZR.
I The study of Chemistry proper, as outlined in the above, is suiiicient in
i its scope to bring the student into close contact with the great fundamental
truths of the science and to make him enthusiastic and capable in his
. profession.
The course in General Chemistry, extending through the second and l
J third terms of the second year, consists of lectures and recitations tive times
l weekly on the non-metals and their compounds and the simpler laws of
chemical change. The lectures are abundantly illustrated by suitable and
instructive experiments; the laboratory work is carefully directed, and the
student receives every possible encouragement to do excellent work. `
In the third year the study of Chemistry is resumed, with laboratory
y work and Theoretical Chemistry. The study of Theoretical Chemistry, con-
t sisting of lectures, recitations, and readings five times weekly throughout
1 the year, is intended to acquaint the student with the greatest generaliza-
tions and theories of modern chemistry and their historical development.
In this connection about fifty lectures are delivered annually upon the fol-
lowing general topics : Ten upon the Atomic Theory, its development, and
‘ ‘ the methods at present used in the determination of atomic weights; iifteen
upon the Compounds of Carbon, Isomerism and Structural Formula; ten
_ upon the History of Chemistry; tive upon the Periodic Law; five upon the
{ F Spectroscope, Spectrum Analysis, and the Chemistry of the Heavenly Bodies;
tive upon the more important current chemical investigations.
By way of supplementing the work of the lecturer, students pursuing
this course will be required to do a certain, rather liberal, amount of general
reading upon the matter treated of in the lectures or upon such other topics
ji as may be assigned by the instructor. For this purpose the nucleus of a (