Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882 [PAGE 20]

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16 1. English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, and History of the United States, for all the Colleges. These examinations are as thorough as those required for second-grade certificates for teachers in the public schools. 2. Algebra, including equations of second degree and the calculus of radical quantities; Geometry, plain and solid. These are required also for all the Colleges. 3. Physiology, Botany, Natural Philosophy, English Ehetoric and Composition. These are required in addition to 1 and 2 for candidates for the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering and Natural Science. 4. Physiology, Botany, Natural Philosophy, Latin Grammar and Beader. Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Latin Prose Composition, in addition to 1 and 2, for School of English and Modern Languages. 5. Latin (as in 4), Greek Grammar and Beader, four books of Xenophon's Anabasis, and Greek Prose Composition, in addition to 1 and 2, for candidates for School of,Ancient Languages. For further information concerning terms of admission, see "Admission" under the several Colleges; also "Preliminary Year."

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT'S CERTIFICATES.

To prevent loss to those who are not prepared to enter the University, but might come, hoping to pass the examinations for admission, the following arrangement has been made: County Superintendents of Schools will be furnished with questions and instructions for the examination of candidates in the four common branches, Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, and History of the United States; those who pass creditably will, when they present the Superintendent's certificate to that effect, be admitted to the classes of the Preliminary year.

ACCBEDITED HIGH SCHOOL. 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 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 in 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.