The sun., 1900-05-21
Delaware COLLEGE
RAISES STANDARD
0F. SCHOLARSHIP
Examinations This Year More
Difficult and Include Wider
Range of Subjects.
EFFORT TO MAKE GOOD CITIZEN
Special to The SUM-;

Newark, Del, May 20.-In accordance
with the policy Of gradually raising the
standard of scholarship at Delaware Col
lege, the examinations this year will be
somewhat more difficult than last and
will include wider range of subjects.
All candidates must pass a satisfactory
examination in English Grammar Eng
hsh Composition, Spelling, American
History, American Civil Government,
American Literature, Arithmetic, Alge.
bra through quadralics, and Plane
Geometry. Candidates wishing to enter
the Latin Scientific course will be re-
CURED TO pass an examination in the
Latin Grammar, four books OF Caesar
AID four books of Vergil. Those enter
ing the Classical Course will be exam.
med not only in Latin but in Greek
Grammar and Nenophon's Anabasis.
A failure to pass the examination in
come studies does not necessarily exclude
candidate from college, But candi-
dates admitted after unsatisfactory ex.
animation in any study must pass the
examination in such study before they
can be admitted to full class standing.
Candidates may take part of the exami-
nations in June and part at Newark on
September ii and II.
Candidates for entrance to the college
should have clear notion of what course
they wish to undertake. The engineer
ing courses, civil, mechanical and elec-
trical. are suitable to the needs of young
men who wish to practice such branches
OF engineering. Graduates in these
courses are, likely soon after leaving col.
lege to find profitable professional en-
gagements. Before undertaking such
course, however, young man should be
reasonably sure that his tastes and apti-
tudes are likely to fit for the profession
to which the course leads.
The agricultural course is we'll suited
to those who expect to undertake farm
ing upon sound scientific and practical
principles. The course offers, however,
not only technical training in agricul-
ture, but also opportunity for linguistic
and literary culture. 1t is expected that
the technically trained farmer will have
an intellectual hunger for other books
than those that treat of agriculture, and
the course accordingly is in part designed
to direct the taste in language and liter
ature.
Students who expect to study theology
law or medicine, are likely to find what
they need in the classical or the Latin
scientific course. Either OF these courses
or the modern language course will serve
the needs OF those who expect to make
teaching their life work. The last named
course will meet the needs of those who
hope, as teachers, to specialize in modern
lnguages.
Cen Iidates for entrance to Delaware
College will be examined at Newark and
at several other points in the State on
Friday and Saturyay OF commencement
week, June % aud %. 1t is expected
that candidates within easy reach Of
Newark will present themselves for ex-
animation at the college. Examiners
will attend at NIiddletown, Smyrna,
Dover Georgetown, Milford and Sea-
ford if candidates notify the president of
the college that they expect to pre-
sent themselves at such places. Ex-
animation will begin at half past nine
o'clock
Candidates for entrance to college
should bear in mind that college course
is not merely preparation for earning a
living, but more especially for living in
the broadcast and highest sense of the
word. Accordingly much time at college
is wisely spent upon those studies that
have only more or less remote bearing
upon the merely practical side OF life. 1t
is the aim of Delaware College not only
to give its graduates technical equip
ment, such as the engineering courses
mainly aim at, but as we'll to make them
good citizens and lovers of whatever is
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