Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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64 Illinois Industrial University. 3. Vegetable' Physiology; Chemistry, or Free-Hand Drawing; Rhetoric; French, (extra). SECOND YEAR. 1. Advanced Anatomy and Physiology; Botany; German. 3. Zoology; Botany; German. 3. Zoology; Economic Entomology; German. THIRD YEAR. 1. Geology; Mineralogy; German; Ancient History (optional, extra). z. Geology; Physics; German; Mediaeval History (optional, extra). 3. Geology; Physics; Modern History, or Astronomy. FOURTH YEAR. 1. Meteorology and Physical Geography; Histo-ry of Civilization ; Mental Science. 2. Microscopy and Fungology; Constitutional History; Logic. 3. Political Economy; Physical Laboratory; Natural History Laboratory. Work; Graduating Thesis. SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE. This is the first School of Domestic Science of high grade, and with a complete course, organized in the United States, if not the first in the world. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL. It is the aim of the School to give to earnest and capable young women a liberal and practical education, which shall fit them for their great duties and trusts, making them the equals of their educated husbands and associates, and enabling them to bring the aids of science and culture to the all-important labors and vocations of womanhood. This School proceeds upon the assumption that the housekeeper needs education as much as the Architect, the nurse as well as the physician, the leaders of society as surely as the leaders of Senates, the mother as much as the father, the woman as well as the man. We discard the old and absurd notion that education is a necessity to man, but only an ornament to woman. If ignorance is a weakness and a disaster in the places of business where the income is won, it is equally so in the places of living, where the income is expended. If science can aid agriculture and the mechanic arts to use more successfully nature's forces and to
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