Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1893-1894 [PAGE 57]

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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE.

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knowledge of the normal histological structure and vital processes o£ the body and a working familiarity with the instruments of precision of use in the investigation of disease. (2) To give to students of all branches of biology a training in deducting logically necessary conclusions from data obtained by their own observations. (3) To furnish such a knowledge of physiology as will serve as a basis for future studies in hygiene. The laboratory method of instruction is chiefly followed, supplemented, when desirable, by lectures, demonstrations, references to standard literature, and recitations. The laboratory work predominates in the major and advanced courses; the lectures, demonstrations, and recitations in the minor course. In the more advanced courses each subject is treated, so far as time will permit, as if it were an original investigation. The student is guided to the best methods to be pursued, but the results are left for him to discover. At frequent intervals the results obtained are reviewed by the instructor, and, when necessary, completed, unified, and correlated with the facts learned from previous investigations, care being taken to show the student wherein and why he failed to obtain a full knowledge of the subject. T H E CHEMICAL GROUP. The instruction in the subjects of the chemical group has a twofold object. On the one hand it is directed by the purpose of imparting such a knowledge of chemistry and the allied branches as shall best enable the student to apply the principles of the science to the practical work of the analytical and technical chemist, or to that of the pharmacist and druggist. On the other hand, opportunities are provided for such students as desire to direct their energies to the purely scientific side of the subject with the view to preparing themselves to become teachers of chemistry or investigators in the various branches of pure chemistry. Certain specified courses are required of all candidates for graduation in chemistry, but by means of the options in chemical subjects the scope of the work is made sufficiently broad to enable the student to specialize in the various lines open to the chemist or the pharmacist. The fourth year is mainly devoted to the investigation of some chemical problem, the subject being chosen and the research prosecuted under the direction and with the advice of the professor in charge, and with particular reference to the student's aims. Students not members of the College of Science, who desire to pursue studies in the chemistry of agriculture or in metallurgy, may have ample opportunity for such work on consultation with the professors in charge.