THE new catalogue, for 1905-1906,

THE new catalogue, for 1905-1906, has just been published, and in appearance and arrangement conforms to the high standard set by the Dean's Office in the catalogues of previous years. No college in the country puts out a similar publication that surpasses this in any way, and few equal it. It has been said that a college education is needed to read and understand the entrance requirements for any of our American colleges. This may still be true of Dartmouth, but an effort has been made to more sharply define the requirements and to more clearly express. them by point equivalents.

"For admission without condition a candidate must secure credit for twenty-one points; a point represents a course of study of at least three periods per week for a year ; the credit by points is indicated by figures in parentheses after the courses."

RATING OF THE COURSES English (4) History I (2) History II (2) Mathematics I (4) Latin (6) Greek (5) Modern Languge, 2 yrs. (3) Modern Language, 1 yr. (1) Chemistry (1) Physics (1) Biology (1) History, 1 yr. (1) History, 2 additional yrs. (3) Mathematics II (3) Latin, 2 yrs. (3)

"All candidates for the A.B. degree must present English (4), History I or History II (2) , Mathematics I (4), and Latin (6) aggregating 16 points ; for the remaining 5 points a candidate may present Greek (5), or Modern Language (3) and a Science (1) and either an additional year of a modern language (1) or an additional year of history (1). (Candidates presenting Greek must present History 1).

All candidates for the B.S. degree must present English (4), History I or History II (2), Mathematics I (4), and a Modern Language (3), aggregagating 13 points ; for the remaining 8 points a candidate must present two of the following four subjects : Mathematics II (3), Latin 2 yrs. (3), Second Modern Language (3), two additional years of History (3), making 6 points, and two of the Sciences, Chemistry (I), Physics (I), Biology (I)."

TABULATION OF REQUIREMENTS

A.B. DEGREE English (4) History (2) Mathematics I (4) Latin (6) (16) and either Greek (5) or Modern Language (3) One Science (1) and either Modern Language, 1 yr. (1) or History, 1 yr. (1) (5) (21) B.S. DEGREE English (4) History (2) Mathematics I (4) Modern Language (3) (13) and two of Mathematics II (3) Latin, 2 yrs. (3) Second Mod. Lang. (3) History, two add. yrs. (3) (6) andtwo of Chemistry (1) Physics (1) Biology (1) (2)(21)

REQUIREMENTS IN BRIEF

"English—The New England College Entrance Requirements in reading and study,—three periods per week for four years.

"History I.—Greek History to the death of Alexander, and Roman History to the accession of Commodus,—three periods per week for two years (or five periods per week for one year).

"History II.—English History and American History,—three periods per week for two years (or five periods per week for one year).

"Mathematics I.—Algebra through the binomial theorem for positive integral exponents, and Plane Geometry. Review of Algebra in last year.

"Mathematics II.—Algebra through Logarithms, Plane and Solid Geometry, and Plane Trigonometry. Review of Algebra.

"Latin.—Caesar, four books; Cicero, six speeches ; poetry, 6000 lines ; Latin Composition and sight reading.

"Latin (two years).—Latin Lessons; Caesar, four books, with elementary prose composition.

"Greek.—Anabasis, four books; 1500 lines of Homer; Greek composition and sight reading.

"French.—Five periods per week for two years. Translation of at least 800 pages into English. French composition.

"German.—Five periods per week for two years. Translation of at least 400 pages into English. German composition.

"hemistry.—Three periods per week for one year, one-half in laboratory.

"Physics.—Three periods per week for one year, with at least forty experiments in laboratory.

"Biology.-Three periods per week for one year; Zoology, one-half year, Botany, one-half year, or either, one year."

