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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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46 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS the usual high school text-books on civil government, is regarded as sufficient for one term. The work may advantageously be combined with the elements of political economy, or, better, the industrial history of the country. 7. 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. 8. DRAWING.—Free-hand or mathematical drawing, or both. Drawing-books or plates must be submitted. The number of credits allowed depends on the quantity and quality of the work submitted. 9. 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 three years are as follows: 1899.—Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; Pope's Iliad, Books I., VI., XXII., and XXIV.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; De Quincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. 1900.—Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; Pope's Iliad, Books I., 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. 1901.—George Eliot's Silas Marner; Pope's Iliad, Books I., VI., XXII., and XXIV.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's the Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; Tennyson's Princess; Shakspere's The Merchant of Venice; Scott's Ivanhoe. (b) In addition to the above, the candidate will be required to present a brief outline of American Literature. (c) The candidate will be examined on the form and substance of one or more books, in addition to those named under ( a ) . For 1899, r9oo, and 1901 the books will be selected from the lists below. The examination will be of such a character as to require a minute and thorough study of each of the works named, in order to pass it successfully. 1899.—Shakspere's Macbeth; Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I.
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