 | University of Virginia record February, 1912 |  |
THE ACADEMIC SCHOOLS.
| EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D. | President |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D. | Dean |
| FRANCIS HENRY SMITH, M. A., LL. D., | Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy |
| JOHN WILLIAM MALLET, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., | Emeritus Professor of Chemistry |
| ORMOND STONE, M. A. | Professor of Practical Astronomy |
| WILLIAM MYNN THORNTON, LL. D., | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| FRANCIS PERRY DUNNINGTON, B. S., C. E., M. E., | Professor of Analytical and Industrial Chemistry |
| MILTON WYLIE HUMPHREYS, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Greek |
| ALBERT HENRY TUTTLE, M. Sc. | Miller Professor of Biology |
| CHARLES WILLIAM KENT, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Literature |
| WILLIAM HOLDING ECHOLS, B. S., C. E., | Professor of Mathematics |
| RICHARD HEATH DABNEY, M. A., Ph. D., | Corcoran Professor of History |
| RICHARD HENRY WILSON, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Romanic Languages |
| JAMES MORRIS PAGE, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., | Professor of Mathematics |
| THOMAS FITZ-HUGH, M. A. | Professor of Latin |
| ALBERT LEFEVRE, Ph. D., LL. D., | Corcoran Professor of Philosophy |
| WILLIAM HARRY HECK, M. A., | Curry Memorial Professor of Education |
| THOMAS WALKER PAGE,[1] Ph. D., LL. D., | James Wilson Professor of Economics |
| THOMAS LEONARD WATSON, M. S., Ph. D., | Corcoran Professor of Geology |
| ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD, B. A., B. S., Ph. D., | Collegiate Professor of Chemistry |
| CHARLES ALPHONSO SMITH, Ph. D., LL. D., | Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English |
| WILLIAM MENTZELL FORREST, A. B., | John B. Cary Memorial Professor of Biblical History and Literature |
| WILLIAM HARRISON FAULKNER, M. A., Ph. D., | Professor of Germanic Languages |
| CHARLES GILMORE MAPHIS, | Professor of Secondary Education |
| LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH HOXTON, B. S., M. A., | Associate Professor of Physics |
| WILLIAM ALLISON KEPNER, M. A., Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Biology |
| JOHN SHARSHALL GRASTY, Ph. D., | William Barton Rogers Adjunct Professor of Economic Geology |
| CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL, | Adjunct Professor of Public Speaking |
| GRAHAM EDGAR, B. S., Ph. D. | Adjunct Professor of Chemistry |
| WELDON THOMAS MYERS, M. A. | Adjunct Professor of English Literature |
| LEE BIDGOOD, M. A. | Adjunct Professor of Economics |
| CARROLL MASON SPARROW, Ph. D., | Adjunct Professor of Physics |
| JAMES SUGARS McLEMORE, M. A., | Instructor in Latin and Greek |
| ARTHUR VAUGHAN BISHOP, B. S., M. A., | Instructor in Latin |
| STEPHEN TABER, B. A., | Instructor in Geology |
| EDWARD STAPLES SMITH, M. E., | Instructor in Mathematics |
| JOHN WILBUR WATSON, M. A., | Instructor in Chemistry |
| SAMUEL PENDLETON COWARDIN, Jr., B. A., | Instructor in Latin |
| JAMES COOK BARDIN, M. D., | Instructor in Romanic Languages |
| ALBERT GEORGE ADAM BALZ, M. A., | Instructor in Philosophy |
| WILLIAM MUSE HUNLEY, B. A., | Instructor in Political Science |
| JOSEPH GRAY DINWIDDIE, B. S. in Chem., | Instructor in Analytical Chemistry |
| STEWART ARCHER STEGER, M. A. | Instructor in English |
| HARRY HAMILTON GAVER, B. A. | Instructor in Mathematics |
| ROBERT EDMUND BEARD | Assistant in Mathematics |
| CHARLES NEWMAN WUNDER, B. A. | Assistant in Astronomy |
| LANT RADER SLAVEN, B. A. | Assistant in Philosophy |
| STERLING HENRY DIGGS | Assistant in Physics |
| PALMER HAMPTON GRAHAM, B. A. | Assistant in Astronomy |
| FREDERICK PRESTON GUTHRIE, B. A. | Assistant in Astronomy |
| MARION RUSHTON, B. A. | Assistant in English Literature |
| HENRY PORTERFIELD TAYLOR, | Assistant in Romanic Languages |
| EUGENE PRICE BROWN | Assistant in Chemistry |
| JOHN MARSHALL | Assistant in Physics |
| GARDNER LLOYD CARTER | Assistant in Chemistry |
| WILLIAM ANDREW HORSLEY GANTT., | Assistant in Chemistry |
| HERMAN LLOYD CHURCH | Assistant in Chemistry |
| THOMAS ELVIN DIDLAKE | Student Assistant in Economics |
| HERBERT NASH TUCKER | Student Assistant in History |
| WILLIAM APPLETON POTT | Student Assistant in Philosophy |
| SAMUEL OVERTON McCUE | Student Assistant in Philosophy |
The Academic Schools comprise the Schools of Languages,
Mathematics, Sciences, History, Economics, Literature, Philosophy,
and Education. In the undergraduate courses of these schools is
comprised the work of the College with the degrees of Bachelor of
Arts and Bachelor of Science; in the graduate courses is comprised
the work of the Department of Graduate Studies, with the degrees
of Graduate in a School, Master of Arts, Master of Science and
Doctor of Philosophy. The professors and instructors in the Academic
Schools compose the Academic Faculty, which deals with
questions concerning the work both of the College and of the Department
of Graduate Studies.
A full statement of the requirements for the degrees of Bachelor
of Arts and Bachelor of Science will be found under the head of
the College; of the requirements for the other academic degrees,
under the Department of Graduate Studies.
The courses given in the academic schools are arranged as
Courses for Undergraduates, Courses for Graduates and Undergraduates,
Courses primarily for Graduates.
In the detailed account of the courses and equipment of the
academic schools, given in the following pages, the numbers and
letters placed after the name of each course have the following
meaning:
The numbers indicate merely the order in which the course is
placed in work of the grade indicated by the letters, and have no
application to the credit value of the course as work for any degree.
The letters are used as follows:
A: a course for undergraduates on which Advanced Standing
may be given, for work done in an accredited secondary school, in
addition to the entrance requirements of 14 units. The A courses
have a credit value of 3 session hours each toward a baccalaureate
degree. The other A courses are accepted only as two units each
on the entrance-requirements.
B: an undergraduate course, with a credit value toward a baccalaureate
degree.
The words Term-course following the name of the course indicate
a short course of three hours a week for one of the three
terms into which the academic year is divided. Such courses may
be credited as part of an elective-at-large, but not as any part of
a group-elective.
C: a graduate course, to which undergraduates students who
have completed or received college credit for the precedent B courses
in the school may be admitted.
D: a course intended primarily for graduate students only.
The Academic Schools are here arranged according to the
grouping of subjects for the B. A. and B. S. degrees.
SCHOOL OF LATIN.
Professor Fitz-Hugh.
Mr. McLemore.
Mr. Bishop.
Mr. Cowardin.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The four
units prescribed on page 71 for admission to Latin A1.
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 Romœ), Nepos (the Roman Lives), Cæsar's Gallic War,
Cicero's easier Orations, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Vergil's Æneid
If the preparation of the student justifies it, he will be admitted to
advanced standing, with due credit for all work done elsewhere by
him.
Attention is specially invited to the importance of beginning
Greek and at least one Romanic language for all who wish to reap
the full cultural benefit of the university courses in Latin. The
Greek illumines incomparably all parts of Latin study, which bears
in turn a like relation to the Romanic.
