such literary acquirements as will fit them to pursue their proposed course of study with promise of success.

Candidates for admission must be at least fourteen years of age. All candidates for advanced standing are examined in the preparatory studies, and also in those previously pursued by the classes they propose to enter, or in other studies equivalent to them. They will be charged a fee, varying from two to eighteen dollars, according to their different degrees of advancement, unless such standing shall have been obtained at another college. No candidate can be

admitted later than the beginning of the senior year.

The regular examination for admission to college takes place on the Tuesday preceding Commencement, and on the first day of the following term.

Entering the University will be considered a pledge to obey its rules and regulations.

RHETORICAL EXERCISES. Essays and Declamations throughout the year.

Lectures during the Second and Third Terms on Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Acoustics, Optics, and Electricity.

Rhetorical Study of Demosthenes, Webster, and Jeremy Taylor.

Botany. Gray's School and Field Book,.or Gray's Lessons and

Three daily recitations are required; and, in making a selection from the studies of the Junior Year, students will observe that

Mental Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology are required studies.

Lectures during the year on Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, and Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology.

Milne-Edwards's Manual of Zoology, Tenney's Manual, and Agassiz' and Gould's Principles of Zoology, are recommended as books for reference.

RHETORICAL EXERCISES. Themes and Forensics.

in Criticism of Standard English Authors.

Exercises

Lectures on the Eng