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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

Real equivalents for any of the above mentioned works will be accepted. The Roman method of pronunciation is recommended. For the Course in Ancient Languages, the same as the first list, except the omission of Rhetoric and Composition, Physiology, Botany, and Natural Philosophy, and with the addition of the Latin described and Greek as follows: Greek Grammar (Goodwin's or Hadley's), Greek Prose Composition (Jones's), and four books of Xenophon's Anabasis. Writing Greek with the accents will be required. The so-called Continental sounds of the vowels and diphthongs and pronunciation according to accent are recommended. County Superintendents' Certificates.—To prevent loss to those who are not prepared to enter the University, but might come, hoping to pass the examinations for admission, the following arrangement has been made: County Superintendents of schools will be furnished with questions and instructions for the examination of candidates in the four common branches, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, and history of the United States; applicants who pass creditably will, when they present the superintendent's certificate to that effect, be admitted to the classes of the preliminary year. Persons who hold teacher's certificates from county superintendents will be admitted to the preliminary class without further examination. Accredited High Schools.—The Faculty, after personal examination, appoints accredited high schools, whose graduates may be admitted to the University without further examination within one year after date of their graduation. These must be schools of first rate character, whose courses of instruction include all the studies required for admission to some one of the colleges of the University. On application, a member of the Faculty is sent to examine the school making application, as to its. facilities for teaching, its course and methods of instruction, and the general proficiency shown. If the report is favorable, the name of the school is entered in the published list of high schools accredited by the University. The graduates of these schools are admitted to such of the colleges as their studies may have prepared them to enter. The appointment continues as long as the work of the school is found satisfactory. Annual reports are asked from these schools. The accredited schools whose graduates are admitted to any of the colleges of the University are the public high schools in Aurora, East. Charleston. Decatur. Aurora, West. Chicago, North. Dixon. Bloomington. Chicago, South. Evanston. Cairo. Chicago, West. Freeport. Champaign. Danville. Galena.