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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY.

The course will also embrace practical exercises in making estimates for buildings; in the preparation of full and accurate specifications ; instruction in the form of Builders' Contracts ; and in the legal liabilities and rights of Builders and Mechanics. The full course of recommended studies for this School will be found in the tabular view of courses for the several Schools in the College of Engineering.

VACATION WORK..

Three Vacation Journals, and two Memoirs upon Architectural subjects will "be expected of each student during his course. These should be accompanied with sketches or drawings of the objects mentioned in them.

SCHOOL

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MINING.

This School is intended to qualify the student for undertaking mining operations of all kinds. Its instruction consists of a thorough training in the principles of theoretical and applied chemistry ; of chemical and blowpipe analysis ; of assaying and metallurgy ; and of the engineering operations of mining. The course is the same as for Civil Engineering, for the first two years. Afterwards, the following specialities are introduced. Qualitative and Quantitative, Chemical and Blowpipe Analysis. Assaying and Metallurgy.—Lectures on the processes in use in this and other countries. Laboratory Practice with the ores of various metals. Geology of Mining Districts.—Theory of mineral veins and seams. Deposits of gold, silver, copper, iron and other metals, and of coal, peat, petroleum, salt, cements, &c. Drawing.—Sections of strata ; of mines, showing the galleries, winzes, workings'and machinery; of shafts lined with stone, wood, and metal tubbing. Engineering Operations Determination of the dip and position of veins and seams, by trenches and borings; boring and drilling tools ; blasting with powder and nitro glycerine ; use of compressed air in subterranean workings ; methods of exploitation or of working out mineral deposits of all kinds ; sinking of shafts and winzes ; running of levels and adits. Journals of travel, projects and thesis upon mining topics, will be required of those who complete the course, similar to those in the other Schools of this College. Models, apparatus and plates are used in the lectures, for illustrating to the eye the principles and methods taught. Engineering instruments are used for ideal mine surveys, and results calculated from observed data. The Cabinet already contains a quantity of mining models, and about $2,000 worth in addition have been lately ordered from Europe.