Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1869-1870 [PAGE 9]

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Incorporation, " to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and Military Tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies." The aim of the Institution is to produce scholars of sound learning, of practical sense and skill—fitted to be leaders in those industrial interests on which the social well-being and civilization of our country depend. It is also hoped that the University will contribute to the increase and diffusion of the sciences which bear upon and promote the useful arts. DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION. The following new and enlarged statement of the Departments of Study and Instruction has been prepared to present a more perspicuous and simple view of the course and extent of the instruction. Special prominence is given to those " branches of learning related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," but entire liberty is allowed to each student to select such studies as he may be prepared to pursue. The University is designed more especially for young men who have already attained such age that they may properly claim to be the jiidges of their own wants. It is not thought useful or right to attempt to urge every student, without regard to his capacity, tastes, or practical wants, through some fixed " course of studies." While opportunities are freely provided for a thorough and full mastery of each branch of "useful learning, the student is exhorted to weigh carefully his own capacity and needs, to choose, with serious and independent consideration, the branches which will best fit him for his chosen work, and to pursxie them to such an extent as he may be able. It is expected that each student will pursue three or more studies at the same time, in order to employ his time fully. But, on special request, he may give his whole time to a less number, if the studies and practice in his chosen course afford him full employment. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. This department embraces :

1. The Sub-Department or School of General Agriculture, and 2. The Sub-Department or School of Horticultural, Fruit Growing, Landscape Gardening. The aim of the courses is to fit students to manage successfully, for themselves •or others, agricultural and horticultural estates and enterprises. The studies