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Caption: Course Catalog - 1890-1891
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. 43 lectures, and especially by the application of principles to practical cases; engravings, photographs, and models are employed as illustrations. Drawing is practiced during the entire course, and designing is introduced early, so that original work is done whenever possible. Drawing from casts and modeling in clay give command of the hand, facility in sketching, and a knowledge of beautiful forms. Shop practice comprises elementary forms and joints in carpentry and joinery, and experience in cabinet-making and turning, as well as the construction of models of architectural structures at a reduced scale. SPECIAL STUDIES. Elements of Drawing.—Lectures; designs for specified problems; outline sketches and finished drawings from casts, in pencil, crayon, charcoal, etc. Water Color Painting.—Practice in elementary landscape painting and sketching from nature in water colors. Wood Construction.—Materials and tools; frames, floors, roofs, ceilings, domes, heavy frames, roof trusses, stairs, doors, windows, cornices, etc.; external and internal finish. Stone Construction.—Materials, mortars, and cements; concrete; walls, foundations, arches, and vaults; tools and processes of stone-cutting. Brick Construction.—Material, bonds, walls, arches, vaults, centerings, terra cotta, tiles. Metal Construction.—Manufacture and uses of cast iron, wrought iron, and steel; forms employed in construction; connection by joints, rivets, pins, etc.; columns, lintels, girders, and beams. Tinner's Work, Slating, Plastering, etc. Sanitary Construction.—Principles of sanitary science; plumbing, water supply, and sewerage; uses of engineering; instruments in surveys for drains, buildings, etc. Architectural Drawing.—Preparation of a set of drawings as practiced in offices; conventional coloring; drawing the orders; finishing drawings in line, ink, sepia, and color; architectural shades and shadows. Architectural Perspective.—Study and application of the practical methods explained in Ware's Perspective; original designing in perspective applied to practical problems. Architectural Designing.—Original sketches and finished designs for specific projects. Several problems are given each term, progressing from simple to complex. Drawings neatly finished in shade and colors. History of Architecture.—Careful study of the leading historical styles, their derivation, characteristics, construction, applications; most im-
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