Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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ALBION COLLEGE out the year. This course will consist of illustrated lectures, recitations and laboratory work. It must be preceded by a course in Algebra and one in Plane Geometry. HISTORY AND CIVICS. Course I. — United States History. Five hours per week throughout the Fall and Winter terms. McLaughlin ' s His- tory of the American Nation will be used as a text. Collat- eral reading will also be required; The main purpose of the course is the narrative histor} ' and the history of institution making. Course II. — General History. Four hours per week throughout the year. A. — Grecian History. A general study of the country, customs, manners and government of Greece. Text, Morey ' s History of Greece. B. — Roman History. A study especially designed to ac- quaint the student, in a general way, with the development of the Roman constitution. Text, Morey ' s Outlines of Roman History, and the Development of the Roman Constitution by Tighe. C. — Mediaeval History. Three hours per week during the Winter term. This course is intended to give the student a general knowledge of the Dark Ages. Text, Myers ' Mediae- val and Modern History. D. — Modern History. Three hours per week during the Spring term. Outline study of the Reformation in Germany and England; the Revolt of the Netherlands; the growth of absolute monarchy in France; the French Revolution, etc. Text, Myers ' Mediaeval and Modern History. Course III. — Civil Government. Five hours per week during the Spring term. Outline of national, state and local government, with especial reference to Michigan. Texts, Boynton ' s School Civics and McKone ' s Michigan State and Local Government.

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YEAR BOOK 27 Course I. — A, B and C. Beginning Algebra. Three hours per week throughout the year. A study of the Algebraic sym- bols, and of the fundamental operations, factoring, factor theorem, fractions and simple equations. Course II. — A, B and C. Third Preparatory Algebra. Two hours per week throughout the year. Simultaneous equa- tions, graphs, inequalities, involution, evolution, theory of exponents, radicals, and quadratic equations. Course III. — A, B and C. Plane Geometry. Three hours per week throughout the year. In Geometry the prominent aim is to develop logical reasoning power, clear conceptions and accurate language, to which end the benefits of this branch are well known. A large amount of original inventional work is performed, and due attention given to the practical applications of the subject. This course is intended to be taken with Course II. Course IV. — A, B and C. Fourth Preparatory Algebra. Two hours per week throughout the year. A study of simul- taneous quadratics, variables and limits, indeterminate equa- tions, ratio, proportion, progression, binomial theorem, unde- termined coefficients and logarithms. Course V. — Fourth Preparatory Geometry. Three hours per week throughout the year. A — Plane Geometry reviewed and completed. B. — Solid Geometry. A study of lines and planes in space and of polyhedrons. C. — Solid Geometry continued. A study of the cylinder, cone and sphere. PHYSIOLOGY. A course of five hours per week, during the fall term of the first year. An elementary course, not experimental, but illustrated by such dissections and exhibition of mounted specimens as may be necessary to make the subject real. PHYSICS. The course in Physics, in the last year of the preparatory course, will be a five hours ' course and will extend through-

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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. The foregoing statement of the work of the Preparatory School presents the provisions made by the institution to fit for college. The larger field of preparation, however, is the High Schools. The Faculty of Albion College have long believed that the requirements for admission fb college should exhibit a high degree of flexibility. They have recognized the fact that the high school exists to meet local wants, and does its work best when it most fully meets such wants. For some years the Faculty of Albion College have been studying this ques- tion in the light of all the information they could obtain, with a careful scrutiny of the principles involved, and have reached the conclusion that the courses of study best adapted to the purposes of the high school may, and ought to be, accepted in preparation for college. We have tried the experiment and found it successful, of taking the student at the point up to which the best schools have educated him, giving him credit for all his work, in the line he has chosen. This practically throws college doors open to a large number of young per- sons who, under the old system, would be deprived of the ad- vantages provided in the higher institutions of learning. By this plan we do not admit at any lower point of scholarship, but make the lines of study in preparation more flexible, holding that it is training and culture that are needed, which can be secured through superior and adequate range of work, rather than by adherence to the old methods of following always a special line of studies. We have found that a large number of schools of twelve grades — in the quality and extent of work done — may be trusted to prepare for the Freshman year in college ; and that many of the schools of eleven grades may be relied upon to fit the pupil for the fourth or highest Sub-Collegiate year.