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HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
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Preparatory Department.
FACULTY.
R
ev
.
JOHN GORDON, D.D.,
P
resident
.
GEORGE J. CUMMINGS, A.M.,
Dean and Professor of Ancient Languages.
GEORGEM. LIGHTFOOT, A.B.,
Professor and Instructor In Modern Languages.
CHARLES S. SYPHAX, A.B., LL.M.,
Instructor in Mathematics and General History.
Miss ANNIE R. BARKER, A.M.,9^^H
Instructor in English and Rhetoric.
M
rs
.
JULIA A. PURNELL,
Instructor in Arithmetic, United States History, Reading, and Spelling.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
T
HERE are two Courses of four years each offered by this
Department. The Courses are designed to fit for any Col
lege. Those who complete either can also pass into the Teachers’
College or Commercial Department if they choose.
Only such as complete one or the other of these courses may re
ceive the certificate of the University.
The aim is to put this among the best fitting schools of the
land and to use such methods and text books as have received the
commendation of the best educators.
No effort is spared to make pupils thorough in first principles,
as all successful prosecution of advanced studies depends upon
this. <
ADMISSION.
Candidates for admission to either of the courses will be re
quired to pass a satisfactory examintaion in Reading, Spelling,
Arithmetic, Phisiology, English, English Grammar, U. S. History,
Civics, and Modern Geography.
Candidates for advanced standing in the Department must be
examined in the studies (or their equivalent) already pursued by
the class to which admission is desired; but certificates of rec-