Second Term.-Partnership accounts; commission and shipping; farm books; business forms and papers; notes, drafts, exchange, endorsements; bills of lading; accounts current; account sales; inventories, invoices, etc. Commercial correspondence.

MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS.

This Department is organized under the provision of the Acts of the National and State Governments, requiring the instruction in Military Tactics. The Board of Trustees of this University have adopted the rule, that all students shall, unless excused for sufficient cause, take part in military exercise, as aggregation of numbers is a paramount necessity to render such instruction effective.

The instruction in this Department will be given in two sub divisions, arranged as follows:

1. Practical instruction in Military Tactics (for the present, confined to the infantry arm), to all able-bodied students of the University, comprising the following branches:

Manual of arms; squad and company drill; bayonet exercise; skirmish drill; battalion drill; guard and picket duty; evolutions of the brigade; target practice.

The exercises are confined to three hours' drill and instruction per week.

2. Military Science. There will be taught a class in Military Science and Art, as far as it is necessary for duties as officers of the line. Students will be admitted into this class after having participated at least two terms in the general military exercises, and shown such proficiency and ability as may secure a utilization of the instruction thus received.

The instruction, theoretical and practical, is to occupy not to exceed five hours each week, and is so arranged as not to interfere with any courses of study, and make it possible for the member of any other course to engage in it as an optional study.

The members of this class will officer the companies, and act as drill sergeants and instructors for the lower classes.

As collateral studies, for such as make this course a specialty, are recommended Mathematics and Surveying, English and Modern Languages, Drawing, one term of Chemistry, History and Political Econ

omy.

FIRST YEAR--First Term.-School of the company; bayonet fencing. Second Term.-Battalion and skirmish drill; Bayonet fencing. Third Term.-Brigade and division evolutions; target practice, and theoretical instruction on the rifle and fire arms.

SECOND YEAR-First Term.-Military administration; reports and returns; army regulations and military laws; Sword fencing, Second Term.- Outpost and picket duty (Mahon's); sword fencing. Third Term.-Military fortification, field and permanent; military bridges and roads; target practice.

THIRD YEAR First Term.--Artillery practice; field artillery; drill at the cannon. Second Term.-Military Engineering; Cavalry tactics, theoretical. Third Term.-Art of War (Jomini); Military History and statistics; organization and administration of armies.

There is formed now a battalion of four companies, officered by the students of the military class, and battalion drill and skirmish drill were practiced last term.

PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC.

The studies of this Department extend through the last year of the full courses, and are taught chiefly by lectures, with readings of specified authors and written essays. The course is as follows:

First Term.-Mental Philosophy. Analysis and classification of mental phenomena. Theories of perception; Imagination; Memory; Judgment; Reason; Intuition. The aesthetic. Phenomena of dreaming, clairvoyance, and insanity, Doctrines of the absolute and the unconditioned. The philosophy of education.

Second Term.-Moral Philosophy (three lectures a week). Theory of conscience; nature of moral obligation; moral feeling; the Right; the Good. Practical ethics; Duties. Formation of character. Logic, formal and inductive, (two lectures a week, alternating with Moral Philosophy).

5 Third Term.-History of Philosophy. Ancient schools of philosophy; Scholasticism; Modern schools of philosophy; Influence of philosophy on the progress of civilization, and and on modern sciences and arts. Inductive logic.

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE.

FACULTY.

THE REGENT, Professor of Political Economy.
DR. MANLY MILES, Professor of Agriculture.
T. J. BURRILL, Professor of Horticulture and Botany.
A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Chemistry.

EDWARD SNYDER, Professor of Agricultural Book-Keeping.
S. W. ROBINSON, Professor of Agricultural Machinery.
S. W. SHATTUCK, Professor of Agricultural Engineering.
D. C. TAFT, Professor, pro tempore, of Geology of Soils.
DR. H. J. DETMER, Lecturer on Veterinary Science.

HON. W. C. FLAGG, Superintendent of Agricultural Experiments. The College of Agriculture has two Divisions, which, for convenience, are styled Schools:

1. The School of Agriculture Proper.

2. The School of Horticulture and Fruit Growing.

1. THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

The aim of this school is to educate scientific agriculturists. The frequency with which this aim is misunderstood by the community at large, demands that it shall be carefully explained. Many, looking up

on agriculture as consisting merely in the manual work of plowing, planting, cultivating and harvesting, and in the care of stock, justly ridicule the idea of teaching these arts in a college. The practical farmer who has spent his life in farm labors, laughs at the notion of sending his son to learn these from a set of scientific professors. But all of this implies a gross misunderstanding of the real object of agricultural science. It is not to teach how to plow, but the reason for plowing at all,-to teach the composition and nature of soils, the philosophy of plowing, of manures, and the adaptations of the different crops and cultures. It is not to teach how to feed; but to show the composition, action and value of the several kinds of food, and the laws of feeding, fattening, and healthful growth. In short it is the aim of the true Agricultural College to enable the farmer to understand thoroughly and profoundly, all that men can know about soil and seed, plants and animals, and the influence of light, heat and moisture, on his fields, bis crops, and his stock; so that he may both understand the reason of the processes he uses, and may intelligently work for the improvement of those processes. Not "book-farming," but a knowledge of the real nature of all true farming-of the great natural laws of the farm and of all its phenomena-this is the true aim of agricultural education. And when it is recollected that agriculture involves the principles of a larger number of sciences than any other human employment or profession, it will not be regarded as an unfit end of a sound collegiate training.

