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University of Illinois.

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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; framing 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, roof trusses, 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.