PREPARATORY CLASS. The insufficiency of good Preparatory Schools, induced the continuance here, for many years, of a Preparatory Department. The rapid growth of Union and High Schools, and the introduction into them of studies preparatory to College, will it is hoped, soon permit the College to relinquish this department entirely. As a step in this direction, the Trustees have ordered that the requirements for admission to the preparatory class shall be so raised that only one year shall be needed to prepare for College. This virtually discontinues all the preparatory classes except that of this single year. But since many of the High Schools do not teach the Greek language, it is provided that the Greek may be begun here, the student giving nearly a double portion of time to it, in order to complete his preparation within the year. TERMS OF ADMISSION. Candidates for admission to any department of the Institution, must be of good moral character and correct habits; and if unknown to the Faculty, must bring with them from their pastor or former teacher, testimonials of character. If from other Colleges, certificates of honorable dismission will be required. Candidates for the Preparatory Class, in classical course, must sustain an examination in English Grammar, in Arithmetic, (the four ground rules in Simple and Compound Numbers, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Percentage, Ratio and Proportion, and Involution and Evolution); in Geography and in Latin lessons; Latin Grammar and Cæsar's Commentaries entire, or an equivalent amount of Latin reading. Candidates for the Preparatory Class in Scientific, or in Ladies' Course, must sustain an examination in English Grammar, Davies University Arithmetic or its equivalent, Geography and History of United States, (Lossing's preferred.) ADMISSION TO COLLEGE CLASSES. Candidates for the Freshman Class, must be prepared to sustain examination in the studies required for admission to the preparatory classes, and in the studies marked out for the preparatory course. Candidates for advanced standing, must sustain examinations also in all the studies gone over by the classes they wish to enter. Students not candidates for a degree, will be permitted to enter any class for which they are prepared, and take a partial course of studies such as they desire. All students entering College Classes, will be required to pay a Matriculation Fee of five dollars, which goes to the Library Fund. REGULAR EXPENSES. Tuition in any Department,. .... $6 00 per term. Incidentals, including use of Library,....... 2 50 A Matriculation Fee of five dollars, is to be paid on first entering the College classes. This fee goes to the Library Fund. Students not occupying rooms in the College building, will not be charged room rent. There are no dormitories for students in the Ladies' College building, but young ladies can readily procure good rooms in private houses near the College. There is no Boarding Hall connected with either of the Colleges, but approved private boarding houses are located near, where board, either with or without rooms, can be obtained at reasonable rates. Students frequently board themselves in their own rooms, or get their meals in clubs, and thus greatly diminish their expenses. Those who desire it can always find work to do in their leisure hours, and many students pay their way entirely by their labor. All College bills must be paid at the beginning of the term. ...... 600 "" 8.00 .12 00 Music on Piano, two lessons a week, 50 cents per lesson. Use of Piano,.... $2 50 per term. Students occupying rooms in Gentlemen's College, provide their own furniture. They are held responsible for the cleanliness and good order of their rooms, and for any injury done to the rooms during their occupancy of them. DISCIPLINE. It is designed to maintain, at all times, a careful supervision over the students, both as regards their attention to study, and their general habits and deportment. Each student is furnished, on entering the Institution, with a copy of the laws, and will be held responsible for all willful violations of the same. While the government of the College aims to secure order, and to cultivate habits of prompt obedience to good laws, it will seek also, as much as possible, to throw the students upon their own consciences and sense of honor, aiming constantly to elevate them to the dignity of self-governing men and women. NORMAL CLASSES. At the commencement of each Fall Term, a Teacher's Class is formed of those who wish to prepare themselves for teaching. They are instructed by the regular College Professors in the general science of education, and in the theory and practice of teaching. Lectures are also given upon the various methods of teaching now in practice, and great pains are taken to fit young men and young women for the responsible work of educating the children and youth of the State. An examination is held at the close of the Teachers' course, and certificates of recommendation given to such as are found worthy of them. LECTURES. The lectures on Chemistry, Physiology, Political Economy, Constitutional Law, Natural Philosophy and the Natural Sciences, are accessible to the students in both the Literary and Scientific courses. Lectures of a more general and practical character, embracing branches of knowledge not included in the regular courses of study, are delivered each week before the entire body of students. LIBRARIES AND APPARATUS. The Gentlemen's College has a spacious and pleasant Library Hall, well furnished with papers and periodicals, which is open to the students for several hours each day. The library already contains about two thousand volumes, and is constantly increasing, by donations and by purchase. The Ladies' College is provided with a well selected library, which is open to the students of that College. The Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus and the Cabinets of Specimens in Natural History are receiving constant accessions. The graduates and friends of the College are invited to enrich these collections by their contributions. The Sherwood Rhetorical and the Philolexian Societies have each a well selected library, and hold weekly meetings for debate, and for Rhetorical exercises. The Missionary Society for Inquiry, hold regular meetings for the promotion of a spirit of Christian enterprise and religious usefulness. The College Temperance Society, was recently organized to the practice of Total Abstinence within the Institution. The Gymnasium Club is designed to encourage gymnastic ‹ exercises. The Eurodelphian Society of the Ladies' College, meets weekly for literary exercises. RELIGIOUS STRUCTIONS. Each student is expected, at the commencement of each term, to select one among the churches of the village, and to be regular in his attendance there, on the morning of each Lord's day. During each term, courses of lectures are delivered in the College Chapel, by the President, upon the Christian Evidences and the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity. All the members of the College are expected to attend these services. Prayer meetings, conducted by the students, are held twice during each week. THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL SOCIETY OF KALAMAZOO COLLEGE. This organization, formed November, 1865, is composed of present and former members of the College, who were in the service of the United States during the late war. Its object is the erection of a Memorial Building in honor of those comrades in study and in arms, the students and alumni of the College, who fell in the service of the Union, and whose names, so far as is now known, are comprised in the following list: Any omissions or errors in the above lists will be gladly corrected, and any additional information on the subject will be thankfully received. A site for the building has been granted by the Board of the State Convention, and a subscription has been opened. The officers and under-graduate members of the Society, are as follows: |