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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES

Lectures on Sewage Disposal. Spring term, at 3.20, full credit Assistant Professor MCLANE. Required: Math. 4; Physics 1, 3; Arch. 2, 3. 5. ROOFS.—Elements of graphic statics and applications in designing trussed roofs. Forces, equilibrium, reactions, moments, bending moments, and shears on beams, center of gravity and moment of inertia of cross sections. Construction of wooden and of metallic roofs, mode of computing loads on roof trusses, obtaining end reactions, drawing strain diagrams, and determining sectional dimensions of members, with the designing of joint connections. Richer s Trussed Roofs. Ricker's Notes on Graphic Statics. Spring term, at 8 and at p, full credit. Assistant Professor MCLANE. Required: Math. 2, 4, 6; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1 and 2 or 4 and 5; Architecture 4 (except for students in civil and municipal engineering). 6. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.—Two terms' work, divided at beginning of Romanesque style. Commencing with Egyptian and ending with modern styles, a careful study is made of more important styles, examining historical conditions, local and inherited influences, structural materials and system, special ornaments, purposes and designs of the buildings, with the most important typical examples of each style. Especial attention given to ideas useful or suggestive in American work, and to tracing gradual evolution of architectural forms. Two recitations and two illustrated lectures per week. References made to Fergusson, Lubke, Durm, Reber, Gailhabaud, etc. Ricker's Notes on History of Architecture, Fletcher's History of Architecture. Fall term, M., W., Th., F., at 10; winter term, M., W., Th., F., at 1.15, four-fifths credit. Professor RICKEK. Required: Architecture 4, 8, 9.

7. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE (Details).—Exercises in draw-

ing at large scale the most important details of the Grecian, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Mohammedan, Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance styles. Notes and Sketches. Spring term, M., W., Th., F., at 1.20, four-fifths credit. Associate Professor WHITE. Required: Architecture 6, 20. 8. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING.—The term is devoted to the Five Orders of Architecture, and to architectural Shades and Shadows. A careful study of the proportions and details of the Orders is first made with lectures, recitations, and blackboard sketches from memory. Ware's Five Orders; Lectures on Shades and Shadows. Spring term, at 8, full credit. Assistant Professor TEMPLE.