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Caption: Course Catalog - 1895-1896
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36 •UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS? The scholarship examinations* held each year on the first Saturday in June and the day preceding, in counties in which there are applicants for state scholarships, afford an opportunity to pass the entrance examinations before coming to the University, as the examinations will be equivalents. The subjects upon which the entrance examinations are held are described below. The physics, physiology, and botany described are each required as preparatory to these subjects as taught in this University. The text-books are named merely to aid in showing the requirements. Equivalents are accepted. Entrance to the University means admission to some one of the colleges of the University—College of Literature and Arts, College of Engineering, College of Science, or College of Agriculture.f The examinations which a candidate is required to pass depend in part on which of the four colleges of the University he intends to enter. In the following statement of subjects for examination, those requirements which are common to all the colleges are given first; then follow statements of the additional requirements for each college. To determine on what subjects he must pass examinations, then, a candidate must add to the uniform requirements first stated those classed as additional for the particular college he wishes to enter. SUBJECTS IN WHICH ALL CANDIDATES FOE ADMISSION MUST BE EXAMINED [For additional requirements for the different colleges, see pages 38-40.] 1. ALGEBRA.—Fundamental operations, factoring, fractions, simple equations, involution, evolution, radicals, quadratic equations, and equations reducible to the quadratic form, surds, theory of exponents, and the analysis and solution of problems involving these. The subject as given in Wells's Higher Algebra through quadratic equations, or the same work in Wentworth's Algebra, or an equivalent. 2. COMPOSITION AND KHETORIC.—Correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, paragraphing, idiom, definition, and proper use of rhetorical figures; the elements of Rhetoric. The candidate will be required to write two paragraphs of * See page 220. + See Organization, page U.
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