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Illinois Industrial University.

For ordinary drawings, not colored, a heavy, first quality, smooth drawing paper. For drawings finished in colors, the best Whatman's paper. For topographical and right-line drawings, and lettering, the#best threeply Bristol board. For problems, exercises, lecture notes, theses, and other manuscripts, and for geometrical projection, topographical, railroad, typographical, and construction drawings, paper 8x11J^ inches, the size of the plate being 8x10, with lx{ added for binding. If Bristol board is used it must be cut 8x10 inches, and the binding margin hinged on with muslin.

CONTRIBUTIONS.

Our friends and students are invited to send us specimens of material and manufactures, and drawings, models, or photographs of machinery, bridges, and other engineering and architectural works. Finished and detailed working drawings, perhaps otherwise useless, may be of great value for instruction. Illustrated circulars and price lists of manufacturing firms are desired. Contributions will be labeled with the donors' names, and placed in the cabinets of the College for the inspection of students and the illustration of lectures.

THESES.

In all the schools of this College a thesis is required as a condition of graduation. It must be an original composition of suitable Jength, upon a subject appropriate to the school, and approved by the Professor in charge. It must be illustrated with such photographs, drawings, and sketches as may be needed, and embellished with a title page neatly lettered with India ink, or colors. It must be upon regulation paper and securely bound. It will be prepared during the latter part of the fourth year and presented at the close of the course, after which it will be deposited in the library of the University. SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL.

This school seeks to prepare students for the profession of Mechanical Engineering. It aims to fit them to invent, design, construct, and manage machinery for any branch of manufactures. The State needs men who, to a thorough knowledge of the principles of machinery and of the various motors, add the practical skill necessary to design and construct the machines by which these motors are made to do work.