Algebra and geometry as prerequisites to the bar exam
From the Colorado Supreme Court, 1898:
Applicants who are not members of the bar, as above prescribed, shall present a thirty-count certificate from the regents of the university of the state of New York, or shall satisfy said committee that they graduated from a high school or preparatory school whose standing shall be approved by the committee, or were admitted as regular students to some college or university, approved as aforesaid, or before entering upon said clerkship or attendance at a law school, or within one year thereafter, or before September 13, 1899, they passed an examination before the state superintendent of public instruction, in the following subjects: English literature, civil government, algebra to quadratic equations, plane geometry, general history, history of England, history of the United States, and the written answers to the questions in the above named subjects shall be examined as to spelling, grammar, composition and rhetoric. The said examinations shall be conducted in connection with the regular county examinations of teachers.