 | The University of Virginia record February, 1909 |  |
THE ACADEMIC SCHOOLS.
| EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D., | President |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M. A., Ph. D., | Dean |
| FRANCIS HENRY SMITH, M. A., LL. D., | Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy |
| NOAH KNOWLES DAVIS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy |
| JOHN WILLIAM MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., | Emeritus Professor of Chemistry |
| WILLIAM MORRIS FONTAINE, M. A., | Professor of Natural History and Geology |
| ORMOND STONE, M. A., | Professor of Practical Astronomy |
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, LL. D., | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| FRANCIS PERRY DUNNINGTON, B. S., C. E., | Professor of Analytical Chemistry |
| MILTON WYLIE HUMPHREYS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Greek |
| ALBERT HENRY TUTTLE, M. S., | Professor of Biology |
| CHARLES WILLIAM KENT, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of English Literature |
| JAMES ALBERT HARRISON, L. H. D., LL. D., | Professor of Teutonic Languages |
| WILLIAM HOLDING ECHOLS, B. S., C. E., | Professor of Mathematics |
| RICHARD HEATH DABNEY, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of History |
| RICHARD HENRY WILSON, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Romanic Languages |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Mathematics |
| THOMAS FITZHUGH, M. A., | Professor of Latin |
| ALBERT LEFEVRE, Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Philosophy |
| WILLIAM HARRY HECK, M. A., | Professor of Education |
| BRUCE RYBURN PAYNE, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Secondary Education and Psychology. |
| THOMAS WALKER PAGE, Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Economics |
| THOMAS LEONARD WATSON, M. S., Ph. D., | Professor of Economic Geology |
| ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, B. S., Ph. D., | Collegiate Professor of Chemistry |
| WILLIAM MENTZELL FORREST, A. B., | Associate Professor of Biblical History and Literature |
| WILLIAM HARRISON FAULKNER, M. A., Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Teutonic Languages |
| LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH HOXTON, B. S., M. A., | Adjunct Professor of Physics |
| EDWIN PRESTON DARGAN, Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Romantic Languages |
| WILLIAM ALLISON KEPNER, M. A., Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Biology |
| JOHN SHARSHALL GRASTY, Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Economic Geology |
| MATTHEW HUME BEDFORD, Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Chemistry |
| CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL, | Adjunct Professor of Public Speaking |
| JOHN WALTER WAYLAND, M. A., Ph. D., | Instructor in History |
| LEON RUTLEDGE WHIPPLE, M. A., | Instructor in Journalism |
| ALBERT STUART BOLLING, M. A., | Instructor in Latin |
| JOHN JENNINGS LUCK, M. A., Ph. D., | Instructor in Mathematics |
| JAMES NEWTON MICHIE, B. A., B. S., | Instructor in Mathematics |
| THOMAS DWIGHT SLOAN, B. A., | Instructor in Chemistry |
| WELDON THOMAS MYERS, M. A., | Instructor in Latin |
| JAMES SUGARS McLEMORE, B. A., | Instructor in Latin |
| FREDERICK ARTHUR HODGE, M. A., | Instructor in Philosophy |
| MALCOLM HARTWELL ARNOLD, A. M., | Instructor in English Literature |
| CHARLES WATSON GIVENS, A. B., | Instructor in Mathematics |
| HEBER MICHAEL HAYS, B. A., | Instructor in Greek |
| JOHN CLARENCE HIPP, M. A., | Instructor in Economics |
| DAVID VANCE GUTHRIE, M. A., Ph. D., | Instructor in Physics |
| EMMET YOUNG BURTON, | Instructor in Mathematics |
| CHARLES POLLARD OLIVIER, M. A., | Assistant in Astronomy |
| WILLIAM WILSON STANLEY BUTLER, B. A., | Assistant in Physics |
| STANLEY REEVES, A. B., | Assistant in Physics |
| TURNER MOREHEAD HARRIS, A. B., | Assistant in Chemistry |
| COLIN MACKENZIE MACKALL, | Assistant in Chemistry |
| JOEL HILL WATKINS, | Assistant in Economic Geology |
| MITCHELL TABB NEFF, | Assistant in Philosophy |
| ALBERT RONALD MERZ, | Assistant in Chemistry |
| WILLIAM NEWTON NEFF, B. A., | Assistant in Astronomy |
The Academic Schools comprise the Schools of Languages,
Mathematics, Sciences, History, Literature, Economics, Philosophy, Education,
and Biblical Literature. In the undergraduate courses of these
Schools is comprised the work of the College with the degrees of Bachelor
of Arts and Bachelor of Science; in the graduate courses is comprised
the work of the Department of Graduate Studies, with the degrees of
Graduate in a School, Master of Arts, Master of Science and Doctor
of Philosophy. The professors and instructors in the Academic Schools
compose the Academic Faculty, which deals with questions concerning
the work both of the College and of the Department of Graduate Studies.
A full statement of the requirements for the degrees of Bachelor of
Arts and Bachelor of Science will be found under the head of the College;
of the requirements for the other academic degrees, under the Department
of Graduate Studies. In the detailed account of the courses and
equipment of the Academic Schools, given in the following pages, the
order of the courses in the particular School, and the relation of each
course to the academic degrees of the University, is indicated as follows:
The numeral placed after each course indicates the order of the course
in the particular School; the letter placed after the numeral indicates the
value of the course as a part of the work required for an academic degree,
viz.:
A: the first-year course in a School, in which more than one year's
work is required, if the School in question is elected as one of the subjects
for the B. A. or for the B. S. degree.
B: a course that has full value only as an elective for the B. A. or
for the B. S. degree.
C: a graduate course of full value, either as an elective-at-large
for the B. A. degree, for the B. S. degree, for the M. A. degree, or as
a secondary minor for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
D: all graduate courses having full value for the degree of Doctor
of Philosophy, either as primary minor or major courses for that degree.
The Academic Schools are here arranged according to the grouping of
subjects for the B. A. and B. S. degrees.
SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Fitz-Hugh.
Mr. Bolling.
Mr. Myers.
Mr. McLemore.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The four
units prescribed on page 78 for admission to Latin 1A.
Preparation.—The Latin work of the University finds its logical
place in the public school system as the continuation of the Latin work of
the High School. It presupposes accordingly four years of competent
instruction in Latin, involving the Roman pronunciation, habitual observance
of quantity and accent, regular drill in grammar and prose composition
through all preparatory years, elementary Reader (Viri Romae),
Nepos (Roman Lives), Cæsar's Gallic War, Cicero's easier Orations.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Vergil's Aeneid. If the preparation of the
student justifies it, he will be admitted to advanced standing, with due
credit for all work done elsewhere by him.
Attention is further called to the importance of beginning Greek for
all who wish to reap the full cultural benefit of the University courses in
Latin. The study of at least one Romanic language also is very desirable.
The Greek illumines incomparably all parts of Latin study, which bears in
turn a like relation to the Romanic.
General Statement.—The first three years of University Latin
are devoted to the broad cultural study of the language, literature, and life
of the Romans. In the course of the instruction the effort is made to
exhibit, as far as possible, the relation of Roman civilization to the Greek,
on the one hand, and to Romanic and modern on the other, and thus to
emphasize the unity and continuity of all human culture. The great desirability
of a knowledge of Greek and of at least one Romanic language is
therefore specially commended to the student of Latin.
The work is organized in all years as follows:
I. In Language: Systematic study of Latin grammar, with oral
and written exercises in prose composition. One hour a
week.II. In Literature: Reading of authors in culture-historical series.
Two hours a week.III. In Life: Systematic study of Roman culture-history in English,
hand in hand with the study of the Latin authors.
Course 1A: The Higher Entrance Examination in Latin prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Hale-Buck), with oral and
written exercises (Moulton-Collar, Mather-Wheeler).
II. In Literature: Historical, Sallust's Jugurthine War nd Con-
Metamorphoses (Books XIII-XIV), with study of the hexameter—philosophic,
Cicero's Friendship and Old Age, and his Tusculan Disputations
and Dream of Scipio.
III. In Life: The geography, history, public, and private life of the
Romans, (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Abbott's Short History of Rome,
Gow's Companion to School Classics, Johnston's Private Life of the
Romans).
Course 2B: Course 1A or its equivalent prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Gildersleeve-Lodge, Nutting, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and biographic, Livy's Early History
of Rome (Books I-II), and Tacitus' Agricola—lyric and didactic, Catullus'
Odes and Vergil's Georgics, with study of the meters of lyric and didactic
verse—philosophic, Cicero's De Officiis and Seneca's Moral Essays.
III. In Life: The religion, and mythology of the Romans, (Bailey's
Religion of Rome, Fairbank's Mythology of Greece and Rome).
Course 3B: Course 1A or its equivalent prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Gildersleeve-Lodge, Nutting, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and descriptive, Livy's Hannibalic
War, and Tacitus' Germania—lyric and idyllic, Horace's Odes, and Vergil's
Bucolics, with study of the meters of lyric and idyllic verse—critical and
didactic, Cicero's De Claris Oratoribus and Quintilian's Training of the
Orator.
III. In Life: The artistic life of the Romans, (Tarbell's History of
Greek Art, Goodyear's Roman Art).
Course 4C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either
prerequisite.
I. In Language: Higher Syntax of the Cases and Moods (Gildersleeve-Lodge,
Peters), with oral and written exercises (Bennett, Moore,
Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Epistolary and historical, Cicero's Letters, and
Tacitus' Annals—dramatic and satiric, Plautus' Captivi, Terence's Andria,
and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the meters of scenic and
satiric verse—critical, Cicero's De Oratore, and Tacitus' Dialogue on the
Orators.
