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Caption: Course Catalog - 1878-1879
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College of Engineering. 55 grounds, planning buildings for various purposes, grouping their parts, external and internal decoration, harmonies of color ; general principles of decoration by form and color, for wall paper, hangings, carpets, furniture, etc. Estimates—Practice in measuring, valueing of materials and labor for all kinds of builders' work and in making out full sets of estimates. Agreements and Specifications—Lectures on, and preparation of, complete sets. 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 they 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, Splices, Dovetailing, Sticking Moulding. Second Terin—Cabinet Making and Turning, Paneling, Fret Sawing, Veneering, Inlaying in Veneers and Solid Wood, Carving, Finishing and Polishing. Turning Single Forms, Sphere, Vase Plaque, Rosettes. Third Term—Metal and Stone Work. Pattern Making, Moulding, Casting, Chipping, Filing, Turning, Cutting Screws, Ornamental Work. Stone Work executed in Plaster of Paris ; Plain Ashler, Moulded Work, Voussoirs of Arches, Domes and Vaults, Carving, incised and in relief.
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