Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1893-1894 [PAGE 175]

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PREPARATORY SCHOOL. ZOOLOGY.

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This study will follow Physiology, and, while comparative as regards man, will in the laboratory and class room extend the student's knowledge through the study of types to the scientific basis of classification and prepare for the more exact work of the University.

BOTANY.

This is a study of plants rather than of books about plants, though the latter are not disregarded. It is an introduction to the science, giving to those who go no farther in it a general acquaintance with the chief features of the vegetable kingdom, and to others, the required preparation for future work. The analysis of simple flowers will form part of the work, and the preparation of a small herbarium of correctly named and properly mounted plants will be required. The fall term of the second year will be devoted to the analysis of the more difficult flowers and to a study of the results of the season's growth, the preparation for the winter's rest, and renewed life in the spring.

PHYSICS.

Two terms will be given to this subject, and much of the time to laboratory work. In this study the spirit of scientific investigation will be cultivated along those lines of exact experiments and the formulation of physical laws from their comparison. The note book, with an exact and orderly record of personal investigation, will be required as an index of work done. Allen's Laboratory Physics.

REGULATIONS. Reports regarding all non-resident, minor pupils (and, upon request, regarding any others) will be sent to parents or guardians as soon as the pupils are settled at their work (by the end of the first month), and reports regarding all pupils will be sent out at the close of each term. The calendar of the Preparatory School is the same as that of the University. For fees and expenses see page 165. For special information with regard to the Preparatory School, address Edward G. Howe, Champaign, Illinois.