Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876
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28 O R G A N I Z A T I O N OF T H E U N I V E R S I T Y . I. T H E COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. School of Agriculture. II. School of Horticulture. ENGINEERING. COLLEGE OF School of Mechanical Engineering. School of Mining Engineering. III. School of Civil Engineering. School of Architecture. SCIENCE. T H E COLLEGE OF N A T U R A L School of Chemistry. IV. School of Natural History. AND S C I E N C E . T H E COLLEGE OF L I T E R A T U R E School of English and Modern Languages. guages. V. School of Ancient Lan- ADDITIONAL SCHOOLS. School of Military Science. School of Commerce. School of Domestic Science. School of Art and Design. Vocal and Instrumental Music, Telegraphing and Photography are also taught, but not in regular courses. CHOICE OF S T U D I E S . It has been a favorite aim of the University, from the outset, to allow as much freedom as possible in the selection of studies. The University was designed, not for children, but young men and women who may claim to know something of their wants, powers and tastes. I t is not useful to require every student, without regard to his capacity or practical wants, to take entire some lengthened " course of study." Liberty everywhere has its risks and responsibilities as well as its benefits, in school 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 teacher, 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 the student shall be thoroughly prepared to enter and keep pace with the classes in the chosen studies ; and, 2d, That they shall take these studies in the terms in which they are taught. It is expected that each student shall have three distinct studies, affording three class exercises each day. But on special request, the Faculty may allow less or more, to meet the exigencies of his course.
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