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SHOP PRACTICE.

To give 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 designs executed in plaster of Paris; production of plane, rule, 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 school of Architecture and Designing; models of ceilings, roof trusses, stairs, joints, etc., Schroeder's models of joints in stone cutting, etc. The school possesses a large and growing collection of engravings and photographs illustrative of the history of architecture and its practice in all ages. 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 and power lathes; cross and splitting saws; planer, moulder, tenoning machine, lathe, whittler, fret saw, etc.