1911-1912 Academic Catalog

PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. Applicants for admission to the first year of the Preparatory Course must have completed work in the common branches of study equivalent to that usually completed in the first eight years of the public school, and will be examined in reading, geography, U nited States history, physiology, penmanship, drawing, or– thography, arithmetic and English grammar. A Patterson certificate or satisfactory grades from public schools will excuse an applicant from examina– tion in all subjects except E nglish grammar. In Eng– lish grammar, an examination based on Reed and Kel, logg's Higher English must be taken by all applicants for admission to the Preparatory Department. Those failing to obtain a grade of sixty-five per cent– um in this examination will be admitted, but required to take a review course in English grammar throughout the first year. Applicants for admission to any class above the first preparatory class shall, in addition to meeting th above requirements for admission, either present satis factory grades or certificates, or pass examinations i all subjects already pursued by the class which they de sire to enter. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. Upon the completion of the following courses o study, a diploma of graduation will be conferred . A the beginning of the third year the student elects cithe 36