The revised figures concerning the attendance and distribution of the College and the Associated Schools are as follows:

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

Graduate Students 29 Seniors 167 Juniors 190 Sophomores 238 Freshmen 303 Total 927

GENERAL SUMMARY OF STUDENTS

Dartmouth College 927 Tuck School 23 Thayer School 38 Medical School 59 Total (deducting for names inserted twice) 998 Summer School (session of 1905) 87

DISTRIBUTION BY STATES AND COUNTRIES

Massachusetts 418 South Dakota 2 New Hampshire 243 Wisconsin 2 Vermont 78 California 1 Illinois 54 Canada 1 New York 54 Indiana 1 Maine 44 Kansas 1 Connecticut 22 Kentucky 1 Ohio 14 Maryland 1 Colorado 12 Mexico 1 Missouri 8 Minnesota 1 New Jersey 8 , New Mexico 1 Pennsylvania 6 South Carolina 1 Rhode Island 6 Tennessee 1 District of Columbia 5 Texas 1 Iowa 3 Turkey 1 Nebraska 3 Washington 1 Michigan 2

Attention is called also to the scholarships outside the regular scholarship aid, Twelve scholarships, yielding two hundred dollars each for one year, are open to graduates of the college who wish to continue their studies in residence. These scholarships are designed particularly for those who intend to teach, but are not limited to those who have this end in view, unless so specified. A graduate student receiving a scholarship may have his tuition fee remitted in return for service rendered as an assistant in the department in which he is doing his work, or in return for clerical service in one of the college offices. In addition to these twelve scholarships, two of the scientific departments have special funds for graduate study on the part of men who may serve as assistants, to whom the tuition fees are also remitted.

Mrs. Frances Woodbury of New York City has given the sum of $5000 for two scholarships, to be known as THE CHARLES' HOWE WOODBURY SCHOLARSHIPS. The income of these scholarships is to be given to two students of the Senior class each year who are intending to make law a profession, who have shown by previous college work special attainment and fitness for the study of law.

THE RICHARD FOSTER SCHOLARSHIP of $3000, given by Sarah B. Foster, of Washington, D. C., is of a like nature,—"The income to be assigned to a student of the Senior class who has shown special attainment and fitness for the study of theology."

These scholarships, put at the stage of the college course when specialization begins, are designed to help capable men in their efforts to fit themselves to enter specified professions. The field is a wide one, and the opportunity for offering this kind of help is one that may well appeal to others desiring to offer scholarship aid of special designation to the College.

Meanwhile the Tuck School is enabled to offer six positions of the value of $125 a year each, in connection with the administration of the School, to men whose records of attainments and testimonials in respect to business aptitude show promise for the future.

President Tucker recently spoke upon the administration of the modern college. His words upon athletics in general, and football in particular, are of particular interest at this time when there is so much discussion of these subjects. He said:

"There is one feature of college administration in its relation to student life which is apt to be overlooked, namely, the necessity for taking account of leisure as well as of work. . It is the recognition of this fact which has let in, or brought in, organized athletics to the modern college. Athletics has proved to be the best employment of the leisure of a college which has been devised. It has displaced a very considerable amount of mere idleness or gross dissipation. I lay more stress upon its mental than upon its physical effect. Physically organized athletics affect the fewmentally they affect the whole body of students. I am well aware of the charge of mental preoccupation. The charge is true, but on the whole I would rather take my chance, were I an instructor, with the student who comes into the class room from talk about the game, than with one whose leisure would be pretty sure to be taken with some frivolous or demoralizing talk. I heard it said a day or two since that ' athletics had cleansed and dulled the mind of a college.' I think that athletics have done far more 'to cleanse' than 'to dull.' The cleansing of mind is evident. If the mind of a college is dull in its appetite for knowledge, by comparison with the reported zest of earlier times, I think that there are nearer and more evident reasons for this dullness than are to be found in athletics. In this general view, I am sustained by the practically unanimous opinion of the older members of the faculty at Dartmouth, who are able to compare earlier with later periods of college activity.

"Having had this much to say about athletics in general, I cannot fairly pass over the immediate question in college athletics now before the public mind. I have always taken a ' certain pride in football as the most distinctively academic among our national games. I have noted the fact that it has not been taken up as a sport by the rougher elements in our cities. The reason for this surprising fact seems to .me to lie in the game itself. It is so strenuous, it requires so clean a physical condition—it demands so much mental tension, and so much willingness to sacrifice individual choice to the good of the team, that it would be almost impossible to find men able and willing to play the game outside our colleges. I should not want to see a game with these strong and really noble features ruled out in favor of weaker and less invigorating games. The two serious charges against the game are dishonesty and brutality-dishonesty in making up the team, brutality in the playing of the game. There has been a very great gain at both these points through the continuous efforts of the better athletic committees in our colleges, but if more definite and more general action is required, I would advise the interference of the college authorities at each of these points. Let there be an intercollegiate committee appointed by the faculties which shall pass upon all personal questions of eligibility as a board of examiners would pass upon candidates for admission to college, and further let the umpires of the game be entirely in the employ of the college authorities with arbitrary power to control the game, affixing and using such penalties as may guarantee its character. A certain element of danger, of course, remains, as in any sport, and in many kinds of work, but the danger diminishes with attention to the physical condition of the men, and with the skill of the team. Football is not a small boy's game, neither as it seems to me, for other reasons, is it a game which fits into the life of our professional schools."

