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Illinois Industrial University.

History of Architecture—Daily lectures on principal styles, characteristics, construction and decoration, making especially prominent those ideas applicable in American architecture, tracings of details, designs for specified problems. ^Esthetics of Architecture—Esthetics applied to architecture and allied arts, so far as yet made practical; laying out grounds, arrangement of plans, grouping of masses, decoration, internal and external, theories of color and decoration, treatment of floors, walls, ceilings, art objects, furniture, carpets, &c. About 25 original designs required for specified objects. Estimates—Method of measurement, valuing labor and materials, estimates for specified works. Agreements and Specifications—Preparation of sets. Heating and Ventilation—Usual methods, by grates, stoves, furnaces, hot water and steam apparatus; the fuels, their properties, heating value and products. Graphical Statics—Elements, equilibrium polygon and its applications; roofs, loads and wind pressures; type forms of trusses; determination of strains and dimensions of parts; details of joints; construction and use of graphical tables.

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 and Paris «Expositions, but more comprehensive, and applied to Building rather than Mechanical Engineering.

STUDENTS' WORK FROM SCALE DRAWINGS.

First Term—Carpentry and Joinery. Planing Flat, Square and Octagonal Prisms and Cylinders; Framing with Single, Double and Oblique Tenons; Splices, Straight and Scarfed; Mitre, Lap and Gained Joints ; Through and Lap Dovetails; Mouldings, Mitres and Panels.