STATUS OF STUDENTS. In respect to status, students are classed as Graduate and Undergraduate; and Undergraduates as Regular Students, Students at Large, and Partial Course Students, the latter being further classified as Special Students and Limited Students. Graduate Students are such graduates of the University, or other institution empowered to confer like degrees on an equivalent basis, as are in residence and pursuing advanced or special studies under the direction of a Faculty. Regular Students are such Undergraduates as are candidates for a degree in some one of the Regular Courses. They are ranked in Four Classes, of a year's work each, namely, the Fourth or Freshman, the Third or Sophomore, the Second or Junior, and the First or Senior. Students at Large. Any successful candidate for admission to one of the Regular Courses, is allowed to enroll himself as a Student at Large, and, with the advice and consent of the proper Faculty, to elect such a schedule of studies as will make up the full number of exercises a week required of Regular Students of the College in which he is enrolled. In other respects, Students at Large are subject to all the regulations governing Regular Students. Special Students. Students who are mature-usually such only as have attained their majority-and who wish to pursue some one study and its related branches, may be permitted to do so, by making application through the Recorder of the Faculties. Limited Students. Students who because of ill health or other disability are unable to pursue the full number of studies required of Regular Students, or who cannot reside at the University long enough to complete a Regular Course, are granted the privilege of taking a Limited Course. But this privilege is withdrawn from students who fail to maintain a good record in scholarship. Students at Large, Special Students and Limited Students are not by virtue of their status candidates for any degree; but, upon completing a total of studies equivalent, in the judgment of the proper Faculty, to those of a Regular Course, they may by vote of that Faculty be recommended for the degree of the Course. CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION AND RESIDENCE. GENERAL LIST OF PREPARATORY SUBJECTS. Applicants for admission to Undergraduate Courses must be at least sixteen years of age, must deposit with the Recorder a certificate of good moral character, and must pass a satisfactory examination in such of the following Subjects as are designated, on page 32 below, for the Course and Status sought: 1. ENGLISH. A short composition, correct in spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, and grammar, upon a subject announced at the time of the examination, and taken from the following works: Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby or Plutarch's Lives (Ginn's Selection); Scott's Lady of the Lake; Irving's Alhambra; Thackeray's Newcomes; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Julius Cæsar (Rolfe's or the Clarendon Press edition). Applicants will also be required to analyze sentences from these works, and to pass an examination on some such work on rhetoric as A. S. Hill's Principles of Rhetoric, or Kellogg's Text-book (Lessons 1-71, inclusive). 2. ARITHMETIC. Including the metric system. The technical parts of Commercial Arithmetic, viz.: banking, profit and loss, commission, taxes, duties, stocks, insurance, exchange and average of payments, are not insisted on. 3. ALGEBRA. (a) To Quadratic Equations, including the various methods of factoring, the theory of exponents, integral and fractional, positive and negative, the calculus of radicals, ratio and proportion. (b) Quadratic Equations, both single and simultaneous, their solution and their theory, including all the recognized methods of solution and all equations reducible to the quadratic form; formation of equations from given roots. 4. PLANE GEOMETRY. (a) All of plane geometry, except the metrical properties of regular polygons and the measurement of the circle. (b) The general properties of regular polygons, their construction, perimeters and areas; and the measurement of the circle, including the different methods for determining the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. 5. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. History of the United States and the general facts of physical and political geography. Barnes' Brief History of the United States, and the geographies used in the first-grade grammar schools, will serve to indicate the amount of knowledge expected. In 1892, and afterwards, instead of the present requirement of History and Geography, Subject 5 will be GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Under this subject, a thorough knowledge of the principles of government, whether Federal, State, or local, will be required. 6. LATIN. Cæsar, Gallic War, Books 1.-IV. (or Civil War, Books 1.-11.); Cicero, the four Catilinarian Orations; with questions, in both cases, on the implied grammar, the subject-matter and the corresponding archæology; translation into Latin of simple English sentences. 7. LATIN. Cicero, the Orations Pro Archia Poeta and Pro Lege Manilia; Vergil, Eneid, Books 1.-VI.; with questions, in both cases, on the implied grammar, the subject-matter and the corresponding archæology, and, in the case of Vergil, on the prosody; sight translation of easy Latin prose; translation into Latin of brief connected narratives. 8. GREEK. Xenophon, Anabasis, Book 1., with questions on the subject-matter, archæology and grammar (with especial reference to etymology); White's First Lessons in Greek, lessons 1.-LX.; translation into Greek of simple English sentences. 9. GREEK. Xenophon, Anabasis, Books II.-IV., or Goodwin's Greek Reader, pp. 37-111; Homer, Iliad, Books 1.-11., omitting the catalogue of ships; with questions on the grammar (with especial reference to etymology), subject-matter, archæology and prosody; Jones' Greek Prose Composition, or its equivalent; sight translation of easy Greek prose. 