apparent that two measures must be taken: The first, the establishment of a preparatory school where young women could receive the thorough training necessary for admission to a collegiate course; the second, that a thorough course of study must be prescribed for the college classes in order to secure the desired results. In this last resolve the faculty were aided by the students themselves who, feeling the need of rigid mental discipline, pleaded for the introduction of a definite system with the highest educational standard.

FIRST CLASSES.

At the close of the second year an attempt was made to form the body of students into regular classes. The result was as follows: Whole number of students.

Seniors

Juniors

Sophomores

Freshmen

Regular preparatory students

Specials

352

4

18

36

58

71

165

PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.

The preparatory department existed until 1888, when the faculty refused to admit students who were unable to enter the college classes. This was done on the plea that the admission of younger students tended to lower the standard of the institution.

PERMANENT COURSE OF STUDY.

The college did not attain a full collegiate character until the close of the third year. A plan for a permanent course of study was presented to the trustees at their meeting on June 23, 1868, and received their approval.

ORIGINAL CURRICULUM.

[From the catalogue of 1867-68.]

There are two regular courses of study pursued in the college, the classical and philosophical course and the scientific and modern-language course, and between these each student is allowed her choice. In special cases where advanced students desire to supply particular deficiencies in their previous education, courses specially suited to their wants will be arranged for them under the direction of the president and faculty.

REQUISITES FOR THE FRESHMAN CLASS.

1. For admission to the freshman class in either course the student must be prepared for examination in the following, or in equivalents: Harkness's Introductory Latin Book; Harkness's Reader; Cæsar, four books; Cicero, four orations; Virgil, six books; Harkness's Latin Grammar, complete; Robinson's University Algebra, to equations of second degree; Quackenbos's or Boyd's Rhetoric; outlines of general history.

2. A further examination will be required

(1) For admission to the freshman class, in the classical course: In Harkness's Introductory Greek Book, Xenophon's Anabasis, three books, and Kühner's Grammar, to syntax.

(2) For admission to the freshman class, in the scientific and modern-language course: In Otto's French Course, Fasquelle's Colloquial Reader, Williams's English into French.

Mathematics: Robinson's University and Racine. Algebra, completed.

English: Exercises in composition.

In the junior and senior years each student elects three of the studies laid down for each semester, subject to the approval of the faculty.

PRESENT CURRICULUM.

Various changes have taken place in the course, as may be seen by comparison of the above with the following extract from the catalogue for 1894-95:1

The plan of having two distinct courses, the classical and scientific, was abandoned, and a course partly prescribed, partly elective, was substituted.

Candidates for the freshman class are examined in the following studies: English. In 1895 every candidate will be required to write a short composition upon a subject assigned at the time and taken from one of the following works: Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night; Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Irving's Sketch Book; Scott's Abbot; Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration; Macaulay's Essay on Milton, Essay on Addison; Longfellow's Evangeline. The examination essay should cover not less than two pages, foolscap; it should be correct in spelling, punctuation, idiom, and division into paragraphs. Beginning with 1896, the entrance requirements will be as follows:

1. Reading: A certain number of books are set for reading. The candidate is required to present evidence of a general knowledge of the subject-matter, and to answer simple questions on the lives of the authors. The form of examination will usually be the writing of a paragraph or two on each of several topics, to be chosen by the candidate from a considerable number-perhaps ten or fifteen-set before him in the examination paper. The treatment of these topics is designed to test the candidate's power of clear and accurate expression, and will call for only a general knowledge of the substance of the books.

The books set for this part of the examination will be:

In 1896: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; De Foe's History of the Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveller; Scott's Woodstock; Macaulay's Essay on Milton; Longfellow's Evangeline; George Eliot's Silas Marner.

History.-Outlines of Greek and Roman history to the establishment of the Roman Empire; outlines of American or English history. Any standard history of Greece, Rome, England, or the United States may be used. The following are recommended: For Greek and Roman history, the sections on Greek and Roman history in Sheldon's General History or Myers' General History; for American history, Johnston's History of the United States or Fiske's History of the United States; for English history, Gardiner's English History for Schools or Montgomery's Leading Facts in English History.

