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COLLEGE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING. 283
NOTE : The applicant must present a Regents'
diploma (page 50) ;
or a certificate of graduation from an approved school (page 51) ;
or, in addition to the requirements mentioned above in 1 and 2,
he must pass examinations or present acceptable certificates show
ing
that he has done an amount of work equivalent to a course of
years'
three duration in a single subject in preparatory schools of ap
proved standing.* For the above amount of equivalent work, a free
choice among the various subjects taught in the preparatory schools
of approved standing, and not otherwise counted, will usually be ac
cepted ; but combinations of the following subjects, equivalent to
three
years'
time under instruction, are recommended as most suitable
for entrance to the courses in the College of Civil Engineering :
(a) History, or additional English language and literature,
(b)
(c)
Additional modern languages or literature.
Freehand or linear drawing.
(d) Physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, geology, descriptive
astronomy, or additional physiology.
(e)
Latin or Greek.
This college admits as Special Students only graduates of other in
stitutions pursuing advanced work, when the applicants are not can
didates for a degree. See page 52.
[For details as to subjects and methods of admission see pages33-72,
For admission to the freshman class communications should be ad
dressed to the Registrar. See pages 33-52.
For admission to advanced standing, from other colleges and uni
versities, communications should be addressed to the Director of the
College of Civil .
Engineering
See pages 52-53.
For admission to graduate work and candidacy for advanced stand
ing, communications should be addressed to the Dean of the Univer
sity Faculty. See pages 64-72.}
A FOUR-YEAR COURSE LEADING TO THE DEGREE OF
CIVIL ENGINEER.
See Course of Study for the classes entering in September, 1898,
and September, 1899, pages 285 and 286.
*For students from the State of New York, this requirement is equivalent to 12
counts on the Regents' scale.