THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. THE FACULTY. CYRUS NORTHROP, LL. D. WILLIAM W. FOLWELL, LL. D. Professor of German. CHRISTOPHER W. HALL, M. A. Professor of Geology, Mineralogy and Biology. Associate Professor of Greek and Mathematics. Professor of Latin. MATILDA J. WILKIN, B. L. Instructor in English and German. Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution. Professor of Scandinavian. CHARLES F. SIDENER, B. S. Assistant Professor of Chemistry. HENRY F. NACHTRIEB, B. S. HARRY PRATT JUDSON, M. A. FREDERICK S. JONES, Professor of Physics. CONWAY MCMILLAN, M. A. Instructor in Botany. HENRY T. ARDLEY, Instructor in Free Hand Drawing. Instructor in Mechanical Drawing. Assistant Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Logic. TERMS. The University year embraces thirty-eight weeks, beginning on the Tuesday before the first Thursday in September, and is divided into three terms. The first term has thirteen, the second twelve, and the third thirteen weeks. Commencement day comes on the first Thursday in June. See calendar for days and dates, on pages four and five. COURSES OF STUDY. The College of Science, Literature, and the Arts offers three courses of study, called the Classical, Scientific, and Literary. Applicants desiring to pursue Greek and Latin will select the Classical course. Those desiring specially to pursue English, German, and French, with or without Latin, will select the Literary course. Those desiring specially to pursue scientific studies, will select the Scientific course. Mathematics is required to the same extent in all. These courses lead, respectively, to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Literature. Applicants are free to select their courses of study on admission, but cannot thereafter change them except as allowed by vote of the General Faculty. The courses of this college are open, free of all charges for instruction, to all persons over fourteen years of age, whether residents of the state or not, who may pass the required examination. ADMISSION. Examinations for admission will be held at the beginning of the year. See calendar on page four and program of examinations in appendix. Entrance examinations cannot be held at any other time unless permission is granted by the General Faculty. Students prevented from entering at the beginning of the year may be admitted at a subsequent date, when the circumstanees are such as to justify the faculty in examining them privately. Such students are, however, at a great disadvantage, being behind the class, and all students expecting to enter the University during the year are earnestly requested to be present at the beginning of the year. Apply to the Registrar for a blank application and registration number. Fill up the blank as indicated, retaining the coupon containing the number. Preserve this number as long as you have any connection with the University. If you do not enter at once use the same number when you apply again. Present yourself in the examination room at the hour appointed, and bring with you a lead pencil and eraser; paper will be furnished. Put your number, not your name, at the top of every sheet you use. A box in the post office on the first floor of the main building will be assigned to each candidate. As soon after the close of the examination as the papers can be read, the result will be made known through the post office. ADMISSION ON DIPLOMA. By a special resolution of the Board of Regents, graduates of St. Paul and Minneapolis High Schools, and the Minneapolis Academy, will be admitted to the Freshman class without examination upon presentation of their diploma. The State High School Board has inspected and classified the schools under its supervision. Graduates of the schools of the first rank are admitted to the Freshman class upon presentation of their diploma. At present the following schools are in this rank: Alexandria, Anoka, Austin, Duluth, Hastings, Lake City, Mankato, Owatonna, Red Wing, Rochester, Spring Valley, Stillwater, Winona, Faribault. It is found that students who present diplomas of first-class high schools, and who are therefore entitled to admission, have not, in some cases, taken very important studies in their course, but substitute studies have been accepted in place of those omitted. To remedy this evil, principals are requested to furnish their pupils who come to the University, and students are required to bring to the University, a certified list of the studies actually covered by the diploma in each case. The diploma will be accepted by the University for all that it really represents of work done. And if important subjects required by the University have been omitted by the student, in his preparatory work, he will be required to make it up, notwithstanding his diploma. Candidates holding diplomas from high schools of the first rank should therefore present their diplomas (at the time of making their application for admission) accompanied by certified certificates of the principal of the school granting such diploma, showing the studies covered by the diploma. Candidates holding certificates of the High School Board should present their credentials on making application. Those coming from other schools or from Normal schools should present their credentials upon making application, and then take such examinations as they are prepared for. The enrollment committee will then decide upon the particular cases, taking into account the showing made in the examination and the marks which the student brings. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. Applicants for admission to the Freshman class will be examined in the following studies: TO THE CLASSICAL COURSE. Three books of the Iliad will be accepted in place of any subject required for admission to the Classical Course except Latin and Mathematics. ENGLISH GRAMMAR.—The examination will cover, in general, the essentials of grammar as indicated in the following particulars: The classification of letters, and derivation and composition of words; the inflection of words; declensions, and synopsis of conjugation; the classification of words, according to their office, as parts of speech, their definitions, and their properties or attributes. The syntax; the relations of agreement and government; the various kinds of sentences, simple, compound or complex as to form, and declarative, etc., as to meaning. Sentential analysis; definition of parts or elements of a given sentence, whether primary or secondary elements, and whether words only or phrases or clauses, and the office of each of these elements. In short, the candidate should be prepared to parse, including the etymology and syntax, each word, and to analyze each sentence in a given exercise. He should be trained to illustrate by specimen-words, phrases, clauses, and sentences selected or composed by himself. He should be able to correct grammatical errors and give reasons for the corrections. ENGLISH COMPOSITION.-The candidate should have such knowledge of form, penmanship, orthography, punctuation, syntax and construction as will enable him to write with ease and elegance any letter of business or friendship; to draft resolutions and petitions; to prepare for the press, reports of meetings and brie notices of current events. Accuracy upon these fundamental points will cover three-fourths of the examination. In addition to this some knowledge of English composition as a fine art is expected; of the power and beauty gained by the right use of rhetorical figures; of what is meant by purity, precision, brevity and harmony and style; and this not merely by committing to memory definitions and rules, but by studying the English classics and learning to appreciate the life and vigor of the great masters of English poetry and prose. ESSAY.-The essay will be on a subject to be announced at the examination, preparation for which will require the careful reading of Shakspere's Julius Cæsar, Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Scott's Lady of the Lake and Irving's Sketch Book. Equivalents of these four books will be accepted. ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA.-Any one of the following books will furnish the necessary preparation: Ray's Elementary Algebra, Greenleaf's New Elementary Algebra, Davies' Elementary Algebra, Olney's Introduction to Algebra. If Olney's Complete Algebra or Wentworth's Elements of Algebra be used, selections can be made equivalent to the above. HIGHER ALGEBRA.-Factoring, highest common divisor, lowest common multiple, fractions, involution, evolution, and radicals. PLANE GEOMETRY.-Olney's text-book, or equivalent, including the unsolved prob lems. SOLID GEOMETRY.-Olney's text-book, or equivalent, including the exercises. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.-For grammar school grades the text-book prepared by Horace E. Scudder, is recommended. But if, as is much better, this subject is systematically studied in the high school, with elementary work in lower grade, the book of Alexander Johnston will be found valuable. In either case it is suggessted that much more time be given to the development of the United States since the revolutionary war than to the story of the colonial period. The main features of the Constitution should be clearly understood, and its practical working as interpreted by the Supreme Court, and seen in operation in the growth of the nation. The chief object of this study should be that the student may understand the institutions of the republic, by learning how they came to be what they are. It should be noted that a definite portion of the examination will be devoted to geography. HISTORY OF GREECE AND ROME.