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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 11
V.—Preparatory Courses
V.—Preparatory Courses.
The Trustees of the University have deemed it advisable to include among its fundamental and permanent arrangements a Preparatory Department. It will be their aim to make this department a first-class school of preparation for College.
The Professors of the University have charge of the instruction in the studies be-longing to their several departments.
The requirements for admission are Reading, Writing, Spelling, Intellectual Arithmetic, Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar and Geography.
The requisite studies have been arranged in a course of three years for classical, and two years for scientific students, as appears by the following schedules:
Classical Course.
First Year.
First Term.
- Latin.—Latin Lessons commenced.
- Mathematics.—Robinson's Elementary Algebra.
- Natural Science.—Elements of Natural Philosophy, by the first division of the class.
Second Term.
- Latin.—Latin Grammar and Reader.
- Mathematics.—Robinson's Elementary Algebra.
Third Term.
- Latin.—Grammar and Reader. Introduction to Latin Composition.
- Mathematics.—Loomis's Algebra to chapter IX.
- History.—History of England, by the first division of the Class.
Second Year.
First Term.
- Greek.—Hadley's Greek Grammar commenced.
- Boise's First Greek Book.
- Latin.—Grammar.
- Allen & Greenough's Cæsar and Quintus Curtius.
- Introduction to Latin Composition.
Second Term.
- Greek.—Hadley's Greek Grammar continued. Geometry, Books I to III.
- Boise's First Greek Book completed, and Xenophon's Anabasis commenced.
- Mathematics.—Geometry, Books I to III inclusive.
- Latin.—Grammar, and Allen & Greenough's Sallust.
- Introduction to Latin Composition.
- Freeman's Outlines of History.?
Third Term.
- Greek.—Hadley's Grammar continued.
- Xenophon's Anabasis (Boise's edition), three times a week.
- Greek Prose Composition twice a week (Jones).
- Latin.—Select Orations of Cicero. Latin Composition.
- Freeman's Outlines of History.
Third Year.
First Term.
- Greek.—Hadley's Grammar.
- Xenophon's Anabasis (Boise's edition) three times a week.
- Greek Prose Composition twice a week (Jones).
- Latin.—Select Orations of Cicero.
- Latin Composition.
- Mathematics.—Loomis's Algebra to Chapter XVIII.
Second Term.
- Greek.—Hadley's Grammar.
- Arrian's Anabasis three times a week.
- Greek Prose Composition twice a week.
- Latin.—Virgil's Æneid. Latin Prosody.
- English.—History of the United States.
Third Term.
- Greek.—Hadley's Grammar.
- Homer's Odyssey.
- Greek Prose Composition twice a week.
- Ancient Geography.
- Latin.—Virgil. Latin Prosody. Latin Composition.
- Mathematics.—Geometry, Books IV to VI inclusive.
Greek.—The preceding course of study is recommended to those who are preparing for this University at other places. As a substitute, however, for Hadley's Grammar, either Goodwin's, Kuehner's or Crosby's Grammar, or Kendrick's revision of Bullion's Grammar, is accepted; and as a substitute for Boise's First Greek Book, either Leighton's Greek Lessons, or Whiton's Companion Book, or Kuehner's Elementary Greek Grammar with exercises, or Kendrick's Greek Ollendorff, or Harkness' or Crosby's First Book in Greek, is accepted.
Latin.—Either Allen & Greenough's, or Harkness', or Bullion & Morris', or Andrews & Stoddard's Latin Grammar, will be accepted. The exercises of Arnold's Latin Prose Composition should be thoroughly mastered by the student. These exercises should first be written, and afterward translated orally. In connection, with the study of Virgil, Latin Prosody should be learned, and the difference between prose and poetical constructions carefully noted.
Scientific Course.
First Year.
First Term.
- Mathematics.—Robinson's Elementary Algebra.
- Latin.—Latin Lessons commenced.
- Natural Science.—Elements of Natural Philosophy.
Second Term.
- Mathematics.—Robinson's Elementary Algebra.
- Latin.—Latin Grammar and Reader.
Third Term.
- Mathematics.—Loomis's Algebra to Chapter IX.
- Latin.—Grammar and Reader. Latin Composition.
- History.—History of England by the first division of the class.
Second Year.
First Term.
- Mathematics.—Loomis's Algebra, to Chapter XVIII.
- Robinson's Higher Arithmetic.
- Latin.—Grammar. Cæsar and Q. Curtius.
- Introduction to Latin Composition.
Second Term.
- Mathematics.—Geometry, Books I to III inclusive.
- English—History of the United States.
- Latin.—Grammar. Latin Composition. Sallust.
- Freeman's Outlines of History.
Third Term.
- Mathematics.—Geometry, Books IV to VI inclusive.
- Physical Geography.
- Latin.—Select Orations of Cicero. Latin Composition.
- Freeman's Outlines of History.
Students not in Course.
Students not wishing to prepare for College, will be admitted into the Preparatory Department, to pursue such studies of the course as they may choose, under the regulations of the Faculty; and special classes will be formed for them when the Faculty shall find it expedient. (See "Rules and Regulations," page 30.)
Special Announcement.
- First Term.—Greek; French; Physical Geography; Rhetoric and Composition (once a week.)
- Second Term.—Latin; German; Physiology; Rhetoric and Composition.
- Third Term.—Greek and Latin; French and German; Elements of Moral Philosophy; Rhetoric and Composition. (Full particulars will be given in next year's Catalogue.)