the school of Political Science; the old main building used partly for the School of Mines and partly for the undergraduate and graduate courses; the School of Mines, and the President's house. These buildings occupy the grounds described in previous reports to the Regents, comprising the land contained between the Fourth and Madison avenues and Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets. Estimated value of college buildings and grounds appurtenant thereto... The number of volumes in the general library, including bound pamphlets, is 22,065, estimated value... $796,000 00 59,546 00 In the Law Library, in use for the Law School, there are about 6,800 volumes of the estimated value of 18,500 00 The library of the School of Mines consists of 7,757 volumes of the estimated value of In the botanical there are 1,354 volumes, estimated to be worth. 32,065 00 5,302 00 The apparatus and cabinets of the School of Mines are valued at.... 34,400 00 160,350 00 25,600 00 Total amount invested as above for purposes of education.... $1,131,763 00 16. DESCRIPTION AND VALUE OF OTHER COLLEGE PROPERTY. 1. Real estate. Consisting of parcels of land in the city of New York situate in College Place, Park Place, Murray, Barclay and Greenwich streets, leased by long leases and yielding a net revenue of five per cent on a capital of... Also of 264 lots of land (as now divided) described in previous reports, situated between the Fifth and Sixth avenues and Forty-seventh and Fifty-first streets. The rents reserved by the leases of this estate yield a net income of five per cent on a capital of. .... $2,116,760 00 2,041,786 80 In this amount is included a mortgage on land near Carmansville, upon which is now due $354,453.16 without interest; which mortgage represents an investment made in that form, with a view of eventually taking the title and using the land as a site for the college if it should hereafter appear expedient ... Advances to the School of Mines $1,000 showing the total estimated value of the property of the college, except so much as is included under head 15 to be 572,345 60 $4,730,892 40 This property is subject to the endowment of a professorship by a legacy of $20,000, and to the endowment of several free scholarships. 17. DEBTS. The total amount of debt contracted by the trustees and remain ing unpaid at the end of the year, was...... The interest accrued on the debt in the same year was. $91,240 00 3,493 74 18. REVENUE. 1. Amount charged for tution fees: Of students in the School of Mines. Fees for diplomas in the college. In the School of Mines In the Law School 3. Receipts from students of the School of Mines for breakage and supplies.... 3. The interest derived from the personal funds which was collected or is collectible 4. Income from other sources: Rents collected ..... Interest on rents.. Rents for the year in arrear and unpaid. Proceeds of sale of apparatus.. Total revenue 19. EXPENDITURES. The whole expenditures, applicabte to the said income, paid or payable for the said year, are as follows: Salaries for general administration Expense of treasurer's and clerk's offices, insurance and taxes in $19,200 00 cluding water rates. 1,877 89 Interest accrued during the year on the debt 3,493 74 Repairs to and furniture for the president's house 838 61 Salaries and compensation of professors, officers and servants of the undergraduate department Fuel and all other incidental expenses of the undergraduate depart ment. 18,365 34 Salaries of professors, officers and servants of the School of Mines, 61,214 18 Fuel and all other incidental expenses of said school 2,031 62 Salaries of professors, officers and servants of the Law School.. 29,306 96 33,230 00 143 65 Fuel and all other incidental expenses of the last mentioned school, 8,151 65 THE SCHOOL OF MINES. $257,959 86 The object of this school is to fit young men for the scientific professions, and especially to qualify them to take charge of mining and metallurgic works. Instruction is given by lectures, practice in chemical and metallurgic laboratories, and the working out of schemes proposed by the teacher for the establishment of metallurgic works or the operation of mines. The course extends over four years, during two of which all the students pursue the same branches. During the third and fourth years, five parallel courses are offered to the student's choice, viz.: 1. Mining Engineering; 2. Civil Engineering; 3. Metallurgy; 4. Geology and Natural History; 5. Analytical and Applied Chemistry. Candidates for admission to the school must be seventeen years of age, and must pass a satisfactory examination in Arithmetic, includ ing the metric system of weights and measures; Algebra, through simple equations; and Geometry, to the end of the fifth book of Davies' Legendre. Graduates of colleges and scientific schools are admitted at the beginning of the second year, on presentation of their diplomas, without examination. Course of Instruction. 1. In Mathematics the first class received instruction five times a week, the subjects being Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Mensuration. The second class has attended four times each week, and completed the subjects of Analytical Geometry and Calculus. 2. In Mechanics, the third class attended twice a week, going over the entire subject of the Mechanics of Solids and Fluids. 3. In Practical Astronomy, the engineering students of the third class were instructed once a week, the portion of the subject to which the instruction was confined being the determination of time and the determination of latitude and longitude. 4. In Descriptive Geometry, Graphics, Stone-cutting and Drawing, the instruction has been given partly in the recitation room and partly in the drawing academy. The first class has had one lecture a week on drawing, and has practiced free-hand drawing and sketching. The second class has attended twice each week in Descriptive Geometry and Graphics, and has practiced topographical drawing, tinting, grading and architectural drawing, besides executing problems in Graphics. The third and fourth year students in Engineering have practiced mechanical drawing. Owing to the fact that the students in the course of Civil Engineering are no longer required to pursue Analytical Chemistry, they have been able to devote much more time to drawing than formerly, and their progress has been much more satisfactory in consequence. 5. In Physics, the first class attended three times a week, going over heat, light, sound, magnetism and electricity. The third class attended twice a week, going over the undulatory theory, electro-statics and the theory of heat. 6. In Zoology, the second class attended one lecture each week throughout the year. 7. In Botany, the second class attended one exercise each week dur-. ing the second session. 