systematic readings of specified authors and daily examinations on the same. The study of historical geography will keep even pace with the history studied, and the chronology will be rendered as clear and distinct as possible. Written exercises on chronology, and essays in historical criticism will constitute prominent features of the course.

FIRST YEAR.-First Term.-Discovery, settlement and colonial history of United States, with notice of other American States. American geography Two lectures (or lessons) a week. Second Term.-History of the United States from the time of the Revolution. Two lectures (or lessons) a week. Third Term.-Political Economy. Five lessons a week.

SECOND YEAR--First Term.-Ancient history of Greece and Rome with notices of other ancient nations. Ancient Geography. Five lessons (or lectures) a week. Second T erm.-Medeiæval history, with history of christianity and ancient schools of philosophy Scholasticism. Five lessons (or lectures) a week. Third Term.-Modern history-general European history. European geography. Five lessons (or lectures) a week.

THIRD YEAR. First Term.-Constitutional history of England, and of the United States. Two lectures a week. Second Term. -History of civilization Analysis of historical forces and phenomena. Notices of the history of the arts and inductive sciences. Third Term.-Political philosophy. Constitutional and international law.

COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT.

The course in this department will occupy one or two years, according to the time the student may give to the special studies of the department.

First Term.-Book-keeping by single and double entry for sole traderapplied to farming, mechanic and mercantile accounts. Theory of the several principal and auxiliary books. Theory of journalizing. Penmanship. Commercial calculation.

Second Term.-Partnership business. Commission and shipping accounts. Railroad books. Manufacturing accounts. Farm books. Herd and stock books. Business forms and papers. Notes. Endorsements. Drafts. Bills of exchange, inland and foreign. Bills of lading. Accounts current. Accounts sales. Inventories, invoices, receipts, etc. Commercial correspondence. Third Term.-Banking and insurance. Commercial customs. Commercial law. Currency and exchange. Political economy applied to trade, markets, etc. Commercial geography. History of commerce.

DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY TACTICS AND ENGINEERING.

FIRST YEAR-First Term.-Infantry Tactics-Schools of the Soldier and Company; Squad and Company Drills. Reports and Returns required from Company Commandants. Second Term.-Infantry Tactics-School of the Battalion. Instruction for Skirmishers. Reports and Returns required from Battalion Commandants. Bayonet Fencing. Third Term.--Infantry Tactics -Evolutions of a Brigade. Reports and Returns required from Brigade

Commandants. Skirmish and Battalion Drills. Guard-mountings, Inspections, Escorts, Funeral Honors.

SECOND YEAR.--First Term.-Artillery Tactics in the different Schools. Artillery Drills. Reports and Returns required from Artillery Officers. Second Term.-Cavalry Tactics in the different Schools. Reports and Returns required from Cavalry Officers. Sword Fencing. Third Term.--Evolutions of a Division, and of a Corps, in the different Armies. Reports and Returns required from Division and Corps Commandants. Forms for Parade and Review of a Division and of a Corps. The Essential Principles of Strategy and Grand Tactics. Advanced Guard, Outpost and Detachment Service of Troops. History of the most remarkable Epochs in the Military Art. Infantry and Artillery Drills.

THIRD YEAR.-First Term.--Field Fortifications. Descriptive Geometry applied to Drawing Fortifications. Duties of Staff Officers. Plans, Profiles and Sections of proposed Works. Second Term.-Permanent Fortifications. Theory of Gunnery, and Results of Experiments. Plans, Profiles, Sections and Drawings of proposed Works. Third Term.-Jomine's Art of War. Duane's or Mahan's Manual for Engineer Troops, consisting of Pontoon Drill, Practical Operations of a Seige, School of the Sap, Military Mining, Construction of Batteries. Cullom on Military Bridges. Benet's Military Law. Army Regulations.

The three years, or any two, may be taken in one, if the student is properly prepared in other studies.

DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE.

The studies in this department will occupy one year. The instruction will be given by lectures, combined with reading selected portions from specified authors, and examinations on the topics discussed.

First Term.-Ment l p ilosophy-definitions and classification of mental phenomina. Connections and relations of mind and matter. Theories of perception. Phenomena of consciousness. Doctrines of ideas. Theory of mental culture. Three lectures a week.

Science of education, or mental philosophy applied to education. Two lectures a week.

Second Term.-Moral philosophy-connection of moral and mental philosophy. Theories of moral obligation. The moral powers. Practical ethics. Three lectures a week. Logic. Two lectures a week.

Third Term.-History of philosophy. Modern schools of philosophy. Inductive logic. Three lectures a week.

LECTURE COURSES.

It is a part of the plan of the University to provide courses of lectures in special departments of knowledge and art. These lectures will be given by regular members of the Faculty, or by eminent scholars and authors whose services may be secured for this purpose. Dr. John A. Warder, the eminent

American pomologist, has already accepted an appointment, and will deliver, during the winter term, a course of lectures on fruit growing, etc. Rev. Edward Eggleston, an eminent writer and editor, is also under appointment as lecturer on English Literature, and negotiations are in progress to secure other lecturers.

A weekly lecture is delivered to all the students, on manners, formation of habits and character; on the conditions of health, happiness, and success in life; on the general duties and affairs of life; on methods of study, courses of reading, etc.

AGRICULTURAL LECTURE SESSION.

It is also designed to hold at the University, each winter, a lecture session of two weeks, for several courses of lectures on the several branches of Agricultural and Horticultural science, to be delivered by gentlemen of eminent acquirements and experience in these departments. Due notice of the time of this course will be given. It is hoped and expected that these lectures will bring together a large number of the practical farmers and fruit growers of this and adjoining States, and that discussions of great value will follow the several lectures. Arrangements will be made to provide board at reasonable rates, and comfortable quarters, for as many as may attend.