III. In Life: The history of Roman Literature, (Mackall's Latin
Literature, and Laing's Masterpieces of Latin Literature).
Course 5C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either
second M. A. elective in Latin.
I. In Language: The History of the Latin Language (Bennett,
Grandgent), with oral and written exercises (Bennett, Moore, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Histories, and
Pliny's Letters—dramatic and satiric, Plautus' Mostellaria, Terence's
Phormio, and Juvenal's Satires, with study of the meters of scenic and
satiric verse—philosophic, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and Cicero's De
Natura Deorum.
III. In Life: The history of Roman philosophy (Mayor's History of
Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero, and Pater's Marius the Epicurean).
Course 6D: Course 4C or Course 5C, or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.—This
course is intended for those who desire to specialize in classical
philology, and especially for those who choose Latin as their major
elective for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Roman civilization is the
link between the Hellenic and the Romanic, and hence Latin philology,
which is the science of Roman civilization, has vital points of contact with
Greek philology on the one hand and with Romanic on the other. If the
candidate's main subject be Latin, a respectable familiarity with Greek is
required, since the language, literature, and higher culture of the Romans
are saturated with Greek influence. If the candidate's main subject be
Romanic, the Greek requirement is waived as far as practically possible,
and he is guided into the history of the Roman folk speech, the common
source of the Romanic tongues, and into acquaintance with the authors
who illustrate it in literature.
Plan of Work.—It is the aim of this course, as far as the teaching
force and the resources of the School permit, to prepare the candidate
to investigate independently the sources of our knowledge of the language,
monuments (literary and objective) and life of the Romans.
The following is therefore an outline of the course:
I. In Language: Elements of comparative grammar (Giles, supplemented
by Hirt and Sommer on Sounds and Inflections and by
Brugmann and Schmalz on Syntax)—introduction to Latin historical
grammar (Lindsay, supplemented by Landgraf)—systematic grammar
(Kühner) with stylistic exercises, oral and written, in conjunction
with Cicero's De Oratore—reading of epigraphic and literary monuments
illustrating the history of the Latin Language.
II. In the Literary and Objective Monuments of the Romans:
Reading of authors in groups systematically planned to illustrate the
of palæography (Johnson, supplemented by Thompson), epigraphy (Lindsay,
supplemented by Egbert and Cagnat), numismatics (Gnecchi, supplemented
by Hill), topography and remains (Platner, Peterson, Huelsen,
Mau, Strack, Furtwaengler).
III. In Roman Life: Constructive study of Roman culture-history—
reading of authors illustrating the development of Roman civilization—
study of modern authorities in Roman culture-history (Philippson, Nissen,
Mommsen. Marquardt-Mommsen, Preller-Jordon, Springer-Michaelis and
Winter, Schanz, Windelband).
Aids.—For the sake of first-hand access to important modern
authorities in Latin philology, the candidate is urged to acquire a good
reading knowledge of German, French, and Italian. Such a mastery of
German and French is imperative.
SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Humphreys.
Mr. Hays.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
This school comprises the following courses:
Course 1A: A course for beginners. Text-Books: Benner and
Smyth's Beginner's Greek Book; Xenophon's Anabasis. Young men who
have the opportunity are urged to prepare themselves for the next course
(2A) or Course 3B before coming to the University.
Course 2A: Course 1A prerequisite or the Entrance Examination in
Greek (or its equivalent).—A course of easy Attic Prose. Xenophon's
Memorabilia and Hellenica, Lysias, Goodwin's Grammar, Elementary
Exercises.
Course 3B: Course 2A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—A course of
Attic Prose and the Drama, Herodotus and Homer, Syntax, Exercises,
Literature, History, Meters, etc. The class will begin with Plato's Apology
and Crito.
Course 4C: Course 3B prerequisite.—A more advanced course, including
portions of Demosthenes, Thucydides, Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes,
Lyric Poets; also Meters, Syntax, and Exercises.
Courses 5D and 6D: Course 4C prerequisite.—Designed for those
who wish to devote themselves to classical scholarship, and especially for
of Philosophy. For admission to these courses, proficiency in Courses 2A
and 3B, or equivalent preparation is required. The course 4C may be taken
as the first year Ph. D. course. At present the additional work consists of
four special courses, each comprising three hours per week during a half
session. The lectures will be employed chiefly in directing the private study
of the students.
The four special courses offered at present are as follows:
I. A course of selected readings extending over the whole field
of Greek literature in the order of historical development. This course
is intended as a general survey.
II. A course in Attic Prose, especially the orators, directed partly
to questions of grammar, and partly to the artistic form and style.
III. A study of the Attic drama, including the special study in
class of the Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles and the Frogs of Aristophanes.
IV. A study of the Greek poets, with special reference to music,
rhythm, meter, and structure. The ancient doctrine of meter and rhythm
will be carefully examined, and portions of the Lyric poets, including
Pindar, read in class.
For all the classes of this School private reading is prescribed, and
the examinations will be partly upon this and the work done in class,
and partly upon passages selected from the Greek authors at will.
Text-Books.—Goodwin's Greek Grammar; Goodwin's Moods and Tenses; Veitch's
Verbs; Liddell and Scott's Lexicon (intermediate, and in Course 4C and above,
unabridged edition); Morey's History of Greece; Smyth's Greek Literature. Any
editions of Greek authors may be used, except when particular ones are specially
prescribed; but students should always have at hand Teubner's texts for reference,
and for use on examinations. At present Rhythm and Meters and some other subjects
are taught wholly or partly by lecture.
SCHOOL OF TEUTONIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Harrison.
Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: In English;
the General Entrance Examination, and, in addition, Course 1A in English
Literature or its equivalent; in German; the General Entrance Examination.
The subjects taught in this School are: the history, grammar, and
etymology of the English language (including Old and Middle English),
and English literature from its beginning to the time of Shakespeare;
High German).
I. English.
Course 1B: Course 1A in English Literature prerequisite.—Course 1B
in English is designed to lay a broad foundation for the intelligent study
of the language on both the historical (philological) and the literary side.
The opportunity is seized from the beginning to interest the student in the
history and etymology of current English words and phrases, to point him
by a general course of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and Middle English to
the gradual evolution of Modern English as we have it now, and to furnish
him with ample material for the prosecution of further study and research.
A carefully graded series of texts and text-books will lead the student
from the language of Alfred through Chaucer and the Elizabethans to the
English of Victoria. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12—1, Cabell Hall:
Professor Harrison, Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 2C: Course 1B prerequisite.—This course is a more specialized
form of Course 1B on the same general lines; a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon
is essential to its profitable prosecution. The historical study of the
language is pursued in greater detail; the student's attention is concentrated
on the history and origins of English; lectures on the Poetry and Life of
the Anglo-Saxons are given; Fourteenth Century English receives detailed
attention, and selected works of the Elizabethan period will be examined
and studied critically.
The effort will constantly be made to make these courses in the English
Language run parallel on the linguistic side with the courses in
English Literature, so that the two may profitably be taken together.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1, Cabell Hall: Professor Harrison,
Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 3D, Course 4D: Course 2C prerequisite.—Courses 3D and
4D are open to students who desire to specialize in the subject of English.
and especially to those who select English as their major subject, or as the
primary minor subject for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. A general
statement only of their character can be given. English Literature of the
Old, Middle, and New English periods to the time of Shakespeare will be
exhaustively studied; English Philology, the foundations of which will
be laid in a thorough knowledge of Gothic, Old and Middle English, Old
and Middle High German, and Old French phonology and grammar, will
receive thorough treatment; general phonetics will be carefully studied;
and the principles of comparative grammar and syntax will be duly explained.
The completion of either of these two courses will satisfy the requirements
Philosophy; the completion of both courses and the preparation of a
satisfactory dissertation will fulfill the requirements for English as the
major subject for the same degree.
In each course three hours a week (hours by appointment) is given
to lectures. In addition, the student is required to prepare, at stated
intervals, written seminary-papers, showing original research, and to attend
such other lectures and courses, in this or any other Academic School of
the University, as the Academic Faculty, on recommendation of the professor,
may deem necessary. Courses 3D and 4D were not given in
1908-1909.
The professor's large and choice collection of Anglo-Saxon, English,
German, and French Philological works is open to the students in Courses
3D and 4D.
II. German.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
Course 1A: In this course the students begin with elementary grammar,
reading, and composition. About six hundred pages of German prose
are translated, and thirty pages of German in the form of weekly exercises
are written. One hour a week is given to conversation. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 1—2, Cabell Hall: Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Course 2B
in German is designed to give the student a general knowledge and understanding
of the German language, life, literature, and thought since 1730.
The course is arranged for the session of 1909-1910 as follows:
I. Grammar (Forms and Syntax), with oral and written translation
of about 25 pages of English sentences into German, illustrative
of the grammatical principles, and involving the repeated use of about 750
words and phrases of most frequent occurrence. Systematic study of
word-groups. (20 hours).
II. Deutschland in Wort und Bild, based on Schweitzer's
Deutsches Lesebuch für Quarta und Tertia. Class exercises conducted in
German. Conversation and written work in German based on text.
(30 hours).
III. German Lyric and Ballad Poetry since 1730. Lectures on
the German lyricists and balladists, with reading and interpretation of
selected poems of Berger, Goethe, Schiller, Rückert, Chamisso, Uhland,
Heine, and Freiligrath. Written work in German, based on poems read
modern German literature. (25 hours).
