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TIIK DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL EN
GINEERING Instruction In civil engineering hnfl
been given In this I'nlyersity Hlncc
1877 We hnvo liacl n fully organized
clepaitmont since 1884 The first course
was outlined and the first Instiuetion
was given hy Col. Edgar S Dudley.
II S A . at present Judge Advocate of
the Division of Culm, at that time
.serving as oui first commandant of
cadets Piofessor C N Little, an
alumnus ot the Unlveislt, now pio
lemoi or mathematics In Lcland-Htan-rord
was the (list head of the depnit-
ment
The list ot (ill enginceting gtad
nates (ontains the names of thltty
men Two of these are dead, and six
me in lines or work entirely outside
of engineering All of the others ate
i ngaged In the practice of civil engi
neeiing or in some closely allied
woik. In addition to the men whose
names are on the list of graduates,
there are a number of able englnoeuH
who have only partially completed the
com so or who have graduated fi'om
othei courses, but have taken civil
cnginceiing electives.
The legislations for work in the de
partment last acmesler were OH In num
boi. A list piepaied In the registrars
olllco shows that 14 students registered
In the civil engineering gioup last
semester Nearly all of these students
aie In the lowei classes, as the demand
foi men on outside work has been such
that advanced students have been
tempted to Withdraw fioin the I'nlvei-
sit and engage with emplojers of
(Uglneeis A majority of these have
expiessed the Intention of retmiiliu
to complete the comse but experlen
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in the oast shows that the sac i lllce- " ,
a piofUablo and atliactlve position
calls ten mote than the oidinniv de
vice of adheieiicc to a good mmiIii
t ion
In ipspeet to equipment, we have' a
rail lv adequate suppl.v or the Held and
ollice implenit nts and inst i unients and
the substantial beginnings of a laborn
toiv foi the. study of the propVitics of
the materials ot roustructloii The
uu).st Interesting and valuable item of
laboiatory equipnieut is the Richie
testing machine, by menus or which
nnv load up to a maximum ot MM) tons
may be applied to deteiniine the
st length and othei i elated ph.vsicnl
piopet ties ot a sample ot niateiial
tt.ll.e.U subjected to tensile compios
sive, oi tiansveise stiesscs For the
piesent and until fiuthei notice the
eli paitmont will undeitake upon ie
(litest to make tests of all materials
of e oust! notion which aie Nebraska
pioducts, and charge only the bare cost
of the woik thorefoi. The same nile
will apply (n the case of all other tests
to which sufficient public interest or
vah rtfutt acljH.
Some of thpvopular misapprehen
sions ipgardlng civil cngltiperlng have
at times stood in the way of the prog
icss of the department, and for that
reason occasion will be taken here to
make note of one or two of them. It
has been assumed that surveying con
stitutes the whole of civil engineering,
while the fact is that iu nearly all
.blanches of civil engineering a knowl
edge of surveying is necessary, and,
consequently a majority of civil en
gineers are competent surveyors On
the other hand, however, a knowledge
of engineering is not necessary to an
understanding of the art of surveying,
Jin das a consequence many competent
and even expert survoyois are ndf In
the least degree engineers Another
idea which is prevalent is that unless
a young man Intends to take up engi
neering aa a profession, that there is
no motive for him to take an engl-
neerlng couise The registers of grad
uates of the older engineering schools
show that this Is a mistake A large
peicentage of those whose courses
weie completed mote than ten years
ago are found In executive positions
connected with large Industrial con
cerns. Indeed, it seems that the most
attractive oppoi tunlties for the average
voung man who is an engineering grad
uate are outside of stiietly profes
slonal work, for the reason that there
lies the path of least resistance to his
matetlal progiess In puiely engineot -lng
work his competltois for position
and advancement are men who have
had equal advantages Theie aie other
Holds for the employment of his ener
gies, wherein as yet the man with the
full complement of desirable technical
training Is rarely found In such a
field, recognition comes early to the
young engineer who has supplemented
his education by a very few yeais of
engineering training in outside woi k
and who masters also the rudiments of
the work In hand
O. V. I HTOl'T
THE AMERICAN MAN.
did TMiyfllcul Condition ux Compart
Willi 'I lint of l.iirop'iiin.
The most impottant. because the
most fundamental, of ptohleins con
corning the quality of the Amencan
man concerns his physical condition
as omp.ii'Ril with that of bib kindred
Lejoiul the sea As to this point the
evidence Is so cle.u th.it it needs little
dixi-iiHsinn It is evident tint the
American Indian- a i ae e cvuloutlv on
the giound foi m my thousand veai1-
'before the coming id the lOinopMiis
''' ' "'" hospitable Kor
K.l 'H'iu llinv m oi ii i om i itl. nlil i t ill to
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velopi i .ml though untitled foi
stadv labiu, i hull bndle.-, wenj well
made and ciidinliu- Taking th ii
p a e, tin not t ll I'.l l ip 'litis 1 epic sent
in a wide ian;e ot local v.i.ntlcs
English. Iiish lil ; lia'i 1 Scotch (lei
mar.ii. Si 'iudini ia.. . Noimins, I'teiuh
mil man v c I' . ,;i imp , of old
w hi !d Miplc . I' '.ini e then mi
plantation a I; mi Led veai-i or moil
a ;o .shown that the area of the con
tinent tiom the R o Ciande to the fai
not th Li as - nit -el to on kind as Ls hiij
1 1 1 o! the caitli This is sutllciently
piovod In the htitl-. us ot Ainciicat)
s 'ldieis, g.ithei i d din mi g the civil war,
the Aineiic ii while ii.an ot familleib
longc-i in th.i coi i.t: v i.. on the uv
ci.r;.- ' .i i -.t i thii hi-. Eui p"an kins
man ihe imicasc being mainly in the
i ie nf head and chest it i? further
indicated b the endiiiance of hob'1
men in the tiiils ol tin- so'.dlci lite
and bv the lomai liable peicuutago of
rocov oiies fic)in wounds This endur
ance ot wounds was icgardcd hy the
late Di U'ovv n-Sequaid as a feature
common to all the mammals of thla
continent, being, as he churned, on the
bat-ib of an extensive experience, as
chaiacteribtic of American rabbits aa
of American men. Moreover, the
statistics of life-insurance companies
doing business iii this country appear
to Indicate that the expectation of life
is greater here than In the old-world.
International Monthly.
Tim IiivomIiiii of II n lid Ills m.
The Huddhlsl outpost recently estao
lished in San Fiajuclsoo Is not all of
the Invasion, writes a coriospondent In
the Philadelphia Times. Already the
lounder of the mission in this country,
Fonoda, is In Berlin where on April
7 Japanese officers, legation attaches
and tiavelers joined iu the celebration
of Buddha's birthday Nlahljlma, who
came as Sonodu'a akslstant, ls In the
interior of California, -av lng tho way
to the establishment of missions at
Saciamento and Fresno At Sacra
mento a temple 1b about to bo erected,
the other 'You'll be ruined. Don't
$6,000 having been raise i already for
buj lng the grouiul.
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