Bulletin Of The Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University

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ISBN 13 : 9781332004737
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Opening Number October 1908 Both class and laboratory work in Physics and Chemistry are now given to all students in the freshman and sophomore years. The requirements in English and Modern Languages have been altered. Hereafter, freshmen and sophomores will take rhetoric while the junior year, instead of the senior as heretofore, will be given to English literature. Now the student may elect either German, French or Spanish for three successive years instead of being required, as formerly, to take two years of French or Latin and two of German. Latin has been dropped from the curriculum and Spanish substituted. The trend of all these changes is toward more election and more specialists work in the senior year. Under the new system all the general academic and fundamental preparation will be completed in the sophomore or junior year. The senior year will be devoted exclusively to intensive specialists study. Further election of studies is encouraged in the upper classes. The schedule has also been changed. The morning is divided up into four fifty-minute recitation periods, each class having one period vacant, and an hour for military exercises. The entire afternoon is devoted to laboratory and field work in which alternation and increased instructing force permits much smaller sections than heretofore - hence, more opportunity for individual instruction. Coincident with changes in the courses of instruction leading to the Bachelor of Science degree comes an entire reorganization of the graduate courses. The Graduate Department is now one of the five regular departments of the Institute, with Dr. W. E. Barlow, professor of metallurgy and metallography, as its dean and head. Already the graduate degrees of Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Mining Engineer, Electrical Engineer, and Master of Science are being offered while extensive courses in agricultural and horticultural graduate work are now being prepared and will be announced in detail within a short time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.