Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 34]

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26 It is necessarily required : 1st, That students shall be thoroughly prepared to enter and keep#pace with the classes in the studies chosen; and 2d, That they shall take these studies in the terms in which they are taught in course. It is expected that each student shall have three distinct studies, affording three class exercises each day. But on special request to tbe Faculty, be may be allowed less or more, to meet the exigencies of his course. No change in studies can be made after the beginning of a term, without permission of the Faculty. It is recognized that students will often need advice in the selection of studies and in the arrangement of a proper course. To meet this need the Faculty have carefully arranged several courses of studies which may be wisely followed by those who have no special reasons for diverging from them. Due care will be taken to prevent, as far as possible, all abuse of the liberty of choice. Students failing to pass satisfactory examinations in their chosen studies, will not be permitted to remain and take other studies without a vote of the Faculty.

DEPARTMENTS AND COLLEGES.

Heretofore the courses of instruction have been exhibited only under the headings of the several Departments. It is found desirable, in order to aiford a clearer view of the actual work of the University, to add the sub-divisions into Colleges. This implies no change in the character or plan of the University, but only the adoption of a usage now common in the American Universities, to exhibit more impressively the several courses of studies. A Department embraces a single branch of study, taught usually by a single professor and his assistants, as the Department of English Literature, or of Mathematics. A College includes a combined course, made up of the several branches needful for some one calling or profession. Thus, in the older universities, there were Medical Colleges and Law Schools, and in the new Industrial or Polytechnic Universities, are found Colleges of Agriculture, of Engineering, of Mechanical Science, etc. Under the following several Departments will be found an exhibit of the nature and extent of the instruction afforded in each of the several branches of learning taught in the University. The student may learn from this the character of any branch and the time necessary to complete it.