The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-24

the students into the classes as under
the old curriculum. Sometimes the
students who hoped to take degree at
any particular time organize them
selves into a class and sometimes they
call themselves by the names used un-
der the old system, but this class is
never found as whole in any recita
! tion room.
The course Of study is divided into
ten schools, " each of which is distinct
from the others. Each student takes
such of these schools as his prepara-
tion, inclination, and plans of life rem
der most appropriate, and he takes
| theHl l1in such order as his circum-
stances seem to dictate. Some mem
Der of the Faculty is constituted the
adviser of each student, and the stu
dent cOnsults with his adviser as to the
schools which it will be best for him to
take and which he would best take
first. Sometimes it happens that in
the same class will be found students
who are in the last year of the course,
and others who are just beginning.
Sometimes a student who has special
aptitude for mathematics will be fin
ishing that school, when he is just be-
ginning that of Latin or Greek, or
vice versa.
In the classroom the methods of in
struction are those best approved,
rather than those often called most
improved. A method is not rejected
and disused because it is old, nor is it
adopted because it is new. But by Sc
lecting that from the old which has
been approved by experience, and
adopting from the new only what has
been similarly approved, it is attempt
ed to give to each student the most
thorough mental culture possible for
his cast of mind and under his peculiar
circumstances. Patient and persistent
drill on the details of the subject
taught in the textbook, familiar lee
ture and explanation of the matter Of
the lesson, more formal lecture on kim
dred matters not contained in the text
DOOk, I9CICI1S1 1SCtNi1A1$5, 4lICLoOA "a
pertinent, original investigation and
research, ali ar2 Drought il&t0 reqUisi,
tion to aid in securing this training.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION.
Only two degrees are now offered to
students, Bachelor Of Arts and Master
of Arts. But to one who desires the
first of these degrees, there is offered a
, choice from six different courses.
Each course comprehends about four
years study with Is to II recitations
per week, making the number about
65 for the whole course. One whose
bent of mind and chosen profession
{ lead him to desire extended linguistic
| study may take 40 of the IS in the va
: riOus schools of ancient and modern
2 languages. Or he may take a course
, which involves only "a in languages,
, always including English. He may
( take the whole course in Pure Mathe
matics, the relative number of which
, is 13, or he may take a shorter course
| amounting to 10. The school of Mora
| PHILOSOPHY is included in every
7 course, and half that of Political Sci
? ence. In the schools of the Natura
: Science various combinations may bt
, made, according as one science or an
other is likely to be practical to thC
| student, and the numbers may rang
{ from IL to 25. Nor is it meant tina
) the student must have simply ATTENDED
t the lectures of the Professors accession
| ally or regularly in these various
? schools, but he must be able to SHOW
: by rigid written examinations that h,
+ has obtained reasonable mastery of thu
subject taught.
| The requirements for the degree O
Master of Arts involve about one
fourth more work in addition to thar
required for Bachelor of Arts.
; ITS ALUMNI
During the half century of the ex
istence of the College many have taken
the full course and are making them
selves felt in many ways over a wide
territory Many others have lacked
only a year or so of finishing the course,
. and SO have taken no degree, but the
: training they have received has made
them men of influence in the commu-
mites in which they live. All over
North Carolina are found these men
who have gone out from Wake Forest
College. Some are lawyers, standing
in the very forefront of their profes-
sion, useful, honorable men, showing
by their lives the mistake of those who
say that lawyer can not be a Chris