June 23, 1911] 



SCIENGI] 



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course with a standard of excellence dis- 

 tinctly above the passing mark will be re- 

 garded as satisfying the requirement. 



In general, then, it is intended that by 

 the end of the second college year the stu- 

 dent shall have secured a reasonable 

 mastery over some one field of the work 

 which he brings in from the high school; 

 that he shall have come in contact with all 

 the main divisions of knowledge; and that 

 he shall be in possession, for purposes of 

 practical use in his work, of at least one 

 of the modern languages other than Eng- 

 lish. 



Eequirements for the bachelor's degree, 

 in addition to those for the associate 's title, 

 involve the completion by the student of a 

 principal and a secondary sequence of co- 

 herent and progressive courses. The 

 principal sequence must consist of nine 

 such courses, each occupying either 48 or 

 60 hours of class work [double this 

 amount in the ease of laboratory courses] . 

 The secondary sequence must contain six 

 such courses in another subject. It will 

 be understood that the student is obliged 

 to present a full four years of work at a 

 certain standard grade. It may also be 

 added that should a student decide to 

 choose one of his sequences in the subject 

 which he pursued as a continuation course 

 in his first year, the three courses taken at 

 that time may be included in the total num- 

 ber required to make up the sequence. This 

 requirement is intended to secure a high 

 degree of specialization in at least one sub- 

 ject of the university curriculum, with a 

 lesser degree of concentration in some 

 secondary topic, which might often be dis- 

 tinctly supplementary to the first. The 

 university has for a number of years had 

 a nine major requirement for its S.B. de- 

 gree, and its experience with this plan af- 

 fords a high measure of confidence that 



the new proposals wiU prove extremely 

 eiSeient in obtaining substantial results. 



Under normal circumstances, students 

 will be left slightly less than one third of 

 their courses in high school and in college 

 open to free election. The more judi- 

 ciously the school course were arranged, 

 the larger would be the number of free 

 electives in college. Ordinarily not more 

 than fifteen full courses may be taken in 

 college in any one department. 



When tHe principal sequence is taken 

 in the department of science the S.B. de- 

 gree is conferred. When it is in the mod- 

 ern languages, or the social and historical 

 sciences, or in philosophy, the Ph.B degree 

 is conferred. The A.B. degree is conferred 

 when the two sequences are respectively 

 in Latin and Greek. In this case the exact 

 amount required varies somewhat from 

 the other instances, and the requirement 

 must be in part fulfilled in the prepara- 

 tory school. The general plan, however, 

 is exactly the same as in the case of the 

 other degrees, and the detailed provisions 

 need not be explained in this place. The 

 university has conferred these three de- 

 grees for a number of years. 



A large number of alternative se- 

 quences will be worked out, designed to 

 meet in the most efi'ective way a variety 

 of student needs. Students contemplating 

 a professional career in law or in medicine 

 will have seqiiences offered to them pre- 

 pared with special reference to these pro- 

 fessions. The same thing will be done for 

 students whose needs are of a different 

 character. It is also contemplated that any 

 student who is able to present to his dean 

 at an early stage in his college work se- 

 quences of an educationally defensible 

 .kind, other thaa those prepared by the 

 faculty, may, upon securing permission 

 from the college board, be allowed to pur- 

 sue such courses. It is hoped that in this 