General Statement.—The first five courses in Latin are devoted
to the broad cultural study of the language, literature, and life of
the Romans. The culture we enjoy to-day has its source in the
culture of the Greeks and Romans. Greece is the fountain head
of culture, 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 the Latin language, 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 A1: The four units prescribed on page 71 for admission to
the School of Latin, prerequisite.
I. In Language: General grammar (Gildersleeve-Lodge), with
oral and written exercises (Moulton-Collar, Mather-Wheeler).
II. In Literature: Historical, Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy
of Catiline—epic, Vergil's Æneid (Books VII-XII), and Ovid's
Metamorphoses (Books XIII-XIV), with study of the hexameter—
philosophic, Cicero's Friendship and Old Age, and his Tusculan Disputations
and Dream of Scipio.
III. In Life: The geography, history, private, and public life of
the Romans (Kiepert's Atlas Antiquus, Abbott's Short History of
Rome, Johnston's Private Life of the Romans, Tighe's Roman Constitution).
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 1-2; Section II, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2, Cabell
Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Cowardin.
Course B1: Course A1 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).
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore.
Course B2: Course A1 or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Either
Course B1 or Course B2 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).
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Course B1 and Course B2 or the equivalent of both,
prerequisite.
I. In Language: History of the Latin Language (Whitney,
Bennett), with oral and written exercises (Moore, Bennett, Nettleship).
II. In Literature: Historical and epistolary, Tacitus' Annals
and Cicero's Letters—dramatic and satirical, Plautus' Captivi, Terence's
Andria, and Horace's Satires and Epistles, with study of the
meters of the drama—critical, Cicero's De Oratore and Tacitus' Dialogue
on the Orators.
III. In Life: The literary life of the Romans (Mackail's Latin
Literature and Laing's Masterpiece of Latin Literature).
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor FitzHugh,
Mr. McLemore.
Course C2: Course B1 and Course B2 or the equivalent of both,
prerequisite.—Either Course C1 or Course C2 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 (Whitney,
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 History
of Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero and Pater's Marius
the Epicurean).
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor
Fitz-Hugh, Mr. McLemore.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: Course C1 or Course C2 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
—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.
For summer-school courses in Latin on which college credit is
allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF GREEK.
Professor Humphreys.
Mr. McLemore.
Required for Admission to the School: The General Entrance
Examination.
This school comprises the following courses:
For Undergraduates.
Students may enter any of the undergraduate courses at the
beginning of any term and will receive credit for the course on
completing the work of the subsequent term or terms.
Course A1: For beginners. Text-Books: White's First Greek
Book; Xenophon's Anabasis. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10,
Cabell Hall. Mr. McLemore.
Course A2: Course A1 or its equivalent prerequisite.—A course
of easy Attic Prose. Xenophon's Memorabilia, Plato's Apology and
Crito, Dion Chrysostomos (Hunters of Euboea). Grammar and
Exercises. (B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 10-11, Cabell Hall. Professor Humphreys, Mr. McLemore.
Course B1: Course A2 or its equivalent prerequisite.—Attic Prose,
a play of Euripides, Homer. Exercises, Syntax, History (B. A. credit,
Professor Humphreys.
Course B2: Course B1 or its equivalent prerequisite.—Attic Prose,
a play of Sophocles, Grammar, Exercises, History of Greek Literature.
(B. A. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
10-11, Cabell Hall, Professor Humphreys.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Courses B1 and B2 prerequisite.—Attic Prose, Aeschylus,
Aristophanes, Lyric Poets, Exercises, advanced Syntax, Meters.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1, Cabell Hall, Professor
Humphreys.
Special Course: Students who are Ministers of the Gospel or
Candidates for the Ministry may take a course in the New Testament
in lieu of course B2, and if they have completed courses B1
and B2 they may take in lieu of course C the same New Testament
course with additional work in classical Greek for private study.
Primarily for Graduates.
This course is adapted to the wants and desires of those who
wish to prosecute the study of Greek beyond course C, especially
for those seeking the degree of Ph. D.
For summer-school courses in Greek on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF ROMANIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Wilson.
Dr. Bardin.
Mr. Taylor.
Required for admission to the work of the school: the General
Entrance Examination.
Courses are offered in French, Spanish, and Italian. In French
and Spanish elementary, collegiate, and graduate courses are given;
in Italian, a graduate course only.
I. Elementary French and Spanish.
For students of any class who have not pursued the study of
these languages in preparatory schools.
1. French.
Course A1: Pronunciation, forms, translation, composition
(No credit for any degree. Admits to French B1 only.)
Section I: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10, S. E. Rotunda,
Mr. Taylor.
Section II: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11, S. E. Rotunda,
Mr. Taylor.
Section III: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11, S. E. Rotunda, Mr.
Taylor.
2. Spanish.
Course A1: Pronunciation, forms, translation, composition.
(No credit for any degree. Admits to Spanish B1 only.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 11-12, S. E. Rotunda, Dr. Bardin.
II. Collegiate French and Spanish.
For Undergraduates.
1. French.
Course B1: French A1, or French A and B of the entrance requirements,
prerequisite.—Dictation, composition, general syntax, translation.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 9-10, S. E. Rotunda, Professor Wilson.
Course B2: French B1, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Dictation,
composition, moods and tenses, translation, general survey of French
literature. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12-1, S. E. Rotunda, Professor Wilson.
2. Spanish.
Course B1: Spanish A1, or Spanish A and B of the entrance requirements
prerequisite.—Dictation, Composition, general syntax,
translation. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 12-1, S. E. Rotunda, Dr. Bardin.
Course B2: Spanish B1, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—Dictation,
composition, moods and tenses, translation, general survey of Spanish
literature. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 11-12, S. E. Rotunda, Dr. Bardin.
III. Graduate French, Spanish, and Italian.
For Graduates.
(Undergraduates of exceptional ability, who desire to continue
their studies in the Romanic languages, will be allowed to follow
these courses after having completed the collegiate courses described
above).
1. French.
Course C1: French B2, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—This course
is conducted in French. The tendencies of modern French fiction
are studied. French life is analyzed, and a general survey is made
of the nineteenth century. Tuesday, Thursday; Saturday, 11-12, S.
E. Rotunda, Professor Wilson.
2. Spanish.
Course C1: Spanish B2, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—The literature
of one or more of the Latin-American republics will be studied.
Cuba and Mexico were chosen for 1910-1911. Hours by appointment.
Dr. Bardin.
3. Italian.
Course C1: French B2, or Spanish B2, prerequisite.—Modern
Italian prose; Italian literature; a general survey of Dante, Petrarch,
and Bocaccio. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1, S. E. Rotunda,
Professor Wilson.
For summer school courses in French, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES.
Professor Faulkner.
Mr. Neff.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The following courses are offered for the session of 1912-1913:
For Undergraduates.
German A1: Beginners may take this course. Elementary
grammar and prose-composition; special training in pronunciation
and simple conversational German; reading of about 600 pages of
German prose, with conversational exercises and composition work
in free reproduction, based on texts read. (No credit for any degree.
Admits to German B1 only.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2.
Cabell Hall. Professor Faulkner.
Students entering in January, with one to two years of preliminary
training in German, may profitably register for German A1,
and will be given credit for the work of the first term, on the successful
completion of the remaining two terms.
German B1: Course A1 or German A and B of the entrance requirements
prerequisite.—Review of German grammar; Deutschland
in Wort and Bild (Schweitzer's Deutsches Lesebuch für Quarta
und Tertia); reading of about 400 pages of fiction, illustrative of
modern German life and thought; conversational exercises and composition
work in free reproduction, based on texts read, throughout
the session. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Professor Faulkner.
Students entering in January, with three years or more of preliminary
training in German, may profitably register for German
B1, 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.
