Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 45]

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ADMISSION BY EXAMINATION

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counties of the state, afford an opportunity to pass the entrance examinations before coming to the University, since these examinations are taken as equivalents of the regular entrance examinations. The subjects upon which the entrance examinations are held are described below. Text-books are named merely to aid in showing the requirements. Equivalents are accepted. In all cases 36 credits are 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 prescribed 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 offer at least three credits in some one foreign language, chosen from among the electives, 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 the 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.