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Exercises and Practice.

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Healing and Ventilation—Usual methods, by grates, stoves, furnaces, hot water or steam apparatus; fuels, their properties, heating value, and products. Problems and applications to specified buildings. 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 plates must be on paper of regulation size, except when otherwise directe I.

SHOP PRACTICE.

To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, three terms are occupied in a course of instruction, which all architectural students are required to pursue unless they have already had equivalent practice. first Term—Carpentry and Joinery. Planing flat, square, and octagonal prisms, and cylinders; fiaming with single, double, and oblique tenons; splices, straight and scarfed; miter, lap, and gained joints; through and lap dovetails; mouldings, miters, and panels. Second Term—Turning and cabinet making; cylinders, balusters, capitals and bases of columns, vases, rosettes, etc.; fret sawing, plain and ornamental veneering; inlaying, carving, and polishing. Third Term—Metal 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, rooftrusses and stairs, joints, etc.; Schroeder's models of joints in stone cutting, etc. The casts photographs, etc., of the Art Gallery. In the library, many of the best English, German, French, and American architectural works and periodicals. A large carpenter and cabinet shop, containing full sets of tools, for shop practice; foot lathe with slide rest, chuck, drills, etc.; cross and