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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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DESCRIPTION OP DEPARTMENTS. 33 value. The courses offered include a teachers' seminary. Selections are read from the last six books of Vergil's Aeneid. Discussions and lectures on methods, aims, and results in Latin teaching form a part of the work. At intervals the students take charge of the recitation. The Latin department is amply supplied with all necessary appliances for the successful prosecution of the work. MATHEMATICS. In mathematics is included the entire offering of the University courses in pure mathematics, and in physics and astronomy. The instruction in pure mathematics has for its object to promote habits of mental concentration and continuity of thought, to develop the capacity to form and combine abstract conceptions, and to cultivate deductive reasoning. The course is so arranged as to meet the requirements of those who wish to fit themselves for instructors, and of those who study the science for the love of it. Parallel with the pure mathematics of the junior and senior years, two lines of associated work in applied mathematics— physical and astronomical—are offered, either of which may be, and one of which must be, taken by the student wishing to make mathematics his leading course. One of these lines leads from the physics of the sophomore year through the mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism, heat, light, and sound; and the other through surveying and mechanics to celestial mechanics and to general and mathematical astronomy. For fuller information see p. 70. Music. The department of music is designed to fill a demand for a practical musical education. The courses offered are intended to give the pupil a thorough foundation for a musical education and to prepare him for entrance into any school devoted exclusively to the more advanced study of music. Great latitude is given in the selection of lines of work, to meet the personal needs and abilities of the student. The time that may be devoted to the subject, especially in the study of a particular instrument, is entirely indefinite, as it depends altogether upon the ability of the student, -3
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