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LECTURES.

Besides the lectures given by the members of the Faculty in the several departments the following courses of lectures are delivered each year:

By Bishop Williams: to the Seniors, on Ancient History, and the History of the Holy Roman Empire; to the Juniors, on the History of England and of the United States.

By Professor Brocklesby: to the Juniors, on the History of Astronomy. By Dr. Wainwright: to the Seniors, on Anatomy and Physiology

By Mr. Hamersley: to the Seniors, on the Constitution of the United States.

By Dr. Scudder: to the Freshmen, on Hygiene.

By Mr. Warner: on English Literature.

By Mr. Graves: on the Science of Adminstration.

VOLUNTARY STUDIES.

In addition to the regular course of instruction, arrangements are made for the following courses of special study. The names of undergraduates pursuing voluntary studies in any term are publicly announced at the end of the term.

Metaphysics.

Greek.

Latin.

SENIORS: Berkeley's Principles of Knowledge (Krauth); McCosh's
Intuitions of the Mind, and Typical Forms in Creation; Porter's
Human Intellect.

SENIORS AND JUNIORS: Aristotle.

SOPHOMORES: Xenophon's Hellenica.

FRESHMEN: Homer.

SENIORS AND JUNIORS: Patristic Latin; Quintilian; Terence.
SOPHOMORES: Livy; Catullus.

FRESHMEN: Ovid; Cicero de Amicitia.

Mathematics aud Astronomy.

SENIORS AND JUNIORS: Practical Astronomy (Chauvenet); Differential and Integral Calculus (Rice and Johnson, Byerly). SOPHOMORES: Analytical Geometry; Quaternions (Hardy). FRESHMEN: Higher Algebra (Macnie); Geometrical Exercises (Chauvenet).

Modern Languages.

SOPHOMORES: French: Translations and Conversations.

JUNIORS: German: Translations and Conversations.

SENIORS AND JUNIORS: Italian: Montague's Manual. I prosatori italiani (Biaggi). Commedie scelte (Goldoni). Fiori della poesia italiana (Michaelis).

Spanish: Montague's Manual: Libro de lectura, Nos. 2 and 3 (Mantilla). Antología española (Michaelis). Readings from Don Quixote (Cervantes).

Oriental Languages.

SENIORS AND JUNIORS: Elementary Hebrew Grammar, and parts of the Pentateuch.

History.

SENIORS: History of the Nineteenth Century.
JUNIORS: Medieval and Modern History.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

The hours of daily Prayers in the College Chapel are 8 o'clock A. M and 5.30 o'clock P. M. The students are allowed one absence from Prayers each day; provided that not more than two of the absences in each week be from the Morning Service.

On Sunday, the students attend both services in the Chapel; Morning Prayer, with Sermon. being at 10.30 o'clock, and Evening Prayer at 5 o'clock. The Holy Communion is administered every Sunday at a voluntary service at 8.10 o'clock A. M., except on the first Sunday of the month, when the celebration is after Morning Prayer.

The President, who is the Pastor of the College, discharges the duties of Chaplain, in which he is assisted by the other clerical members of the Faculty.

TERMS AND VACATIONS.

The academic year comprises two terms-Christmas and Trinity. Christmas term begins with Examinations for Admission on the

Tuesday nearest the 15th of September, and closes near Christmas. It is followed by the Christmas vacation of two or three weeks.

Trinity term begins in January, at the end of the Christmas vacation, and extends to Commencement, which falls on the last Thursday in June. In this term there is also an Easter recess of ten days, ending on the last Monday of April. The Fifty-ninth Commencement falls on the 25th day of June, 1885.

MATRICULATION.

All students are required to matriculate on their admission to the College.

Matriculation consists in signing, in the presence of the President, Faculty, and others, the following promise:

"I promise to observe the statutes, lawful usages, and customs of Trinity College; and to maintain and defend her rights, privi leges, and immunities, at all times and in all places according to my station and duties in the same."

EXAMINATIONS AND HONORS.

Examinations are held at the close of each term, upon all the studies of that term. These examinations are partly oral and partly written.

If a student attains in any department an average of nine on a scale of ten in his marks for his recitations, and also an average of nine in all examinations of that department, it is publicly announced that he has completed the studies of that department cum honore. At the end of the College course, if a student has received the distinction of cum honore in one or more departments, it is publicly stated in conferring his degree; and the names of the graduating class are printed in the next annual catalogue in the following manner: first, the names of those students who have been graduated cum honore, with a statement of the departments in which they have obtained honor; then the names of the others in alphabetical order.

Honors will be conferred in the following branches of study: Mathematics, Astronomy, Greek, Latin, English, Physics, Chemistry, Natural Science, Ethics and Metaphysics, History and Political Science, Modern Languages. To obtain honors in any of these studies a student must take all the electives in each branch, except in the case of Greek and of Latin, in which elective studies for one year only will be required.

At the end of each year the names of those students who have attained to the honor grade will be published in the Catalogue. A student who attains the honor grade in all departments throughout the entire course will be graduated with the title of OPTIMUS.

CONDITIONS.

No student is admitted to Examination in any department, unless his average mark for the term in that department is at least five on a scale of ten.

When a student is excluded from Examination, or fails to pass any Examination in whole or in part, he is conditioned, and such deficiency must be made up during vacation; and the student is. required to report himself at the opening of the following term, prepared to pass a special examination.

No student is advanced to the studies of any year until he has passed the examinations of the preceding year.

STANDING AND APPOINTMENTS.

The standing of a student is reckoned from the beginning of Freshman year, and is determined by his scholarship, as shown in recitations and examinations.

At the close of each term a report of the scholarship, attendance, and conduct of each student is transmitted to his parent or guardian.

The aggregate standing attained by each member of a class is published at the beginning of the second term in Junior year and at the end of Senior year. When a student has entered College after the beginning of Freshman year and before the beginning

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