Identifier: catalogueofrolli1914roll (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of Rollins College
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.)
Subjects: Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.)
Publisher: Winter Park, Fla. : (The College)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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dmaking passing grades, or who is not strictly an amateur. Forsix consecutive seasons Rollins College has held the champion-ship of Florida in intercollegiate baseball. The college possessesa commodious boathouse, situated on the shore of Lake Virginia,in which is housed the fleet of boats, more than a dozen innumber, belonging to the college. The college can not undertake to furnish medical attendanceor professional nursing to students gratuitously, in case of illness. A number of students of both sexes are given employmenton the campus and in the dining-hall in entire or partial paymentof their college bills. Work may be secured in the village toa certain extent. In general it is believed that no young man orwoman of good ability and serious purpose need fail of a liberaleducation through lack of means. NOTE WITH REFERENCE TO TECHNICAL ANDPROFESSIONAL STUDIES Rollins is a college, as distinguished from the university orthe professional, the technical, or the agricultural school. Its
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GENERAL REMARKS 9 mission is to provide for those who come to it for a Hberal edu-cation, a generous culture, a thorough training of the physical,intellectual and moral nature. It believes in the value of afull college course as a preliminary to technical studies, and it isopposed to. all short cuts into the professions. To those, however, who wish to take up engineering orother technical studies, and who are unable to complete a col-lege course as a preliminary to these, the following suggestionis of¥ered: The studies leading to a technical degree may be dividedinto two parts: I. Those which are general, such as the languages—Ger-man, French, and, in the South, Spanish; the sciences—Physics,Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Biology, Botany, Zoology, andAstronomy; the higher mathematics—Geometry, Trigonometry,Calculus, and Surveying; and English, History, Economics, andPolitical Science. 2 Those which are wholly technical. There is no reason why these two groups of studies should

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