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Illinois Industrial University.

from time to time on poetry, epic, lyrie, dramatic, etc. Writing and reading required as in first year. In the senior year attention is given to Old English ; to the AngloSaxon, for which the way has been prepared by the study of both English and German; to Philology; to the Philosophy of English literature, and to Esthetics. Essays, forensics, and orations are required. French and German.—The modern languages taught in this School are confined to one year of French and two years of German. Abundant practical exercises are given both in composition and translation, and the diligent student gains the power to read with ease, scientific and other works in these languages, and may, with a little practice, write and speak them with correctness. A constant attention is also given to the etymologies common to these languages and the English, and thereby a large advantage is gained by the student in linguistic culture. " He who knows no foreign tongue," said Goethe, "knows nothing of his own." In the first year the student passes over a complete grammar and reader, acquiring a knowledge of the technicalities of the idiom, with a sufficient vocabulary for the use of books of reference within the course. The second year is devoted to a critical study of the languages and philological analysis, and to a course of select classic reading, composition, and conversation. Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy.—For these studies, see School of Mechanical Engineering. Natural Sciences.—See Schools of Chemistry and Natural History.

HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.

The historical studies are designed to afford a general view of the history, social organization, and progress of the race. They embrace also the history of the arts and sciences, and of civilization, the principles of civil polity and law, the philosophy of history, and the principles of political economy and constitutional law. The course occupies six terms in the third and fourth years of the University Course.

THIRD YEAR.

Ancient History of Greece and Rome, with notices of other nations; Ancient Geography; Mediaeval History; Modern History; General European History; European Geography.

FOURTH YEAR.

Constitutional History of England and the Unfted States; History of ivilization, tnalysis of Historical Forces and Phenomena, notices of the Arts and of the Inductive Ay Sciences; Political Economy.