 | University of Virginia record February, 1910 |  |
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 |
| NOAH KNOWLES DAVIS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy |
| JOHN WILLIAM MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., | Emeritus Professor of Chemistry |
| JAMES ALBERT HARRISON, L. H. D., LL. D., | Emeritus Professor of Teutonic Languages |
| WILLIAM MORRIS FONTAINE, M. A., | Corcoran Professor of Natural History and Geology |
| ORMOND STONE, M. A., | Professor of Practical Astronomy |
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, LL. D., | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| FRANCIS PERRY DUNNINGTON, B. S., C. E., | Professor of Analytical and Industrial Chemistry |
| MILTON WYLIE HUMPHREYS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Greek |
| ALBERT HENRY TUTTLE, M. S., | 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., | William Barton Rogers 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., | Associate Professor of Germanic Languages |
| LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH HOXTON, B. S., M. A., | Associate Professor of Physics |
| EDWIN PRESTON DARGAN, Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Romanic Languages |
| WILLIAM ALLISON KEPNER, M. A., Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Biology |
| JOHN SHARSHALL GRASTY,[2] Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Economic Geology |
| CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL, | Adjunct Professor of Public Speaking |
| DAVID VANCE GUTHRIE, M. A., Ph. D., | Instructor in Physics |
| GRAHAM EDGAR, B. S., Ph. D., | Instructor in Chemistry |
| WELDON THOMAS MYERS, M. A., | Instructor in English Literature |
| JOHN CLARENCE HIPP, M. A., | Instructor in Economics |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON WERTENBAKER, M. A., | Instructor in History |
| ROBERT CECIL BEALE, M. A., | Instructor in English Literature |
| MATTHEW THOMPSON McCLURE, M. A., | Instructor in Philosophy |
| JAMES BROOKES SMITH, M. A., | Instructor in Astronomy |
| ALBERT RONALD MERZ, B. S., | Instructor in Chemistry |
| JAMES SUGARS McLEMORE, B. A., | Instructor in Latin |
| CHARLES WATSON GIVENS, B. A., | Instructor in Mathematics |
| HEBER MICHAEL HAYS, B. A., | Instructor in Greek |
| STEPHEN TABER, B. A., | Instructor in Economic Geology |
| ARTHUR VAUGHAN BISHOP, B. S., | Instructor in Latin |
| EDWARD STAPLES SMITH, M. E., | Instructor in Mathematics |
| RALPH ELMER WILSON, B. A., | Instructor in Astronomy |
| THOMAS ELVIN DIDLAKE, | Instructor in Mathematics |
| JAMES VASS BROOKE, | Instructor in Mathematics |
| JAMES KERR, | Instructor in Latin |
| JOHN WILBUR WATSON, | Instructor in Chemistry |
| WILLIAM NEWTON NEFF, M. A., | Assistant in Physics |
| STANLEY REEVES, B. A., | Assistant in Physics |
| MITCHELL TABB NEFF, | Assistant in Philosophy |
| LESTER PATTON, | Assistant in Chemistry |
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. Kerr.
Mr. Bishop.
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 today 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, public, and private life
of the Romans (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Abbott's Short History of
Rome, Greenidge's Roman Public Life, Johnston's Private Life of the
Romans).
Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-2, Section II, Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore,
Mr. Kerr, Mr. Bishop.
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, Mr. Kerr.
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 Hannibalic
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
Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore, Mr. Kerr.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 4C: Course 2B or Course 3B or the equivalent of either,
prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Cases and Moods (Peters), 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 Masterpieces 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: History of the Latin Language (Bennett,
Grandgent), 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 His-
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. Hays.
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. Hays.
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.
Hays.
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. Hays.
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
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.
Adjunct Professor Dargan.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
French, Old French, Spanish, and Italian are taught in the
school. There are three courses in French, two courses in Spanish,
one course in Italian, and one course in Old French. The course in
Old French is technical and is intended to complement the doctorate
work done at this University in English and German Literature.
I. French.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1A: Beginners may take this course. Elementary grammar
is reviewed; the irregular verb is considered at length; intermediary
texts are read; stress is laid upon pronunciation; exercises in
dictation and in composition occupy one-third of the time throughout
the year Text-books: Fraser and Squair's Grammar; Mérimée,
Colomba; Pailleron, Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie; Daudet, Contes choisis;
Dumas, L'Evasion du Duc de Beaufort; Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct
Professor Dargan.
