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Caption: Course Catalog - 1882-1883
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66 Illinois Industrial University. 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 a requisite supply of type. The Library is well supplied with works illustrating the 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 page 26.) SUBJECTS COMMON TO THE SCHOOLS OF THIS COLLEGE. MATHEMATICS. First Term:—Trigonometry, plane and spherical; fundamental relations between the trigonometrical functions of an angle or arc; relations between the functions of different angles or arcs; construction and use of tables; solution of triangles; angles as functions of sides and sides as functions of angles; applications. Second Term:—Conic Sections. Geometrial method. Definitions and general properties of the ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola; curvature of the conic sections. Analytical Geometry, elements of. Properties and relations of the point and right line in a plane; of the conic sections. Third Term:—Advanced Geometry; Modern Geometry. Harmonic proportion and harmonic pencils; anharmonic ratio and involution; poles and polars in relation to a circle; the radial axes and centers of similitude of two circles; the principle of continuity; elementary principles of projection. Text Books—Coffin's Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry; Mulcahy's Modern Geometry.
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