GENERAL STATEMENT.

Courses OF STUDY.—The College presents to its undergraduate students the option of three regular courses of study, extending through four years, and named respectively the Classical, LatinScientific, and Scientific Courses.

The Classical Course comprises that range of studies which is usually included in the college curriculum. The other two courses are designed to secure to those whose circumstances or tastes prevent an extended study of the ancient languages, an opportunity to acquire a sound mental training and liberal culture, as well as a good preparation for advanced courses of scientific or technical study. In the LatinScientific Course, the Greek, and in the Scientific Course, the Greek and the Latin, of the Classical Course are replaced by Modern Languages, Science, and Literature.

REQUIRED AND ELECTIVE STUDIES.-In each of the above Courses, all of the studies of the first two years are required, except that the Classical Sophomores have the option between French and German, and the Latin-Scientific Sophomores, the option between Latin and French. In the last two years, from one-fifth to one-half of the work is required, the student being allowed to complete his quota by selecting from a wide range of elective studies.

In the choice of these electives, the student is encouraged to exercise prudence and deliberation, and especially to regulate his choice so that his electives will together form a harmonious and consistent course of study; and in no case is a student allowed to select a study which he is not, in the judgment of his instructors, qualified to pursue with advantage.

The allotment of the subjects of study in the several Courses is set forth in the following schedules, in which the time devoted to all of the studies of each Course during the four years is taken at 100.

DISTRIBUTION OF REQUIRED AND ELECTIVE STUDIES IN THE CLASSICAL, LATIN-SCIENTIFIC, AND SCIENTIFIC COURSES.

*Option is allowed between French and German. If these should therefore be counted as elective, the amount of the required studies would become 68.

The numbers opposite each group of studies in the columns headed “Required” indicate the percentages which the required studies of that group form of the whole work of the several Courses. The same numbers for the electives indicate the amounts offered in the several departments. From these electives each student selects enough to make, with the required studies of his Course, his whole quota of 100.

The distribution of the required and elective work in each of the four years is shown on the next page.

Elective.

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

*Option between French and German, one of which is required.

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.

Terms 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.; Vergil, Eneid, books I. to VI. inclusive, Eclogues, Georgics; Cicero, eight orations; Latin Grammar, including Prosody; translation into Latin of simple English sentences and easy narrative based on the prose authors read.

Candidates are also allowed at the option of the examiner to substitute translation at sight from the authors specified in Course II. for some of the passages set from the authors required in Course I., and it is especially urged that systematic practice in accurate sightreading be made a part of the preparatory training from the very first.

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

The Roman system of pronunciation is exclusively used in all the Latin work of the college course, and it is expected that applicants for admission will be well versed in it. A brief scheme of approximately equivalent sounds in English is here given: a is pronounced as in father, e as in they, i as in machine, o as in tone, u as oo in boot (the long and short vowels have the same quality of sound, but the latter are pronounced in less time than the former); ae as aye, au as ou in out, ei as in eight, eu as in feud, oe as oi in boil, ui as in quit; c and g always as in come and get, s always as in sin, j as i in valiant, vas win wit, y as French u or German ü, x as ks, z as ds, always trilled, ch, ph, and th as c, p, and with the aspiration following, as in haphazard and boathook; other consonants as in English.

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-Allen's or Goodwin's Greek Grammar; simple sentences in Greek Prose Composition.

Candidates in Course I. may substitute the translation of a prose passage at sight as the equivalent of one of the passages set for the examination in the Anabasis. It is very desirable that all candidates shall have had training in translation at sight.

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). Greek Prose composition and Grammar as in Course I.

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:—