Parkman: The Oregon Trail; Thoreau: Walden; Lowell: selected Essays (about 150 pages); Holmes: The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; Stevenson: An Inland Voyage, and Travels with a Donkey; Huxley: Autobiography, and selections from Lay Sermons, including the addresses on Improving Natural Knowledge, A Liberal Education, and A Piece of Chalk; a collection of Essays by Bacon, Lamb, DeQuincey, Hazlitt, Emerson, and later writers; a collection of letters by various standard writers.

GROUP V. POETRY. - Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Books II. and III., with special attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and Burns; Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Book IV., with special attention to Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley (if not chosen for study under B); Goldsmith: The Traveller, and The Deserted Village; Pope: The Rape of the Lock; a collection of English and Scottish ballads, as, for example, some Robin Hood ballads, The Battle of Otterburn, King Estmere, Young Beichan, Bewick and Grahame, Sir Patrick Spens, and a selection from later ballads; Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan; Byron: Childe Harold, Canto III. or IV., and The Prisoner of Chillon; Scott: The Lady of the Lake, or Marmion; Macaulay: The Lays of Ancient Rome, The Battle of Naseby, The Armada, Ivry; Tennyson: The Princess, or Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur; Browning: Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, Hervé Riel, Pheidippides, My Last Duchess, Up at a Villa-Down in the City, The Italian in England, The Patriot, The Pied Piper, De Gustibus, Instans Tyrannus; Arnold: Sohrab and Rustum, and The Forsaken Merman; selections from American poetry, with special attention to Poe, Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier.

B. STUDY.

This part of the requirement is intended as a natural and logical continuation of the student's earlier reading, with greater stress laid upon form and style, the exact meaning of words and phrases, and the understanding of allusions. The

books provided for study are arranged in four groups, from each of which one selection is to be made.

GROUP I. DRAMA.-Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet.

GROUP II. POETRY.-Milton: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and either Comus or Lycidas; Tennyson: The Coming of Arthur, The Holy Grail, and The Passing of Arthur; the selections from Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley in Book IV. of Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series).

GROUP III. ORATORY.—Burke: Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's two speeches on Copyright and Lincoln's Speech at Cooper Union; Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration.

GROUP IV. ESSAYS.-Carlyle: Essay on Burns, with a selection from Burns's Poems; Macaulay: Life of Johnson; Emerson: Essay on Manners.

EXAMINATION.

However accurate in subject-matter, no paper will be considered satisfactory if seriously defective in punctuation, spelling, or other essentials of good usage.

The examination will be divided into two parts, one of which will be on grammar and composition, and the other on literature.

The

In grammar and composition, the candidate may be asked specific questions upon the practical essentials of these studies, such as the relation of the various parts of a sentence to one another, the construction of individual words in a sentence of reasonable difficulty, and those good usages of modern English which one should know in distinction from current errors. main test in composition will consist of one or more essays, developing a theme through several paragraphs; the subjects will be drawn from the books read, from the candidate's other studies, and from his personal knowledge and experience quite apart from reading. For this purpose the examiner will provide several subjects, perhaps eight or ten, from which the candidate may make his own selections. He will not be expected to write more than four hundred words per hour.

The examination in literature will include:

A. General questions designed to test such a knowledge and appreciation of literature as may be gained by fulfilling the requirements defined under A. READING, above. The candidate will be required to submit a list of the books read in preparation for the examination, certified by the principal of the school in which he was prepared; but this list will not be made the basis of detailed questions.

B. A test on the books prescribed for study, which will consist of questions upon their content, form, and structure, and upon the meaning of such words, phrases, and allusions as may be necessary to an understanding of the works and an appreciation of their salient qualities of style. General questions may also be asked concerning the lives of the authors, their other works, and the periods of literary history to which they belong.

I.

LATIN.

AMOUNT AND RANGE OF READING REQUIRED.

I. The Latin reading required of candidates for admission to the B. A. course, without regard to the prescription of particular authors and works, is not less in amount than Caesar, Gallic War, I.-IV.; Cicero, the orations against Catiline, for the Manilian Law, and for Archias; Vergil, Aeneid, I.-VI.

