Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 200]

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188 mine each student's fitness to remain in the classes. The University cannot be held responsible for the lack of thoroughness in the common school studies of its students.

PREPARATORY CLASSES.

It is incompatible with the more appropriate and important work of the University to maintain a preparatory department; but to meet the exigencies of students not fully prepared, the Faculty will organize and instruct, during this first college year, classes in the preparatory studies, except the common school branches. When the higher classes shall be filled it will be impracticable to continue this preparatory work.

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ARTS.

The studies in this department embrace those scientific and literary branches required for a liberal education, and which are important for the most successful study of the various industrial courses. The studies of the course have been arranged to come within four years, as follows :

FIRST, OR FRESHMAN YEAR.

REGULAR STUDIES. OPTIONAL AND EXTRA.

1ST TERM—Trigonometry and Surveying. Structural Botany. Cicero de Senectute. French. Greek. 2D TERM—Analytical Geometry, Systematic Botany. Odes of Horace. French. Greek. 3D TERM—Systematic Botany. Descriptive Geometry and Greek, Geometrical Drawing. Satires of Horace, French Literature. SECOND, OR SOPHOMORE 1ST TERM—Calculus. Chemistry. Zoology. German. 2D TERM—Chemistry. Entomology, etc. Physics—Mechanics. German. 8D TERM—Mineralogy. Physics—Rhetoric. German Literature. YEAR.

Tacitus—Annals. Greek. Tacitus. Greek.

Chemistry. Cicero de Oratore.