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Entrance Requirements.

The standard for entrance has been fixed at the completion of
the four year course of a first class high school. This course
must include the full curriculum in mathematics (algebra,
plane and solid geometry, and plane trigonometry). It must include
at least three year's work in English (grammar, composition,
rhetoric, and the normal course of reading in English
prose and poetry). In addition to these 6½ prescribed units
(3½ in mathematics and 3 in English) at least one unit in
history is prescribed. The remaining 6½ units are elective, and
may be offered in ancient or modern languages, or in history, or


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in science, or in drawing or shop-work. In all cases the full
requirement of 14 units must be met; only 2 conditions are allowed
and they must be made up within twelve months after
matriculation.