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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS.

At examinations for 1896-7 and afterwards one additional book of Caesar and one additional oration of Cicero will be required. 7. ALGEBEA.—Fundamental operations, factoring, fractions, simple equations, involution and evolution, radicals, quadratic equations and equations reducible to the quadratic form. The subject as given in Wells's Higher Algebra through quadratic equations, or the same in Wentworth's Algebra. 8. GEOMETRY.—Plane, solid, and spherical geometry as given in Wells's or Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry, or the equivalent of these. At the examinations for 1896-97 and afterwards, solid and spherical geometry will be dropped from the requirements for admission to the College of Literature and Arts. 9. ASTRONOMY.—The subject as given in Newcomb and Holden's Astronomy for High Schools and Colleges, or Young's Elements of Astronomy. 10. BOTANY.—The parts and organs of plants in the descriptive language of the science; the relations of plants to the atmosphere, to temperature, light, soil, etc., to the inferior animals, and to man; characteristics of prominent orders and • the determination of species by use of an artificial key. Gray's Lessons and Manual. 11. CHEMISTRY.—Elementary Inorganic Chemistry as presented in Remsen's Chemistry, Briefer Course; Shepard's "Elements of Chemestry; "Eliot and Storer's "Manual of Elementary Chemistry," or Armstrong and Norton's "Laboratory Manual of Chemistry." Laboratory practice is essential for the proper preparation in this subject and the laboratory note book must be submitted. 12. PHYSICS.—The elements of physics as given in Gage's Introduction to Physical Science, taught with the use of apparatus for illustration and experiment. It is earnestly recommended that all teachers who can command the necessary apparatus prepare their pupils in a course of experiments such as is outlined in Hall & Bergen's Text Book of Physics. At the examinations for 1896-7 and afterwards, Physics will be an absolute requirement for admission to all the colleges. 13. PHYSIOLOGY.—The anatomy, histology, and physiology of the human body and the essentials of hygiene, taught with the aid of charts and models and demonstrations upon inferior