 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
THE ACADEMIC SCHOOLS.
| EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D. | President |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. | Dean |
| FRANCIS HENRY SMITH, M. A., LL. D., | Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy |
| JOHN WILLIAM MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., | Emeritus Professor of Chemistry |
| 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 and Industrial Chemistry |
| MILTON WYLIE HUMPHREYS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Greek |
| ALBERT HENRY TUTTLE, M. Sc. | Miller Professor of Biology |
| CHARLES WILLIAM KENT, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature |
| WILLIAM HOLDING ECHOLS, B. S., C. E. | Professor of Mathematics |
| RICHARD HEATH DABNEY, M. A., Ph. D., | Corcoran Professor of History |
| RICHARD HENRY WILSON, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Romanic Languages |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Mathematics |
| THOMAS FITZ-HUGH, M. A. | Professor of Latin |
| ALBERT LEFEVRE, Ph. D., LL. D., | Corcoran Professor of Philosophy |
| WILLIAM HARRY HECK, M. A., | Curry Memorial Professor of Education |
| BRUCE RYBURN PAYNE, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Secondary Education and Psychology |
| THOMAS WALKER PAGE, Ph. D., LL. D., | James Wilson Professor of Economics |
| THOMAS LEONARD WATSON, M. S., Ph. D., | Corcoran Professor of Economic Geology |
| ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, B. S., Ph. D., | Collegiate Professor of Chemistry |
| CHARLES ALPHONSO SMITH,[1] Ph. D., LL. D., | Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English |
| JOSEPH HOEING KASTLE, M. S., Ph. D. | Professor of Chemistry |
| WILLIAM MENTZELL FORREST, A. B., | John B. Cary Memorial Professor of Biblical History and Literature |
| WILLIAM HARRISON FAULKNER, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Germanic Languages |
| — —. | William Barton Rogers Professor of Economic Geology |
| LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH HOXTON, B. S., M. A., | Associate Professor of Physics |
| WILLIAM ALLISON KEPNER, M. A., Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Biology |
| JOHN SHARSHALL GRASTY, Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Economic Geology |
| CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL, | Adjunct Professor of Public Speaking |
| DAVID VANCE GUTHRIE, M. A., Ph. D. | Adjunct Professor of Physics |
| GRAHAM EDGAR, B. S., Ph. D. | Adjunct Professor of Chemistry |
| JAMES EDWARD ROUTH, Ph. D. | Adjunct Professor of English |
| WELDON THOMAS MYERS. M. A. | Instructor in English Literature |
| JAMES SUGARS McLEMORE, M. A. | Instructor in Latin and Greek |
| ARTHUR VAUGHAN BISHOP, B. S. | Instructor in Latin |
| STEPHEN TABER, B. A. | Instructor in Geology |
| EDWARD STAPLES SMITH, M. E. | Instructor in Mathematics |
| THOMAS ELVIN DIDLAKE | Instructor in Economics |
| JOHN WILBUR WATSON, M. A. | Instructor in Chemistry |
| WILLIAM NEWTON NEFF, M. A. | Instructor in Physics |
| SAMUEL PENDLETON COWARDIN | Instructor in Latin |
| JAMES COOK BARDIN, M. D. | Instructor in Romanic Languages |
| STANLEY MATTHEWS CLEVELAND, B. A., | Instructor in Romanic Languages |
| ANGUS BLAKEY ECHOLS | Instructor in Mathematics |
| ROBERT EDMUND BEARD | Instructor in Mathematics |
| LEVI THOMAS WILSON, M. A. | Instructor in Mathematics |
| DANIEL PERKINS WOODSON, Jr. | Instructor in Chemistry |
| LESTER PATTON | Instructor in Chemistry |
| WILLIAM WALTER DOUGLAS | Instructor in History |
| ADAM GEORGE ADAM BALZ, M. A. | Instructor in Philosophy |
| CHARLES NEWMAN WUNDER, B. A. | Instructor in Astronomy |
| HARRY HAMILTON GOVER | Instructor in Astronomy |
| RUSSELL LANDRAM HADEN, B. A. | Assistant in Chemistry |
| JOSEPH GRAY DINWIDDIE | Assistant in Chemistry |
| STERLING HENRY DIGGS | Assistant in Physics |
| LANT RADER SLAVEN | Assistant in Philosophy |
The Academic Schools comprise the Schools of Languages, Mathematics,
Sciences, History, Economics, Literature, Philosophy, and Education.
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.
Term Course: A short course of three hours a week for one of the
three terms into which the academic year is divided. Such courses have
a credit value of one-third of a full course, offered as an elective-at-large
for the B. A. or for the B. S. degree, but will not be counted as any
part of a group elective.
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. McLemore.
Mr. Bishop.
Mr. Cowardin.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The four units
prescribed on page 69 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, with daily recitations of at least forty minutes
each, and it implies the use of the Roman pronunciation, the habitual
observance of quantity and accent, regular drill in grammar and prose
composition through all preparatory years, elementary reading (Viri
Romæ), Nepos (the Roman Lives), Cæsar's Gallic War, Cicero's easier
Orations, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Vergil's Æneid. 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 specially invited to the importance of beginning Greek
and at least one Romanic language for all who wish to reap the full
cultural benefit of the university courses in Latin. The Greek illumines
incomparably all parts of Latin study, which bears in turn a like relation
to the Romanic.
General Statement.—The first five courses in Latin are devoted to the
broad cultural study of the language, literature, and life of the Romans.
The culture we enjoy to-day has its source in the culture of the Greeks and
Romans. Greece is the fountain head of civilization, and Rome its universalizer
and transmitter to the modern world: thus Greek culture is
the ultimate, Roman the immediate source of all modern culture. In the
course of the instruction, therefore, the effort is made to exhibit as far
as possible the relation of Roman civilization to the Greek, on the one
hand, and to the Romanic and modern, on the other, and thus to emphasize
the unity and continuity of all human culture. Hence the importance
of the study of Greek and of at least one Romanic language is 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.
