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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only touched on in a general way, however, in order to leave more time for subjects which can be adequately taught only in an architectural school. During the first three years of the course the History of Architecture is taken up in such a way as to give the student the familiarity with the growth and meaning of architectural forms which will provide him with a basis for practice in original design and enable him to use precedent freely and intelligently. The mathematics required in the first year, the courses in Mechanics, Strength of Materials and Building Construction...
...training in architecture, as in other professions, should in most cases preferably come after the gaining of a degree, and that it should be more of a Graduate Department. It is with the idea of encouraging men to take an academic course first, that many courses prescribed for the student of architecture coincide with a number offered in the elective pamphlet. Thus if the college course is carefully planned with that end in view it is possible to graduate in Architecture in three years after taking the academic degree, or even in two years, although this is not advised...
ELLIS AND MELLEDGE.- Real Estate and Insurance. Every student should have insurance on his furniture, clothes, and books; $2.00 and upwards. Prescott Hall-A few suites for next year, prices reduced...
...Harvard the strong points of the French School in plan and composition are profited by as far as possible, but instead of following the tradition of the Ecole in the working out of designs and especially in the treatment of detail which are often of questionable taste, the student is encouraged to found his work on a study of the noblest precedents of the past,- sources indeed upon which in the first place the work of the School at Paris is itself founded. To this end, in the school at Harvard the student is constantly surrounded by photographs and drawings...
...STUDENT VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE.- Mr. Birtwell will be in Grays 17 on Tuesday from 9 to 11 to talk with men in regard to volunteer charity work...