Report of Committee on Courses of Study and Faculty for the Illinois Industrial University ..The University, 1867 - 24 pages |
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Page 3 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for the "endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 4 - ... to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to. agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies.
Page 5 - ... without any thorough discipline, can successfully master and apply the complicated sciences which enter into and explain the manifold processes of modern agriculture and mechanic art. Nor is it forgotten that man is something more than the artisan, and that manhood has duties and interests higher and grander than those of the workshop and the farm. Education must fit for society and citizenship, as well as for science and industry.
Page 14 - Physiology, and in very many of them the Latin language. All these may properly be prescribed, therefore, as preparatory studies for the University. They are all so elementary in character as to come within the easy comprehension of students under fifteen years of age; they all need to be studied as preparations for mastering the University course; and they may all be successfully taught in public high schools.
Page 5 - Its central educational courses, while equally broad and liberal, are to be selected to fit men for the study and mastery of the great branches of industry, rather than to serve as introductions to the study of law, medicine or theology. "This broad idea of the industrial university proceeds upon the two fundamental assumptions : First, that the agricultural and mechanical arts are the peers of any others in their /dignity, importance and scientific scope; and, second, that the thorough mastery of...
Page 6 - Agricultural Department, embracing — 1. The course in Agriculture proper 2. The course in Horticulture and Landscape Gardening II. The Polytechnic Department, embracing— 1. The course in Mechanical Science and Art 2. The course in Civil Engineering 3. The course in Mining and Metallurgy 4. The course in Architecture and Fine Arts III.
Page 6 - Department of Trade and Commerce. VI. The Department of General Science and Literature — Embracing : 1. The course in Mathematics. 2. The course in Natural History, Chemistry, etc. 3. The course in English Language and Literature. 4. The course in Modern Languages and Literature. 5. The course in Ancient Languages and Literature. 6. The course in History and Social Science. 7. The course in Philosophy, Intellectual and Moral.
Page 5 - ... complete as that required for the comprehension of the learned professions. It thus avoids the folly of offering as leaders of progress in the splendid industries of the nineteenth century, men of meager attainments and stinted culture, and steers clear also of that other and absurder folly of supposing that mere common...
Page 12 - And the prevalent use of these languages in our own country, among large masses of our population, gives to their study an additional value. The Latin language, both because it enters so largely into our own and other modern languages, and because it is to such an extent the language of science, will demand a place in the course. As an instrument of linguistic culture, it greatly surpasses modern languages, and its literature is of perennial value. When well taught, no study more richly rewards the...
Page 4 - University, 1868. related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes, in the several pursuits and professions in life.