Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-20
ARIZONA MINES COLLEGE HAS
 ADVANTAGES
Field Work, Short Courses and Opportunity of Employment Are Features Which Cannot Be EXcelled Elsewhere.

TUCSON. June l9.-Plans for sey.
 eral statutes which are unique in the
 mining educational world and which
 are certain to add materially to the
 rrestige and importance as well as
 10 the attendance Of the College of | Mines of the University of Arizona. ! have recently been announced by ! Professor Willis of that school Three ! of the new features planned are not only unique, but of such a nature thai ! they can not be carried out as sue. cessfully at any other school of mines
 in this country, and they are such that they should. during the next few years, aid in placing the local institu. tion in the front rank of technical schools.
 These three features. which will add materially to the practical use fitness of the local school and attract a large number of students from all parts of the country. are Field work for Senior students, occupying halfI of the time spent in the fourth year of the course, and an arrangement with the mining companies of the state whereby positions are practically guaranteed graduates of the school as well as summer positions for the undergraduates
 Three Years Investigation.
 The plans for these new departures have been announced after three years Of investigation and considera- | ton on the part of Professor Willis and with the cooperation and appro- | val of both Dr. Wilde and President | yon KleinSmid In explaining the | new system of short courses, Profes- sor Willis said:
 Many schools Of mines have given | short courses but these courses do lit- tie more than give a thirst for further | knowledge which, of course, is de. | sirable objective. The usual two | weeks to three months short course | endeavors to cover the whole field of | mining within that time. It is, there, fore group Of lectures covering a bare outline of the whole industry | with no complete knowledge of any | one subject or any one branch of the | industry. lt is extensive training and | usually given to men whose minds are prepared only for intensive train ing It is unusual to find men that are interested in all branches of min. ing being interested possibly in pros. pecting but caring nothing about the yagaries Of rock drilling; or being in- terested in underground work but not in milling practice.
 Short Course Planned
 With the idea of correcting this fault there is to be given at the Ari- zona College Of Mines eighteen two weeks short courses, each subject to be given alone and intensively for two weeks with the theory and prac- tice, lecture and laboratory, and with work in the necessary affiliated sub jects. Thus one subject can be thor Oughly covered by the student Anil lated subjects may follow each other in regular order and the student may spend two, four six, eight or any num- Der of weeks, each course being dis tinctly related to the course both be- fore and after it. Instruction will be given in the following order: Ele- mentary minerology and blowpipe an alysis, elementary surveying, elemen- tary geology and petrography, field geology, prospecting, assaying, cyan idation concentration, mine black mine timbering, practical mining other than underground, prac- ucal underground mining. use and care of rock drills, electricity applied to mining, mechanics applied to min ing, gas engines, cost accounting and and copper smelting practice
 Practical Course.
 The arrangement is So designed that students wishing to take allied subjects take them consecutively. A student whose chief aim is prospect ing should take the first five or six courses One interested in the me- end of mining should take courses thirteen to sixteen One iu- terested in the extraction of metals should take courses six to nine, or one for a position as shift boss should take from ten to thirteen. and SO on through the combinations The field will be used largely as a labora- tory and the work will be as practical ,
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