WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC IN STITUTE, a professional school of engineer ing and chemistry located at Worcester, Mass. It was founded by a gift of $100,000 from John Boynton of Templeton; was chartered in 1865, and opened to students in 1868. Since that time its resources have been largely increased both by private benefactions and State donations. Though one of the earliest schools of the kind in the United States, it has in every way kept pace with the progress in scientific and technical education, and is recognized as one of the lead ing American technical schools. From the time of its organization, laboratory and shop work have been a distinctive feature of its plan; it was one of the first schools to emphasize the import ance of laboratory methods and the first in the United States to establish a workshop as an essential part of the training in mechanical engineering. The institute offers five courses of four years each leading to the degree of B.S.; these are mechanical, civil and electrical engi neering, chemistry and general science. English, political science, French or German, and mathe matics are included in all courses; the work of the freshman year is practically the same for each course; with the sophomore year the special work of eac.b course begins. The work of the junior and senior years of the general science course is largely elective; otherwise the courses are practically all prescribed. Graduate courses are provided leading to the degrees of M.S., D.S., M.E., CE, EE, and Ch.E. The students maintain a Christian association, student branches of the national engineering societies, chapters of several Greek fraternities and an athletic association. The institute publishes a
hi-monthly Journal, containing original arcades on technical and scientific subjects by the alumni and faculty and news of the institute and gen eral scientific progress. The students publish a weekly paper. The institute campus comprises 34 acres on a slight elevation in the northwestern part of the city; it slopes on the north to In stitute Park and includes a large athletic field with a quarter mile track, gridiron and baseball diamond. The buildings on this campus are Boynton Hall, the Washburn shops (pattern, machine and forge), the Salisbury laboratories (chemistry, physics), the electrical engineering laboratories, the mechanical laboratories, the purser laboratory, the foundry, the magnetic laboratory, and the alumni gymnasium and the Alden hydraulics laboratory at Chaffinsville, five miles distant. The laboratories and shops are all excellently equipped; the library in 1919 contained 17,096 volumes including departmental libraries; the Worcester Free Public Library, 230,00) volumes in 1919. is alsoto students. Free tuition is given to 40 chusi tts students in consideration of which the institute receives an annual State appropriation. Mr students in 1919 numbered 474, and have averaged over 5(X) for the past 10 years; the total number of graduates was 2,075.