Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 146]

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146 First Term—Carpentery and joinery. Sharpening tools, planing flat surfaces, at right angles, uniform width and thicknessjl^framing with single tenons, double tenons, paneling, splicing, dovetailing, sticking moulding. Second Term—Cabinet making and stair building. Paneling, chamfers, turning, 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, urning,^drilling, cutting screws, ornamental work, casting soft metals, tempering. Stone work in plaster, cutting ashler a-nd moulded work, rusticated work, voussoirs for arches, domes and vaults, carving, relief and incised.

APPARATUS.

A collection of casts donated by the Spanish government, and another of casts of various architectural details, from Lehr, of Berlin, belonging to the schools of architecture and designing; models of roofs, trusses, stairs, etc. Models in stone cutting, of splices, joints, etc., made by Schroder, of Darmstadt. 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's Ornament Polychrome, Builder, Civil Engineer's and Architect's Journal, Workshop, Skizzenbuch, Encyclopedia d' Architecture, Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament, 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, Gtc. Cross and splitting saws, planer, moulding and tenoning machine, lathe, whittler, fret saw, 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: (The figures denote the hours per week.) Fee, $10 per term. 1. W o o d construction, 10; projection drawing, 10; shop practice (carpentry and joinery), 10. 2. Stone, brick and metal construction, 10; architectural drawing, 10; shop practice, (stair building), 10. 3. Agreements, specifications, estimates, heating and ventilation, architectural designing, 10; shop practice (cabinet making), 10.