tice (1) in oral and written reproduction of the text, (2) in the memorizing of colloquial and idiomatic phrases, and (3) in dictation. Thoroughness should be insisted upon rather than quantity. The following texts are recommended: (1) Guerber's Märchen und Erzählungen I, (2) Seligmann's Altes und Neues, (3) Glück Auf, (4) the easiest of Grimm's Märchen.

The work indicated constitutes 1 unit; recommended to all applicants for admission to the Colleges of Literature, of Science, and of Commerce and Administration. Either this unit or the first unit of French is recommended to applicants for admission to the College of Arts.

2) The second unit calls for about 300 pages of moderately difficult reading, chiefly prose, with constant practice in oral and written reproduction of selected portions; also drill upon the more difficult chapters of grammar such as the passive voice, use of cases with prepositions, verbs, adjectives, uses of tenses and modes (especially the infinitive and subjunctive), likewise upon word-order, and word-formation. Credit will not be granted in cases of great deficiency in composition, regardless of the quantity read. The following texts are among those recommended: (a) For reading, Baumbach's Sommermärchen and Waldnovellen, Leander's Träumereien, Zschokke's Der zerbrochene Krug, Das Wertshaus zu Cransac, Storm's Immensee, Heyse's L'Arrabiata; (b) For composition, Vos's materials for German composition, Stern's Geschichten vom Rhein, Geschichten von deutschen Städten, Mosher's Willkommen in Deutschland.

The work indicated constitutes 1 unit. German 2) or a second unit of French is recommended to applicants for admission to the Colleges of Literature, of Science, and of Commerce and Administration.

3) The third unit calls for: (a) The reading of from 400 to 500 pages of good modern prose stories and plays and the ability to use the language effectively as a means of oral and written expression; (b) Abundant practice in the writing of compositions. Among the texts recommended are Benedix, Der Prozess, Die Hochzeitsreise, Moser's Der Bibliothekar, Wilbrandt's Jugendliebe, Manley and Allen's Four German Comedies, Storm's Pole Poppenspäler, Riehl's Fluch der Schönheit, Sudermann's Frau Sorge, Freytag's Die Journalisten, Ernst's Flachsmann als Erzieher.

This unit is recommended to candidates for the Colleges of Literature, of Science, and of Commerce and Administration.

Those who begin their study of German in the University will begin with course 1: Elementary German. Those who receive credit for 1 unit of German on admission will begin with course 3: Intermediate German; those who receive credit for 2 units will begin with course 5: Modern Prose Readings; and those who receive credit for 3 units will, with the approval of the instructor in each case, elect work from the Senior College courses.

ENGLISH

Three units of entrance credit are given by the University, covering the following subjects:

1) Elementary Composition, including grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc., and the reading of English classics in what is known as the "general list" as follows:

Group I (two to be selected): Shakspere's As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night.

Group II (one to be selected): Bacon's Essays; Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I; The Sir Roger de Coverly Papers in the Spectator; Franklin's Autobiography.

Group III (one to be selected): Chaucer's Prologue; Spencer's Fuerie Queene (selections); Pope's The Rape of the Lock; Goldsmith's The Deserted Village; Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Books II and III, with especial attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and Burns.

Group IV (two to be selected): Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Scott's Ivanhoe; Scott's Quentin Durward; Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables; Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford; Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Blackmore's Lorna Doone.

Group V (two to be selected): Irving's Sketch Book; Lamb's Essays of Elia; DeQuincey's Joan of Arc and The English Mail Coach; Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship; Emerson's Essays (selected); Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies.

Group VI (two to be selected): Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's The Lady of the Lake; Byron's Mazeppa and The Prisoner of Chillon; Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Book IV, with especial attention to Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley; Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome; Poe's Poems; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum; Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish; Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur; Browning's Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Evelyn Hope, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, The Boy and the Angel, One Word More, Hervé Riel, Pheidippides. 1 unit.

2) Literature: study of the English classics in what is known as the "list for intensive study;" and an outline of the history of the chief periods of English literature following the classics studied. 1 unit.

