1917-1918 Academic Catalog

PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Applicants for admission to the first year of the Prepar– atory 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 exam– ined in reading, geography, United States history, physiol– ogy, penmanship, drawing, 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 Eng– lish, 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 re– quirements for admission, either present satisfactory grades or certificates, 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 s~udr a diploma of graduation will be conferred. At the begmnmg of the third year the student elects either French, German, or Greek, which he pursues throughout the remainder of the course. Each candidate for a diploma must also write and pub– licly deliver an oration, of at least eight hundred wo~ds, upon some subject approved by the Faculty. The subJect must be submitted on or before February the first preced– ing graduation, and a copy of the oration on or before May the first. FIHST YEAR FIRST SEMESTER SECOND SEMESTER Hours per week Hours per week Beginning Latin _______ 4 Elementary Algebra ___ 4 Elementary Rhetoric ___ 4 Physical Geography ____ 4 Beginning Latin _______ 4 Elementary Algebra ___ 4 Elementary Rhetoric ___ 4 Physiology____________ 4 -30-