VOLUME XXXI BULLETIN OF THE CA--LIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL CATALOGUE PASADENA, CALIFORNIA DECEMBER, 1922 a.tuutrut.a PAGE Cor,LEGE CALEXD_\R ______ -----___ . __________________________________________ --------------.-- 5 OI-'PICERS: The Board of Trustees ________________ .. ________________ .. ______ 6 Officers of the Board of Trustees________ __ ________________________ 7 0 Administrative Officers of the Institute __ .. ___________ .. __________ 7 Advisory Council _______ .. _________________________________ _ _______________________ 8 Research Associates ________________________________________________________________ 8 STAPP OF INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH ______________ .. ____________ ._ ___ .. ______ 9 HISTORICAL SKETCH _____________ . __ .. ________________ • ______________ . ______________ • __ • ____ .. 27 EDUCATIONAL POLICIES OF THE IXS'l"ITUTE _________ .. ________________ .. ______ 32 GENERAL INFORMATION: Requirements for Admission_ ___ .... ______________ .. _____________________ .. _ 36 Registration .. ____ .. ____ .. __ ..... __ .... ________ . ________ . _______ . _______________ .... ___ .. 39 Regula tions and Discipline __ ........ _________ _________________________ 39 Scholarships, Prizes and Benefits______________________ 46 Libraries ____ .... __ .. __________ .... ____ .. ______ ...... ____ 52 Student Organizations __________________________ .. ____ .. __ .. ___ ....... _........ 53 Expenses .. ____ .... _.. _.. . _.. _________________ .. ____ .. _.. ___________ .. _____________ .. ________ 54 Dormitory ... ___ ........ _____ ... _.. _._ .. __ ___ .. __ .. _.. ______ .... ____ ...... _____ 55 GRADUATE STUDY AND RESEARCH: Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science. ... __ 56 Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 57 Teaching Fellowships .. __ .... __ .. _.. __________ .... _________ .. _.. .. ___ .. ___ .... _____ 58 Laboratories .. ____ .. _.. ....... __ .. ___ .. ___ .. _.. _ ___ ____ .. __________ .. ____ .. ___ .. _ 60 Advanced and Graduate Courses ........ _.. .... _.. .... __ .. _____ .. _...... 65 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: General Plan .. _.. .. _.. ... __ .... _________ .. ____ .... __ ........ _.. _____________ .. __________ _ 72 Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering. . _.. _.. _.. ____ _ 75 Engineering and Economics __ .... _.. _________ .... __ ........ __ .. _.. _.. _______ _ 76 Physics and Engineering. ..... ____ .. ___ .. ___ .. _.. _______________ .. ______ .. ____ .. 77 Physics .... __ ...... _________ .... ____ _.. __ .. __________ .. ____ .. ____ _ 7S Chemical Engineering :_ .. _ .. __________ .. ______ __ 79 Chemistry .... _.. ...... _. ........ __ .. _.. __ .. ________ .. ____ ._ .. ____ ._ ... ___ ... 79 General Courses ...... _____ .. __ ...... ___ .. _.. _.. __ SO Requirements for Graduation .. ____ .. __ SO Schedules of Undergraduate Courses __ .... _ S9 Description of Subj eds .. _______ .. ___ .. __ ...... _.. _ 99 DEGREES AND HONORS, 199'L 146 ROSTER OP STUDENTB.. .. __________ _ 14S INDEX ... ________ .... ___ .. _. ... _. ... _. . _. ......... 165 H123 1924 JANUA2R:Y JULY JANUARY JULY ~I~ 2:1~ ~'~ ~1~12:1~12:1~I_S ~1I~..1 2: ~' ~!~i~ ~IMI~ ~!2:I~ ~ _, 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .. 1 21314 5 .. 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MARCH 524________ ___ _ :\Ieeting of Registration Committees :vIARCH 18-95__ ---_____________________________________ Recess l\LmcII 526________ __ _______ Resumption of Instruction APRIL 14________ ___ __ Examinations for Removal of Conditions MAY 14 ________________ Latest Date for Removing Senior Deficiencies MAY 30__ __ ________________________ Memorial Day JUNE 9__ __ _________ End of Senior Examinations JUNE 5___ ___ _ DeJlartmental Meetings (9 A. M.) JUNE 5___ __ _________ Faculty Meeting (10:30 A. M.) JUNE 7____ __ __________________________________________ , ___________ Class Day JUNE 8____ _ ________________________ Commencement JUNE 8___ ___ _ Annual Meeting of Alumni Association JUXE 9_____ _ _ _____________________________ End of College Year JUNE 18__________ __Yleeting of Registration Committees