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Caption: Course Catalog - 1882-1883
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76 Illinois Industrial University. PREPARATORY CLASSES. To meet an urgent demand, the Trustees consented to provide temporarily for teaching the preparatory studies lying between the work of the common school and that of the University. Candidates for these classes should not be less than fifteen years old. They must 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: PEEPABATOBY STUDIES. For the Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and Natural Science. First Term.—Algebra—(Newcomb's) Fundamental rules, Factoring, Common Divisors and Multiples, Powers and Roots, Calcalus of Radicals, Simple Equations, Proportion and Progression. Physiology—(Dalton's or an equivalent.) Natural Philosophy—(Norton's or an equivalent.) Second Term.—Algebra.—Quadratic equations, etc .Geometry.—(Chauvenet's) Plane Geometry, Lines, Circumferences, Angles, Polygons, as far as equality. 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 the 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.—Cicero's Orations. Greek, Grammar and Reader. Second Term.—Algebra and Geometry, as above given. Latin, Virgil. Third Term.—Geometry completed. Latin, Virgil's ^Eneid. Greek, The Anabasis. Greek, Xenophon's Anabasis. N. B.—Greek is required only for the School of Ancient Languages. The School of English and Modern Languages requires Physiology, Natural Philosophy, and Botany instead of Greek. Students in the preparatory studies are not matriculated as University students. They pay no entrance fee, but are charged a tuition fee of
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