The evening times., 1895-08-10
New Departments to he Started and
General Impetus Apparent
I'm Local Colleges.

many reasons. The old system of nigh
classes seemed to be especially designc
for department clerks. Regular practi
tioners objected to the graduates OF thes
classes holding their official positions an
then devoting their evening hours TO med
cal and surgical practice. Besides thi
the hospitals of Washington have advance,
SO that splendid opportunity is afforde,
for the study of clinics. This nospta
experience was impossible for night classes
but IL is no less necessary for well equip
ped medical graduate.
Georgetown has even gone further thar
this. preliminary examination will b
an imperative prerequisite for admission
to the medical school. This will consist OF
an English composition In the applicanti
own handwriting: the fundamental rulei
Of arithmetic, Algebra, through quadratics
elementary physics, Gage; and an &c.
Quaintance with Latin, equal to one years
regular study. Those who are conditioned
In any OF these branches will be given ons
year to make up the deficiency.
Heeafter an applicant for the n,etica
course at Georgetown Will have to sho "
thatihe Is fitted to begin his studies.
| Important improvements have also
been made In the curriculum. DR.. T. Morii
Murray will give a special course on ply
steal diagnosis. DR.. Hugh n. Smith, ad
1unct professor OF anatomy, In charge OF
normal histology.
Thorough instruction in military sur.
| gerry VIII be given by Or. George NJ.
| KobeE This course. with hygienic in
struction by the same professor, will ex-
tend over two years. Three years will
| be devoted to materia medica and thera.
peutics. The first year will be devoted
| to preparations, weights, measures, in
| compatibilities and the elements of phar.
macy: the second and third to the physio-
| logical action of drugs.
DR.. j. j. KinyOun, the bacterioIogist, will
| be assisted by Drs. Austin O'Malley and
| Edward A. Penny.
The school will make especial efforts
to carry out the provisions of the ana
tomical act passed by the last Congress,
and additional material will hereafter
be provided to facilitate the practical
study of anatomy.
The postgraduate course of this uni
versity was established in 1S49. and has
continually advanced its curriculum This
year there is decided development In
ethics more extended application of
ethical principles to modern conditions
of society will be conducted four hours
every week. This Will include close
examination Ia to the vital questions of
the day, property, socialism. communism,
capital. labor. land, the state, church and
school, and the principles of political
economy.
more advanced course Of literature will
be conducted three hours a week and viii
comprise an analytical, comparative aud
critical history OF the chief literatures
OF the worid-Oriental, classical, metIiae-
val, renaissance and the various modern
literatures of Europe
COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY.
The new faculty Of the dental school
shows few changes. DR.. Henry C. Thomp-
sou is president, and DIR. 7 Hall LIE wis dean.
Dr. D. Webster Prentice is profess or
OF meteria medica; D. Kerfoot shute,
professor Of anatomy; Emil A. schmeinitz,
professor OF. chemistry; william Carr,
professor of physiology. Dr. verauus
A. Moore has been promoted to the chair
of normal histology, and Walter A Low
and Charles R. Rice are ne WY appointed
demonstrators.
school adds new feature, by an intro
ductory course of the Polish language
and literature. This is an experiment of
teaching the slavonic languages, and if
successful, Bohemian will lie added to
next years course. a collection OF Polish
national songs and poetry and legends
will be studied. together with the syn
tactical structure Of the Language, its
istory and foreign clements
This department is under the direction
of Hermann schoenfeld, h. D.. graduate
of the universities Of Berlin, Breslan and
Leipsig, and the author OF Higher Educa-
ton in Poland" published in connection
with the Bureau of Education
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. i
The worknien win leave Mcmahon Hall
about September 10. The building is now
receiving the finishing touches to the
ornamental woodwork, ard the furniture
for the lecture halls and class-rOoms is
now being shipped.
The hau will be formally opened on |
Tuesday, October 1, when Mgr. satoIH |
and the cardinal VIII preside at tae cere- |
monies. This school will comprise tho |
department. OF philosophy, proper, of let |
tcrs, of mathematics, Of Physical sciences, |
of technology aud Of tho biological studies, !
and is 10 be known as the Mcmahon School /
of Philosophy.
For the department of letters Dr. Henry
Hyvernat, d. d., Is chief Instructor of |
literature.
DR.. Hyvernat Will conduct a primary |
course Of Oriental studies for such es de-
sire thorough pathological and archae-
olnEtcal fra lining i'm order 70 mn ke a sro-
cialty- of the languages ard antiquities
Of the Semitic countries.
Rev. Da:Iel Quinn, VINO has been In Eu-
rope since the spring, IL daily expected at
The university. Dr. Quinn will be profess
,or of Greek and head of the academy Of |
Hellenic studies. In this connection he will
yubiish at the hall a Greek periodical, called
he Dcition, the first OF its kind ever printed
IN this country, and which will lie entirely
ievoted 10 the revival OF ancient and the
Itndy Of modern Greek
The handsome residence that Judge OBJ
.rtson. dean OF the law school, is erecting
n the university grounds is almost COM
,leted. Judge z Robertson and his family
Ire now in New Haven, Conn, where the
udse has for many years been connected
With Yale as dean and lecturer In the law
department..
A TEN DAYS FREE DEFER.