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Illinois Industrial

University.

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GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO STUDENTS.

Young men or women desiring a liberal education, and living at a distance from any College or University, are often puzzled to understand precisely what they will be required to know and do in order to gain admission. To such these words are addressed: 1. Notice that a College, or a University, (which is properly a collection of Colleges,) is designed for the higher education only, and not for the study of the common branches. None of the common branches,such as Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, Reading and Spelling, are taught in this University. These must all be finished before you come. 2. In order to pursue profitably the true College studies, and to keep pace with the classes, you must be ready to pass a strict examination in the common branches just mentioned, and in certain other preparatory studies, differing with the different Colleges of the University. (See pages 21 and 54 of this catalogue). 3. If well prepared only in the common branches above named, you may be admitted, not to the Colleges, but to the Preparatory Classes, in which you will study the other preparatory studies required for admission to College. (See page 21). All preparatory studies must be completed before you can be admitted, as a matriculated student, to any College class. 4. Remember that all College studies are arranged in regular systematic courses, in which each term's work is designed to prepare for the next. To take the studies in their order, you should enter at the beginning of the College year, in September. If unable to enter at that time, you may enter at any later time by making up the studies already passed over by the class. 5. Enter College with the purpose of going through, and make your course regular as far as you go. If obliged to leave before you have finished the course, you will have done the best thing for yourself in the meantime ; while if you remain, the regular course is in nine cases out of ten, the most useful and effective. Students desiring only a winter's schooling should go to some high school.

ADVICE TO THE YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN OF ILLINOIS.

There are in the State of Illinois over 500,000 young men and women between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. To these our words are addressed. All.of you desire success. All wish a happy and prosperous life. Some seek it in property; some in social standing; some in public offices, and others in professional or business distinction. A sound and liberal education is the surest pathway to success in all these pursuits. Statistics prove that the well educated man will, on the average, be as far advanced in his career at 35 as the uneducated man at 45 or even 50.