The books for study in 1909 and 1910 are: Shakspere's Macbeth: Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, or Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration; Macaulay's Life of Johnson, or Carlyle's Essay on Burns. 3) Composition and Rhetoric, including the rhetorical treatment of the whole composition, the paragraph, and the sentence; the kinds of composition; diction; usage-such topics, namely, as are treated in the standard textbooks of rhetoric. 1 unit.

It should be noted: (a) That the units described above represent approximately half work in English literature and half work in rhetoric and composition. (b) That the division of the units by topics does not imply a corresponding separation in the teaching. (c) That students offering three years or more of work in English are admitted to the first college course; there they are tested in the first fortnight. If they sustain the test, they are allowed 3 units for admission, and may also receive college credit according

to their ability. If they are found insufficiently prepared, they are required to take supplementary work in the University High School.

BIBLICAL HISTORY AND LITERATURE

1) The History of the Hebrews from the Establishment of the Kingdom to the Return from the Exile.—The following texts are recommended as indicating the character of the work required: Price, Syllabus of Old Testament History, §§ 50-80; Kent, History of Hebrew People, Vol. I, §§ 73-169, Vol. II, §§ 1-212.

2) The Life of Jesus.-The requirement will be met by the study of Burton and Mathews, Constructive Studies in the Life of Christ; chaps. 2, 3, 20-27, may, if necessary, be passed over lightly or omitted.

3) Old Testament Literature.—Robertson, The Books of the Old Testament, will indicate the scope and character of the requirement.

4) New Testament Literature.-The requirement will be met by the study of McClymont, The New Testament and Its Writers, chaps. 1-18.

The unit consists of 1), 2), and either 3) or 4), at the option of the student. 1⁄2 or 1 unit.

MATHEMATICS

The following statements of admission units in mathematics are to be understood as specifying topics to be covered but not the order or relations in which these topics are to be studied. The University will accept work in which arithmetic, algebra, and geometry are treated simultaneously as phases of one subject-mathematics-and will give credit for any of the following admission units whose topics have all been satisfactorily covered, irrespective of the order in which this has been done, but a full year's work in mathematics will be required for each unit credited.

1a) Algebra, first course, covering literal notation; the four fundamental operations for rational algebraic expressions; factoring; determination of highest common factor and lowest common multiple by factoring; fractions (including simple complex fractions and the elements of ratio, proportion, and variation); linear equations, both numerical and literal, containing one or more unknowns; problems leading to linear equations; square root and radicals as needed in numerical quadratic equations; numerical quadratic equations and problems leading to such equations.

The pupils should be required throughout the course to solve numerous problems which involve putting into equations data and conditions given in words. Many of these problems should be chosen from mensuration, from physics, and from practical life. The treatment should be elementary and concrete, with free use of graphic methods, but should result in definite comprehension and formulation of the algebraic relations involved. Required of all students. 1 unit.

1b) Algebra, second course, including a review of the work of the first course; radicals; exponents, including the fractional and the negative; extraction of the square root of numbers and of polynomials; imaginary and complex numbers; general solution of quadratic equations with one unknown, applied to literal as well as numerical coefficients; theory of the quadratic equation with one unknown, including the discriminant and the relation

between the roots and the coefficients; simple cases of equations or systems of equations with one or more unknowns that can be solved by the methods of linear or quadratic equations; problems leading to quadratic equations; ratio, proportion, and variation; the binomial formula for positive integral exponents. Algebra 1b) should not be given earlier than the third school year. Work of the first course will not satisfy the requirements of the second course.

All the general directions concerning the first course apply also to the second course, and in addition it may be said that the latter, while proceeding from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract, and making considerable use of graphic methods and illustrations, especially in connection with the solution of single quadratic equations and of systems of equations and in the study of variation, should also give emphasis to the clear statement and formal demonstration of general results. Required of all students. unit.

2) Plane Gometry, covering the usual theorems and constructions of good textbooks, including the general properties of rectilinear figures; the circle and the measurement of angles; similar polygons; areas; regular polygons and the measurement of the circle. Required of all students. 1 unit.

