Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 126]

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ADMISSION.

Candidates for admission to the University must be at least fifteen years old, and must pass satisfactory examinations in arithmetic, geography, English grammar, history of the United States and the studies of the preliminary year. For expenses see page

PRELIMINARY YEAR.

Preparatory work is already well done in the 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. But a needful advance in the standard for admission to the college courses, and the necessity of providing temporarily for those who 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 W o r d Analysis (Introduction to Webster's academic dictionary), and Natural Philosophy (Peck's Ganot).

T H I R D TERM.

Geometry completed ; English (as in second term, with the addition of Goldsmith's traveler, or an equivalent, read for analysis), and Botany. For candidates for the classic course the studies will be as follows : F I R S T TERM.—Algebra, Latin (Caesar), Greek (grammar and reader). SECOND TERM.—Geometry, Latin (Cicero), Greek (Anabasis). T H I R D TERM.—Geometry, Latin (Virgil), Greek (Anabasis). Students in the preparatory studies are not matriculated as University students. They pay no entrance fee, but are charged a tuition fee of ten dollars a term, and the incidental fee of five dollars a term. They have all the privileges of the library and of the public lectures.