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 are omitted, 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 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.

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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; Ovid, the first ten selections in Allen & Greenough's Ovid (or Vergil's Georgics); Cicero,-eight orations, of which those against Catiline and for Archias and the Manilian Law shall be six; 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, jas i in valiant, vas