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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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GENERAL LIST OP SUBJECTS. 157 use of instruments of precision. The third term is occupied with a study of the general physiology of muscle, and the special anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. Fall, lointer, and spring terms, full study. Assistant Professor SUMMERS. Required: Physiology 1; Physics 1. 3. INVESTIGATION AND THESIS.—An opportunity for original investigation, upon which may be founded the graduating thesis, is offered to students in their senior year. While the instructor will have a general supervision of this work, it is expected that the student will at all times take the initiative, seeking only such information and advice as he would ask of any coworker in his department of science. Winter and spring terms, full study. Assistant Professor SUMMERS. Required: Physiology 1, 2. 4. MINOR COURSE.—This course is planned for literary students and for students of natural science specializing in other lines. While some attention is paid to all the important processes of the body, especial emphasis is laid upon those facts that serve as a basis for practical hygiene. Fall term, full study. Assistant Professor SUMMERS. Required: Chemistry 1. PSYCHOLOGY. 1. GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY.—In this general course are considered the more general problems of the mental life of the normal individual, especially those that have a living interest for the student, and find illustration in his every day life. Among the large number of topics discussed the following are chief: Relation of mental activity to bodily changes, sensation, habits, attention, memory, imagination, association of ideas, reasoning, instinct, emotion, will, localization of cerebral functions, time relations of mental phenomena. The course is amply illustrated by the use of apparatus, charts, prepared tissue, and photographs. Endeavor is made to give the class the more important results of recent researches, and the course is made to comprise the results of both the introspection and laboratory methods. Spring term, full study. Assistant Professor KROHN. 2. LABORATORY PSYCHOLOGY.—This course is made up of lectures and laboratory work, with assigned reading. The class performs a series of about one hundred experiments to illustrate the
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