The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-09
TO CONFER DEGREES
NEW FEATURES ADDED TO BENE-
DICTINE COLLEGE.
ITS FIRST COLLEGIATE YEAR.
FACULTY INCREASED AND NEW
CLASSES ADDED.

Rev. Father jerome Will Assist the
Teachers Military Department
Under Col. Brooks and Will Be In
corpOrated With Georgia Gu
diets" - Applications for Enroll
ment Are Coming in Daily.
The Benedictine College, at Thirty
first and Habersham streets, will open
it's sessions for 1903-19O4 Sept. Is. The
faculty will be enlarged this year, the
classes will be increased by one, and
several other changes will be made.
Rev. Father Jerome. o. S. B., will be
added to the staff of instructors which
carried on the work of the college last
year. All of last years instructors are
retained, but the addition Of a nee
class and the indications for an in
creased enrolment of students made
the securing of another instructor nee
essary.
This year will also find the first col
legiate class beginning its work, class
made up of those who were promoted
from the academic class last year. The
work which will be done in the new
class is of a more advanced grade.
In Latin the course will take up the
study of Schultz Latin grammar, and
beginning work in prosody. Transla-
ton and grammatical analysis of the
works Of Caesar and Ovid is also re-
ouired and the student will be given a
thorough course in written exercises.
Six hours per week will be devoted to
Latin. Three hours per week will be
given to Greek, the work including
Speiss and Seiffert's grammar up to
chapter xxi, and Breiter's exercises.
Considerable attention will be given
to the study of English. In rhetoric
Quackenbos will be used and Jenkins
literature will the text book on
which the literary instruction is based.
A special study of Goldsmith, Long
fellow, and Washington Irving will be
made and the student will be required
to furnish compositions as a practl-
cal test of his mastery of the sub
1ect and his ability to put the princi-
pies which he has learned into use
Two hours will be devoted to each OF
the subjects named above.
In arithmetic Two hours instruction
will be given. the work consisting of
the completion of Mines Standard
Arithmetic. An equal amount OF time
will be given to algebra, Robinson's
University Algebra being the basis of
instruction. Robinsons Geometry will
be used, two hours being devoted to
its study.
Three hours will be given to history
the text book being SwintOn's Out
lines. Mitchells Ancient and Modern
Atlas will be the text used in instruc-
ton in geography. One hour will be
devoted to chemistry the text book
being Steele's Fourteen Weeks. Lee
lures will form a great part of the in
struction in this branch.
One hour will be given to the study
and mastery of the principles of elo-
cution. The work in this department
will be of a practical nature, the stu
dent being required to do the real work
of the course and to put the princi-
pies acquired into active practice. The
debating society will constitute a most
valuable feature of this work. Two
hours will be devoted to religious in
struction, the text book used in this
work being Deharbe. No. l.
Cadets a Part of Georgia Cadets"
The military department will again
be under the supervision of Col. Jor-
dan F. Brooks, G. S. T., and his per-
sonal attention will be given to the
drilling of the cadets and to their in
struction in the manual of arms and in
military tactics. The daily drill is
compulsory. The good effects of the
discipline and work in the military
department is one which is unques-
toned, and considerable attention will
be paid to it's development.
Under the military code there is pro-
vision for all bodies of school cadets
becoming part of what is known as
the Georgia Cadets" All the officers
between the rank of lieutenant and ca
det-major receive their commissions
from the Governor. These commissions
they hold as long as they are students
at the school. The commissioning of
the officers by the state gives them
many advantages, allowing them to
carry arms during parades and also
giving them an authority which they
would not possess We're thew sin,nlv
holding their rank under the laws Of
the school. The incorporation of the
cadets into the Georgia Cadets" does
not make them liable to service during
riots, etc, and does not make them
state officers, though it establishes their
rank unquestionably and their commits
slons would no doubt be recognized by
all military schools of the country.
Large Enrolment.
The indications are that there will
De largely increased enrolment of
students at the college this year. AL
ready there have been a number of
applications snt to the secretary and
before the time for opening the college
there will be double that number filed
Rev. Father Bernard is very anxious
mat all applications for enrolment in
the school should be handed in before
sept Is in order that arrangements
can be made for uniforms and other
necessities of the college life.
The course of work. the number of
classes IN which will be added TO
each year until the four classes
In the collegiate department filled
out, is SO arranged that gradu-
ates are admitted to all the colleges of
tne country. The course has been
planned so that it will meet all the re-
qulrements of the New York Board of
Regents, standard which is un-
equalled throughout the country. and
this tact makes it a particularly de-
slrable one for those preparing for adj
Vanced course in law, medicine theol-
ogy or philosophy. The instruction is
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