Students may enter any of the courses in Latin at the beginning
of any term of the session, and will receive full credit for the course
on completing subsequently the work of the remaining term or terms of
the course in question.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1A: The four units prescribed on page 69 for admission to
the School of Latin, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Moulton-Collar, Mather-Wheeler).
II. In Literature: Historical, Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy
of Catiline—epic, Vergil's Æneid (Books VII-XII), and Ovid's
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, private, and public life of
the Romans (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Abbott's Short History of Rome,
Johnston's Private Life of the Romans, Tighe's Roman Constitution).
Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-2; Section II, Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 1-2, Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. Bishop,
Mr. Cowardin.
Course 2B: Course 1A or its equivalent, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and biographic, Livy's Early History
of Rome (Books I-II) and Tacitus' Agricola—lyric, idyllic, and didactic,
Catullus' Odes and Vergil's Bucolics and Georgics, with study of the
lyric meters—philosophic, Cicero's De Officiis and Seneca's Moral Essays.
III. In Life: The religion and mythology of the Romans (Carter's
Religion of Numa, Fairbank's Mythology of Greece and Rome).
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.
Course 3B: Course 1A or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Either Course
2B or Course 3B may be offered as the elective from Group I, and the
other may be offered as an elective-at-large.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with oral
and written exercises (Nutting, Gildersleeve-Lodge, Bennett).
II. In Literature: Historical and descriptive, Livy's Hannibali
War (Books XXI-XXII) and Tacitus' Germania—lyric and elegiac,
Horace's Odes and The Roman Elegiac Poets, with study of the meters
of lyric and elegiac verse—critical and didactic, Cicero's De Claris
Oratoribus and Quintilian's Training of the Orator.
III. In Life: The art of the Romans (Tarbell's History of Greek
Art, Goodyear's Roman Art).
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 4C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either,
prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Bennett, Grandgent),
with oral and written exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Annals and
Cicero's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Captivi, Terence's
Andria, and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the meters of
the drama—critical, Cicero's De Oratore and Tacitus' Dialogue on the
Orators.
III. In Life: The literary life of the Romans (Mackail's Latin
Literature and Laing's Masterpiece of Latin Literature).
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.
Course 5C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.—Either
Course 4C or Course 5C may be offered as one of
the three distinct subjects required for the M. A. degree, and the other
may be offered as the fourth, or elective-at-large.
I. In Language: Science of Language and Methods of Syntax (Whitney,
Morris), with oral and written exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Histories
and Pliny's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Mostellaria, Terence's
Phormio, and Juvenal's Satires, with study of the meters of the
drama—philosophic, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura and Cicero's De Natura
Deorum.
III. In Life: The philosophic life of the Romans (Mayor's History
of Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero and Pater's Marius the
Epicurean.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 6D: Course 4C or Course 5C or the equivalent of either,
prerequisite.—This course extends through three years and is intended
for those who desire to specialize for one, two, or three years in classical
philology. It contemplates especially the needs of those who choose
Latin as their major elective for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Roman civilization is the vital 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 major elective be Latin, a respectable
familiarity with Greek is required, since the language, literature,
and life of the Romans are saturated with Greek influence. If the
candidate's major elective be Romanic, the technical Greek requirement
is waived as far as practically possible, and he is guided into the history
of the Roman popular vernacular, the common source of the Romanic
tongues, and into an acquaintance with the authors illustrating the Vulgar
Latin 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 literary
life of the Romans—history and interpretation of texts—elements of
palæography (Johnson, supplemented by Thompson), epigraphy (Lindsay,
supplemented by Egbert and Cagnat), numismatics (Gnecchi, supplemented
by Hill), topography and remains (Platner, Peterson, Huelson, Mau,
Strack, Furtwængler).
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).
Friday, Saturday, 12-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh.
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. McLemore.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
This school comprises the following courses:
For Undergraduates.
Students may enter any of the undergraduate courses in Greek at
the beginning of any term of the session and will receive full credit for
the course on completing subsequently the work of the remaining term
or terms of the course in question.
Course 1A: A course for beginners. Text-Books: White's First
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. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10,
Cabell Hall. Mr. McLemore.
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. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Mr. McLemore.
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. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall.
Professor Humphreys, Mr. McLemore.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 4C: Course 3B prerequisite.—A more advanced course, including
portions of Demosthenes, Thucydides, Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes,
Lyric Poets; also Meters, Syntax, and Exercises. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor Humphreys.
Term Course: Second Term.—New Testament Greek, with reading
of one of the Gospels. Hours by appointment. Professor Humphreys.
Term Course: Third Term.—New Testament Greek, with reading
of one of the Gospels. Hours by appointment. Professor Humphreys.
Primarily for Graduates.
Courses 5D and 6D: Course 4C prerequisite.—Designed for those
who wish to devote themselves to classical scholarship, and especially
for those who choose Greek as their major elective for the degree of
Doctor 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; Wright'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 ROMANIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Wilson.
Dr. Bardin.
Mr. Cleveland.
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, three courses in Spanish, one course in
technical and is intended to complement the doctorate work done at this
University in English and German Literature.
I. French.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1A: Beginners may take this course. There are three sections;
students may take any one of the three. 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. Text-books:
Fraser and Squair's Grammar; Mérimée, Colomba; Labiche et Martin,
Le voyage de Monsieur Perrichon; Daudet, Contes choisis; Dumas,
L'Evasion du Duc de Beaufort; Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Section I: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Section II: Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Section III: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11, S. W. Rotunda, Mr. Cleveland.
