degrees." On the other hand, Barnard students, by proper choice of electives were able to secure a professional diploma from Teachers' College with the university degree. By this arrangement 20 courses in education were added to the Barnard College curriculum.2 An important matter of legislation was recorded early in the year of 1900, when the trustees of Columbia College and Barnard College entered into a formal agreement concerning the incorporation of Barnard College in Columbia University, and the establishment of the faculty of Barnard College as one of the university faculties. Mr. Brewster comments on the significance of this agreement as a provision for elasticity and development by permitting Barnard variation of courses in any desired direction without the withdrawal of the safeguard of university supervision. It resulted in a steady, consistent growth of equipment and resources. The courses offered in 1900 numbered 148. Of these the students are allowed greater freedom of election than in 1896 by the following arrangement: Unless the following subjects are offered at entrance, a three-hour course in each is prescribed: French, German, natural science, (advanced) history, (advanced) mathematics.* All graduate work after 1900 was given over to Columbia, Barnard having already granted 68 masters' and 6 doctors' degrees. In 1905 the college adopted a modified curriculum, prescribing the courses more accurately and requiring a more definite specialization in one field. About one-half the required points, 120, were unprescribed courses, the subjects of which were the same as in 1900, except that hygiene was prescribed for all students, and two half courses in botany, chemistry, geology, psychology, or zoology, in addition to the requirement of chemistry and physics which might be passed off by an equivalent at admission. "At least 9 points, exclusive of prescribed work, must be made under some one department before graduation." The number of courses, including those in education which were given at Teachers' College, was increased to 199.5 1 The Dean's Report, 1898. 2 Barnard College Announcement, 1898-99. 3 Brewster, William F.. Barnard College. Columbia University Quarterly, March, 1910, p. 163. Barnard College Announcement, 1900-1901. 5 Announcement, 1905-6. Curriculum for students entering on Greek and French or German. Freshman year: Prescribed. (12 hours.) Latin or Greek. German-Substitution of French if German was presented. Mathematics Rhetoric. Elective: French. Substitution of German if French was presented. Chemistry. Physics. Sophomore year: Prescribed. (7 hours.) History. Rhetoric. One of following: Botany, chemistry, physics, zoology. Curriculum for students entering on advanced mathematics, natural science, 117 courses are announced by the departmental statement.1 In March, 1898, an agreement was made between Barnard and Teachers' College whereby "Every woman student duly matriculated in Teachers' College, who is eligible for admission to Barnard College, may, by registering as a student of Barnard College, become entitled to all the privileges enjoyed by the students of Barnard College in the university, and may become a candidate for university 1 Barnard College Announcement, 1877-98. degrees." On the other hand, Barnard students, by proper choice of electives were able to secure a professional diploma from Teachers' College with the university degree.' By this arrangement 20 courses in education were added to the Barnard College curriculum.2 An important matter of legislation was recorded early in the year of 1900, when the trustees of Columbia College and Barnard College entered into a formal agreement concerning the incorporation of Barnard College in Columbia University, and the establishment of the faculty of Barnard College as one of the university faculties. Mr. Brewster comments on the significance of this agreement as a provision for elasticity and development by permitting Barnard variation of courses in any desired direction without the withdrawal of the safeguard of university supervision. It resulted in a steady, consistent growth of equipment and resources. The courses offered in 1900 numbered 148. Of these the students are allowed greater freedom of election than in 1896 by the following arrangement: Unless the following subjects are offered at entrance, a three-hour course in each is prescribed: French, German, natural science, (advanced) history, (advanced) mathematics.* All graduate work after 1900 was given over to Columbia, Barnard having already granted 68 masters' and 6 doctors' degrees. In 1905 the college adopted a modified curriculum, prescribing the courses more accurately and requiring a more definite specialization in one field. About one-half the required points, 120, were unprescribed courses, the subjects of which were the same as in 1900, except that hygiene was prescribed for all students, and two half courses in botany, chemistry, geology, psychology, or zoology, in addition to the requirement of chemistry and physics which might be passed off by an equivalent at admission. "At least 9 points, exclusive of prescribed work, must be made under some one department before graduation." The number of courses, including those in education which were given at Teachers' College, was increased to 199.5 1 The Dean's Report, 1898. 