ADMISSION.

A. TO UNDERGRADUATE COURSES.

Applicants for admission to Undergraduate Courses must be at least sixteen years of age, must give satisfactory references concerning moral character, and must, by examination or by certificate, give evidence of proficiency in such of the subjects as are designated below as required for the Course and Status sought.

GROUPS OF SUBJECTS FOR THE SEVERAL COLLEGES.

For a Regular Course, the applicant must prepare himself in all the subjects (see General List of Preparatory Subjects, below) of that one of the following groups which admits to the college he has chosen:

GROUP I. Admitting to the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Commerce.-Subjects A, and 1 to 11 inclusive.

GROUP II. Admitting to the Colleges of Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Commerce.-Subjects A, 1 to 7 inclusive, 11, 8 or 14 or 15a or 15b, and any two of the following: 10, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 13. Subjects 8 and 9 together may be substituted for Subjects 6 and 7. But, until further notice, applicants for admission to the College of Natural Sciences and to the College of Commerce may offer subjects A, 1 to 5 inclusive, 11, any two of the following: 10, 12a, 12b, 12c, 12d, 13; and any three of the following: 6, 7, 8, 14, 15a, 15b, 15c, except that 15c (Spanish) may be offered only by applicants for admission to the College of Commerce. Applicants who intend to pursue the three-year medical preparatory course in the College of Natural Sciences are required to offer subjects A, 1 to 7 inclusive, 11, 12a or 12c or 12d, 12b, and 14.

GROUP III. Admitting to the Colleges of Agriculture and Chemistry. Subjects A, 1 to 5 inclusive, 6 or 8 or 14 or 15a or 15b, 11, 12a or 12c or 12d, and 12b. For the College of Agriculture, an equivalent in Entomology will be accepted in lieu of Zoology 12d.

GROUP IV. Admitting to the Colleges of Mechanics, Mining, and Civil Engineering.—Subjects A, 1 to 5 inclusive, 6 or 8 or 14 or 15a or 15b, 11, 12a', 12a2, 12b, and 16.

For a Course at Large, any one of the groups required for admission to a Regular Course, as the applicant may elect.

For a Special Course, the applicant will be required first to obtain the endorsement of the Dean of the appropriate college and second to pass such examinations as the officers in charge of the studies intended may deem requisite to establish his ability and fitness. Applicants for this status must ordinarily be at least twenty-one years of age; but actual experience in teaching, or actual practice of crafts underlying the technical studies to be pursued, may, in certain cases, be accepted as making good a deficiency in age. For a special course in the College of Letters, of Social Sciences, of Natural Sciences, or of Commerce, an examination in Oral and Written Expression (Subject A) is required of all applicants, excepting holders of teachers' certificates. Furthermore, special students intending to take courses in the Department of English will be expected to pass the regular entrance examinations in Subjects 1 and 14 at the usual time and place. Reasonable substitutions for the particular masterpieces prescribed will be allowed, but these should be arranged in advance. For the conditions under which special students may be admitted to the College of Agriculture, see under College of Agriculture.

For a Limited Course, Subject A, 3 or 4, and at least three other subjects from the general list, aggregating no less than four units. But the right is reserved to reject any candidate on account of evident unfitness.

General List of Preparatory Subjects.

NOTE. The normal amount of work represented by the preparatory subjects (excepting Subject A) is specified quantitatively, the unit being five recitations per week for one school year. It is understood that subjects recognized by the University as alternative will be adjusted to equivalence in this respect. Laboratory hours not requiring preparation are to be estimated at a lower rate than recitations.

While this valuation is made in terms of a four-year course for high schools, it does not exclude a pro rata reduction in subjects extending through more than one year, in order to accommodate it to a three-year course.

The valuation of the subjects is as follows:

A. Oral and Written Expression. Training in this subject enters into the proper treatment of all topics of study taken up in the school course, and extends to speaking and oral reading as well as to writing. Its aim is to secure to the student the ability to use his mother-tongue correctly, clearly, and pertinently on all lines upon which his thought is exercised.

