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Caption: Course Catalog - 1878-1879
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26 Illinois Industrial University. In accordance with the two acts above quoted, the University holds, as its principal aim, to offer freely the most thorough instruction which its means will provide, in all the branches of learning useful in the industrial arts, or necessary to "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes, in the several pursuits and professions in life." It includes in this all useful learning—scientific and classical,—all that belongs to sound and thorough scholarship. EXAMINATIONS FOR ADMISSION. Examinations of candidates for admission to the University, or any of its departments, are held at the University itself, the day previous to the opening of each term. These examinations embrace the following studies.: 1. English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography and History of the United States, for all the Colleges. These examinations are as thorough as those required for second-grade certificates for teachers in the public schools. 2. Algebra, including equations of second degree and the calculus of radical quantities; Geometry plain and solid. These are required also for all the Colleges. 3. Physiology, Botany, Natural Philosophy, Book-Keeping, single and double entry; English Rhetoric and Composition. These are required additional to 1 and 2 for candidates for the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering and Natural Science. 4. Physiology, Botany, Natural Philosophy and Latin Grammar and Reader. Caesar, Cicero and Virgil, Latin Prose ; two year's work,—additional to 1 and 2 for School of English and Modern Languages. 5. Latin—-two years, (as in 4) and Greek Grammar and Reader, four books of Xenophon's Anabasis, and Greek Prose Composition, additional to 1 and 2, for candidates for School of Ancient Languages. For further information concerning terms of admission, see "Admission" under the several Colleges; also "Preliminary Year." To prevent loss to those who are not prepared to enter the University, but might come, hoping to pass the examinations for admission, the following arrangement has been made: COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT'S CERTIFICATES. County Superintendents of Schools will be furnished with questions and instructions for the examinations of candidates in
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