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Caption: Course Catalog - 1888-1889
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ADMISSION. 83 full command of all the instruments and facilities required for the highest proficiency in their studies and proposed work. The University seeks through the Schools to provide for this important part of its mission—the furnishing of teachers to industrial schools of the country, and investigators and writers for the arts. INSTRUCTION". The plui of instruction embraces, besides the ordinary text-book study, lectures and practical exercises in all the departments, including original researches, essays, criticism, and other work intended to illustrate the studies pursued, and to exercise the student's own powers. A prominent aim will be to teach the right use of books, and thus prepare the students for self-directed investigation and study, which will extend beyond the curriculum of his school and the period of his graduation. With this view, constant use of the already ample and continually enlarging stores of the library will be required and encouraged. 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 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 pres.ent over eighteen thousand well selected volumes, and is constantly growing by purchase at home and abroad. Valuable American and foreign periodicals are received regular!v in the reading room. (See list on pages 29 and 30.)
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