-The history of Greece and Rome should be made a study of the evolution of Greek and Roman institutions. Events should be considered in their bearing on that evolution. Any good outline history will answer as a text-book; but it should be supplemented by other material. Allen's Short History of the Roman People, and the Greece in Myers' Ancient Nations and Greece are suggested as indicating the amount of knowledge expected. It should be noted that a definite portion of the examination will be devoted to geography. PHYSIOLOGY.-The candidate should be thoroughly familiar with as much anatomy, histology and physiology of the human body as is given in Martin's "Human Body," briefer course. As much knowledge of hygiene and the effect of the use of stimulants and narcotics on the human body as can be gained from both the general text and the special chapter on narcotics and stimulants in the briefer course of the "Human Body," is also required. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.-As much as is contained in Gage's Introduction to Physical Science. LATIN GRAMMAR.-This will include the subjects of orthography, etymology and syntax as found in Harkness, or etymology and syntax as found in Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar. Greater proficiency than has heretofore been shown is particularly desired in the following subjects: Classification of the letters. Rules of phonetic changes as given in sections 19-36 inclusive, in Harkness, or sections 9-11 (and elsewhere) in Allen & Greenough. The analysis of the verb forms. The rules of syntax, and the principal parts of the irregular verbs. CÆSAR.-First three books of the Gallic war. Translations of passages of the text into correct idiomatic English. Grammatical questions connected with the text, more especially on the subjunctive mood, indirect discourse and the sequence of tenses. The pupil should be able to rewrite in the oratio recta all the passages in the oratio obliqua that occur in these books. The life of Cæsar and an account of his wars, especially those carried on in Gaul, with the geography of that country and the location of the different tribes mentioned in the text. The organization of the Roman army, the method of reckoning time, distance, etc., etc. CICERO. Six orations: four against Catiline, and any two of the three following: "Poet Archias," "Ligarius" and "Marcellus." Translations as in Caesar. Grammatical questions, more especially on the syntax of the cases, the infinitive mood and participles. Composition of words as given in sections 313-343 of Harkness' Grammar; historical and geographical references found in the text; the life of Cicero and the history of his times, and of the Catilinian conspiracy; the antiquities connected with the text, particularly the Roman Senate, its origin, constitution, powers, duties, etc., the function of the consulship, praetorship and other offices. VIRGIL-Six books of the Aeneid; peculiarities in the form and construction of words; general review of the grammar; prosody and composition of words; the life of Virgil, and an account of his times and writings, the geography, antiquities, biographies, and mythology connected with the text. GREEK.-Brooks' Attic Greek; Xenophon's Anabasis, three books. TO THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH COMPOSITION. ESSAY. MATHEMATICS.-Elementary Algebra complete and Higher Algebra, Plane Geometry and Solid Geometry. HISTORY.-History of the United States and History of Greece and Rome. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. For more extended statement of the work covered by the above subjects see requirements for admission to the classical course. DRAWING.-Two terms of Freehand or Mechanical Drawing. Physical Geography may be offered in lieu of Drawing, but only in schools where drawing cannot be taught. CHEMISTRY.-The non-metallic elements. The work corresponds nearly with the first 150 pages of Elliot and Storer's Elementary Manual of Chemistry. BOTANY.-Phanerogamic, Gray's Lessons and Manual LATIN.-As in the Classical Course. (ENGLISH.-Latin elements of English and History of English Literature. OR GERMAN.-Meissner's German Grammar [Parts I, II, III], H. Grimm's Maer OR chen. (FRENCH.-Chardenal's Course, first two books of Telemaque. TO THE LITERARY COURSE. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. ENGLISH COMPOSITION. ESSAY. MATHEMATICS.-Elementary Algebra complete and Higher Algebra, Plane Geometry and Solid Geometry. HISTORY.-History of the United States and History of Greece and Rome. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. For more extended statement of the work covered by the above subjects, see requirements for admission to the classical course. GERMAN OR FRENCH,-As in the Scientific Course. (ENGLISH.-Latin elements of English and History of English Literature. OR GERMAN.-Meissner's German Grammar[Parts I, II, III], H.Grimm's Maerchen. FRENCH.-Chardenal's Course, first two books of Telemaque. In lieu of French, students may offer the following: DRAWING.—Two terms of Freehand or Mechanical Drawing. |