1916-1917 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, United States history, physiology, penmanship, draw– ing, orthography, arithmetic and English grammar. A Patterson certificate or satisfactory grades from public schools will excuse an applicant from examination in all subjects except English grammar. In English grammar, an examination based on Reed and Kellogg'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. 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 pre– paratory class shall, in addition to meeting the above require– ments for admission, either present satisfactory grades or certi– ficates, or pass examinations in all subjects already pursued by the class which they desire to enter. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION. Upon the completion of the following courses of study, a diploma of graduation will he conferred. At the beginning of the third year the student elects either French, German, or Greek, which he then pursues throughout the remainder of the course. Each candidate for a. diploma must also write and publicly deliver an oration of at least eight hundred words upon some subject approved by the Faculty. The subject must be submitted on or before February the first preceding graduation, and a copy of the oration on or before May the first. -37-