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Correspondence
COLLEGE CATALOGUE REQUIREMENTS IN HISTORY.
As a member of the Catalogue Committee in one of our smaller colleges, it has been my privilege the past two years to study catalogues from all parts of the country—perhaps sixty or more. Besides the various general matters noticed, I have naturally turned for information and help to the history courses offered and to the college entrance requirements in history. This survey has given me several definite impressions.
The requirements in history are generally not organised as are the departments of English, Latin and Mathematics. Frequently they are not definite in their statements as to just what they wish done. One of our best northern colleges gives four lines to History; over one page to Science; over five pages to English.
Several colleges prepare their requirements with care, although few are above improvement. That is, one college will enlarge on the text-books and supplementary reading, but say nothing of the methods of work; another will do just the opposite. Among the best requirements noticed in the South are those of the University of Mississippi, the University of the South, and Tulane University. The most satisfactory one is from Leland Stanford Junior University, which gives a trifle over two pages, and includes both books and methods. Probably half a page would be more than the average length in the catalogues examined.
Two articles in The History Teachers’ Magazine for October, 1909, “Lessons Drawn from the Papers of History Examination Candidates,” by Miss Briggs, and the editorial on “Method the Need,” have stimulated thought. The following paragraphs are offered as suggestions in one direction.
It would seem that we might claim two or three pages in the catalogue; they could easily be filled. The following is one plan that might be used: