Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1890-1891 [PAGE 79]

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PREPARATORY CLASSES.

To meet an urgent demand, the Trustees have temporarily provided for teaching the preparatory studies lying between the work of the Elementary schools and the University. Candidates for these classes must be not less than fifteen years old. They must pass satisfactory examinations in arithmetic, geography, English grammar, and history of the United States. 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. The studies taught in the preliminary year are as follows:

FOR COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING, AND NATURAL SCIENCE.

First Term.—Algebra—(Wells's). Fundamental rules; factoring; common divisors and multiples; powers and roots; calculus of radicals; simple equations; proportion and progression. Physiology.—(Cutter's.) Natural Philosophy.—(Norton's.) Second Term.—Algebra.—Quadratic equations, etc. Geometry.— (Wells's) Plane geometry, lines, circumferences, angles, polygons, as far as equality. English.—Elements of composition. (Clark'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 Lessons and Manual.

FOR COURSES IN THE COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, EXCEPT THE COURSE IN ANCIENT LANGUAGES.

First Term.—Algebra as above. Physiology. Natural Philosophy. Latin.—Cicero's Orations. Prose composition. Second Term—Algebra and Geometry, as above. Latin.'—iEneid. Prose composition. Third Term.—Geometry, as above. Botany. Latin.—^Eneid. Prose composition.

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