15. No instruction is offered in the department of Fine Arts, 16. Mechanical Engineering is united with Civil Engineering. COURSES OF STUDY-DEGREES. ACADEMICAL. I. The COLLEgiate DepartmENT offers three courses of study, called Classical, Scientific, and Modern. The Classical Course has for its leading studies the Greek and Latin languages. The Scientific Course is characterized by a succession of elementary natural sciences, The Modern Course is distinguished by the prominence given to the modern languages. Students choose their courses at time of entrance. The General Faculty may also permit students to select studies from the various courses. At the close of his course in this department each student has his option whether to enter at once, with a fair preparation, one of the professional Colleges, or to proceed with higher academical studies in the College of Science, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. No degrees are offered in the Collegiate Department. II. The COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS presents, likewise, three courses of study: A COURSE IN ARTS; A COURSE IN SCIENCE; A COURSE IN LITERATURE.. These lead, respectively, to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Literature. PROFESSIONAL. I. The COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE offers two courses; (1) an advanced or University Course, based on the Scientific Course of the Collegiate Department, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture; (2) an Elementary Course, coinciding to a considerable extent with the Scientific Course of the Collegiate Depart ment. II. The COLLEGE OF MECHANIC ARTS offers three advanced or University courses, leading to appropriate BACCALAUREATE degrees: A COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING; A COURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; A COURSE IN ARCHITECTURE. These courses are based on the Scientific Course of the Collegiate Department. The detailed schedules of the courses of study in the various Colleges or Departments will be found under the appropriate titles. Attention is called to the following GENERAL STATEMENTS. 1. The University year embraces thirty-eight weeks exclusive of recesses, and is divided into three terms. The first term has fourteen weeks; the second and third, twelve each. 2. As a general rule each student, in whatever department, has three recitations a day for five days in the week, besides rhetorical, military and other exercises. 3. The schedules are arranged according to the wants of the regular students. Special students must select (in equivalent amounts) from the studies as thus laid down. 4. Students of any department or college may attend classes of another department under the direction of the faculties and professors. 5. Except as otherwise ordered by the Board of Regents, the recitations and exercises of the various Colleges or Departments are conducted according to consolidated term programmes, adopted from time to time by the General Faculty. 6. Student in different courses are united in recitations whenever possible. 7. Elective studies, to count on standing, must be chosen from corresponding years and terms. 8. The merit of students as regards scholarship, is determined by means of examinations only. The examinations* are habitually conducted in writing. 9. Any person passing the required examinations will receive the appropriate degree or certificate. 10. The schedules present merely leading titles and subjects. The usual collaterals must in all cases be implied. The rhetorical, military and other exercises are likewise not specified, being held according to appointment of the Faculties from time to time. 11. No honorary degrees are conferred by this University. 12. So soon as may be necessary, regular courses of post-graduate studies will be framed leading to the higher academical and professional degrees. In the meantime, graduates desiring to continue their studies, will make such arrangements with the faculties and heads of departments as may be feasible. *The examination questions being commonly written on the blackboard after the assembling of the classes, cannot be furnished to applicants. The following statements show the nature and scope of the work in the various departments. Students preparing to enter are requested to note the KIND of preparation required. 1. MATHEMATICS. PROFESSOR THOMPSON. The course in Pure Mathematics commences on a basis of common Arithmetic and the Algebra of simple equations, and assigns twenty-six weeks to the completing of Algebra; ten weeks to Geometry; eight weeks to Conic Sections; four weeks to Land Surveying; twenty-six weeks to General Geometry, including Differential and Integral Calculus, and twelve weeks to Modern Geometry and Higher Equations. The entrance examinations contemplate a thorough knowledge of the fundamental operations in Arithmetic, Factoring, Common and Decimal Fractions, Compound Numbers, Percentage (including Exchange and Banking), Proportion, Square and Cube Root with their practical applications. In Elementary Algebra, candidates will be examined in Notation and Numeration of Algebra, algebraic Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Factoring, Fractions, Simple Equations, Radicals and Quadratic Equations. Examination for advanced standing includes, in addition to the above, all the studies passed over by the lower classes. A prominent feature of the plan adopted in this department is limitation for the sake of thoroughness. It is the design to select only the cardinal principles of a given branch, concentrate attention on these, and treat all else as incidental. The results of this method are very satisfactory. An important principle once clearly understood by an entire class, the applications of it and the problems involving it are often made a matter of recreation. In Algebra, for instance, the problems and equations are regarded as no part of the treatise, other problems and equations being substituted for them In Geometry, the principal object desired is to understand thoroughly the logical chain that connects about two hundred geometrical propositions into one argument and one line of unbroken demonstration. The practical application of geometrical principles is fully illustrated by numerous examples. Trigonometry is taught less by formulas than by concrete examples in Mensuration, Surveying, Navigation, and problems of the celestial sphere All the Conic Sections are discussed, and ample time is afforded to genera! Geometry, with a full use of Differential and Integral Calculus. The introduction of Modern Geometry and Higher Equations into the course offers to the mathematical student opportunities of great importance. II. ASTRONOMY. PROFESSOR THOMPSON. A brief course of lectures on topics of descriptive Astronomy, is given by the professor to the First or Sophomore class. The text-book used is Olmsted's College Astronomy, and the instruction is conducted strictly on a mathematical basis. These students are expected to become familiar with the simple problems of the sphere, involving Spherical Trigonometry, with the use of formulas, and with computations necessary for the calculation of a lunar eclipse. Those students who elect Astronomy in the Senior year, are expected to read Bessel's method of computing solar eclipses, compute latitude and longitude, and go through with the calculation of a solar eclipse in the most rigorous method. VII. PHYSICS. PROFESSOR PECKHAM. The Course of Study offers an elementary course in Natural Philosophy, of one term, and later, a full course in Physics and Mechanics, running through three terms. The recent purchases of apparatus have furnished ample means for illustration in this department. In addition to this work, which is required, students may elect to pursue an advanced course of study in the Physical Laboratory, making their own experiments and constructing their own apparatus in a small shop provided with tools for that purpose. IV. CHEMISTRY. PROFESSOR PECKHAM. During the first term all students of the second class, take General Chemistry. The following term the scientific students are required to take Applied Chemistry; also the students in the Modern Course, if they so elect. The chemical laboratory is fitted up in the best manner, with apparatus and fixtures of the most approved construction. It is designed to furnish instruction in qualitative analysis to all students in the Scientific Course of the COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS, and to all students in the COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE and the MECHANIC ARTS, and in quantitative analysis and |