Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-17
COURSE
DECIDED UPON
MINING SCHOOL TRUSTEES AS
SIGN THE WORK OF FOUR
PROFEssORSHIPs
TO BE CREATED AND FILLED
AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE.
School Year Of Two Twenty Week
b Terms-Miss Clara Clark Enroll
as the First Pupil.

= Judge Pemberton presided at last
nights meeting of the board of trustees
of School of Mines. The principal matter
before the trustees was the report of tine
special committee, comprising President
Leonard, J. w. Forbis and c. e. Moul-
throp, with reference to the course of the
study, the professorships to be filled and
the compensation to be allowed the addi-
tional members of the faculty. The re-
port was as follows:
FirstWe recommend that the profess
sorships should be created and filled as
soon as practicable. The department will
be
l.. Chemistry and metallurgy.
2. Geology, mining and mineralogy.
8. Engineering and mechanics.
4. Assistant in drawing and engineering.
We submit the following as the assign
ment of the work of the several professor
ships
First, the Professor of Mathematics,
Freshman Year-Algebra, five hours per
week through the year; geometry, three
hours per week for the first term; trig-
onometry, three hours per week for the
second term.
Sophomore Year-Analytical geometry,
three hours per week through the year;
calculus, three hours per week through
the year.
Junior Year-Calculus. five hours per
week during first term; differential equa-
tions, two hours per week during second
term.
Second, the Professor of Chemistry and
Metallurgy, Freshman Year-Five recita-
lions weekly in general chemistry
through the year: twelve hours of labor
atory superintendent weekly for second
term in qualitive analysis.
Sophomore ~Year-Twelve hours weekly
in laboratory quantitive analysis, and
one lecture weekly in chemical analysis
for first term; eight hours weekly labora-
tory work in volumetric analysis and fire
assaying for second term.
Junior ~Year-Three Our weekly dur
ing the year in metallurgy.
4. Senior ~year-Four hours per week in
mining through the a in recitations,
lectures and excursions. This will be
increased by a lengthy excursion during
vacation for the Junior class in geology.
Fourth-Professor to engineering and
mechanics (this topic to include physics)
Sophomore year - five recitations per
week in physics m mechanism through
the year, with four hours experimenting
| in mechanical drawing in first term, and
| two hours physical laboratory work
through the year..
Junior year-Five hours recitation per
week during first term. Three hours
recitation per week in engineering during
scond term. One hour per week in ma
chine design during the year. lecture. Five
hours per week experimenting in ma
chine drawing during the year. Two lee
lures per week during second term IN
graphical states. Three hours per week
in experimenting laboratory work in
graphical states during the second term.
Senior year-Four hours recitation per
week in hydraulics and power transmits
sion during the year. Three hours per
week experimenting testing n steam
engine laboratory during the year.
Fffth-Assistant in drawing and engin-
eering-Freshman year-Fifteen hours
per week in drawing during first term.
Six hours per week drawing second term.
Two hours recitation per week in descrip-
tive geometry during year.
Sophomore year-Drawing three hours
per week during the year. Engineering
three hours recitation per week during
the second term. FOrty-five hours per
week engineering for six weeks during
vacation.
Junior year-Drawing six hours per
week through the ear.
Second-The salaries of the professors
shall be fixed at 5000 per month for the
time their services are required.
Third-The professors shall engage In
no Ounef Work requiring lnelI prolessioiifl
| skill or attention during time their SER
vices are required at the school of mines:
nor shall they at any time be engaged in
! mining in the state of Montana.
~Fourth-The school year shall be divid-
| ed into two terms of twenty weeks each.
| The first term is to begin the second
Tuesday of September, with a holiday va
| cation of two weeks including Christmas
| and New Years. The second term is q
begin Immediately after the end of the
first term.
The report was adopted.
| Miss Clara Clark, a daughter of Fl. S.
| Clark in a communication made applica-
ton to be enrolled as the first student of
the institution and her request was grant
ed.
An adjournment was then taken until
next Tuesday.