SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Mr. Easterwood.
Students taking courses in analytical chemistry are required to pay a
special tuition fee of $40 for each course. Each student is required also to pay
a laboratory fee of $10, and to make a deposit of $10 for one course, or $15 for
two courses, to cover the cost of apparatus.
The regular work of this School, constituting a complete course in practical
chemistry, is divided into three courses, as follows:
For Undergraduates.
Analytical Chemistry B1: Qualitative Analysis: Chemistry B1 prerequisite.—Chemical
manipulation; blow-pipe analysis, inorganic qualitative analysis,
followed by practice in analysis of salts, alloys, and ores, the examination of
potable water, coal, limestone, clay and so on, including some simpler qualitative
determinations. Fire assaying of ores of lead, silver and gold. Weekly written
exercises are required and from nine to twelve hours per week in the laboratory.—(B.A.
or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 9.30-10.30. Chemical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Analytical Chemistry C1: Quantitative Analysis: Analytical Chemistry
B1 prerequisite.—Training in manipulation and gravimetric estimations, followed
by 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, and twelve hours or more of laboratory work
per week. As the student advances in the course he is encouraged to undertake
original research and assist in its prosecution.—Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
9.30-10.30. Chemical Laboratory. Professor
Dunnington and Mr.
Easterwood.
Industrial Chemistry C1: Chemistry B1 or Analytical Chemistry B1, prerequisite.—A
study is made of the chemical principles and processes of the more
important manufacturing industries. Among the subjects discussed are the
metallurgy and uses of the principal metals and alloys, the manufacture of acids,
alkalies, salts, explosives, glass, pottery, brick, lime, cement, paper, soap, disinfectants
and fertilizers; the preparation and preservation of food, including
bread, meat, sugar, etc.; dyeing and tanning, heating and artificial light. There
is a daily quiz, and weekly written exercises are required. Textbook: Allen
Rogers' Elements of Industrial Chemistry.—Hours by appointment. Chemical
Laboratory. Professor Dunnington.
Students who accomplish the work of Analytical Chemistry B1 and C1 and
Industrial Chemistry C1, together with Chemistry B1, B2, and C1, are prepared
for entering upon work in the several lines of industry.
For Graduates.
Analytical Chemistry D1: Analytical Chemistry C1, Industrial Chemistry
C1, and Chemistry B1, B2, and C1 prerequisite.—The work is adapted to the
special aims or tastes of each student, but will, in all cases, comprise some
practice in the more elaborate processes of analysis, ultimate and proximate
organic analysis, some study in analytical methods, and some original problems;
also the reading and the summarizing of extracts from current journals.
Laboratory work will be conducted daily, and suggestions and due assistance
given.—Hours by appointment. Professor Dunnington.
The Chemical Laboratory, recently completed, is of brick, fire-proof construction,
and the three floors afford 30,000 square feet of space. The seven
larger laboratories will accommodate 625 students, and, in addition to these,
there are smaller laboratories for the use of instructors and advanced students.
There are also rooms for assay furnaces, gas and water analysis, photography,
etc. The building is supplied throughout with water, gas and electricity. A
commodious working library is available for the students, containing about 5,000
books directly related to chemistry, and complete files of the more important
chemical journals.
