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IN other columns the BI-MONTHLY prints full information concerning the Rhodes Scholarships. Those who intend to take the examinations should inform Professor C. D. Adams, Secretary of the New Hampshire Committee, at once. The examinations take place January 17 and 18, 1907, at some place to be announced later. New Hampshire ought to be well represented as she has been heretofore, and if by a Dartmouth man again, so much the greater our pride! The honor of winning one of the scholarships is great. The specifications call for ideal college men. Mr. Rhodes said in his will:
"My desire being that the students who shall be elected to the scholarships shall not be merely bookworms I direct that in the election of a student to a scholarship regard shall be had to (I) his literary and scholastic attainments; (II) his fondness of and success in manly outdoor sports such as cricket, football, and the like; (III) his qualities of man. hood, true courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for the protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (IV) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates, for those latter attributes will be likely in afterlife to guide him to esteem the performance of public duties as his highest aim."
A writer in a magazine of recent date has said that one of the advantages of a college education is that presumably it enables graduates to understand college catalogues. Nevertheless it remains true that however definitely facts are set forth in these annual publications, still the public, including college graduates, finds it difficult to grope its way through the intricacies of requirements for entrance and for the various degrees. The BrownAlumni Monthly in the October issue has an editorial which plainly endeavors to be fair, but which falls into the inevitable tone of condescension to which we have become so accustomed in years past. Enumerating the causes for Dartmouth's growth, it says : "The ease of admission to certain of the Dartmouth technical courses is responsible in some degree for the great influx of Freshmen to the quiet New Hampshire town.'' The context relieves the sound of this somewhat, but yet the implication should not be allowed to stand in view of the reality. Inasmuch as the facts are not always accessible to the seeker for truth, the 81-MONTHLY publishes herewith in parallel columns the entrance requirements for Dartmouth College and Brown University, with a few notes of recapitulation:
DARTMOUTH
A.B. Required: 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, I y. (I) History, I y. (I) (5) (21)
BROWN
A. B. I Required: English Algebra and Plane Geometry Ancient History II Six (6) points from the following, including at least 3 in ancient languages and 1 in modern: Latin (elem. and adv.) 3 points Greek (elem.) 2 points Greek (adv.) I point French (elem.) I point French (adv.) I point German (elem.) I point German (adv.) I point III One (I) point from the following: Sol. Geom. and PL Trig. I point Eng. and Amer. Hist. I point Physics I point Chemistry I point
Dartmouth has no degree corresponding to Ph. B. Ph. B. I Required: English Algebra and Plane Geometry Ancient History (or Eng. and Amer.) II Two or more languages required, aggregating at least 3 points: Latin (elem.) 2 points Latin (adv.) 1 point Greek (elem). 2 points Greek (adv.) 1 point French (elem.) 1 point French (adv.) 1 point German (elem.) 1 point German (adv.) 1 point III Free selection to complete 7 points with group II Sol. Geom. and PL Trig. 1 point History (That not presented in I) 1 point Physics 1 point Chemistry 1 point Astronomy 1 point Physical Geography 1 point
B. S. Required : English (4) History (2) Mathematics I (4) Modern Language (3) and — (13) two of Mathematics II (3) Latin, 2 yrs. (3) Second Mod. Lang. (3) History, two add. yrs. (3) and — (6) two of Chemistry (I) Physics (I) Biology (I) - (2) - (21) B. S. I Required: English Algebra and Plane Geometry Solid and Spher. Geometry Freehand Drawing II Two of three following:— French (elementary) German (elementary) Chemistry
Specials:
Dartmouth will not accept special students, i. e., students who cannot meet the requirements for admission to the Freshman class.
Specials ;
Brown accepts special students, who may become candidates for a (degree when they have met the requirements for admission.
Being interpreted, this all means that for the A. B. course the requirements at Dartmouth and Brown are about the same, except that in the case of those who present both Latin and Greek Brown demands a year of a modern language which Dartmouth does not; that Brown offers a course leading to the Ph. B. which Dartmouth does not, this course demanding in quantity about the same work required for the A. B. degree, but in its options being much more facile; that for the B. S. degree, the nearest approach to the technical courses referred to by the Brown AlumniMonthly, Dartmouth requires more than Brown, as follows:
I Advanced French 2 Advanced German or equivalents for each 3 and 4 Two of the three sciencesChemistry Physics Biology 5 Plane Trigonometry; and that, in allowing men incapable of passing the entrance examinations to enter as specials, Brown has a method of admission to college which Dartmouth has not, —a status under which fifty-one out of- a total of six hundred and twenty-three undergraduates are enrolled at Brown.