2 Barnard College Announcement, 1898-99. 3 Brewster, William F. 1910, p. 163. Barnard College. Columbia University Quarterly, March, 4 Barnard College Announcement, 1900-1901. 5 Announcement, 1905-6. The course in pure science, leading to the degree of bachelor of science, was opened. It required about the same work in courses as did the arts course, and at the same time a specialization in some branch of science. The next year, 1906, Barnard offered its students for the first time a curriculum which permitted work for the degree of bachelor of science as well as bachelor of arts. It is interesting to note that 36 years after Vassar and 13 years after Wellesley had given up the plan of offering the two undergraduate degrees, Barnard attempted it, and, if the result may be judged from its place in the curriculum of to-day, made a success of it. The prescribed studies for both courses are given in parallel columns, as they were in the cases of Vassar and Wellesley. Two hundred and ten courses in 23 departments were open to the students, under 61 members of the faculty. An arrangement was made with Teachers College by which Barnard College provided the collegiate courses required by Teachers College, and the latter withdrew its collegiate curriculum, accepting students for its professional curriculum only. Barnard students, upon completion of 91 points of work, or with proper prerequisites, 60 points, were allowed to transfer to Teachers College and become candidates for the professional diploma as well as the academic degree.1 A course designed to give the students a general idea of the problems, methods, and results of the natural and social sciences was added to the curriculum under the title of Introductory Courses, and was given by 10 of the instructors.2 In 1912-13 new requirements in modern languages were announced. No modern language course in college was to be prescribed, but a working knowledge of French and German, tested by oral examination, was to be required before the senior year. The student offering Greek was exempt from one modern language. The same catalogue announced that certain graduate courses in Columbia University under the faculties of political science, philosophy, and pure science, were open to especially qualified students. The schools of architecture, music, and education, the Union Theological Seminary, and the New York School of Philanthropy all offer work which may be credited toward the Barnard degree. A long step from the list of seven departments conducted by seven instructors in 1889-90! The next year, 1913-14, the school of journalism was added to the list of schools to which the Barnard student might transfer after two years of collegiate work. Two hundred and thirty courses were in 1914-15 offered by a faculty numbering 99 and representing 22 different departments. The curriculum of 1915-16 will serve as the basis of the study of the modern curricula. MOUNT HOLYOKE. To trace the development of Mount Holyoke through the years of its existence as a seminary would accomplish much the same result as far as concerns its relation to Mount Holyoke, the college, as to trace the history of the development of the preparatory schools connected with Vassar or Wellesley. Mount Holyoke, founded as a seminary in 1837, constructed for itself a seminary curriculum. When, in 1888, Mount Holyoke was granted its seminary and college charter, it created a college curriculum, still retaining for its seminary students the seminary curriculum. Finally, when in 1893 Mount Holyoke was granted a college charter only, it gave up its seminary curriculum, much as Vassar and Wellesley gave up their preparatory curricula, and presented to its students a full college curriculum evolved not so much from a modification of its seminary work as from careful study of the contemporary colleges. The early pamphlets of the seminary are full of historical and sentimental interest, though the studies are the forbears of nothing in the later college curriculum. The first catalogue gives the senior class studies as chemistry, astronomy, geology, ecclesiastical history, evidences of Christianity, Whately's Logic, Whately's rhetoric, moral philosophy, natural theology, and Butler's Analogy. It would be interesting to trace the way in which Latin crept into the curriculum; the hint of it in the first catalogue, which mentions that "individuals may devote a part of their time to branches not included in the regular course of study, 'Latin, for instance ""; the notice in the catalogue of 1840-41 that the study of Latin is earnestly recom |