German B2: Course B1, or its equivalent prerequisite.—History
of German Literature; German lyric and ballad poetry; classicism
and romanticism; tendencies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Reading of about 500 pages in selected texts, illustrative of
topics treated. Conversational exercises and composition-themes in
German throughout the session. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor
Faulkner.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
German C1: Courses B1 and B2, or the equivalent of both, 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. and II. Teil. Seminary-work: First Term: Wilhelm
Meisters Lehrjahre; Second Term: Wallenstein; Third Term
Faust. Lectures, Tuesday and Thursday, 11-12. Seminary, Saturday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Faulkner.
Students with adequate preparation may register for any term
of this course.
For Graduates Only.
The following courses are open only to candidates for a doctor's
degree in one of the schools of English, English Literature, Latin,
Greek, Romanic or Germanic Languages, who have already completed
not less than one year of graduate work as candidates for
selection will depend on the wishes and needs of the applicants.
Graduate students, therefore, who wish to enter any one of these
courses are requested to notify the head of the school not later
than June 15, preceding the session in which they desire to enter
the course.
For all of these courses German C1 is a prerequisite.
German D1: Gothic and Old High German. Three hours a
week, by appointment. Professor Faulkner.
German D2: Middle High German, with readings in the Nibelungenlied.
Three hours a week, by appointment. Professor Faulkner.
German D3: Middle High German, with readings in Walther von
der Vogelweide. Three hours a week, by appointment. Professor
Faulkner.
German D4: I. A half year's course in German grammar. II. A
half year's course in the phonetics of German and English. Three
hours a week, by appointment. Professor Faulkner.
For summer-school courses in German, on which college credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.
Professor Echols.
Professor Page (J. M.)
Mr. Beard.
Mr. Smith.
Mr. Gaver.
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 A1 meets in two sections.
For Undergraduates.
[Students entering January 1 may begin the study of Trigonometry
in Course A1, or College Algebra in Course A2. Students entering
about March 15 may begin College Algebra in Course A1, or
Elementary Analytical Geometry in Course A2.]
Course A1, Sections I and II: Admission to the school prerequisite.—Each
Section meets three times a week, and devotes about
three months to each of the three subjects—Geometry, Trigonometry,
and Algebra.
In Geometry the work begins with the solution of numerous
original exercises in Plane Geometry, and proceeds through Solid
Geometry with constant drill in original exercises.
In Trigonometry, a complete course in Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry is pursued with constant drill in the solution of problems,
and exercises in the use of logarithms.
In Algebra, the work begins with the Progressions and proceeds
with the study of the Binomial Formula, Convergence and Divergence
of Series, with special study of the Binomial, Exponential,
and Logarithmic Series. The study of Inequalities and Determinants
prepares for the Theory of Equations with which the course is
closed. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I. Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 9-10. Section II. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Page.
Course A2: 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 A1. 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
graphical representation of equations. Especial attention is paid to
the straight line and the general equation of the first degree in two
variables. The course is intended to prepare for the study of the
Analytical Geometry of the Conic Section. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Professor Page.
Text-Books.—Venable, Legendre's Geometry, with Exercises; Loney, Trigonometry,
Part 1; Murray, Spherical Trigonometry; Rietz and Grathorne, College
Algebra; Fine and Thompson, Coördinate Geometry.
In addition to the regular examination held during the session,
there will be held special examinations on the work of Courses A1
and A2 at the opening of the 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 Course A1 or A2. Advanced
standing on the work of Course A1 or A2 will be granted a
student entering from a secondary school only after he has passed
here the prescribed examination on the course in question.
Course B1: (Course A1 prerequisite).—This class meets three
times each week throughout the session. The work of the course
at the point left in course A1. The major portion of the
session's work, however, is given to the study of analytical geometry
of two dimensions in cartesian and polar coördinates. A special
study of the conic sections is followed by the study of a number of
classical curves. This course is required of all students who elect
mathematics for an undergraduate degree. (B. A. or B. S. credit,
3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall.
Professor Page.
Course B2: (Course B1 prerequisite.)—This course is devoted
to a preliminary study of the Differential and Integral Calculus.
It extends throughout the session, the class meeting one hour three
times each week during the nine months. The treatment of the
subject involves the operations of differentiation and integration of
functions, with applications to the expansion of functions in series,
evaluation of illusory forms, maximum and minimum values, the
applications to geometry of curves in the problems of tangency,
contact and curvature, curve tracing, arc length, and areas, the volumes
of revolutes and of special forms of other surfaces, areas of
surfaces of revolution, and finally the solutions of the more important
simple problems in ordinary differential equations. This
course is an elective-at-large for students applying for undergraduate
degrees. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12-1. Cabell Hall. Professor Echols.
Course B3: (Course A2 prerequisite).—This course is intended
for engineering students only. The class meets three times each
week throughout the session. The subject of analytical geometry
is taken up at the point left off in course A2 and finished preliminary
to the calculus. The subject of differential and integral calculus is
taken up about November first and pursued during the remainder
of the session. Less stress is laid on the principles of the subject
than in course B2 the main interest being the formal application of
the operations of the calculus to the solution of problems with the
view of making the student familiar with these operations to enable
him to apply them to the problems of applied mathematics which
he is to meet in engineering. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1.[2]
Cabell Hall. Professor Echols.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Courses B1 and B2 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 B2, and is systematically studied along broad lines. A course
of parallel reading on the History of Mathematics is assigned and
study of Ordinary Differential Equations. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Echols.
Text-Books.—Charles Smith, Solid Geometry; Echols, Differential and Integral
Calculus; Williamson, Differential Calculus; Williamson, Integral Calculus; Murray,
Differential Equations; Cajori, History of Mathematics.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: A Course in Differential Geometry: Course C1 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 D2: A Course in Differential Equations: Course C1 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.
[Only one of the courses D1 and D2 will be offered in 1912-13.]
Course D3: A Course in the Theory of Functions: Course C1
prerequisite.—In this class is offered to advanced students a course
in Mathematical Analysis. The treatment of the subject is arranged
under three heads, as follows:
The design of the numbers of analysis and the laws of the operations
to which they are subject are studied after the methods of
Dedekind and Tannery, Cantor and Weierstrass, as introductory to
the study of functions.
The study of the Theory of Functions of a Real Variable, including
series, products, and continued fractions.
The General Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable is
studied after the methods of Cauchy, Riemann, and Weierstrass.
A special study is made of the series of Taylor and of Fourier.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Professor Echols.
The work in Courses D1, D2, and D3 is carried on by means of
lectures, notes, and the systematic reading of the standard authors
in texts and in journals.
For summer-school courses in Mathematics, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS.
Professor Thornton.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: Mathematics
B1 or the equivalent.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Theoretical Mechanics: The class meets three
times a week. The topics treated in successive terms are as follows:
Fall Term.—The fundamental laws of motion, force, and energy
and their applications to the Statics of material particles and solid
bodies.
Winter Term.—The dynamics of the particle and an elementary
study of moments of inertia and the dynamics of the rigid body.
Spring Term.—Dynamics of the rigid body; attractions and potential.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Mechanical Laboratory.
For Graduates Only.
Course D1: Analytical Mechanics:
Lectures are given in alternate sessions on the following topics.
Hours by appointment.
A. Theoretical Dynamics; Theory of Attractions (1912-13).
B. Theory of Elasticity; Hydrodynamics (1913-14).
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
Professor Stone.
Mr. Wunder.
Mr. Graham.
Mr. Guthrie.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Course A1 in the School of Mathematics
or its equivalent.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: General Astronomy: Mathematics A1 prerequisite.—
In this course are given the fundamental principles and methods of
Theoretical and Practical Astronomy. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall.
Text-Books.—Young's General Astronomy.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Practical Astronomy: Course B1 and Mathematics
B2 (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 C2: Celestial Mechanics: Course B1 and Mathematics B2
(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 D1: Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Course C1 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 D2: Theoria Motus: Course B1 and Mathematics B2 (or
its equivalent) prerequisite.—Determination of the position of an undisturbed
body from known elements, determination of the elements
of an undisturbed orbit, theory of special perturbations. Hours by
appointment.
