Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 33]

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1. Scientific Agriculture, embracing Soil Culture in all its Tarieties, and for all crops, Animal Husbandry, Stock breeding, feeding, etc., Veterinary Science, Agricultural Chemistry, Rural Engineering and Drainage of lands, 2. Horticulture, including Market Gardening, Fruit Growing, Management of Nurseries, Forests, Green Houses, Propagating Houses, and Ornamental Grounds. 3. Mechanical Engineering, Theory and practice in construction of machinery, pattern making and working in iron and brass. Study of the Motors, Strength of Materials, and Mechanical Drawing. 4. Civil Engineering, including Land and Government Surveys, Railroads, Canals, Bridge Building, Topographical Surveys and Leveling. 5. Mining Engineering, embracing Mine Surveys, Sinking and Tubing of Shafts, driving of Adits, and methods of working; Assaying, Treatment of Ores, and Metallurgy. 6. English Language and Liter attire. A thorough and extended course in higher Grammar, Rhetoric, Criticism and Essay Writing, to fit students for editorial or other literary work, or teaching. *7. Analytical Chemistry. Chemistry applied to the Arts, Laboratory practice with reagents, blow-pipe, and spectroscope. A lull course, to fit students to become Chemists, Druggists and Pharmaceutists. 8. Architecture. Architectural Drawing, Styles of Building, Plans, Materials, Estimates, Ornamentation. 9. Military Tactics. Manual of Arms, Squad, Company and Battalion Drill, Brigade and Division Evolutions, Bayonet and Sword Fencing, Military Arms, Roads and Fortifications. 10. History and Social Science, Political Economy, Rural and Constitutional Law. 11. Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Logic. 12. Modern and Ancient Languages. French, German, Latin and Greek. 13. Commercial Science, Book Keeping, Commercial Law, etc. 14. Mathematical Science, Pure and Applied, Natural Philosophy, Astronomy. 15. Natural History, Botany, Zoology, Geology, Physical Geography. F R E E D O M IN CHOICE O F STUDIES.

The University being designed, not for children, but for young men and women who may claim to know something of their own wants, powers and tastes, entire freedom in choice of studies, is allowed to each student, subject only to such necessary conditions as the progress of the classes, or the convenience in teaching, requires. It is not thought useful or right to urge every student, without regard to his capacity, taste or practical wants, to take entire some lengthened curriculum, or " course of studies." Liberty every where has its risks and responsibilities as well as its benefits—in schools as well as in society ; but it is yet to be proved that compulsory scholarship is necessarily better, riper and more certain than that which is free and self-inspired. Each student is exhorted to weigh carefully his own powers and needs, to counsel freely with his teachers, to choose with serious and independent consideration, the branches he may need to fit him for his chosen career, and then to pursue them with earnestness and perseverance, without faltering or fickleness.