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Agreeably to your request extended to the Faculty through the President, the enclosed has been prepared and forwarded.
Not being aware to what extent you propose to adopt the "Elective System," I have attempted to retain the essential features of the present plan of instruction, and at the same time fully to meet the irresistible tendency of the age to special and professional education.
Four lessons each week during the Freshman year, three in the Sophomore, two in the Junior, and one in the Senior year. (10)
The same as the Latin. (10)
Four lessons each week during the Sophomore and Junior years, and two in the Senior year. (10)
Four lessons each week during the Freshman and Sophomore years. (8)
Four lessons during Junior and Senior years. (8)
Four lessons during Junior and Senior years. (8)
Two lessons in the Freshman, four in the Junior, and two in the Senior year. (8)
and International and Constitutional Law — six lessons.
Latin, four recitations, Greek, four, Belles-Lettres, two, and Mathematics, four. (14)
Latin, three recitations, Greek, three, Modern Languages, four, and Mathematics, four. (14)
Greek and Latin, two recitations each, Modern Languages, Physics, Chemistry and Metaphysics, each four recitations. (20)
Greek and Latin, Modern Languages, and Belles-Lettres, two recitations each, Industrial Mechanics, and Agricultural Chemistry, four recitations, and International and Constitutional Law, six. (20)
Translations into English by the Freshmen, English Compositions by the Juniors, and Forensic Disputations by the Seniors, every three weeks, by each of the three Classes.
Greek, Latin, French, and German, every week, by the respective classes.
There shall be at least one regular Lecture, each week, in each of the eight Schools.
In the Schools of Languages, on Comparative Philology and the History of Language, Literature, and Civilization: in Mathematics, on the History and Logic of Mathematics. In the other Schools, Lectures shall be made a prominent part of the course.
Oral and written Examinations shall be held at the end of each session, on text-books and lectures.
Whenever practicable, questions for Examination shall be prepared and printed
by a Committee of the
No student shall be advanced in any School, without the approval of the Professor; and any student may, at any time, be dismissed from a School, at the discretion of the Professor.
The studies of the first two years are required;
those of the last two are elective; but no
student shall be a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, who has not
attended at least four of the Schools during the Junior, and five in the
Senior year; nor then shall he be graduated before passing a searching and
approved examination in all the topics treated of in the lectures and
text-books of his course.
The degree of Graduate, in any School, may be conferred for satisfactory attainments.
Two sessions, of twenty weeks each, beginning on the third Friday in July and January.