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Caption: Course Catalog - 1890-1891
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60 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. OBJECT OF THE COURSES. The object of the courses in this college is to furnish 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. 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 twenty 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. The following subjects are common to the courses of this College and may be appropriately described in this place: MATHEMATICS. First Term.—Advanced Algebra.—Functions and their notation ; series and the theories of limits; imaginary quantities; general theory of equations. Topical reviews of all preceding algebraic processes. Second 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. Third Term.—Conic sections, geometrical method. Definitions and general properties of the ellipse, hyperbola, and parabola; curvature
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