Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 156]

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156 2. 3. Chemistry; Free Hand Drawing, (optional); Analytical Geometry; French. Vegetable Physiology; Chemistry, or Free Hand Drawing; Rhetoric; French, (extra).

SECOND YEAR.

1. 2. 3.

Advanced Anatomy and' Physiology; Botany; German. Zoology; Botany; German. Zoology; Economic Entomology; German.

THIRD YEAR.

1. 2. 3.

Geology; Mineralogy; German; Ancient History, (optional, extra). Geology; Physics; German; Mediaeval History, (optional, extra). Geology; Physics; Modern History, or Astronomy.

FOURTH YEAE.

1. 2. 3.

Meteorology and Physical Geography; History of Civilization; Mental Science. Constitutional History; Microscopy and Fungology; Logic. Political Economy; Physical Laboratory; Laboratory W o r k and Graduating Thesis. SCHOOL O F D O M E S T I C

OBJECT OF T H E

SCIENCE.

SCHOOL.

It is the aim of the school to give to earnest and capable young women an education, not lacking in refinement, but which shall fit them for their great duties and trusts, making them the equals of their educated husbands and associates, and enabling them to bring the aid of science and culture to the all-important labors and vocations of womanhood. This school proceeds upon the assumption that the housekeeper needs education as much as the house-builder, the nurse as well as the physician, the leaders of society as surely as the leaders of senates, the mother as much as the father, the woman as well as the man. We discard the old absurd notion that education is a necessity to man, but only an ornament to woman. If ignorance is a weakness and disaster in the places of business where the income is won, it is equally so in the places of living, where the income is expended. If science can aid agriculture and the mechanic arts to use more successfully nature's forces and to increase the amount and value of their products, it can equally aid the house-keeper in the finer and more complicated use of those forces and agencies, in the home where winter is to be changed into genial summer by artificial fires, and darkness into day by costly illumination; where the raw products of the field are to be transformed into sweet and wholesome food by a chemistry finer than that of soils, and the products of a hundred manufactories are to be put to their final uses for the health and happiness of life. The purpose 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