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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY.

COLLEGE

OF

A G R I C U L T U R E .

FACULTY.

THE REGENT. DR. MANLY MILES, Professor of Agriculture. T. J. BURRILL, Professor of Horticulture and Botany. A. P. S. STUART, Professor of Chemistry. S. W. SHATTUCK, Professor of Agricultural Engineering. D. C. TAFT, Professor of Geology and Zoology. DR. H. J. DETMKR, Lecturer on Veterinary Science. HON. W. 0. FLAGG, Superintendent of Agricultural Experiments.

ADMISSION.

Candidates for admission to the College of Agriculture must be at least fifteen years of age, of good moral character, and able to sustain a satisfactory examination in the following branches : 1st. In ENGLISH GRAMMAR—In the formation of words, the parts of speech, properties of nouns and pronouns, the declensions, conjugations, &c, and in the analysis and syntax of sentences and use of modifying words and connectives. 2d. In GEOGRAPHY—Form, size, motions and circular divisions of the Earth; latitude, longitude and zones; the continents and their grand divisions; countries and capitals of Europe and America; mountain systems and chief rivers and lakes of Europe and America, boundaries, capitals, chief towns, great railroads and canals, of the States of the Union. 3d. ARITHMETIC—Decimal system of notation and numeration, the four grand rules or operations, with clear explanations of processes, reasons and proofs, classifications of numbers, reduction, denominate numbers, fractions, reduction of fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions, decimal fractions, operations in decimals, per centage, interest, ratio, proportions, involution and evolution. 4th. ALGEBRA—Definitions, notation by letters and signs, simple operations, changes of signs and reasons, algebraic fractions, equations, transformations of equations, solutions of problems, methods of elimination, calculus of radicals. 5th. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES—Discovery and settlement of the several .States, Indian and other wars, struggle between France and England for possession, the early history of Illinois and the West, the revolutionary war. Students entering any time after the beginning of the first term must pass examinations in the studies already pursued by the class.

ADMISSION IN 1873—AS the law requires that no student shall be admitted who shall not pass a satisfactory examination in the studies of the common schools, and as the new school law prescribes that the " elements of the natural sciences" shall hereafter be taught in the common schools, candidates for the College of Agriculture in the University, in the Fall of 1873, and thereafter, must be prepared in the elements of Human I'hysiology, in Botany and in Natural Philosophy, in addition to the studies heretofore required. CANDIDATES for PARTIAL and ELECTIVE courses of study will also be admitted upon the above conditions.