Thread 24711375

>The following was the course of study in 1838:
Freshman Class
>First Term: Virgil's Aeneid, Translation of English into Latin, Xenophon's Cyropedia, Roman Antiquities, and Algebra (Davies' edition of Bourdon's).
>Second Term: Livy, Translation of English into Latin, Graecae Majora (selections from important Greek works), Greek Antiquities (a study, probably in English, of Greek social, economic, and political life), and Algebra.
Sophomore Class
>First Term: Virgil's Georgics and Bucolics, Cicero's Orations, Homer's Iliad, Davies' edition of Legendre's geometry.
>Second Term: Horace, Graecae Majora, Young's Trigonometry (Plane and Spherical), Surveying (Heights and Distances), Spherical Projections, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy.
Junior Class
>First Term: Cicero de Oratore, Graecae Majora (Philosophical and Critical Extracts), Whately's Rhetoric, Whately's Logic, Young's Analytical Geometry (Conic sections and Analytical Geometry of three dimensions).
>Second Term: Tacitus, Graecae Majora (Dramatic Extracts), Evidence of Christianity, Political Economy, Young's Differential Calculus.
Senior Class
>First Term: Juvenal, Graecae Majora (Dramatic Extracts), Mental Philosophy, Chemistry, Young's Integral Calculus, Olmsted's Natural Philosophy.
>Second Term: Persius, Cicero de Officiis, Graecae Majora (odes, etc.), Moral Philosophy, Constitution of the United States and National Law, Olmsted's Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, Geology.

>>24711375 (OP)
USA education overrun by leftists

>>24711375 (OP)
>waiting until junior year for calculus
lmao

>Algebra
>geometry, trig
>Differential calculus
>Integral calculus

Over four years? In college? People in the past really were retarded.

>>24711375 (OP)
I am content to admit that I would not be able to survive.

>>24711625
honestly, college back then often took place when modern students would be in middle/high school. that's why you see shit like random 17th century thinkers graduating at age 15.

>>24711375 (OP)
Apart from translating Latin probably

>>24711375 (OP)
I have a hard time believing Livy wasn‘t taught in extracts because the extent books are long as hell and mostly filled with details and teach maybe a quarter of essential Roman history. I only demur slightly if it‘s done to provide a methodology for approaching history as the Greeks were probably a more foundational form of that.

So no, I got filtered in the second semester.

>>24711625
Unless you were going to be an academic college back then was about reproducing what the upper class saw as well rounded members of the upper class. That's why the curriculum is just kind of everything, and why the maths doesn't get that advanced and is divided up over a long enough time to hammer it all into them even if they don't have paricularly strong aptitude for it. Humanities were tougher back then, with far more rigour, involving actually learning ancient languages. But still the average educated person found it easier than maths. So they're essentially laying it on thick with the humanities because that's easier to discuss at dinner parties while doing no child left behind with the maths just so the people managing every sector of industry and administration at least knew calculus.

>>24711515
Amazing how all the really educated people are Liberal

>>24712464
The people who select into tertiary education and academia are liberal.
Graduating from university made me less liberal because actually engaging with liberal arguments revealed to me how they depend on legerdemain and selective data.

>>24712464
leftists are not the same thing as liberals

>>24712464
Good luck getting a job in academia if you aren't willing to at least pretend to be far left.

>could I survive reading 4-5 books in a term
Yeah no shit. This is baby tier

>>24712464
Amazing how all the really educated people in china are pro-Xi

>>24711375 (OP)
Lol, in Italy we study almost all of that (freshman, sophomore, junior classes) in high school (classical studies), plus all the other subjects. What do you learn in school in the US?

>>24713239
okay but you're country is overrun by niggers

>>24713270
And run by lying incompetents, as per tradition.

>>24711515
Reality has a left wing bias

>>24712464
Amazing how this is a Reddit tier arguement

>>24713239
We enroll more students into these universities per capita.

>>24715990
I hope this is for keks and not for realz

>>24715990
So this is what an education in the humanities looks like. Is it any wonder litcels seethe at STEM fields?

>>24715990
This is stupid in its way but we do now know soldiers pretty much post like this in real life if they have the technology and are familiar with it.

>>24715998
Me too, anon. Me too.

>>24711625
>>24711588
Yes but in my calculus class they let us use calculators, whereas presumably then they were doing everything by hand.

>>24711375 (OP)
>First Term: Virgil's Aeneid
Filtered

>>24715990
Now show us a chemistry exam at the upmost levels of undergraduate study at the average public university.

>>24711375 (OP)
Where did you get this list? Searching Centre College 1838 gets me nothing.

>>24716749
The Filson Club History Quarterly, Volume 24