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School of English and Modern Languages.

FIRE PROOF CONSTRUCTION.

4F

Constructions in stone, brick and iron, for most important buildings, arches, domes and vaults in brick and stone and their centers, fire proof floors, ceilings, roofs, &c. Lectures and drawing.

SPECIAL EXERCISES.

Specimen plates will be required of each student at the close of each term in drawing, to form a part of his record. Vacation journals will be required at the beginning of 3rd and 4th years; to be retained by the University. All such papers must be on paper of regulation size.

APPARATUS.

A fine collection of casts in plaster, of various architectural details, from Lehr of Berlin. Models of roofs, trusses, stairs, &c. &c. The use of the casts, photographs &C, of the Art Gallery. A library containing many of the best English, German, French and American Architectural works, and periodicals, such as Dalyi's Motifs I-]istoriqu£.s, Architecture Privee, Racinet Ornement Polychrome-, Builder, Civil Engineer's and Architects Journal-, Workshop, Skizzenhuch, Encyclopedic dArchitecture, Penley's Water Color Painting, &c, &c. A large Carpenter and Cabinet shop containing full sets of tools; six sets of model making tools, foot lathe with slide rest, chuck, drills, &c, cross and splitting saws, planer, moulding and tenoning machine, lathe, whittle!-, &c.

BUILDER'S COURSE.

By permission of the Trustees persons desiring to fit themselves for Master Builders are allowed 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 tor 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:

BUILDER'S COURSE.

1. Projection Drawing, 10; Wood Construction and Drawing, 10; Architectural

23Drawing, 10. Stair Building and Wood Construction and Drawing, 10-Architectural Drawing, 10; Estimates, 5. Modelling and Drawing, 10; Architectural Designing, 10; Shoo practice in Stair Building, 10.