PROPORTIONS OF REQUIRED AND ELECTIVE WORK FOR EACH YEAR IN EACH COURSE.

Option between French and German, one of which is required. † Option between Latin and Advanced French.

SPECIAL COURSES.-Students who do not desire to complete either of the above courses may receive instruction in such studies as they may select, provided they prove themselves, upon examination, qualified to pursue them with advantage. It should, however, be understood that this provision is intended for the benefit, not of those students who are incompetent to take one of the regular courses, but of those who have already obtained a preliminary education so thorough as to enable them to pursue with advantage extended courses of study in particular departments. Such special students will be expected to attend all exercises assigned them, and will be subject to all the general rules of the College.

POST-GRADUATE STUDIES.-Extended instruction is given to those who wish to pursue post-graduate courses of study in any of the departments.

Jerms of Admission.

CLASSICAL COURSE.-Candidates for the Freshman Class in the Classical Course are examined in the following books and subjects:

LATIN. Candidates are examined in either of the following courses, according to their option :

I. Cæsar, Gallic War, books I., II.; six books of Vergil's Æneid; Bucolics and Georgics; eight Orations of Cicero; translation into Latin of simple English sentences, and easy narrative based on the prose authors read; Latin Grammar, including Prosody,-Harkness, or Allen & Greenough.

II. Translation at sight of passages from Cæsar, Cicero's Orations, Vergil, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. Latin Prose Composition and Latin Grammar as in Course I.

GREEK.-Candidates are examined in either of the following courses, according to their option:—

I. Four books of Xenophon's Anabasis; three books of Homer's Iliad; Hadley's or Goodwin's Greek Grammar; simple sentences in Greek Prose Composition.

II. Translation at sight of average passages from Xenophon and from the Iliad (the candidate being supplied with a vocabulary of the less usual words).

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.-History of Rome, to the death of Marcus Aurelius; History of Greece, to the death of Alexander; Ancient Geography. The amount of historical knowledge required for this examination may be obtained from the following books:-Smith's Smaller History of Greece; Leighton's History of Rome. Tozer's Primer of Ancient Geography is recommended as the basis for instruction in Ancient Geography, and familiarity with map-drawing is especially desirable.

MATHEMATICS.-Arithmetic, including the Metric System; Plane Geometry; Algebra, so much as is included in the first seven books of Newcomb's Algebra for Colleges, or in the first eighteen chapters of Loomis's Treatise on Algebra.

ENGLISH. Each candidate will be required to write a short English composition, correct in punctuation, division into paragraphs, spelling, grammar, and expression, upon a subject announced at the time of the examination. One hour will be given to this exercise. In 1885, the subject will be taken from one of the following works:-Shakspere's Macbeth, and Merchant of Venice; first two books of Milton's Paradise Lost; Irving's Sketch-Book; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Dickens'

Tale of Two Cities; Emerson's Essay on Eloquence, in "Society and Solitude." In 1886, the subject will be taken from one of the following works:-Shakspere's Julius Cæsar, and Macbeth; first two books of Milton's Paradise Lost; Dickens' Tale of Two Cities; Scott's Abbot; Pope's Rape of the Lock; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

Each candidate will be required to criticise specimens of English given him at the time of the examination. Half an hour will be given to this exercise.

LATIN-SCIENTific Course.-Candidates for the Latin-Scientific Course will be examined in all the above subjects, except Greek and History of Greece.

SCIENTIFIC COURSE.-Candidates for the Scientific Course will be examined in the following books and subjects:

MATHEMATICS.-Arithmetic, including the Metric System; Algebra, so much as is included in Loomis's Treatise, through the General Theory of Equations; Chauvenet's Geometry, to Appendix I.; Wheeler's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry.

ENGLISH.-Same requirements as for Classical Course.

SPECIAL COURSES.-Special Students, not candidates for a degree, may be admitted upon passing such examination as the Faculty shall in each case prescribe.

No one can be admitted to the Freshman Class under the age of fifteen years, or to an advanced standing without a corresponding increase 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. No candidate can be admitted later than at the beginning of the Senior Year.

A student who has accomplished half or more of the prepar atory course, may be examined on that part, and receive credit therefor. In such a case, he will be examined, in any subsequent year in which he may present himself, only on those studies on which he has not already passed. But no credit will be given unless the candidate is able to pass on at least half of the preparatory course.

The regular examination for admission is held on the Friday and Saturday of Commencement Week. All candidates must be present at 9 A. M. on the former day. A second examination is held, commencing on the day preceding the first day of the Fall Term.

Candidates may be examined in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, or Chicago, provided that they make application to the President before June 1st. The time of these examinations will be Thursday and Friday of Commencement Week. But, if no applications are received before June 1st, these examinations will not be held.

Ladies are admitted to equal privileges in the University with gentlemen.

All candidates for admission must present satisfactory testimonials of good moral character; and certificates of regular dismission will be required from those who have been members of other colleges.

Departments of @nstruction.

LATIN.

PROFESSOR HARRINGTON; Mr. Merrill.

The pronunciation used has been preferably the English; but of late the free use of the Roman has been allowed to those who used it in preparation. The leaning at present is toward the Roman, which will become the main one when it is demanded.

The authors read in the Freshman* year are, in the first term, Livy, and in the second and third, Horace. Exercises are held four times a week. The reading in Livy, for the current year, begins with the twenty-first book, and is conducted as an historical as well as a philological study. To this end, while attention is given to the peculiarities of Livy's style, and to the general theory of forms and syntax as illustrated in his writings, the students are also led to a somewhat critical study of his value as a historian, especially by comparison with Polybius, whose description of the second Punic war is read in translation. Sight reading is encouraged by precept and by practice in class, and a test of the student's ability in this direction is made a part of each examination.

The works of Horace are taken up in the general order of their composition, and are studied chiefly from a literary standpoint. The aim is to teach the student something of the characteristics of ancient lyric poetry, and especially to lead him to a sympathetic understanding of the spirit and inner life and character of the poet himself, and of the Romans of his age. Particular attention is also given to the structure and reading of the logaoedic rhythms.

In these departmental statements the arrangement of studies by years is that of the Classical Course; variations from this arrangement in the other courses are shown by the tables on a following page.