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Caption: Course Catalog - 1881-1882
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College of Literature and Science. 65 As a further aid in this direction, members of the advanced classes are usually selected to act as assistant librarians. In this service they are able to obtain much valuable knowledge of various departments of literature and science, of prominent authors, and the extent and scope of their writings. Of special value as an incentive to, and the means of practice in, English Composition, should be mentioned THE ILLINI, a semi-monthly paper edited and published by the students of the several colleges, each of which is appropriately represented in its columns. A printing office has been provided in the mechanical building, and a press with the requisite supply of type. The Library is well supplied with works illustrating yie several periods of English, American, French, and German Literature, as also those of Ancient Literature. It contains at present over thirteen 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. (See list on pages 24 and 25.) SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Studies of the School.—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. The first two terms of the first year are given to a general survey of the whole field of British and American literature from the middle of the sixteenth century to the present time. All the representative writers come into notice, and representative specimens from the writings-of each are carefully read in class. Moreover, each student is required each term to read the entire work of some classic author, making choice from a prescribed list. Frequent exercises in writing abstracts or original compositions on. themes assigned are also required. The study of Rhetoric occupies the third term. During the second year four or five of the great masters are studied, their work analyzed, and the shaping forces of their times, with their influences upon succeeding times are investigated. Lectures are given 9
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