Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois

mine each student's fitness to remain in the classes.

The Univer sity cannot be held responsible for the lack of thoroughness in th common school studies of its students.

PREPARATORY CLASSES.

It is incompatible with the more appropriate and importan work of the University to maintain a preparatory department but to meet the exigencies of students not fully prepared, th Faculty will organize and instruct, during this first college year classes in the preparatory studies, except the common schoo branches. When the higher classes shall be filled it will be im practicable to continue this preparatory work.

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ARTS.

The studies in this department embrace those scientific and literary branches required for a liberal education, and which are important for the most successful study of the various industrial courses. The studies of the course have been arranged to come within four years, as follows:

The studies in this department will be arranged ultimately in

two courses:

1. The course in General Agriculture.

2. The course in Horticulture, Fruit Growing, and Landscape Gardening.

The aim of these courses will be to fit Students to manage successfully, for themselves or others, agricultural and horticultural estates and enterprises. The studies will be pursued partly by lectures, accompanied by courses of reading and examinations, and partly by the regular study of text books. Practical exercises and experiments on the farm, and in the gardens, nurseries, and fruit plantations, will constitute a part of the course.

The following conspectus of Agricultural and Horticultural science and art, exhibits a general view of the field designed to be covered by the instruction in these two courses: