Before the classrooms in Barney-Davis Hall hosted English and environmental studies, they were home to Denison’s engineering science students. (That’s right. We once had engineering science students–and it was a popular major, too, with more than 100 students, out of a student body of 800, enrolled in the program during the 1920s.) Surveying courses, such as the one pictured here, were part of the program’s civil engineer- ing coursework, and required students to measure, calculate, and record direction, distance, and elevation using standard field equipment. Denison’s program tapered off around World War I as men left campus to fight.
Published April 2011