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Illinois Industrial University.

FOR COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING, AVD 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.—Graj's Lessons in Botany, or an equivalent.

FOR COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AMD SCIENCE.

First Term.—Algebra, as above. Latin —Cicero's Orations. 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 ./Eneid. 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, and Botany, instead •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 dollars a term, and the incidental fee of seven and a half dollars a term. They nave all the privileges of the library and of the public lectures, and are required to drill. N. B.—No student is matriculated as a college student until all preparatory studies are completed. ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOL. The faculty, after personal examination, appoint accredited High Schools, whose graduates may be admitted to the University without further examination within one year after