Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 164]

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THIRD YEAR.

1. 2. 3.

Juvenal or French; Chemistry; Ancient History or Geology. Quintilian or French; Physics; Mediaeval History. De Omciis or French; Physics; Modern History.

FOURTH YEAR.

1. 2. 3.

History of Civilization; Mental Science; Meteorology and Physical Geography. Constitutional History; English Literature; Logic. ^Esthetics; Plato; Political Economy; Graduating Oration or Thesis.

ADDITIONAL

SCHOOLS.

Not included in the Four Colleges.

SCHOOL O F M I L I T A R Y SCIENCE. By the law of congress, and of the state, the University is required to teach military tactics to its 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 from one to three hours each week (see figures in programme.) T h e military organization of the University ranks in the state militia as the University Battalion, Illinois National Guard.

PROGRAMME.

F I R S T Y E A R . — F a l l Term—School of Soldier, Manual of Arms, 3. Winter Term—School of Company, Firings, etc., 2. Spring Term— School Of Battalion, 2. SECOND Y E A R . — F a l l Term—Review of Company and Battalion Drill, 2. Winter Term—Bugle Calls and Skirmish Drill, 1. Spring Term—Skirmish Drill, and Battalion Evolutions, 2. T H I R D Y E A R . — F a l l Term—Review, Picket Duty, 1. Winter Term —Guard and Picket Duties, 1. Spring Term—Skirmish and Battalion Evolution, 1 to 2. FOURTH Y E A R . — F a l l Term—Reviews, 1. Winter Term—Bayonet Fencing, 1. Spring Term—Battalion Evolutions, Target Practice, 1 to 2.