8. In Geology, the third class received three lectures each week, going over Lithology; Cosmical, Physiographic and Historical Geology, and Palæontology. The fourth class attended lectures twice a week on Economical Geology. 9. Crystallography was taught to the second class during the second session by two weekly conferences, illustrated by crystal models and natural crystals. 10. Blowpipe analysis was taught to the second class during the first session, by two weekly conferences. 11. In Mineralogy, the third class were twice instructed a week. 12. In General Chemistry, the first class attended three lectures each week, the portion of the subject discussed being elementary principles, the non-metallic elements, and the more important metals. The second class attended three times a week; the first session was devoted to inorganic chemistry, the second session to organic chemistry. 13. In Applied Chemistry, the third and fourth classes received two lectures each week throughout the year. The subjects considered were: 1st. Food and drink, including milk, cereals, starch, bread, tea, coffee, sugar, fermentation, wine, malt liquors, spirits, vinegar, and the preservation of food; 2d. Clothing, including textile fabrics, cotton, linen, wool, silk, bleaching, dyeing and calico printing. Two years are occupied in the discussion of Applied Chemistry, two classes attending together; the topics not treated this year being the subject of next year's lectures. 14. Qualitative Analysis was taught two hours a week in the lecture room to the second class in all courses save civil engineering. In addition, the students individually executed all the operations of Qualitative Analysis in the laboratory. 15. Quantitative Analysis was taught to the third class, one lecture a week having been given during the entire year upon the methods; one lecture a week during the first session on Stoichiometry, and laboratory practice to both the third and fourth classes, except in the course of Civil Engineering. 16. Assaying was taught to the fourth class in two lectures a week during the first session, and by laboratory practice during the entire year. Each student was required to execute a full series of assays of ores of lead, silver, gold, tiù, antimony, etc., as well as of gold and silver bullion, and to treat considerable quantities of ore by crushing and amalgamating. 17. Laboratory work in Organic Chemistry received an unusual amount of attention during the past year. In previous years the students have devoted their attention chiefly to mineral analysis, and there has appeared to be but little time for the extended work necessary to fairly initiate them into the methods of organic chemistry. 18. The third class attended two lectures each week in Metallurgy, on fuels, furnaces, iron and steel. The fourth class attended two lectures a week on copper, lead, silver, gold, zinc, tin and mercury. There was given also a special course of one lecture a week during the second session on the Practical Metallurgy of Steel, to the fourth class. 19. Surveying was taught to the third class during the first session by two weekly lectures, and. by practical field work in the Central Park. 20. Engineering in general was taught by two lectures a week to the third class, and four lectures a week to the fourth class. In the fourth class two lectures were also given each week on Civil Engineering, and two on Mining Engineering. Railroad Engineering was also made the subject of three lectures a week to the fourth class. 21. Machinery and Mechanical Engineering was taught by two lectures a week to the third class, and three lectures a week to the fourth class. There was also a volunteer class on Saturday for practice in the use of tools, and a summer class for practical work in machine shops. 22. Practical mining was taught to the third class in two lectures a week during the second session. The fourth class had the advantage of a summer course of actual work in the copper mines of lake Super ior, during the vacation of 1879, and received three lectures a week during the first session of the present year. 23. Ore dressing was the subject of three lectures a week to the fourth class during the second session. 24. Book-keeping for mine accounts was the subject of a short course of special instruction. 25. French and German were taught to the first and second classes in sections; each student in the first class attending three exercises in French and three in German each week; and each student in the second class attending two exercises each week in each language. Examinations. Monthly examinations have been held on all subjects taught in the school, with the most satisfactory results. Resident Graduates. The return of eleven graduates of the school for the purpose of pursuing post-graduate courses of study has been a very satisfactory feature of the past year. Excellent work has been accomplished in several branches of investigation. The Cabinets. Most valuable acquisitions have been received to all the cabinets of the school; mineralogical and metallurgical specimens, rocks, fossils, chemical specimens, models illustrating machinery, mining, ore dressing, furnaces, apparatus for various special operations, pictures and diagrams. LAW SCHOOL. 1. GENERAL STATEMENT. The course of study in the School of Law occupies two years, and is so arranged that a complete view is given during each year of the subjects pursued. The plan of study comprises the various branches of common law, equity, commercial, international and coustitutional law, and medical jurisprudence. The first year of the course is devoted to the study of general commentaries upon municipal law, and contracts and real estate. The second year includes equity jurisprudence, commercial law, the law of torts, criminal law, evidence, pleading and practice. Lectures upon constitutional law and history, political science and international law are delivered as occasion may require, through both the senior and junior years. Those on medical jurisprudence are delivered to the Senior Class. In the department of municipal law each class is divided into two divisions. This arrangement is made to meet the convenience of students. Any student may join either division of his class as he may prefer. Ten hours are occupied with this department in each week. Attendance at the lectures is expected and compulsory. One division of the senior class is in session from 9:30 to 11 A. M., the other class from 4:30 to 6 P. M. One division of the junior class is in session from 11 A. M. to 1 P. M.; the other from 3 to 4:30 P. M. Attendance at the other lectures delivered in the school is optional. |