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Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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86 Illinois Industrial University. it is found more and more difficult to furnish the labor needed, and students can not count so certainly upon finding employment. STUDENTS' GOVERNMENT. For several years an experiment has been in progress, in selfgovernment of the Students of the University. By permission of the Faculty, the General Assembly of the Students was organized, and a constitution adopted providing for the election of a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Marshal; for a Senate of twenty-one members, a court consisting of a Chief Justice and two Associate Judges. Under this constitution, laws are enacted by the Senate, which become valid "only when approved Dy the Regent and Faculty of the University. All offenses against these laws are tried before the Student's Court, and punished by fines according to the class of the offense. Students refusing to pay the fines imposed by the Student's Government are referred to the Faculty and if sentence is approved, are sentenced to such penalties as the Faculty may deem proper. The government has thus far rendered important aid in maintaining good order in the dormitories and grounds, in preserving public property, in preventing the visiting of saloons, and in other matters requiring the intervention of authority, and above all in cultivating kindly relations between the Students and Faculty and a spirit of manliness and self control. GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO STUDENTS.. Young men or women desiring a liberal education, and living at a distance from any College or University, are often puzzled to understand precisely what they will be required to know and do in order to gain admission. To such these words are addressed : 1. Notice that a College, or a University, (which is propererly a collection of Colleges,) is designed for the higher education only, and not for the study of the common branches. None of the common branches, such Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, Reading and Spelling, are taught in this University. These must all be finished before you come. 2. In order to pursue profitably the true College studies, and to keep pace with the classes, you must be ready to pass a strict examination in the common branches just mentioned, and in certain other preparatory studies, differing with the different Colleges of the University. (See pages 26 and 81.)
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