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Illinois

Industrial

University.

INSTRUCTION.

The plan of instruction embraces, besides the ordinary text-book study, lectures and practical exercises in all the departments, including original researches, essays, criticism, proofreading, and other work intended to illustrate the studies pursued, and exercise the student's own powers. It is designed co give to all the students voice culture and a training in elocutionary practice. A prominent aim in this, as in all the departments ofthe University, will be to teach the right use of books, and thus prepare the student for self-directed investigation and study which will extend beyond the curriculum of his school and the period of his graduation. With this view, constant use of the already ample and continually enlarging stores of the Library will be required and encouraged. As a farther aid in this direction the members ofthe advanced English classes are expected to act as assistant librarians. In this service they are able to obtain much valuable knowledge of the various departments of English Literature, of prominent authors, and the extent and scope of the'r writings. Of special value as an incentive to, and the means of practice in English Composition, should be mentioned T H E ILLINI, a monthly paper edited and published by the students ofthe several colleges, each of which is appropriately represented, in its colums. A printing office has been provided for in the new Mechanical Building, and a press with the requisite supply of type. T H E L I B R A R Y is well supplied with works illustrating the several periods of English, American, French and German Literature. It contains at present nearly ten thousand well selected volumes, and is constantly growing by purchase at home and abroad. Valuable American and Foreign periodicals are received regularly in the Reading Room, a list of which is given on page 20.

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN [LANGUAGES.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

In the arrangement of the studies the endeavor is to present a thorough and extended drill in grammatical and philological study, and in the authors and history of the English Language, affording a training equivalent to the ordinary studies of the classical language. This drill extends through three years of the course, but may be shortened according to the ability and preparation of the student. Weekly essays, forensics, plans and criticisms are required. The studies will embrace the Sources and History ofthe English language; advanced Grammar; principles of Composition; Philological and Grammatical Analysis of Authors; History of their times and Contemporaries. Rhetoric, Reading and Analysis of Shakspeare and the early Dramatists, Spenser, Chaucer, Gower, etc., and a term of Anglo Saxon. History of English and American Literature; Element of Criticism; Principles of Taste; Methods of Philological Study, etc.