Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 28]

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22 Animals, Veterinary Medicines, Principles and Practice of Veterinary Science, Veterinary Sanitary Science, etc. During the Spring term there is a clinic at the infirmary, where numerous cases of diseased animals are presented and treated before the class free of charge to the owners. Instruction is usually given by lectures and illustrations from the College grounds and collections. The diversified farm crops, the living animals and plants, the collection of machinery, the buildings and appointments, are all useful in making instruction practical and possible. For those whose time is limited, a one year's course of technical study is provided. Special horticultural studies may also be chosen for one year's work. The instruction unites, as far as possible, theory and practice— theory explaining practice, and practice illustrating theory. The technical studies are taught mainly by lectures, with careful readings of standard agricultural books and periodicals, and frequent discussions, oral and written, by the students, of the principles taught. These are also illustrated by demonstrations and observations in the fields, stables, orchards, gardens, plant-houses, etc.