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: Gasc's Dictionary; Fraser and Squair's
Grammar; Saintsbury's History of French Literature; Dumas' MonteCristo;
Tuckerman, Simplicité; About, Le roi des montagnes; Racine,
Athalie; Hugo, Hernani; Bowen, Modern French Lyrics; Gautier's
Jettatura. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda, Professor
Wilson.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: Courses 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
littéraire 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.
II. Spanish.
For Undergraduates.
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 standpoint. A survey of the main features of the grammar,
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, Dr. Bardin.
Course 2B: Course 1A prerequisite.—The relations of the United
States with the various Latin-American Republics being manifold, this
course has been so adapted as to bring to the fore the literature that has
grown up in the great continent to the South. The aim of the course will
be to make as wide a survey of the literary achievements of South America
as is possible, and at the same time to inculcate a sympathetic appreciation
and understanding of the life and manners of our nearest foreign neighbors
who speak an alien tongue.
As far as possible, one book from each of the great Republics will be
read (excluding Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken). This reading will
be supplemented by lectures upon the growth of the literature and civilization,
from the historical point of view, of each country considered.
Attention will be given constantly to conversational Spanish, and the
peculiarities of punctuation and spelling observed in South America;
and the various colloquial and idiomatic constructions that have grown up
there will be pointed out.
Text-books to be announced. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1, S. W.
Rotunda, Dr. Bardin.
Spanish 3C: Spanish 2B prerequisite.—This course is intended to
supplement and enlarge upon the work offered in course 2B. The literature
of some one or two Latin Republics will be chosen for topic, and as
exhaustive a study made as circumstances will permit. In addition,
lectures will be given upon the growth of civilization in the countries
studied, beginning with the primitive myths of the early inhabitants and
extending, in rapid survey, to our own times. In the first term of the
course, poetry will be reviewed; in the second term, prose; and in the
final term, the drama.
The subject chosen for 1910-11 was the literature of Cuba and Mexico.
Hours by appointment. Dr. Bardin.
III. Italian.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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
of the class is directed to Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The history
of Italian Literature is studied, and also that of the Renaissance. Books:
Grandgent's Grammar; Edgren's Dictionary; Amicis, Alberto; Barrili,
Una Notte Bizzarra; Testa, L'oro e l'orpello; Goldoni, Un curioso accidents;
Capuana, Homo; d'Ancona e Bacci, Manuale della letteratura italiana
(Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet, Italian Literature; Symonds, Short
History of the Renaissance in Italy. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1,
S. W. Rotunda, Professor Wilson.
IV. Old French.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: This course is intended to complement the doctorate work
done at this University in English 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 GERMANIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Faulkner.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: in German;
the General Entrance Examination; in English Language, the General
Entrance Examination and, in addition, English Literature 1A, or its
equivalent.
The following courses are offered for the session of 1911-1912:
For Undergraduates.
German 1A: Beginners may take this course. Elementary grammar
and prose-composition; special training in pronunciation and simple conversational
German; reading of about 600 pages of German prose, with
conversational exercises and composition work in free reproduction, based
on texts read. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall.
Students entering in January, with one to two years of preliminary
training in German, may profitably register for German 1A, and will be
given credit for the work of the first term, on the successful completion
of the remaining two terms.
German 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Review
of German grammar; Deutschland in Wort and Bild (Schweitzer's Deutsches
Lesebuch für Quarta und Tertia); the Roman and the Novelle (Storm,
Keller, Sudermann); the German drama (Schiller, Hebbel, Hauptmann);
conversational exercises and composition work in free reproduction, based
on texts read, throughout the session. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11.
Cabell Hall.
Students entering in January, with three years or more of preliminary
training in German, may profitably register for German 2B, and will
receive full credit for the course by successfully completing the work of
the second and third terms of the current session, and that of the first
term in the session next ensuing.
English Language 1B: English Literature 1A (or its equivalent)
prerequisite.—Old English: Smith's Old English Grammar and Reader.
Middle English: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Old and Middle English
Literature: Lectures on the history and development of English Literature
from its beginning to 1400, with collateral reading. History of English:
Lectures on the history of the English Language; Greenough and Kittredge's
Words and their Ways in English Speech. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
German 3C: Course 2B (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—In this
course all lectures and class-work are in German. Hence students desiring
to enter the course, with advanced standing, will be required to give
satisfactory evidence of ability to understand spoken German. The work
of the course is arranged as follows:
First Term: Der deutsche Roman in seinen typischen Erscheinungen;
Second Term: Die Tragödie der Klassiker; Third Term: Goethe's Faust, I,
und II. Teil. Seminary-work: First Term: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre;
Second Term: Wallenstein; Third Term: Faust. Lectures, Tuesday
and Thursday, 10-11. Seminary, Saturday, 10-11. Cabell Hall.
Students with adequate preparation may register for any term of
this course.
Courses Primarily for Graduates.—Students desiring to elect German
as major or primary-minor subject for the Ph. D. degree, or to elect
English Language for the M. A. or the Ph. D. degrees, are requested to
confer with the professor, either personally or by letter, before the beginning
of the session in which they intend to enter the graduate school.
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.
Professor Echols.
Professor Page.
Mr. Smith.
Mr. Echols.
Mr. Beard.
Mr. Wilson.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: Mathematics
A, B and C, of the general requirements, p. 71.
In this School, as at present organized, there are ten courses. The
class in Course 1A meets in two sections.
For Undergraduates.
[Students entering January 1 may begin the study of Trigonometry
in Course 1A, or College Algebra in Course 2A. Students entering about
March 15 may begin College Algebra in Course 1A, or Elementary Analytical
Geometry in Course 2A.]
Course 1A, Sections I and II: Admission to the School prerequisite.
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 the study of the Binomial Formula, Convergence and Divergence
of 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. Section I.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10. Section II. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Page.
Course 2A: 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
systems of Coördinates, 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. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Professor Page.
