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Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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College of Engineering. 51 Second Term—Turning and Cabinet Making, Cylinder, Balusters, Capitals and Bases of Columns, Vases, Rosettes, &c. Fret Sawing, Veneering, plain and ornamental, Inlaying, Carving and polishing. Third Term—Metal and Stone Work, Pattern Making, Moulding and Casting, Filing and Finishing, Drilling, Screws, Hand and Machine Turning. Stone Work, executed in Plaster of Paris; Production of Plane, Ruled, Warped and Spherical Surfaces; Voussoirs of Arches, Vaults and Domes; Decorative Carving. 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 ceilings, roof-trusses and stairs, joints, &c.; also Schroeder*s models of joints in stone cutting, &c. 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, Racinets Ornament Polychrome, Builder, Civil Engineer's and Architects Journal, Workshop, Skizzenbuch, Encyclopedia d' Architecture, Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament, Falke's Art in the House, American Architect, Prang's Illustrations to History of Art, etc., etc. A large Carpenter and Cabinet shop, containing full sets of tools, nine sets of shop practice tools, foot lathe with slide rest, chuck, drills, etc. Cross and splitting saws, planer, moulding and tenoning machine, lathe, whittler, fret saw, etc BUILDER'S COURSE. The Trustees allow persons desiring to fit themselves for Master Builders 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 for 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: (The figures denote the hours per week). Fee, $10 per term.
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