720 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



After the " curriculum," in which many studies are hiid down with 

 numerous text-books for each, comes a list of optional studies, with 

 the extra prices affixed. Here we find "music on harp" quoted at 

 $30, and " comparative philology " at 17.50. Italian, French, Spanish, 

 and German, are ten dollars each ; so that comparative philology may 

 be regarded as given at a wholesale price. Languages are so much 

 cheaper in a buncli than they are singly. 



But the degrees given at Neophogen afford one of the most interest- 

 ing items concerning the college. They are eighteen or twenty in num- 

 ber, and among them some are of considerable novelty. For example : 



" A. M. will be given to any male, and M. A. to any female, who, after hav- 

 ing received A. B., shall also graduate in penmanship and book-keeping, pho- 

 nography and mnemotechny, comparative philology, and Anglo-Saxon, and in 

 French, or German, or Spanish ; and to a B. S., completing these same (preced- 

 ing) additional or extra studies, the degree of M. S. (Master or Mistress of 

 Science). 



"M. E. L. (Master or Mistress of English Language), to any student gradu- 

 ating in the schools of humanities, and of history and moral science; and in 

 common-school written arithmetic, elementary algebra, geometry, and the trig- 

 onometries and mensuration ; in political economy and metaphysics ; in pen- 

 manship and book-keeping, phonography and mnemonics, comparative philology 

 and Anglo-Saxon. 



"B. A. LL. (Bachelor (or Maid) of Ancient Languages). 



" B. M. LL. (Bachelor (or Maid) of Modern Languages). 



" B. M. (Bachelor (or Maid) of Music), to .any graduate in music. 



" B. M. and D., in Music and Drawing. 



" B. M. and D. and P., in Music and Drawing, and Painting. 



" B. F. A. (Bachelor (or Maid) of Fine Arts), to graduate in the three preced- 

 ing, and also in wax-work." 



But mere quotations cannot do full justice to this extraordinary 

 catalogue. I will, therefore, give only a very few more, quite hurriedly, 

 and leave the reader to seek for fuller details in the original document. 

 Under the head of "specialties" a variety of studies are given, Eng- 

 lish, elocution, oratory, and typography, being made especially promi- 

 nent. As for etiquette, tliis passage will speak for itself: 



"It is not a matter of choice, but compulsion. The course of training in 

 etiquette is, in great part, original. It has been said that manners make the 

 man; if not true, they at least cannot be neglected. Here it is the theory with 

 continued practice. We think we have the politest students in America. The 

 salutation, the bow, the courtesy, the word, the tone, the look, the inflection 

 vocal and physical ; the attitude, the hand, the feet, the spine, and the eye, are 

 all observed and studied, and the students daily exercised in them." 



Another passage of striking merit runs as follows : 



"What has brought discredit upon diplomas of this age? What so greatly 

 reduced the respectability of the word graduate in this age of nostrums and 

 charlatanry ? Amtcer. Silly parents, and incompetent and unscrupulous teachers. 



