Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 158]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

156

THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

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 RHETORIC.—Correct spelling, capitaliza-

tion, punctuation, paragraphing, idiom, and definition; the elements of Rhetoric. The candidate will be required to write two paragraphs of about one hundred and fifty words each to test his ability to use the English language. The subject as presented in Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric, Scott and Denney's English Composition, or an equivalent.

3. ENGLISH LITERATURE.—(a) Each candidate is expected to

have read certain assigned literary masterpieces, and will be subjected to such an examination as will determine whether or not he has done so. The books assigned for the next year are as follows: Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; Pope's Iliad, Books L, VI., XXII., and XXIV.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator ; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; De Quincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; Scott's Ivanhoe; Shakspere's Macbeth; Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I. and I I . ; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison; Tennyson's The Princess. (b) In addition to the above, the candidate will be required to present a brief outline of American Literature. Hawthorne and Lemmon's Outline of American Literature, or an equivalent.. 4. LATIN.—Such knowledge of inflections and syntax as is given in any good preparatory Latin book, together with the ability to read simple fables and stories; also four books of Caesar's Gallic War, or its equivalent in Latin of equal difficulty. The ability to write simple Latin based on the text. 5. GEOMETRY.—Plane Geometry, as given in Wells's or Wentworth's Geometry, or an equivalent. 6. HISTORY.—At least one year in one of the following subjects: (a) The History of England and of the United States; (b) General History; (c) The History of Greece and Rome. 7. PHYSICS.—The elements of physical science as presented in such text-books as Appleton's School Physics, or Avery's Elements of Natural Philosophy, or Carhart and Chute's Elements of Physics, or Gage's Elements of Physics.