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COURSE OF SCHOOL OF A N C I E N T LANGUAGES.

First Year.—1. Cicero de Amicitia and prose composition ; Iliad and prose composition; Trigonometry and Advanced Geometry. 2. Livy and prose composition; Boise and Freeman's selections from Greek authors and prose composition; Analytical Geometry. 3. Odes of Horace and prose composition; Memorabilia and prose composition; Calculus. Second Year.—1, Satires of Horace; Thucydides or German; Physiology. 2. Terence; Sophocles or German; Zoology. 3. Tacitus; Demosthenes or German; Astronomy. Third Year.—1. Juvenal or French ; Chemistry ; Ancient History. 2. Quintilian or French; Physics; Mediaeval History. 3. De Officiis or French; Physics; Modern History. Fourth Year.—1. History of Civilization; Mental Science; Geology. 2. Constitutional History; Meteorology and Physical Geography; Logic. 3. ^Esthetics; Didactics or Plato; Political Economy; Oration or Thesis.

ADDITIONAL

SCHOOLS.

COLLEGES.

NOT I N C L U D E D I N T H E FOUR

SCHOOL

OF

MILITARY

SCIENCE.

By the law of Himgress and of this State, the University is required to teach Military Tactics to its male students. All able-bodied male students of the College classes are enrolled in the companies of the University Battalion, and receive instruction according to the following programme, the exercises occupying one or two hours each week (see figures in programme). The University Battalion is now ranked by the State authorities as the Sixth Regiment of Illinois State Guards.

PROGRAMME.

First Year.—Fall Term—School of Soldier, Manual of Arms, 2. Winter Term—School of Company, Firings, etc., 2. Spring Term— School of Battalion, 2. Second Year.—Fall. Term—Reviews of Company and Battalion Drill, 2. Winter Term—Bugle Calls and Skirmish Drill, 1. Spring Term—Skirmish Dril}, and Battalion Evolutions, 2. Third Year.—Fall Term—Review, Picket Duty, 1. Winter Term— Guard and Picket Duties, 1. Spring Term—Skirmish and Battalion Evolutions, 1 to 2.