10. ANCIENT HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. (a) Greek history to the death of Alexander, with the connected geography. (b) Roman history to the death of Commodus, with the connected geography. Smith's History of Greece, and Liddell's History of Rome, will serve to indicate the amount required. 11. PHYSICS. The elements of the subject, taught experimentally, as shown in some such work as Gage's Elements of Physics; Peck's Ganot (or a real equivalent) will include the topics required. 12. ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: (a) Chemistry. The elements of Chemistry (Eliot and Storer's Chemistry, Avery's Elementary Chemistry, or a thorough acquaintance with Meads' Chemical Primer). An examination in more advanced chemistry will be given to any who wish it, and candidates who pass it will be excused from taking Course I. in Elementary Chemistry (see page 55). (b) Botany. The elements of botany. An accurate knowledge of Part I. of Gray's How Plants Grow, and an acquaintance with the more prominent native or cultivated plants, their structure and botanical affinities. (c) Physiology. The elements of physiology (Hutchison's or an equivalent). (d) Mineralogy. The elements of mineralogy. A good knowledge of the physical properties of minerals in general. Ability to determine, by their physical properties alone, twenty-five of the commonest minerals, and to give the reasons for the determination. First seventy-two pages of Nicol's Manual of Mineralogy, or first seventy-five pages of Dana's, third edition. (e) Plane Trigonometry. The development of the general formulæ of plane trigonometry, solution of plane triangles, and practice in the use of logarithmic tables. Four-place logarithmic tables are furnished for use in the examination. (f) Free-hand Drawing. Line drawing from models, copying of patterns, etc. Particular attention is given to correctness of form and smoothness of outline. The applicant will be tested in that free-hand use of the pencil which will be of most immediate value to him in pursuing the subject of mechanical drawing and mapping. 13. HISTORY. History of England and the English People, by G. W. Cox, will indicate the amount. General history will be accepted instead in unusual cases. In 1892, and afterwards, Subject 13 will be MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY, instead of the present requirement in History of England. Fisher's Mediæval History and Fisher's Modern History, being Parts II. and III. of Fisher's Outlines of Universal History, will indicate the period to be covered and the amount required. 14. ENGLISH. The examination in this subject will presuppose thorough study of the selections named below. The candidate should be prepared to elucidate in full the meaning of any passage in the works assigned; to paraphrase such passage; to point out the rhetorical figures in it; to answer questions concerning the lives of the authors and the subject-matter and structure of the works studied. The history of words should also receive attention, Skeat's Etymological Dictionary being taken as the authority. For the present, the examination in word-derivation will be limited to Spenser's Prothalamion. The examination will be upon the following works: Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; Whittier's Snow-Bound; Longfellow's Evangeline; Lowell's Sir Launfal; Sir Roger de Coverley; Burke's Works, edited by Payne, Vol. I.; Milton's Comus (Clarendon Press, or Clark and Maynard); and Hales' Longer English Poems, omitting Dryden's MacFlecknoe, Johnson's London and Vanity of Human Wishes, Scott's Cadyow Castle, Wordsworth's Laodamia and Shelley's Adonais. Specimen Papers. Specimen examination papers in the foregoing subjects are contained in the Admission Circular [Bulletin No. 6], which will be sent to any address on application to the RECORDER OF THE FACULTIES, Berkeley, California. GROUPS OF SUBJECTS FOR THE SEVERAL COURSES. Of the foregoing subjects, one of the following three groups, or parts of them, must be taken, according to the Course and Status applied for: I. For the Classical Course.-Subjects, 1, 2, 3a, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. III. For any of the five Courses in Science.-Subjects 1, 2, 3 (a and b), 4 (a and b), 5, 11, 12, and either 6 or 14. For the Course in Letters and Political Science.-Either of the three preceding groups. A signal failure in Subject 14 will exclude the applicant from this Course. For a Course at Large, either of the three groups required for admission to a Regular Course, as the applicant may elect. For a Special Course, such of the General List of Subjects as, in the judgment of the professors or instructors in charge of the special line of studies intended, are requisite for its proper pursuit. No applicant who has failed in the entrance examination for a Regular Course or a Course at Large will be allowed to take a Special Course. For a Limited Course, Subjects 1, 2, 3a, 4a and 5; and, in addition, any in the General List that are requisite to the studies sought by the applicant. TIMES AND PLACES OF EXAMINATION. The First Entrance Examination will be held each year simultaneously at Berkeley, Los Angeles, Grass Valley, Chico and Visalia. It will continue through the Thursday, Friday and Saturday following the annual Commencement in the College of Letters and the Colleges of Science. (See Calendar on page 5.) The Second Entrance Examination will be held at Berkeley only. It will continue through three consecutive days, ending on Thursday, the first day of the Academic year. (See Calendar on page 5.) No applicant for admission will be examined at any other time, except for reasons of the most exceptional urgency. ORDER AND HOURS OF THE EXAMINATIONS. First Day. Applicants will assemble in Berkeley punctually at 8:30 A. M., in the Assembly Room, North Hall, south entry; and (in June) at the same hour in Los Angeles, Grass Valley, Chico and Visalia, at places to be named in the local newspapers in seasonable time. |