IV. Prose Fiction. Lectures on the history and development of
the Roman and the Novelle. Class-reading of a novel of Sudermann and
from Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit (Sesenheim). Written work in
German based on texts read. Parallel reading in Keller's Novellen and in
history of modern German literature. (15 hours).
V. Drama.—Lectures on Schiller, Sudermann, and Hauptmann,
with reading and interpretation of one drama of each. Written work in
German, based on assignments in dramas read by class. Parallel reading
in history of modern German literature. (10 hours).
The class meets in two sections: I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11;
II Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-2. Cabell Hall, Adjunct Professor
Faulkner.
Course 3C: Course 2B prerequisite.—This course is a more specialized
continuation of Course 2B in German, on the same general lines. The
historical study of German is taken up; the masterpieces of German literature
are systematically studied in critical annotated texts; exercises continue
throughout the year; and the literature and life of Germany are
studied in some detail. Parallel reading is required, and one hour a week
is given to conversation. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11; Professor
Harrison.
Course 4D: Course 3C prerequisite.—German Literature since 1730.
Three hours a week (by appointment). The work of this course is conducted
entirely in German. Adjunct Professor Faulkner.
Course 4D, as given for the session of 1908-1909, was arranged as
follows:
Schillers Jugenddramen. (25 hours).
Schillers Aesthetische Schriften. (25 hours).
Schillers Reife Dramen. (25 hours).
Sudermann, Hauptmann und das neue Drama. (25 hours).
Course 5D, as offered for the session of 1909-1910, is arranged as
follows:
Goethes Gedichte in zeitlicher Reihenfolge. (25 hours).
Goethes Faust. (50 hours).
Goethes Wilhelm Meister. (25 hours).
Course 5D: Course 3C prerequisite.—Gothic, Old High German,
Middle High German. Three hours a week. Professor Harrison.
The completion of either Course 4D or Course 5D will satisfy the
of Philosophy; the completion of both courses, and the preparation of
a satisfactory dissertation will fulfill the requirements for German as the
major subject for the same degree.
In each of these courses three hours a week is given to lectures.
In addition the student is required to prepare, at stated intervals, written
seminary-papers showing original research, and to attend such other lectures
and courses, in this or any other Academic School of the University,
as the Academic Faculty, on recommendation of the professor, may deem
necessary. Course 5D was not given in 1908-1909.
SCHOOL OF ROMANIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Wilson.
Adjunct Professor Dargan.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
French, Old French, Spanish, and Italian are taught in the School.
There are three courses in French, two courses in Spanish, one course in
Italian, and one course in Old French. The course in Old French is
technical and is intended to complement the doctorate work done at this
University in English and German Literature.
I. French.
Course 1A: Beginners may take this course. Elementary grammar
is reviewed; the irregular verb is considered at length; intermediary
texts are read; stress is laid upon pronunciation; exercises in dictation and
in composition occupy one-third of the time throughout the year. Textbooks:
Fraser and Squair's Grammar; Mérimée, Colomba; Pailleron, Le
Monde où l'on s'ennuie; Daudet, Contes choisis; Dumas, L'Evasion du
Duc de Beaufort; Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.
Course 2B: Course 1A prerequisite, or its equivalent.—The novel,
drama, and lyric of the Nineteenth Century are touched upon; the subjunctive
mood is studied; oral exercises are used; the history of French
Literature is examined. Books: Gas's Dictionary; Fraser and Squair's
Grammar; Saintsbury's History of French Literature; Dumas' Monte-Cristo;
Tuckerman, Simplicité; About, Le roi des montagnes; Racine,
Athalic; Hugo, Hermani; Bowen, Modern French Lyrics; Gautier's Jettatura.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda, Professor
Wilson.
Course 3C: Course 1A and 2B prerequisite.—Forty lectures are devoted
to the interpretation of Modern French prose; twenty lectures to
defining the tendencies of Modern French fiction; and forty lectures to
an appreciation of France's place in civilization. Books: Nodier, Contes;
Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris; Sand, Indiana; Pellissier, Le mouvement
littérarie du XIXe Siécle; Balzac, La cousine Bette; Daudet, Sapho;
Flaubert, Tentation de Saint Antoine; Bazin, La terre qui meurt; Bourget,
Le disciple; France, Silvestre Bonnard; Foncin, Le Pays de France.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda, Professor Wilson,
Adjunct Professor Dargan.
II. Spanish.
Course 1A: This is a beginner's course, offered to those students
who desire to undertake the study of the language, either from a cultural
or a practical stand-point. A survey of the main features of the grammar
together with composition and the reading of modern texts constitute
the course. Dictation and other oral exercises will further the student's
knowledge of colloquial Spanish. Text-books: Hill's and Ford's Grammar,
Carrión and Vital Aza, Zaragüeta; Valera, Pepita Jiménez, Alarcón,
El Sombrero de tres Picos; Taboada, Cuentos Alegres. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.
Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—The study
of the drama and novel of modern Spain will be continued. Two works
of the classical age will be read, and the history of Spanish Literature
studied. An advanced grammar and a conversational Method will be taken
up. Composition and oral work will occupy one-third of the time.
Text-books: Ybarra, Practical Spanish Method; Ramsey, Text-Book of
Modern Spanish; Appleton's Dictionary; FitzMaurice Kelly, History of
Spanish Literature; Tamayo y Baus, Un drama nuevo; Galdós, Dona Perfecta;
Valdés, José; Pereda, Pedro Sánchez; Calderón, El Mágico prodigioso;
Cervantes, Don Quijote. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1,
S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.
III. Italian.
Course 3C: French 1A and 2B or Spanish 1A and 2B prerequisite.—
One course is offered, for which no previous knowledge of Italian is required.
Students are advanced rapidly through an elementary grammar,
and then through a series of graded texts to the point where Modern
Italian is read with ease. Several of the more important monuments of
the Nineteenth Century are read and discussed, after which the attention
of the class is directed to Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The history
Grandgent's Grammar; Edgren's Dictionary; Amicis, Alberto; Testa, L'oro
e l'orpello; Goldoni, Un curioso accidente; Capuana, Homo; Bowen, Italian
Reader; d'Ancona e Bacci, Manuale della letteratura italiana (Dante,
Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet, Italian Literature; Symonds, Short History
of the Renaissance in Italy; Barrili, Una Notte Bizzarra. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12-1, S. W. Rotunda, Professor Wilson.
IV. Old French.
Course 4D: This course is intended to complement the doctorate
work done at this University in English and German Literature and at the
same time constitute a basis of advanced instruction for men aspiring to
Romance scholarship. The course is open to students who have completed
the French, Spanish, and Italian courses at this University, or the
equivalent elsewhere.
Lectures and class-work incident to the course are conducted in
French. Important monuments of Old French are translated into the
modern idiom, and the syntax and literary tendencies of different periods
are contrasted. Professor Wilson.
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.
Professor Echols.
Professor Page.
Dr. Luck.
Mr. Michil.
Mr. Giv.
Mr. Burt.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: Mathematics
A, B and C, of the general entrance requirements, p. 77.
In this School, as at present organized, there are eight courses. The
class in Course 1A meets in three Sections; and that in course 2B in two
Sections.
Course 1A, Sections I and II: Admission to the School prerequisie.t
Each Section meets three times a week, and devotes about three months to
each of the three subjects—Geometry, Trigonometry, and Algebra.
In Geometry the work begins with the solution of numerous original
exercises in Plane Geometry, and proceeds through Solid Geometry with
constant drill in original exercises.
In Trigonometry, a complete course in Plane and Spherical Trigonometry
is pursued with constant drill in the solution of problems, and
exercises in the use of logarithms.
In Algebra, the work begins with the Progressions and proceeds with
Series, with special study of the Binomial, Exponential, and Logarithmic
Series. The study of Inequalities and Determinants prepares for the
Theory of Equations with which the course is closed.
Course 1A, Section III: Mathematics A, B, C and D, of the general
entrance requirements, prerequisite.
This Section meets three times a week, and devotes about three months
to each of the three subjects, Trigonometry, Algebra, and elementary
Analytical Geometry.
The first two terms of the session are devoted to Trigonometry and
Algebra, respectively; and the courses covered in these subjects are exactly
the same as those described above for Sections I and II of Course
1A. In elementary Analytical Geometry, to which the third term is devoted,
the class begins with a study of the Cartesian and polar systems of
Coordinates, with numerous exercises in the graphical representation
of equations. Especial attention is paid to the straight line and the general
equation of the first degree in two variables. The course is intended to
prepare for the study of the Analytical Geometry of the Conic Section.
In addition to the regular examination held during the session, there
will be held a special examination on the work of Course 1A on the first
day of each session, to which any student registered in the School of Mathematics
will be admitted. To a student successfully passing this examination
will be given a certificate of proficiency in the work required in Course
1A. Professor Page.
Text-Books.—Venable, Legendre's Geometry, with Exercises; Loney, Trigonometry,
Part I; Murray, Spherical Trigonometry; Charles Smith, Treatise on Algebra,
Analytical Geometry; text to be announced later.
Course 2B: Course 1A prerequisite.—The work of this course is
carried on in two sections, each of which consists of Analytical Geometry,
Differential and Integral Calculus. The arrangement of the work in the
two sections is slightly different.
