Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 83]

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5. SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY AND MIKING.

First Fear.—Principles; outlines; palaeontology. Second Year .—Of soils and natural manures; of building materials; of road-mak:ng. Third Year.—In mines; of waters, wells, etc.; meteorology.

0. SCHOOL OF ZOOLOGY AND VETEKINAEY.

First Year—Comparative anatomy; comparative physiology; hygiene; veterinary. Second Year—Stock breeding; natural history; birds; fishes; veterinary. Third Fear—Natural history; entomology; laws of life.

7. SCHOOL OF BOTANY.

First Year.— Vegetable physiology; principles of propagation. Second Fear.—Systematic botany, (or classification); geology of plants. Third Year.—Botanj applied in agriculture; botany applied in horticulture; botany applied in the arts.

8. SCHOOL OF E N G I N E E E I N G .

First Year—Laying out farms; surveying and drafting; mechanical drawing; manual of arms. Second Year—Architecture; roads; bridges; drafting; free hand drawing; drill. Third Year—Of mines and buildings; of draining; drawing; tactics.

9. SCHOOL OF LAWS AND ECONOMICS.

First Year—Constitution of United States and of the State of Illinois; personal rights and du ties; book-keeping. Second Year—Eeal estate and transfers; roads and water courses; fences and boundaries; oook-keeping. Third Year—Of trade, commerce and navigation; of transportation; of political economy.

10. SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES.

First Year—Prench; English literature. Second Year—French; German; general literature. Third Year—French; German; ancient literature.

Mr. Pickrell moved that the Board do now go into Committee of the Whole, to consider the course of study offered by Mr. Edwards ; which motion finally prevailed, and the Board went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Johnson in the chair. The committee rose, announced that they were ready to report progress, and asked leave to sit again. A motion to receive the report of the committee was lost. A motion to allow the committee to sit again was lost. A motion to refer the scheme of study, offered by Mr. Edwards, to a special committee was lost. After some discussion, the previous question being ordered, the main question was put on the motion to adopt tb° course of study, proposed by Mr; Edwards. The ayes and noes being called for, resulted in ayes 4, noes 18, and the motion was lost. Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs. Diinlap, Edwards, Galusha and Van Osdel. Those voting in the negative were Messrs. Bateman, Blackburn, Brayman, E. L. Brown, A. M. Brown, Burroughs, Cunningham,