The instruction unites, as far as possible, Theory and Practice-Theory explaining Practice, and Practice illustrating and enforcing Theory. Apparatus.-The College has for the illustration of Practical Agriculture, a large stock farm of 410 acres, provided with a large stock barn, fitted up with stables, pens, yards, cooking room, etc.; and fine stock of several breeds of neat cattle, sheep and swine are to be pur chased at an early day. It is well supplied with farm machinery and tools.

There is also an experimental farm of about 70 acres, exclusive of orchards, etc. This is divided up into experimental plats and fields. A clinic for sick animals is held in the Fall or Winter Term, to furnish opportunity for the practical study of Veterinary Science. During the clinic, held last winter, nearly 60 diseased animals were presented for treatment, and the students took active part in prescribing for them.

Surveying and Drainage are illustrated by practice in the field. Chemistry is pursued by work in the laboratory. Collections of seeds,

soils, plants, implements, skeletons of animals, models and apparatus are provided to illustrate the several branches of Agricultural Science.

Admission.-Candidates must pass a thorough examination in Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography and History, and in Algebra to equations of the 2d degree.

The recommended course, which follows, occupies four years:

FIRST YEAR. First Term.-Geometry, Chemistry, English or Latin History, 2 lectures a week. Second Term.-Botany, Chemistry, English or Latin History, 2 lectures a week. Third Term.-Botany, Analytical Chemistry, English or Latin.

SECOND YEAR. First Term.-Soils and Fertilizers, Vegetable Physiology, Trigonometry and Surveying, German or Chemistry. Second Term.-Plant Culture, Chemical treatment of Soils, Manufacture of Manures, Drawing and Mapping, Zoology, German or Chemistry, Physics. Third Term.-Mechanical treatment of Soils and Drainage, Entomology, German or Chemistry, Physics.

THIRD YEAR. First Term.-Fruit growing, Orchards, etc.; Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, French or History. Second Term.-Animal husbandry, breeding, etc.; Geology, French or History. Third Term.—Agricultural book-keeping, Farm records, etc.; Political Economy, French or History.

FOURTH YEAR. First Term.-Rural Economy and Rural Law, Mental Philosophy and Constitutional history, History of English and American Literature. Second Term.—Veterinary Surgery, Rural Architecture, Physical Geography and Meteorology. Third Term.-Landscape Gardening, History of Agriculture, Geology of Illinois, Inductive Logic and History of Philosophy.

2.-SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE.

The aim of the School of Horticulture is to educate scientific horticulturists. Its course embraces such studies as are necessary to thorough mastery of gardening, fruit growing, and forestry.

Apparatus.-To give a practical character to the special studies of the course, the school is provided with ample horticultural grounds of about 130 acres, including 20 acres of forest plantations, 10 acres of ornamental grounds, several acres of nurseries, and large garden plats. It has an apple orchard of 3,000 trees of about 1,400 varieties, a pear orchard of nearly 400 varieties, and small fruits of many kinds. It has also two green houses well filled with rare exotics and flowering plants. It is supplied with the best garden machinery and tools. It has also many plans of ornamental grounds and parks.

Admission.-The conditions of admission are the same as those for the School of Agriculture.

The course of recommended studies is as follows:

FIRST YEAR. First Term.-Geometry, Chemistry, English or Latin; History, two lectures a week. Second Term.-Botany, Chemistry, English or Latin; History, two lectures a week. Third Term.-Botany, Analytical Chemistry, English or Latin.

SECOND YEAR. First Term.-Soils and Fertilizers, Vegetable Physiology, Trigonometry and Surveying, German or Chemistry. Second Term.-Plant Culture, Chemical treatment of

Soils, Manufacture of Manures, Drawing and Mapping, Zoology, German or Chemistry, Physics. Third Term.-Mechanical treatment of Soils and Drainage, Entomology, German or Chemistry, Physics.

THIRD YEAR. First Term.-Fruit growing, orchards, etc.; Comparative anatomy and physiology, French or History. Second Term.-Nursery plans and records, Geology, French or History. Third Term.-Vegetable garden and small fruits, Political Economy, Book-keeping, French or History.

FOURTH YEAR. First Term.-Hot and green houses, Rural Economy and Rural Law, History of English and American Literature. Second Term.-Rural Architecture, Physical Geography and Meteorology, History of Civilization. Third Term.-Landscape Gardening, Geology of Illinois, History of Philosophy and Inductive Logic.

COLLEGE OF MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING.

FACULTY.

THE REGENT.

S. W. ROBINSON, Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering. S. W. SHATTUCK, Professor of Mathematics.

A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Applied Chemistry.

ALEX. THOMPSON, Teacher of Railroad Engineering.

JAMES BELLANGEE, Teacher of Architectural Drawing.

This College, for the present, embraces the following Schools: 1st, the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering. 2d, the School of Civil Engineering. 3d, the School of Mining, and 4th, the School of Architecture.

1.-SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE,

The aim of this School is to fit students to become Mechanical Engineers, and to prepare them to invent, construct and manage all kinds of machinery. The instruction, while severely scientific, is alṣo severely practical, and aims at a thorough understanding and mastery of all the mechanical principles and devices. Shop practice is required as a regular study in the course. The students of this department, under the direction of the Foreman, have manufactured a steam engine, several lathes, and many pieces of finely finished apparatus. They also have done a large amount of work for outside parties, including patterns for castings, models for the Patent Office, a heliotrope for the United States Coast Survey, several thermometer graduating machines, and some pieces of scientific apparatus for other institutions.