St.John's College
.CATALOGUE -OF- St.John's College ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND -FOR THE- Academic Year, 1917-1918 ---- AND ---- :::Prospectus, 1918-1919::: ' Preas of . ..ANNAPOLIS I PUBLISHING CO]l[l'ANY •.. A.nnapolis, Md. 1918. CALENDAR. 1919 1918 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 ... Opening of Session and Reception of Candidates for Admission.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 ..... Examination for conditioned and unexamined students in Latin and Greek. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 ......... Examination for conditioned and unexamined students in English, History and Science. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. .... Examination for conditioned and unexamined students in Mathe- matics.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28 ...... Thanksgiving Day. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 .......... Co=encement of Christmas Vaca~ tion. 1919 TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 .......... Resumption of College Exercises. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3 .......... Second Term begins. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 ......... Easter Vacation begins 12 mid- day. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 ......... Easter Vacation terminates at 7.00 P. M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 .......... Co=encement Day. 4 CIRCULAR OF ST. JOHN 's COLLEGE. CIRCULAR OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. 5 ORGANIZATION. The charter of St. John's College was granted in, 1784, and the institution opened in 1789. But under another form and name it had been doing its work during nearly a hundred pre- BOARD OF VISITORS AND GOVERNORS. vious years, and is , therefore ' one of the oldest colleges in the· country. At the city of St. Mary's, then the capital of Mary- land, as early as 1671, the Upper House of the General As- PRESIDENT sembly passed an Act ''for founding and erecting a school or (Under the Charter elected annually.) college for the education of youth in learning and virtue.'' Hl:s EXCELLENCY, EMERSON C.
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