Text-Books.—Venable, Legendre's Geometry, with Exercises; Loney, Trigonometry,
Part I; Murray, Spherical Trigonometry; Rietz and Crathorne, College
Algebra; Fine and Thompson, Coördinate Geometry.
In addition to the regular examination held during the session, there
will be held special examinations on the work of Courses 1A and 2A
Tuesday, September 18, to which any student registered in the School of
Mathematics will be admitted. To a student successfully passing one of
these examinations will be given a certificate of proficiency in the work
required in Course 1A or 2A. Advanced standing on the work of Course
1A or 2A will be granted a student entering from a secondary school only
after he has passed here the prescribed examination on the course in
question.
Course 3B: 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 considered, as well as their importance with regard to all further
work in mathematics, are clearly brought to view. Constant drill at the
board and frequent examination and repetition of principles are insisted
on. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor Echols.
Course 4B: This course is required of all engineering students,
Course 2A being prerequisite. All engineering students applying for
advanced standing in this course must pass a written examination on the
topics of Course 2A. The work of the course begins the analytical
geometry of the conic sections with the study of the circle or parabola
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 course less attention is given to the educational and theoretical
Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor Echols.
Text-Books.—Charles Smith, Conic Sections; Echols, Notes on Analytical
Geometry of Three Dimensions; Echols, Differential and Integral Calculus.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 5C: Course 3B 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.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. 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.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 6D: 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
homogeneous displacement. Hours by appointment. Professor Echols.
Course 7D: 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. Hours by appointment. Professor Page.
Course 8D: 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.
Hours by appointment. Professor Page.
Course 9D: A Course in Differential Equations: Course 3C prerequisite.—In
this there will be presented a course in Ordinary and Partial
Differential Equations. In the discussion of the Ordinary Differential
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. Hours by appointment. Professor
Page.
[Not more than two of the Courses 7D, 8D, 9D, are offered in one
session.]
Course 10D: 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. Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Professor Echols.
The work in Courses 6D, 7D, 8D, 9D, and 10D 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: Mathematics
3B or the equivalent.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Theoretical Mechanics: The class meets three times a
week. The topics treated in successive terms are as follows:
Fall Term.—The fundamental laws of motion, force, and energy and
their applications to the Statics of material particles and solid bodies.
Winter Term.—The dynamics of the particle and an elementary
study of moments of inertia and the dynamics of the rigid body.
Spring Term.—The fundamental laws of pressure and motion in fluids.
The principles of hydrostatics. Theoretical and practical hydraulics.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Mechanical Laboratory.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: Analytical Mechanics: The class meets three times a
week. The topics treated in successive terms are as follows:
Fall Term.—Analytical Statics, including the theory of Attractions
and the Potential.
Winter Term.—Dynamics of the particle and of systems of particles
Spring Term.—Dynamics of the rigid body. Balancing of Machines.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Mechanical Laboratory.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 3D: Mixed Mathematics: The work offered will be varied
from time to time, but the topics will be selected from the following
groups. Hours by appointment.
I. Attractions. Figure of the Earth. Higher Geodesy.
II. Theory of Elasticity.
III. Hydrodynamics.
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
Professor Stone.
Mr. Wunder.
Mr. Gaver.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Course 1A in the School of Mathematics or
its equivalent.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Astronomy: Mathematics 1A prerequisite.—
In this course are given the fundamental principles and methods of
Theoretical and Practical Astronomy.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall.
Text-Books.—Young's General Astronomy.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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. Hours by appointment. McCormick Observatory.
Course 3C: 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, pertubations, determination of a preliminary orbit. Hours by
appointment. Cabell Hall.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: 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.
Hours by appointment.
Course 5D: Theoria Motus: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B (or
its equivalent) prerequisite.—Determination of the position of an undisturbed
body from known elements, determination of the elements of an
undisturbed orbit, theory of special perturbations. Hours by appointment.
Course 6D: Celestial Mechanics: Course 3C prerequisite.—Problem
of three bodies, and theory of general perturbations. Hours by appointment.
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
computing rooms are adjoining, and contain clock, chronograph, etc., and
a working library. In a smaller building are a three-inch transit and a
six-inch equatorial.
A temporary Students' Observatory, erected in the rear of Dawson's
Row, is intended more especially for the use of students in Course 1B.
SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Associate Professor Hoxton.
Adjunct Professor Guthrie.
Mr. Neff.
Mr. Diggs.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
entrance examination, which, for this School, must include Mathematics
D1 and D2.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Physics.—This course includes Elementary
Mechanics, Sound, Light, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism. Instruction
is given by text-books and lectures accompanied by experimental demonstrations.
In addition, recitations, solution of illustrative problems, and
written reports upon quantitative laboratory work done by the student are
required. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Laboratory: Monday,
Wednesday; Section I, 9-11, Section II, 12-2, Section III, 3-5. Recitation
and unfinished Laboratory-work, same hours on Friday. Rouss Physical
Laboratory, Associate Professor Hoxton, Adjunct Professor Guthrie,
Mr. Neff, Mr. Diggs.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: Electricity and Magnetism: Course 1B and Mathematics
3B or 4B prerequisite.—The elements of the mathematical theory are developed,
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 calling for the more exact measurement
of the chief physical quantities concerned. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
1-2. Laboratory, Monday, Tuesday, 10-12, or by appointment. Rouss
Physical Laboratory. Associate Professor Hoxton. Adjunct Professor
Guthrie.
Course 3C: Optics: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B prerequisite.—The
same general remarks apply to this as to Course 2C. Hours by appointment.
Associate Professor Hoxton.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Spectroscopy: Course 3C prerequisite.—Theory and use of
the spectroscope and its application to physical and astronomical problems.
Hours by appointment. Adjunct Professor Guthrie.
[Only one of the courses 3C and 4D will be given in one session.]
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 true
also of the main lecture room, whose single skylight is controlled from
the lecture table. There is a general distribution of water over the building,
while all the rooms are supplied with steam heat, gas, and electricity.
The equipment includes an exceptionally rich set of demonstration
apparatus and a good stock of apparatus for elementary laboratory exercise.
In addition to this there is a special line of electrical and optical
instruments, a 21½-foot 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 Kastle.
Professor Bird.
Adjunct Professor Edgar.
Mr. Watson.
Mr. Patton.
Mr. Haden.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
In this School the following courses are offered:
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Chemistry.—The fundamental principles and
phenomena, of inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry are discussed,
and the foundations of analytical chemistry are dealt with at appropriate
study of chemistry is demanded. Section I, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 11-12; Section II, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Laboratory,
6 hours a week. West Range Chemical Laboratory. Professor Bird,
Adjunct Professor Edgar, Mr. Watson, Mr. Patton, and assistants.
Students entering in January, with adequate preparation, will be
admitted to Chemistry 1B, above, and will receive full credit for the
course on completing the work of the first term at some subsequent time.
Course 2B: Organic and Physical Chemistry: Course 1B (or its
equivalent) prerequisite.—The first half of the year is devoted to the
study of Organic Chemistry. The lectures and recitations are intended to
serve as an introduction to the General Subject of Organic Chemistry,
including chemical synthesis and molecular structure as illustrated by
Carbon Compounds. In the laboratory one or more compounds, representative
of the more important classes of organic substances, will be
prepared and studied experimentally.
The second half of the year is devoted to physical chemistry. The
lectures, recitations and laboratory work will include such topics as the
gas laws and the kinetic theory of gases, the properties of dilute solutions,
osmetic pressure, methods for the determination of molecular
weights, mass action, reaction velocity and equilibrium, electrolysis and
electrolytic dissociation, affinity of acids, the phase rule, etc.
These two subjects, viz.: Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry,
under Course 2B, will count as one elective towards the B. A. or B. S.
degree. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Laboratory. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 2-4. Chemical Laboratory. Professor Kastle, Adjunct Professor
Edgar.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: Historical, Theoretical and Organic Chemistry: Courses
1B and 2B (or their equivalents) prerequisite.—The work of the first
term consists of lectures and recitations on historical and theoretical
chemistry, together with laboratory work illustrative of fundamental
chemical laws, and will be found to be especially helpful to those who
expect to become teachers of Chemistry in high schools and colleges.
The work of the second and third terms consists of lectures, recitations
and laboratory work on advanced organic Chemistry. Instruction in this
subject will be based on the most recent and comprehensive treatises on the
subject and the laboratory work will include the synthesis and study of
the more important and representative organic compounds. During the
third term the student will be expected to devote himself to the thorough
study of some particular class of organic compounds and will be required
to do a limited amount of research on some chemical problem suggested
Wednesday, Friday, 2-5. Chemical Laboratory. Professor Kastle.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Courses 1B and 2B
(or their equivalents) are prerequisite.—The lectures deal with the fundamental
theories and laws of chemical action. Parallel reading in the
history of Chemistry is required. In the laboratory the study of chemical
reactions is taken up in an advanced way, and when the student has
shown proper fitness he undertakes work upon some special problem in
inorganic Chemistry. Hours by appointment. Professor Bird.
The Chemical Journal Club.
The Chemical Journal Club meets once a week, on Saturdays from
11-12 a. m., in Dr. Kastle's lecture-room, for the critical review and
discussion of various topics of interest in current chemical literature,
and of such chemical researches as may be in progress in the university.
All instructors and advanced students in chemistry are expected to
participate in these meetings and to take part in the discussions.
The privileges of the club are extended to all persons in the university
or in the vicinity of Charlottesville who are interested in the
progress of chemistry.
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Mr. Woodson.
Mr. Dinwiddie.
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 three courses, as follows:
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Qualitative Analysis: 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, recognition of Ores, 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, the examination
of potable water, coal, limestone, clay, and so on, including some
simpler quantitative determinations. Weekly written exercises are required.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Laboratory hours by appointment.
Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington, Mr. Woodson, Mr. Dinwiddie.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: Quantitative Analysis: Course 1B is prerequisite.—The
work of this course is also given in three lessons a week throughout the
session, each being followed by four hours or more of practical laboratory
work. 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. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Laboratory hours by appointment. Analytical
Laboratory. Professor Dunnington, Mr. Woodson, Mr. Dinwiddie.
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; J. H. Long's Qualitative Analysis
(3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical Manipulation; Woehler's
Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; and Assaying Notes of the
Professor.
Course 3C: Industrial Chemistry.—The work of this course is given
in three lectures a week throughout the session. A detailed study is
made of the chemical principles and processes of the more important
manufacturing industries, upon which, in large measure, depend the
development of the natural resources of the country.
Among the more important subjects discussed are: the metallurgy
of the principal METALS, the manufacture of acids, alkalies, salts, glass,
pottery and fertilizers; the preparation and preservation of FOOD, including
bread, meat, sugar, etc.; the chemical arts relating to CLOTHING
such as bleaching, dyeing and tanning; the chemistry of arts concerning
BUILDING, including the manufacture of brick, lime and cement; the
production of artificial lights and heating; soap, paper, etc.
A clear comprehension of all lines of Industrial manufacture is the
aim proposed in this course, and this is preparation needed by students
who expect to enter upon any branch of such work. Since these lectures
are designed to give some accurate information about materials with
which every one is concerned in daily life, it is judged that they will
afford a valuable addition to a general education.
The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated in different
portions of this course. There is a weekly quiz and occasional written
exercises are required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 3-4. Analytical
Laboratory. 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: W. E. Roberts-Austen's Introduction to the Study of
Metallurgy: Sadtler's Hand-Book 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.
Students who accomplish the work of classes 1B, 2C and 3C, together
with chemistry 1B, 2B and 3C, are prepared for entering upon work in
these several lines of industry.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Advanced Analytical Chemistry.—This 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, 2C and 3C in this School and Courses
1B, 2B and 3C in the School of 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 Analytical 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 main working room is furnished with worktables,
gas, water, and all proper fixtures; smaller rooms are devoted to
weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc.
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,
with a view to the elucidation of the great fundamental laws that underlie
in the phenomena 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.
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, a hand lens, a drawing pencil, and a note-book of
approved pattern. Other necessary pieces of apparatus will be issued
to each student. There is a laboratory fee for materials consumed in
connection with the work of each of the courses. Any student with adequate
preparation may enter either of the undergraduate courses in
Biology at the beginning of any term of the session, and will receive full
credit for such course on completing the work of the remaining term or
terms of the course in question, in the following session.
I. Botany.
Professor Tuttle.
For Undergraduates.
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 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.
The first term of this course deals largely with the forms of plant life
that are of importance in the management of water supplies, and is
arranged with a view to the needs of students in Sanitary Engineering.
The class is limited for the present to thirty members. Lectures, Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Laboratory, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-11.
Cabell Hall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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
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 or Zoölogy 1B is 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 Dictyoltales:
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.
For Undergraduates.
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
cel-organs, tissues, and complex organs in the various types of animal
bodies. The class is limited for the present to thirty members. Lectures,
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Laboratory, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-11. Cabell Hall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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 be
and Wednesday from 1 to 2 p. m. Laboratory periods, Tuesday and
Thursday from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Botany 1B or Zoölogy 1B is 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, their 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 organs of the Chordata 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 tissues of representatives of the group.
III. General Biology.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
For Undergraduates.
Term Course in the Principles of Biology.—A course is here offered
which is intended to afford a brief survey of some of the most significant
facts concerning organization, function, and relations of living things:
an insight into the methods of biological study: and as full discussion as
possible of the important fundamental principles deduced from such study
and the important philosophical questions arising therefrom. One lecture
and one laboratory exercise each week throughout the session. This course
may be withdrawn if not elected by at least four students. Hours by
appointment. This course will have a credit value of one-third.
Primarily for Graduates.
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
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 1B.
IV. Biology and Agriculture.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
The relations of the biological sciences to Agriculture are so manifold
and the subdivisions of the latter subject so numerous, that it would be
impossible to exhaust the discussion of either in the work of any one
year. Courses consisting in part of lectures and in part of an equivalent
amount of practical work and collateral reading will be offered yearly as
follows:
1B Botany and Agriculture: Botany 1B prerequisite.—In this course
a study will be made of the anatomy and physiology of the higher
plants, especially as related to nutrition and growth; and of the
principles of crop raising as based on the laws of plant life. Professor
Tuttle.
Text-Books.—Stevens' Plant Anatomy; Pierce's Plant Physiology: Vorhee's
Principles of Agriculture.
2B Zoölogy and Agriculture: Zoölogy 1B prerequisite.—In this course
a study will be made of the parasitic Protozoa, Worms, and Arthropods:
the Insects will be considered in their economic relations:
and the anatomy of the domestic animals examined. The relations
of animals to the soil and to plant life will be discussed. Adjunct
Professor Kepner.
Text-Books.—Osborn's Economic Zoölogy; Folsom's Entomology; Smith's
Economic Entomology; Chauveau's Anatomy of the Domestic Animals.
Candidates for a diploma of graduation in Biology and Agriculture
are required to complete the introductory courses in Botany and Zoölogy,
and one advanced course in each, and also the two courses above described.
THE CORCORAN AND ROGERS SCHOOLS OF GENERAL AND
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.
Professor Watson.
Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Mr. Taber.
Required for Admission to the Work of the Schools: The General
Entrance Examination.
There are eleven courses in the Schools as organized at present.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Geology.—Three lectures and one laboratory hour
per week throughout the session. A general discussion of dynamical,
structural, physiographical, and historical geology, with practical work
in the laboratory and excursions in the field. As full an exposition of
the fundamental principles of geology will be given as the time will
allow. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Laboratory hours by appointment.
Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Course 2B: General Physical 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. Especial emphasis is given the rock-forming minerals
and rocks, building stones, and ores. Special course for students in
Engineering. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 12-1. Laboratory, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, 10-12. Professor Watson.
Course 3B: Mineralogy.—Three hours of lectures and one laboratory
hour, throughout the year. This course is for beginners, and it serves
both as a general course in the subject, and as an introduction to more
advanced work. Especial attention is given to Crystallography, Physical
and Chemical Mineralogy, and Descriptive Mineralogy. The second portion
of the course will be devoted to Descriptive Mineralogy, including a
study of the classification, properties, modes of formation, association and
occurrence, and uses of minerals. Hours by appointment. Adjunct
Professor Grasty.
Term Course: Second Term: Determinative Mineralogy.—A practical
study of mineral species by means of blow-pipe analysis. The object of
this course is to gain familiarity with the common minerals and facility
in their identification. Six hours laboratory work per week, winter
term. Hours by appointment. Mr. Taber.
A laboratory fee of three dollars is required.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 4C: Petrology: Course 3B (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—
This course aims to give a thorough knowledge of the determination of
minerals and rocks in thin sections under the microscope. It includes:
(A) Physical Crystallography.—A full discussion of optical and microscopical
mineralogy, with especial reference to the behavior of minerals
as constituents of rock masses.
(B) Petrography.—A discussion of the microscopic structure, mineralogical
composition, genetic relations, and distribution of
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. The laboratory work
supplements the lectures, and enables the student to become familiar
with the various groups of rocks by means of the polarizing microscope.
