Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1882-1883 [PAGE 29]

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HE University is both State and National in origin. Its aims are defined by the following extracts from the laws of Congress and of the State Legislature : "Its leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."—Act of Congress

1862, Sec. 4.

"The Trustees shall have the power to provide the requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences, to fix the rates of tuition, to appoint such professors and instructors, and establish and provide for the management of such model farms, model art, and other departments and professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and practical studies."—Act of General Assembly, 1867, Sec. 7.

In accordance with the two acts above quoted, the University holds, as its principal aim, to offer freely the most thorough instruction which its means will provide, in all the branches of learning useful in the industrial arts, or necessary to " the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes, in the several pursuits and professions in life.'' It includes in this all useful learning—scientific and classical,—all that belongs to sound and thorough scholarship. ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY.

COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS.

The Institution is a University in the American sense, though differing designedly in the character of some of its Colleges from the older Institutions of this country. It embraces four Colleges, which are sub-