DRAFTING ROOMS.
The drafting rooms are abundantly lighted and are provided
with solidly constructed tables with locked drawers for instruments
and materials. Each student is assigned to a table and has a drawer
for his exclusive use. The regular Drawing Classes execute each
one plate a week under the supervision of the Instructor in Drawing.
The more advanced students have such additional drawings assigned
by their respective professors as are needed for the full development
of the courses of study.
Careful attention is given to the training of the students in
lettering, in the conventional signs of mechanical drawing, in the
proper lay-out of drawings, and in neat and accurate execution. Exercises
are required also in tracing and in blue-printing, the rooms
for which are conveniently arranged and in close contiguity to
the drafting rooms. While, however, technical dexterity is demanded,
the graphical method is taught and used primarily as a powerful
and indispensable instrument of research, the thoughtful mastery
of which is essential for the instructed Engineer.
The construction and theory of the Polar Planimeter, the Slide
Rule, and the Pantograph are carefully taught, and the student is
trained in the practical use of these appliances for the rapid and
accurate production of estimates and copies from finished drawings.