SEPTEJ\IllER 19-521 ________________________________________ Entrance Examinations SEPTE~IllER 90 _______________ Examinations for Removal of Conditions SEPTE~TBER 24" 52.5_____ _ ___ _ Registration (9 A. M. to 3 P. M.) SEPTE::Hlum 26_____ _ __ ______________ Beginning of Instruction XOVEMBER 99-])ECl:~[BEI' 52__ __ __________ Thanksgiving Recess DECEMBER 15____ ______________ End of First Term (Hl M.) DECEMBER 92__ ___ Ylceting of Registration Committees 1994 JAXUARY 52 _____ _ _____ Resumption of Instruction JANUARY 14· ___ _ __ ___ Latest Date for Announcing Candidacy for Bachelor's Degree JANUARY 19_____ _ _ ____ Examinations for Removal of Conditions FEBRL'_tRY 22__ __ ___ Washington's Birthday MARCH 99_______ __ ____ End of Second Term l\LtRCH 529_________ ______ :\Ieeting of Registration Committees MARCH £3-30___ __ ______________________________________ Recess l\IARCH 3L_______ _______________ Resumption of Instruction APRIL 19__________ ______ Examinations for Removal of Conditions MAY 19____ ____ .Latest Date for Removing Senior Deficiencies MAY 30______________ __ ______ Memorial Day JUNE 7______ ___ _______ End of Senior Examinations JUXE IO___ __ Departmental Meetings (9 A. M.) JUNE 10__ __ ________ Faculty Meeting (10:30 A. M.) .J L'XE B___ _______________________________ __ ___ ________ Class Day JL'XE 13_ __ _______________________________ ._. __ . __ Commencement JUXE 13___ _ _____ _ ___Annual Meeting of Alumni Association JL'XE I-±.._ __ _________________________ End of College Year JUNE 23__ _ .-:\Ieeting of Registration Committees (Arranged in the order of seniority of senice.) Ter:--:l Exoires HIRAM W. "\VADSWORTH ................................................... --.. _. ... _. __ ..: 19:27 116 South El Molino Avenue. ARTHUR H. FI.EMING. . _. .... __ .. _. ... _. ... _. __ ....... _. .... _. .. _._. __ ... -................... 19.25 1003 South Orange Grove Ayellue. GEORGE E. HALE ........... _._ ...... _. ... _. . _. . _. ....... _. __ .. _._ ... __ "'_' ._ ................1 9:21 South Pasadena. CHARLES W. GATES __ ............. _. . ______________________ . _.. .... _._19:23 Fordyce, Arkansas. HENRY M. ROBINSON __ .. _. ....... _. . _. . ----.-_. ____ .... __ .. _.. ..... _.. _____ .. _1996 195 South Grand Avenue. WILLIAM H. VEDDER ................. _. .............. ___ . ___ ._ ...... _. .. _. .. _. . _. ......... 19:2.5 Altadena. JOHN WADSWORTH ........... _. ....... _. ...... _. . __ . _. ... _. . _. ........... _._ ..... _. _. ....... 1924 90 South Grand Avenue. ____ .__. ___ ..... _____ 19:23 WILLIAM C. BAKER_ ........ _. ......... Providence, Rhode Island. TOD FORD. ............................................ ___ ... _. _. ___ .. _.. . _.. . 1996 951 South Grand Avenue. R. C. GILLIS .. _. .................... _._ ... _._._ ... ___ . -.. --._._ ..... ___ .... _. -_____ . ___ ... _1991 Los Angeles. JOHN D. SPRECKELS ....................... _. ... _. ............................................1 996 San Diego. J. H. HENRY. ................................. __ .... _._. ___ ........ _. ... _. .. __ ... _. . _. ....... _. .. 1993 1199 Oak Knoll Ayenue. R. R. BLACKER. ......................................... _. __ .. _._. _._._ ........................ 19:24 1111 Hillcrest Avenue. HARRY CHANDLER ................. _. ............ _. .. _. _._ .... __ ...... 19:24 Los Angeles. HENRY W. O';VIELyENY .... _. ..... _. . ___ . ___ ._. __ .. _.. ..... 19:25 Los Angeles. ARTHUR H. FLEl\IING ............................................................ President HENRY M. ROBINSON ....................................... First Vice-President 'Yn.LLD[ C. BAKER...... .. ................ Second Vice-President JOHN 'WA DS WORTH ................. Third Vice-President and Auditor EDWARD C. BARRETT ............... Secretary and Assistant Treasurer \\'ILUAM H. VEDDER ............................................................ Treasurer FINANCE COMMITTEE ARTHUR H. FLEl\IING CHARJ"ES W. G.\TES HENRY M. ROBINSON ®ffirrrn of tJrr lluntitutr i\~miui!1trattur EXECUTIVE COUNCIL ROBERT A. Mrr.T.IKAN ......... .......... Chairman ARTHUR H. FLEl\UNG HENRY :VI. ROBINSON GEORGE E. HAJ.E ARTIIUlt A. NOYES EDWARD C. B.\nm:TT EDWARD C. B.;RRETT ................ Execlltiyc and Financial Secretary HARRY C. VAN BcSKIltK................. .. .......... Registrar l\()nl!lory QIouuril JOHN J. CARTY, Vice-President, American Telegraph and Tele- phone Company. GANO DUNN, President, J. G. White Corporation. FRANK B. JEWETT, Chief Engineer, Western Electric Company. JOHN C. MERRIAM, President, Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington. CHARLES L. REESE, Chemical Director, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. PAUL EHRENFEST, PH.D. Research Associate in Physics Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Leiden, Leiden, Holland AT.nERT AnRAHAM MICHELSON, PH.D., LL.D., Sc.D. Research Associate in Physics Professor of Physics, University of Chicagu SAJn:EL ROllINSON WILI,Lurs, Ph.D. Research Associate in Physics Professor of Physics, Oberlin College nf lJustrudinu irsrarrl1 ~taff au~ ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN, Ph.D., Sc.D. Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics and Chairman of the Executive Council A.B., Oberlin College, 1891; A.M., 1893; Ph.D., Columbia Uni versity. 1895; Assistant in Physics, University of Chicago, 1896-1897; Associate, 1897-1899; Instructor, 1899-1902; Assist ant Professor, 1902-1907; Associate Professor, 1907-1910; Pro fessor, 1910-1921; Director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1921. Vice President, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1911; Sc.D., (hon), Oberlin College, 1911; Comstock Prize, National Academy of Sciences, 1913; Sc:O. (hon.), Northwestern University, 1913; Member, American Philo sophical Society, 1914; Member, National Academy of Sci ences, 1915; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1915; Sc.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1915; Sc.D., Amherst College, 1917; Sc.D., Columbia University, 1917; President, American Physical Society, 1916-1918; Vice-Chair man, National Research COllncil, 1916-; Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. A., and Chief, Science and Research Division of Signal Corps, 1917-1919; Corresponding Member, Societe Batave de Philosophie Experimentale a go Lterdall1, 1919; Hon. Member, Royal Institution of Great Britnin, 1920; American Represen tative, Troisieme Conseil de Physique Solvay, Brussels, 1921; Exchange Professor, Belgium, 1922; American Representa tive, Committee on Intellectual Co-operation, League of Nations; Recipient of Edison Medal of the American Insti tute of Electrical Engineers, 1923. 300 Palmetto Drive. ARTHUR A~1Os NoYES, Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D. Director of the Gates Chemical Laboratory RB., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1886; S.M., 1887; Ph.D., University of Leipzig, 1890; LL.D., University of Maine, 1908; Oark University, 1909; University of Pitts burgh, 1915; Sc.D., Harvard University, 1909; Yale University, 1913. Assistant and Instructor in Analytical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1887-1892, Instructor in Organic Chemistry, 1892-1894; .Assistant and Associate Professor of OrganiC Chemistry, 1894-1899; Professor of The oretical Chemistry, 1899-1919; Director of the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, 1903-1919. Acting Presi dent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1907-1909; President, American Chemical Society, 1904. Member, Na tional Academy of Sciences, Americ8.11 Philosophical Society, ",nd American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 'Villard Gibbs Medal, American Chemical Society, 1915. 10:35 San Pasqual Street. EDWARD CECIL BARRETT, B.A. Executive and Financial Secretary B.A., State University of Iowa, 1906. Assistant Secretary, Board of Regents, 190'6-1907; Registrar and Secretary to the Presi dent, State University of Iowa, 1907-1911. 94:3 North Chester A venue 10 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HARRY BATEMAN, PH.D. Professor of Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, and Aeronautics B.A., Cambridge University, 1903; Smith Prize, 1905; Fellowship, 'l'rinity College, 'Cambridge, 1905-1911; Universities of Giittingen and Paris, 1905-1906; M. A., Cambridge University, 1906; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1913, Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Liverpool, 1906-1907; Reader in Mathematical Physics, University of Manchester, 1907-1910; Lecturer in Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College, 1910-1912; Le<.:turer in Applied Mathelnatics, Johns Hopkins University, 1915-1a1 7. 