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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

struction 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 drawing. Fall, winter, and spring terms, full study. Mr. PAKKER. 2. WOOD CONSTRUCTION.—Formula? 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 wooden floors, walls, ceilings, and roofs are then treated, and afterwards joinery, comprising doors, windows, bays, inside finish, cornices, wainscoting, etc. The construction and design of stairs of the various types terminate the work of the term. About twenty problems are worked out on as many plates by the student. Ricker's Wood, Stone, Brick,

and Metal Construction; Macfarlane's Elementary Mathematical Tables.

Fall term, full study. Assistant Professor WHITE.

3. STONE, BRICK, AND METAL CONSTRUCTION.—Foundations

of stone, brick, concrete, and on piles, are first studied. Then the materials employed in stone masonry, their uses, defects, qualities, and mode of preparation. Kinds of masonry and external finish. Tools and methods of stone cutting. The preparation of working drawings is illustrated by practical applications in the study of the arch, the vault, and the dome. Brick masonry is next examined, with its materials and bonds, and several examples are drawn. The manufacture and refining of cast-iron, and wrought-iron and steel are then studied, together with the processes of pattern making, molding, casting, refining, rolling, etc., as well as the stock or standard dimensions or sections to