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Caption: Course Catalog - 1884-1885
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74 Illinois Industrial University. 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 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 fourteen 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 28 and 29.) SUBJECTS COMMON TO THE SCHOOL 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, geometrical 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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