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SHOP PRACTICE.

To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, and the proper mode of doing them, a full course of instruction is arranged, of three terms, which all architectural students are required to pursue unless they already have equivalent practice. The system is similar to the Russian system, so much admired at the Centennial Exposition, but more comprehensive, and applied to building rather than Mechanical Engineering. Tools, material, and tuition free of charge. First Term—Carpentery and Joinery. Sharpening tools, planing flat surfaces at right angles, uniform width and thickness; framing with single tenons, double tenons, paneling, splices, dovetailing, sticking mouldings. Second Term—Cabinet Making and Stair Building. Paneling, chamfers, turning, setting locks and hinges, fret sawing, veneering, buhl, reissner and inlaid work, carving, stairs, hinges, strings, setting balusters, squaring and moulding rails. Third Term—Miscellaneous. Finishing in shellac, oil, wax and varnish; polishing, painting and ornamenting; gilding, metal work, filing, turning, drilling, cutting screws, ornamental work, casting soft metals, tempering. Stone Work, in Plaster, Cutting Ashlar and Moulded Work, Rusticated Work, Venssotts for Arches, Domes, and Vaults, Carving, Relief and Incised.

APPARATUS.

A large collection of casts, donated by the Spanish government, and another of casts in plaster, of various architectural details, from Lehr of Berlin. Models in stone cutting, of Splices, Joints, etc., made by Schroeder of Darmstadt, belonging in Schools of Architecture and Designing, Models of roofs, trusses, stairs, etc. The casts, photographs, etc., of the Art Gallery. A library containing many of the best English, German, French, and American Architectural works and periodicals, such as Daly's Motifs Historiques, Architecture Privee, Racinet Ornement Polychrome, Builder, Civil Engineer's and Architect's Journal, Workshop, Skizzenbuch, Encyclopedic d'Architecture, Penley's Water Color Painting, etc. A large Carpenter and Cabinet shop containing full sets of tools, six sets of model-making tools, foot lathe with slide rest, chuck, drills, etc. Cross and splitting saws, planer, moulding and tenoning machine, lathe, whittler, etc.

BUILDER'S COURSE.

The Trustees allow persons desiring to fit themselves for Master Builders to take a course of a single year, pursuing such technical studies of the course in architecture as they may be prepared to enter upon with profit, and as will be most advantageous to them. Candidates for the Builder's course must pass the examinations in the common branches, but need not pass in the Studies of the Preliminary Year unless they shall desire to pursue other studies than those marked in the following: 1. Wood Construction, 10; Projection Drawing, 10; Shop practice (Carpentery and Joinery), 10. 2. Stone, Brick and Metal Construe-