THE BI-MONTHLY in a future issue will take up the work of the individual members of the faculty outside of their class-room and committee duties. Meanwhile, it is a pleasure to reprint such a review, from such a source, as has been published concerning Professor Moore's Cicero'sCato Maior De Senectute. Professor Husband has kindly given the translation published herein.

The football season of 1905 has become a part of the athletic history of the College, but the satisfaction which it has afforded to Dartmouth men remains with them. The schedule was admittedly a hard one, but it was not harder probably than the College will be called upon to meet in other seasons. The team was asked to do three things—to defeat Princeton and Harvard, to continue the sequence of victories over Brown, and to maintain its prestige against Williams and Amherst. These demands upon the team and the coaching force seemed ambitious before the opening in September; and afterwards the prospect of realizing such hopes appeared visionary. But hard work on the part of the squad, efficient coaching and training, and a strong college spirit with all that is implied by this, have given results as satisfactory as could have been. wished. Dartmouth's strength in football is not a mushroom growth, for it has endured ; it is not dependent on preparatory school stars, for it has been maintained without them; and it is not of such delicacy that it can only count one game in its season important. In other words Dartmouth has accepted the burden of proof in the argument concerning her right to high standing in football, and steadily year by year has played her schedule through without advancing her own claims, except in deeds. There is no impropriety now in reviewing the football achievements of the College, and in interpreting to ourselves the results. Dartmouth's football history is, in the main, a record of rather remarkable success in accomplishing what she has set out to do, whether in the alliances of the first years of the sport, or later in the triangular league, or more recently in the games with the so-called "big" teams; but it is only on the latter results that public recognition is given. Dartmouth has scored on Harvard every year for five years, except in the tie game of last year; she has been beaten twice, has won once, and has played two tie games. Princeton has defeated her once, and been defeated once. In the last three years Dartmouth has played Princeton and Harvard five games, late in the seaions, and has lost one, tied two, and won two. This record demonstrates that Dartmouth can stand year after year-as challenger for admittance to the championship class, with credit to herself, under all the handicaps that a challenger carries. If the future continues as the past has been, we shall begin to reap the advantages of the law '' to him that hath shall be given," and the non-partisan will ask that cause shall be shown why Dartmouth should not win, rather than asking why she should expect victory.

The members of the team and the coaches know the appreciation of the alumni and the undergraduates for the admirable way in which all have done their parts, but public statement ought to be made of it. For a third year Mr. Folsom has shown his resourcefulness; and the reputation that he had in the West, as a great developer of material and a coach of marked originality, is now more than ever his in the East, as he works for his own College. His sportsmanship demands first clean play, then victory if it can be won. As assistant coaches, Witham and Gilman, and Lillard part of the time, have been of inestimable service. Professor Bowler, as heretofore, has done his work thoroughly, and the condition of the team in its final games brought him its own commendation and credit.

The second annual meeting of the Secretaries of Classes and of Alumni Associations and Clubs will be held Friday evening and Saturday morning, February 16 and 17. The subjects for discussion have not yet been definitely chosen, and it is hoped that the alumni will feel entire freedom to submit suggestions concerning the topics to which consideration shall be given.

Dartmouth Hall was destroyed by fire February 18, 1904. Since the exact date falls on Sunday in .1906, the new Dartmouth Hall will be formally opened, by very simple exercises on Saturday, February 17.

Dartmouth Bucking Harvard's Line Rich, Fullback, Carrying the Ball

Harvard Punting The Dartmouth-Harvard Game