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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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ADMISSION 157 sible the first of October, the first of February, and the first of June. Each term will be of sixteen weeks duration and will offer the same amount of work. Attendance upon two terms, that is eight months, of instruction, will constitute a year's work. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION, SESSION OF 1900-1901 First, a certificate of good moral character from two reputable physicians. Second, 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, third, entrance examination covering the following subjects: 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 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; Shakspere's Macbeth; Milton's
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