Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1897-1898 [PAGE 45]

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ADMISSION

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CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION ON AND AFTER SEPTEMBER, 1899 In September, 1899, and thereafter, the requirements for admission to the freshman class of the University will be as follows: In all cases 36 credits will be required, the term credit meaning the work in one subject continuously pursued, with daily recitations, through one of the three terms of the high school year; or, in other words, the work of sixty recitation periods of forty minutes each, or the equivalent in laboratory, or other, practice. Of these 36 credits, 28 must be obtained by all candidates in the subjects, and according to the valuation, stated in the first list given below. The remainder of the 36 may be made up by offerings in any of the subjects in the elective list given below, with the following restrictions and provisions: 1. No offering will be accepted in any one of these elective subjects unless at least equal in quantity to the minimum specified in the table. For example: Astronomy is listed for from 1 to 1^ credits. Nothing less than one term's work, that is, one credit, will be accepted, therefore, in that subject. 2. Those who wish to enter upon the courses leading to the degree of bachelor of arts must choose from among the electives at least one foreign language in addition to the language chosen from among the prescribed subjects in the first list. The language from the elective list may or may not be the same as that offered in the prescribed list. Those who wish to pursue the study of Latin or Greek in thet University must, however, offer nine credits in Latin or six in Greek, respectively. 3. Those who wish to enter upon the courses leading to the degree of bachelor of science, in any line of study except agriculture, must offer solid and spherical geometry among their electives. 4. For entrance upon the agricultural courses leading to the degree of bachelor of science any six credits from