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next year have additional room. kx-
hibitions, each year, sof the work of
other art schools give the students a
basis for judging their own proficiency
and progress, while exhibitions of
copies of the masters give them the OPP
portunity to study famous schools and
m sterpieces. There are corridor ex-
hibitions each month of their own
work. The aim of the department Is
not only to teach its pupils to draw
and paint but to appreciate ART, TO
see beauty in nature, and to know why
good picture is good All work is
from the model or from life both m
doors and out, and comprises course
in charcoal and colors, besides classes
in freehand drawing, in painting ana
in pure and applied design The work
Is supplemented by the important arr
and Photographic magazines, ana a
departmental library of some hundred
volumes. The Rembrandt club holds
valuable monthly meetings which are
attended by the students. In ADDITION
to the work offered towards the col
lege degree the department offers
four year course of its own for the
completion of which it gives certlI-
icate. Courses dealing with tho ori-
entail and classical periods of archi-
lecture. sculpture, and painting, and
with renaissance and modern periods
of architecture are required of all art
studelts.
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS-MUSIO
The department of music offers in
struction in voice, plano, organ, violin
and yioloncello, complemented by
courses in harmony, counterpoint,
composition and history of music. so
great is the demand for work in this
department that nine instructors are
required, and so efficient is the In
struction that the trustees have added
the degree of bachelor of music to The
degrees conferred by the college, AM
pie opportunity Is offered for concert
and ensemble work. and an orchestra
and a band make it possible for stu
dents to find musical recreation in ac-
cordance with their bent. A Hour
ishing choral union, under the direc-
ion of the head of the department, has
given, among other things, "The Le-
gend of Don Munio," "Hiawatha's
Wedding Feast" the Creation" the
Messiah" and the Elijah" Advanced
students in organ playing have tho
unusual opportunity of using three
Inual electric Hope-Jones organ or
the latest design. All students are re-
quired to take work In at least two
branches of applied music and to ac-
company all such work by courses IN
theory. Those who complete the work
in fusic without taking the college
work necessary for degree are given
certificate by the department.
DEPARTMENTS OF GERMAN AND
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
In the field of modern languages
there are courses offered in German,
French and Spanish. Glasses are con-
Quoted largely In the language being
studied that the student may acquire
speaking as we'll as a reading vo-
cabulary, and the work in German and
French requires also the acquiring OF
scientific vocabularies. The depart
ment of German offers four full years
OF work through courses dealing with
all the important writers of prose, poe
try and drama, full semesters being
given to Schiller, Lessing and Goethe.
The department of Romance lang Iageo
offers three full years of work in French
and three in Spanish. The courses III
French embrace a study of the modern
prose drama, the romantic school, the
classic drama, and the novel OF the
nineteenth century; the courses IN
Spanish treat modern prose, poetry ana
drama, and the classics In all the
work in modern languages the en-
phasis is placed upon literary values
and literary history. To this end
there are also courses in the history OF
German and of Spanish literature.
DEPARTMENTS OF GREEK AND LATIN
In the work of the ancient languages,
| though much attention is given to-
etymology and syntax, particularly in
the freshman year, the chief emphasis
| is placed on the literary qualities OF
| the authors being read and on their
relation to their times Thus the stu
| dent becomes informed not only In the
| literary history, but also in the social
life and the philosophers of ancient
| Greece and Rome. Work in compost
ton accompanies that in translation.
For advanced students the department
| of Greek offers courses in philosophy,
history, poetry and Old Testament
| Greek; the department of Latin,
courses in Cicero's Letters, the Tus-
culan Disputations, the history of Ro-
man satire, the minor poets-Catullus'
| Lucretius, Tibullus, Propertius, OVID,
Lucan-Tacitus' Histories and Annals,
| Christian Latin hymns and Virgil's
Rucolics. The library possesses a
| full set of the Teubner Greek texts,
one hundred volumes in all, and q
fair equipment of treatises upon botn
Greek and Latin literature.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
The courses in history have boen
built up with special reference to the
needs of the undergraduate and the
practical affairs of life. To this end
| the work offered Is limited to westecn
tory. A general view of European
history since the beginning of the
| Christian era Is afforded by courses
| dealing with medieval history, the ref
ormation, the renaissance, the eigh-
teenth and nineteenth centuries. The
needs of the student of English and
American literature and life are met
by courses in English and American
social and political history, while tho
special historical foundation desired
| by those going into the law or public
| service may be had from courses in
comparative constitutional history and
American constitutional history and
law. Courses in Oriental and religious
history are offered by the department
of Biblical history and literature. The
| library contains some $500 volumes
bearing on history, biography and re-
| ligion, volumes which have been cho-
sen so carefully with reference to the
needs of the departments that their
| usefulness is far greater than their
number would indicate. Moreover, ad-
| ditions are being made rapidly, those
| last year numbering over 600 volumes.
At present the division of biography
is being developed particularly. The
| library contains much on California
| and New England history, and d good
beginning has been made toward a
historical museum.
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
The courses in the department of
mathematics are planned with especial
reference to the needs of the various
| classes of students. To this end in
the freshman year there are courses
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