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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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49 hold 100 more, besides the University Band. Below the Armorer's * Eoom is the Artillery Boom, and above it the Band Room. The Parade Ground is shown on page 19. The University Library contains books on Military Science, Military History and Engineering. A Gymnasium, at present in the Drill Hall, has been furnished with apparatus, and a club has been organized under a skilled leader. LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT. The recent act of the Legislature requires that all male students shall take part in the Military Drill, unless exempted by physical disability, and wear the University Uniform as prescribed on page 59. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. The course in this School is given on page 62. The first term will be occupied in teaching the principles of book-keeping in general; the second, their application to special lines of business, general business forms and papers; and the third, to the higher operations of a counting house, commercial law and political economy. Students who wish to prepare for a commercial career, and also acquire a general education, may extend this course through two or more years, by taking such collateral studies as their contemplated vocation may render desirable. The studies recommended for this purpose are, English and German, Mathematics, one or two terms of Chemistry (for druggists, etc.,) and History, Political Economy and Commercial Law. SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND ART. The purpose of this School is to provide a full course of instruction in the arts of the household and the sciences relating thereto. No industry is more important to human happiness and well-being than that which makes the home. And this industry involves principles of science as many and as profound as those which control any other human employment. It includes the architecture of the dwelling house, with the laws of heating and ventilation; the principles of physiology, and hygiene, as applied to the sick and the well; the nature, uses, preservation and preparation of animal and vegetable food, for the healthful, —7
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