Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 29]

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25 or right to uge every student, without regard to his capacity, taste or practical wants, to take entire some lengthened curriculum, or "course of studies." Liberty everywhere has its risks and responsibilities as well as its benefits, in schools as well as in society ; but it is yet to be proved that compulsory scholarship is necessarily better, riper and more certain than that which is free and self-inspired. Each student is exhorted to weigh carefully his own powers and needs, to counsel freely with his teachers, to choose with serious and independent consideration the branches he may need to fit him for his chosen career, and then to pursue them with earnestness and perseverance, without faltering or fickleness. It is necessarily required: 1st, that students shall be thoroughly prepared to enter and keep pace with the classes in the studies chosen; and 2d, that they shall take these studies when they are being taught. I t is expected that each student shall have three distinct studies, affording three class exercises each day. But on special request to the Faculty, he may be allowed less or more, to meet the exigencies of his course. !Nb changes in studies can be made after the beginning of a term without permission of the Faculty. It is recognized that students will often need advice in the selection of studies and in the arrangement of a proper course. To meet this need, the Faculty have carefully arranged several courses of studies which are expected to be followed by those who have no special reasons for diverging from them. See Courses on pages 60 to 64. Due care will be taken to prevent, as far as possible, all abuse of the liberty of choice. Students failing to pass satisfactory examinations in their chosen studies will not be permitted to remain and take other studies, without a vote of the Faculty.

ADMISSION.

Candidates for admission to the University must be at least fifteen years of age, of good moral character, and able to sustain a satisfactory examination in the following branches: English Grammar.—Formation of words, parts of speech, properties of nouns and pronouns, declensions, conjugations, etc., analysis and syntax of sentences, and use of modifying words and connectives. Geography.—Form, size, motions, and circular divisions of the earth 5 latitude, longitude and zones; the continents and their grand divisions ; countries and capitals of Europe and America; mountain systems and

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