A written test in this subject is required of all applicants for the status of special student in the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Commerce, excepting only those who hold teachers' certificates. In the case of other applicants, for the present no separate examination will be set, but note will be made of correctness of form and adequacy of expression in the various papers written by each.

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 acquaintance: (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 examination will, for the present, be upon these subjects without option, schools on the accredited list of the University may, after consultation with the English Department, 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 for (7), Macbeth.

2. Arithmetic. No examination in this subject will henceforward be set, since the study comes regularly in the grammar school, and since its essential processes are involved in Algebra.

3. Algebra. (1 units.) Through Quadratic Equations; namely, the various methods of factoring, the theory of exponents, integral and fractional positive and negative; the calculus of radicals; ratio and proportion; quadratic equations, both single and simultaneous, their solution and their theory, including all the recognized methods of solution, all equations reducible to the quadratic form and the formation of equations from given roots.

4. Plane Geometry. (1 unit.) 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.

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.

(a) Translation of easy prose

6. Elementary Latin. (2 units.) into English. The examination will cover the translation, subjectmatter, and implied grammar of selected passages from Caesar's Gallic War, books I–IV; but accredited schools may use any equivalent Latin text.

(b) Translation of simple English into Latin prose. This requirement presupposes familiarity with the usual forms and ordinary constructions of the language. Continued training in translating detached sentences illustrative of constructions, and of sentences based on Caesar or an equivalent author, together with a thorough grammatical drill on the work read, is a proper preparation for satisfying this requirement.

7. Advanced Latin. (2 units.) (a) Translation of Latin of average difficulty. The examination will include the translation into idiomatic English of average passages from Cicero's Orations against Catiline, for Archias, and for Pompey's Military Command; Virgil's Aeneid, books I-VI; and some other speech of Cicero to test ability in sight translation. The examination will also include questions on the usual forms and ordinary constructions of the language, and on prosody. This requirement may be satisfied in accredited schools by study of prose and poetry of equivalent difficulty.

(b) Translation of English narrative into Latin prose. The English passage offered for translation will be a paraphrase from one of Cicero's Orations. This requirement calls for systematic training in Latin prose composition, based on prose authors, during the last two years of the high school course.

8. Greek.

(a) (1 unit.) 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) (1 unit.) Xenophon's Anabasis, Books I-IV, with questions on the syntax and subject-matter. Translation at sight of ordinary passages from Xenophon. Rolfe's edition of Xenophon's Anabasis, Book v, is a convenient text for practice in sight translation.

9. Greek. (1 unit.) (a) Translation into Greek of easy passages of connected English prose based on Xenophon; (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.

10. Ancient History and Geography. (1 unit.)

(a) Greek history to the death of Alexander, with the connected geography.

(b) Roman history to A.D. 410, with the connected geography. Smith's History of Greece, Myers's History of Greece, Liddell's History of Rome, will serve to indicate the amount required.

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.

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The results called for demand vigorous and thorough instruction in the class-room, based upon laboratory exercises by the pupils. addition to the test of a written examination, it will be required that each candidate submit a laboratory note-book, signed by his teacher, as evidence that the main principles of the subject as treated have been presented experimentally.

12. Advanced Mathematics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology.

(a) Advanced Mathematics. (1 unit.) Any two of the following: (1) Solid Geometry. The fundamental propositions of solid and spherical geometry, accompanied by a suitable amount of exercise in problems -the whole to represent the work of one half-year. (2) Plane Trigonometry. The development of the general formulæ of plane trigonometry, with applications to the solution of plane triangles and the measurement of heights and distances. (3) Advanced Algebra, Part I. Surds and complex quantities, ratio, proportion and variation, arithmetical, geometrical, and harmonic progressions, examples of other simple series, determinants, and elements of the theory of equations, including the solution of numerical equations by Horner's Method. (4) Advanced Algebra, Part II. Inequalities, limits, and indeterminate forms, exponentials, and logarithms, natural logarithms, convergency and divergency of series, indeterminate coefficients with applications to integral functions, partial fractions, expansion of functions and summation of series, permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem for any index, exponential and logarithmicseries, logarithmic computation.