Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1867 [PAGE 6]

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will be lost, if they lack the literary culture which will enable them to communicate, through the press, or by public speech, their knowledge and discoveries ; or if they are wanting in that thorough discipline which will make them active and competent investigators and inveDtors, long after their school days are over. Nor would we forget, nor attempt by a one-sided education to restrain, that free movement and versatility of American life and genius which leads so many of our more eminent citizens to the successive mastery of several vocations. Let us educate for life, as well as for art, leaving genius free to follow its natural attractions, and lending to talent a culture fitting it for all the emergencies of public or private duty. If some of our graduates shall quit, for a time, the harvest field for the forum, or prefer medicine to mechanic art, we shall hope they will demonstrate that, even in professional life, the education we give is neither inferior nor inadequate. And in riper years they will return to their first love, and bring their gathered wealth and honors to lay them in the lap of the agriculture and art we have taught them. Let the State open wide, then, this Pierian fount of learning. Let her bid freely all her sons to the full and unfailing flow: those whose thirst or whose needs are little, to what they require; those whose thirst and whose capacities are large, to drink their fill. Let the university be made worthy the great state whose name it bears; worthy the grand and splendid industries it seeks to promote; and worthy of the great century in which we live.

DEPARTMENTS AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

Having thus defined the general idea and aims of the University, the Committee suggest the following enumeration of departments, with the courses of instruction in each:

I. The Agricultural Department—Embracing: 1. The course in Agriculture proper. 2. The course in Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. The Polytechnic Department—Embracing : 1. The course in Mechanical Science and Art. 2. The course in Civil Engineering. 3. The course in Mining and Metallurgy. 4. The course in Architecture and Fine Arts. The Military Department—Embracing: 1. The course in Military Engineering. 2, The course in Military Tactics. Tile Department of Chemistry and Xatural Scitnce. Tile Department of Trade and Commerce. The Department of General Science and Literature—Embracing: 1. The course in Mathematics. 2. The course in Natural History, Chemistry, etc. 3. The course in English Language and Literature. 4. The course in Modern Languages and Literature. 5. The course in Ancient Languages and Literature. 6. The course in History and Social Science. 1. The course in Philosophy, Intellectual and Moral.

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