TABLE 37.-STATISTICS OF ENDOWED ACADEMIES, SEMINARIEs, and other PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR 1886-87-Continued. DIVISION C.-Private schools for both sexes.-PART II-Continued. ADDENDA TO THE STATISTICS OF SECONDARY INSTRUCTION. In accordance with the announcement made upon the inquiry forms issued by the Commissioner in preparation for this Report, the tables were closed at an earlier date than in former years as a means of insuring the more timely publication of the matter. Returns were received from the following schools at a date so near that assigned that it has been possible to present the leading statistics as addenda to Tables 36 and 37. These statistics are not, however, included in the foregoing discussions nor summaries, excepting only in the general summary, p. 494. Location. Memoranda for secondary institutions, 1886-87. Name. Remarks. Colusa Cal... Simsbury, Conn..... Washington, D. C... Conyers, Ga.. Madison, Ga Danville, Ill... Rock Island, I.. Anamosa, Iowa.... Pattersonville, Iowa Holton, Kansas Catlettsburg, Ky. New York, N. Y. (6 East 45th Street). ⚫Rochester, N. Y. Archdale, N. C.. Colusa Commercial and Normal Insti- Formerly St. Helena's College, tate. McLean Seminary... St. John's College Middle Georgia Institute. Select School for Girls......... removed to Colusa and name changed. Formerly Simsbury Academy. Formerly St. John's Collegiate Institute. Formerly Conyers Academy. Formerly Female High School. TABLE 38.-Comparative view of admission requirements in twenty-one representative universities and colleges; based upon the scheme in the Biennial Report of the President of the University of California, 1886.-PART I. 1636 Harvard College, A. B. Short composition upon a subject an 1701 Yale College, A. B. nounced at the time of examination and taken from one or more of the following works: Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; Johnson's Lives of Milton and Dryden; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Dryden; Paradise Lost, Books I-II; Dryden's Alexander's Feast; Quentin Durward; Irving's Bracebridge Hall. Correction of bad English. Arithmetic. Algebra. Geometry. Including the metric To quadratic equations. All of plane geometry, system, technical parts of commercial arithmetic not insisted on. except the metrical properties of regular polygons and the measurement of the circle. Same as for classical course. Plane geometry, includ Plane geometry. To logarithms in Loom- Enclid, Book I, and the is's Treatise. 1746 College of New Jersey.. Grammar; short essay (in 1887, on the life of Franklin or Scott). equations, including First 5 chapters of first 33 exercises in Todhunter's edition, or the first 4 books in other geometries, with the above exercises. Euclid I and II. ..... First 4 books of Davies' Geography. Legendre. Charter. TABLE 38.-Comparative view of admission requirements in twenty-one representative universitics and colleges, etc.-PART I-Continued. Name of college. 1791 Scientific course, B. S. Ph. B. course Ph. B. course Rutgers College. Grammar and spelling; short essay on subject from one of the follow. ing: for 1887, King Lear: School Days at Rugby; Vicar of Wakefield; Ode on Immortality. Arithmetic. Including decimal sys tem of weights and measures. Algebra. Geometry. Including metric system Through equations of Plane geometry. second degree, pro gression, and binomial formula. Including metric system Through quadratic equations, including radicals. University of Vermont. Grammar, orthography, and punctua- Arithmetic Through quadratic Plane geometry. equations. tion; for 1887 the following subjects should be read: Julius Cæsar; The Abbot; Marmion; Carlyle's Es say on Burns; Bracebridge Hall. 1793 Williams College. Short composition on subject taken Including metric system Through quadratic Plane geometry.. from one of the following works: Julius Cæsar; Merchant of Venice: Paradise Lost, I-II; Quentin Durward; Alexander's Feast; Bracebridge Hall. equations, including radicals. Correction of incorrect English; short Including metric system Through quadratic Plane geometry.. composition on subject taken from one of the following works: Julius Cæsar; As You Like It; Paradise Lost, I-II: Quentin Durward; Snow Bound; Michael; Lorna Doone. History and geography. Ancient and geography; States history. modern United Modern geography; United States history. Same as for scientific course. United Geography; States history. Ancient and modern goography. Ancient and modern ge ography. |