Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION 155 session, which begins on the third Thursday in April and ends during the last week-day in June. The winter session is obligatory. The spring session is a supplementary course designed to furnish students opportunities to do special work and to make up arrearages of study. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION, SESSION OF 1899-1900 First, a certificate of good moral character from two reputable physicians. Second, a diploma from a recognized college, academy or high school, or other proof of scholarship equivalent to, at least, three years' work in a high school approved by the University of Illinois. Students unable to meet this requirement are accepted upon passing a satisfactory examination in the following subjects: (a) English: The writing of an essay of at least two hundred words on a selected subject. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield will furnish the basis of examination in English for this year. (b) Physics: The principles of mechanics and hydraulics, Mechanics' Natural Philosophy, Part I., is recommended in preparation. (c) Mathematics: Arithmetic and algebra; plane geometry, as given in Wells's or Wentworth's Geometry. (d) Latin grammar and an examination in translating Latin into English from "Caesar's Commentaries," representing at least two years' study of Latin in an accredited high school. One year will be allowed in which to remedy defects in Latin. Beginning with the fall of 1900 the entrance requirements will be as follows: First, a diploma of an accredited high school or academy of the University of Illinois, or of a similarly accredited school of another University, whose entrance requirements are equivalent to the entrance requirements of the University of Illinois. Or, second, entrance examination covering the following subjects:
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