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Caption: Course Catalog - 1892-1893
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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE. 117 COLLEGE OF LITERATURE. The object of the courses in this College is to furnish a sound and liberal education to fit students for the general duties of life, and especially to prepare them for those professions and 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 and publishers, for teachers in the higher institutions, or for the transaction of public business. INSTRUCTION. The plan of instruction embraces, besides the ordinary text-book study, lectures and practical exercises in all the departments, including original research, essays, criticism, and other work intended to illustrate the studies pursued, and to exercise the student's own powers. A prominent aim will be to teach the right use of books, and thus to prepare the students 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 large and continually enlarging stores of the library will be required and encouraged. The library is well supplied with works on history, philosophy, political science, and pedagogy, also on English, American, French, German, and classic literature. It contains at present over twenty-three thousand well selected volumes, and is constantly growing by purchase at homeand abroad. Valuable American and foreign periodicals are received regularly in the reading room. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. PHILOSOPHY. [The courses in Philosophy are open to such students only as have completed at least two years of University work.] 1. Psychology.—In this course are considered the more general problems of the mental life of the normal individual, especially those that have a living interest for the student, and find illustration in his every day life. Among the large number of topics discussed the following are the chief: sensation, relation of mental activity to bodily changes, habit, attention, memory, imagination, association of ideas, reasoning, emotion, instinct, will, localization of cerebral functions, dreams, illusions, hypnotism, and time relations of mental' phenomena. The
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