Course D3: Celestial Mechanics: Course C2 prerequisite.—Problem
of three bodies, and theory of general perturbations. Hours by
appointment.
For information in regard to Fellowships in Astronomy, application
should be made to the Professor in charge of the School.
The Astronomical Observatory is situated upon an elevation
known as Mount Jefferson, which furnishes an unobstructed horizon.
The principal building is a rotunda forty-five feet in diameter, and
contains the great Clark refractor of twenty-six inches aperture.
The building and instrument are the gift of Leander J. McCormick
Esq., of Chicago. The computing rooms are adjoining, and contain
are a three-inch transit and a six-inch equatorial.
A temporary Student's Observatory, erected in the rear of
Dawson's Row, is intended more especially for the use of students
in Course B1.
For summer-school courses in Astronomy, on which college
credit will be allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
Associate Professor Hoxton.
Mr. Diggs.
Adjunct Professor Sparrow.
Mr. Marshall.
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 B1: General Physics.—This course includes Elementary
Mechanics, Sound, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, and Light. Instruction
is given by text-books and lectures accompanied by experimental
demonstrations. In addition, recitations, solution of illustrative
problems, and written reports upon quantitative laboratory work
done by the student are required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours).
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12. Laboratory: Monday,
Wednesday, Friday; Section I, 9-11, Section II, 3-5. Rouss Physical
Laboratory. Associate Professor Hoxton, Adjunct Professor Sparrow,
Mr. Diggs, Mr. Marshall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Courses C1 and C2: Physics B1 and Mathematics B2 or the equivalent
prerequisite.—Either of these courses may be a combination of
two of the four subjects outlined below, each subject being pursued
for one half of a year. The choice of subject in each case is
determined by the purposes of the student, the approval of the professors
concerned, and usually a sequence in time.
Advanced laboratory exercises occupying at least four hours
per week will be required. The character of this work may be varied
to meet individual needs.
Dynamics, Properties of Matter and Sound. The development
of the general principles of physics and their application to the
properties of matter and to acoustics. The work is designed to
serve as a general introduction to the elements of mathematical
Sparrow.
Optics. Development from a moderately advanced standpoint
special attention being paid to the theory of modern optical instruments.
Hours by appointment second half-year. Adjunct Professor
Sparrow.
Electricity and Magnetism. Elements of the mathematical theory
with emphasis on electrical measurements. Modern ideas of electricity
and matter will be introduced. Hours by appointment, first
half-year. Associate Professor Hoxton.
Heat. Principles of thermometry, calorimetry, kinetic theory,
etc., with special attention to the fundamentals of thermodynamics
illustrated by applications to heat engines and to solutions. Hours
by appointment, second half-year. Associate Professor Hoxton.
A Laboratory Fee of five dollars is required for each of the
three above courses.
Courses D1 and D2: The work of these courses is of an advanced
type, designed to bring the student into touch with modern
methods of physical research. With this end in view the contents
of the courses will be varied from year to year, ranging over the
more important fields of physics in a cycle of about three years.
The formal preparation necessary for these courses will vary
somewhat with the nature of the subjects treated. What is necessary
in a certain maturity of mind with reference to the subject.
The student who has not had training in mathematics equivalent to
Course C1 will probably be unable to follow with profit any D
course dealing with the mathematical side of physics, while the
student who has not had the equivalent of the corresponding C
course in physics, will be unable to pursue a D course dealing
with the experimental side. Hours by appointment. Associate Professor
Hoxton, Adjunct Professor Sparrow.
The Rouss Physical Laboratory is a commodious building,
specially designed for and devoted to the work in physics. The
building throughout is characterized by structural stability. The
rooms are abundantly lighted, while some may be darkened at will.
There is a general distribution of water over the building, while all
the rooms are supplied with steam heat, gas, and electricity.
The equipment includes an exceptionally rich set of demonstration
apparatus, and a good stock of apparatus for elementary laboratory
instruction. In addition to this there is a special line of
electrical and optical instruments, a 21½ foot concave grating with
storage battery, and a machine shop for the repair and construction
of physical instruments. For advanced work in some lines the facilities
offered are excellent.
For summer-school courses in Physics, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY.
Professor Bird.
Adjunct Professor Edgar.
Mr. Watson.
Mr. Carter.
Mr. Church.
Mr. Gantt.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
In this School the following courses are offered:
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: 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.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.) 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. Watson, and assistants.
Students entering in January, with adequate preparation, will
be admitted to Chemistry B1, above, and will receive full credit for
the course on completing the work of the first term at some subsequent
time.
Course B2: Organic Chemistry: Course B1 or its equivalent prerequisite.—This
course is intended to serve as an introduction to the
general subject of Organic Chemistry, including chemical synthesis
and the theories of molecular structure, as applied to the compounds
of Carbon. In the laboratory standard methods of synthesis, as
well as the preparation from natural sources, of important organic
substances will be studied experimentally. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6
session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Laboratory,
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2-4. Adjunct Professor Edgar, Mr.
Brown, and assistants.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Physical Chemistry: (Course B1 and B1 Anal., or
their equivalents prerequisite.—Some knowledge of the Calculus required,
and previous work in Physics desirable. This course will
include work upon such topics as the gas laws, kinetic theory of
gases, the properties of dilute solutions, osmotic pressure the determination
of molecular weights, mass action, reaction velocity and
equilibrium, electrolysis and electrolytic dissociation, the phase rule,
etc. The laboratory work will consist of a thorough course in
physico-chemical methods, including the measurement of electrolytic
conductivity, electromotive force, etc. Toward the end of the course
the student will be required to do a limited amount of research on
some chemical problem suggested by the instructor. Hours by appointment.
Adjunct Professor Edgar.
Course C2: Advanced Organic Chemistry (Courses B1 and B2.
or their equivalent, prerequisite).—The work of the first term consists
of lectures and recitations on the History of Chemical Development
and Theory, with laboratory work illustrative of fundamental Chemical
laws.
The second and third terms consist of lectures, laboratory work,
etc., on advanced organic chemistry, making use of the most recent
and comprehensive treatises on this subject. During the third term
the student will be required to do a limited amount of research on
some subject suggested by the instructor. Hours by appointment.
Adjunct Professor Edgar.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Courses B1 and B2,
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 Thursdays
from 11-12 a. m., in Dr. Edgar'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.
For summer-school courses in Chemistry, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
SCHOOL OF ANALYTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.
Professor Dunnington.
Mr. Dinwiddie.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The regular work of this school, constituting a complete course
in Practical Chemistry, is divided into three courses, as follows:
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: 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. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Laboratory hours by appointment.
Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington, Mr. Dinwiddie.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Quantitative Analysis: Course B1 Anal. is prerequisite.
—The work of this course is also given in three lessons a week
throughout the session, each being followed by four hours ro more
of practical laboratory work. After some training in manipulation
and gravimetric estimations, the class pursues volumetric estimations
and a full course in Quantitative Analysis of minerals, ores, coal,
soil, iron and steel, technical products, and so on. Weekly written
exercises are required. As the student advances in the course he
is encouraged to undertake original research and assist in its prosecution;
and in determining his fitness for graduation, work of this
kind is considered as having much weight. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 10-11. Laboratory hours by appointment. Analytical Laboratory.
Professor Dunnington, Mr. Dinwiddie.
The Laboratory is open to students six days in the week, during
all the working hours of the day.
Students may register either for the first course, or for both
courses at the same time; candidates for the M. A. elective are required
to complete both courses. Those who accomplish this are
prepared for work as Analytical Chemists, Assayers, Druggists, or
Teachers of Chemistry.
