Catalogue of the Columbian College in the District of ColumbiaW. Force., 1821 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
13th Street Address admission Advanced Algebra Analytic Geometry Applied Mathematics Architecture Assistant Professor Astronomy Avenue Bacteriology Botany Candidates Charles Chemical Chemistry Clinical Colum Columbian College Columbian Univer Columbian University composition Corcoran Scientific School Dean degree of Bachelor Descriptive Geometry Diplomacy Diseases District of Columbia Doctor of Philosophy Edward Elementary English examination Faculty French Geology George German given Graduate Studies grammar Greek H Street Harry Head of Department Henry Histology History instruction Instructor John Junior Jurisprudence laboratory course Language and Literature Latin Library Science Lower Room Maryland Materia Medica Medicine Meteorology methods Mineralogy Monday Obstetrics Ohio Pathology Philosophy Physics Physiology Political practical Prize prose reading Roman Romance Languages Scholarships School of Graduate second term Senior sity Sophomore Spanish Street N. W. subjects Surgery Systematic Geology Text-books Theory Thomas Three hours tion Trigonometry Upper Room Virginia Walter Washington week William Zoology
Popular passages
Page 17 - Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I and II ; Pope's Iliad, Books I and XXII ; the Sir Roger de Coverley Papers...
Page vi - These are the conclusions from an investigation made jointly by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture and the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the Treasury Department, a report of which has just been issued.
Page 17 - Pope's Iliad, Books I., VI., XXII., and XXIV. ; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator...
Page 21 - The form of examination will usually be the writing of a paragraph or two on each of several topics, to be chosen by the candidate from a considerable number — perhaps ten or fifteen — set before him in the examination paper. The treatment of these topics is designed to test the candidate's power of clear and accurate expression.
Page viii - That the facilities for research and illustration in the following and any other governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or...
Page viii - ... may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: (1) Of the Library of Congress; (2) of the National Museum; (3) Of the Patent Office; (4) of the Bureau of Education; (5) of the Bureau of Ethnology; (6) of the Army Medical Museum; (7) of the Department of Agriculture; (8) of the Fish Commission; (9) of the...
Page 21 - XXIV; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield...
Page 155 - DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS. The degree of bachelor of laws...
Page 17 - The treatment of these topics is designed to test the candidate's power of clear and accurate expression, and will call for only a general knowledge of the substance of the books. In place of a part or the whole of this test, the candidate may present an exercise book, properly certified by his instructor, containing compositions or other written work done in connection with the reading of the book.
Page viii - ... investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: (1) Of the Library of Congress; (2) of the National Museum; (3) Of the Patent Office; (4) of the Bureau of Education; (5) of the Bureau of Ethnology; (6) of the Army Medical Museum; (7) of the Department of Agriculture; (8) of the Fish Commission; (9) of the Botanic Gardens; (10) of the Coast and Geodetic Survey;...