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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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91 V. PREPARATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO THIS COURSE. Candidates for the course in Agriculture and Horticulture, shall pass a thorough and satisfactory examination in penmanship, orthography, its practice and rules, reading and its principles, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and history of the United States. It is also recommended that they be prepared in algebra, geometry, natural philosophy, and physiology ; though these latter studies are notiequired. VI. GENERAL EDUCATIONAL COURSE. The committee also present the accompanying course of studies in science, literature, and art, and recommend its adoption. This is the general University or educational course, and it is so planned that while it affords a sound and liberal education, it provides for the students of the various industrial courses, the scientific knowledge they may need for a thorough mastery of those conrses. It will occupy four years, but a diligent student, of good ability, will often be able to master one of the industrial courses, while pursuing this. The studies of the course will be arranged as follows: REGULAR STUDIES. OPTIONAL AND EXTRA. FIRST, OR FRESHMAN YEAR. 1ST TERM—Trigonometry and Surveying. Structural Botany. Cicero de Senectute. Greek. French. 2D TERM—Analytical Geometry. Systematic Botany* Odes of Horace. French. Greek. 8D TERM—Systematic Botany, Greek. Descriptive Geometry and Geometrical Drawing. Satires of Horace. French Literature. SECOND, OR SOPHOMORE YEAR. 1ST TERM—Calculus. Chemistry. Zoology. Tacitus—Annals* German. Greek. 2D TERM—Chemistry. Entomology, etc. Tacitus. Greek. Phy si cs—M e chani cs. German. 3D TERM—Mineralogy. Chemistry. Physics, Rhetoric. German Literature. Cicero de Oratore. THIRD, OR JUNIOR YEAR. 1ST TERM—Astronomy. Ancient History. Geology. English Literature. 2D TERM—Geology. Modern History. Astronomy. Meteorology. English Literature 3D TERM—Logic. PV>ysical Geography. English Literature. Modern History. Butler's Analogy.
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