Among the works recommended to laboratory students are: Fresenius' Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis, A. I. Cohn; J. H. Long's Qualitative Analysis
(3d ed.); Greville William's Hand-book of Chemical Manipulation; Wochler's Examples
for Practice in Chemical Analysis; and Assaying Notes of the Professor.
Course C2: Industrial Chemistry.—The work of this course is
given in three lectures a week throughout the session. A detailed
study is made of the chemical principles and processes of the more
important manufacturing industries, upon which, in large measure,
depend the development of the natural resources of the country.
Among the more important subjects discussed are: the metal
lurgy and uses 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; disinfectants, soap, paper, etc.
A clear comprehension of all lines of Industrial manufacture
is the aim proposed in this course, a preparation needed by students
who expect to enter upon any branch of such work. Since these
lectures are designed to give some accurate information about materials
with which every one is concerned in daily life, it is judged
that they will afford a valuable addition to a general education.
The subjects specially related to Agriculture are treated in different
portions of this course. There is a weekly quiz and occasional
written exercises are required. Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
3-4. Analytical Laboratory. Professor Dunnington.
Text-Books.—F. H. Thorp's Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: Huntington & McMillan's
Metals, their Properties and Treatment. Recommended for reference:
Richardson and Watt's Chemical Technology; T. E. Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied
Chemistry; W. E. Roberts-Austen's Introduction to the Study of Metallurgy; Sadtler's
Hand-Book of Industrial Organic Chemistry, etc.
The collections of the University in illustration of the processes
and products of Industrial Chemistry have been procured at much
expense and pains in this country, England, France, and Germany,
and are unusually extensive and good; among the best on this
side of the Atlantic.
Students who accomplish the work of classes B1, C1, C2, in this
school, together with chemistry B1, B2, C1, are prepared for entering
upon work in these several lines of industry.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: 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 B1, C1, C2 in this School and
Courses B1, B2, and C1 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. Professor
Dunnington.
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.
MILLER SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
The biological sciences are here studied chiefly from a morphological
rather than from a physiological standpoint. Prominence
is given to the histology, and as far as possible to the cytology and
to the life-histories (both ontogenetic and phylogenetic) of the organisms
studied, especially in the advanced courses in each of the
two principal sciences, with a view to the elucidation of the great
fundamental laws that underlie in the phenomena of the life. The
work of the school is designed to meet the wants of students who
desire such knowledge of either Botany of Zoölogy (or both), and
of a liberal education; or of those who desire such training as will
fit them for independent work as students or as teachers in either
of these sciences, or for other vocational work therein; and also of
those who seek such acquaintance with the facts and the underlying
principles of the biological sciences as will prepare them for entrance
upon the study of Medicine, or for an intelligent study of
the relations of these sciences to the art of Agriculture.
Each student who enters upon the work of either of the courses
described below is required to provide himself with a small case of
dissecting instruments, a hand lens, a drawing pencil, and a notebook
of approved pattern. Other necessary pieces of apparatus will
be issued to each student. There is a laboratory fee for materials
consumed in connection with the work of each of the courses. Any
student with adequate preparation may enter either of the undergraduate
courses in Biology at the beginning of any term of the
session, and will receive full credit for such course on completing
the work of the remaining term or terms of the course in question,
in the following session.
I. Botany.
Professor Tuttle.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: Botany.—In this course a study is first made of
the essential factors of plant structure; this is followed by a brief
survey of the vegetable kingdom, beginning with the algae and ending
with the seed-plants. As each group is discussed in the lectures,
as many representative members as practicable will be studied in
the laboratory, including where possible the important phases of
the life-history. The principles of classification will be considered
and illustrated, and as far as possible applied in connection with
the forms studied.
The first term of this course deals largely with the forms of
plant life that are of importance in the management of water supplies,
and is arranged with a view to the needs of students in Sanitary
Engineering. The class is limited for the present to thirty members.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.) Lectures, Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Laboratory, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
12-2. 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
in the weekly biological seminar is also required. The course for
the year may 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
B1 or Zoölogy B1 is prerequisite for entrance upon either of these
courses. The courses offered are as follows:
Course C1: Thallophytes.—This course will be devoted to the
study of the Fission-Plants: the Green Algæ (in the limited sense),
the Confervales, and Charles: the Bacillariales, Brown Algæ, and
Dictyoltales: the Red Algæ: the various orders of the Fungi, and
the Lichens. The Green Algæ 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 C2: 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 C3: Spermophytes.—The study of the Seed-Plant 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 B1: Zoology.—An introductory course in the morphology
and classification of both invertebrates and vertebrates The
course will be so conducted as to afford to the student a general
survey of the animal kingdom, and to emphasize the principles involved
in the formation of cell-organs, tissues, and complex organs
in the various types of animal bodies. The class is limited
for the present to thirty members. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Lectures, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12-1. Laboratory,
Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-11. Section II,
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-11. Cabell Hall.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Three courses are offered in Animal Morphology, one of which
will be given each session: each course comprises two lectures and
two laboratory periods of three hours each weekly; participation
in the weekly biological seminar is also required. The course for
the year may be 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
B1 or Zoölogy B1 is prerequisite for either of these courses. The
courses offered are as follows:
Course C1: The Lower Invertebrates.—In this course a detailed
study will be made of animals representing various classes and
orders of Protozoa, Coelenterata, Platyhelmia, Nemertini, Nematelminthes,
Trochelminthes and Molluscoida, involving their comparative
anatomy, their embryology, and their affinities. Students will
be required to collect the available material of the vicinity for class
work; to make a collection of histological preparation; and to report
at regular intervals upon the progress of their work.
Course C2: The Higher Invertebrates.—A similar detailed study,
under similar requirements, of animals, representing various classes
and orders of Echinodermata, Mollusca, Annulata and Arthropoda.
Course C3: The Vertebrates.—A detailed anatomical and histological
study of animals representing various classes, sub-classes,
and orders of the Chordata. The physiology of the organs of the
Chordata will be discussed. Vertebrate embryology as represented
by that of the frog and the bird will be briefly studied. Students
will be required to make collections of local material for classroom
work and to make histological preparations representing
the fundamental tissues of representatives of the group.
III. General Biology.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
For Undergraduates.
Term Course in the Principles of Biology.—A course is here
offered which is intended to afford a brief survey of some of the most
significant facts concerning organization, function, and relations of
living things: an insight into the methods of biological study: and
as full discussion as possible of the important fundamental principles
deduced from such study and the important philosophical
questions arising therefrom. One lecture and one laboratory exercise
each week throughout the session. This course may be withdrawn
This course will have a credit value of two session hours,
as part of the elective-at-large for a B. A. or a B. S. degree.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: Cytology and Comparative Histology: Botany B1,
Zoölogy B1, and one of the advanced courses in Plant or Animal Morphology
prerequisite. This course begins with a study of the phenomena
of cell-organization and cell life in both plants and animals: this is
followed by a comparative study of the elements of structure and
their embryological development in the lower and the higher animals,
or in a similar series of plant forms: the work of each student is
individually assigned in great measure. It includes practice in the
more advanced methods of technic, and a critical discussion of the
microscope and its intelligent use, as means to the ends in view.
It is accompanied by the consideration of the fundamental laws
of General Biology as founded upon cytological study. Hours by
assignment: the number is not limited.
Opportunity will be afforded to individual students for further
advanced work chiefly along the lines of this course.
A biological seminar will be conducted weekly at an hour that
will be assigned at the beginning of the session, participation in
which is required of all students in courses above Botany B1 and
Zoology B1.
IV. Biology and Agriculture.
Professor Tuttle.
Adjunct Professor Kepner.
The relations of the biological sciences to Agriculture are so
manifold and the subdivisions of the latter subject so numerous,
that it would be impossible to exhaust the discussion of either in
the work of any one year. Courses consisting in part of lectures
and in part of an equivalent amount of practical work and collateral
reading will be offered yearly as follows:
B1: Botany and Agriculture: Botany B1 prerequisite.—In this course
a study will be made of the anatomy and physiology of the
higher plants, especially as related to nutrition and growth;
and of the principles of crop raising as based on the laws of plant
life. Professor Tuttle.
