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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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122 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. country. While the necessary logical separation is observed in the treatment of these subjects, their intimate connection is also emphasized and the economic development of the country as a whole is studied. The course may be taken as a graduate course on conditions similar to those laid down in (3). For graduate students the course will be purely investigative. They must, however, attend the lectures and report from time to time the results of their special investigations and summaries of their additional assigned reading. Fall and winter terms, threefifths study. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 1. 4. STATE AND LOCAL TAXATION IN THE UNITED STATES.— This course is a comparative study of taxation in the various states, and also in the cities so far as they present features of special interest. Special attention is given to taxation in Illinois. Spring term, full study. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 3 or 3a. 5. RAILROAD PROBLEMS.—This is a short course designed to familiarize the student with the problems of railway management in their economic, social, and legal aspects. Comparison is made of the development of railroad transportation and its regulation in Europe and the United States. Rates, financial methods of construction, competition, pooling, etc., are discussed, as is also the question of state ownership and management. Spring term, full study, three times a week. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 1. The course is open, without the requirement in Economics, to students in the College of Engineering who have taken engineering 4. (Not given in 1895-96.) 5a. STATISTICS.—The aim of this course is to give instruction in the purposes, methods, and scope of statistics. At the opening of the course a number of lectures will be given on these topics; after that the work will be entirely investigative, the collection of data, tabulation, graphic representation, generalization, etc. Each student must complete at least four subjects of investigation in the line indicated by the requirement which he offers to enter the course. The intelligent manipulation of the ordinary mechanical appliances in statistical work is required. Spring term, full study, three times a week. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 1. The course is open, without the requirements in economics, to students who have taken any one
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