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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880
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34 COLLEGE OF LITEKATUEE AND SCIENCE. SPECIAL FACULTY. The EEGENT, Professor SNYDER, Dean, Professor PICKARD, Professor CRAWFORD, Professor SHATTUCK, Professor BURRILL, Professor TAFT, Professor WEBER, CHAS. E. PICKARD. SCHOOLS. English and Modern Languages. Ancient Languages and Literature. OBJECT OF T H E SCHOOLS. The object of the Schools in this College i s s t o furnish a sound and liberal education to fit students for the general duties of life, and especially to prepare them for those business pursuits which 'require a large measure of literary and scientific knowledge and training. They meet the wants of those who wish to prepare themselves for the labors of the press as editors or publishers, for teachers in the higher institutions, or for the transaction of public business. Students in the Agricultural and other Technical Schools, desiring to educate themselves as teachers, writers, and professors, in their special departments, require a knowledge of the ancient, as well as the modern languages, to give them a full command of all the instruments and facilities required for the highest proficiency in their studies and proposed work. The University seeks through these Schools to provide for this important part of its mission—the furnishing of teachers to the industrial schools of the country, and investigators and writers for the arts. INSTRUCTION. The plan of instruction embraces, besides the ordinary text-book study, lectures and practical exercises in all the departments, including original researches, essays, criticism, proof-reading and other work intended to illustrate the studies. pursued, and to exercise the student's own powers. It is designed to give to all the students voice culture and a training in elocutionary practice. A prominent aim will be to teach the right use of books, and thus to prepare the student for self-directed investigation and study, which will extend beyond the curriculum of his school and the period of his graduation. With this view, constant use of the already ample and continually enlarging stores of the library will
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