Text-Books.—Stevens' Plant Anatomy; Pierce's Plant Physiology: Vorhee's Principles
of Agriculture.
B2: Zoology and Agriculture: Zoölogy B1 prerequisite.—In this course
a study will be made of the parasitic Protozoa, Worms, and
relations: and the anatomy of the domestic animals examined.
The relations of animals to the soil and to plant life will be
discussed. Adjunct Professor Kepner.
Text-Books.—Osborn's Economic Zoölogy; Folsom's Entomology; Smith's Economic
Entomology; Chauveau's Anatomy of the Domestic Animals.
Candidates for a diploma of graduation in Biology and Agriculture
are required to complete the introductory courses in Botany
and Zoölogy, and one advanced course in each, and also the two
courses above described.
For summer-school courses in Biology, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
THE CORCORAN AND ROGERS SCHOOLS OF GENERAL
AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.
Professor Watson.
Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Mr. Taber.
Required for Admission to the Work of the Schools: The General
Entrance Examination.
There are eleven courses in the Schools as organized at present.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: General Geology.—Three lectures and six laboratory
hours per week throughout the session. A general discussion of
dynamical, structural, physiographical, and historical geology with
practical work in the laboratory and excursions in the field. As
full an exposition of the fundamental principles of geology will be
given as the time will allow. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9-10. Laboratory, Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 3-5. Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Course B2: General Physical Geology.—A course of three (3)
lectures per week and nine (9) additional hours per week for laboratory
and field work, and private study, throughout the year. The
divisions of Dynamical, Structural, and Physiographical Geology
are covered in considerable detail. Especial emphasis is given the
rock-forming minerals and rocks, building stone, and ores. Special
course for students in Engineering. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 12-1. Laboratory, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, 10-12. Professor Watson.
Course B3: Mineralogy.—Three hours of lectures and six laboratory
hours, throughout the year. This course is for beginners, and
of more advanced work. Especial attention is given to
Crystallography, Physical and Chemical Mineralogy, and Descriptive
Mineralogy. The second portion of the course will be devoted to
Descriptive Mineralogy, including a study of the classification, properties,
modes of formation, association and occurrence, and uses of
minerals. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 6 session-hours.) Hours by appointment.
Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Term Course: Second Term: Determinative Mineralogy.—A
practical study of mineral species by means of blow-pipe analysis.
The object of this course is to gain familiarity with the common
minerals and facility in their identification. Six hours laboratory
work per week, winter term. Hours by appointment. Mr. Taber.
A laboratory fee of three dollars is required.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: General Economic Geology: Course B1, or its equivalent,
prerequisite.—This course is designed to give a general but comprehensive
account of the origin, nature, distribution and uses of
the metallic and non-metallic products, with especial reference to
those of the United States. Lectures, collateral reading, laboratory
and field work to the amount of twelve (12) hours per week
throughout the year. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson.
Course C2: Petrology: Course B3, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—
This course aims to give a thorough knowledge of the determination
of minerals and rocks in the sections under the microscope.
It includes:
(A) Physical Crystallography.—A full discussion of optical and
microscopical mineralogy, with especial reference to the behavior
of minerals as constitutents of rock masses.(B) Petrography.—A discussion of the microscopic structure, mineralogical
composition, genetic relations, and distribution of
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. The laboratory
work supplements the lectures, and enables the student to become
familiar with the various groups of rocks by means of the
polarizing microscope. Lectures and laboratory work to the
amount of 19 hours throughout the year. Hours by appointment.
Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Course C3: Geological Field Methods.—This course is designed
to familiarize the student with the methods employed and the
instruments used in making topographic and geologic maps. The
structural relationships of rocks and the proper cartographic representation
of these occurrences in nature are especially emphasized.
and field work. Hours by appointment. Adjunct Professor Grasty,
Mr. Taber.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: Advanced Geology: Courses B1 and B3 prerequisite.—
This course aims to fit the student for independent and original research.
He will study as thoroughly as possible the broader problems
of the science, involving the knowledge of stratigraphical principles.
Especial attention will be given to imparting a practical
knowledge of the various rocks, and of the animal and plant fossils
of the different eras, with a view to using them in determining unknown
formations. Stress will be laid upon field work, and the
methods of determining and describing the geology of new regions.
To impart such knowledge the student will be required to work up
some particular region or formation, and report his results. Topics
involving a knowledge of the literature and growth of opinion in relation
to particular questions may be assigned to form the subject
of theses. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor
Grasty.
Course D2: Advanced Mineralogy.—Adapted to the needs of
the individual student. Properly qualified students may pursue
work directed in the line of crystallography (crystal measurements
and drawings, and crystal optics), chemical mineralogy (mineral
or rock analysis), or petrographic research. Hours by appointment.
Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor Grasty.
Course D3: Advanced Economic Geology.—Lectures, laboratory
and field work, reading, reports and theses. Open to those students
who have had Course C2 or its equivalent. This course is designed
to supplement Course C2 by giving advanced students an opportunity
to follow out more thoroughly special topics in mining geology.
The course will necessarily vary with the needs of the individual
student. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson, Adjunct Professor
Grasty.
Course D4: Economic Geology of the Southern Appalachians.—
Open to those students who have had Course C2 or its equivalent.
In this course the mining geology of the region, especially that of
Virginia, is covered in considerable detail. Excursions to various
parts of the region will be taken and individual reports required.
Original investigation of an assigned area, based upon field work, is
required of each student. Hours by appointment. Professor Watson.
Geological Seminary.—Review and discussion of the more important
current geological literature, and the preparation of papers
and advanced students in geology are expected to take part
in the discussions at these meetings. Time to be arranged.
THE LEWIS BROOKS MUSEUM.
The Lewis Brooks Museum contains collections illustrating the
main subdivisions of Natural History. Each of the collections is
arranged so as to exemplify the principles of the science, and at the
same time offers a large variety of subjects for advanced study. In
Geology the specimens show all the different kinds of rocks, classified
according to mineral character and the formation in which they
occur; the collection of fossils, plaster casts, maps, etc., is exceptionally
fine, and fully illustrates Historical Geology. In Mineralogy
the principles of the science are made plain by well-chosen suits of
specimens, models of crystals, etc. The general collection of minerals
contains all the important species, and many of the rarer ones,
in good specimens. In addition to the above, a beginning has been
made of a collection to illustrate the geology and mineralogy of the
State of Virginia, and this is being increased as rapidly as possible.
For summer school courses in Geology, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF HISTORY.
Professor Dabney.
Mr. Tucker.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination, and Unit A of history (p. 74) 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.
The undergraduate courses in History will be based not only
upon the idea that "the proper study of mankind is man," and that,
therefore, all important human events, even those of the remote past,
are of interest to human beings, but also upon the idea that every highly
educated man should have an intelligent comprehension of himself
is as impossible to gain without a study of the past as it would be
to comprehend thoroughly an oak tree without studying the acorn
from which it sprang as well as the soil, climate and other features
of the environment that have modified its development in the course
of time. The barbarian tribes that overthrew the Roman Empire
were the acorns from which the modern national oaks have sprung;
and the literature, art, and thought of Greece, the imperialism of
Rome, and the Christian religion are the chief influences that have
affected the development of these acorns through the centuries.
No man can have a scientific understanding of himself and the modern
world without a fair knowledge of these things; and every student
who desires such an understanding is therefore advised to take
at least the two courses, B1 and B2, in which they are treated.
Credit will be given for either course separately; but students electing
History in 1912-13 will be required to take B1 unless there be
some good reason for their taking B2. Under special circumstances
both courses may be taken simultaneously.