Section I. Course 1A prerequisite.—The class devotes three months
to Analytical Geometry and six months to the Differential and Integral
Calculus.
In Analytical Geometry, the Cartesian method of representing a function
by points, lines, and surfaces is considered, and a special study of the
conic sections is made. In three dimensions, as far as the time permits,
the straight line, the plane and the conicoids are introduced and discussed.
In the Calculus a careful study of the functions of one variable is
made, and is followed by the study of functions of two and three variables
as far as the time allows.
In this class both the educational and the practical value of the topics
mathematics, are clearly brought to view. Constant drill at the board and
frequent examination and repetition of principles are insisted on. Professor
Echols.
Section II. This course is required of all engineering students, the
Course 1A, section III, being prerequisite. All engineering students applying
for advanced study in this course must pass a written examination
on the topics of the Course 1A. The work of the section begins the analytical
geometry of the conic sections with the study of the circle and takes
up the Differential Calculus early in November, concluding it in March.
The remainder of the session is devoted to the Integral Calculus. In this
section less attention is given to the educational and theoretical value of
Mathematics and more to the utilitarian aspect. Professor Echols.
Text-Books.—Charles Smith, Conic Sections; Notes on Analytical Geometry of
Three Dimensions; Echols, Differential and Integral Calculus.
Course 3C: Course 2B prerequisite.—This course begins with the
study of Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions. The Differential and
Integral Calculus is taken up, at the point left off in Course 2B, and is
systematically studied along broad lines. A course of parallel reading on
the History of Mathematics is assigned and an examination held in this
subject. The course closes with the study of Ordinary Differential Equations.
Professor Echols.
Text-Books.—Charles Smith, Solid Geometry; Echols, Differential and Integral
Calculus; Williamson, Differential Calculus; Williamson, Integral Calculus; Murray,
Differential Equations; Cajori, History of Mathematics.
Course 4D: A Course in Geometry: Course 3C prerequisite.—An
advanced course in analytical geometry, in homogeneous, tangential and
radial coördinates, with applications to kinematics and the theory of
homogenous displacement. Professor Echols.
Course 5D: A Course in Differential Geometry: Course 3C prerequisite.—In
this the year will be devoted to a course in the applications of
the Differential and Integral Calculus to Geometry, with special reference
to the theory of the General Space Curve, the Surface, and the Surface
Curve. Professor Page.
Course 6D: A course in the Theory of Continuous Groups:
Course 3C prerequisite.—In this will be presented an outline of the General
Theory of Continuous Groups of point and contact transformations. Numerous
applications to Geometry and Differential Equations will be
adduced. Professor Page.
Course 7D: A Course in Differential Equations: Course 3C prerequisite.—In
this there will be presented a course in Ordinary and Partial
Equation particular attention is paid to the theory of integration of such
equations as admit of a known Transformation Group, and the classic
methods of integration are compared with those which flow from the
Theory of Continuous Groups. A similar method is adopted in the study
of the Linear Partial Differential Equation of the First Order. As far
as the time admits, the theories of integration of the Complete System,
as well as those of the General Partial Differential Equation of the First
and Second Orders, will be discussed. Professor Page.
[Not more than two of the Courses 5D, 6D, 7D, are offered in one
session.]
Course 8D: A Course in the Theory of Functions: Course 3C prerequisite.—In
this class is offered to advanced students a course in Mathematical
Analysis. The treatment of the subject is arranged under three
heads, as follows:
The design of the numbers of analysis and the laws of the operations
to which they are subject are studied after the methods of Dedekind and
Tannery, Cantor and Weierstrass, as introductory to the study of functions.
The study of the Theory of Functions of a Real Variable, including
series, products, and continued fractions.
The General Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable is studied
after the methods of Cauchy, Riemann, and Weierstrass.
A special study is made of the series of Taylor and of Fourier. Professor
Echols.
The work in Courses 4D, 5D, 6D, 7D and 8D is carried on by means
of lectures, notes, and the systematic reading of the standard authors in
texts and in journals.
SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
Professor Thornton.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
entrance examination, plus Mathematics 1A.
Course 1B: General Mechanics: This class meets three times
a week. The Fall Term is devoted to a preliminary study of General
Mechanics, in which the fundamental doctrines of motion, force, and
energy are discussed and applied to the simpler problems of the Dynamics
of a Particle, the Statics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, and the Dynamics
of Revolving and Rolling Solids.
In the Winter Term the methods of Graphical Statics are studied
and applied to the analysis of the simpler forms of roofs, bridges, beams,
are also taught.
The Spring Term is given to the study of Hydrostatics, with simple
problems on the pressure of water and of air, and their applications
in the construction and use of the barometer, the hydrometer, the hydrostatic
press, and so on. The elements of Hydraulics are also taught.
For the successful pursuit of this course the class in Mathematics
2B must be taken parallel with it, unless the student has already had
the equivalent training.
Course 2C: Analytical Mechanics: The class meets three times
a week and makes a systematic study of analytical mechanics. Mechanics
1B and Mathematics 2B give the necessary preliminary training. The
Fall Term deals with Analytical Statics; the Winter Term with the
Dynamics of a Particle; the Spring Term with the Dynamics of a Rigid
Body. The fundamental principles of the science are applied not only to
the classical problems of centers of gravity, moments of inertia, harmonic
motion, projectile motion, planetary motion, and so on; but also to questions
drawn from the Kinematics of Machines, the Dynamics of the Steam
Engine, the Balancing of Single and Coupled Engines, and others arising
in the applications of Mathematics to Engineering.
Course 3D: Mixed Mathematics. The class will meet three
hours a week for reports, conferences and lectures. Mechanics 3C and
Mathematics 3C give the necessary preliminary training. The work will
be varied from year to year, being selected from the following great
subdivisions.
I. Dynamics of the Rigid Body of Material Systems.
II. Dynamics of Fluids.
III. Theory of Elasticity and of Statically Indeterminate Structure.
IV. Attractions, Figure of the Earth and Higher Geodesy. A reading
knowledge of both French and German will be needed.
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
Professor Stone.
Mr. Olivier.
Mr. Neff.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Course 1A in the School of Mathematics
or its equivalent.
Course 1B: General Astronomy: Mathematics 1A prerequisite.—
The primary aim of this course is to give such a knowledge of the facts,
possess.
The instruction is given by oral examinations, by lectures, and by the
assignment of problems. The mental discipline of the student is kept
constantly in view, and an earnest effort is made to create a habit of clear
and logical thinking.
Text-Book.—Young's General Astronomy.
Course 2C: Practical Astronomy: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B
(or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Spherical Astronomy and theory of
astronomical instruments, with practical exercises in making and reducing
astronomical observations.
Course 3C: Theoria Motus: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B (or its
equivalent) prerequisite.—Formation and integration of the differential
equations of motion for an undisturbed body, determination of the position
of a planet from known elements, of an elliptic orbit from three complete
observations, of an orbit from four observations of which only two are
complete, of an orbit from any number of observations employing the
method of least squares.
Course 4C: Celestial Mechanics: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B
(or its equivalent) prerequisite.—The principal subjects considered are
rectilinear motion, central forces, potential, problems of two, three and n
bodies, perturbations, determination of a preliminary orbit.
Course 5D: Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Course 2C prerequisite.—Determination
of the positions of the fixed stars, preparation
of star catalogues, statistical study of the structure of the sidereal universe.
Course 6D: Celestial Mechanics: Course 4C prerequisite.—Problem
of three bodies, and theory of perturbations.
Course 7D: Lunar Theory: Course 4C prerequisite.
Course 8D: Recent Advances in Celestial Mechanics: Course
5D prerequisite.—Researches of Hill, Newcomb, Gyldén, Poincaré, and
others.
For information in regard to Fellowships in Astronomy application
should be made to the Professor in charge of the School.
The Astronomical Observatory is situated upon an elevation
known as Mount Jefferson, which furnishes an unobstructed horizon. The
principal building is a rotunda forty-five feet in diameter, and contains the
great Clark refractor of twenty-six inches aperture. The building and
instrument are the gift of Leander J. McCormick, Esq., of Chicago. The
a working library. In a smaller building are a three-inch Fauth transit
and a four-inch Kahler equatorial.
A temporary Students' Observatory has been recently erected in the
rear of Dawson's Row, and is intended more especially for the use of
students in Course 1B.
SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Adjunct Professor Hoxton.
Dr. Guthrie.
Mr. Butl
Mr. Reeves.
Mr. West.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The general
entrance examination, which must, for this School, include Mathematics
D and E.
Course 1B: General Physics.—This course is intended to include
Elementary Mechanics, Sound, Light, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism.
Instruction is given by lectures and text-books, with illustrative
experiments and numerical problems. The student is expected to spend,
during the greater part of each term, from five to six hours a week in the
laboratory, performing simple quantitative experiments, of which written
reports are to be submitted. This includes one hour, set apart for
quizzing.
Course 2C: Electricity and Magnetism: Course 1B and Mathematics
2B prerequisite.—The elements of the mathematical theory are developed,
making free use of the methods of the calculus, beginning, however,
with fundamental principles of the subject. Laboratory work more advanced
than that in Course 1B will be required, occupying the student from
four to six hours a week, and aiming at the more exact measurement of
the chief physical quantities here dealt with.
Course 3C: Optics: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B prerequisite.—
The same general remarks apply to this as to Course 2C.
Course 4D: Spectroscopy: Course 3C prerequisite.—Theory and use
of the spectroscope and its application to physical and astronomical problems.