The subject of technical schools or technical courses is one about which the policy at Dartmouth has been definitely stated, and in adherence to which the College will not waver. In the inaugural address of President Tucker, he said: "The technical schools, which offer low terms of admission, and which afford no wide provision for general culture, may be admirable schools of apprenticeship, but they are not strictly scientific schools. And in so far as the tendency in some of the higher schools of technology is toward greater specialization, the college must offer its own scientific courses as a corrective. These courses are altogether theoretical. The work of the laboratory is not that of the workshop; neither does it take its place. The claim of the college is that the theoretical knowledge of the sciences, properly related to other kinds of theoretical knowledge, should precede the specialized application of the sciences.
"The comparison of the college with the technical school brings out the fact that, while the capacity of the college seems to be enlarging so that it covers an increasing territory, its function remains single and undisturbed. It is always and everywhere the function of the college to give a liberal education, beyond which and out of which the process of specialization may go on in any direction and to any extent. The college must continually adjust itself to make proper connection with every kind of specialized work, not to do it. "
To those who follow educational tendencies the recent incorporation of the Lawrence Scientific School into the curriculum of Harvard College is interesting as the latest manifestation of the wisdom of a movement in which Dartmouth was a pioneer. In 1851 Mr. Abiel Chandler left a sum of money for "the establishment of a permanent department, or school of instruction, in the College, in the practical and useful arts of life.'' At the first meeting of the Trustees following the gift, they proceeded to "constitute and organize a school of instruction in connection with the College and as a department thereof, the said school to be denominated "The Chandler School of Science and the Arts." In the beginning the school covered a course of only two years. Later it was found, after the curriculum had been extended and the faculty had been enlarged, that there was a great duplication of work between the departments of the College and the school. Upon inquiry decision was made that the conditions of the foundation could be met by the maintenance of a department in the College covering the work of the school. In accordance with this decision the Chandler School was formally incorporated into the College, in 1893, as the Chandler Scientific Course, leading to the degree of B. S., and the standard of the school has been so raised that in requirements for entrance and for a degree it stands the equal of the arts course. Its function is to give to the fullest extent possible theoretical knowledge of the sciences.
Dartmouth allows a man to elect for his senior year the freshman year work of the Medical School, the Thayer School, or the Tuck School, but this is the first opportunity which a member of the College has to take up technical work. Admission to any of Dartmouth's technical - courses requires as a prerequisite meeting the entrance conditions of the College and passing the regular academic work for three years.
We are sufficiently beyond the football season of 1906 to see it in perspective, and to estimate its significance in our athletic development as we could not do earlier. It is not possible to avoid disappointment at certain phases of the season. The overwhelming score by which Princeton defeated us is a source of regret, for in all admiration for the strength and skill of the Princeton eleven, we do not think that the Dartmouth team did itself justice in that game. Despite all new interests we find our erstwhile competitors for Triangular League honors dear rivals now, and we regret not to have won from Williams, even though we did not lose. Brown is not wholly a satisfactory rival. It is difficult to forget her overbearing attitude in the past, or to excuse her more recent attitudes, whether in defeat or in victory. By so much as we dislike these things, by so much more do we regret the turn of the wheel by which Brown's team was superior to ours this year. These happenings are the cause of whatever disappointment exists, but it is also the fact that the disappointment is not bitter. Dartmouth men have not reached that stage where "sport for sport's sake" means to them an indifference to victory. There was great satisfaction, for instance, in the brave show- ing of the team against Harvard. It was a good game, cleanly played and interesting, and we were glad to admit the superiority of the Harvard team since it was superior. But the satisfaction therein was not the satisfaction which victory would have brought. As long as "sport for sport's sake'' is defined in our athletic dictionary as playing our rivals' best and playing to the limit ourselves, within the spirit of the rules, so long will any games or series of games which lack victory be inadequate. But such a situation may have some compensations, and has many now. The spirit of the College has never been better, nor its loyalty plainer. The foundations have been laid for later building.
As for the team, we have only words of praise. It fought against odds too great to overcome, but it deserves the commendation given by the cowboys to their departed brother in his epitaph: "He done his d-dest; angels could do no more."
At the request of many of its subscribers the BI-MONTHLY has published an index of volume one. A copy will be sent anyone desiring it, upon application.