Course B1: General History to the close of the Middle Age.—
The chief topics treated will be Greek civilization, Roman imperialism,
the rise and spread of Christianity, Monasticism, the Barbarian
Invasions, the Papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, Feudalism, Mohammedanism,
the Crusades, and the early development of Nationalism
in Europe. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Dabney.
Course B2: Modern History.—Course B1, or Units A and B of
History (p. 74 prerequisite.—The chief topics treated will be the Renaissance,
the Protestant Revolution, the Thirty Years' War, the
Puritan Revolution, the development of Spain, France, England
and Prussia, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, and
the leading events of the nineteenth century. (B. A. or B. S. credit,
3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall
Professor Dabney.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: History of the United States. Courses B1 and B2
prerequisite.—In addition to a considerable amount of reading, essays
or reports, based upon the sources as well as upon secondary authorities,
will be required. This course is required of students electing History
as one of their subjects for the Master's or Doctor's degree.
It may also be taken as an elective-at-large for the Bachelor's degree.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12-1. Cabell Hall, Professor
Dabney.
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 D1: Courses B1, B2 and C1 prerequisite.—Intellectual,
Moral, Religious and Social Development of Europe.—In addition
to critical discussions of, and written examinations upon a large
number of historical works, a critical essay upon each of them will
be required. Hours by appointment. Professor Dabney.
Course D2: Courses B1, B2 and C1 prerequisite. History of the
Reconstruction of the Southern States. A close study of the sources
as well as of the secondary authorities on this period. Hours by
appointment. Professor Dabney.
For summer-school-courses in History, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
THE JAMES WILSON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.
Professor Page (Thomas Walker).[3]
Mr. Hunley.
Adjunct Professor Bidgood.
Mr. Didlake.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
Students are advised not to take the work in Economics or Political
Science before their second year in college.
I. Economics.
Professor Page (Thomas Walker).[4]
Mr. Didlake.
Adjunct Professor Bidgood.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: 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. (B. A. or B. S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Cabell
Hall. Professor Page[5]
; Adjunct Professor Bidgood.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: The Growth of American Industry and Commerce.
—This course attempts to show how American experience illustrates
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 C2. Professor
Page.
Course C2: 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 C1. Hours
by appointment. Cabell Hall. Professor Page.
Course C3: Industrial Evolution.—The principles of the evolution
of economic society are studied in the first term; the theories
of Ely, Bücher, Commons, Marx, and Kidd are examined at greater
or less length. In the second and third terms general principles are
applied in the study of topics selected from American commercial
history. The second term is devoted wholly to a study of tariff history.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Adjunct Professor
Bidgood.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: 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.
II. Political Science.
Mr. Hunley.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: American and Comparative Government. This
course begins with a brief discussion of the formation of the federal
system of the United States. Then are taken up in detail the
various departments. The second term is devoted to State and city
government and the third term to a study of the governmental systems
of other countries and to a brief discussion of American political
theory. Instruction is given by lectures, assigned readings,
and discussions. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Mr. Hunley.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Political Theory and Practice. The object of this
course, in the first term, is to study the Nature of the State. The
American system of government and foreign forms of state life,
and the third term to varying topical discussions. Lectures, journal
meetings, reports, and special assignments for reading. Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 1-2. Cabell Hall. Mr. Hunley.
For summer-school courses in Economics, in which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
LINDEN KENT MEMORIAL
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Professor Kent.
Mr. Rushton.
Adjunct Professor Myers.
Mr. Scott.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination.
For Undergraduates.
A. Courses: Entrance examination, or its equivalent, prerequisite.
—This course is designed to meet the needs of students preparing
directly for professional studies, and of college students who have
had a four year high school course.
Course A1: Recommended to students who have satisfied the
minimum requirements for entrance.
1. Rhetoric and Composition.—A thorough review of the principles
of rhetoric; and constant practice in composition, with special
attention to letter writing, abstract, paraphrase, and construction
of the paragraph. Text-books: Espenshade's Rhetoric; Canby's
English Prose Composition.
2. Composition and English Literature.—Description and Narration:
History of English Literature, with class and parallel reading
of prose and poetry. Text-books: Long's History of English
Literature; Manly's English Prose and English Poetry.
3. Composition and English Literature.—Exposition and Argumentation;
History of English Literature, with class and parallel
reading of prose and poetry. Parallel reading and written exercises
are required throughout the session. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Adjunct
Professor Myers.
Course A2: Recommended to students with good preparatory
training in English and especially those who expect to pursue further
courses in English Literature.
1. Advanced Composition.—Theory and Structure of the paragraph;
description and narration; composition of the paragraph and
of longer discourse, and investigation of standard prose. Textbooks:
Scott and Denney's Paragraph-Writing (Revised Edition),
other texts to be announced.
2. Composition and American Literature.—Exposition; History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and poetry.
Text-books: Trent's American Literature; Long's American
Poems. Parellel reading in prose and poetry is required.
3. Composition and American Literature.—Argumentation; History
of American Literature. Critical study of American prose and
poetry. Parallel reading required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12. Cabell Hall. Adjunct
Professor Myers.
Course B1: Course A1, or A2 or the equivalent of either, prerequisite.
1. Advanced Rhetoric and Composition with special study of
the structure of modern prose. Text-books: Lewes's Principles of
Success in Literature; Genung's Working Principles of Rhetoric;
the Atlantic Monthly.
2. Description, with illustrations in poetry and prose. Narration,
with special study of the short story and the biographical
sketch.
3. Exposition, with special study of the literary essay. Textbook:
Winchester's Principles of Literary Criticism. Poetry and
Poetic Forms. Text-book: Alden's English Verse; and the Professor's
Notes. About 1,200 pages of parallel reading, 25 written
exercises, and 6 essays, two each term, will be required. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11-12.
Cabell Hall. Professor Kent.
Course B2: One A Course, or its equivalent, prerequisite, and
A2 strongly recommended.
1. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature with closer
study of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, and Bunyan.
2. Eighteenth Century Literature with the development of
prose from Defoe to Burke, and the transition from classicism to
romanticism in poetry.
3. Nineteenth Century Literature with closer study of the essayists
and the poets. Text-books will be assigned at the beginning
of each term.
About 1,500 pages of parallel reading, 25 written exercises, and
6 essays, two each term, will be required. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3
session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10. Cabell Hall.
Professor Kent.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1:
1 and 2. Elizabethan Drama.
3. English prose masters contemporary with Milton. Adjunct
Professor Myers; or the study of British periodicals from 1700 to
1837. Professor Kent.
3. The study of British periodicals from 1700 to 1837. Professor
Kent.
For Graduates Only.
Course D1, or primary Minor.
1 and 2. The History of English Prosody. Professor Kent.
3. A comparative study of the Dramatic Monologue culminating
in Browning. Professor Smith.
For summer-school courses in English Literature, on which
college-credit will be allowed, see p. 258.
II. Public Speaking.
Adjunct Professor Paul.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: English Literature A, or equivalent, prerequisite.—
Writing original speeches and addresses; the content and structure
of the speech of introduction, of presentation, of acceptance, of
welcome, of farewell, of the after-dinner speech, and of various
other types; the distinctive principles of oral style. Delivery of
written, original speeches; individual training in the effective use
of the voice, in platform deportment, in bearing, in the use of
gestures; principles of vocal and physical expression. Extemporaneous
speaking from outlines; impromptu speaking on topics of the
day. History of oratory from Empedocles to Bryan. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
1-2; Jefferson Hall; membership of each section limited to a
maximum of twelve and a minimum of six.
Course B2. Public Speaking B1, or its equivalent, prerequisite.—
Principles of argumentation and debating, including analysis of the
proposition, evidence, brief-making, and tactics of debate. Practical
debating by opposing teams that each week study a public question
and draw briefs in preparation for the debate. (B. A. or B. S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Section I, Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
11-12; membership of each section limited to a maximum of eighteen
and a minimum of six.
