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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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52 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS equivalent in Latin of equal difficulty. The ability to write simple Latin based on the text. Three years' work.—Six orations of Cicero. The ability to write simple Latin based on the text. The simpler historical references and the fundamental facts of Latin syntax. Four years' work.—The scansion of hexameter verse, six books of Vergil, with history and mythology. 17. MANUAL TRAINING.—Experience in the use of wood-work- ing tools will be required. Forge, foundry, or machine work may be substituted for wood work. The number of credits allowed will depend upon the time spent upon the subjects and the technical knowledge obtained. 18. PHYSICAL OR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE.—For this there may be offered any one of the following subjects or combination of subjects: Physics, one year; chemistry, one year; botany and zoology, each a half year; biology, the study of plant or animal types, one year. The subjects must be taught in part by laboratory methods and the pupil's note-books must be submitted. Other evidences of work done, as illustrative drawings, collections of specimens, etc., should be presented. Examinations cover the subject-matter as presented in text-books in most common use in high schools. See also the descriptions given under the several subjects. 19. 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. The candidate must have had laboratory practice equivalent to that described in the laboratory textbooks of Hall and Bergen, Allen, or Chute. The candidate's laboratory note-book will be accepted as part of the examination. 20. PHYSIOGRAPHY.—The amount and character of the work required for the minimum credit may be seen by referring to Mill's Realm of Nature, or Davis's Physical Geography. For additional credits, the principles of climatology, ability to read physical and contour maps, interpretation of weather maps, and forecasting of weather, etc., will be considered. 21. PHYSIOLOGY.—For one credit are required the anatomy, histology, and physiology of the human body and the essentials of hygiene, taught with the aid of charts and models to the extent given in Martin's Human Body (Briefer Course). For more than one credit, the course must have included practical laboratory work on the part of the student. The number of credits, beyond one,
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