Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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YEAR BOOK 29 of eleven grades may be relied upon to fit the pupil for the fourth or highest Sub-Collegiate year. We accept, therefore, without examination of students, the work of the best high schools of twelve grades as pre- paration 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 o f 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 pre- sent the following alternative requirements for admission. Fifteen units are required for admission to the Fresh- man Class; a unit is defined as one year ' s work of not less than four recitation periods per week, — provided that in the sciences, laboratory periods shall be estimated at one-half the rate for recitation periods. Of these units the following are required for all: — English, three units. Mathematics, two or three units. Physics, one unit. Language (Latin, Greek, French or German), two units. These two units must be offered in the same language. The remaining units may be offered from among the fol- lowing; and the total number of units, including the abso- lute requirements, may be offered to the extent indicated: — English, four units. Latin, four units. , Greek, three units. German, three units. French, two units. Algebra, one and one-half units.

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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 to 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 question 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 purpose of the high school may, and ought to be, ac- cepted in preparation for college. We have tried the experi- ment and ' found ft 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 persons who, under the old system, would be deprived of the advantages 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 qual- ity and extent of work done — may be trusted to prepare for the Freshman year in college; and that many of the schools

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30 ALBION COLLEGE Geometry, one and one-half units. General History, one unit. American History and Civics, one unit. English History, one unit. Physics, one unite. Chemistry, one unit. Zoology and Botany (combined), one unit. Zoology, one unit. Botany, one unit. Physiography, one unit. Any student who has not had a thorough course in both Arithmetic and U. S. History will be required to complete such work before being permitted to qualify as college Fresh- man. DESCRIPTION OF UNITS. The following descriptive outline indicates the amount of preparation expected in each of the subjects which may be offered as units. English. — The College entrance requirements in English are in accordance with the action of the Michigan Associa- tion of Colleges, at its meeting, May 25, 1895. The recom- mendations are as follows : — 1. That the several colleges of the association in their entrance requirements in English conform to the recommen- dations of The English Conference of the Eastern and Mid- dle States, as given below. 2. Further, that in these requirements they seek to de- velop in the pupils of the secondary schools the power of extemporaneous speaking. Note. — No candidate will be accepted in English for col- lege classification whose work is notably defective in point of spelling, punctuation, idiom or division into paragraphs. 1. Reading. — A certain number of books will be set for reading. The candidate will be required to present evidence of a general knowledge of the subject-matter and to answer