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Caption: Course Catalog - 1896-1897
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3° UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS The scholarship examinations* held each year on the first Saturday in June and the day preceding, in counties in which there are applicants for state scholarships, afford an opportunity to pass the entrance examinations before coming to the University, as the examinations will be equivalents. The subjects upon which the entrance examinations are held are described below. The text-books are named merely to aid in showing the requirements. Equivalents are accepted. The examinations which a candidate is required to pass depend in part on which of the four colleges of the University he intends to enter. In the following statement of subjects for examination, those requirements which are common to all the colleges are given first; then follow statements of the additional requirements for each college. To determine on what subjects he must pass examinations, then, a candidate rnust add to the uniform requirements first stated those classed as additional for the particular college he wishes to enter. SUBJECTS IN WHICH ALL CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION MUST BE EXAMINED [For additional requirements for the different colleges, see pages 32-34.] 1. ALGEBRA.—Fundamental operations, factoring, fractions, simple equations, involution, evolution, radicals, quadratic equations, and equations reducible to the quadratic form, surds, theory of exponents, and the analysis and solution of problems involving these. The subject as given in Wells's Higher Algebra through quadratic equations, or the same work-in Wentworth's Algebra, or an equivalent. 2. COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC.—Correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, paragraphing, idiom, definition, and proper use of rhetorical figures; the elements of Rhetoric. The candidate will be required to write two paragraphs of about one hundred and fifty words each to test his ability to use the English language. 3. ENGLISH LITERATURE.—(a) Each candidate is expected to have read certain assigned literary masterpieces, and will be subjected to such an examination as will determine whether or not he has done so. The books assigned for the next three years are as follows: 1897.—Shakspere's As You Like It; Defoe's History of the Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveler; Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales; Longfellow's Evangeline, and George Eliot's Silas Marner. 1898. —Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I. and II.; Pope's Iliad, Books *See "Scholarships." (Consult Index.)
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