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272 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BOTANY This is a study of plants rather than of books about plants, although books are not disregarded. It is an introduction to the science, and is intended to give an acquaintance with the chief features of the subject. The analysis of simple flowers and the preparation of a small herbarium of correctly named and properly mounted plants is required. Bergen's elements of Botany. ENGLISH The subject is presented in such a way as to increase the student's vocabulary and to develop elegance and exactness of expression in his composition. Advanced grammar and rhetoric are taught in connection with this work. The study of literary masterpieces is also pursued to furnish material for the weekly written exercises, and to cultivate a taste for good literature. Considerable collateral reading in English and American authors is therefore required. FREE-HAND DRAWING This subject is best taken in the first semester in order that pupils may have the benefit of its training in the studies which follow. Frederick's Notes on Free-Hand Drawing. FRENCH The work in this subject will be the same as that indicated under entrance requirements, p. 47. GERMAN COURSE A.—Beginning work, Joynes-Meissner's Grammar and a German reader. Second semester at 1:20. COURSE B.—Advanced course. Joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Harris's Prose Composition and translation of narrative prose. First and second semesters at 11. Required: German A or one year of high school work. GEOMETRY Special attention is paid to the development of the idea of mathematical demonstration; and, as many students who can reason logically cannot express their ideas clearly, due attention is paid to correctness of form. As soon as the student has attained the art of rigorous demonstration he is required to produce constructions and demonstrations for himself. Considerable attention is devoted tcoriginal work. Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry.
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