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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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112 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 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 facilities for the intelligent study of Latin and Greek have been greatly increased by the purchase of a large number of maps, pictures, and views illustrating the life, art, and architecture of Greece and Rome. These are mounted or framed and placed in the recitation room, and are constantly studied in connection with the class work. In this way a realism is given to the literary and artistic achievements of these great peoples; and with access to a good equipment in other respects and a good art gallery, the student of an cient languages is in a position for intelligent and enjoyable study. The class room devoted to English literature is furnished with portrait engravings, etc., of the principal authors studied, and other illustrative equipments, while the work in elocution is aided by models in papier mache of the vocal organs. PHILOSOPHY. [The courses in Philosophy are open to such students only as have completed two years of University work.] 1. Mental Science.—The subjects customarily studied under this head are (a) the mental subject, and (b) its functions. This in-
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