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Johns Opkins University Circulars JOHNS OPKINS UNIVERSITY CIRCULARS PublisAed witt~ tAe approbation of tAe Board of Trustees VoL. XY.—No. 125.1 BALTIMORE, MAY, 1896. [PRIcE, 10 CENTS. GENERAL STATEMENTS AS TO THE COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. The Johns Hopkins University xviii commence its A new academic building, called McCoy Hall, in txventy-first year of instruction on October 1, 1896. commemoration of its donor, contains the library The work will go forward in these divisions: and the class-rooms in language, literature, history, The Graduate department, in which arrangements and philosophy,—superseding the temporary struc- are made for the instruction of advanced students tures hitherto in use. in the higher studies of literature and science; Laboratories are provided in Chemistry, Physics, The Undergraduate or Collegiate department, in Electricity, Geology and Mineralogy, and in Biol- which students receive a liberal education leading ogy, Anatomy, Physiology, Zodlogy, and Pathology. up to the degree of Bachelor of Arts; Seminaries are organized in the Greek, Latin, The Medical department, in which students who French, German, English, Sanskrit, and Semitic have already received a liberal education (including langua~ges, and also in History and Political the modern languages and the natural sciences) Science. There are various scientific associations are received as candidates for the degree of Doctor and journal clubs which hold regular meetings. of Medicine, and in which Doctors of Medicine The Library contains seventy-seven thousand may attend special courses. volumes, part of which are kept in the central In other words, arrangements are made for the reading-room, while the remainder of the books instruction of the following classes: are distributed according to their subjects in the 1. Graduate students and other qualified persons different laboratories and seminaries. desiring to continue for one or more years their The Library of the Peabody Institute, which liberal education, and possibly to become candi- contains one hundred and twenty-five thousand dates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. volumes, is a most important addition to the 2. Graduate students and other qualified per- attractions of Baltimore. These books are selected sons wishing to proceed to the degree of Doctor with reference to the wants of scholars in various of Medicine. departments. They are well chosen, well arranged, 3. Doctors of Medicine who desire to follow well bound, and well catalogued, and are acces- special courses of lectures and laboratory work. sible daily from nine in the morning until half- 4. Undergraduates looking forward to the degree past ten in the evening. The Provost and libra- of Bachelor of Arts. rians do all in their power to favor the studies of 5. Special students who have not received an those who are engaged in scientific or literary academic degree and are not candidates for a work. degree, but who desire to follow special courses of The proximity of Baltimore to Washington instruction in literature and science. enables the students of this University to visit~ at The medical department is open to women; the a very moderate expense, the libraries, museums, other departments are not. and scientific foundations of the Capital. 58 JOIINS HOPKINS [No. 125. The academic year extends from the first of Oc- graduate departments, and two hundred dollars tober to the fifteenth of June, with two recesses,— in the medical department. one at Christmas and one at Easter. Board and lodging, including fire and light, The charge for tuition is one hundred and fifty may be had for six dollars per week. Many stu- dollars per annum in the graduate and under- dents pay less. DANIEL C. OILMAN, President of the Jo/ins Hopkins University. PROGRAMMES FOR 1896-97. The following courses in literature and science are offered for the academic year which begins October 1, 1896. They are open to properly qualified young men, according to conditions varying somewhat in each department. The Annual Register, giving full statements as to the regulations and work of the University, will be sent on application. Separate announcements of the Medical Courses will be sent on application. JOHN J. ABEL, Professor of Pharmacology, W. H. HOWELL, Professor ofPhysiology, (a) will conduct the Physiological Seminary. courses in Pharmacology. (b) courses in Physiology. H. B. ADAMS, Professor of American and Institutional History, (a) Historical Seminary. H. M. HURD, Professor ofPsychiatry, (b) Early History of Institutions and Greek Politics, History courses in Psychiatry. of Prussia, History of Civilization. H. A. KELLY, Professor of Gynecology, (c) will direct undergraduate courses in History and Politics. courses in Gynecology. M. BLOOMFIELD, Professor