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...Freshman year the first term studies will remain as they are-Latin, Greek, Mathematics and English-but in the second term Latin will be one hour less per week, and Professor Schenck's anatomy will be brought from Sophomore year...
...first sale of Class Day tickets to seniors will take place June 11 from 2 to 4 p. m., at 1 Stoughton. Packages and yard tickets will be sold. Each package will contain three Sanders, eight Tree and ten Memorial tickets, and the price will be $9.00. Each senior may obtain one package. Other sales for seniors will take place on Wednesday, June 12 from 2 to 3.30 p. m., and on Friday, June 14, from 1.30 to 3.30. On Wednesday graduating members of other departments of the university may purchase small packages as stated in the circulars. Sales...
...feature of Junior year is the division of studies into departments. This has never been done in the past before Senior year. These department are seven: Mental philosophy, political science, classics, modern languages, mathematics, natural sciences and English. To obtain special honors in English the student must maintain a first group standing in the required English and fill out his four hour elective in this department, with some elective in classics and modern languages...
...Senior year, jurisprudence, political economy, chemistry, science, and religion are dropped from the list of required studies, and the only new feature is lectures in evidence of Christianity by the President. The required hours are reduced in the first term from nine to five, and in the second term from six to four, the student taking ten hours elective work. To obtain Senior honors the student must take six hours elective work in department, or, taking four hours elective work, must obtain a first group, standing in the required study belonging to that department. No student will be eligible...
...ranking system will be the same in freshman and sophomore years, but in the last two years the groups will be four instead of six. Exclusions of electives are to be made on two principles: First, to leave open as far as possible electives of general character and those common to juniors and seniors; second, to make mutually exclusive the more specialized electives and those clearly incongruous. General honors will be granted for general excellence substantially as at present. Special honors will be awarded only to students whose average is above mediocrity. In freshman year the candidate must take four...