Einarsson of the Department of Astronomy of the University, with Dr. Neubauer, Captain George Harding and Mr. Lew Spaulding as assistants at different times. The instructor in charge of the Engineering School at Berkeley is Mr. David W. Dickie, marine architect of San Francisco and lecturer in the University. He is assisted in the instruction by Irving M. Scott, Arthur B. Domonoske and Ernest J. MacDonald, all of the faculty of the University.

Actual sea experience is prerequisite for admission to these engineering and navigation schools of the Shipping Board, with the exception that men with engineering experience may enter the engineering schools without sea experience, on the understanding that they will go to sea as oilers, firemen, or in similar capacity for the requisite time before receiving their licenses as engineering officers from the United States Steamboat Inspection Service. The purpose of the schools is to train men to be deck officers and engineering officers in the American Merchant Marine and thereby supply the pressing call for men to take charge of the great fleet of merchant vessels recently constructed or now in course of construction by the government and private owners.

COURSES PREPARATORY FOR SERVICE IN THE NAVY

At Berkeley

In January, 1918, ten courses covering the subject matter required in the examination for the commission of ensign and two additional courses recommended as electives were offered in the curriculum of the University. These courses were based on the curriculum of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. This plan covered the following subjects: trigonometry, naval and nautical astronomy, naval history, oceanography and marine meteorology, ordnance and gunnery, seamanship, naval gunnery, naval regulations, physical education and drill, marine engineering, and naval architecture.

The ensign examination for a commission in the line requires training in ordnance and gunnery, seamanship, naval gunnery, naval regulations, and navigation and nautical astronomy. For the commission of ensign in engineering, naval regulations, marine engineering, and naval architecture are required. The courses in naval history and oceanography and marine meteorology are recommended as electives. When the course in naval history was instituted in this connection it was the second of its kind given in a university of the United States-the only other course in naval history was in the curriculum of Harvard University.

Enrollment in the principal courses in this field varied during the term from seventy-six to one hundred and eight. Of the total number registered thirty-six were members of the Naval Reserve who had been granted relief from active duty until May 15 for the express purpose of taking these courses. The students who completed the required courses with a satisfactory record were given a certificate to that effect. The number of men who completed the required courses by May was fifty-nine. There are now enrolled thirty-four others who are applicants for the certificate at the end of the Summer Session of 1918 or in December, 1918. The scholarship standing in these courses has been almost uniformly high. It is expected that after practical training on board ship the holders of these certificates will be given an opportunity to take the qualifying examinations for commissions.

The work of instruction in these courses has been carried on by members of the University faculty. Dean T. M. Putnam is now in general charge of this curriculum. Although the University has not received official recognition for this work, much personal encouragement has been received from the Commandant of the Twelfth Naval District and the officers at the training station on Yerba Buena Island. They have allowed two officers, Ensigns Sale and Bense, to conduct three of the courses in the even

ing. In addition Chief Yeoman Segure has been assisting in the course, conducting the physical exercises.

The work was recently inspected by Rear Admiral Ross of the United States Navy. It is proposed that these courses shall be continued during the year 1918-19.

COURSES IN MARINE ENGINEERING AND NAVAL

ARCHITECTURE

The University announced courses in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture on January 15, 1918. When the courses opened twenty-one students enrolled. These courses have continued throughout the half-year. The students admitted were either graduates from, or seniors in technical schools or colleges of recognized standing.

The work in Naval Architecture has been arranged in conformity with directions issued by the United States Civil Service Commission for ship draftsmen. The items included in this course relate to ship design and construction and cover in particular displacement, buoyancy, stability, resistance and propulsion, structural arrangement, specifications, drawing and design. The students enrolled have worked out a design for a steel tug one hundred feet long, and in this work they have gone into sufficient detail to see how a ship design is obtained.

A number of persons interested in the school have donated certain parts of apparatus used on board ship. Shipbuilding companies in the San Francisco Bay district have entertained the members of the class at the shipyards, showing them in detail the methods used in shipbuilding. Members of the class have also been allowed to operate certain machinery of the Key Route Ferry system, thereby demonstrating the actual working of a completed design. The work has been give nunder the direction of Professor David W. Dickie, Lecturer in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture.

Beginning on May 20, 1918, a course in Naval Architecture was given for ten or twelve weeks. This course followed in outline a special short course in Naval Architecture suggested by the United States Civil Service Commission at Washington. This work has been in charge of Mr. Dickie. It is contemplated that the work in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture will be continued at the University during the year 1918-19.

COURSES IN RADIO COMMUNICATION

During the past year, work in Radio Communication has been given in connection with the School of Military Aeronautics, a review of which has already been made. Mr. G. L. Greves of the Department of Electrical Engineering has also given a number of courses in that department. During the regular Summer Session he gave a six weeks' elementary course in Radio Communication.

A new and more complete course commenced on May 20 and continued for twelve weeks. This course is designed to cover the field in such a manner as to meet the demands of the War Department. A prospectus was received from the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, and a University committee formulated the course in accordance with those suggestions. The war application of the information given in the course is extensive and includes systems of radio transmission, including commercial and military equipment, elementary telegraphy, telephony and circuit work. It also includes code practice to the extent of four hours per week.

The prerequisites for admission to such a course, as outlined by the War Department, include certain preliminary training in electrical engineering. At the present time students of junior standing or above who are enrolled in electrical engineering, students who have had courses in electrical engineering dealing with direct and alternating current machinery and those whose practical training has fitted them to undertake the work are admitted to the course. The last class includes amateur radio operators who have had considerable experience, and who have a good understanding of the theory.