Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1867 [PAGE 20]

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1. The Professorship of Zoology and Animal Physiology. 8. " " of Mathematics. 9. '' of Chemistry. 10. '• '• of Geology, Mineralogy anil Physical Geography. 11. ' ' '' of English Language and Literature. 12. '' of Modern Languages. 13. '• of Ancient Languages. 14. ' ' '' of History and Social Science. 15. '' of Mental and Moral Philosophy.

In addition to these, the committee would suggest the following lectureships :

1. The Lectureship of Veterinary Science. 2. ' ' '' of Commercial Science. 3. ' ' '' of Human Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. 4. '' of Constitutional, Commercial and Rural Law.

Several of these departments may, at the outset, be represented by the same man. The professor of botany may also be professor of horticulture; and the professor of zoology may till, likewise, the chair of practical agriculture. Civil and military engineering may be united in one chair; and the professor of chemistry may teach also mineralogy or meteorology. The professor of Practical Agriculture should be the superintendent of the experimental farm, with such foremen and other laborers under him as may be necessary to carry out his plans. The farm is his laboratory and apparatus of iustruction, by which he illustrates the scientific principles and theories which he teaches, and demonstrates both the truth and the value of his doctrines. His plans for the treatment of each field and cropT and for the several experiments to be tried, should be submitted to the Regent and Faculty, and atter careful discussion and final adoption by them, or by the Executive committee, should be put on record as the settled plan for that season, to be carried out under the careful supervision of the superintendent, and its progress and results fully recorded in the farm record. In like manner, the professor of Horticulture should be superintendent of the gardens and ornamental grounds, and should, in the same way, present to the Faculty for their discussion and approval, his plans for the management of such grounds and gardens. He, too, when necessary, may be aided in his work by a foreman and other laborers. The students, in their labors in the gardens or on the farm, will be under the guidance of the professors whose instructions those labors are designed to illustrate and apply ; and thus the lecture room and the field practice will teach the same truths, and throw upon each other the light of a mutual illustration. The professor of Mechanics may have under his care such shops as may be needed on the grounds for purposes of repairs, or of such new constructions of any kind as may be easily made. AVith a small steam or caloric engine as a motor power, there may be run a variety of common machinery, such as the turning lathe, circular saws, mills for grinding feed, etc., and threshing and other machines, which will enable the instructor in this department to furnish practical illustration of the principles of mechanics. The truth taught to the eye is much more easily understood and remembered than that which is stated in mere