1912-1913 Academic Catalog

PREPARATORY D EPARTMENT . REQUIREME NTS 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, United States history, physiology, penmanship, drawiing, 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 English 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 fai ling to obtain a grade of sixty-five per centum in this examination w ill be admitted, but required to take a review course in English grammar throughout the first year. A pplicants for admission to any class above the first preparatory class shall, in addition to meeting the above requirements for admission, either present satis– factory grades or certificates, or pass examinations in all subjects already pursued by the class which they de– sire to enter. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. U pon the completion of the following courses of study, a diploma of graduation will be conferred. At the beginning of the third year the student elects either 81