Caption: Course Catalog - 1895-1896
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DESCRIPTION OF DEPARTMENTS PSYCHOLOGY 61 The aim of this department is to acquaint the student with the manifestations of mind, and the laws according to which it develops. In pursuance of this purpose the elements of mentality as exhibited in the various animals and in early infant life are carefully investigated. The mental make-up of the defective and criminal classes is also inquired into in order that light may be thrown upon the best methods to be employed in the treatment of these classes—the best education for the defective, and the best environment for the criminal. Special attention is given to scientific methods of child study because of the direct and important relations in which the results of such study stand to the various pedagogical theories and to the estimate of the educational value of the different subjects taught in our common schools. RHETORIC The courses at present offered in Rhetoric are four, and extend over two years and one term. The object of the courses is not only to acquaint the student with the principles of rhetoric, but to teach him correctness and effectiveness in the use of English. In the first year's work a text-book is used, supplemented with lectures and a critical discussion of the written exercises. About thirty short themes and two long papers a term are required from each student. More emphasis is put upon practice than upon theory. The second year's work is a daily theme course, and is intended to give practice in higher English composition and criticism. A one-term course is offered in the theory and practice of argumentative discourse. ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES This department offers four years of instruction in French and one year each in Spanish and Italian. In the elementary courses the main object is to give the student correct pronunciation, grammatical knowledge, and the ability to read the languages with facility. In French 2, attention is especially directed to various phases of nineteenth century literature; effort is made to ground the student thoroughly in the modern
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