3) Solid Geometry, covering the usual theorems and constructions of good textbooks and including the relations of planes and lines in space; the properties and measurements of prisms, pyramids, the regular solids, cylinders, cones, the sphere, and the spherical triangle. 1⁄2 unit.

Course 3) must be given in the third or fourth school year, and will not be given credit if taken in the same school year with course 2). In both 2) and 3) emphasis should be laid on the original demonstration of theorems and the original solution of problems. Applications should be made to geometric problems of practical life. Each of these courses should from time to time treat geometric problems by such algebraic methods as are familiar to the pupil. While accuracy of deductive reasoning and clearness of statement are of prime importance in geometry, the path from the particular to the general, from the concrete to the abstract, may be followed readily and with as much profit in this subject as in algebra. Concrete and inductive approach to ab. stract and deductive demonstration will be found valuable throughout the work.

ASTRONOMY

The requirements in Astronomy call for proficiency in the fundamental facts and principles of Astronomy, including the more recent developments in the direction of spectroscopy and photography. Thorough familiarity with Moulton's Introduction to Astronomy will afford adequate preparation in this subject. unit.

PHYSICS

In order to obtain entrance credit in Physics the applicant must have completed a course in the elements of Physics which is equivalent to not less than 150 hours of assigned work. Not less than one-third of the total assignment must have been devoted to laboratory work, two hours of laboratory work being counted as one hour of assignment.

A notebook containing the record of at least 35 laboratory experiments selected from, or essentially like, those found in the "University of Chicago

Recommended List of 50 Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Secondary Schools" is a part of the requirement. 1 unit.

CHEMISTRY

A course in elementary Chemistry, as taught in the better class of high and preparatory schools, covering thirty-five to forty weeks, four to five days per week, one-third to one-half of the total assignment being devoted to laboratory work, will afford the necessary preparation. Two hours of laboratory work are reckoned as equivalent to one hour of assignment.

Remsen's, Torrey's, Hessler and Smith's, Newell's, Young's, Linebarger's, and Storer and Lindsay's Elementary Chemistries are suitable textbooks for preparation. Smith & Hall's Teaching of Chemistry and Physics (Longmans) discusses fully the material and methods approved by the department. The standard of attainment must fit for admission to the special college course in general Chemistry (2S) to which this unit is prerequisite. 1 unit.

GEOLOGY

1) Elementary Physiography.-The requirement for credit in this course includes: (a) a knowledge of the simpler facts and principles involved in Mathematical Geography; (b) a knowledge of the general facts concerning atmospheric movements, precipitation, temperature, etc., together with the principles governing them; (c) an elementary knowledge of the sea, including the general facts concerning its movements and their causes; and, (d) a general knowledge of the earth's features, and their mode of origin. 1⁄2 unit.

2) Advanced Physiography.-For this course more detailed knowledge will be required concerning the topics named above. In addition, the candidate should be familiar with the principles of climatology, the modern doctrines concerning the evolutions and natural history of geographic features, and the distribution of life and its relations to surface conditions. 1⁄2 unit.

A unit's credit will be given those who present both 1) and 2). Thorough courses based on such texts as those of Salisbury, Gilbert & Brigham, Dryer, or Davis, meet the requirement for 1) and 2).

3) Geology. The requirement for admission embraces the elementary features of petrographical, structural, dynamical, and historical Geology. Familiarity with the modes of action of geologic agents, and clear views of the progress and relations of geological events are essential. A thorough course, based on such a book as Brigham's Textbook of Geology, or Norton's The Elements of Geology, meets the requirement. 1⁄2 unit.

1) and 2), or 1) and 3), may be offered as the second unit of science recommended to candidates for the College of Science (§6).

GENERAL BIOLOGY

The candidate applying for admission credit in General Biology will be required: (a) To submit to the examiner a notebook consisting of drawings and descriptions of the animals and plants studied. (See statement concerning notebook under Physics, above.) It is recommended that studies of at least fifteen principal forms be undertaken, that these studies be largely such as do not demand the use of a compound microscope, and that attention be