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Second Term. Moral Philosophy and Logic, or History of Civilization and of the Inductive Sciences, Physical Geogaaphy, Meteorology or Analytical Mechanics. Third Term. History of Philosophy, or Inductive Logic, Entomology, or Geology of Illinois, Constitutional Law.

SCHOOL OF COMMERCE.

The course in this School may be completed in a single year, and is designed to fit students to become thorough accountants and business men. The special studies of this School may be taken' in connection with those of any of the Colleges. For a fuller statement of these studies the reader is referred to the Department of Commercial Science, on another page.

SCHOOL OF MILITARY SCIENCE.

The studies of this school are described fully in the article on another page under the Military Department. The apparatus of instruction includes a large Drill Hall; 150 muskets and accoutrements complete; 12 cavalay swords; 1 bass drum; 1 tenor drum; 3 fifes; 2 bugles; 18 fencing muskets for bayonet practice; swords, gauntlets and masks, for sword practice; automaton regiment for theoretical instruction; and a large Drill'Hall to be erected this summer. The library also includes quite a selection of books on military science, military history and engineering.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

1. Each student is required by law to be at least fifteen years of age, but it is believed that few will be found mature enough at this age to enter with the highest profit upon the studies of the University, and it is recommended, as a general rule, that students be at least eighteen years old before entering. 2. The law prescribes that " no student shall be admitted to instruction in any of the departments of the University, who shall not previously undergo a satisfactory examination in each of the branches ordinarily taught in the common schools of the State." In addition to these, candidates for advanced standing must pass an examination in the studies already pursued by the class, or an equivalent therefor. Those desiring ancient languages must pass in the ordinary preparatory studies in such languages. 3. The examinations heretofore have often exhibited a most lamentable lack of true scholarship, even in the ordinary common school branches. In many eases, it is evident that the fault has been in that too common and sid blunder of teaching, which neglects all thorough drill in definitions and principles, and occupies the pupil wholly with exercises. The student often gains considerable expertness in solving the problems in the book, without being able to answer a single question concerning principles, or to explain rationally, a single step in the process. Frequent and searching examinations will be held to test the progress in study, and to determine each student's fitness to remain in the classes. The University cannot be held responsible for the lack of thoroughness in the common school studies of its students, but will insist on thoroughness in its own proper studies.