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Caption: Course Catalog - 1877-1878 Version B
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College of Engineering. 35 Heating and Ventilating—The best modes of; fuels, and motion of air in flues. 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. All such papers must be on paper of regulation size, except when otherwise directed. SHOP PRACTICE. To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, a full course of instruction is arranged, filling three terms, which all architectural students are required to pursue unless the) have already had 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. First Term—Carpentry and Joinery. Sharpening Tools, Planing Flat Surfaces, at Right Angles, Uniform Width and Thickness, Framing with Single Tenons, Double Tenons, Paneling, Splices, 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, Turning, Drilling, Cutting Screws, Ornamental Work, Casting Soft Metals, Tempering. Stone Work, in Plaster, Cutting Ashler and 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, belong 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, Racinefs Ornament Polychrome, Builder, Civil Engineer's and Architect's Journal, Workshop, Skizzenbuch, Encyclopedie d' Architecture, Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament, &*c. A large Carpenter and Cabinet shop, containing full sets of
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