A Laboratory Fee of five dollars is required for each course.
The Rouss Physical Laboratory was designed to meet the requirements
of practical physics. The building throughout is characterized
by structural stability. The student and other laboratory work rooms
are abundantly lighted, while some may be darkened at will. This is
from the lecture table, and which, moreover, is otherwise adequately arranged
for experimental demonstration. There is a general distribution
of water over the building, while all the rooms are supplied with steam
heat, gas, and electricity.
The equipment, besides that for elementary practical work and an unusually
rich stock of apparatus for lecture experiments in general physics,
includes a special line of electrical and optical instruments, a 21½ ft.
concave grating with Rowland mounting, photographic dark room, liquid-air
plant, and storage battery, and a machine shop for the repair and
building of physical apparatus. For advanced practical work in some
lines the facilities offered are exceptional.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Professor Bird.
Adjunct Professor Bedford.
Mr. Sloan.
Mr. Mackall.
Mr. Harris.
Mr. Merz.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
In this School the following courses are offered:
Course 1B: General Chemistry.—Three terms. Lectures, Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, 11 to 12. Laboratory six hours a week (see
schedule of studies for hours the different sections meet). The fundamental
principles and phenomena, of inorganic, organic, and physical
chemistry are discussed, and the foundation of analytical chemistry are
dealt with at appropriate places. Most of the time is devoted to inorganic
phenomena. No previous study of chemistry is demanded. Professor
Bird, Adjunct Professor Bedford, Mr. Sloan, and assistants.
Text-Books.—Remsen's College Chemistry; Talbot and Blanchard's Electrolytic
Dissociation Theory; Laboratory Notes.
Course 2B: Part I. Elementary Organic Chemistry: Course 1B
(or its equivalent) is prerequisite, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10;
Laboratory, Tuesday and Thursday, 3-6. During the first half of the
session the principles of Organic Chemistry are studied and one or more
compounds of the more important classes of Organic substances are prepared
and studied experimentally. Professor Bird.
Part II. Elementary Physical Chemistry.—Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-10. During the second half of the year the principles of
Physical Chemistry are discussed; emphasis being put on the relation
measurements are made in the laboratory and a foundation is laid
for the future study of practical Electro-Chemical reactions and their
control. Adjunct Professor Bedford.
These two parts together count as one elective towards the B. A. or
B. S. degree.
Course 2C: Industrial Chemistry.—This course is concerned with
the applications of chemistry to the purposes of human life. It examines
in detail the chemical principles and processes especially involved
in the more important arts and manufactures. Professor Dunnington.
Text-Books.—F. H. Thorp's Outlines of Industrial Chemistry; Huntington &
McMillan's Metals, their Properties and Treatment. Recommended for reference:
Richardson and Watt's Chemical Technology; T. E. Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied
Chemistry; Girardin's Leçons de Chimie Elémentaire appliqée aux Arts Industriels;
W. E. RobertsAusten's Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy; Sadtler's HandBook
of Industrial Organic Chemistry, etc.
The collections of the University in illustration of the processes and
products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much expense
and pains in this country, England, France, and Germany, and are unusually
extensive and good; among the best on this side of the Atlantic.
In this course there are one or more reviews each week of the
subjects under discussion, involving questions put by, as well as to the
students; and exercises in writing are given out to afford practice in the
calculations which are needed by the chemist.
Course 3C: Organic Chemistry.— Course 1B (or its equivalent) is
prerequisite. Three terms. Lectures, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10, Laboratory,
nine houre a week, by appointment. This course comprises a systematic
study of Organic Chemistry as a distinct branch of the science
and its relations and contributions to the body of chemical knowledge.
Emphasis is laid on the methods of investigating chemical problems and
the synthesis of organic compounds. The lectures during the last half
of the year deal largely with the broader chemical theories. In the laboratory
such compounds are prepared as best promote the aims of the course
and illustrate the properties of important classes. Practice is given
throughout in the ultimate and proximate analysis of organic substances.
Course 4D: Advanced General Chemistry.— Courses 1B and 2B
(or their equivalents) are prerequisite. Three terms. Hours by appointment.
A minimum of twelve hours laboratory work a week during the
first half of the session and nine hours during the last half is required
of those offering it for credit towards the master's degree or the lower
degrees. From September to February the instruction is individual at
the laboratory table, and from February to June three lectures a week
history of chemistry is required. Most of the laboratory work consists
of an advanced study of chemical reactions and the synthesis of inorganic
compounds. Professor Bird.
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The regular work of this School, constituting a complete course in
Practical Chemistry, is divided into two courses, as follows:
Course 1B: This course consists of three lessons a week throughout
the session, after each of which the students spend three or four hours
in practical experiments in the Laboratory. A course in Chemical manipulation,
is first given, then Blowpipe Analysis, Fire Assaying of Ores of
Lead, Gold, and Silver, and a systematic course in Inorganic Qualitative
Analysis, followed by practice in analysis of salts, alloys, and ores, determination
of minerals and the examination of potable water, coal, limestone,
clay, and so on, together with some simpler quantitative determinations.
Weekly written exercises are required.
Course 2C: The work of the second course is also given in three
lessons a week throughout the session, each being followed by four hours
or more of practical laboratory work. This course is primarily one in
Quantitative Analysis. After some training in manipulation and gravimetric
estimations, the class pursues volumetric estimations and a full
course in Quantitative Analysis of minerals, ores, coal, soil, iron and steel,
technical products, and so on. Weekly written exercises are required. As
the student advances in the course he is encouraged to undertake original
research and assist in its prosecution; and in determining his fitness for
graduation, work of this kind is considered as having much weight.
The Laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during all
the working hours of the day.
Students may register either for the first course, or for both courses at
the same time; candidates for the M. A. elective are required to complete
both courses. Those who accomplish this are prepared for work as
Analytical Chemists, Assayers, Druggists, or Teachers of Chemistry.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius' Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis, A. I. Cohn; Olsen's Quantitative Chemical Analysis;
Vable's Qualitative Analysis (3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical
Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Foye's HandBook
of Mineralogy.
A course of lectures in Agricultural Chemistry is given in this
School (see p. 246).
Courses for Graduates Only.—The graduate course is designed
for those seeking the degree of Ph. D., and also for such students as desire
to increase the range of their experience as analysts, and to cultivate their
powers of original investigation.
It is required for those who enter this course that they shall have previously
completed Courses 1B and 2C, in this School, and Courses 1B, 2C,
3C, and 4D in that of General Chemistry, or that they shall have previously
made equivalent attainments elsewhere.
Laboratory work will be conducted daily, and suggestions and due
assistance will be given in its prosecution.
While the work is adapted to the special aims or tastes of each student,
it will in all cases comprise some practice in the more elaborate
processes of analysis, ultimate and proximate organic analysis, some study
in analytical methods and some original problems, also the reading and
the summarizing of extracts from current journals, and, for all who are
seeking the degree of Ph. D., a dissertation embodying the results of some
original research.
The Chemical Laboratory is a building planned and erected for
the purpose. It is warmed throughout by hot water, completely fitted with
the most approved appliances, and stocked with apparatus, models, materials,
and specimens. The commodious lecture-room, with work and storeroom
attached, is provided with every convenience for exhibiting a complete
series of experiments illustrating the lectures on General Chemistry.
The Analytical Laboratory will accommodate forty working students, and
is furnished with work-tables, gas, water, and all proper laboratory fixtures;
smaller rooms are devoted to weighing, evaporations, assaying,
etc., and all requisite apparatus, chemicals, minerals, materials for analysis,
etc., are kept constantly supplied by home purchases and importation.
MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The Biological sciences are here studied chiefly from a morphological
rather than from a physiological standpoint. Prominence is given to the
histology, and as far as possible to the cytology and to the life-histories
(both ontogenetic and phylogenetic) of the organisms studied, especially
in the advanced courses in each of the two principal sciences, with a view
of life. The work of the school is designed to meet the wants of
students who desire such knowledge of either Botany or Zoölogy (or both),
and of the methods of biological study, as may properly form a part of a
liberal education: or of those who desire such training as will fit them
for independent work as students or as teachers in either of these sciences,
or for other vocational work therein: and also of those who seek such
acquaintance with the facts and the underlying principles of the biological
sciences as will prepare them for entrance upon the study of Medicine,
or for an intelligent study of the relations of these sciences to the art
of Agriculture as set forth in another portion of this catalogue (p. 246).
Each student who enters upon the work of either of the courses described
below is required to provide himself with a small case of dissecting
instruments and a note-book of approved pattern. Other necessary pieces
of apparatus will be issued to each student: a deposit with the Bursar of
a sum covering the value of articles so issued is required; this will be refunded
at the end of the session subject to deduction for loss or damage.
There is a laboratory fee for materials consumed in connection with the
work of each of the courses.
I. Botany.
Professor Tuttle.
Course 1B: Botany.—In this course a study is first made of the
essential factors of plant structure; this is followed by a brief survey of
the vegetable kingdom, beginning with the fission-algae and ending with
the seed-plants. As each group is discussed in the lectures, as many representative
members as practicable will be studied in the laboratory, including
where possible the important phases of the life-history. The
principles of classification will be considered and illustrated, and as far
as possible applied in connection with the forms studied. Lectures, Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 12 to 1 p. m. Laboratory periods, Tuesday
Thursday, Saturday, 9 to 11 a. m. The class is limited for the present
to thirty members.