2. The amount of reading specified above should be selected by the schools from the following authors and works: Caesar (Gallic War and Civil War) and Nepos (Lives); Cicero (orations, letters, and De Senectute) and Sallust (Catiline and Jugurthine War); Vergil (Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid) and Ovid (Metamorphoses, Fasti, and Tristia).

II. SUBJECTS AND SCOPE OF THE EXAMINATIONS.

1. Translation at Sight. Candidates will be examined in translation at sight of both prose and verse. In vocabulary, constructions, and range of ideas, the passages set will be suited to the preparation secured by the reading indicated above.

2.

Prescribed Reading. Candidates will be examined also upon the following prescribed reading: Cicero, orations for the Manilian Law and for Archias, and Vergil, Aeneid, I., II., and either IV. or VI. at the option of the candidate, with questions

on subject-matter, literary and historical allusions, and prosody. Every paper in which passages from the prescribed reading are set for translation will contain also one or more passages for translation at sight; and candidates must deal satisfactorily with both these parts of the paper, or they will not be given credit for either part.

The papers set by the College Entrance Examination Board, corresponding to the above requirements, are Latin 4 and 5.

3. Grammar and Composition. The examinations in grammar and composition will demand thorough knowledge of all regular inflections, all common irregular forms, and the ordinary syntax and vocabulary of the prose authors read in school, with ability to use this knowledge in writing simple Latin prose. The words, constructions, and range of ideas called for in the examinations in composition will be such as are common in the reading of the year, or years, covered by the particular examination.

The papers set by the College Entrance Examination Board, corresponding to the above requirements, are Latin 1 and 2.

In the case of candidates who desire credit for two years' work in Latin, the required reading is not less in amount than Caesar, Gallic War, I.-IV., and should be selected from the following: Caesar (Gallic War and Civil War) and Nepos (Lives). The test is on ability to read at sight, and no part of the reading is prescribed for examination. The corresponding paper of the College Entrance Examination Board is Latin 3. For three years' credit, the required reading is not less in amount than Caesar, Gallic War, I.-IV., and Cicero, the orations against Catiline, for the Manilian Law, and for Archias; this reading should be selected from Caesar (Gallic War and Civil War) and Nepos (Lives), Cicero (orations, letters, and De Senectute) and Sallust (Catiline and Jugurthine War). Cicero's orations for the Manilian Law and for Archias are prescribed for examination, in addition to the translation at sight. The corresponding paper of the College Entrance Examination Board is Latin 4. For this may be substituted, if desired, the examination in fourth-year Latin, Vergil and Translation of Poetry at sight (Latin 5).

Certificates for two years of Latin must state that the candidate has had systematic practice, and has exhibited satisfactory

proficiency, in reading at sight Latin of the average difficulty of Caesar; certificates for three years must vouch for similar practice and proficiency in reading at sight Latin of the average difficulty of either Cicero's orations or Vergil's Aeneid; and certificates for four years must vouch for such practice and proficiency in reading at sight Latin of the average difficulty of both Cicero's orations and Vergil's Aeneid.

GREEK.

I. Greek grammar, including prosody. The following textbooks are recommended: Hadley-Allen's, Goodwin's, or

Babbitt's.

2.

Xenophon,-Anabasis, books I.-IV.

3. Homer,-Iliad, books I.-III.

4.

Translation at sight of one or more passages from

Xenophon.

5. Translation into Greek of easy narrative passages based on the required books of the Anabasis.

To meet the full requirement in Greek, candidates must pass the following examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board: Greek a i, a ii, b, c, g.

GERMAN.

ELEMENTARY (counting as two units).—Such a knowledge of the language is required as may be obtained by the reading of at least 300 pages, part of which should be read at sight. It is recommended that there be sufficient aural and oral practice to enable the student to write simple German prose from dictation and to read the language aloud with a correct and intelligible pronunciation. The ability to answer simple questions in German is also highly important. The examination consists of the translation at sight into English of easy passages of German, elementary grammatical questions, and the translation of simple English sentences into German. To meet this requirement two years' work will generally be necessary.

INTERMEDIATE.-The requirement includes the reading of at least 300 additional pages of German (not more than half of which should be fiction), and regular practice in writing German. Further practice in speaking German is