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Freshman.

9-10, M. W. F.

521. Plane Surveying.

Lecture courses: Theory, uses, and adjustments of compass, level,
transit, and stadia. Special methods of land, city, topographic and mining
surveys. Survey computations and maps.

Field course: Practical use of chain and tape, level, compass, transit,
and stadia. Field notes, records and reports.

523. Mechanical Drawing.

Lecture courses: Plane problems, conic sections, graphic algebra.
Projections of prisms and pyramids; of cylinders, cones and spheres; of the
plane sections and intersections of solid bodies.

Practice course: each week the student executes a finished plate
15″ × 20″ of exercises in mechanical drawing based on the lectures.

523. Descriptive Geometry.

Lecture course: Fundamental problems on the point, line, and plane.
Projections, tangencies, and intersections of curved surfaces. Applications
to shades and shadows, problems in mining, and so on.

Practice course: each student executes a weekly plate 15″ × 20″ of
problems based on the lectures.