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Caption: Course Catalog - 1892-1893
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I5O UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Instead of the literature part of 5, 10 or 11 will be accepted ; but candidates presenting one of these will be required to take one year's advanced language work in his undergraduate course. 3. For the College of Literature.—Subjects, *, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and any three from 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. For those who desire to take courses including Greek, 9 is required and may be presented instead of the three sciences which would otherwise be selected from 12 to 18. 4. For entrance to the University without designation of a particular department.—Subjects 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and any three from 8, 9, 10, n , 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. In this case special attention must be paid to the requirements for entrance to particular classes as given above and in connection with the description of the subjects under the several colleges; also to the requirements for a degree, if this is desired. 5. Persons over twenty-one years of age, not candidates for a degree, may be admitted to classes, after satisfying the Regent and professor in charge of the department in which such classes are taught, that they possess the requisite information and ability to pursue profitably, as special students, the chosen subjects. Such students are not matriculated; they pay the fees required of students in the preparatory classes. SUBJECTS FOR ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS. 1. ARITHMETIC.—Simple and denominate numbers, metric system of weights and measures, common and decimal fractions, practical measurements, percentage, ratio and proportion. Grammar or high school work. 2. GEOGRAPHY.—Mathematical, physical, and political divisions and natural features of the earth's surface; movements of the air and water, climates, natural and commercial productions, animals and man. Grammar school study. 3. HiSTaRY.—The most important facts in the history of the United States from the settlement of the country to the present time, but especially the main features of the constitution and the development under it of the republic and of the states. Grammar or high school study. 4. ENGLISH GRAMMAR.—The essentials of orthography, etymology, and syntax; including the derivation and composition of words, their
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