Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1894-1895 [PAGE 91]

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COURSE OF STUDY.

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eral agricultural colleges of the country, it attempts to create positive knowledge towards the development of an agricultural science. The extensive fruit and forest tree plantations give abundant opportunity for studies and illustrations in many horticultural lines, and add greatly to the effectiveness of class room work. The ornamental grounds which surround the University buildings contain about twenty acres, and are kept in neat and attractive style. These, with all the adjuncts of trees and flowering shrubs, lawns, beds of flowers and foliage plants, walks of different materials and styles of laying out, give illustrations to the class room work in landscape gardening. A' greenhouse contains a collection of plants of great value for the classes in floriculture and landscape gardening, besides furnishing students with practice in greenhouse management. The cabinets contain a series of colored casts of fruits, enlarged models of fruits and flowers; collections of seeds of native and exotic plants, of specimens of native and foreign woods, of beneficial and injurious insects, and of specimens showing their work; numerous dry and alcoholic specimens and preparations; maps, charts, diagrams, drawings, etc. The College has a supply of compound microscopes and apparatus, and students have opportunity to learn their use and to make practical investigations with them. The herbarium is rich in specimens of useful and noxious plants, including many of the fungus parasites which cause disease to cultivated crops. COURSE OF STUDY. For the degree of Bachelor of Science 40 full credits are required, of which 29 are to be obtained by pursuing prescribed studies, and 11 are to be obtained by pursuing elective studies, including the two obtained upon the graduating thesis, the subject of which may be chosen by the student. Three studies each term are required besides Military 1, 2 and Rhetoric 2. It will be noticed that after the first year one study is always left to the election of the student. The electives that are offered should be taken as far as possible at the times suggested in the term scheme. Horticulture 2, 3, 4, and 5 (3 credits) may be substituted for Agriculture 3 (1 credit) and Physiology 1 (2 credits).