Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884
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46 For the studies in Mathematics and Natural Science, see Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Natural History. COURSE IN SCHOOL OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES. Required for Degree of B. F I E S T YEAB. A. 1. Cicero de Amicitia and prose composition; Iliad and prose composition; Trigonometry. 2. Livy and prose composition; Boise and Freeman's selections from Greek Authors and prose composition; Conic Sections. 3. Odes of Horace and prose composition; Memorabilia and prose composition; Advanced Geometry. SECOND YEAE. 1. Satires of Horace; Thucydides or German; Physiology. 2. Terence; Sophocles or German; Zoology. 3. Tacitus; Demosthenes or German; Astronomy. THIKD YEAE. 1. Juvenal or French; Chemistry; Ancient History. 2. Quintilian or French; Physics; Mediaeval History. 3. De Offieiis or French; Physics; Modern History. FOURTH YEAE. 1. History of Civilization; Mental Science; Meteorology and Physical Geography. 2. Constitutional History: Early English; Logic. 3. Philology; Geology; Political Economy. ADDITIONAL SCHOOLS, NOT INCLUDED COLLEGES. IN THE FOUR SCHOOL OF MILITAKY 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 of the first, second and third years, are enrolled in the companies of the University battalion, and receive instruction in the following military exercises: School of the Soldier; Manual of Arms. School of the Company; Movements by Platoons, Firing, etc. School of the Battalion; Ployment and Deployment of Close Columns. Battalion and Company Skirmish Drill; Bugle Calls. Bayonet Fencing; Target Practice. Guard and Picket Duties; Duties of Sentinels. CLASS IN MILITARY SCIENCE. Classes in military science and tactics, as far as is requisite for officers of the line. Prom these classes are selected the officers of the several companies, for which they act as instructors. The military instruction is now under the charge of Lieut. Wm. T. Wood, a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, and an officer of the
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