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Illinois Industrial

University.

ciently high grade and good reputation, whose certificates of examination, in the branches required of candidates for the University, may be received in lieu of the usual examination of the University. These must be Graded, or High Schools of good reputation, and of sufficiently extended course to prepare students for the University. The principle teachers of the schools selected for this class will be authorized to prepare questions and conduct examinations of any of their students desirous of entering the University, but the papers must be sent to the University for final decision. The following is a list of the Schools already accepted as

EXAMINING SCHOOLS :

Rockford, West High School, Tuscola " " Buda " " Kankakee " " Champaign, East Side School, Maplewood High School, Sterling, 2d Ward High School, S. Belvidere High School, Geneseo High School, Belvidere High School, Urbana " " Lanark " " Gibson City" "

J. H. Blodgett, Principal. E. J. Hoenshal, " J. V. Wilkinson, C. W. Rolfe, Eugene De Burn, S. F. Hall, Alfred Bayliss, J. W. Gibson, B. F. Barge, . Sherrill, J. W. Hays, F. T. Oldt, ;. J . W. Mercer,

Accredited High Schools.—In addition to the Examining Schools above mentioned, the Faculty are authorized, after personal examination, to appoint accredited High Schools, whose graduates may be admitted to the University without further examination. These must be schools of first-rate character, whose courses of instruction include all the studies required for admission to some one of the colleges of the University. On application, a member of the Faculty is sent to examine the school making the application, as to its facilities for teaching, its course and methods of instruction, and the general proficiency shown. If the report is favorable, the name of the school is entered on the published list of High Schools, accredited by the University. The graduates of these schools are admitted to any of the colleges for which their studies may have prepared them. The appointment continues as long as the work of the school is found satisfactory.

ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS.

Princeton High School, H. L. Bolt wood, Principal Lake View High School, A. T. Nightingale, Champaign, West High School, W. H. Lanning, Tolono High School, O. C. Palmer, Decatur " " E. A. Gastman, Salem High School, ..N. S. Scovell, N. B.—Schools desiring to be placed on either of these lists will be furnished, on application, with the circular of instructions.