Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ADELPHI ACADEMY. 21 The 'Collegiate Course offers a comprehensive education in Languages, Literature, History and Politics, Philosophy and the Fine Arts, and Natural Science. The Scientific Course gives a thorough preparation for any advanced scientific or technical college, while graduates from this course will have an assured practical knowledge of Physics, Chem- istry, Mathematics and its applications in Mechanics and Surveying, l-Iistory and Languages, including the mother-tongue. The choice of elective studies in any of these courses is made subject to the approval of the Faculty. The diploma of the Academy is given to every student who com- pletes any one of these prescribed courses? If any regular student in the Collegiate Department goes from the Academy to a college or university, the diploma of- the Academy may be granted to him or her in due course upon evidence that an equivalent of the remain- ing work in the Adelphi curriculum has been satisfactorily performed in the class-rooms of such a college or university. In the Art Department students may follow special lines of work, or may take a more systematic and comprehensive course, four years in length. The Department of Physical Culture offers facilities for out- door and indoor exercise of all kinds and grades. From the be- ginning of the Adelphi Academy this Department has performed an important- and prominent work in it. The curriculum of this De- partment is coterminous in years with that of the Academy, and special students are 'enabled to pursue special lines of exercise un- der competent direction. Admission of Students.-The regular examinations for ad- mission will take place on june 13, 1894, and on September 19, zo and zr, 1894, at the Academy. Admission at any time is granted to those Who pass satisfactory examinations in the work that has been done by the classes which they propose to enter. Students from other schools who have not had all the studies offered in the earlier years rin the year 1894 the former usage of allowing classical students to graduate with only three years of work in the Collegiate Department will be observed for the last time.

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22 ADELPH1 ACADEM.Y. K of the Adelphi, may be admitted under special conditions, enabling them to make up the omitted work. Pupils from the Brooklyn Public Schools will he exempted from examinations for admission to the Academic Department on those subjects for which they present a certificate showing a standing of not less than 75 per cent. Persons who wish to enter the Academy for the purpose of studying special subjects must give satisfactory evidence of ability to'pursue such studies, and must conform to all the regulations pre- scribed for those in the regular courses. The privilege of pursuing special subjects will be withdrawn from all who fail to comply with such regulations. . - Q mgiigggtlfb