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t riggir- C W THE ' U ifaoetefir Q- Ari , ? THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT HE present Academic Department, which embraces the sub-departments of Modern Languages and Latin, Mathematics, Eng- lish, and History and Economics, was established for rather, re-established, for an Academic Department is no new thing at Virginia Polytechnic Institutej by the Board of Visitors in July, 1915. In the following January, the new department made its first appearance in the college catalog, and the one course, General Science, offered in this department was duly outlined and tabulated. 'At the present time fDecember, 19165 there are seventeen students taking the General Science course, these being distributed as follows: Senior, one, Sophomores, five, Freshmen, ten, Special, one. DEAN NEWMAN That the course should? have made so prompt an appeal to the student-body is perhaps due to three things. In the first place, the General Science course is designed to meet the needs of those men who for various reasons wish to attend Virginia Polytechnic Institute, but who do not care to pursue any of the purely technical courses offered, in other words, it is a general college course, with, however, as the name implies, special emphasis upon such fundamental sciences as mathematics, physics, chemistry, physiology, biology, and geology. Secondly, it is the most liberally elective course offered at the Institute, and, in a school where the various lines of study are so largely prescribed, this fact doubtless has its attractions. At the outset, the student may elect between Latin and one of the modern languages, and in the Junior and Senior years only about half of both classroom and laboratory work is definitely specified. Finally, the ,course contains a number of valuable subjects of instruction not included in other courses. Among these are Latin, astronomy, political science, logic, and psychology, and others will certainly be added if a demand for them develops. As the Academic Department grows older, and the General Science course becomes stronger and better known, the number of students taking this course will doubtless increase. For those who desire to prepare themselves to be teachers in the high schools of the State, and especially in the agricultural high schools, the course should have a particularly strong appeal. To the prospective lawyer, doctor, or minister it offers that general training which should precede the more highly specialized course of study. As preparation for a life of general business activity, it presents many attractive features. Certainly it would seem to meet a real need, by thus furnishing a liberal college education of scientific type as the broad foundation upon which a successful career of almost any kind may be permanently built. P L' ' 'J ' an ' f nv ... - - eg - 7, R ,, -,W P 28
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' I V V 'II 3 ' ' ? Eff PROFESSOR CAMPBELL DR. WILLIAMS PROFESSOR DRINKARD fi-'ini' ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT CAROL MONTGOMERY NEWMAN, Dean of the Academic Department, Professor of English. . B. A. Kings College, 18975 M. A., University of Virginia, 19015 Ph. D., University of Virffinia 1903 THEODORICK PRYOR CAMPBELL Dean of the Faculty Pvofessor of Modern Languaqes and Lafm B A Hampden Sidney 1880 M A Hampden Sidney 1882 JOHN EDWARD WILLIAMS Pvofessor of Mathematzcs B A Hampden Sidney College 1892 M A University of Virginia 1901 Ph D University of Virginia 1899 ALFRED WASHINGTON DRINKARD Pvofessm of Economacs and Polmcal Sczeuce B S Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1893 M S Virginia Polytechnic Instltute 1895 CLARENCE PAUL MILES Associate Professm of lllodewt Languages B S Virginia Polytechnic Instltute 1901 M S Virginia Polytechnic Institute WILLIAM MAYO BRODIE Assoctate Professor of Mathematzcs B S V1rg1n1a Polytechnic Institute 1901 M E V11g1H13 Polytechnic Institute 1902 M A Columbia University 1914 JOHN JAMES DAVIS Assoczate Pvofessor of Modem, Languages B S Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1: 1 - , 1 1 . , . . ., - , . ., - , . - , I I - - Q, 3 1 ' '7 ' 2 ' 'Q a ' I I . A .J-. . A , . . . ., 9 r - -r y - , . - . . ., 1 1 ' -7 ' , ' . . ., 7 1 ' '1 7 7 ' -1 , . , ' . . .,
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