Details discussion of a motion to remove "Hygiene" from entrance requirements to be replaced by "Physical Culture" in the freshman curriculum, as recommended by a report presented by the curriculum committee. This motion is reported to have failed.
Several additions to the curriculum were discussed and approved. Additionally, a movement allowing graduates of nine year long secondary institutions to be admitted without examination was deferred.
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April 13th 1903. Faculty met in regular session-all members being present except Miss Mendenhall who was detained by sickness. The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. The report of the Curriculum Committee was called for and read as a whole. Its recommendations were then considered and voted on separately. Recommended 1st That Hygiene be stricken from the entrance requirements and be placed with Physical Culture in the Freshman year-so as to read in the Catalogue Physical Culture and Hygiene 2 periods After considerable discussion it was moved and seconded as a substitute for the recommendation of the committee that the matter be left in the catalogue as it now stands, and that such division of time be made between Hygiene and Physical Culture as the heads of the departments or the faculty may determine. This motion was lost. It was then moved and carried that the recommendation of the committee be adopted. 2nd That Civics extend through the Junior year, two periods in the fall and one in the Spring. Adopted. 3rd That Physiology be required in Course II. That Physiology be optional in Course I. That Zoology be required in Course I. Adopted. 4th That Algebra to Quadratics be required for entrance in the fall of 1904. It was moved and carried to postpone action on this recommendation till next meeting. The committee on admission of students from graded schools then made its report as follows: Recommended by the committee that the graduates of any public school of nine grades with an annual term of not less than eight months be admitted without examination to the Freshman Class. It was moved and carried that action on this recommendations be deferred. The petition of the graduate students to be allowed to wear caps and gowns at Commencement was then brought up for discussion. It was moved and seconded that the petition be granted. A division being called for showed 14 ayes 8 no. Carried. Adjournment, Laura H. Coit, Secretary.
