The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-12-07

= as the students go out into the Stat
and on the farms they will be so imbue
with their habits OF care that the sigh
OF farm tools and implements left eS
, posed to the weather may soon becom
u thing of the past.
In the electrical department tb
course Is acombined one of theory an
practice work, starting from tn
beginning and continuing through t.
the design ana construction OF dynamo
ana motors. The theoretical part O
the subject is kept well up to date b,
written notes, prepared and COL tinuall,
revised by the head of the division.
While the principles taught apply
to all electrical machines, special at
tentlon is given to those machine,
most used in this State, and new
machines and apparatus are bought
from time TO time to illustrate mos
recent practice. Somo OF the more
advanced students are given regula,
employment in the college, keeping
the electric plant in repair, and the
the classes arc employed from time t.
time Installing new machinery. Some
students who wish to take this course
are disappointed to find that it re.
quires considerable knowledge OF
mathematics. Here, as in many other
| branches OF science, the way is blocked
by u luck of mathematics. There is nc
royal road to learning. A good deal
of electricity could be learned by rote.
and some OF knowledge acquired. AT
| Clemson tho student is required to
understand what he is about and get a
broad foundation on which to build
| after leaving college.
The mechanical laboratory is we'll
equipped for the instruction Of tho stu
dents in the construction and use of
the standard instruments used by
engineers for testing the quality of
coal Oil, the character Of steam fur
nished by the boiler, to see that the
boiler Is adapted to its work and per-
forming properly: the nature of the
smoke goes to determine the complete-
ness OF com bustlon. Practice is given
with the steam engine indicator to de.
termine how much OF the power devel-
opcd in the engine reaches the place
where 1T is wanted. and how much is
absorbed by friction and otherwise
wasted. Excellent machines are pro.
vided for tensile and crushing tests of
materials, as well as for transverse
breaking. There is also cement.
testing machine. The work in this
laboratory is naturally most interest
ing, being practical application OF
nearly all the theoretical and practical
training acquired throughout the
whole OF the previous course. Here
the student is brought face to face
with his own shortcomings and feels,
perhaps the first time, regret for
every hour he has missed from the
previous WORK leading up to this stage.
Work in the mechanical laboratory is
not only OF general interest to all per-
sons who GENE in contact with machin-
cry, but is especially useful TO those
who go to live c. farms, which in the
days are always equipped with more
or less machinery, and should in the
near future be supplied With still more.
1t may often make u great deal of diff
ference whether or not the owner or
manager knows how to find out the
nature Of some slight arrangement,
how to discover whether his machine
is doing its best or whether he is to be
hopeiessly dependent at every turn
upon high-priced expert from some
city hundr ed miles away.
Naturally, all the foregoing pfacti-
cal instruction Is accomplished by a
course in the theory Of mechanics,
which begins with the elementary
work in the jlnior year, and ends with
more extensive course in the senior
year demanding knowledge OF all the
mathematics the student has been able
TO acquire during the whole OF his col
lege course.
Some time is also devoted to the
theoretical study of the steam engine,
using as a textbook the comprehen-
siye work of Prof. Thurston, who Is
recognized as the best practical en-.
gineer Of modern times who has ever
written on that subject
The foregoing is only brief outline
OF the work done here in the lepart-
ment Of mechanics. To those who care
for more details we can only extend
cordial invitation to visit the depart
ment when every one will be most
pleased to show and explain every.
thing. They are proud of the fine
equipment, and most deSirious of max
ing known its capabilities and extend.
ing its benefits to the utmost boundaries
Of the State.
DEPART MENT or AGRICULT URE.
This department is divided in gen.
eral way into college or class work and
experiment station work, and yet the
two are inseparately connected, the
experiment station furnishing labora-
tory in which the students are taught
the application OF the teachings of the
lecture room to the art OF agriculture,
horticulture, etc. The department of
agriculture Is composed OF eight divi-
sions- botany, bacteri-
ology, entomolgy, dairying, veterinary,
science, agriculture, live stock and
poultry. The laboratories of this de-
partment are not confined to buildings,
but embrace the farm, orchard, vine
yard, garden, green house, cannery,
dairy and stock yard Agriculture as
an applied science" has its foundation
broadly and deeply laid in the sciences
OF geology, chemistry botany, physics,
entomology, bacteriology and veteri-
nary science.
Tho student is not only taught the
principles of these branches of natural
science, but Is taught them in their
especial application to the art of agri-
culture in the broadcast and most com
prehensive sense of the word.
After the necessary foundation Is laid
in English, history and mathematics
the student is introduced in. the first
half of the freshman year in the school
of physic to the laws and properties
of matter and the forces which act
upon it.. In the second half he builds
upon this foundation, and Is instructed
In the origin, formation, classification
and every mechanical manipulation OF
soils, their physical properties as af.
fected by meteorological conditions,
drainage, irrigation, plant growth end
decay, the use Of plough and harrow
in a word, In everything relating tC
soils and plants which does not involve