Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 50]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

46 books of Xenophon's Anabasis, and twenty-four exercises in Arnold's Greek Prose Composition, and in plane Geometry. 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 and publishers, for teachers in the higher institutions, or for the transaction of public business. Students in the Agricultural or other technic schools desiring to educate themselves as teachers, writers, and professors in their special departments, 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.

INSTRUCTION.

The plan of instruction embraces, besides the ordinary text-book study, lectures and practical exercises in all the departments, including original researches, essays, criticism, proof reading, and other work intended to illustrate the studies pursued, and exercise the student's own powers. Voice culture, and a training in elocutionary practice are designed to be given to all students. A prominent aim in this, as in all the departments of the University, will be to teach the right use of books and thus prepare the student for self-directed investigation and study which shall extend beyond the curriculum of his school and the period of his graduation. With this view, constant use of the already ample and continually enlarging stores of the library will be required and encouraged. As a farther aid in this direction the members of the advanced English classes are expected to act as assistant librarians. In this service they are able to obtain much valuable knowledge of the various departments of English literature, of prominent authors and the extent and scope of their writings. Of special value as an incentive to, and a means of practice in English composition, should be mentioned T H E STUDENT, a monthly paper 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 mechani-