New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-20

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THE COURSE or STUDY Ar PRINCETON
| The study of the classics was an old subject
of controversy when Mr.. Charles Francis Adj
ans IT,, delivered his address before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society ut Cambridge, in June OF last
year; but his vigorous and uncompromislng
attack upon "a college fctich" infused into
friends and foes alike more aggressive SIP rit,
which seems likely to be permanent. President
| Eliot of Harvard and President Porter OF Yale
have both found recent opportunity to express
their widely different views and now President
McCosh in q report to tho Trustees upon the
course of study ut Princeton, contributes to the
discussion strong though indirect argument
| for classical study. From the day of his ap-
| pointmcnt to the presidency of Princeton DR..
| McCosh has steadily kept in view the arrange
ment of the curriculum upon philosophical
| principles, and he now has the satisfaction OF
| informing the Trustees and the community
that the course of study is approaching the
ideal toward which his efforts have been
directed Language and Literature, Science
and Philosophy are the departments under
| L Ill ,hac nfo
tically comprchended, and it is upon the har-
monious adjustment of these departments to
each other and to the student at Princeton that
the venerable head Of that institution rests his
title as an educator
DIR. McCOsh believes that the college which
gives to students wide choice of studies dur
ing all the years OF their course commits
radical error, and he thus lays down the foun-
datiOn upon which the curriculum at Princeton
| IL based
hold that there branches tary and funda
mental which have stood the test OF time, fitted to call
forth the deeper and higher faculties of the mind and
opepine the way to farther knowledge which all should
required study Such In Language are the classical
tongues with European ones. and above all our
own tongue all OF these with their cratures Such in
Science mathematics physics chemistry AMI car6ain
branches of natural history Such in Philosophy are the
study Of the human mind psychology logic ethics and
political economy. young man is not literally edn
Gated who has allowed to omit any of these; and
certain OF them should be required in every year OF the
| course to keep the mind from being dissipated and
wasted.
This is, in fact, the keynote to the course of
study at Princeton. During the first two years
the student has no choice whatever, and 1T Is
not until his Junior year that he is supposed to
have acquired sufficient fundamental knowi-
edge and clear insight to make udicous
choice among the elective studies which are
literally provided during the last half OF his
course. The required studies are:
| Freshman year-Latn, Greek Mathematics, French
| Rhetoric with essays.
snnh,,n,rr vcat Advanced Latin Creek, Mathcmat
,cs and Rhetoric with modern languages, Elementary
| General History ana Natural History -,
Junior veal -ps,ch6logy logic Physics English IN
| pfntnfr nnd Drioty.
| ernioF vraf sclcnce mud Religon Ethies, jurspnf
Asves .Ni fButhni Ee6n6,ny, chemistry Astronomy
| n,eiape tNrish fssass ana Oittny
| ihe ept,i,e stnhlts ave ..
| iWu,as Ioa, pb,iesNphf 40 hsie,t, HWek, ia,lN,
Meqyg Manganese, ANsie eatoN, MA'hpmAiesl fhlsea
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senior year History ef Philosophy, Melaphs esi
| physiological iaiehoipgY selpaee and helisNnl
| Comparative Politics, International anN tNh
| stitutionM Law, History of Art Enslish iA'
| orature Greek, Latin, French, Gorwan, san
scrit Mathematics, Practical Astronomy, Physics Ap
| ped Chemistry, Biu.ogy or Pa'oontoosy, Histology
| In Junior year three elective studies are required III
Senior year four required IN the hrsl term anu our
| or i've In the second and third terms
Such is the scheme of study Mt Princeton.
Doubtless all who are engaged in the art OF
teaching will find in it abundant food for re-
Election and comparison. To the general reader
its chief interest lies in the assurance which 1t
conveys that Princeton purposes to remain one
| of the stanch bulwarks of classical instruction
Z Those colleges, and first OF all Harvard, which
have gone furthest in the direction OF M
elective curriculum, maintain that the result'
thus far amply justify the experiment. Ih'
students, as a body, are found to be diligen
and conscientious the standard OF attainment
is believed to be higher than under the ole
system and the usefulness of the college VIII
reference TO the pursuits of after life increaseu
Probably it would not be asserted ii
any quarter that sufficient time has we
elopsed to furnish more than mcagre indlca
tions of what may be the permanent effects
the new system. Those indications may d.
temporary. 1t is practically impossible so u
arrange an elective course that the individual
student shall not be able to slip easily through
college by choosing those branches of stud.
which he naturally learns most readily; and l
is at least well to remember that the tendenc.
of IN elective course may be, ~ the years go oy
, to attract to the colleges in which it is found
| less ambitious class of students.
/, A college course is valuable III proportion O