Mathematics.-(a) Algebra: The requirements in algebra embrace the following subjects: Factors; common divisors and multiples; fractions; ratio and proportion; negative quantities and interpretation of negative results; the doctrine of exponents; radicals and equations involving radicals; the binomial theorem of the extraction of roots; arithmetical and geometrical progressions; putting questions into equations; the ordinary methods of elimination and the solution of both numerical and literal equations of the first and second degrees, with one or more unknown quantities, and of problems leading to such equations. The text-books used should be equivalent to the larger treatises of Newcomb, Olney, Ray, Robinson, Todhunter, Wells, or Wentworth.

(b) Plane geometry, as much as is contained in the first five books of Chauvenet's Treatise on Elementary Geometry, or the first five books of Wentworth's New Plane and Solid Geometry, or Wells's Plane Geometry, or the first six books of Hamblin Smith's Elements of Geometry, or chapter first of Olney's Elements of Geometry.

In order to pursue successfully the work of the college, recent review of the work completed early in the preparatory course is necessary.

Latin.-Grammar, Allen and Greenough or Gildersleeve-Lodge; Latin composition, Collar (parts third and fourth), or Daniell (parts first and second), or Allen (fifty lessons); Cæsar, Gallic War, four books; Cicero, seven orations (the Manilian Law to count as two); Vergil, Eneid, six books. Translation at sight from Cæsar's and Cicero's orations. The Roman method of pronunciation is used.

The attention of preparatory schools is specially called to the following points: 1. Latin composition: Greater thoroughness in drilling the student in the grammatical forms and simpler constructions of the language.

The advantage of studying Latin prose in connection with the various authors read.

2. Pronunciation: Practice in reading Latin with special attention to vowel quantities. Training the ear by the translation of Latin read aloud.

In addition to the Latin, one other language is required. This may be Greek, German, or French.

In 1896 a third language (French or German) will be required.

Greek.-Candidates must be able to read at sight easy Greek prose and easy passages from Homer; also, to render easy English passages into correct Greek. For this they should have thorough training in grammar, with constant practice from the start in translating sentences into Greek, and should read carefully at least four books of the Anabasis or the Hellenica and three books of the Iliad or the Odyssey, with constant practice in translating at sight. They should have at command a fair vocabulary, should be able to recognize forms at a glance, and to read Greek aloud intelligently and with correct pronunciation.

Practice in translating from hearing is recommended strongly.

German (if offered as the second language).-Candidates for the freshman class are expected to have a thorough knowledge of German grammar; they must have acquired facility in practically applying the rules of construction by translating easy English prose into German. They are also required to read and to be able to give in German some account of the following works: Immermann, Der Oberhof; Wagner, Goethe's Knabenjahre (Cambridge University Press ed.); Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm: Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (Deering ed.); Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea; Freytag, Die Journalisten.

Throughout the course German is the language of the class room, therefore good preparation in conversation is necessary, facility in reading and writing German script indispensable.

German (if offered as the third language).—Schmitz, Elements of German Language, I, II. Translation. Three of the following books: Fouque, Undine; Storm, Immensee; Heyse, L'Arrabiata; Gerstacker, Germelshausen; Freytag, Soll und Haben (Macmillan ed.).

French (if offered as the second language).—A thorough knowledge of French grammar and ability to translate easy English prose into French. (Whitney, Practical French Grammar, recommended). Six of Bocher's College Plays: Daudet, La Belle Nivernaise; Souvestre, Un Philosophe Sous Les Toits; Julliot, Mademoiselle Solange; Dumas, La Tulipe Noire; Erckmann-Chantria, Le Conscrit de 1813.

As French is the language of the class room, it is essential that candidates for admission should have some practice in French conversation.

French (if offered as the third language).—A knowledge of the fundamental principles of grammar. Whitney's Practical French Grammar, part first. Henri Greville, Dosia; Octave Feuillet, Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre; Daudet, La Belle Nivernaise, and three of Bochers's College Plays. It should be understood that in these requirements it is the knowledge of the language itself, rather than of the grammar which is demanded.

The full preparation in either French or German should cover a period of at least two years, five recitations a week, under competent instructors.

ADMISSION TO ADVANCED STANDING.

Candidates for advanced standing not coming from other colleges may be admitted, on examination, to the regular course at any time previous to the beginning of the the junior year. Such students will be examined in all prescribed studies antecedent to the desired grade, including the requirements for admission to the college, and in such elective studies as shall be chosen by the candidate and approved by the faculty.