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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Student Body 177 The state law providing for the organization of the University stipulated that no student should be admitted to instruction in any of the departments of the University who should not have attained to the age of 15 years.20 On March 13, 1894, in accordance with a recommendation of the faculty, transmitted to the Board of Trustees by Acting President Burrill, and a favorable recommendation of the Board's committee on instruction, the Board voted that no person under 16 years of age should thereafter be admitted to the University.21 In addition to this regulation, which is still in effect, further restrictions have been placed upon prospective matriculants in certain departments of the University. The College of Law, from its organization in 189722 until 1911 admitted only students who were at least 18 years of age. Since 1911, when a year of college work was added to the requirements for admission to that college, the minimum age limit of 18 years has been removed. The College of Dentistry has since 1913 admitted only students 18 years of age or over. Thruout the period since its organization as a department of the University of Illinois; that is, since 1901, it has conferred the degree of D.D.S. only upon students who were at least 21 years of age. Inasmuch as the course in the College of Dentistry covers three years' work, this requirement is practically, though not absolutely, equivalent to a minimum of 18 years for admission. From 1897 to 1905 the College of Medicine required a minimum of 21 years for eligibility for a degree from that college, but this requirement has not since been made. From 1896 to 1906 a minimum of 16 years of age was required for entrance to the School of Pharmacy. In 1907 the minimum was raised to 17 years. The degree of Graduate in Pharmacy is given only to candidates who have attained the age of 21 years. Students who complete the curriculum leading to this degree at an earlier age are granted the degree upon their reaching the age required. "Kept., Univ. of HI., 1860, p. 7, sec. 8 *Bept., Univ. of 111., 1894, pp. 220, 229 "Of. Univ. of HI. Register 1897-98, p. 142
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