Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 54]

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FIRST YEAR. First Term.—Geometry, first five books, Latin, Cicero's works, English Composition, (Greek, the Anabasis, optional), History of U. S., two lectures a week. Second Term. Geometry finished, Higher Algebra, Latin, Cicero's works, English literature, (Greek optional,) History of U. S., two lectures a week. Third Term, Botany, Higher Algebra completed, Latin, Virgil, the JEneid or Georgics, English advanced Grammar, (Greek optional.) SECOND YEAR. First Term. Trigonometry, Chemistry, German, English or Latin. Second Term. Analytical Geometry or Chemistry, Physics, German, English or Latin. Third Term. Mineralogy, Physics, German, English or Latin. THIRD YEAR. First Term, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Ancient History, Drawing, French, English or Latin. Second Term. Geology, Mediaeval History, Perspective, French, English or Latin. Third Term. Political Economy and Modern History, Astronomy, French, English or Latin. FOURTH YEAR. First Term. Mental Philosophy, Constitutional History of England and United States, Zoology, Astronomy or Geology. Second Term. Moral Philosophy and Logic, or History of Civilization and of the Inductive Sciences, Physical Geography, Meteorology or Analytical Mechanics. Third Term. History of Philosophy, or Inductive Logic, Entomology, or Geology of Illinois, Constitutional Law. SCHOOL O F COMMERCE.

The course in this School may be completed in a single year, and is designed to fit students to become thorough accountants and business men. The special studies of this School may be taken in connection with those of any of the Colleges. For a fuller statement of these studies the reader is referred to the Department of Commercial Science, on another page.

SCHOOL O F MILITARY SCIENCE.

The studies of this school are described fully in the article on another page under the Military Department. The apparatus of instruction includes a large Drill H a l l ; 150 muskets and accoutrements complete; 12 cavalry swords ; 1 bass d r u m ; 1 tenor drum; 8 fifes; 2 bugles; 18 fencing muskets for bayonet practice; swords, gauntlets and masks, for sword practice ; automaton regiment for theoretical instruction; and a large Drill Hall to be erected this summer. The library also includes quite a selection of books on military science, military history and engineering.

R E Q U I R E M E N T S F O R ADMISSION.

1. Each student is required, by law, to be at least fifteen years of age, but it is believed that few will be found mature enough at this age to enter with^the highest profit upon the studies of the University, and it is recommended, as a general rule, that students be at least eighteen years old before entering. 2. The law prescribes that " no student shall be admitted to instruction in any of the departments of the University, who shall not previ-