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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE A N D ARTS.

AIMS AND SCOPE. The College of Literature and Arts includes those branches usually comprised in a department of philosophy and arts, with the exception of the natural sciences. The aim of the college is a double one: to furnish a liberal education, and to afford the largest opportunity for specialization in literary and philosophical subjects. It is believed that this double purpose can be best accomplished by a judicious combination of disciplinary and information studies, which, while so directing the work of the student as to secure the desired mental training, shall also allow him large liberty of choice both in his main lines of work and in subjects auxiliary thereto. In accordance with this general plan, a minimum of prescribed work is laid out for the first two years of the course. The whole of the work for the first year, and part of that of the second, is prescribed. The work for the rest of the course is elective. Within the limits of the prescribed work, moreover, there is permitted to the student a choice of lines of work. He may choose a classical course, in which case he is required to take Greek and Latin for the first two years. He may, on the other hand, choose a modern language or a general philosophical course. In these cases he may take any one of the four foreign languages listed among the requirements, and any science open to him. In the choice of his electives other than his major work the student may take a minimum of work in a maximum number of subjects, or he may take a maximum amount of work in the minimum number of subjects necessary to fill uj> his time according to the rules of the University. The elective courses open to the students of the College include subjects from the Colleges of Agriculture, Science, and Engineering. The sciences are not an integral part of the work of this College; but the training derived from their study is so important a part of a liberal education that every student of the College is earnestly advised to extend his study of the sciences so far as may be. Many of the subjects offered naturally fall into groups: as, for example, the Ancient Languages and Literature; Modern Languages and Literature, the PMlosophical studies, including Psychology, Logic, Philosophy, Ethics, Pedagogy, and History and the group of political sciences. In accordance with this