EDGAR ALLAN POE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.
Professor Smith.
Mr. Steger.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination and in addition English Literature A1
or A2, or an equivalent.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1 (English Literature A1 or A2 or an equivalent prerequisite):
Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English.
1. Old English.
2. Chaucer.
3. The Language of Shakespeare.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday,
11-12. Cabell Hall. Professor Smith and Mr. Steger.
Course B2 (English Literature A1 or A2 or an equivalent prerequisite):
The Structure of English.
1. The Foundations of English Grammar.
2. Three Principles of Structure.
3. Changes now going on.
(B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Cabell Hall. Professor Smith.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: American Literature.
1. A Survey of the Whole Field.
2. Yankee Doodle, Hail Columbia, The Star-Spangled Banner,
Home Sweet Home, America, and other well-known single poems.
3. American Literature since 1870. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 9-10. Cabell Hall. Professor Smith.
For Graduates Only.
Course D1: Old English Poetry.
A rapid reading of the extant body of old English Poetry. Professor
Smith.
Course D2:
A comparative study of the dramatic monologue, culminating
in Browning. Professor Smith.
For summer-school courses in English, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
THE JOHN B. CARY MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL
HISTORY AND LITERATURE.
Professor Forrest.
For Undergraduates.
Course B1: Old Testament History. English Literature A1 or
A2 prerequisite.—Attention will be given to Hebrew origins and the
various periods of the history through nomadic life, early settlement,
monarchy, dissolution of the state, exile, and restoration. Incidentally,
an effort will be made to appraise the effect of modern
science, philosophy, and historical criticism upon the Old Testament
records, and to aid thoughtful students in adjusting newly acquired
knowledge with former beliefs. Instruction will be given
by lectures, assigned readings, reports and discussions. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11.
Rotunda, S. E.
Course B2: Biblical Literature: Course B1 or any B course in
the schools of English prerequisite, although special students may be
admitted without satisfying the prerequisite. The various forms of
biblical literature will be studied both as aids to the formation of
a correct style, and as masterpieces of literature. Biblical narratives,
essays, sermons, orations, and poems will be analyzed and
compared with notable examples in general English literature. The
influence of the Bible upon literature will also be appraised. Instruction
by lectures, assigned readings, and exercises. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9-10.
Rotunda, S. E.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: New Testament History and Teaching: Courses
B1 and B2, or the former of these and one B course from the schools
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 teaching in relation
to the preceding period will acquaint students with the facts and
forces of the beginnings of Christianity and the early development
of the church. Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned readings,
and discussions. Frequent written exercises will be required.
Each term an essay giving the results of the student's research into
some question related to the main subject of the course will be
called for. Hours by appointment. Rotunda, S. E.
Course C2: Formation and Literary Value of the English Bible:
Courses B1 and B2, or either of these and any B course from the
schools of English, 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 demanding original investigation
will be a part of each term's work. Hours by appointment.
Rotunda, S. E.
But one C course will be given each session; C2 is offered for
1912-13.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1: or secondary minor. Course C1, or its equivalent prerequisite.—Historical
and Literary Criticism of the New Testament.
Hours by appointment. Rotunda, S. E.
Further advanced work in Biblical History and Literature may
be arranged to meet the needs of students.
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Lefevre.
Mr. Balz.
Mr. Slaven.
Mr. Pott.
Mr. McCue.
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 B1: Deductive and Inductive Logic; Theory of Knowledge.—During
the first and second terms, the class will be engaged
with a study of the science of logic. The lectures will deal in an
introductory manner with the general character of the thinking
process, its laws of development, and the methods by which thought
actually proceeds to solve the problems presented to it. Special
attention will be directed to the analysis of logical arguments and
to the detection of fallacies in reasoning. The third term will be
devoted to a study and critical exposition of different Theories of
Knowledge. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 1-2. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Lefevre.
Text-Books.—Creighton's Introductory Logic; other books to be announced.
Course B2: 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. (B. A.
or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
11-12. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Lefevre.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Course B3: 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. (B. A. or B.
S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Rotunda,
S. E. Mr. Balz.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: The History of Philosophy: Course B1, or B2, or
B3 prerequisite.—This course is intended primarily for those who
wish to know something of the history of thought and the influence
which philosophical ideas have exerted in the development of civilization.
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 C2: Social Psychology.—(Open to students who have
taken Courses B1, or B2, or B3, or their equivalents.) In this course,
general psychological principles will be applied to the study of the
social relations of the self, and the influences which determine feeling
and action in the individual as a member of the group, e. g., the
sentiments of religious, political, and social crowds. The attempt is
made to approach social facts from the mental side. The study of
social consciousness, as involved in the genesis and growth of social
institutions; the psychology of education; the psychology of religion;
and the evolution of social consciousness will engage the attention
in this course. Reading of texts, lectures, discussions, and reports.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Hours to be arranged. Rotunda, S.
E. Mr. Balz.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course D1.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
Course C1.) 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 D2.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
Course C1.) 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
will be required. Special attention will be given to Kant's relation
to previous philosophical systems, to the development of his
own philosophy, and to the interrelation of his three Critiques.
Reading of texts, lectures, discussions, and reports. Professor Lefevre.
Further advanced work in Philosophy will be arranged in accordance
with the needs of individual students.
[Courses D1 and D2 will be given in alternate years.]
For summer school courses in Philosophy, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
THE CURRY MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.
Professor Heck.
Professor Maphis.
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 B1: 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 analyzed 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. (B. A. or B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Place and hours to be arranged. Professor Heck.
Course B2: 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. (B. A. or
B. S. credit, 3 session-hours.) 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. Professor Heck.
Course B3: Secondary Education.—This course is intended primarily
for students who expect to teach, or occupy some administrative
position in high school or general educational work. It embraces
a study of the Secondary School,—its historical development
and present tendencies, its place and function in organized society,
the current conception of Secondary Education and its relation to
higher education, its curriculum,—based on a general survey of present
and equipment, the organization and administration of state high
school systems. Instruction will be given by reading of texts, lectures,
discussions and study of reports. In connection with this
course a series of conferences on high school problems in Virginia
will be conducted, and Observation Visits will be made to the Charlottesville
High School—and possibly others. (B. A. or B. S. credit,
3 session-hours.) Monday and Wednesday, 10-11, Tuesday, 9-10. Professor
Maphis.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course C1: Principles of Education.—A summary of present
educational theory and practice. After an introductory consideration
of the method and material of educational study, the aim of
education is defined and illustrated at length. Theories of organic
evolution are outlined and discussed in their influence upon theories
of education. The second and third terms are devoted to a study of
school hygiene, educational psychology, curricula, and general
method. The texts are supplemented by parallel reading. Professor
Heck.
Course C4: School Administration.—A seminar study of national,
state, and city school systems; public finance and education;
school buildings and equipment; the supervision and employment of
teachers; the relations between school, home, and society. The educational
systems and policies of the Southern States are considered
in detail. Texts are read rapidly, the main emphasis being put upon
parallel reading and original investigation. Professor Heck.
For summer-school courses in Education, on which college-credit
will be allowed, see p. 258.
Recommendation of Teachers.
The recommendation of teachers from the School of Education
is in charge of the Bureau of Appointments,—Professor Kent and
Professor Maphis. Through this committee positions are secured,
not only for students of the School of Education, but for students in
other departments, where they are known to be fitted to fill the
vacancies reported. In response to requests from the proper authorities,
teachers are recommended for positions as instructors in
colleges and normal schools, as superintendents, as supervisors in
special subjects, as principals or department teachers in high
schools, and as principals of elementary schools. The demand for
teachers has been greater than the supply. Correspondence with regard
to this matter may be addressed to the Bureau of Appointments,
University, Virginia.
| University of Virginia record February, 1912 | |