Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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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.

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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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30 ALBION COLLEGE We accept, therefore, without examination of students, the work of the best high schools of twelve grades as prepara- tion for college. Under the same conditions we shall admit into our fourth Sub-Collegiate year from schools of eleven grades which are known to be doing satisfactory work. We advise students to pursue the same general line of work as that in which they have been prepared for college. No one class of work can arrogate to itself the term culture. Many lines of work lead to the same end if intelligently and faithfully pursued, and each brings its possessor power and success. This idea has now so far won acceptance that we present the following alternative requirements for admission. One hundred and eighty term-hours will be required for admission to the Freshman class. Of this the following sub- jects are required of all: — English, three years. Mathematics : Algebra, one and one-third years ; Geom- etry, Plane, Solid and Spherical, one year. Laboratory Science (Physics preferred), one year. Language (Latin, Greek, French or German), two years. The remainder of the work may be offered from among the following subjects, and to the extent indicated: — Latin, four years. Greek, two years. French, two years. German, three years. English and American Literature, one year. General History, one year. English History, one year. American History, one year. Botany, one year. Zoolog}% one year. Botany and Zoology combined, one year. Physics, one year. A term-hour is one hour per week through one term of twelve or thirteen weeks.