Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876 [PAGE 30]

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30 " The Trustees shall have the power to provide the requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences, to fix the rates of tui ion, to appoint such professors and instructors, and establish and provide for the management of such model farms, model art, and other departments and professorships as may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies."—Act of General Assembly, 1867, Sec. 7. In accordance with the two acts above quoted, and under which the University is organized, it holds as its principal aim to offer freely the most thorough instruction which its means will provide, in all the branches of learning useful in the industrial arts, or necessary to " the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes, in the several pursuits and professions in life." I t includes in this all useful learning—scientific and classical—all that belongs to sound and thorough scholarship.

PRELIMINARY YEAR.

The University has steadily refused till now to open any preparatory school. The preparatory work is well done in many excellent High Schools of the State, and the funds of the University ought not to be diverted from their proper uses, to provide instruction in merely Preparatory Studies. A needful advance in the standard for admission to the College courses, and the necessity of providing, temporarily at least, for those who will come from places where no good High Schools exist, have induced the trustees to provide for preparatory classes in the Studies lying between the Common School Studies and the College courses. Candidates for these classes must be at least fifteen years old. They must also pass satisfactory examinations in Arithmetic, Geography^ English Grammar, and History of the United States. The examination in these branches should be equal to that usually required for a Second Grade certificate for teachers. This examination may be made by county Superintendents. The Studies taught in the preliminary year are as follows : First Term—Algebra (Olney's), Physiology (Dalton's), Book-keeping. Second Term—Geometry (Olney's), English, Elements of Composition (Swinton's School Composition, or an equivalent), Orthoepy and Word Analysis (Introduction to Webster's Academic Dictionary), and Natural Philosophy (Peck's Ganot). Third Term—Geometry completed; English (as in Second Term, with the addition of Goldsmith's Traveler, or an equivalent, which is read for analysis), and Botany (Gray's School and Field Book.) For candidates for the Classical Course, the studies will be as follows : First Term—Algebra, Latin (Caesar), Greek (Grammar and Reader). Second Term—Geometry, Latin (Cicero),, Greek (Anabasis.) Third Term—Geometry•, Latin (Virgil), Greek (Anabasis.) Students in the preparatory studies will not be matriculated as University Students. They will pay no entrance fee, but will be charged a tuition fee of TEN DOLLARS a term, and the usual incidental fee of F I V E DOLLARS a term. They will have all the privileges of the library and of the public lectures.