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Accredited High

Schools.

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Second Term.—Algebra—Quadratic equations, etc. Geotnetry—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.) 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. Latin, Cassar. Greekr Grammar and Reader. Second Term.—Algebra and Geometry, as above given.. Latin, Cicero's Orations. Greek, Xenophon's Anabasis. Third Ter?n.— Geometry, completed. Latin, Virgil's id Greek, the Anabasis. N. B.—Greek is required only for the School of Ancient languages. The School of English and modern languages requires Physiology, Natural Philosophy, or Botany instead of Greek. Students in the preparatory studies are not matriculated asUniversity students. They pay no entrance fee, but are charged a tuition fee often dollars a term, and the incidental fee of seven and a half dollars a term. They have all the privileges of the library and of the public lectures. N. B.—No student is matriculated as a college student until all preparatory studies are completed. A C C R E D I T E D HIGH SCHOOLS. The Faculty, after personal examination, appoint accredited High Schools, whose graduates may be admitted to the University without further examination. These must be schools of firstrate 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 profi-