Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1891-1892 [PAGE 153]

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GENERAL DIRECTIONS

LABOR.

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not for the study of common branches. None of the common branches, such as arithmetic, geography, Engligh grammar, reading, and spelling, are taught in this University. These all must be finished before you come. 2. In order to pursue profitably the true college studies, and to keep pace with the classes, you must be ready to pass a strict examination in the common branches just mentioned, and in certain other preparatory studies, differing with the different colleges of the University. (See p. 143.) 3. If well prepared in the above named common branches only, you may be admitted, not to a college, but to the preparatory classes, in which you will study the other preparatory studies for admission to college. (See p. 154.) All preparatory studies must be completed before you can be admitted, as a matriculated student, in any college class. 4. You should enter at the beginning of the college year, in September. If unable to enter at that time, you may enter at any later time, if you can profitably take up the work of the classes. 5. Enter college with the purpose of going through, and make your course regular as far as you go. If obliged to leave before you have finished the course, you will have done the best thing for yourself in the meantime; while if you remain, the regular course is in nine cases out of ten the most useful and effective. Students desiring only a winter's schooling should go to some high school. LABOR. Labor is furnished as far as possible to all who desire. It is classified into educational and remunerative labor. Educational labor is designed as a practical instruction, and constitutes a part of the course in several schools. Students are credited with their proficiency in it as in other studies. Nothing is paid for it. Remunerative labor is prosecuted for its products, and students are paid what their work is worth. The usual rate paid for ordinary farm, garden, and shop labor is twelve and one-half cents per hour. Students of sufficient experience may be allowed to work by the piece or job, and thus by diligence or skill secure more pay. Some students who have the requisite skill, industry, and economy, pay their entire expenses by their labor; but, in general,