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Caption: Course Catalog - 1891-1892
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144 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. be of great advantage. Faunce's Mechanical Drawing is recommended as a text book, and the drawings should be made on smooth paper, eight by ten inches, then inked properly. ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS. The subjects upon which examinations for admission are held are as enumerated below: FOK THE COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING, AND SCIENCE. Arithemetic; English grammar; geography; history of the United States; algebra, including equations of the second degree and the calculus of radical quantities; geometry, plane and solid; physiology; botany; natural philosophy; rhetoric and composition. Candidates for admission will be required to write a short essay correct as to punctuation, paragraphing, the use of capitals, etc., and they will be asked to correct English writing faulty in these and other respects. In 1893 longer essays will be required (except from those offering Greek) upon subjects drawn from one or two of the following works: Shakespere's Julius Caesar, Scott's Marmion, Webster's First Bunker Hill oration, Goldsmith's Deserted Village, Irving's Sketch Book. Or one year's work in French or German will be accepted instead of the English literature described. The text books mentioned in course of study for the preparatory classes, may be taken as an • indication of the requirements in these studies. Any real equivalents for the books named are accepted. FOB COLLEGE OF LITERATURE. For the courses in English Modern Languages, Latin, and Philosophy and Pedagogy, the same as the above, except the Rhetoric and Composition and with the addition of the following Latin: Three books of Cassar's Commentaries, five orations of Cicero, six books of Vergil's Mneid, with scansion of hexameter verso and the translation of English sentences into Latin prose, based on the portions of Csesar and Cicero above named. This will necessitate a thorough knowledge of the etymology aDd syntax of Latin grammar. Harkness's or Allen and Greenough's Grammar and Collar's Latin Prose Composition are recommended. Real equivalents for any of the above mentioned works will be accepted. The Roman method of pronunciation is used. For the Classical Courses, the same as the first list, except the omission of rhetoric and composition, physiology, botany, and
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