CHEMISTRY.
Chemistry 1. [Bird].
This class meets three times a week for lectures and works six
hours a week in the laboratory. It studies the fundamental principles of
General Chemistry—Inorganic, Organic, and Physical; but devotes most
of the time to the significant phenomena of Inorganic Chemistry. At
appropriate places the foundations of Analytical Chemistry are taught
and such special exercises are given as will emphasize the more important
chemical properties of the structural materials of Engineering, fuels, and
so on. No previous study of Chemistry is demanded; but to students,
who have received preliminary instruction in a chemical laboratory, the
exercises assigned are of a somewhat more advanced type. Lectures, 10-11,
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Laboratory, 12-2, Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday.
Chemistry 2. [Kastle and Edgar].
This course consists of two divisions: Part I in Organic Chemistry:
Part II in Physical Chemistry. The class meets three times a week for
lectures and works six hours a week in the laboratory. For Part II no
knowledge of the Calculus is required. Lectures, 9-10, Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday. Laboratory, 3-5, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
Chemistry 3. [Bird].
This is a course in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. There are three
lectures a week and at least nine hours a week must be devoted to
laboratory studies. Hours by appointment.
Analytical Chemistry 1. [Dunnington].
This course consists of three lessons a week throughout the session,
after each of which the students spend three or four hours in practical
experiments in the Laboratory. A course in Chemical Manipulation is
first given, then Blowpipe Analysis, Recognition of Ores, Fire Assaying
of Ores of Lead, Gold, and Silver, and a systematic course in Inorganic
Qualitative Analysis, followed by practice in the analysis of salts, alloys,
and ores, and the examination of potable water, coal, limestone, clay, and
so on, including some simpler quantitative determinations. Weekly written
exercises are required. Lectures, 10-11, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
Analytical Chemistry 2. [Dunnington].
The work of this course is also given in three lessons a week throughout
the session, each being followed by four hours or more of practical
laboratory work. This course is primarily one in Quantitative Analysis.
After some training in manipulation and gravimetric estimations, the
class pursues volumetric estimations and a full course in Quantitative
Analysis of minerals, ores, coal, soil, iron and steel, technical products,
and so on. Weekly written exercises are required. As the student advances
in the course he is encouraged to undertake original research and
assist in its prosecution; and in determining his fitness for graduation,
work of this kind is considered as having much weight. Lectures, 10-11,
Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
The laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during
all the working hours of the day.
Industrial Chemistry. [Dunnington].
This course is concerned with the applications of chemistry to the
purposes of human life. It examines in detail the chemical principles
and processes specially involved in the more important arts and manufactures;
as for example the Metallurgy of iron, steel, copper, and all
the important metals: the Manufacture of limes, cements, mortars, and
other building materials: the Chemistry of explosives, lubricants, paints,
and other preservatives. Exercises in chemical computations are regularly
required. Lectures, 3-4, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 12, Tuesday.
The collections of the University in illustration of the processes
and products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much
expense and pains in this country, England, France, and Germany,
and are extensive and good; among the best on this side of the Atlantic.
