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UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS: understood, and the various subjects of the philosdphifcai group, ft is taught by lectures and prescribed reading. Fail term, half study.

Professor FORBES.

Required: Zoology i, 2, 3, or 8, and Physiology 1 or 4. This course will not be offered during the year 1894-5. 2. Anthropology.—This course considers man as a psychical being. The customs, ceremonies, rites, beliefs and folk-lore, especially of primitive peoples are studied in an historical and comparative way, with reference to the common characteristics and fundamental instincts of the human mind and to the origin and growth of existing customs and social institutions. The work consists in lectures, recitations and the investigation by the student of special subjects Fall term, half study. DR. DANIELS. ARCHITECTURE. 1. Shop Practice D.—To give a practical knowledge of various kinds of work, three terms are devoted to a course of instruction which all architectural students are required to pursue, unless they have previously had equivalent practice and obtained credit therefor. 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; moldings, miters, miter-box, and panels. Second Term.—Turning and Cabinet Making. Glue joints; moldings; inlaying; ornamental veneering; turning cylinders, balusters, ornamental forms, capitals, rosettes, vases, etc. Third Term.—Construction of portions of buildings or of complete architectural structures at a reduced scale; roof trusses, stairs, frames of wooden buildings, etc., made from drawings. Fall, winter and spring terms, full study. Mr. PARKER. 2. Wood Construction. Formulae and data for computing the dimensions and strengths of columns, rods, beams, girders, etc., of wood or metal are first given and then applied in the solution of numerous examples. The kinds of wood and their uses in construction and decoration, their seasoning, shrinkage, defects, and modes of protection from decay, are next studied. The construction and design of