The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-24
PROSPECTS OF STATE UNIVERSITY
New School Opens With Promise of largest Attend
ance in Its History.

The University OF South Dakota
.,eued the new school year with the
arrest prospects for large attendance
!, the college proper and the law
.rhooI The applications for admls-
,np and the calls for rooms are great
= than IN almost any previous year.
new course of study adapted to
,Ae wants of the people of South Da-
lota and to the condition Gf its schools
ras adopted under President Drop
rsr's administrator. replacing a more
~ less ironclad arrangement. This
,sv course seems admirably adapted
n the needs of the new state where
me high schools have not agreed on a
rnlform course, or have done so so re-
csntly that no result sare apparent.
This course of study was carefully
'thought out and 1t is surprising that it
meets so many of the needs of the va
r,ous classes of students. Its require
nsnts for admission have followed
4, those of some of the best schools of
The country, requiring English and
mathematics in sufficient quantity to
Insure successful work along these and
|cther lines. The university then ac-
[eepts the work of high schools of
which It approves, making a years
+ work OF four recitatious per week the
INIT to which it gives two credits. 1t
requires &c credits for admission to the
freshman class. This puts the uni
|versity In touch with the high schools
4 ~ the state and enables any high
school with a four-year course to send
lis graduates directly to the freshman
|class, while it at the same time cred
HIS every other high school with all its
4 work. It's freshman year is composed
|of five groups, adapted to the wishes
land desires of the various classes of
students. In each of these groups,
however, mathematics. chemistry and
English are found. AS the freshman
|year is made up Of five subjects. the
bother two may be Latin and Greek,
latin and French, Latin and German,
herman and Greek or French and Ger
'nan An additional group has also
been formed for those who wish only
|pne foreign language, anu in the place
|pf one Of the foreign languages found
d each of the above groups. a second
Science, either biology or geology. may
Ne taken. At the close of the freshman
kear an official adviser is appointed for
bach student and with his advice and
<consent the student now selects the
Remainder of his course as his tastes
md talents direct. The studies of the
3ast three years are divided into four
General groups, the language group,
fhe general science group, the history
Ind social science group and the Eng
5sh philosophical group. Each OF
Ihese is divided into several sub
groups. For instance, the language
froup is divided into the Latin-Greek,
.atin-French, Latin-German and Ger
ban-French groups. The general sci
nee group is divided into the mathe-
batics.physics, chemistry biology and
be chemistry-geology groups. Two
COURSES must be taken by the student
those subjects giving the name to
De group, and three more In closely
telated lines. This assures a thorough
fnowledge of some definite subjects,
4nce seven Of the fifteen courses re-
Banning to the student after the fresh