Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 125]

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125 The trustees have accordingly made the following classification of studies, and they require that each student shall take, each term, one study at least from the first class. The second study must be of either the first or second class, and the remaining studies from either of the three classes. Class i. Physics, chemistry, mineralogy, physical geography, anatomy and physiology, botany, zoology, geology, entomology, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, drawing, surveying and engineering, mining and metallurgy, mechanics, architecture, principles of mechanism, hydraulics, thermodynamics, strength of materials, prime movers, mill work, machine drawing, origin and treatment of soils, culture, etc., of plants, breeding of domestic animals, veterinary Science, farm products and manufactures, roads and rail roads, book-keeping, construction and use of machinery, modeling and patterns, bridges, etc., astronomy, military science and domestic science. Class I I . English language and literature, German language and literature, French language and literature, general history, United States history, ancient history, mediaeval history, modern history, constitutional history, history of civilization, logic, political economy, history of agriculture, constitutional law, international law, rhetoric and oratory. Class i n . A n y study taught in the University not enumerated in the first and second classes.

AIMS OF T H E UNIVERSITY.

The University, being both state and national in origin, its aims are defined by the following extracts from the laws of congress and of the state legislature : "Its leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."—Act of (Jorir gress, 1862, Sec. 4. " T h e trustees shall have the power to provide the requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences, to fix the rates of tuition, to appoint such professors and instructors, and establish and provide for the management of such model farms, model art, and other departments and professorships as may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and practical studies."—Act of general assembly', 1867, Sec. 1. In accordance with the two acts above quoted, the University holds, as its principal aim, to offer freely the most thorough instruction which its means will provide, in all the branches of learning useful in the industrial arts, or necessary to "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes, in the several pursuits and professions in life." I t includes in this all useful learning—scientific and classical— all that belongs to sound and thorough scholarship.