Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880 [PAGE 44]

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42 these, we find ten Boman Emperors, Hippocrates, Socrates, Demosthenes, Cicero, Lord Bacon, Dr. Johnson, Gladstone, Washington, Webster, Douglas, Lincoln, etc. There are twenty-eight busts of smaller size from the best artists. Bas-Reliefs.—Forty-two pieces. We name, as among the prominently noticeable ones, the Architrave of the celebrated Ghiberti gates in the Baptistery at Florence, Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Assyrian Sculpture excavated in 1848, Lion Hunt, Four Seasons, etc. Medallion Beads.—Large size, twenty-seven; smaller, four hundred and ninety. These have their names stamped upon them. Engravings.—There are fifty-four beautiful engravings from paintings, by Baphael, Landseer, David, Hessig, Turner, Hogarth, etc. Photographs.—Two hundred and thirty-two. Boman views, views of Venice, Switzerland, of noted paintings, of bas-reliefs, etc. Portraits.—Four hundred and seven lithographs of eminent personages, mostly French, with name, date and other information marked on each.

D E G R E E S AND CERTIFICATES.

The law provides that "on recommendation of the Faculty, the Trustees may authorize the Begent, as President of the University, to issue diplomas to such persons as shall have completed satisfactorily the required studies, and sustained the examination therein, conferring such Literary and Scientific Degrees as are usually conferred by universities for similar or equivalent courses of studies, or such as the Trustees may deem appropriate." Approved May 11, 1877. In accordance with the law, the following system of Degrees has been adopted by the University: 1. All studies will remain as heretofore, free. Each student may choose and pursue such studies as he may desire, subject only to such conditions, as to preparation, times of study, and number of studies, as may be necessary to secure efficiency in classes and economy in teaching. 2. But students who wish to be candidates for any degree must complete fully the course of studies prescribed for such degree. 3. Students not candidates for any degree will be enrolled as special students, and will receive at the close of their attendance, if not less than a year, the certificates provided by law, with statement of work done and of credits attained. 4. It is designed that the requirements for all the Bachelors' Degrees shall be, as nearly as possible, equal in amount and value. 5. The Degree of Bachelor of Science, B. S., will be given to those who complete either of the courses of study in the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, or Natural Science. The name of the School will be inserted after the degree. 6. The Degree of Bachelor of Letters, B. L., will be given to those who complete the course in the School of English and Modern Languages.