Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 70]

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During the Spring Term* ..... ........... During the Autumn Term ............................... During the Winter Term (not yet ended) » Total attendance for the year Total attendance of preceding year, to June . . . 149 204 226 280 196

The number entered for the several courses, the present term, was as follows:

For Agricultural and Horticultural courses For Mechanical and Civil Engineering For Special Chemical course For Commercial For Architecture For Military course Students in Chemical Laboratory 60 44 9 12 4 24 88

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Several are entered as students of Mining Engineering, and an early development of this course will be required. Many of the younger students report for a general or elective course, not having yet fixed upon any pursuit or profession. The representation from the different counties of the State has steadily grown greater as the University has become more widely known, fiftj-five counties being now represented. Every year, circulars and lists of questions for the examination of students, have been sent to the County Superintendents of schools, and great credit is due these officers for the generous and efficient service they have rendered the University.

ADMISSION OF FEMALE STUDENTS.

A brief time before the opening of the Autumn Term, the Executive Committee decided upon the admission of female students, and fifteen entered the first term thereafter. The number, this term, is twenty-two, and there is reason to believe the number will rapidly increase hereafter.

TERMS OF ADMISSION.

The law prescribes that " no student shall be admitted to instruction in any of the departments of the University, who shall not have attained the age of fifteen years, and who shall not, previously, undergo a satisfactory examination in each of the branches ordinarily taught in the common schools of the State." This requirement has been interpreted as fixing simply the lowest limits of the qualifications which the Trustees might prescribe, leaving them free to fix such higher qualifications as might seem needful in. the progress of time.