Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 36]

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of study, and makes it possible for the member of any other course to engage in it as an optional study. The members of this class will officer the companies, and act as drill sergeants and instructors for the lower classes. As collateral studies for such as make this course a specialty, are recommended Mathematics and Surveying, English and Modern Languages, Drawing, one term of Chemistry, History and Political Economy. FIRST YEAR.—First Term.—School of the company; bayonet fencing. Second Term.—Battalion and skirmish drill; bayonet fencing. Third Term.—Brigade and division evolutions; target practice and theoretical instruction on the rifle and fire arms. SECOND YEAR.—First Term.—Military administration; reports and returns; army regulations and military laws; sword fencing. Second Term.—Outpost and picket duty (Mahon's); sword fencing. Third Term.—Military fortification, field and permanent; military bridges and roads; target practice. THIRD YEAR.—First Term.—Artillery practice; field artillery; drill at the cannon. Second Term.—Military engineering; cavalry tactics, theoretical. Third Term.—Art of war (Jomini) ; military history and statistics; organization and administration of armies. There is formed now a battalion of four companies, officered by the students of the military class, and battalion drill and skirmish were practiced last term. APPARATUS. The value of an institution of learning will depend largely upon the amount and character of its apparatus of instruction—its means of teaching to the eye. No other teaching is so rapid and effective as this. It has been the policy, from the outset, to provide the University the best and most complete means of illustration, and constant additions are being made to its apparatus in all departments. CHEMISTRY.—This department is furnished with a working laboratory, in which tables are already provided for a class of 24 students, to work a t once, with all the appliances needed for making chemical analyses, including the Bunsen Burner, the Spectroscope and the Hibbs' Assaying Furnace. In addition to the usual reagents and apparatus required for laboratory work, and already supplied, there is to be added this summer nearly $3,000 worth of new apparatus, including a Sacharometer, a Ruhmkorfs Coil, a Karrenberg's Polarizer, a Thermo Electric Pile, and other valuable pieces for illustrating the relations of light, heat and electricity to chemistry, so that the best facilities will be furnished for acquiring a thorough knowledge of this science. As soon as students shall have become acquainted with the general principles of the science, no pains will be spared to familiarize them with it in its applications to agriculture, and other industrial pursuits, and to awaken in them a love for scientific investigation. They will have access to minerals,