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Caption: Course Catalog - 1880-1881
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28 Illinois Industrial University. 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 though 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, English Rhetoric and Composition. These are required in addition to 1 and 2 for candidates for the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and ^Natural Science. 4. Physiology, Botany, Natural Philosophy, Latin Grammar and Reader. Caesar, Cicero, Virgil and Latin Prose Composition, in addition to T and 2, for School of English and Modern Languages. 5. Latin (as in 4), Greek Grammer and Reader, four books of Xenophon's Anabasis, and Greek Prose Composition, in addition to 1 and 2, for candidates for School of Ancient Languages. For further information concerning terms of adm ssion, see '•'•Admission" under the several Colleges; also " Preliminary Tear." COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT'S CERTIFICATES. 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 Superintendents of Schools will be furnished with •questions and instructions for the examinations of candidates in the four common branches, Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, and History of the United States; those who pass •creditably will, when they present the Superintendent's certificate to that effect, be admitted to the classes of the Preliminary year.
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