Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 177]

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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S .

SCHOOL O F A E T AND DESIGN.

KEPORT BY P E T E R EOOS, PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL A R T AND SIGNING.

DE-

To the Regent Illinois,

and the Board

of Trustees of the University

of

GENTLEMEN: With few exceptions, the students that enter the scientific courses of the University do so without any previous knowledge of drawing. This knowledge is as essential to the professional naturalist as to the mechanical or civil engineer. The University of Illinois was foremost in recognizing and providing art instruction, not alone for students in science, but also for those who have talent and taste for the study of drawing, designing, clay modeling, and painting. These well defined purposes, for which the school of art and design was established, have been the object of my earnest and pleasant endeavors during my connection with the University. Free-hand drawing has, as you are aware, been required from the outset in the courses of architecture and civil and mechanical engineering. Two years ago additional demands upon the art department came from the school of mining engineering; and somewhat later the college of natural science awoke to the importance of having drawing a required study for two terms in the course of chemistry, and two terms and one optional term in the course of natural history. The art instruction required by the several schools is at present as follows:

FALL TERM

School of chemistry School of natural history School of architecture

,

,

first term first term first term

WINTER TERM.

School of agriculture School of chemistry School of natural history

first

term second term second term