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18 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:

PREPARATORY STUDIES.

For the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, and Natural Science. First Term.—Algebra—(Olney's Fundamental rules, Factoring, Common Divisors and Multiples, Powers and Boots, Calculus of Eadicals, Simple Equations, Proportion and Progression. Physiology—(Dalton's* or an equivalent.) Natural Philosophy—(Norton's or an equivalent.) Second Term.—Algebra—Quadratic equations, etc. Geometry—Plane Geometry, Lines, Circumferences, Angles, Polygons, as far as equality in Olney's Geometry. English.—Elements of Composition. (Gilmore's Art of Expression orequiyalent.) Orthoepy and Word Analysis. (Introduction to Webster's Academic Dictionary,) Third Term—Geometry completed, including solid Geometry and the Sphere. English as is the second term, with addition of Goldsmith's Traveler, or an equivalent, read for analysis. Botany—Gray's Lessons in Botany, or an equivalent.

FOR COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

First Term.—Algebra, as above. Latin, Caesar. Greek, Grammar and Beader. Second Term.—Algebra and Geometry, as above given. Latiny Cicero's Orations. Greek, Xenophon's Anabasis. Third Term.—Geometry, completed. Latin, Virgil's iEneid. Greekr the Anabasis. N. B.—Greek is required only for the School of Ancient Languages. The Sohool of English and Modern Languages requires Physiology, Natural Philosophy, and Botany instead of Greek. Students in the preparatory studies are not matriculated as University students. They pay no entrance fee, but are charged a tuition fee of five dollars a term, and the incidental fee of seven and a half dollars a term. They have all the privileges of the library and of the public lectures. N. B.—No student is matriculated as a college student until all preparatory studies are completed.

DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES.

• The law provides that, "on recommendation of the Faculty, the Trustees may authorize the Begent, as President of the University, to issue diplomas to such persons as shall have completed satisfactorily the required studies, and sustained the examination therein, conferring such Literary and Scientific Degrees as are usually conferred by Universities for similar or equivalent courses of studies, or such as the Trustees may deem appropriate." " Approved May 11, 1877.