Calendar: 1870-1871 Page 152
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APPLIED SCIENCES 151 These Students are also instructed in forging Wrought Iron and Steel and in Easter Term Moulder attends who gives practical instruction in the Art of Moulding With proper attention to the foregoing routine of procedure the Students become sufficiently proficient to be enabled to make for themselves Lathes and the apparatus connected with them Tools of various sorts Working Models of Steam- engines Boilers and other Machinery in the construction of which either Metal or Wood or the two combined are employed The Third Year's Students continue the Second Year's subjects and in addition they are encouraged to make ex- periments on the strength of Arches Beams and Girders designed and executed by themselves These Arches Beams and Girders are constructed from Working Drawings made by the Students themselves At the termination of the year Prize is given in each year for proficiency in the execution of some piece of Me- chanism the subject of which is given aut during the Lent or Easter Term In order to obtain Prize in either the Second or the Third Year the Student is required to send in with his λIodel or Machine finished form dry pattern with Core-boxes &c of at least one of the castings used in such Machinery or Model which pattern he shall himself have made accom- panied by Working Drawings of such Machinery also made by himself Every Student is expected to furnish himself with set of the simplest tools requisite for working in wood and metals In order to diminish the expense of these tools as much as possible the Student may purchase them at the College and upon his leaving they will be repurchased from him at reduction depending on the condition in which they are returned No Student is allowed to obtain tools or materials in the Workshop to greater amount than £4 in any one term without the consent in writing of his parent or guardian
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