and iron construction, turners’ work, slating, plastering, painting, and plumbing, architectural drawing and designing, the history and aesthetics of architecture, estimates, agreements specification, heating, lighting, draining, and ventilation.  The student’s work from scale drawing occupies three terms, carpentry and joinery being taught in the first year, turning and cabinet making in the second, metal and stone work in the third.  A more condensed course, known as the builder’s course, is given to those who can only stop one year.  The machine shop has a steam engine of 16 horse power, two engines and three plain lathes, a planer, a large drill press, a pattern shop, a blacksmith’s shop, all of the machinery having been built on the spot.  The carpenter’s shop is likewise supplied with necessary machine tools, such as saws, planers, tenoning machine, whittlers, etc., the power being furnished by the machine shop.  At the date of the last University report, there were 41 students in the courses of mechanical engineering, 41 in those of civil engineering, 3 in mining engineering, and 14 in architecture.  Tuition is free in all the University classes, though each student has to pay a matriculation fee of $10, and the incidental expenses amount to about $23 annually.  He is charged for material used or apparatus broken, but not for the ordinary wear and tear of instruments.  It should be mentioned that the endowment of the Illinois Industrial University is from scrip received from the Government for 480,000 acres of land, of which 454,460 have been sold for $319,178.  The real estate of the University, partly made up by donations and partly by appropriations made in successive sessions by the State of Illinois, is estimated at $450,000.

The Purdue University in Indiana, named after its founder, who gave $150,000, which was supplemented by another $50,000 from the State and a bond grant of 390,000 acres, also provides a very complete mechanical course, with shop instruction, divided as follows: 

Bench working in wood    for 12 weeks, or 120 hours. 
Wood-turning              "   4   "     "  40  "
Pattern-making            "  12   "     " 120  "
Vise-work in iron         "  10   "     " 100  "
Forging in iron and steel "  18   "     " 180  "
Machine tool-work in iron "  20   "     " 200  "

The course in carpentry and joinery embraces:  1.  Exercising in sawing and planing to dimensions. 2 Application, or box nailed together. 3 Mortise and tenon joints; a plain mortise and tenon; an open dovetailed mortise and tenon (dovetailed halving); a dovetailed keyed mortise and tenon. 4.  Splices. 5.  Common dovetailing. 6.  Lap dovetailing and rabbeting. 7.  Blind or secret dovetail. 8.  Miter-box. 9.  Carpenter’s trestle. 10.  Panel door. 11.  Roof truss. 12.  Section of king-post truss roof. 13.  Drawing model.

The course in wood turning includes:  1.  Elementary principles:  first, straight turning; second, cutting in; third, convex curves with the chisel; fourth, compound curves formed with the gouge. 2.  File and chisel handles. 3.  Mallets. 4.  Picture frames (chuck work). 5.  Card receiver (chuck work). 6.  Watch safe (chuck work). 7.  Ball.