Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1884-1885 [PAGE 59]

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College of Engineering.

APPARATUS.

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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, etc.; Schrceder'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 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 schedule. Fee, $10 per term.

BUILDER'S COURSE.

1. Wood Construction; Projection Drawing; Shop Practice (Carpentry and Joinery). 2. Stone, Brick, and Metal Construction; Architectural Drawing; Shop Practice (Stair Building). 3. Graphical Statics ; Architectural Designing ; Shop Practice (Cabinet Making).

ARCHITECTURAL COURSE. Required for the Degree of B. S. in School of Architecture. FIRST YEAR.

I. Trigonometry; Projection Drawing; Shop Practice; French. S. Analytical Geometry; Descriptive Geometry and Lettering) Shop. Practice ; French. 3. Advanced Algebra; Graphical Statics; Shop Practice; French.