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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND ARTS

Only those students who pursue a specialized course shall, as a rule, be selected from this College for fellowships, scholarships, and other similar University honors. The groups are as follows: The Classical Group, including Greek and Latin as the major subjects. One of these languages must be taken for nine, the other for six, terms. The English Group, including the Scandinavian languages. Students in this group must take two years of French or German before the beginning of the junior year. Those electing the course in language must have at least two years of German.

The German and Romance Language Group. Either Ger-

man or French may be taken as a major, but as a condition of graduation six credits in the other must be secured. Besides the required work in English, all students must elect additional English sufficient to make a total of at least three credits. Students of marked ability, taking French as a major, will be advised to take the courses offered in Spanish or Italian. The Latin and Modern Language Group, including Latin as a major and German and French as minors. Six credits in one minor are required. The Philosophical Group, including pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, and mathematics as major subjects. In this group the second year of the student's work is devoted to studies specifically preparatory to the principal subject, which is itself taken up at the beginning of the third year. Students in this group who make philosophy a major must, in the second year, make three full term-credits from among these subjects: Anthropology, psychology, economics 6 (sociology), Greek 5. Those who make psychology their major subject must, in their second year, make three full term-credits from among these subjects: Botany ib, c; economics 6; philosophy 1, 6, 9, 10; physiology 4; zoology 3. When pedagogy is the major, three second year credits