of Sanskrit and ComparativePhilology, FRANKLIN P. MALL, Professor ofAnatomy, (a) Linguistic Science and Comparative Grammar. courses in Anatomy. (b) Indo-Iranian Languages. H. N. MORSE, Professor ofAnalytical Chemistry, J. W. BRIGHT, Professor of English Philology, (a) will assist in directing the Laboratory work in Chemistry. (a) English Seminary. (6) Analytic Methods, Chemistry of Carbon Compounds. (b) English Philology, Anglo.Saxon and MiddleEnglish Texts, WM. OSLER, Professor of Medicine, Anglo-Saxon. Principles and Practice of Medicine. W. K. BROOKS, Professor of Zo~logy, IRA REMSEN, Professor of Chemistry, (a) will direct the laboratory work in Biology. (b) Principles of Zo6logy, Marine Zodlogy, Zo5logical Semi- (a) will direct the Laboratory work in Chemistry. nary. (b) Selected Topics in Advanced Chemistry. (c) General Chemistry, Compounds of Carbon. WM. HAND BROWNE, Professor ofEi;glish Literature, EDWARD RENOUF, &llegiate Professor of Chemistry, courses in English Literature. (a) will assist in the Laboratory work in Chemistry. WM. B. CLARK, Professor of Organic Geology, (a) will direct the laboratory work in Geology. (b) Inorganic Chemistry. (b) General Geology, Pal~ontology, Historical Geology. H. A. ROWLAND, Professor ofPhysics, (a) will direct the work of the Physical Laboratory. T. CRAIG, Professor of Pure Mathematics, Mathematical Seminary, Partial Differential Equations, Theory (6) will lecture on Electricity and Magnetism. of Surfaces. MINTON WARREN, Professor of Latin. A. M. ELLIOTT, Professor of Romance Languages, Professor Warren will be absent during the year, acting as (a) will conduct the Romance Seminary. Director of American School of Classical Studies at Rome. (b) will give advanced courses in the Romance Languages. W. H. WELCH, Professor ofPathology, 1omparativeJuris- G. H. EMMOTT, Professor of Roman Law and ~& (a) will direct the work of the Pathological Laboratory. prudence, (b) Pathology and Bacteriology. Historical and Comparative Jurisprudence, English Constitu- tional Law and History, Sources of English History. HENRY WOOD, Professor of German, (a) will direct the German Seminary. B. 1. GILDERSLEEVE, Professor of Greek, (b) Gothic, Old Norse, Modern German Classicism. (a) will direct the Greek Seminary (The Attic Orators). (c) will direct,with assistance, undergraduate coursesin German. (b) Practical Exercises in Greek. (c) Greek Lyric Poetry. W. D. BOOKER, Clinical Professor ofthe Diseases of Children, (d) Greek Syntax, etc. courses in the Diseases of Children. HERBERT E. GREENE, Collegiate Professor of English, J. N. MACKENZIE, Clinical Professor ofLaryngology, Rhetoric, English Composition, and English Literature. courses in Laryngology. E. H. GRIFFIN, Professor of the History of Philosophy, S. THEOBALD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology, (a) advanced courses in Modern Philosophy and Ethics. courses in Ophthalmology and Otology. (b) undergraduate courses in Logic, Psychology, and Ethics. H. M. THOMAS, Clinical Professor ofDiseases ofthe Nervous System. P. HAUPT, Professor of the Semitic Languages, courses in Diseases of the Nervous System. (a) will conduct the Assyrian Seminary. J. S. AMES, Associate Professor of Physics, (b) Biblical Philology, Hebrew, Ethiopic, Arabic. (a) undergraduate courses in General Physics. W. S. HALSTED, Professor of Surgery, (6) Theoretical Mechanics and Electrical Waves. courses in Surgery. (c) Physical Seminary for advanced students. MAY, 1896.] UNIVERSITY CIBOC/LAPS. 59 E. A. ANDREWS, Associate Professor of Biology, R. L. RANDOLPH, Associate in Op4thalmology and Otology, (a) will assist in the Laboratory work in Biology. courses in Ophthalmology and Otology. (b) General Biology and Embryology. W. S. THAYER, Associate in Medicine, A. S CHESSIN, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics, courses in Medicine. (a) Elementary Theory of Functions, Theoretical Mechanics. B. C. STEINER, Associate in History, (b) Celestial Mechanics. American Constitutional and Political History. 1. DUNCAN, Associate Professor of Electricity, B. J. VOS, Associate in German, courses in Applied Electricity. (a) Middle High German, Old High German Prose, Old Saxon. SIMON FLEXNER, Associate Professor of I?athology, (b) undergraduate courses in German. courses in Pathology. B. W. BARTON, Lecturer in Systematic Botany, C. L. POOR, Associate Professor of Astronomy, undergraduate course in Botany. Theoretical and Practical Astronomy. J. E. HUMPHREY, Lecturer in Botany, A. RAMBEAU, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Vegetable Morphology. (a) FrenchPhonetics and Pronunciation. THOMAS S. BAKER, Instructor in German, (b) undergraduate courses in French and Italian. (a) Modern German Literature, 1830—1850. H. F. REID, Associate Professor of Geological Physics, (b) undergraduate courses
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