and are accompanied by lectures on the theory of design. It is aimed in giving this course in design to lay a basis of correct thought and habit in the solution of architectural problems, while guarding against servile copyism of "style" on the one hand or a vagrant tendency toward eclecticism and picturesqueness on the other. It is attempted to ground the student in the principles that underlie good design; to familiarize him with that which is good and true in his art, and to inculcate habits of earnest and conscientious study that shall make him capable, as an architect in the future, to take up the problems presented in active practice and give them a direct, simple, and scholarly solution.

The subject of architectural history is taken through Egyptian, Assyrian, etc., Greek and Roman, early Christian, Romanesque and Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, and modern architecture by means of lectures supplemented by recitations. These lectures are illustrated by lantern slides. The history of ornament is treated in the same

manner.

In "measured drawing" (the measuring of buildings already erected and drawing them to scale) the students receive a drill which unites, in a measure, their practical studies in working drawings and their theoretical studies in design and rendering. The course has a practical character, given it by the lectures on construction, the visits to technical establishments, and the making of architects' working drawings, the last being part of the sophomore year's work, and the first two running through the sophomore and junior years. This phase of the course has a two-fold value (a) in giving a practical character to the course, and by so doing checking a too ready tendency on the part of the student to regard architecture as a thing of pure theory, and (b) by giving the student a certain amount of drill that enables him on entering an architect's office to make himself of immediate use. These studies are allied to the scientific branches described below. The purely professional part of the curriculum is completed by lectures and demonstrations on sanitary science, acoustics, professional practice, specification, estimates, etc. Mention must be made of the work required during vacation. This insures a continuity of attention to the main subject throughout the four years of the course. The student is advised to spend the greater part of his vacation in an architect's office, but may substitute for this a certain amount of sketching, the requirements being so framed that they need not deprive the student of any needed rest and relaxation, while still necessitating some form of activity in architectural work.

The scientific studies are selected because of their close relationship to the main subject. In the earlier years they furnish an indispensable mental training while giving the student a basis of scientific knowledge for application in his later studies and in his after career as an architect. These studies are, in freshman and sophomore years, alge

bra, trigonometry, geometry (solid, analytic, and descriptive), chemistry, and physics. In junior and senior years the science studies are of direct application to architectural practice and comprise graphical statics, mechanics of materials, surveying, and geology.

The third division of the curriculum, giving the general culture studies, properly includes the above-mentioned science studies of the freshman and sophomore years. Added to these are rhetoric, English, composition and English literature, French and German, and general history. These studies have a great practical advantage for the student, both for the purposes of general education and for the future usefulness of the young architect. In English composition and literature he obtains a drill in writing and an acquaintance with the best models by which alone he can learn the correct use of his mother tongue, while a reading knowledge of French and German opens to him the wide field of the untranslated literature of architecture.

Two new courses were opened in the department on this, the beginning of its third year; the two years' special course in architecture, and the two years' course in interior decoration. The latter, lying strictly within the province of the school's work, provides a thorough course of study and fits its graduates to practice "interior architecture." It is under the charge of Mr. Herbert E. Everett, of the Course in Decoration, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The two years' special course offers to draftsmen from architect's offices, with limited time at their command for study, the advanced, subjects from the professional part of the four years' course.

The School of Architecture offers the following courses: The four years' course, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture; the two years' special course, granting a certificate of proficiency, and the two years' course in Interior Decoration, granting a diploma. The school also provides all instruction in free hand and mechanical drawing for freshmen and sophomores in the Towne Scientific School, free-hand drawing in the course in biology, and architectural history in the senior year of the Civil Engineering Department. The school had outgrown the quarters given to it in 1891-292, and the suite of rooms shown in the accompanying plan was assigned to its use in the present year-1892-'93. To these is added the modeling room, located in another part of the college building. The school, in its rapid growth and steady gain in efficiency, owes much to the generous help given it in instruction by busy professional men on its lecture corps and in its professorship in art. From the first these gentlemen have shown a most unselfish interest in the welfare of the school, strengthening the hands of the regular corps of instruction by assuming instruction in subjects with which they were specially conversant and giving time beyond this to the various engagements of faculty and committee meetings.

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THE CORPS OF INSTRUCTION IN ARCHITECTURE.

The corps of instruction in those branches pertaining specially to architecture is made up as follows:

Warren P. Laird, professor of architecture, in charge of the school of architecture, design, history of architecture, the orders, construction.

Charles E. Dana, professor of art, water-color.

Julian Millard, instructor in architecture, instrumental drawing, elements, shades, shadows, perspective, and elementary design.

Edmund A. Stewardson,' instructor in modeling, modeling in clay, junior class. Wilson Eyre, jr., instructor in pen and ink, pen-and-ink drawing, junior and senior classes.

Herbert E. Everett, instructor in drawing, free-hand drawing, all classes.

LECTURERS ON ARCHITECTURE.

Theophilus P. Chandler, jr., architect.

Walter Cope, architect, history of Gothic architecture.

Frank Miles Day, B. S., architect, history of Greek and Roman architecture, history of Renaissance architecture.

Wilson Eyre, jr., architect, theory of design.

Barr Ferree, New York, history of architecture.

Frank Furness, architect.3

Addison Hutton, architect, building construction.3

John Stewardson, architect, history of ornament.

Joseph M. Wilson, architect and civil engineer, building construction.3

LECTURERS BY APPOINTMENT, 1891–92.

George C. Mason, jr., architect, history of early Christian, Romanesque, and Byzantine architecture.

Austin W. Lord, architect, rendering of architectural drawings.

LECTURERS ON SANITARY SCIENCE.

John S. Billings, M. D., LL. D., director of the university hospital and lecturer on sanitary engineering.

A. C. Abbott, M. D., first assistant lecturer on sanitary engineering.

1 Deceased.

2 Subjects unassigned at date.

3 Retired from faculty in 1893.