Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 19]

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15 and ^tastes. It is not useful to require every student, without regard to his capacity or practical wants, to take entire some lengthened "course of study." Each student should weigh carefully his own powers and needs, and counsel freely with his teachers as to the branches he may need to fit him for his chosen career, and then should pursue them with earnestness and perseverance, without faltering or fickleness. It is necessarily required:—that the student should be thoroughly prepared to enter and keep pace with the classes in the chosen studies, and that he shall take these studies in the -terms, in which they are taught. Candidates for a degree mast take the course of study prescribed for that degree. Bach student is expected to have three distinct studies, affording three class exercises each day. On special request, the Faculty may allow less or more. No change in studies can be made after the beginning of a term, without permission of the Faculty. Due care will be taken to prevent, as far as possible, all abuse of the liberty of choice. Students failing to pass satisfactory examinations in their chosen studies, will not be permitted to remain and take other studies without a vote of the Faculty.

REQUIRED STUDIES.

To secure the diffusion of the sciences relating to the great industries, the State Legislature, in 1873, prescribed that each student should be taught some of those sciences. The Trustees accordingly require that each student shall take, each term, one study at least from the following list: Physics, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Physical Geography, Anatomy and Physiology, Botany, Zoology, Geology, Entomology; Drawing and Designing, Mathematics, Surveying; Elements of Agriculture and Horticulture, Vegetable Physiology, Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Engineering and Architecture, Animal Husbandry, Kural Economy, Landscape Gardening, History of Agriculture, Veterinary Science; Architectural Drawing and Designing, Elements of Construction, Graphical Statistics, History and Esthetics of Architecture, Estimates, Mining Engineering, Metallurgy, Analytical Mechanics, Geodesy, Principles of Mechanism, Hydraulics, TherModynamics, Strength of Materials, Prime Movers, Mill Work, Machine Drawing, Eoads and Eailroads, Construction and use of Machinery, Modeling and Patterns, Bridges, Stone Work, Astronomy; Military Science, and Political Economy.

EXAMINATIONS FOR ADMISSION.

Examinations of candidates for admission to the University, or any of its departments, are held at the University itself, the day previous to the opening of each term. These examinations embrace the following studies: