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A BUILDING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PractTicAL MECHANICS 
at Purpur UNIVERSITY. 
By M. J. GOLpEN. 
The building was designed fcr the purpose of providing laboratories in 
which to teach students of engineering, shop practice and mechanical 
drawing, and is meant to accommodate three hundred students in the shops 
and three hundred students in the drawing rooms at one time. The me- 
chanical drawing taught is the usual elementary drawing that precedes 
engineering design, and includes descriptive geometry. The shop practice 
includes manual training and practice in the methods employed in manu- 
facturing where special tools and labor saving devices are used; this in- 
volving arrangements in the shops for demonstration work before groups 
of students. 
The principal conditions necessary for the proper carrying on of such 
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work are ample light, proper ventilation, and careful regulation of the 
temperature. 
The building is of common brick with stone trimming and the design 
was purposely made to be as simple as possible, as befits a structure for 
such purpose. The general appearance is shown in Fig. 1, 
