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.

GRADUATE STUDIES.—Extended instruction is given to those who wish to pursue 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 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 iń 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 w in wit, y as French u or German ü, 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., lv., 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.—1. 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.-I. 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. In 1889, 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 As You Like It, Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Scott's Marmion, Johnson's Lives of Swift and Gray, Thackeray's English Humorists, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Miss Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Scott's Rob Roy.

In 1890, it will be taken from the following--Shakspere's Julius Cæsar and Midsummer Night's Dream, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Longfellow's Evangeline, Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive, Thackeray's English Humorists, Webster's first Bunker Hill Oration, Scott's Quentin Durward, George Eliot's Silas Marner, Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.

In 1891, it will be taken from the following:-Shakspere's Julius Cæsar and Merchant of Venice, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Longfellow's Evangeline, Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive, Webster's first Bunker Hill Oration, Irving's Alhambra, Scott's Old Mortality, George Eliot's Silas Marner, Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. In 1892, it will be taken from the following:-Shakspere's Julius Cæsar and As You Like It, Scott's Marmion, Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish, Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, Macaulay's second Essay on the Earl of Chatham, Webster's first Bunker Hill Oration, Irving's Alhambra, Scott's Talisman, George Eliot's Scenes from Clerical Life, Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.

2. Each candidate will be required to criticise specimens of English given him at the time of the examination.

Two hours will be allowed for the entire examination in English. It is recommended that teachers of Greek and Latin in preparatory schools insist upon the use of simple and idiomatic English in translation.

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 chosen 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.-1. Arithmetic, including the Metric System of Weights and Measures. 2. Algebra, through the Theory of Equations, so much, for example, as is contained in Newcomb's Algebra for Colleges, or Loomis's Treatise on Algebra. 3. Plane and Solid Geometry,‚—so much as is contained in Chauvenet's Geometry to Appendix I., or in Newcomb's Geometry, omitting the chapters on the Conic Sections. 4. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with the use of Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables,- -so much as is contained in Wheeler's Elements of Trigonometry.

ENGLISH.-Same requirements as for Classical Course.

FRENCH OR GERMAN.-Same requirements as for Latin-Scientific 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 preparatory 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 Thursday and Friday 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 Ist. 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.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

I.

LATIN.

PROFESSOR MERRILL; MR. WILLIAMS.

Livy,-Books 21 and 22, with parallel readings from Polybius in translation. Three hours a week during first half-year.

Horace,-Epodes, Satires, Odes, and Epistles, Three hours a week during second half-year.

Exercises in Sight Translation and Prose Composition throughout the year.

Course I. is required of Classical and Latin-Scientific Freshmen.

In connection with Course I. a brief course in Roman History (V. History) is required. This course is under the supervision of Professor Wilson, but the immediate instruction is given by Mr. Williams.

II. Plautus,-Trinummus; Terence,-Andria; Cicero,-Selected Letters; Tacitus,-Agricola and Germania. Five hours a fortnight. Course II. is required of Classical Sophomores, and elective for Latin-Scientific Sophomores.

III. Livy,-Books 5-7; Sallust,-Catilinarian Conspiracy and Jugurthine War; Plautus,-Mostellaria; Terence,-Adelphi; Vergil,— Aeneid, Books 10-12. Five hours a fortnight.

The object of Course III. is to give instruction and practice in the rapid reading of Latin. To this end systematic drill is given in tracing the development of thought as indicated by the Latin order of words, and in understanding the language at sight and hearing without translation.

Course III. is elective for those who have taken Course I, and who also take, or have taken, Course II.

The following courses are elective for all who have taken Courses I., II., and III.