Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 54]

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50 laws of heating and ventilation ; the principles of physiology and hygiene, as applied to the sick and well; the nature, uses, preservation and preparation of food, animal and vegetable, for the healthful and for invalids; the chemistry of cooking; the uses, construction, materials and hygiene of dress ; the principles of taste, as applied to ornamentation, furniture, clothing and landscapes; horticulture and culture of both bouse and garden plants; the laws of markets; and the usages of society and laws of etiquette and social life. It is intended eventually to develop the course to cover all the topics named, and whatever else may pertain to domestic economy. The instruction in this school will begin with the next college year, and will be developed as fast as practicable. The full course will very nearly correspond with that in the School of English and Modern Languages, except that in the second and third years lectures on the foregoing topics of domestic economy will take the place of the mathematical studies. Other schools, especially adapted to the wants of women, will be opened as fast as the means in the possession of the University will permit. Young ladies have free access to all the colleges and schools in the University, and several are already pursuing studies in the Schools of Chemistry, Horticulture, Architecture and Commerce. Schools of Wood Engraving, Printing, Telegraphing, Photography and of Designing, it is hoped, will be added at an early day. Drawing, both free hand and projection, is now taught by a master of great excellence, and painting and music will be provided for those who desire them, at a reasonable extra charge.

DEPARTMENT OF STUDY. A department of study embraces a single branch of learning, and is designed to show the course and extent of the instruction given at the University in that branch. Students desiring to pursue any branch of learning further than is provided for in the courses in the several colleges, will consult the course laid down under the following exhibit of the departments:

AGRICULTURE.

This Department embraces a thorough course of instruction in the theory and practice of land culture and cropping in its several vareities; Animal Husbandry, including stock and dairy farming; Sheep and