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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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23 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, Boads and Fortifications. 10. History and Social Science, General and Special History, Political Economy, Bural 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. 16. Drawing, Free Hand, Projection, etc. FREEDOM AND CHOICE OF 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 everywhere 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. 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 the Faculty, he may be allowed less or more, to meet the exigencies of his course. No changes in studies can be made after the beginning of a term, without permission of the Faculty.
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