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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

This course will resemble that in the Department of Latin. FIRST YEAR.—First three books of Xenophon's Anabasis ; Herodotus; Greek prose composition begun and continued throughout the course. SECOND YEAR.—Demosthenese ; Thucydides ; Homer's Iliad. THIRD YEAR.—Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates. Selections from Plato and the Greek poets. Select portions of Smith's History of Greece will be read in course, and lectures given on Greek history and philosophy.

HISTORY AN.D SOCIAL SCIENCE.

The studies in this department are designed to afford a" general view of the history of mankind, and of the phenomena of the social organization and piogress of the race. They will also embrace the history of the Arts and Sciences, of Civilization, the principles of civil polity and law, the philosophy of history, and the principles of political economy and constitutional law. The instruction is given chiefly by the lectures with systematic readings of specified authors, connected with the study of historical geography and chronology. The course will occupy eight terms, two in the first year, and three each for the third and fourth years of the course. FIRST YEAR.—First Term.—Discovery, settlement and colonial history of the United States, with notices of other American States; American geography. Two lectures (or lessons) a week. Second Term.—History of the United States , from the time of the Revolution. Two lectures (or lessons) a week. SECOND YEAR.—History is intermitted this year in the college courses. THIRD YEAR.—Ancient history of Greece and Rome, with notices of other ancient nations; ancient geography. Mediaeval history. Modern history; general European history; European geography. FOURTH YEAR.—Constitutional history of England, and of the United States. Two lectures a week. History of Civilization ; analysis of historical forces and phenomena; notices of the history of the arts and of the inductive sciences. Constitutional and international law. Political economy.

PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC.

The studies of this department extends through the last year of the fall courses, and are taught chiefly by lectures, with readings of specified authors and written essays. The course is as follows : First Term.—Mental Philosophy. Analysis and classification of mental phenomena. Theories of Perception ; Imagination, Memory, Judgment, Reason, Intuition. The aesthetic. Phenomena of dreaming, clairvoyance, and insanity. Doctrines of the absolute and the unconditioned. The philosophy of education. Second Term.—Moral Philosophy (three lectures a week). Theory of con-