Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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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 The privilege of pursuing special subjects will be withdrawn from all who fail to comply with such regulations.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

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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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A ADELP1-11 ACADEMY. 23 The Course of Study. The new course of study for the Adelphi Academy, herewith presented, has been partly anticipated during the present year and will be the normal curriculum of the school after the opening of the next Fall term in September, 1894. Arrangements will be made wherever necessary to facilitate the transfer of existing classes from the old curriculum to the new one. For a year or two, conse- quently, it will not be possible to avoid a few deviations from the new curriculum in minor points of detail. The attention of the community is especially invited to the following principal features of the new Adelphi curriculum : Firsl. The Early Study of Modern Languages. The study of modern languages begins among the primary grades. During the five years after leaving the Kindergarten the pupil will be enabled to give four years to German. and two years to French, and he may make the study of either language almost continuous, if he wishes, from that time until graduation. German and French are taught to the little ones conversationally, and the beginnings of Latin study are introduced in a partly similar way. English, German, French and Latin are thus closely associated as language studies rather than as grammar studies, and they are all made to contribute together to the acquisition of a copious and well-chosen vocabulary in the mother-tongue. Latin and Greek are each begun one year earlier than heretofore. Sammi. The Correlation of Studies. In the Academic grades, especially, the studies of English, History, Geography and Natural History, are closelyfaffiliated with one another' upon' a systematic plan. The study of English reading and of English sentences will be based largely upon historical, geographical and science readers. These readers are selected with especial reference to the synchron-