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Caption: Course Catalog - 1879-1880
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Preparatory Classes. PREPARATORY CLASSES. [TO BE CONTINUED TILL JUNE, 1881.J 81 To meet an urgent demand, the Trustees consented to provide temporarily for teaching the Preparatory Studies, lying between the Common School studies and the proper College studies. The High Schools of the State are already doing such excellent work, and are multiplying to an extent that it is decided that this Preliminary work shall be dismissed from the University entirely after next year, ending June, 1881. Candidates for these classes should not be less than fifteen 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. The studies taught in the preliminary year are as follows: PREPARATORY STUDIES. For the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture and Natural Science. First Term.—Algebra—(Olney's) Fundamental rules, Factoring, Common Divisors and Multiples, Powers and Roots, Calculus of Radicals, Simple Equations, Proportion and Progression. Physiology—(Dalton's or an equivalent.) Book-Keeping—Single and Double Entry. Second Term.—Algebra—Quadratic equations. Geometry —Plane Geometry, Lines, Circumferences, Angles, Polygons as far as equality in Olney's Geometry. English—-Elements of Composition. (Gilmore's Art of expression or equivalent.) Orthoepy and Word Analysis. (Introduction to Webster's Academic Dictionary). Natural Philosophy—(Norton's or an equivalent.) Third Term.— Geometry completed, including solid Geometry and the Sphere. English as in second term, with addition of Goldsmith's Traveler, or an equivalent, read for analysis. Botany —Gray's Lessons in Botany, or an equivalent. FOR COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. First Term.—Algebra, as above. Grammar and Reader. 11 Latin, Caesar. Greek,
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