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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
for this can be seen in the competition of the excellent female
seminaries in near-by Clarksville."
Each of the three divisions of McKenzie College had separate
curricular requirements, although those in the female and col-
legiate departments were similar. The school's catalogue left no
doubts about what was expected from students. Eschewing un-
derstatement, it proclaimed that "we wish every student who
comes here to have work to do, and plenty of it, to keep constantly
at it, and to do it well."47'
The preparatory department had a lower division, called the
primary level, in which were taught spelling and definitions,
geography, grammar, reading, arithmetic, and Spencerian pen-
manship.48 Among the subjects learned in the preparatory depart-
ment were United States history, arithmetic and elementary alge-
bra, grammar, astronomy, English composition, Latin, and Greek.
Caesar was read in Latin while Xenophon's Anabasis and St.
John's Gospel were studied in Greek.49 These preparatory courses
were designed to meet the freshman entrance requirements for
the collegiate department, which were: five books of Caesar, ele-
mentary algebra, four books of the Anabasis, and St. John's Gospel
in Greek.50
In the collegiate department, the study of mathematics em-
braced algebra, geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, ana-
lytical geometry, as well as differential and integral calculus. Latin
began with Cicero and progressed through Virgil and Horace and
ended with the historians Tacitus and Livy. Greek began with
Homer and the New Testament, and later included the history
by Thucydides and the Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles. Butler's
Analogy was taught to the seniors for their religious edification,
as it was in most other nineteenth century colleges. Other subjects
which were pursued for one semester were logic, rhetoric, chem-
4eMasters, Early Education in Northeast Texas (Master's thesis, University of
Texas, 1929), 121.
47Catalogue of M'Kenzie College, 186o-z86z, p. 13.
48Ibid., 6.
49Ibid.
soCody, "Methodist Educational Institutions in Texas," Bulletin of the Board of
Education [Methodist Episcopal Church, South], III, 67.540
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