Course 2B: Course 1A prerequisite, or its equivalent.—The novel,
drama, and lyric of the Nineteenth Century are touched upon; the
subjunctive mood is studied; oral exercises are used; the history of
French Literature is examined. Books: Gasc's Dictionary; Fraser
and Squair's Grammar; Saintsbury's History of French Literature;
Dumas' Monte-Cristo; 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: Course 1A and 2B prerequisite.—Forty lectures are devoted
to the interpretation of Modern French prose; twenty lectures
to defining the tendencies of Modern French fiction; and forty lectures
to an appreciation of France's place in civilization. Books:
Nodier, Contes; Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris; Sand, Indiana; Pellissier,
Le mouvement littérarie du XIXe Siécle; Balzac, La cousine Bette;
Daudet, Sapho; Flaubert, Tentation de Saint Antoine; Bazin, La terre
qui meurt; Bourget, Le disciple; France, Silvestre Bonnard; Foncin, Le
Pays de France. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda,
Professor Wilson, Adjunct Professor Dargan.
II. Spanish.
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 stand-point. A survey of the main features of
the grammar together with composition and the reading of modern
texts constitute the course. Dictation and other oral exercises will
further the student's knowledge of colloquial Spanish. Text-books:
Hill's and Ford's Grammar, Carrión and Vital Aza, Zaragüeta; Valera
Pepita Jiménez, Alarcón, El Sombrero de tres Picos; Taboada, Cuentos
Alegres. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct
Professor Dargan.
Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.—The study
of the drama and novel of modern Spain will be continued. Two
works of the classical age will be read, and the history of Spanish
Literature studied. An advanced grammar and a conversational
Method will be taken up. Composition and oral work will occupy
one-third of the time. Text-books: Ybarra, Practical Spanish Method;
Ramsey, Text-Book of Modern Spanish; Appleton's Dictionary; FitzMaurice
Kelly, History of Spanish Literature; Tamayo y Baus, Un drama
nuevo; Galdós, Dona Perfecta; Valdés, José; Pereda, Pedro Sánchez;
Calderón, El Mágico prodigioso; Cervantes, Don Quijote. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 12-1, S. W. Rotunda, Adjunct Professor Dargan.
III. Italian.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: French 1A and 2B or Spanish 1A or 2B prerequisite.—
One course is offered, for which no previous knowledge of Italian is required.
and then through a series of graded texts to the point where
Modern Italian is read with ease. Several of the more important
monuments of the Nineteenth Century are read and discussed, after
which the attention of the class is directed to Dante, Petrarch, and
Boccaccio. The history of Italian Literature is studied, and also that
of the Renaissance. Books: Grandgent's Grammar; Edgren's Dictionary;
Amicis, Alberto; Testa, L'oro e l'orpello; Goldoni, Un curioso
accidente; Capuana, Homo; Bowen, Italian Reader; d'Ancona e Bacci,
Manuale della letteratura italiana (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio); Garnet,
Italian Literature; Symonds, Short History of the Renaissance in Italy;
Barrili, Una Notte Bizzarra. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1, S. W.
Rotunda, Professor Wilson.
IV. Old French.
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.
Associate 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 1910-1911:
For Undergraduates.
German 1A: Beginners may take this course. Elementary
grammar and prose-composition; special training in pronunciation and
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, with written exercises illustrating the chief
difficulties of the language, as a basis; Deutschland in Wort and
Bild (Schweitzer's Deutsches Lesebuch für Quarta und Tertia);
German Lyric and Ballad Poetry since 1730; 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 Engish
Literature: Lectures on the history and development of English
Literature from its beginning to 1400, with collateral reading. History
of English: Emerson's 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 Undergratuates.
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
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. degree 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. Givens.
Mr. Brooke.
Mr. Didlake.
Mr. Smith.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: Mathematics
A, B and C, of the general entrance requirements, p. 71.
In this School, as at present organized, there are nine 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
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 is devoted, the class begins with a study of the Cartesian
and polar systems of Coördinates, with numerous exercises in the
grapical 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;
Loney, Analytical 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 on the first day of each session, to which any student registered
in the School of Mathematics will be admitted. To a student successfully
passing one of these examinations will be given a certificate of
proficiency in the work required in Courses 1A or 2A.
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
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, 11-12. Cabell
Hall. Professor Echols.
Course 4B: This course is required of all engineering students,
the Course 2A, being prerequisite. All engineering students applying
for advanced study in this course must pass a written examination
on the topics of the Course 2A. The work of the course begins the
analytical geometry of the conic sections with the study of the circle
and takes up the Differential Calculus early in November, concluding
it in March. The remainder of the session is devoted to the Integral
Calculus. In this course less attention is given to the educational
and theoretical value of Mathematics and more to the utilitarian
aspect. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor
Echols.
Text-Books.—Charles Smith, Conic Sections; Notes on Analytical Geometry of
Three Dimensions; Echols, Differential and Integral Calculus.
Special Course in Analytical Geometry. A special course in
Analytical Geometry, repeating the work of the first term of Course
3B above, is given, beginning in January, and running for two hours
a week till the close of the session. Hours by appointment. Professor
Echols.
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,
12-1. 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
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.]
SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
Professor Thornton.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
entrance examination, plus Mathematics 1A.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Mechanics: This class meets three times
a week. The Fall Term is devoted to a preliminary study of General
Mechanics, in which the fundamental doctrines of motion, force, and
energy are discussed and applied to the simpler problems of the
Dynamics of a Particle, the Statics of Particles and Rigid Bodies,
and the Dynamics of Revolving and Rolling Solids.
In the Winter Term the methods of Graphical Statics are studied
and applied to the analysis of the simpler forms of roofs, bridges,
beams, and masonry structures. The elementary ideas of the
Strength of Materials are also taught.
The Spring Term is given to the study of Hydrostatics, with
simple problems on the pressure of water and of air, and their applications
in the construction and use of the barometer, the hydrometer,
the hydrostatic press, and so on. The elements of Hydraulics are
also taught.
For the successful pursuit of this course the class in Mathematics
3B must be taken parallel with it, unless the student has already had
the equivalent training. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 1-2. Mechanical
Laboratory.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: Analytical Mechanics: The class meets three times
a week and makes a systematic study of analytical mechanics.
Mechanics 1B and Mathematics 2B give the necessary preliminary
training. The Fall Term deals with Analytical Statics; the Winter
Term with the Dynamics of a Particle; the Spring Term with the
Dynamics of a Rigid Body. The fundamental principles of the
science are applied not only to the classical problems of centers of
gravity, moments of inertia, harmonic motion, projectile motion,
planetary motion, and so on; but also to questions drawn from the
Kinematics of Machines, the Dynamics of the Steam Engine, the
Balancing of Single and Coupled Engines, and others arising in the
applications of Mathematics to Engineering. Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, 11-12. Mechanical Laboratory.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Mixed Mathematics. The class will meet three
hours a week for reports, conferences and lectures. Mechanics 2C
and Mathematics 5C give the necessary preliminary training. A
reading knowledge of both French and German will be needed. The
work will be varied from year to year, being selected from the following
great subdivisions.
I. Dynamics of the Rigid Body and of Material Systems.
II. Dynamics of Fluids.
III. Theory of Elasticity and of Statically Indeterminate Structures.
IV. Attractions, Figure of the Earth and Higher Geodesy.
Hours by appointment.
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
Professor Stone.
Mr. Smith.
Mr. Wilson.
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.—
The primary aim of this course is to give such a knowledge of the
facts, principles, and methods of Astronomy as every well-educated
person should possess.
The instruction is given by oral examinations, by lectures, and
by the assignment of problems. The mental discipline of the student
is kept constantly in view, and an earnest effort is made to
create a habit of clear and logical thinking. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall.
Text-Book.—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: Theoria Motus: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B (or
its equivalent) prerequisite.—Formation and integration of the differential
equations of motion for an undisturbed body, determination of
the position of a planet from known elements, of an elliptic orbit
from three complete observations, of an orbit from four observations
of which only two are complete, of an orbit from any number of
observations employing the method of least squares. Hours by appointment.
Cabell Hall.
Course 4C: Celestial Mechanics: Course 1B and Mathematics 2B
(or its equivalent) prerequisite.—The principal subjects considered are
rectilinear motion, central forces, potential, problems of two, three
and n bodies, perturbations, determination of a preliminary orbit.
Hours by appointment. Cabell Hall.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 5D: Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Course 2C prerequisite.—Determination
of the positions of the fixed stars, preparation
of star catalogues, statistical study of the structure of the sidereal
universe. Hours by appointment.
Course 6D: Celestial Mechanics: Course 4C prerequisite.—Problem
of three bodies, and theory of perturbations. Hours by appointment.
Course 7D: Lunar Theory: Course 4C prerequisite.—Hours by
appointment.
Course 8D: Recent Advances in Celestial Mechanics: Course
5D prerequisite.—Researches of Hill, Newcomb, Glydén, Poincaré, and
others. 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 Fauth transit and a four-inch Kahler equatorial.
A temporary Students' Observatory has been recently erected in
the rear of Dawson's Row, and is intended more especially for the
use of students in Course 1B.
SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Associate Professor Hoxton.
Dr. Guthrie.
Mr. Reeves.
Mr. Neff.
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
demonstrations. In addition, recitations, solution of illustrative
numerical 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, Dr. Guthrie, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Neff.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: Electricity and Magnetism: Course 1B and Mathematics
2B prerequisite.—The elements of the mathematical theory are developed,
making free use of the methods of the calculus. The lectures
begin, 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
here dealt with. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Laboratory,
Monday, Tuesday, 10-12, or by appointment. Rouss Physical
Laboratory. Associate Professor Hoxton, Dr. 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. Dr. 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, besides that for elementary practical work and
an unusually rich stock of apparatus for lecture experiments in general
physics, includes a special line of electrical and optical instruments,
a 21½ ft. concave grating with Rowland mounting, photographic
dark room, liquid-air plant, and storage battery, and a
machine shop for the repair and building of physical apparatus. For
advanced practical work in some lines the facilities offered are exceptional.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
Professor Kastle.
Professor Bird.
Dr. Edgar.
Mr. Merz.
Mr. Watson.
Mr. Patton.
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 places. Most of the time is devoted to inorganic phenomena.
No previous 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, Mr. Merz, Mr. Watson, 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 in some subsequent
session.
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
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,
Tuesday, Thursday, 2-4. Chemical Laboratory. Professor Kastle,
Dr. Edgar.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: Historical, Theoretical and Organic Chemistry:
Courses 1B and 2B (or its equivalent) are 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 problems suggested
by the instructor. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10. Laboratory,
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2-5. Chemical Laboratory. Professor
Kastle.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Course 1B and 2B
(or their equivalent) 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.
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. Chemical Laboratory. Professor
Dunnington, Mr. Woodson.
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
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.
The Laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during
all the working hours of the day.
Students may register either for the first course, or for both
courses at the same time; candidates for the M. A. elective are required
to complete both courses. Those who accomplish this are
prepared for work as Analytical Chemists, Assayers, Druggists, or
Teachers of Chemistry.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius' Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis, A. I. Cohn; Olsen's Quantitative Chemical Analysis;
Venable's Qualitative Analysis (3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical
Manipulation; Woehler's Examples for Practice in Chemical Analysis; Foye's HandBook
of Mineralogy.
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 of human life, 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.
The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated of 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
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 work-tables, gas, water, and all proper fixtures; smaller
rooms are devoted to weighing, evaporations, assaying, etc., and all
requisite apparatus, chemicals, minerals, materials for analysis, etc.,
are kept constantly supplied by home purchases and importation.
MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The Biological sciences are here studied chiefly from a morphological
given to the histology, and as far as possible to the cytology and to
the life-histories (both ontogenetic and phylogenetic) of the organisms
studied, especially in the advanced courses in each of the two principal
sciences, with a view to the elucidation of the great fundamental
laws that underlie 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, 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. Students with adequate
preparation may enter any of the undergraduate courses in
Biology at the beginning of any term of the session, and will receive
full credit for courses on completing the work of the remaining term
or terms of the course in question, of some subsequent 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
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 seminar is also required: the course for the year
may, however, be withdrawn if not elected by at least four students.
Lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 2 p. m.; laboratory periods,
Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Botany 1B
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: Zoology.—An introductory course in the morphology
and classification of both invertebrates and vertebrates. The course
the animal kingdom, and to emphasize the principles involved in the
formation of cell-organs, tissues, and complex organs in the various
types of animal bodies. The class is limited for the present to
thirty members. 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, however, be withdrawn if not elected by at least four students.
Lectures, Monday and Wednesday from 1 to 2 p. m. Laboratory periods,
Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Botany 1B 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,
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 chordate
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 a
full discussion as possible of the important fundamental principles deduced
from such study and the important philosophical question
arising therefrom. One lecture and one laboratory exercise each week
throughout the session. 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 development in the lower and the higher animals, or in
a similar series of plant form; 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
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.
Tet-Books.—Stevens' Plant Anatomy: Pierce's Plant Physiology: Vorhee's Principles
of Agriculture.
2B Zoology 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; Chauveau's Anatomy
of the Domestic Animals.
Candidates for a diploma of graduation in Biology and Agriculture
are required to complete the courses in Botany, Zoölogy, and
one advanced course in each, and also the courses above described.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY AND
GEOLOGY.
Professor Fontaine.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
In this School two subjects are taught, Geology and Descriptive
Mineralogy. There are two courses, as follows:
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Three lectures a week will be given throughout the
session. The design of the course is to enable the student to obtain
such a knowledge of the science of Geology as should be possessed
by a well-educated man. As full an exposition of the fundamental
principles will be given as the time will allow. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-10. Brooks Museum.
Text-Books.—Scott's Introduction to Geology, and Notes of the Professor's lectures.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 2C: Course 1B prerequisite.—This course consists of two
divisions, one in Mineralogy, the other in Geology.
Mineralogy.—The course in Mineralogy closes in February.
Three lectures a week are given in it. In this course attention is
paid to crystallography, and especially to the physical properties of
minerals. In Descriptive Mineralogy the relations, geological occurrence,
and history of the individual species are made prominent.
Text-Books.—Dana's Manual of Mineralogy and Petrology. The introduction will
be in part by lectures.
Geology.—This division of the course begins after the completion
of Mineralogy in February. The more general and complicated
problems in all the branches of Geology will be dealt with in this
course. As thorough a treatment as possible will be given of Stratigraphy,
Lithology, and Paleontology. More stress will be laid on the
methods of field-work and the application of geological principles.
The aim will be to give such a knowledge of the subject as may be
useful to the student in bread-winning pursuits, or may serve as a
basis for the more specialized course required for the attainment of
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
9-10. Brooks Museum.
Text-Books.—Chamberlin and Salisbury's Geology in part. For reference: Geikie's
Text-Book of Geology. The Instruction will be in part by lectures.
Primarily for Graduates.
The advanced courses in this School are intended to give the
student as large a stock of useful information as possible, to teach
him methods of investigation, and to train him in habits of observation.
Original research will be insisted on, and opportunity will be
given for the student to concentrate his efforts in some line of special
study.
Topics for study will be taken from both of the subjects taught
in this School. The abundant material in the Lewis Brooks Museum,
mentioned below, gives unusual facilities for the pursuit of graduate
work.
Course 3D: Descriptive Mineralogy.—The course of Mineralogy
is so selected as to give the student a good knowledge of as wide a
range of the principles as possible, and at the same time to cause him
to acquire a practical knowledge of the various mineral species. In
the practical study, the more common minerals, and those of more
preference. A practical knowledge of the crystal forms and of the
characteristic groupings and massive forms of minerals, will be required.
Special attention will be paid to the relations of minerals,
their association in nature, and their geological occurrence. The
student will be trained to determine minerals, as far as possible, by
their obvious characteristics, without the help of tests, and practical
examinations will be held, from time to time, to test his skill. One
or more theses will be required. Hours by appointment.
Dana's Text-Book of Mineralogy, and Weisbach's Mineral Tables will be used;
and topics from various authors will be assigned for study in special cases.
Course 4D: Geology.—In Geology the aim will be to fit the
student for independent and original research. He will study as
thoroughly as possible the broader problems of the science, involving
the knowledge of stratigraphical principles. Special attention
will be given to imparting a practical knowledge of the various
rocks, and of the animal and plant fossils of the different eras, with
the view of using them in determining unknown formations. Stress
will be laid upon field work, and the methods of determining and
describing the geology of new regions. To impart such knowledge,
the student will be required to work up some particular region or
formation, and report his results. Topics involving a knowledge of
the literature and growth of opinion in relation to particular questions
may be assigned to form the subject of theses. Hours by appointment.
Chamberlin and Salisbury's Geology will be used as a text-book, and selected books
of other authors will be used when necessary.
The Lewis Brooks Museum contains collections illustrating the
main subdivisions of Natural History. Each of the collections is
arranged so as to exemplify the principles of the science, and at the
same time offers a large variety of subjects for advanced study. In
Geology the specimens show all the different kinds of rocks, classified
according to mineral character and the formation in which they
occur; the collection of fossils, plaster casts, maps, etc., is exceptionally
fine, and fully illustrates Historical Geology. In Mineralogy
the principles of the science are made plain by well-chosen suits of
specimens, models of crystals, etc. The general collection of minerals
contains all the important minerals, and 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
collection to illustrate the geology and mineralogy of the State of
Virginia, and this will be increased as rapidly as possible.
These large and carefully selected collections of geological and
mineralogical objects afford unsurpassed facilities for the full illustration
of the principles taught. As free access to these collections
is allowed the student, he can find in their study an opportunity,
rarely obtained, for gaining a practical acquaintance with natural
objects acquired from various parts of the world, and chosen for
their typical character. These collections are especially useful to
students pursuing advanced work in Geology and Mineralogy.
WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC
GEOLOGY.
Professor Watson.
Adjunct Professor Grasty.[3]
Mr. Taber.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and the equivalent of one year's work
each in General Chemistry and General Physics.
There are five courses in this School as organized at present.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: General Geology.—A course of three (3) lectures
per week and nine (9) additional hours per week for laboratory and
field work, and private study, throughout the year. The divisions
of Dynamical, Structural, and Physiographical Geology are covered
in considerable detail. Special emphasis is given the common rockforming
minerals and rocks, building stones and ores. Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, 12-1. Laboratory. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
10-12, 1-2. Brooks Museum. Professor Watson.
Term Course: Second Term: Determinative Mineralogy.—A
practical study of mineral species by means of blowpipe 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.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 3C: General Economic Geology.—Course 1B (or its equivalent)
prerequisite.—This course is designed to give a general but
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.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 4D: Advanced Economic Geology.—Lectures, laboratory
and field work, reading, reports and theses. Primarily for graduates.
Open to those students who have had Course 3C or its equivalent.
This course is designed to supplement Course 3C 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.
Course 5D: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians.—
Designed primarily for graduates. Open to those students who have
had Course 3C 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.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.
Professor Dabney.
Mr. Wertenbaker.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Unit A of history (p. 71) 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
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 Age; Thatcher's and McNeal's Source
Book for Mediæval History; Myers' The Modern Age; Seebohm's Era of the Protestant
Revolution; Gardiner's Thirty Years' War; Longman's Frederick the Great and
the Seven Year's War; Dabney's Causes of the French Revolution; Morris's French
Revolution and First Empire.
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: Course 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
methods based upon the "Introduction to the Study of History" by
Langlois and Seignobos; and these principles will then be applied to
the critical examination of a number of works by such authors as
Buckle, Lecky, Draper, Guizot, Andrew D. White, Bryce, and others.
In addition to critical discussions of, and written examinations upon
each of the works selected, a critical written essay upon each of them
will also be required. Required, together with Courses 1B and 2C, of
students selecting History as primary minor subject for the Ph. D.
degree. Hours by appointment.
Course 4D: Courses 1B and 2C prerequisite, or their equivalent.—
History of the Reconstruction of the Southern State. 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. Hipp.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
Students are advised not to take the work in Economics before
their second year in college.
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 conditions. Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned
readings, 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 1910-11.
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 1910-11. 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. Beale.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School:—The General
Entrance Examination.
For Undergraduates.
Students with adequate preparation may enter any of the undergraduate
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 same 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 others where training is
inadequate for Course 2B.
I. Composition and Current Prose, with special attention to
letter-writing, abstracting, paraphrases and to the examination of
standard prose. Text-books: Carpenter's Rhetoric and Composition;
Dawsen's The Great English Letter Writers.
II. Composition and American Literature, with careful practice
in narration and description and a general survey of American literature.
Cairns's Forms of Discourse; Trent's Brief History of American
Literature.
III. Composition and English Literature, with special practice in
exposition and argumentation, and in the interpretation of English
masterpieces. Cairns's Forms of Discourse; Huichman and Gummere's
Lives of Great English Writers.
Exercises on the black-board or in writing will be required at
each recitation and parallel reading to the amount of three hundred
pages each term will be assigned. In three sections: I. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11; II. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12;
III. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Mr. Myers,
Mr. Beale.
Special Course. A special course is given during the second term
of the session, beginning in January and repeating the first term's
work of Course 1A, above. Hours by appointment. Cabell Hall. Mr.
Myers, Mr. Beale.
Course 2B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite. This course
will be omitted for the session of 1910-1911.
Course 3B: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
I. Advanced Rhetoric and Composition with special study of the
development and structure of modern prose mainly as exemplified in
the short story and the descriptive essay. Text-books: Genung's
Working Principles of Rhetoric; The Atlantic Monthly; Stevenson's
Selected Essays.
II. English Literature, by Periods, and Literary Criticism. Textbooks:
Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric; Winchester's
Principles of Literary Criticism; and assigned authors.
III. English Poetry and Poetic Forms: Text-books: Alden's
English Verse; Gayley and Young's Principles and Progress of English
Poetry; Professor's Notes.
About twelve hundred pages of parallel reading and about thirty
written exercises will be assigned. Three longer essays one each term,
will be required. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Cabell Hall.
Professor Kent.
Course 4B: Journalism: Course 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
This course will be omitted for the session of 1910-1911.
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
will be insisted upon, with reports, either written or oral, from time
to 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
1910-1911.
I. Shakespeare.
II. British Essayists from Bacon to Burke.
III. Nineteenth Century Poetry.
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.—
General principles of vocal and physical expression; individual training
before an audience in applying these principles through the interpretation
of standard literature and the delivery of original speeches;
class drills in vocal technic; class drills in physical technic; philosophy
of effective material for types of public address; analysis of literary
form distinctive in oral discourse; practice in writing public addresses;
specific principles of extemporaneous speaking; individual training in
extempore and impromptu delivery. May be offered as an elective
at large. Requires six hours of class room attendance each week for
two yearly sessions, but of preparation not more than two hours per
week. Limits the membership of a section to not less than eight or
more than fifteen. Section I. Daily 9-10. Jefferson Hall.
THE EDGAR ALLAN POE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.
Professor Smith.[4]
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination and in addition English Literature 1A or
its equivalent.
The following courses were given in 1909-1910, but are not offered
for 1910-1911.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: The Short Story, the Essay, and the Oration as Types
of Literature: English Literature 1A (or its equivalent) prerequisite.
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, monarchy, dissolution of the state,
exile, and restoration, together with the literature belonging to those
stages of development and experience. Instruction will be given by
lectures, assigned readings, reports and discussions. 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 its relations to the preceding
period will then be made. Instruction will be given by lectures,
10-11. Madison Hall.
These courses will be given in alternate years, Course 2B being offered
for the session of 1910-1911.
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. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. 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. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11.
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. Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 9-10. Madison Hall.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Lefevre.
Professor Payne.
Mr. McClure.
Mr. M. T. Neff.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination or its equivalent. Students are advised
not to undertake the work of this School before their second session
in the College.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Deductive and Inductive Logic; Theory of Knowledge.
—During the first and second terms, the class will be engaged with a
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 points of view. Reading of texts, lectures,
discussions, and reports. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Rotunda,
S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Term Course: Second Term.—An Introductory Course in Experimental
Psychology. Topics treated are Sensation, Perception, Preperception,
Apperception, Color Discrimination, Color-Blindness, Association
of Ideas, Attention, etc. Hours by appointment. Professor
Payne.
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
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, 10-11. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Term Course: Second Term.—A short course in Social Psychology.
The psychology of the crowd, of the criminal jury, of the legislative
assembly, of the mob; the psychology of suggestion, etc.
Hours by appointment. Professor Payne.
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 commentaries and of selected recent literature on the subject
to previous philosophical systems, to the development of his own
philosophy, and to the interrelation of his three Critiques. Reading
of texts, lectures, discussions, and reports. Professor Lefevre.
Further advanced work in Philosophy will be arranged in accordance
with the needs of individual students.
[Courses 6D and 7D will be given in alternate years.]
CURRY MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.
Professor Heck.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination or its equivalent. Students who have not had
the equivalent of the first year's work of the College are advised not
to undertake the work of the School.
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
defined and illustrated at length. Theories of organic evolution are
outlined and discussed in their influence upon theories of education.
The second and third terms are devoted to a study of school hygiene,
educational 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 system; 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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