Committee on Honors

PROFESSORS TORREY, DANIELS, Huff, Howes, Waugh

Absence Committee

PROFESSOR TUPPER, MR DOTEN, DR TORREY

Chapel Committee

PROFESSOR PERKINS, MR BUTTERFIELD

Athletic Committee

PROFESSORS HOWES, TUPPER, SLOCUM, WHEELER

Publication Committee

PROFESSOR GOODRICH, MR DOTEN

GENERAL STATEMENT OF INSTRUCTION

Instruction is given in the University in

I. The Department of Arts, which embraces

1. The usual Classical course in Languages, ancient and modern, Mathematics, Physical Science, Mental, Moral and Political Philosophy, Rhetoric, Literature and History, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts;

2. The Literary-Scientific course, in which the studies of the Classical course are pursued with the exception of Greek, and which leads to the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy.

II. The Scientific Departments, embracing the studies required (1) by the Morrill Act of 1862, which provides that instruction be given not only in "Classical and other Scientific studies," but especially in "branches of learning relating to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts;" and (2) by the Endowment Act of 1890, which provides for instruction in "Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts, the English Language, and the various branches of Mathematical, Physical Natural and Economic Science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life."

These Departments are :

1. The Department of Engineering, which includes (a) Civil and Sanitary Engineering; (b) Electrical Engineering; (c) Mechanical Engineering.

2. The Department of Chemistry.

3. The Department of Agriculture.

The degree in each case is Bachelor of Science; see Index, Degrees. III. The Department of Medicine, leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

ADMISSION

Candidates for admission to the University must produce satisfactory testimonials of good moral character and must be at least fifteen years of age.

Students coming from another college must present certificates of regular admission from the institution they have left, and furnish satisfactory evidence of proficiency in all the studies—or their equivalents-which have been pursued by the class they propose to enter. For admission to an advanced class, a corresponding increase of age is required, and a thorough knowledge of all the studies which have been pursued by the students of the same class.

Young women are admitted to all courses in Arts and Science upon the same conditions as young men. They are required to room and board with families approved by the Faculty.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT

Greek. (1) Greek Grammar, including Prosody; (2) Xenophon's Anabasis, four books; (3) Homer's Iliad, three books; (4) Woodruff's Greek Prose Composition, or prose work based upon the Xenophon read in class; (5) translation at sight.

Latin. (1) Latin Grammar, including Prosody; (2) Cæsar, four books, or Second Year Latin [Ginn & Co., 1899], or First Latin Readings by Arrowsmith and Whicher; (3) Cicero, six orations including that for the Manilian Law; (4) Virgil, six books of the Æneid and the Eclogues [or in place of the Eclogues, 1200 lines of Ovid]; (5) Prose Composition, forty lessons; (6) translation at sight.

In the case of Latin and Greek authors substitutes will be accepted if full equivalents for the work here prescribed.

Teachers are urgently requested to give their pupils practice in reading at sight. They are also urged to have their pupils read aloud in both Greek and Latin as much as possible, that the ear may be

trained to the sound of the language, and that the words may gradually come to convey a meaning to the pupil's mind immediately and not through their English equivalents.

In the pronunciation of Greek, the rules of Hadley and Allen's Grammar, pp. 4, 5, 7, should be followed. The "Roman" method

of pronouncing Latin is used in the class room.

Mathematics. (1) Arithmetic, including the metric system; (2) Algebra, through Quadratic Equations; (3) Plane Geometry.

English. (1) English Grammar; (2) Orthoepy; (3) English Composition, to be based for 1900 upon the following works: Shakspere's Merchant of Venice; Milton's Paradise Lost, books i and ii ; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Scott's Ivanhoe; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; Macaulay's Essay on Addison; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; George Eliot's Silas Marner.

For 1901 upon the following: Shakspere's Macbeth and Merchant of Venice; Milton's Comus, Lycidas, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; Pope's Iliad, i, vi, xxii, xxiv ; Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Scott's Ivanhoe; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; Macaulay's Essay on Milton; Tennyson's Princess; George Eliot's Silas Marner.

Geography. Ancient and Modern.

History. (1) Ancient and Classical, down to the Christian Era. Myers' Outlines is suggested as a text-book. (2) English and American; a rapid survey of the chief periods and events. Montgomery's histories are suggested as text-books.

LITERARY-SCIENTIFIC COURSE

The requirements for admission to the Literary-Scientific course are the same as for the Classical course, except that in place of Greek an equivalent in French or German will be required.

Requirements in French. (1) Proficiency in the elements of French Grammar, implying familiarity with inflection (particular attention being given to irregular verbs) and the essentials of French syntax; (2) the ability to translate ordinary French prose at sight. This should be gained by reading, concurrently with the grammar work, at least five hundred duodecimo pages of standard French prose and poetry; (3) the ability to translate easy English sentences into French, to pronounce French, and to recognize French words and phrases when uttered; (4) an elementary knowledge of the history of French literature.

Requirements in German. The following courses are suggested to those who intend to offer German as a substitute for Greek:

First Year. Joynes-Meissner German Grammar and Brandt's Reader; the latter to be followed by as much as can be read of simple works like the Märchen of Andersen, Keller's Dietegen, or Auerbach's Brigitta. Second Year. The third part of the same grammar with .selections from the Gedichte of Goethe, Schiller and Heine; Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans and Heine's Harzreise.

In both of these courses the student should be given daily exercises (oral and written) in composition, in the first year translating into German detached sentences, and in the second, simple, connected English prose. Constant dictations in German, as a training to the ear, are recommended. A good collection of phrases is to be found in the Meisterschaft System of Rosenthal, and in Meissner's German Conversation.

The entrance examinations, which will be both oral and written, will presuppose a thorough familiarity with the principles and the practice of pronunciation, with the declension of nouns and adjectives, the conjugation of the regular and irregular verbs, and the essentials of German syntax.

Students who offer French or German for admission will not be allowed to take the elementary work in those languages, and then reckon it as a required study. They may, however, take advanced