A New Chair In The State University, And A Complete School Of Engineering

To promote a more thorough education of mecliaaical engineera, especially those who have the charge of constructing and managing steain machinery, a law was enucted by congress ia February, 1879, authorizing the president cf tho Uuited States to detail a certain number of the offleers of the engineer corps of the United States navy to serve as professors of mechanical engineering in scientiflc schools. In accoidance with this law, the secretary of the navy, by the request of the university authorities, has appointed assistant engineer Morlimer E. Cooley, U. 8. N., to organize at the university a course f theoretical and practical studies íd raechanical engineering. Mr. Cooley is alreaiy on the ground and will enter upon the duties of his professorship at the opening of the terin in September. The establishment of this cliair, to be filed by one of the most accomplished engineers of the navy, is a very important addition to our departments of practical education. The chairs of civil and minmg engineering, the formercstablished about twenty-five years ago, the latter quite receutly, have already given the institution a reputation for solid, practical education in these professions, so important to this región of the northwest. These two departments are now supplemented by the addition of the new chair, and the university thus secures all that was wanting to meet every demand in the line of f ngiueeiing studies, and, in fact, will now possess a complete and wellrounded school of engineering. Not the least among the advaDtages afforded by the chair of mechanical engineering will be the opportunity it opens for the training of young men who desire to prepare themselves to superintend the construction of steam machinery in connection with ship building and steam navigation of the lakes. The university hitherto has conflned itself to the training of engineers for land surveying, railroad and bridge construction, and for the lako surveys. It will now be able to give instruction in a direction not less vitally connected with our great industrial interests ; it will send out engineers qualified to plan and superintend the construction of 8leam machinery, whether for manufacturing, for railroad purposes or for navigation. The teaching corps of the school as now organized, consists of Prof. Charles E. Greene and assistant Prof. J. B. Davis in civil engineering; Prof. W. H. Pettee and assistant Prof. W. B. Cheever in mining engineering and metallurgy; Prof. II. E. Cooley ia mechanical and steam engineering, and assiitant Prof. Dennison in mechanical and free-hand drawing and kiiulred