Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 230]

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MUSIC.

TUITION.

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$10.00 6.00 2.00

Instruction, term of ten weeks—2 lessons a week For term of ten weeks—one lesson a week Practice on piano, one hour daily, per term

The teacher of Vocal Music and Voice Culture, follows t h e I t a l i a n method, giving individual instruction.

TEBMS.

Ten weeks—two lessons a week Ten weeks—one lesson a week

$12.00 7.00

No deduction on account of absence in either course, except in case of protracted illness. Special students in music will also be charged the regular term fee charged other students of the University.

PREPARATORY CLASSES.

T o meet an urgent demand, the Trustees have temporarily provided for teaching the p r e p a r a t o r y studies lying between the work of m a n y of the common schools and the University. Candidates for these classes must n o t be less t h a n fifteen years old. They must pass satisfactory examinations in arithmetic, geography, English g r a m m a r , and history of the United States. Students in the p r e p a r a t o r y studies are n o t matriculated as members of the University. They p a y no entrance fee, b u t 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 t h e public lectures, and are required t o drill. The studies t a u g h t in the preliminary year are as follows:

FOR COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE, E N G I N E E R I N G , A N D N A T U R A L SCIENCE.

First Term.—Algebra.—(Wells's). Fundamental rules; factoring; common divisors and multiples; powers and roots; calculus of radicals; simple equations; proportion and progression. Physiology.—(Cutter's.) Natural Philosophy.—{Norton's.) Second Term.—Algebra.—Quadratic equations, etc. Geometry.—(Wells's) Plane geometry, lines, circumferences, angles, polygons, as far as equality. English.— Elements of composition. (Clark's.) Orthoepy and word analysis. (Introduction of Webster's Academic Dictionary). Third Term.—Geometry completed, including solid geometry and the sphere. English, as in the second term, with addition of Goldsmith's Traveler and Deserted Village, read for analysis. Botany.—Gray's Lessons and Manual.

FOR SCHOOL OF E N G L I S H AND MODERN LANGUAGES.

First Term.—Algebra, as above. Physiology. Natural Philosophy. Latin,— Cicero's Orations. Prose Composition. Second Term.—Algebra and Geometry, as above. Latin.—iEneid. Prose Composition. Third Term.—Geometry, as above. Botany. Latin,—iEneid. Prose Compo sition.