Lectures and laboratory work to the amount of 5 hours
throughout the year. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson,
Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Course 5C: 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. Hours
by appointment. Professor Watson.
Course 6C: Geological Field Methods.—This course is designed to
familiarize the student with the methods employed and the instruments
used in making topographic and geologic maps. The structural relationships
of rocks and the proper cartographic representation of these occurrences
in nature are especially emphasized. Special course for students
in geology and engineering. Lectures and field work. Hours by appointment.
Adjunct Professor Grasty, Mr. Taber.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 7D: Advanced Geology: Course 1B and 3B prerequisite.—
This course aims 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. Especial
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 a
view to 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. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson, Adjunct
Professor Grasty.
Course 8D: Advanced Mineralogy.—Adapted to the needs of the
individual student. Properly qualified students may pursue work directed
crystal optics), chemical mineralogy (mineral or rock analysis), or
petrographic research. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson, Adjunct
Professor Grasty.
Course 9D: Advanced Economic Geology.—Lectures, laboratory and
field work, reading, reports and theses. Open to those students who have
had Course 5C or its equivalent. This course is designed to supplement
Course 5C 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. Hours by appointment.
Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Course 10D: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians.—
Open to those students who have had Course 5C 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.
Hours by appointment. Professor Watson.
GEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Review and discussion of the more important current geological
literature, and the preparation of papers on special subjects based on
field and library investigations. All instructors and advanced students
in geology are expected to take part in the discussions at these meetings.
Time to be arranged.
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 species, and many
of the rarer ones, in good specimens. Zoölogy is well illustrated by a 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 is being 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.
THE VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
The Virginia Geological Survey was established by an act of the
Legislature in March, 1908. Professor Watson was elected, by the State
Geological Commission, State Geologist and Director of the Survey, with
instructions to carry out the provisions of the act. Work is carried on
under his direction and is concerned with a study of the geology and
physical features of the State of Virginia. The varied geology of Virginia
and its diversified resources afford a most attractive field to the
investigator.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.
Professor Dabney.
Mr. Douglas.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Unit A of history (p. 72) in addition, unless
this unit is offered as a part of the General Entrance Examination.
Students with adequate preparation may enter any of the courses
in the School of History at the beginning of any term of the session,
and will receive full credit for the course on completing the work of the
remaining term or terms of the course in question during some subsequent
session.
The following courses are offered:
For Undergraduates.
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. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11.
Cabell Hall. Professor Dabney.
Text-Books.—Dow's Atlas of European History; Capes' Age of the Antonines;
Thatcher's and Schwill's Europe in the Middle Ages; 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 Years' War; Dabney's Causes
of the French Revolution; Morris's French Revolution and First Empire.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor Dabney.
Text-Books.—To be announced later.
Primarily for Graduates.
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 historical works. 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. Hours by appointment.
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. Hours by appointment.
THE JAMES WILSON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.
Professor Page (Thomas Walker).
Mr. Didlake.
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.
For Undergraduates.
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
reports, and discussions. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Cabell
Hall. Professor Page.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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. This course
alternates with Course 3C and will not be given in 1911-12.
Course 3C: Public Finance, Money and Banking.—The first term
of the session deals with public finance, emphasizing the principles of
taxation; the second term takes up the financial history of the United
States; and the third term is devoted to a study of money and banking.
Students may register for one or more terms of this course at their
discretion. The course alternates with 2C, and will be given in 1911-12
Hours by appointment. Cabell Hall. Professor Page.
Primarily for Graduates.
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. Hours by appointment.
Professor Page.
LINDEN KENT MEMORIAL
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Professor Kent.
Mr. Myers.
Mr. Scott.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
For Undergraduates.
Student with adequate preparation may enter any of the undergraduates
courses in the School of English Literature at the beginning
of any term of the session, and will receive full credit for course on completing
the work of the remaining term or terms of the course in question
during some subsequent session.
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 college students who have had a
four year high school course.
Section I.—Recommended to students who have satisfied the minimum
requirements for entrance.
I. Rhetoric and Composition.—A thorough review of the principles
of rhetoric; and constant practice in composition, with special attention
to letter-writing, abstract, paraphrase, and construction of the paragraph.
Text-books: Carpenter's Rhetoric and English Composition; Dawson's
Great English Letter-Writers.
II. Composition and American Literature.—Description and Narration;
History of American Literature, with class and parallel reading
of prose and poetry. Text-books: Cairne's Forms of Discourse; Abernethy's
History of American Literature; Long's Selections from American
Poets.
III. Composition and English Literature.—Exposition and Argumentation;
History of English Literature, with class and parallel reading
of prose and poetry. Text-books: Cairne's Forms of Discourse; Halleck's
English Literature; Pancoast's Standard English Prose and Standard
English Poetry.
Parallel reading and written exercises are required throughout the
session. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Mr. Myers.
Section II.—Recommended to students with good preparatory training
in English and especially those who expect to pursue further courses
in English Literature.
I. Advanced Composition.—Theory and Structure of the paragraph;
description and narration; composition of the paragraph and of longer
discourse, and investigation of standard prose. Text-books: Scott and
Denney's Paragraph-Writing (Revised Edition), or Nutter, Hersey, and
Greenough's Specimens of Prose Composition.
II. Composition and American Literature.—Exposition, and History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and poetry.
Text-books: Scott and Denney's Paragraph-Writing; Trent's American
Literature; Long's American Poetry.
Parallel reading in prose and poetry is required.
III. Composition and English Literature. — Argumentation, and
History of English Literature. Critical study of English prose and
poetry. Text-books: Scott and Denney's Paragraph-Writing; Long's
English Literature; Pancoast's Standard English Prose and Standard
English Poetry.
Parallel reading required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Mr. Myers.
Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite and Section II
of IA strongly recommended.
I. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century literature with closer study
of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, and Bunyan.
II. Eighteenth Century literature with the development of prose
from Defoe to Burke, and the transition from classicism to romanticism
in poetry.
III. Nineteenth Century literature with closer study of the essayists
and the poets.
Text-books will be assigned at the beginning of each term.
About fifteen hundred pages of parallel reading, thirty written
exercises, and three essays, one each term, will be required. Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.
Course 3B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
I. Advanced Rhetoric and Composition with special study of the
structure of modern prose as exemplified mainly in the essay and short
story. Text-books: Lewes's Principles of Success in Literature; Genung's
Working Principles of Rhetoric; The Atlantic Monthly; and Stevenson's
Essays.
II. Description, with illustrations in poetry and prose.
Narration, with special study of the short story and the biographical
sketch.
Exposition, with especial study of literary criticism as presented in
the essay.
Text-books: Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric; Winchester's
Principles of Literary Criticism; Percy's Study of Prose Fiction.
III. Oratory and its relations to Argumentation and Persuasion.
Poetry and Poetic Forms.
Text-books: Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric; Gayley and
Young's Principles and Progress of English Poetry; Alden's English
Verse; and the professor's Notes.
About twelve hundred pages of parallel reading, thirty-five written
exercises, and three essays, one each term, will be required. Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.
Course 4B: Journalism: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
This course omitted for the session of 1910-11.
May be reinstated for the session of 1911-12.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 5C: Course 2B or 3B (or the equivalent) prerequisite. In
this course there are occasional lectures, but in general the class meetings,
will be given up to discussion and conferences. Independent investigation
time. Much outside reading is necessary. Besides written exercises and
reports three essays are required, one each term, which must show original
research and independent conclusions. For session 1911-12.
I. Shakespeare.
II. Dr. Johnson and his Times.
III. Nineteenth Century Poetry, especially Browning.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 6D: or secondary minor. This is the same as 5C with such
supplementary work both in reading or writing, as may be required.
Course 7D: or primary minor. The candidate for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy who has completed satisfactorily Course 6D, will
pursue such courses as the professor may prescribe.
Course 8D: or major. The candidate who has successfully completed
the work of Course 7D, will devote the larger part of his time to the
careful investigation of the subject selected for his dissertation and the
preparation of his thesis. In addition he will meet the professor three
hours a week for conference and the pursuit of such courses as may be
outlined to fit the candidate's peculiar needs.
II. Public Speaking.
Adjunct Professor Paul.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: English Literature 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
I. Principles of Argumentation and Debating: analysis of the
proposition; evidence; brief-drawing; presentation.
II. Content and Delivery of Public Addresses:
(a) types of oral discourse; analysis of audiences; selection of
effective material; oratorical style.
(b) individual drill in platform delivery; class drill in vocal and
physical technique.
III. Practical debating: opposing teams (a) study an assigned
public question, (b) draw briefs, (c) write forensics, (d) debate before
the class.
Membership of sections is limited to a minimum of eight and a
maximum of sixteen. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Jefferson Hall.
Drills in delivery (II b) require six additional periods per week during
the winter term; hours to be arranged with the class.
THE EDGAR ALLAN POE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.
Professor Smith.
Adjunct Professor Routh.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination and in addition English Literature 1A or its
equivalent.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: The Short Story, the Essay, and the Oration as Types
of Literature: English Literature 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—
These three dominant types of prose literature will be studied both in
their origins and in their structural development. Representative specimens
will be analyzed and readings assigned. Plots will be suggested
for original short stories, and themes for essays and orations. Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Cabell Hall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: American Literature: English Literature 2B or 3B (or
the equivalent of either) prerequisite.—The general theme of this course
will be the Americanism of American literature. The attempt will also
be made to appraise the contributions of the different sections of the
country to the growth of a national spirit and to the formation of national
ideals. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall.
THE JOHN B. CARY MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL
HISTORY AND LITERATURE.
Professor Forrest.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination and, in addition, English Literature 1A or its
equivalent.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Old Testament History and Literature: English Literature
1A 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,
with the literature belonging to those stages of development and experience.
Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned readings, reports and
discussions. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Madison Hall.
Course 2B: New Testament History and Literature: English Literature
1A 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 relation to the preceding period will
then be made. Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned readings,
reports and discussions. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Madison
Hall.
But one of these courses will be given each year, the course for any
session being determined by the choice of the class.
Term Course, Second Term: The Literature of Hebrew Prophecy:
English Literature 1A prerequisite.—A study of the Literary Prophets
of the Old Testament with special reference to their literary form, and
the formation of a correct style in written and spoken discourse. Hours
by appointment. Madison Hall.
Term Course, Third Term: The Wisdom Literature of the Hebrews:
English Literature 1A prerequisite.—A study of the writings of the Wise
Men of Israel, with special reference to literary form, and political and
social philosophy. Hours by appointment. Madison Hall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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 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. Hours by appointment.
Madison Hall. Further advanced work in Biblical History and Literature
may be arranged to meet the needs of students.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Lefevre.
Professor Payne.
Mr. Bale.
Mr. Slaven.
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.
For Undergraduates.
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. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 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. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 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 methods of Psychology
either as a part of a liberal education or as preparation for professional
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
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 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. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Hours to be arranged.
Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Primarily for Graduates.
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
Course 4C.) The Critical Philosophy of Kant. The greater part of the
year will be devoted to the careful study of the Critique of Pure Reason
and the Critique of Practical Reason. Collateral reading of standard
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.]
THE 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.
For Undergraduates.
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. Place and hours to be arranged.
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. Place and hours to be arranged.
Students may enter this course at the beginning of the second term, and
will receive full credit for the course on completing the work of the first
term during some subsequent session.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
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 second
psychology, curricula, and general method. The texts are supplemented
by parallel reading.
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.
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