Caption: Course Catalog - 1877-1878 Version B
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58 Illinois Industrial University. their rooms. The class appoint their own officers, inspectors, etc., and pay a small contribution for maintaining batteries, etc. At present there are twenty-seven instruments on the line. COURSE IN SCHOOL OF MILITARY SCIENCE. SECOND YEAR. '2. School of the Soldier and Company ; Bayonet Fencing, 2. 3. School of Battalion ; Ceremonies and Reviews ; Skirmish Drill. THIRD YEAR. 1. Brigade and Division Evolutions ; Sword Fencing, 2. 2. Guard Outpost and Picket Duty ; Sword Fencing, 2. 3. Military Administration ; Reports and Returns ; Theory of Fire-arms ; Target Practice, 2. FOURTH YEAR. 1. Organization, etc., of armies ; Art of War ; Field Fortifications, 2. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. The aim of this School is to teach those principles of business, and of accounts, which will enable the student to manage correctly his business affairs, to engage in the larger enterprises of trade and commerce, or to fit him for the work of a professional Book-keeper. The course of instruction will occupy at least one year. In the first term will be taught the principles of Book-keeping in general, and forms of business paper in general use. In the second term the student will learn the application of Book-keeping to special lines of business, and also special business forms and papers. The third term is devoted to Banking and the higher operations of the counting-house, commercial law, political economy and the principles of trade. The course is designed to be as comprehensive and thorough as that- of the best of the Commercial Colleges, with advantages such as no mere Commercial College can give. ACTUAL BUSINESS. The advantages to be gained in this School have been greatly increased by the addition of, a course of practical business operations. In passing satisfactory examination in theoretical work the student is furnished a capital of $2,000 in College currency with which to transact business. To secure its careful use. and to invest the student with some responsibility of actual gain or loss to himself, such as all business men must bear, a deposit of
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