Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1875-1876 [PAGE 26]

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Illinois

Industrial

University.

YEAR.

PRELIMINARY

The University has steadily refused till now to open anv preparatory School. The preparatory work is 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. A"needful advance in the standard for admission to the College courses and the necessity of providing temporarily at least for those who will come from places where no good High Schools exist, now induce the Trustees to provide for preparatory classes in the Studies lying between the common School Studies and the College courses. These preparatory classes will be opened at the beginning of the next college year, SEPTEMBER I 2 T H , 1876. Candidates for these classes must be at least 15 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, or bv principals of High Schools. The Studies taught in the Preliminary year will be as follows;

FIRST TERM.

Algebra (Olney's), Physiology (Dalton's), Book-keeping.

SECOND TERM.

Geometry (Olney's), English (Swinton's), and Natural Philosophy (Peck's Ganot.)

THIRD TERM.

Geometry completed, English, and Botany. For candidates for the classical course, the studies will be as follows: First Term.—Algebra, Latin (Caesar), Greek (Grammar and Reader.) Second Term.—Geometry, Latin (Cicero), Greek (Anabasis.) Third Term.—Geometry, Latin (Virgil), Greek (Anabasis.) Students in the preparatory studies will not be matriculated as University Students. They will pay no entrance fee, but will be charged a tuition fee of T E N DOLLARS a term, and the usual incidental fee of F I V E DOLLARS a term. They will have all the privileges of the library and of the public lectures.