Three courses are offered in Plant Morphology, one of which will
be given each session: each course comprises two lectures and two laboratory
periods of three hours each weekly: participation in the weekly
biological seminar is also required: the course for the year may, however,
be withdrawn if not elected by at least four students. Lectures on
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 2 p. m; laboratory periods, Wednesdays
and Fridays from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Botany 1B and Zoölogy 1B are prerequisite
for entrance upon either of these courses. The courses offered
are as follows.
Course 2C: Thallophytes.—This course will be devoted to the
study of the Fission-Plants: the Green Algae (in the limited sense), the
Confervales, and Charales: the Bacillariales, Brown Algae, and Dictyotales:
the Red Algae: the various orders of the Fungi, and the Lichens.
The Green Algae will be studied in greatest detail, on account of their
morphological importance as exhibiting a varied and instructive differentiation
of forms from unicellular plants to colonial coenocytic and thalloid
plant-bodies; and as the group to which the higher plants are most nearly
allied.
Course 3C: Archegoniates.—The work of this course will comprise
the study of the Liverworts: the Mosses: and the Fern-like Plants. By
far the larger portion of the course will be occupied with the latter, the
anatomy and morphology of the various orders being discussed and studied
at length, together with their relations to the acquisition of the seed-habit.
Course 4C: Spermophytes.—The study of the Seed-Plants will
comprise a discussion and examination of the anatomy, both physiological
and morphological, of the various orders of Gymnosperms and of the two
great divisions of the Angiosperms: and a study of representatives, as
far as possible, of each of the great orders of the latter group: in addition,
a few representative families will be discussed and studied in detail.
II. Zoölogy.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
Course 1B: Zoölogy.—An introductory course in the morphology
and classification of both invertebrates and vertebrates. The course will
be so conducted as to afford to the student a general survey of the animal
kingdom, and to emphasize the principles involved in the formation of cell-organs,
tissues, and complex organs in the various types of animal bodies.
Lectures Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12 to 1 p. m. Laboratory periods
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9 to 11 a. m. The class is limited for the
present to thirty members.
Three courses are offered in Animal Morphology, one of which
will be given each session: each course comprises two lectures and two
laboratory periods of three hours each weekly: participation in the weekly
biological seminar is also required: the course for the year may, however,
be withdrawn if not elected by at least four students. Lectures Monday
and Wednesday from 1 to 2 p. m. Laboratory periods Tuesday and
Thursday from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Botany 1B and Zoölogy 1B are prerequisite
for either of these courses. The courses offered are as follows:
Course 2C: The Lower Invertebrates.—In this course a detailed
study will be made of animals representing various classes and orders of
Protozoa, Coelenterata, Platyhelmia, Nemertini, Nematelminthes, Trochelminthes
and Molluscoida, involving their comparative anatomy, embryology,
and their affinities. Students will be required to collect the available
material of the vicinity for class work; to make a collection of histological
preparations; and to report at regular intervals upon the progress of
their work.
Course 3C: The Higher Invertebrates.—A similar detailed study,
under similar requirements, of animals, representing various classes and
orders of Echinodermata, Mollusca, Annulata and Arthropoda.
Course 4C: The Vertebrates.—A detailed anatomical and histological
study of animals representing various classes, sub-classes, and orders
of the Chordata. The physiology of the chordate organs will be discussed.
Vertebrate embryology as represented by that of the frog and the bird
will be briefly studied. Students will be required to make collections of
local material for class room work and to make histological preparations
representing the fundamental chordate tissues.
III. General Biology.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
Course 5D: Cytology and Comparative Histology: Botany 1B,
Zoölogy 1B, and one of the advanced courses in Plant or Animal Morphology
prerequisite. This course begins with a study of the phenomena of
cell-organization and cell life in both plants and animals: this is followed
by a comparative study of the elements of structure and their embryological
development in the lower and the higher animals, or in a similar series
of plant forms; the work of each student is individually assigned in great
measure. It includes practice in the more advanced methods of technic,
and a critical discussion of the microscope and its intelligent use, as
means to the ends in view. It is accompanied by the consideration of the
fundamental laws of General Biology as founded upon cytological study.
Hours by assignment: the number is not limited.
Opportunity will be afforded to individual students for further advanced
work chiefly along the lines of this course.
A biological seminar will be conducted weekly at an hour that will
be assigned at the beginning of the session, participation in which is required
of all students in courses above Botany 1B and Zoölogy 1 B.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY.
Professor Fontaine.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
In this School two subjects are taught, Geology and Descriptive
Mineralogy. There are two courses, as follows:
Course 1B: Three lectures a week will be given throughout the
session. The design of the course is to enable the student to obtain
such a knowledge of the science of Geology as should be possessed by a
well-educated man. As full an exposition of the fundamental principles
will be given as the time will allow.
Text-Books.—Scott's Introduction to Geology, and Notes of the Professor's
lectures.
Course 2C: Course 1B prerequisite.—This course consists of two
divisions, one in Mineralogy, the other in Geology.
Mineralogy.—The course in Mineralogy closes in February.
Three lectures a week are given in it. In this course attention is paid
to crystallography, and especially to the physical properties of minerals.
In Descriptive Mineralogy the relations, geological occurrence, and history
of the individual species are made prominent.
Text-Books.—Dana's Manual of Mineralogy and Petrology. The instruction
will be in part by lectures.
Geology.—This division of the course begins after the completion
of Mineralogy in February. The more general and complicated problems
in all the branches of Geology will be dealt with in this course. As
thorough a treatment as possible will be given of Stratigraphy, Lithology,
and Paleontology. More stress will be laid on the methods of field-work
and the application of geological principles. The aim will be to give such
a knowledge of the subject as may be useful to the student in breadwinning
pursuits, or may serve as a basis for the more specialized course
required for the attainment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Text-Books.—Chamberlin and Salisbury's Geology in part. For reference: Geikie's
Text-Book of Geology. The instruction will be in part by lectures.
The advanced course in this School is intended to give the student
as large a stock of useful information as possible, to teach him methods
of investigation, and to train him in habits of observation. Original research
will be insisted on, and opportunity will be given for the student
to concentrate his efforts in some line of special study.
Topics for study will be taken from both of the subjects taught in
this School. The abundant material in the Lewis Brooks Museum, mentioned
below, gives unusual facilities for the pursuit of graduate work.
Course 3D: Descriptive Mineralogy.—The course of Mineralogy
is so selected as to give the student a good knowledge of as wide a
range of the principles as possible, and at the same time to cause him to
acquire a practical knowledge of the various mineral species. In the
practical study, the more common minerals, and those of more importance
from an economic and geologic point of view, will have preference. A
practical knowledge of the crystal forms and of the characteristic groupings
and massive forms of minerals, will be required. Special attention
will be paid to the relations of minerals, their association in nature, and
their geological occurrence. The student will be trained to determine
minerals, as far as possible, by their obvious characteristics, without the
help of tests, and practical examinations will be held, from time to time,
to test his skill. One or more these will be required.
Dana's Text-Book of Mineralogy, and Weisbach's Mineral Tables will be used;
and topics from various authors will be assigned for study in special cases.
Course 4D: Geology.—In Geology the aim will be to fit the student
for independent and original research. He will study as thoroughly
as possible the broader problems of the science, involving the knowledge
of stratigraphical principles. Special attention will be given to imparting a
practical knowledge of the various rocks, and of the animal and plant
fossils of the different eras, with the view of using them in determining
unknown formations. Stress will be laid upon field work, and the methods
of determining and describing the geology of new regions. To impart
such knowledge, the student will be required to work up some particular
region or formation, and report his results. Topics involving a knowledge
of the literature and growth of opinion in relation to particular questions
may be assigned to form the subject of theses.
Camberlin and Salisbury's Geology will be used as a text-book, and selected
books of other authors will be used when necessary.
The Lewis Brooks Museum contains collections illustrating the
main subdivisions of Natural History. Each of the collections is arranged
so as to exemplify the principles of the science, and at the same
time offers a large variety of subjects for advanced study. In Geology
the specimens show all the different kinds of rocks, classified according
to mineral character and the formation in which they occur; the collection
of fossils, plaster casts, maps, etc., is exceptionally fine, and fully
illustrates Historical Geology. In Mineralogy the principles of the science
are made plain by well-chosen suits of specimens, models of crystals, etc.
The general collection of minerals contains all the important minerals, and
fine and large collection of mounted skeletons, stuffed animals, dried specimens,
plaster casts, etc. In Botany the collections contain charts, papier-maché
models of flowers and fruits, sections of wood, etc.: the bulk
of the collection is in the form of an herbarium, selected from the most
important and interesting botanical regions of the world. In addition to
the above, a beginning has been made of a collection to illustrate the
geology and mineralogy of the State of Virginia, and this will be increased
as rapidly as possible.
These large and carefully selected collections of geological and mineralogical
objects afford unsurpassed facilities for the full illustration
of the principles taught. As free access to these collections is allowed
the student, he can find in their study an opportunity, rarely obtained, for
gaining a practical acquaintance with natural objects acquired from various
parts of the world, and chosen for their typical character. These collections
are especially useful to students pursuing advanced work in Geology
and Mineralogy.
WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.
Professor Watson.
Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Mr. Watkins.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and the equivalent of one year's work each
in General Chemistry and General Physics.
There are four courses in this School as organized at present.
Course 1B: General Geology.—A course of three(3) lectures per
week and nine (9) additional hours per week for laboratory and field
work, and private study, throughout the year. The divisions of Dynamical,
Structural, and Physiographical Geology are covered in considerable
detail. Special emphasis is given the common rock-forming minerals
and rocks, building stones and ores.
