Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 31]

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APPENDIX.

The following courses of combined studies are here presented to aid such students as may need some assistance in making out courses for themselves. It must be remembered that each study taught in the University must be confined to its regular terms, and any selection of studies must be made with constant reference to this fact. The terms in which each study will be taught, can be ascertained by a reference to the courses in the several Departments. Other courses of study belonging to institutions of well-known fame, are added as affording valuable suggestions. A G R I C U L T U R A L COURSE. Three Suggested Courses of Collateral Study in Agriculture, prepared oy Prof. Bliss. "Chemistry is the corner-stone of Scientific Agriculture-"—DR. JKO,

A. WARDER.

"Without a knowledge of Physics, of Chemistry, and of Agricultural Geology in the widest signification, is no understanding of Plant and Animal Life to be gained. The JSTatural Seiences can never be learned thoroughly, that is, so that practical application of them can be made in life, from books or lectures. The student will grasp, understand, and assimilate mentally what he has learned and read only when he makes Chemical Experiments, Physical Experiment, dissects Plants, and investigates aad observes for himself. Practical knowledge is thorough knowledge. All superficial knowledge is unpractical. The farmer who wishes rational education, and does not devote at least a year exclusively and earnestly to the study of Physic, Chemistry, and Physiology, had better not pursue the Natural Sciences at all."—M. J.

SCHLEIDEN,

The work laid down in the following courses is designed at once to supplement and explain the Lectures delivered from time to time on the various branches of Agriculture, and to afford such general education as is absolutely necessary to progress in any direction, and which must, for the present, be provided for students here, since they do not bring it'with them. Students desiring to remain but a single year and pursue special branches during that time, will be allowed to do so. Persons wishing to spend the Fall and Winter terms of each year here, and the Spring term at home, will still be able to go on with their classes at the beginning of the succeeding year, though at some disadvantage.