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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 laying between the work of the common school and that of the University. Candidates for thes i classes should not he 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. PREPARATORY STUDIES. The studies taught in the preliminary year are as follows : FOR COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING, AND NATURAL SCIENCE. First Term.—Algebra.—(Newcnmb's) fundamental rules-; factoring; common divisors and multiples; powers ;nd roots; calcalus of radicals; simple equations; proportion and progression. Physiology..—(Dalton's or an equivalent.) Natural PhilosopA?/.—(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.—Geometery 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.—Gicero's 0 ations. Greek, Grammar and Reader. Second Term.—Algebra and Geometry, as above given. Latin. Virgil. Greek, Xenophon's Anabasis. Third Term.—Geometry completed. Latin, Virgil's vEneid. Greek. The Anabasis. N. B.—Greek is required only for the School of Ancient Languages. The School of English an 1 Modern Languages requires Physiology, Natural Philosophy, and Botany, iust ad of Greek. Students in the preparatory studies are not matriculated as members of the University. They pay no entrance fee, but are charged a tuition fee of five dolla s a term, and the incidental fee of seven and a
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