Course 2C: General Economic Geology.—Course 1B (or its equivalent)
prerequisite.—This course is designed to give a general but comprehensive
account of the origin, nature, distribution and uses of the metallic
and non-metallic products, with especial reference to those of the United
States. Lectures, collateral reading, laboratory and field work to the
amount of twelve (12) hours per week throughout the year.
Course 3D: Advanced Economic Geology.—Lectures, laboratory
and field work, reading, reports and theses. Primarily for graduates.
course is designed to supplement Course 2C by giving advanced students
an opportunity to follow out more thoroughly special topics in mining
geology. The course will necessarily vary with the needs of the individual
student.
Course 4D: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians.—
Designed primarily for graduates. Open to those students who have had
Course 2C or its equivalent. In this course the mining geology of the
region, especially that of Virginia, is covered in considerable detail. Excursions
to various parts of the region will be taken and individual reports
required. Original investigation of an assigned area, based upon
field work, is required of each student.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.
Professor Dabney.
Dr. Wayland.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, with the condition that one of the two units
of history (p. 77) elected by the candidate must be Unit A.
The following courses are offered:
Course 1B: General History.—In this course great stress is laid
upon the unity and continuity of History, although special attention is
given to those events and periods that have markedly determined the
course of historical evolution.
Text-Books.—Dow's Atlas of European History; Capes' Age of the Antonines;
Thatcher's and Schwill's Europe in the Middle Age; Thatcher's and McNeal's Source
Book for Mediæval History; Myers' The Modern Age; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant
Revolution; Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Longman's Frederick the Great and
the Seven Year's War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution; Morris's French
Revolution and First Empire.
Course 2C: English and American History: Course 1B prerequisite.—In
this higher course the principles taught in the course preceding
will be applied to a more special field; and, in order that the students may
be encouraged to exercise independent thought and judgment, they will be
required to write essays or make reports on particular topics.
Text-Books—Oman's History of England; Lee's Source Book of English History;
Gardiner's Atlas of English History; Lecky's American Revolution (edited by Woodburn);
and other works on American history to be announced later.
Only one of the two following courses will be given in any one year.
The first is broad and extensive, the second, minute and intensive.
Course 3D: Courses 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
Intellectual, Moral, Religious, and Social Development of Europe.—The
course will begin with a study of the principles of historical method based
upon the "Introduction to the Study of History" by Langlois and Seignobos;
and these principles will then be applied to the critical examination
of a number of works by such authors as Buckle, Lecky, Draper, Guizot,
Andrew D. White, Bryce, and others. In addition to critical discussions
of, and written examinations upon each of the works selected, a critical
written essay upon each of them will also be required. Required, together
with Courses 1B and 2C, of students selecting History as primary
minor subject for the Ph. D. degree.
Course 4D: Courses 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
History of the Reconstruction of the Southern States. A close study of
the sources, as well as of the secondary authorities in this period. Required,
together with Courses 1B, 2C, and 3D, of students selecting History
as major subject for the Ph. D. degree, or, together with Courses 1B
and 2C, of those selecting it as primary minor.
SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.
Professor Page (Thomas Walker).
Mr. Hipp.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
Students are advised not to take the work in Economics before their
second year in college.
Course 1B: The Principles of Economics.—A survey of the principles
of economics in the first and second terms is followed in the third
term by a study of the bearing of these principles upon present American
conditions. Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned readings, reports,
and discussions.
Course 2C: The Growth of American Industry and Commerce.—
This course attempts to show how American experience illustrates economic
principles, and how American social and political development has
been influenced by economic conditions. The work is mainly topical,
and the topics receiving chief emphasis vary from year to year.
Course 3D: A Course of Research.—In this course competent
students are guided in the intensive and methodical investigation of
selected topics and the results are presented for discussion.
LINDEN KENT MEMORIAL
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Professor Kent.
Mr. Whipple.
Mr. Arnold.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
Course 1A: The Entrance Examination (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—This
course is designed to meet the needs of students preparing
directly for professional studies and of others whose training is inadequate
for Course 2B.
I. Composition and Current Prose, with special reference to the structure
of sentences and paragraphs, composition of letters, business papers,
etc., and practice in the forms of discourse, and investigation of standard
prose. Text-books: Wooley's Handbook of English Composition and the
Atlantic Monthly.
II. Composition and American Literature. This course is based upon
the text-books, but the text will be amplified and explained by comment
and discussion. Text-books: Abernethy's American Literature, with Assigned
Readings.
III. Composition and English Literature. Text-Books: Genung's
Practical Rhetoric, Cranshaw's Making of English Literature, Huichman
and Gunmere's Lives of Great English Writers.
Frequent exercises on the black-board and in writing will be required,
and parallel reading to the amount of three hundred pages each term will
be assigned.
Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
I. English Literature by periods. Text-books, to be assigned.
II. American Literature. A discussion of the development and
present state of American prose and poetry. Text-books, to be assigned.
III. Tennyson and Nineteenth Century Poetry. Text-books, Page's
Nineteenth Century Poetry; Cambridge Edition of Tennyson.
About twelve hundred pages of parallel reading will be assigned during
the session. There will be about thirty written exercises, and three
required essays on literary topics.
Course 3B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Either
Course 2B or Course 3B may be offered as the elective from Group III.
and the other may be offered as an elective at large.
I. Literary Style. This covers Diction, Sentence, and Paragraph,
with a general discussion of the art of composition. Text-books: Genung's
Working Principles of Rhetoric, Brewster's Representative Essays in
Style, Lewes's Principles of Success in Literature.
II. Literary Criticism and Exposition. Texts: Genung's Working
Principles of Rhetoric; Winchester's Principles of Literary Criticism, etc.
III. Narration and Description. This course is collateral with II
and IV. Texts: Perry, The Study of Fiction; Barrett, Short Story
Writing; Canby, The Book of the Short Story; Baldwin, Specimens of
Description.
IV. Argumentation, Debate, and Oratory. This course is collateral
with II and III. Texts: Baker's Principles of Argumentation; Robinson's
Forensic Oratory.
V. English Poetry and Poetic Forms, with discussion of versification,
types of poetry, history of certain forms, etc. Texts: Alden's English
Verse; Gayley and Young's Principles and Progress of English Poetry;
White's Ballades and Rondeaux.
About one thousand pages of parallel reading will be assigned for the
session, and about thirty written exercises. Three essays, one each term,
will be required.
Course 4B: Journalism: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—
Theory and Practice of Journalism. This course aims to give the student
such instruction and practice in journalism as can be given outside
of a newspaper office. Emphasis will be laid on the practical work of
writing. The work will be conducted by the study of texts: class discussions;
and daily practice in writing, either within or without the class
room. The course will cover the general news story; types of journalistic
work; the organization of a paper; the historical and social aspects of
journalism; and the analysis of standard dailies.
Fall Term: What News is: the General News Story.—Purpose and
Method of the Work. A brief Review of the Principles of Writing, Punctuation,
and the preparation of Ms. Copy. Proof-reading Symbols. What
is News?—Definition: its Nature and Characteristics. Observation and
the News Sense. The News Story—parts, arrangement, nomenclature,
writing. How a Reporter Works. The general organization of the Staff.
Copy-readers and Copy-reading. The Writing of Head-lines (begun).
Standard dailies will be analyzed and compared. A series of about thirty
exercises will be written and criticised.
Texts.—Givens, John, The Making of a Newspaper; Schumann, E. L., Practical
Journalism; Luce, Writing for the Press.
Winter Term: Gathering News: the `Human Interest' and Feature
Stories.—Complete Organization and Duties of the Staff. Managing Editor.
Correspondence and Correspondents. Departments: Sports, Society,
Women's, Finance, Dramatic, Book Reviews, etc. The Art Department.
The Sunday Supplement. Feature Stories. Country Journalism. The
Mechanical Production of a Paper: Type-setting, Stereotyping, Presswork.
About twenty-five exercises, chiefly human interest stories, with at least
two Feature stories with pictures.
Texts.—To be assigned.
Spring Term: Editorial and Historical: Editorial Writing, and General
News.—Editorials: character, types, functions, analysis of. Laws of
Libel and Copyright. Advertising. The Business Departments: Subscriptions.
A brief Survey of the History and Development of the American
Press. The Social and Ethical Aspects of the Press.
About fifteen or twenty exercises. Publication of a class paper.
Texts.—To be assigned.
Course 5C: Course 2B or 3B (or the equivalent) prerequisite.—
This equivalent means that the student must have completed in some
recognized college, and with a grade of not less than 75 per cent., a course
in advanced Rhetoric, Poetics, History of English and American Literature,
and a reasonably wide course in reading. In this course there are
occasional lectures, but in general the class exercises will consist of conferences
and discussions. Independent investigation will be insisted upon,
with reports, either written or oral, from time to time. Much outside
reading is necessary. Besides these written exercises and reports, three
essays are required, one each term, which must show original research
and independent conclusions. The themes of these essays may be assigned,
or selected with the Professor's approval. Subjects to be studied in this
course for 1908-1909 are:
I. Shakespeare.
II. The Romantic Movements of the Nineteenth Century.
III. Southern Literature.
A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy may select English
Literature for his secondary minor, his primary minor, or his major
subject. For 1908-1909 the courses are as follows:
Course 6D: or secondary minor: this is the same as Course 5C
with such supplementary work, both in reading or writing, as may be
required.
