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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION. 175 good qualities of his voice, giving it purity, strength and flexibility; (3) w to perfect his pronunciation, making it accurate and exact; (4) to give his action propriety, boldness and grace, and (5) to cultivate and refine his taste and imagination. During the senior year, while elocution is not neglected, the greater share of attention is devoted to the other division of oratory, the subject-matter. The oratorical style of composition is analyzed and the characteristics distinguishing it from ordinary prose enumerated, the kinds of oratory, demonstrative, deliberative, judicial, and sacred, discriminated, the qualifications of an orator, physical, mental and moral, expounded, and the lives of the greatest orators of the world made the subject of consideration. I n addition, each senior is required to write an original oration and, after making full preparation for its delivery under the professor's criticism, to pronounce it in chapel before the Faculty and students. For this, as for the course in composition, provision is made for two lectures each term. It is a pleasure to inform you before concluding that the quality of the work done during the year just closed has shown a decided improvement over that of the preceding year; and that, with few exceptions, the students have performed all duties required of them both cheerfully and intelligently. The increasing interest of the .students in this department is not only an ample reward for all my anxiety and toil but is a hopeful indication of its greater ^efficiency in the future* As I close, I desire, sir, to express my grateful sense of the generous sympathy you have shown in the work of this department and my appreciation of the wise counsel so often received from you* REPORT BY REV. NATHANIEL BUTLER, J R . , A. M., LATIN. PROFESSOR OF S. H. PEABODY, Regent: have the honor to offer the following report of the work of the classes in Latin since September 1886, at which time I was placed in charge of that department of instruction. The University of Illinois offers instruction in Latin to classes of four grades; namely, the preparatory, freshman, sophomore and junior classes. All of this instruction has been demanded during my connection with the department. The course of study followed is that laid down in the catalogue. The preparatory class read selections from the orations of Cicero, and from the iEneid of Vergil. Along with this reading they have regular exercises in Latin prose composition, and there is constant DR. DEAR S I R — I
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