APPARATUS OF INSTRUCTION.

A costly set of philosophical and chemical apparatus has just been received from the celebrated manufactory of E. S. Richie & Son, Boston, and large additions will be made at an early day. Rooms are set apart for a good working laboratory for the students in analytical chemistry, which will be fitted up under the direction of the Professor in Chemistry.

Valuable collections have already been secured for cabinets, in Mineralogy, Botany, Conchology, Geology, Paleontology, and in several departments in Zoology; and Prof. Powell, of the Chair of Natural History, is now absent in charge of a scientific expedition to the region of the Colorado of the North, making additional collections.

The illustrative apparatus in the Departments of Agriculture is designed to be very full and complete. The University owns over one thousand acres of improved farming lands, equal to any in the State. Forty acres are set apart for gardens, nurseries, and specimen orchards. The remainder are to be used for experimental and stock farms, orchards, arboretum, etc, Through liberality of manufacturers, the University is rapidly accumulating a collection of agricultural implements; and cabinets and drawings of specimen fruits, vegetables, etc., will be added as fast as practicable. The ornamental grounds around the building already contain a large variety of evergreens and flowering plants.

A collection of maps, charts, models and engravings, is also begun, and is being steadily increased by donation or purchase.

THE UNIVERSITY UNIFORM.

Under the authority of the act of incorporation, the Trustees have prescribed that all the students shall wear the University uniform. This uniform consists of a suit of cadet-gray mixed cloth, of the same color and quality as that worn at West Point, and manufactured by the same establishment.

The coat is a single-breasted frock, buttoned to chin, with standing collar, and a trimming of black mohair cord on shoulders, in loops. The vest is also single-breasted, buttoned to chin, with standing collar. Buttons for coat and vest are manufactured purposely for the University. They are gilt, of medalion style, the design being a sheaf of wheat surrounded with the words, "Illinois Industrial University." The pants have a welt of dark blue in the outside seams. The suit is a very tasteful dress, and is substantial and enduring. An arrangement has been made with responsible parties to furnish the suits to students at twenty-seven dollars each. Students can procure them ready made on their arrival here.

The University cap is of dark blue cloth, and ornamented with the initials I. I. U., surrounded by a silver wreath in front.

The arms and equipments used in the drill are furnished by the State.

Students will wear their uniform always on parade, but in their rooms, and at recitation, may wear other clothing. An army blouse, or fatigue dress, will be furnished at low rate to those that want it.

CHOICE OF STUDIES.

Entire liberty of choice is allowed each student, in selecting the departments which he will enter and the studies he will pursue. It is expected that students will ordinarily pursue the studies of two or more departments at the same time. Each student is required to have fifteen lessons a week, unless specially excused for cause. Changes from one department to another can only be made at the opening of a term.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

1. Each student is required by law to be at least fifteen years of age, but it is believed that few will be found mature enough at this age to enter with the highest profit upon the studies of the University, and it is recommended as a general rule, that students be at least eighteen years old before entering. 2. The law also prescribes that "no student shall be admitted to instruction in any of the departments of the University, who shall not previously undergo a satisfactory examination in each of the branches ordinarily taught in the common schools of the State." In addition to these, candidates for any particular department will be examined in such studies as may be necessary to fit them to pursue successfully the course in that department.

The chief aim of all examinations for admission to the University is to ascertain the student's preparation to pursue successfully the studies of the course. Hence, thoroughness, and a general knowledge of the subject, will be accounted as of more importance than the amount studied. A student of

earnest purpose and well disciplined mind will often pursue a new study more successfully than one of much more extensive preparation, but of less discipline and diligence. Much more solicitude is felt about the progress of the student after he enters, than about the preparation made before he enters, the University. Frequent and searching examinations will be held to test the progress in study, and to determine each student's fitness to remain in the classes. The University cannot be held responsible for the lack of thoroughness in the common school studies of its students, but will insist upon thoroughness in its own proper studies.

THE LABOR SYSTEM.

Practice in some form, and to some extent, is indispensable to a practical education. It is the divorcement of the theoretical and practical which renders so much of education mere "book learning." To guard against this fatal defect, the trustees have directed that the manual labor system shall be thoroughly tried, and all students, who are not excused on account of physical inability, are required to labor from one to two hours each day, except Saturday and Sunday. During the autumn the labor occupied only one hour a day. The students go out in squads, under their military officers, and under the general supervision of members of the faculty, or superintendents of the departments.

The labor is designed to be educational, and to exhibit the practical applications of the theories taught by the text books and in the lecture room. Thus far it has been popular among the students, several attributing to it the preservation of their health through a long term of severe study. They have already accomplished a large amount of valuable work, and are proud to point to the grounds fenced, planted with trees, and ornamented by their own labor. It is found to facilitate, rather than hinder study, and affords a much more valuable means of physical culture than any system of gymnastics.

The labor is compensated in proportion to the ability and fidelity of each laborer, the maximum compensation being eight cents an hour. Many students voluntarily work over hours, and receive for such overwork twelve and a half cents an hour. The experience of the past confirms the belief that this union and alternation of mental and muscular effort will not only give the "sound mind in a sound body," but will help to produce educated men who will be strong, practical and self-reliant, full of resource, and practical in judgment, the physical equals of the strongest, and the mental peers of the wisest; thus redeeming higher education from the odium of puny forms and pallid faces, and restoring the long lost and much needed sympathy between educated men and the great industrial and business classes.

. It is not expected that all prejudices against work will disappear at once, or that labor will at once assume for all, its position of native dignity and honor; but we may confidently hope, if the increasing numbers do not render it impracticable to furnish profitable employment, finally to overcome the strongest prejudices, and render the labor system one of the most popular features of the University, with the public as well as with the students themselves.