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DEPARTMENT 0E A jRCH JTECTXJ RE aTIIF. DEPARTMENT OI- ARCHITECTURE WAS organized in the autumn of 1927. At the Commencement exercises in June this year, five of the students who were enrolled in architecture as freshmen four years ago will receive the degree of Bachelor of Architecture. This is the first graduating class in Architecture at the University of Miami. During the past four years the Department has been gradually built up until it now offers a complete course in Architecture. As the Department has grown it has been necessary, not only to enlarge its scope and the number of courses offered, but also to obtain qualified instructors in the various branches of art and engineering which go to make up the training of the Architect. There are, at present, some thirty students of Architecture enrolled, many of whom have had exceptionally good records in scholarship and some of whom have won honors for themselves and their school in competitions held in New York under the auspices of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design. These New York competitions are entered by all the important architectural schools in the country and it speaks well for the students of the University of Miami that they have been able to gain recognition in competition with such worthy opponents. The faculty of the Department of Architecture is headed by Mr. John Skinner who, before coming to Miami was in charge of the School of Architecture, at Georgia Tech. Mr. Skinner is most ably assisted by Mr. Robert Smith, whose talent, ability and fine personality have made him a most valuable asset to the Department. The courses in architecture, engineering or building construction, are second only in importance to the work in architectural design. These courses are thoroughly and ably taught by Mr. Gilbert Schreffier, a practising Structural Engineer in the Miami district. Mr. Denman Fink, whose work is known nationally, instructs in the courses in Freehand Drawing. Mr. Morris Connell, for years a practising Mechanical Engineer in the greater Miami district, instructs the Senior Class in a course called the Mechanical Plant, which has to do with the mechanical engineering problems encountered by the architect. With such a faculty, high hopes for future success are held for the Department of Architecture. Those student to receive the degree in Architecture in June are: Edward Baxter. Clinton Gamble, Walter Haring, A. J. Laing, Robert Smith, Ray Weakley.
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features are absent as there are no moving parts other than the regular propeller. This remarkable performance is due to a partial vacuum developed in the hollowed cell, that lifts much more per square foot than the common wings and therefore can be constructed much smaller, and again due to the same feature the pull of gravity causes it to act as a parachute when the forward motion of the plane has ceased, as in engine failure. The plane just completed is the third experimental plane built around this idea, and it is expected to be even greater in performance, than the previous ones, due to new aerodynamic improvements. This ‘Vacuplane', as the Lanier idea is called, heralds the dawn of a really safe aeroplane that everyone can learn to fly in as short a time as is takes to become familar with an automobile; it will cost no more than a popular priced car and can take off and land from a 50 x 50 back yard. “Dry Gas”, another decided aviation, as well as automotive, improvement, also developed in the aviation shop, more than doubles the mileage per gallon received through the old carburetion system in use. The manufacture of a perfectly dry gas from volatile liquids has been accomplished with amazing results, of greater power, no carbon deposit, no dilution of lubricants, less radiant heat, elimination of carbon monoxide in the exhaust and above all, a perfect gas of nearly 100r : efficiency—nearly doubling the cruising range, and the entire elimination of all carburetor troubles that form 50% of the gas engine troubles and engine failures. With the Alarie-Valve motor, adapted to aeronautical use by the aviation department, last year; the Dobbs 'Dry Gas’: and the newly designed Lanier Vacuplane; the University Aviation Department places before the public three of the greatest improvements that aviation has seen since its inception and they will go far in making air transportation as common as ground travel is today. The large wind tunnel recently completed and put into operation should be a boon to enthusiasts and engineers in the South as it is the only one of its size south of Virginia. It will handle models up to 42 inches and the wind velocity will be controlled by a gas engine capable of developing 160 miles per hour. That the Aviation Department has developed these ideas with the many handicaps that accompany experiments is due to student cooperation and Fred Given. 30281 LIBRARY University of Miami
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