310 Commonwealth Avenue, La Canada. Mail Address: Box 100, Route ,t, Glendale. STUART JEFFERY BATES, PH.D. Professor of Physical Chemistry B,A" Mc:\Iaster University, Toronto, 1907;' M.A" 1909; Ph,D., University of Illinois, 1912. Chemist, Comfort Soap \Vorks, 'l'oronto, 1907-1908; Research Assistant, McMaster Univer sity, 1909-1910; Fellow in Chemistry, University of Illinois, 1910-1912; Research Associate in Physical Chemistry, 1912- 1913. Instructor in Analytical Chemistry, University of Illi nois, 1913-1914. 100 North Greenwood Avenue. JAMES EDGAR BE!.!., PH.D. Professor of Chemistry • S,B., University of Chicago, 1905; Ph.D. • University of Illinois, 1913. Graduate student, University of Chicago, 1908-1910; Graduate student and assistant, University of Illinois, 1911- 1913; Instructor in Chemistry, University of Washington, 1910-1911, 1913-1916. 358 South Euclid Avenue. ,V. HOWARD C!.APP, E,M. Professor of Mechanism and Machine Design E.H" University of Minnesota, 1901. Instructor in Mathematics, Uacalester College, 1897-1898. Superintendent and Design ing Engineer, Sherman Engineering Company. Salt Lake City, 1905-1909; Superintendent, Nevada-Goldfield Reduction Company, GOldfield, Nevada, 1909-1910. 95 South Mentor A venue. ROBERT L. D",UGHERTY, M.E. Professor of Mechanical and Hydraulic Engineering A.B. in Mechanical Engineering, Leland Stanford Junior Uni versity, 1909; JlT.E" 1914; Assistant in Mechanics, Lela,nd Stanford Junior University, 1907-1908; Assistant in Hydrau lics, 1908-1909; Instructor in }fEchanical Engineering, 1909- 1910; Assistant Profes~or of JIydraulics, Sibley College~ Cor nell University, 1910-1916: Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1n6-Bln. 373 South Euclid A venue, STAFF OF INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH 11 PAUL SOPHUS EpSTEIN, Ph.D. Professor of Theoretical Physics C.Sc .. :\Ioscow university. 1906; M.Sc., 1909; Ph.D'., "C'niversity of Munich, 1914. Assistant in Physics, ;Yloscow Institute of Agl'iculture, 1906-1907; Assistant in Physics, J\Ioscow uni versity, 1907-1909; Privat docent, Moscow University, 1909- 1913; Privat, docent, University of Zurich, 1919-1922. 34 South Madison Avenue. LUCIEN HOWARD GILMORE, A.B. Professor of Physics A.B., Leland Stanford Junior University, 1894. Acting Assistant, Department of Physics, Leland Stanford Junior University. 1894-1895. 649 Galena A venue. CLINTON KELLY JUDY, M.A. Professor of English Language and Literature A.B., University of California, 1903; M.A., 1907; B.A., Oxford University, 1909; M.A., 1913; M.A., Harvard University, 1917. 55 North Euclid A venue. HANS KRAMER, FIRST LIEUTENXNT Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army Professor of Military Science and Tactics Graduate, U. S. Military Academy, ,Vest Point, with rank of Second Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, 1918. Camp Ad jutant, Camp Leach, D. C., 1918. Student, The Engineer School, Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia, 1919-1920. 'With American Expeditionary Forces and American Forces in Germany, 1919. Adjutant, Engineer R. O. T. C. Camp, Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia, 1920. Z046 Meridian Avenue, South Pasadena. GRAHAM ALLAN LAING, M.A. Professor of Business Administration B.A., "C'niversity of Liverpool, 1908; M.A., 1909; Gladstone Prize in History and Political SCience, Rathbone Prize in Eco nomics, Liverpool UniverSity, 1907; Workers' Educa tional Association Lecturer in Economic History for Liver pool University, 1909-1913; Secretary, Department of Educa tion, Government of British Columbia, 1n3-1914; Director of Technical Education, Vancouver, B.C., 1914-1917; In structor ill Economks and History, UniverSity of California, 1917-1918; Assistant Statistician, United States Shipping Board, 1918-1919; Assistant Professor of Social Science, university of Arizona, 1919-1921. 1081 Elizabp.th Street.