University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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University publications or lingering in the memory of some “olde resident” (for ten years ago reaches back to a remote period in our western, fast-moving civilization), still we can but wonder that so much was accomplished with the resources at hand. Requirements for entrance to the College of Letters and Sci- ences have gradually been raised, while within this department changes in the degrees offered and the courses leading to them have all tended toward simplification and a higher standard of attainment. At present the college proper offers courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Music. A student has a very free range of election of studies, though they are grouped to avoid a dissipation of energy among too many unrelated lines of work, and he may choose among the following branches: Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, English, Public Spealk- ing, Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Zoology, Mathematics, Economics, Political Science, Jurisprudence, History, Pedagogy, Music, Mili- tary Science, Agriculture and Horticulture, while many courses in the Civil, Mining and Electrical Engineering departments are open to those students of the College qualified to take them. Students of the College of Letters and Sciences alone are taking work this year in 118 subjects, in classes running as high as 31, while a considerably larger total of courses is offered, if account is taken of those given only in alternate years. wT 21 Gem of the Mountains 1904