Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1869-1870 [PAGE 19]

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As collateral studies for such as make this course a speciality, are recommended Mathematics and Surveying, English and Modern Languages, Drawing, one term of Chemistry, History and Political Economy. FIESX YBAB.—First Term.—School of the company; bayonet fencing. Second Term.—Battalion and skirmish drill; bayonet fencing. Third Term.—Brigade and division evolutions; target practice and theoretical instruction on the rifle and fire arms. SECOND YEAH.—First Term.—Military administration; reports and returns; army regulations and military law; sword fencing. Second Term.—Out posts and picket duty (Mahon's); sword fencing. Third Term.—Military fortification; field and permanent; military bridges :iucl roads; .target practice. THIBD YEAR.— First Term.—Artillery practice; field artillery; drill at the cannon. Second Term.—Military engineering; cavalry tactics theoretical. Third Term.—Art of war (Jomini); military history and statistics; organization and administration of armies. There is formed now a battalion of four companies, officered by the students of the military class, and battalion drill and skirmish were practiced last term. APPARATUS. The value, of an institution of learning will depend largely upon the amount and character of its apparatus of instruction—its means of teaching to the eye. No other teaching is so rapid and effective as this. It has been the policy from the outset, to provide the university, the best and most complete means of illustration, and constant additions are being made to its apparatus in all departments. CHBJUSTKY.—This department is furnished with a working laboratory, in which tables are already provided for a class of 24 students to work at once, with all the appliances needed for making chemical analyses, including the Bunsen Burner, the Spectroscope and the Hibs' Assaying Furnace. In addition to the usual reagents and apparatus required for laboratory work, and already supplied, there is to be added this summer nearly $3,000 worth of new apparatus, including a Sacharometer, a Ruhrnkorf's Coil, a Narrenherg's Polarizer, a Thermo Electric Pile and other valuable pieces for illustrating the relations of light, heat and electricity to chemistry, so that the best facilities will be furnished for acquiring a thorough knowledge of this science. As soon as students shall have become acquainted with the general principles of the science, no pains will be spared to familiarize them with it in its applications to agriculture, and other industrial pursuits, and to awaken in them a love for scientific investigation. They will have access to minerals, ores, and geological specimens, and be taught how to analyze them. A library of standard works on general and "analytical chemistry will soon be purchased; and English, French, and German periodicals will furnish information of the most recent views and discoveries in this department of science. BOTANY XSV Hoimcui/ruitE.—Papier mache flowers, fruits, etc., have been procured from the celebrated Dr. Auzoux, of Paris. Among them are flowers of several classes which can be easily dissected, and which are so greatly enlarged as to exhibit to the eye the minute organs almost invisible in natural flowers. Also, fruits and grains magnified to' show the organs, structure and parts, the