Course 7D: or primary minor: The candidates, who must have
completed satisfactorily Course 6D, will pursue the following courses:
1. Colonial Literature in America; 2. Browning and his Poetry; 3. The
Drama in England since 1740; or any three of the following courses
the Professor may deem advisable, with such supplementary reading
and writing as may be prescribed:
History of Lyric Poetry.
British Essayists from Bacon to Burke.
British Essayists of the Nineteenth Century.
Literary Tendencies in the Nineteenth Century.
Victorian Poetry.
American Poets and Poetry.
Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist.
Milton and his Times.
Tennyson and the Nineteenth Century.
Myths and Traditions in English Poetry.
Dr. Johnson and his Times.
Course 8D: or major: The candidate who has completed satisfactorily
the work mapped out for the secondary minor, and the primary
minor, will select, with the Professor's approval, a subject for his dissertation,
and will then proceed to the careful investigation of his subject, and
the preparation of his thesis. Collateral reading will be prescribed and
required. A written record of all the reading done throughout these three
years will be preserved, and, with the examination and thesis, will constitute
the test of the whole Ph. D. course.
Course in Public Speaking.
Adjunct Professor Paul.
The course in public speaking organizes a new course and modifies
an existing course in the School of English Literature, and also trains
men from the Literary Societies for several intercollegiate contests.
The course deals with the theory and practice of Public Speaking.
Its aim is to prepare the student to express his thoughts and feelings
clearly and effectively before an audience. No attempt is made to give
the more elaborate discipline necessary for the public reader and impersonator.
In order that emphasis may fall upon improvement in form,
speeches from the great orators are used as material for drill work. At
each lesson, every member in the section is called in turn before the class
to render his lines and receive suggestions for further progress. The
theory is not set forth by lectures, but by comments upon the efforts of
the individual student and upon the end sought by the author of the
oration under interpretation.
The regular English course in Argumentation, if time permits, will
will deal not only with logical structure and effective tactics but also
with manner of delivery.
From the Literary Societies, by the sifting process of preliminary
trials, candidates for three oratorical and three debating contests are
chosen. The successful men will then be eligible to individual instruction
in daily rehearsals until the final competition takes place.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Lefevre.
Professor Payne.
Mr. Hodge.
Mr. M. T. Neff.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination or its equivalent. Students are advised not
to undertake the work of this School before their second session in the
College.
Course 1B: Deductive and Inductive Logic; Theory of Knowledge.—During
the first and second terms, the class will be engaged
with a study of the science of logic. The lectures will deal in an introductory
manner with the general character of the thinking process, its
laws of development, and the methods by which thought actually proceeds
to solve the problems presented to it. Special attention will be directed
to the analysis of logical arguments and to the detection of fallacies in
reasoning. The third term will be devoted to a study and critical exposition
of different Theories of Knowledge. M. W. F., 1-2. Rotunda, S. E.
Professor Lefevre.
Text-Books.—Creighton's Introductory Logic; other books to be announced.
Course 2B: Ethics.—The aim of this course is (1) to trace in
broad outline the history of actual moral practices and ideals
among mankind in primitive, ancient, and modern times; and (2)
to bring out the distinctive features of moral action and to secure an
insight into the leading principles underlying it. Some of the more
important systems of ethics will be studied for the purpose of gaining
an appreciation of the general development and different types of
theories of morality. The entire course will be directed with a view to
aiding the student in reaching a constructive result. M. W. F., 11-12.
Rotunda, S. E. Professor Lefevre.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Course 3B: General Psychology.—This course is intended to
give a general survey of the main problems, principles and method of Psychology
study in Education, Medicine, or Law. The following topics
will be treated: Structure and function of the Nervous System, Sensation,
Perception, Attention, Mental Imagery, Memory, Volition, Reasoning, Association
of Ideas, Movement and Action, Emotions, etc. These topics
will be treated from the physiological, experimental, dynamic, and descriptive
points of view. Reading of texts, lectures, discussions, and
Reports. Hours to be arranged. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Course 4C: The History of Philosophy: Course 1B, or 2B, or 3B
prerequisite. This course is intended primarily for those who wish to
know something of the history of thought and the influence which philosophical
ideas have exerted in the development of civilization. The lectures
will give a general account of philosophical speculation from its beginnings
among the Greeks to the present time. The endeavor will be
made to present the various philosophical systems in their relation to the
science and general civilization of the ages to which they belong, and to
estimate their social and political significance. A large part of the year
will be devoted to the theories and problems of modern times. Reading
of texts and commentaries, lectures, discussions, and essays. M. W. F.,
10-11. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Lefevre.
Course 5C: Social Psychology.—(Open to students who have
taken Courses 1B or 2B, or 3B, or their equivalents.) In this course,
general psychological principles will be applied to the study of the social
relations of the self, and the influences which determine feeling and action
in the individual as a member of the group, e. g. the sentiments of religious,
political, and social crowds. The attempt is made to approach
social facts from the mental side. The study of social consciousness,
as involved in the genesis and growth of social institutions:
the psychology of education; the psychology of religion; and
the evolution of social consciousness will engage the attention in this course.
Reading of texts, lectures, discussions, and reports. Hours by appointment.
Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Course 6D.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
Course 4C.) Empiricism and Rationalism. The empirical movement as
represented by Locke, Hume, and Mill, and the rationalistic movement as
represented especially by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, will be studied
with reference to their distinctive methods. Reading of texts and commentaries,
lectures, discussions, and essays. Professor Lefevre.
Course 7D.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
year will be devoted to the careful study of the Critique of Pure Reason
and the Critique of Practical Reason. Collateral reading of standard
commentaries and of selected recent literature on the subject will be
required. Special attention will be given to Kant's relation to previous
philosophical systems, to the development of his own philosophy, and to the
interrelation of his three Critiques. Reading of texts, lectures, discussions,
and reports. Professor Lefevre.
Further advanced work in Philosophy will be arranged in accordance
with the needs of individual students.
[Courses 6D and 7D will be given in alternate years.]
CURRY MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.
Professor Heck.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination or its equivalent. Students who have not
had the equivalent of the first year's work of the College are advised not
to undertake the work of the School.
Course 1B: Development of Educational Ideals.—Studied as
phases of social evolution. Special attention is given to the systems of
education in Greece and Rome; in Europe during the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, and the Reformation; in modern Germany, France, England,
and America. These systems are analysed as revealing epochal and national
ideals, the writings of individuals being studied for their contribution
to, and interpretation of, these systems. Histories and original sources
are used as texts, supplemented by parallel reading. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12 to 1: Alumni Hall, East Range.
Course 2B: Sociological Phases of Education.—A study of society
in its relation to individual development. Attention is given to the
evolution of family life, the increasing value of childhood, the educational
demands of political, industrial, and religious systems, the growth of
ethical ideals and scientific knowledge. A special study is made of social
control and of individual opportunity in their influence upon development.
Texts and parallel reading. Hours to be arranged: Alumni Hall, East
Range.
Course 3C: Principles of Education.—A summary of present
educational theory and practice. After an introductory consideration of
the method and material of educational study, the aim of education is
defined and illustrated at length. Theories of organic evolution are outlined
and discussed in their influence upon theories of education. The
psychology, curricula, and general method. The texts are supplemented
by parallel reading. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 to 11: Alumni
Hall, East Range.
Course 4C: School Administration.—A seminar study of national,
state, and city school systems; public finance and education; school buildings
and equipment; the supervision and employment of teachers; the relations
between school, home, and society. The educational systems and
policies of the Southern States are considered in detail. Texts are read
rapidly, the main emphasis being put upon parallel reading and original
investigation. Hours to be arranged: Alumni Hall, East Range.
THE JOHN B. CARY MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL
HISTORY AND LITERATURE.
Associate Professor Forrest.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The instruction in this department is planned to furnish students that
general acquaintance with the history and literature of the Bible which
should constitute a part of every liberal education.
Course 1B: Old Testament History and Literature: Course 1A
in English Literature prerequisite.—This course and Course 2B are designed
to give students a comprehensive knowledge of Hebrew history
and the literature that grew out of that history. Attention will be given
to Hebrew origins and the various periods of their history through nomadic
life, early settlement, monarchy, dissolution of the state, exile, and
restoration, together with the literature belonging to those stages of development
and experience. Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned
readings, reports and discussions.
Course 2B: New Testament History and Literature: Course 1A
in English Literature prerequisite.—A rapid study of the history and
literature of the times between the close of the Old Testament and the
opening of the New Testament will introduce students to the life and
literature of the closing period of Hebrew national history. A more
detailed study of New Testament history and literature in its relations
to the preceding period will then be made. Instruction will be given by
lectures, assigned readings, reports and discussions.
These courses will be given in alternate years, Course 1B being offered
for the session of 1909-1910.
Course 3C: Formation and Literary Value of the English Bible:
Course 1B, or Course 2B (or the equivalent of either) prerequisite.—A
study of the history of the Text and the canon will lead up to a study of
the history of the English Bible. Special attention will be given to the
various English versions that culminated in the Authorized and Revised
versions. The earlier versions will be examined, their sources will be
considered, and the literary value of both the earlier and later versions
estimated. In addition to a study by the students of these versions in original
copies or reprints, a wide range of reading will be required in the
voluminous literature of the subject, reports and papers will be called
for on assigned topics and an essay or thesis demanding original investigation
will be a part of the session's work.
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