Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 50]

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The college comprises at present two schools : 1. The School of English and Modern Languages. 2. The /School of Ancient Language and Literature.

ADMISSION.

Candidates for admission to either of these schools must have the qualifications prescribed under the college of agriculture. They must also be prepared to sustain an examination in plane geometry (the first five books of Legendre). For the school of ancient language, in addition to the above, candidates will be examined in Latin grammar, elementary Latin prose composition (Harkness or Arnold); four books of Caesar's Commentaries; six Orations of Cicero'5 and six books of the CEneid, or other selections from the same or other author of equal amount and like character. In Greek, grammar, Xenophen's Anabasis (3 books.) and Arnold's Greek prose composition (24 exercises). The object of this college is to furnish a sound and liberal education to fit students for the general duties of life, and especially to prepare them for those business pursuits which require a large measure of literary and scientific knowledge and training. It is designed to meet the wants of those who wish to prepare themselves for the labors of the press as editors or publishers, or as teachers in the higher institutions, or for the transaction of public business. Students in the agricultural and other technic schools often desire to educate themselves as teachers, writers and professors in their special departments, and require a knowledge of the ancient as well as the modern languages to give them full command of all the instruments and facilities required for the highest proficiency in their studies and proposed work. The University seeks through these schools to provide for this important part of its mission—-the furnishing of teachers to the industrial schools of the country, and investigators and writers for the arts. The large liberty allowed in the selection of the special studies of his course will permit the student to give such direction to his education as will fit him fully for any chosen sphere or pursuit. The library is well supplied with works illustrating the several periods of English and American literature. A monthly paper—THE STUDENT—is edited and published by the students of the several colleges, each of which is appropriately represented in its columns. A printing office has been provided for in the new mechanical building, and a press with the requisite supply of type is expected this summer.