GENERAL STATEMENT.

COURSES OF STUDY.-The College presents to its undergraduate students the option of three parallel courses of study, each extending through four years, and named respectively the Classical Course, the Latin-Scientific Course, and the Scientific Course.

In the Classical Course the study of Latin and Greek forms a large part of the required work of the first two years. In the Latin-Scientific Course, Greek is omitted, and, in the Scientific Course, both Greek and Latin, in order to give more extended opportunity for the study of Modern Languages, Science, and Literature.

REQUIRED AND ELECTIVE STUDIES.-In each of the above Courses, all of the studies of the first year are required, except that the Classical and Latin-Scientific students have the option between French and German. In the three remaining years, the amount of required work is progressively diminished, 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 advised to exercise prudence and deliberation, and especially to regulate his choice so that his electives will together form a harmonious and symmetrical 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 table, in which the numbers in the columns headed "Required" show approximately what percentage of the whole work of the respective Courses consists of required studies in the several departments named; while the numbers in the columns headed "Elective" show the amount of elective work offered in the respective departments, computed on the same scale.

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

counted as elective, the percentage of studies required in the Classical and in the Latin-Scientific Course would become 66 and 56, respectively.

The distribution of the required and the elective work in each of the four years is shown in the following table:

PERCENTAGE OF REQUIRED AND ELECTIVE WORK 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 (or two thousand lines of Ovid); Cicero,-eight orations; Latin Grammar, including Prosody; translation into Latin of simple English sentences and easy narratives 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 sight-reading 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, v as win wit, y as French u or German i, x as ks, z as ds, r always trilled, ch, ph, and th as c, p, and t 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 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). 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 capture of Corinth; Ancient Geography. The amount of historical knowledge required for this examination may be obtained from the following books:— Cox's or Smith's Smaller History of Greece; Leighton's History of Rome (of which the introduction, and chaps. i., ii., iv., xxix., xlvii., Iv., lvi., lxv.-lxix., may be omitted). 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.-I. Arithmetic, including the Metric System of Weights and Measures. 2. Algebra, through Quadratic Equations,— including Arithmetical and Geometrical Progressions, and the use of the Binomial Formula for positive integral exponents,-so much, for example, as is contained in the first seven books of Newcomb's Algebra for Colleges, or in the first eighteen chapters of Loomis's Treatise on Algebra. 3. Plane Geometry,-so much as is contained in the first five books of Chauvenet's or Wentworth's Geometry, or the first six books of Newcomb's Geometry.

ENGLISH.-1. Each candidate will be required to write a short English essay upon a subject announced at the time of the examination.

This essay will be expected to show a general familiarity with the works mentioned below, and will be examined with especial attention to accuracy of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. One hour will be given to this exercise. In 1888, the subject of this essay will be taken from one of the following works, candidates being required, however, to be prepared on all of them:-Shakspere's Julius Cæsar and Twelfth Night; Johnson's Lives of Addison and Pope; Thackeray's English Humorists: Dobson's Eighteenth Century Essays; Pope's Rape of the Lock and Essay on Criticism: Miss Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Irving's Bracebridge Hall; Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome.

In 1889, it will be taken from the following:-Shakspere's Julius Cæsar and As You Like It; Johnson's Lives of Swift and Gray; Thackeray's English Humorists; Swift's Gulliver's Travels; Gray's Elegy; Miss Austen's Pride and Prejudice; Scott's Marmion and Rob Roy.

In 1890, it will be taken from the following:-Shakspere's Julius Cæsar and Midsummer Night's Dream; Macaulay's Life of Johnson and Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson; Carlyle's Essays on Boswell's Life of Johnson; Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield and Deserted Village; Dobson's Eighteenth Century Essays; Scott's Quentin Durward; Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome.

In 1891, it will be taken from the following:-Shakspere's Julius Cæsar and Merchant of Venice; Johnson's Lives of Milton and Dryden; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Dryden; Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I. and II.; Dryden's Alexander's Feast; Scott's Quentin Durward; Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

2. 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 LatinScientific Course will be examined in all of the above subjects except Greek. They will also be examined in French or German, as each candidate may elect. Such a knowledge of the language will be required as will enable the candidate to read easy passages at sight.

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

MATHEMATICS.-I. Arithmetic, including the Metric System of Weights and Measures. 2. Algebra, through the Theory of Equa