Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 30]

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26 sons and proofs, classifications of numbers, reduction, denominate numbers, fractions, reduction of fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions, decimal fractions, operations in decimals, per centage, interest, ratio, proportions, involution and evolution. 4th. ALGEBRA—Definitions^notation by letters and signs, simple operations, changes of signs and reasons, algebraic fractions, equations, transformations of equations, solutions of problems, methods of eliminations, calculus of radicals. 5th. HISTORY OF THE U N I T E D STATES—Discovery and settlement of the several States, Indian and other wars, struggle between France and England for possession, the early history of Illinois and the West, the revolutionary war. Students entering any time after the beginning of the first term must pass examinations in the studies already pursued by the class. ADMISSION IN 1873.—As the law requires that no student shall be admitted who shall not pass a satisfactory examination in the studies of the common schools, and as the new school law prescribes that the "elements of the natural sciences" shall hereafter be taught in the common schools, candidates for the College of Agriculture in the University, in the fall of 1873, and thereafter, must be prepared in the elements of Human Physiology, in Botany and in Natural Philosophy, in addition to the studies heretofore required. Candidates for Partial and Elective courses of study will also be admitted upon the above conditions.

EECOMMENDED COUESES OF STUDY.

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

FIRST TEAR—First Term. Plane Geometry; Chemistry; English or Latin; History, two lectures a vreek. Second Term. Botany ; Chemistry, Laboratory Practice; English or Latin; History, two lectures a week. Third Term. Botany; Analytical Chemistry; English or Latin. SECOND TEAR—First Term. Soils and Fertilizers; Cryptogamus Botany and Vegetable Physiology; Trigonometry and Surveying; French or Chemistry. Second Term. Chemical Treatment of Soils and Manures; Drawing and Mapping ; Zoology; French or Physics. Third Term.. Mechanical Treatment of Soils and Drainage; Entomology, French or Chemistry or Physics. THIRD TEAR—First Term. Fruit Growing, Orchards, etc.; Anatomy and Physiology; German or History. Second Term. Animal Husbandry; Geology; German or History. Third Term. Agricultural Book-keeping, Farm Records; Kural Law and Economy; German or History. FOURTH TEAR—First Term. Dairy Farming and Farm Manufactures; Mental Philosophy or Constitutional History; History of England and American Literature. Second Term. Veterinary Surgery ; Physical Geography and Mineralogy; Rural Architecture. Third Term. Landscape Gardening; History of Agriculture; Geology of Illinois; Political Economy; History of Philosophy or Logic.