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Caption: Course Catalog - 1889-1890
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80 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOLS. The object of the schools in this college is to furnish a sound and liberal education to fit students for the general duties of life, and especially to prepare them for those business pursuits which require a large measure of literary and scientific knowledge and training. They meet the wants of those who wish to prepare themselves for the labors of the press as editors and publishers, for teachers in the higher institutions, or for the transaction of public business. INSTRUCTION. The plan of instruction embraces, besides the ordinary text-book study, lectures and practical exercises in all the departments, including original research, 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 to 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. 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 nineteen 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 33 and 34. The following subjects are common to the schools of this college, and may be appropriately described in this place. MATHEMATICS. First Term.—Trigonometry, plane and spherical; fundamental relations between the trigonometrical functions of an
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