1918-1919 Academic Catalog

PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION pplicant 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 year of the public school, and will be examined in reading, geography, l: nited States history, physiology, penmanship, drawing, orthography, arithmetic and English grammar. A Patterson certificate or satisfactory grades from public schools will excuse an applicant from examination in all sub– jects, except English grammar. In English grammar, an ex– amination based on Reed and Kellogg's Higher English, must be taken by all applicants for admission to the Preparatory De– partment. 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 certificat~s, or pass examinations in all subjects already pur– sued 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 be conferred. At the beginning 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 publicly deliver an oration, of at least eight hundred words, upon some subject approved by the Faculty. The subject must be sub– mitted on or before February the first preceding graduation, and a copy of the oration on or before May the first. FIRST YEAR FIRST SEMESTER SECOND SEMESTER Hours per week Beginning Latin................ 4 28 Hours per week Beginning Latin ................ 4