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Additional Schools.

PREPARATORY STUDIES.

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The studies taiight in the preliminary year are as follows:

FOR COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING, AND NATURAL SCIENCE.

First Term.—Algebra.— (Wells'.) Fundamental rules; factoring; common divisors and multiples; powers and roots; calculus of radicals; simple equations; proportion and progression. Physiology.—Cutler's,) Natural Philosophy. (Norton's.) Second, Term.—Algebra.—Quadratic equations, etc. Geometry.—(Chauvenet's.) Plane Geometry, lines, circumferences, angles, polygons, as far as equality. English.— Elements of composition. (Kellogg's.) 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 and Deserted Village, read for analysis. Botany—Gray's Manual and Lessons. Reasonable equivalents for the work in any of the text books named will be accepted.

FOR COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

First Term.—Algebra, as above. Latin.—Cicero's Oratfons. 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 iEneid. Greek.—The Anabasis. N. B.—Greek is required for only 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 have 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.