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this, the department of practical mechanics and machine construction,
is to make the student, as far as time will permit, acquainted with the
most approved methods of construction of machinery. The courses
are as follows :
Wood- working and Pattern-making. This course begins with
a series of exercises in wood-working, each of which is intended to
give the student familiarity with a certain application of a certain
tool ; and the course of exercises, as a whole, is expected to enable
the student to perform any ordinary operations familiar to the car
penter, the joiner and the pattern maker. Time permitting, these
prescribed exercises are followed by practice in making members of
structures, joints, small complete structures, patterns, their coreboxes,
and other constructions in wood. Particular attention is paid
to the details of pattern-making.
Forging, Moulding
and Foundry-work. These courses are ex
pected not only to give the student a knowledge of the methods of
the blacksmith and the moulder, but to give him that manual skill in
the handling of tools which will permit him to enter the machine
shop and there quickly to acquire familiarity and skill in the manipu
lation of the metals, and in the management of both hand and
machine tools.
Ironworking. The instruction in the machine shop, as in the
foundry and the forge, is intended to be carried on in substantially the
same manner as in the wood-working course, beginning with a series
of graded exercises, which will give the student with familiarity the
tools of the craft, and with the operations for the performance of
which they are particularly designed, and concluding by practice in
the construction of parts of machinery, and time permitting, in the
building of complete machines which may have a market value.
5. Department of Industrial Drawing and Art, (excluding
and Art : The instruction
Machine Design). Freehand Drawing
begins with freehand drawing, which is taught by means of lectures
and general exercises from the blackboard, from flat copies, and from
models. The work embraces a thorough of training the hand and
eye in outline drawing, elementary perspective,
drawing, drawing from casts and sketching
in freehand drawing may be followed by
model and object
from nature. The course
instruction in decorative
art, in designing for textiles and ceramics, in modeling, and in other
advanced studies introductory to the of study
fine art.
Mechanical drawing : The course begins with freehand drawing,
and in the latter part of this work considerable time is expected to be
given to the sketching of parts of machines aud of trains of mechanism,