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COLLEGE OF LITERATURE AND ARTS COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

All the prescribed subjects must be finished by the end of the sophomore year. The following statement gives the years and semesters in which they occur:

FIRST YEAR.

Fifteen to eighteen hours' work per week, exclusive of military and physical training, must be chosen each semester from among the following subjects: those in italics must be in the list chosen. It is expected that five hours in natural science will be taken each semester from the options named below; but if one desires to pursue an extended course in physics instead, he may take up that subject in the sophomore year.

First Semester—• History: Medieval and Modern European History (Hist, i ) , or 19th Century (Hist. 2) ; 2 or 3 hours. Language and Literature: English 1, 5 hours; French 1, or German 1, or Greek 1, or Latin 1, 5 hours; Rhetoric I, 3 hours. Mathematics: Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry (Math. I, 2 or 3, 4), 5 hours. Military: Tactics and Drill (Mil. 1,2); 2 hours. Natural Science: Astronomy 5, or Biology 1, or Botany 2, or Chemistry 1, or Physiography 1, or Zoology 5 or 6; 5 hours. Physical Training—• For men—Physical Training 1, 3 ; 1^4 hours. For women—Physical Training 7, 9; 2 hours. Second Semester— History: Mediaeval and Modern European History (Hist. 1), or 19th Century, or Roman History (Hist. 2 or 6) , 2, 3, or 5 hours. Language and Literature: French 1, or German 8, or Greek 2, or Latin 1, continued as begun in the first semester; 5 hours. Rhetoric 1, continued ; 3 hours. Mathematics: Solid and Spherical Geometry; 3 hours. Military: Drill (Mil. 2) ; I hour. Natural Science: Astronomy 4, or Botany I, or Chemistry 2 or 2a or 3a or 3b, or'Geology 3, or Physics 2, or Physiology 4, or Zoology 1, 6, or 7; 5 hours.