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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880
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44 of examination, in the branches required of candidates for the University are received in lieu of the usual entrance examination. These must be graded, or high schools of good reputation, and of sufficiently extended course to prepare students for the University. The principal teachers of the schools selected will be authorized to prepare' questions and conduct examinations of any of their students desirous of entering the University, but the papers must be sent to the University for final decision. The following schools have been selected so far, a s : EXAMINING H I G H SCHOOLS. West Eockford, Buda, Maplewood, Sterling, 2nd Ward, S. Belvidere, Geneseo, Belvidere, Lanark, Gibson City, Belleville, *Rochelle, *Peru, *Shelbyville, *Sycamore, *DeKalb, *Dwight, *Macomb, Kinmundy. ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS. The Faculty, after personal examination, appoint Accredited High Schools, whose graduates may be admitted to the University without further examination. These must be schools of first-rate character, whose courses of instruction include all the studies required for admission to some one of the Colleges of the University. On application, a member of the Faculty is sent to examine the school making the application," as to its facilities for teaching, its course and methods of instruction, and the general proficiency shown. If the report is favorable, the name of the school is entered on the published list of high schools, accredited by the University. The graduates of these schools are admitted to any of the Colleges for which their studies may have prepared them. The appointment continues as long as the work of the School is found satisfactory. Annual reports are asked from these Schools. The following are now on*the list: Princeton, Lakeview, Champaign West, Decatur, Salem, Champaign East Side, Urbana, Elmwood, Oak Park, Chicago, Central, Chicago S. Division, Chicago N. Division, Chicago W. Division, Hyde Park, Marengo, Blackstone, Kankakee, Mattoon E. Side, Springfield, Monticello, Warren. Any one wishing schools placed on either of these lists should make application to the Begent of the University. * These schools are ©andidates for the rank of Accredited Schools.
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