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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

As provided in the Nevada statutes, all candidates for admission must be at least fifteen years of age. The President may require from each candidate satisfactory evidence of good moral character.

Applicants for admission into the regular University courses, or for admission into the Normal School, or into the Commercial Department, except such as may be admitted on their High School diplomas, must pass under the Professors in charge of the respective studies satisfactory examinations upon all studies required for admission into the course proposed. Candidates for advanced standing must pass satisfactory examinations upon all work completed by the class they wish to enter. Candidates for admission into the regular University courses will be examined in spelling, reading, penmanship, English grammar, descriptive geography, arithmetic (including the metric system), algebra to quadratics, and in geometry, two books (Wentworth).

Graduates from the High Schools of Virginia, Gold Hill, Carson, Reno, Winnemucca, Austin and Eureka will be admitted without examination, upon presentation of diplomas.

[For admission into the Normal and Commercial Departments, see remarks under appropriate headings.]

REMARKS ON COURSES OF STUDY.

In the arrangement of the present courses of study the needs of the young men and women of Nevada have been steadily kept in view, and it is believed that they are practical and thorough.

LATIN.

In the study of Latin, the aim is to drill the students thoroughly during the first year in the inflections of the different parts of speech and in the elements of syntax. In the second year, the attention is directed to a thorough understanding of syntax and the mastering of such sentences and constructions as are found in Cæsar and Cicero. Care is taken from the first that the students shall acquire a large working vocabulary. Throughout the entire course the student is expected to write some Latin almost daily. It is thought that by so doing he will acquire a greater facility than he would if special recitations were devoted to the subject. In poetry, Virgil and Horace receive special attention. The beauty of the thought as well as its expression is constantly kept in view, the student being required to memorize some of the choice passages.

Roman literature is taught from a text book and is supplemented by lectures giving a full outline of the entire subject. Teuffel's Literaturgeschichte is constantly used for reference. Roman antiquities are taught in the same way. The library will furnish the most recent and best works on the subject.

GERMAN AND FRENCH.

The instruction in French and German will be very practical, the socalled "Natural Method" being used so far as possible. The object in the study of each language is three-fold. First--Mental culture and discipline. Second-The ability to read literary and scientific works with pleasure and profit. Third--A conversational command of the language necessary for social and business intercourse. The instruction in French will be in the following text books: Keetel's Analytical and Practical French Grammar; Keetel's Analytical French Reader; Borel's Grammaire Francaise; Bocher's French Plays; Rowen's French Reader; Agnel's Idioms; Prose Composition.

In German the text books will be as follows: Cook's Otto's German Grammar; Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans; Koerner's Zriny; Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm; Schiller's Maria Stuart; Schiller's Dreissigjahrige Krieg; Wenckebach's Lesebuch; Goethe's Faust; Literaturgeschichte; Prose Composition.

ENGLISH.

A thorough and systematic course of English cannot be too highly esteemed by an English speaking people. In practical value our tongue must, of course, take precedence of all others, modern or ancient; and

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as a means of mental training the study of English is, perhaps, inferior to no other process. The scientific study of English, stimulating as it does originality, and thereby creating a greater power of comprehension and expression of thought, offers great advantages in pursuing different lines of scientific study.

Apart from this, the careful and extended study of English as an end in itself, is of the greatest advantage to the student, whatever may be his aim in life. The study of language, if separated from literature and made the study of words and not of speech, must become dry and lifeless. Language may be best studied when performing its own legitimate function, i. e., expressing thought; so, too, if we would make our own all that literature offers, we must thoroughly acquaint ourselves with the means of expression; hence the propriety of the plan here laid down:

I. Chaucer and Early English, Spenser, Shakespeare and Bacon. II. Milton, Dryden and Pope, Addison, Goldsmith and Swift. III. Wordsworth, Johnson, Burke and Lamb, Coleridge, Scott and Irving.

IV. Longfellow, Tennyson, Carlyle, Macaulay, Emerson, Ruskin, Matthews, Arnold, Hawthorne, Thackeray and Dickens.

HISTORY.

The course of Universal History extends through the Junior year, and is preceded by a thorough study of United States History and commercial law. The last fifty years have changed the method of writing history. Battles, treaties, dynasties, great events, no longer make up the body of historic material, for the world's life is seen to consist in the lives of its great men--the thinkers of great thoughts and the doers of great deeds.

The vital essence of history is biography, when it is considered scientifically with reference to the powerful currents that have swayed the fortunes of empires, directed the movements of races and controlled the destinies of mankind. When history is studied from this standpoint, and with this great theater of the world constantly before the mind, it becomes interesting and inspiring, adds life and vigor to the study, and becomes second to none in the curriculum.

MATHEMATICS.

In order to enter any of the regular University courses the candidate must pass satisfactory examinations in arithmetic, in algebra to quadratic equations, and in the first two books of plane geometery. In arithmetic the work required covers the fundamental operations, evolution and involution, compound numbers, the metric system, percentage, interest, etc. A thorough working power in fractions, proportion and percentage is especially desired. In algebra the candidate must pass examinations as far as quadratic equations,

The University work begins with geometry. Wentworth's New Plane and Solid Geometry is the text used, and is completed in two and onehalf terms. As soon as geometry is completed algebra is begun, and continued throughout the remainder of the third term of the Freshman year, and completed in the first two terms of the Sophomore year. Wentworth's College Algebra is the text used. In the last term of the

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