Bulletin of Catholic University of Peking
THE INAUGURATION AND REGISTRATION OF THE SCHOOL OF ARTS
HORTLY before Easter in 1927, a tentative plan providing for the immediate inauguration and registration of a University School of Arts and Letters was drafted by the University authorities and forwarded to the Rt. Rey. Chancellor, Archabbot Aurelius, O.S.B: It was also proposed in this plan to add another year to the Preparatory Course, so as to make it correspond to a Senior Middle School (Kao Chi Chung Hsieh). Vhe Chancellor cabled his approval to the Rector on May 5, 1927, requesting the latter to proceed with the formalities prescribed by the Government for the Recognition and Registration of private universities.
The work of preparation began at once. The Board of Finance appointed by the Chancellor drew up a budget of the expenses involved, while the newly-drafted Board of Administration formulated the Statutes, and drafted the other documents which had tO accompany the University’s formal Petition for Recognition. All of these, together with a ground-plan of the University premises were submitted to His Excellency Jen K’e-cheng (the then Minister of Education) on June 16, 1927. Among the documents presented to the Minister on this occasion was a ‘Plan of Studies”’ containing (in its amended form) the following
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Announcement of Courses:
““ArtICLE VIII: The Catholic University of Peking has established a Faculty of Arts which comprises several Departments, some of which are actually functioning, while others are in process of formation. The Departments in actual operation are:
I} The Department of Preparatory Studies ; II) The Department of Chinese Letters; Ill) The Department of History; IV) The Department of English. “N.B—Next year (1928—1929) the Univer-
sity intends to open another Department, namely, that of Philosophy.
“ARTICLE 1X: The Catholic University offers two Courses of Studies, viz., the Preparatory Course and the Collegiate Course.
“The following Subjects (all of
which are prescribed) are taught in the Preparatory Course: 1) Chinese; 2) History; 3) English; 4) Logic; 5) Psychology; 6) Ethics; 7) Civics; 8) General Science; 9) Mathematics. “The following Subjects (partly prescribed and partly elective) are taught in the Collegiate Course which comprises four Departments: