1. English.*

(2 units.) The examination will presuppose thorough acquaintance with the following works, together with the practical knowledge of grammar and the fundamental principles of poetry and prose implied in such acquaintance: (1) The Lady of the Lake; (2) Ivanhoe or the Alhambra; (3) the best Ballads, Heroic Lays, and Poems of Nationality,-in all about 1,500 lines; (4) Classic Myths; (5) The following Poems: The Deserted Village, The Cotter's Saturday Night, Tam O'Shanter, The Ancient Mariner, The Prisoner of Chillon (or Selections from Childe Harold), Horatius, Snow-Bound; (6) The Merchant of Venice; (7) Julius Caesar; (8) Essays and Addresses: Emerson's The Fortune of the Republic, The American Scholar; Lowell's Democracy, Lincoln (two for study; one for reading).†

While the examination at the University will be upon the subjects as stated above, accredited schools may avail themselves of the following list of substitutions: for (1), The Lay of the Last Minstrel; for (2), any one of these-Scott's Quentin Durward, Kenilworth, Woodstock, Rob Roy, Tales of a Grandfather, Irving's Sketch-Book, his Tales of a Traveler, Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, Tom Brown at Rugby, Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote; for (3), an equivalent amount of purely literary selections from the Bible (e.g., Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, Esther), or The Pilgrim's Progress; for (4), Classic Myths (two-thirds), and, for

*Until January, 1907, applicants may present the items as announced in 1901, as follows:

1. English. (2 units.) The examination in this subject will presuppose thorough acquaintance with the following works, together with the practical knowledge of grammar and elementary rhetoric implied in such acquantance: (1) The Lady of the Lake; (2) The Alhambra; (3) Sir Roger de Coverley; (4) Classic Myths; (5) Short Poems: Horatius, The Deserted Village, The Cotter's Saturday Night, The Prisoner of Chillon (or Selections from Childe Harold). Winter, Winter Morning Walk, Snow-Bound, Tam o' Shanter, The Ancient Mariner, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso; (6) The Merchant of Venice; (7) Julius Caesar; (8) Macaulay's Warren Hastings.

While the regular examinations will, for the present, be upon these subjects without option, schools on the accredited list of the University may make such substitutions as the following: for (1), The Lay of the Last Minstrel; for (2), Tom Brown at Rugby, or Ivanhoe; for (3), Addison's Select Essays; for (5), some twelve poems of similar scope and character; for (6) or (7), Macbeth.

Items marked "for reading" are not for class-recitation, but for perusal outside of school with reports or discussions in class once a week or fortnight. The examination upon such items will not presuppose acquaintance with minute details. Whatever credit the pupil may acquire by his answers will be applied to offset deficiencies in other respects, or still further to improve his standing.

the remaining one-third, Biblical Selections (as above), or the Classics in English translations; if the latter be chosen, the following options are open: (a) The Iliad, Books i, vi, xxii, and xxiv (Pope, Chapman, Lang, Bryant, and others), or (b) The Odyssey, any four books (preferably the Episode of Ulysses among the Phæacians), or (c) Two of the following Greek Dramas: Antigone, Alcestis, Iphigenia; for (5), short poems of similar scope and character; for (6), As You Like It, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Tempest; for (8), An equivalent amount in the best prose explanatory of American ideals of citizenship, such as: Washington's Inaugural of 1789; Jefferson's of 1801; Everett on Franklin, Washington, The Pilgrim Fathers; Choate on American Nationality, Daniel Webster; Sumner on The Scholar; Curtis on The Puritan Spirit, The Public Duty of Educated Men; Bryce on The Strength of American Democracy (American Commonwealth, Chapter XCIX).

2. Plane Geometry. (1 unit.) The usual theorems and constructions of elementary plane geometry, including the general properties of regular polygons, their construction, perimeters and areas, and the different methods for determining the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. The solution of original exercises, including problems in loci and applications to mensuration.

3. Elementary Algebra. (1 unit.) Algebraic practice through simple quadratic equations; namely, the fundamental laws of algebra (including the laws of exponents for positive and negative integers), the various methods of factoring with applications to highest common factor, to lowest common multiple, to the reduction of fractions, and to the solution of equations, practice in the use of the remainder and the factor theorems, simultaneous equations of the first degree with problems involving their solution, simple quadratic equations, ratio and proportion.

4. Intermediate Mathematics. (1 unit.) (a) Algebraic theory: namely, mathematical induction, the remainder and the factor theorems proved, the binominal theorem for a positive integral exponent, square roots of polynomials, fractional and negative indices, theory of quadratic equations, examples in simultaneous quadratic equations, the progressions and other simple series. The ability to demonstrate principles is an important part of this requirement. (b) Geometry: Supplementary studies in plane geometry and the fundamental propositions of solid and spherical geometry, with problems in demonstration and in the mensuration of surfaces and solids. The ability to apply geometry to practical problems is important in this requirement.

5. History and Government of the United States. (1 unit.) A knowledge of the outline of American History, and of the nature of Federal, State, and local government. This requirement represents three things: the regular use by the pupil of a text-book in history, such as Channing's Students' History of the United States, McLaughlin's History of the American Nation, or Montgomery's Students' American History, and a text-book in government such as Hinsdale's American Government, or Bryce's American Commonwealth (1 vol. edition); systematic reading of assigned references; and a note-book containing maps, concise topical outlines or summaries of the most important movements or institutions, notes on some of the reference reading, and a few carefully prepared brief papers with bibliographical notes. The emphasis in the notebook should be on accuracy and thoughtfulness rather than on quantity."

6. Elementary Latin. (2 units.) (a) This subject represents four periods a week during two years. It includes the mastery of inflexions and of the simpler principles of syntax, the acquisition of a working vocabulary of from one to two thousand words, and, above all, the power to understand in the original, from the printed page and at hearing, simple prose narrative, and to translate the same into idiomatic English. The basis of this work should equal in amount Caesar's Gallic war i-iv, but there may be substituted as a partial equivalent portions of the Lives of Cornelius Nepos, or the matter contained in the second-year books. There should be also some training in translation at sight from easy authors.

(b) This subject represents one period a week, or its equivalent, during two years, the work of the first year being taken from the first lesson book. It includes the writing in Latin of detached and connected English sentences, based upon limited portions of the prose read, and it should constitute the chief means of teaching Latin forms and syntax.

7. Advanced Latin. (2 units.) (a) This subject represents four periods a week during two years. It includes the continuation of the requirements outlined under 6a, with the addition of the study of versification, and not omitting training in reading at sight; but the emphasis in these two years should be laid upon the development of the student's power to understand Latin prose and poetry in the original, and upon the thought of the authors read, rather

*The mention of any book does not mean that the University or the Department of History recommends it.

than upon the syntax, except in so far as the syntax is suggested by the interpretation of the thought. The basis of this work should be the customary six orations of Cicero, and Virgil's Aeneid i-vi, but it is hoped that the stronger schools may increase the amount by reading other books of the Aeneid or from Ovid, and other orations of Cicero or Sallust's Catiline.

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(b) This subject represents one period a week, or its equivalent, for two years. It includes the writing in Latin of connected English sentences, based upon limited portions of the prose read. It may well serve as a means of reviewing Latin forms and syntax, but the emphasis should be laid upon the order of words, the simpler features of sentence-structures, and the means of connecting sentences in paragraphs.

NOTE. The examinations for admission given at the University, to which recommendations from schools should correspond, are arranged as follows: 6a, Caesar; 6b, Composition (=2 units). 7a, (unit), Cicero against Catiline I-IV, Pompey's Military Command, for Archias; 7b, ( unit), Virgil's Aeneid I-VI; 7c1, (unit) Composition of the third year; 7c2, (unit) Composition of the fourth year. But an arrangement in the schools, whereby part of the Cicero is postponed to follow Virgil, is approved and advised by the department.

8. Greek. (2 units.) (a) Greek Grammar, including accents, the ordinary inflectional forms, the simpler rules of syntax, and the translation of easy English sentences into Attic Greek. White's First Greek Book represents the amount of preparation required.

(b) Xenophon's Anabasis, Books I-IV, with questions on the forms, syntax and subject-matter. The translation into Attic Greek of simple passages of connected narrative based on the Anabasis. [Parts I and II of Pearson's Greek Prose Composition represent the nature and amount of preparation required.]

9. Greek. (1 unit.) (a) Advanced Greek Composition [Part III of Pearson's Greek Prose Composition]. Sight Translation [fifty pages from the last three books of the Anabasis, or other Attic Greek]. (b) Homer's Iliad, books I-III, with questions on Homeric forms and prosody. Students should be trained not only to write a correct metrical scheme, but also to read Homeric hexameters at sight, with fluency and expression.

It is not possible for schools to gain accrediting in both 8 and 9 with less than three years' study of Greek, except under extraor

dinary circumstances. The adjustment of Greek work in the University to the different classes of students is as follows:

1. Students who enter the University with credit for Matriculation Subjects 8 and 9 will be admitted to Greek 1 or 2 in Freshman year.

2. Students who offer only Matriculation Subject 8 will be admitted to Greek B, which will cover the work of Matriculation Subject 9 in one year at the rate of three exercises a week. This will prepare them to take up Greek 1 or 2 in Sophomore year.

3. Students who bring no Greek to the University, but who wish to begin the study in the University, will be admitted to Greek A, which will cover the work of Matriculation Subject 8 in one year at the rate of five exercises a week. Such students can complete Greek B in Sophomore year, and still have time for two years of strictly university Greek before graduation. But the period of life covered by the high school course is the time when the memory work involved in learning the elements of a highly inflected language, like Greek, is most easily and successfully accomplished, and students who intend to study Greek are advised to begin the subject in the high school whenever this is possible.

10. Ancient History and Geography. (1 unit.) The elements of Ancient History, from the earliest times to 800 A.D. Chief stress should be laid upon Greek History from the fifth to the third century B.C., inclusive; upon Roman History, from the Conquest of Italy to the end of the second century A.D., and upon the Geography of the ancient world. The following text-books* will indicate the amount required from those who are admitted on certificate: Botsford's Ancient History, West's Ancient History, Wolfson's Ancient History, Myer's Ancient History (new edition). From pupils presenting themselves for examination a fuller knowledge of the subject is demanded. In connection with the textbook, the pupils are expected to acquire facility in making concise, logical outlines, and to embody some of these, with a few maps, and simple evidences of collateral reading, in a note-book.

11. Physics. (1 unit.) The requirement represents at least a daily exercise during one school year, which falls within the last two years of preparation for college. It is expected that the ground covered will include fair representation of primary empirical laws from each of the main subdivisions of Physics.

*The mention of any book does not mean that the University or the Department of History recommends it.