MATRICULATION.

Matriculation consists in signing, in the presence of the Presi dent and Professors, the following promise:

"I promise to observe the Statutes of Trinity College; to discharge faithfully all scholastic duties imposed upon me; and to maintain and defend all the rights, privileges, and immunities of the College, according to my station and degree in the same." The time for Matriculation is determined by the Faculty.

EXAMINATIONS.

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

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, he is conditioned, and 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.

HONORS.

If a student attains in any department throughout a College year an average of nine on a scale of ten in the marks for his recitations, and also an average of nine in the marks for his examinations, it is publicly announced that he has the honor-grade in that department for the year. In case, however, he pursues the studies of a department in any year for one term only, he may attain the honorgrade for that term on the same conditions.

Honors at graduation are conferred in the following branches of study: Astronomy, Chemistry, English, Ethics and Metaphysics, Greek, History and Political Science, Latin, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Natural Science, Physics. In order to be graduated

cum honore in any of these branches, a student must have attained the honor-grade in all the studies of that branch throughout his College course, including the electives; except that in Greek, Latin, and Practical Chemistry, the elective studies of one year only are required, and that in no case is it necessary to take more than four hours per week of elective work in any department.

A list of students attaining the honor-grade in any College year is published in the Catalogue of the following year. The names of the members of each graduating class are printed in the next annual Catalogue in the following manner: first, the names of those who have been graduated cum honore, with a statement of the branches of study in which they have attained honors; then, the names of the others in alphabetical order.

A student attaining the honor-grade in all his studies throughout the College course is graduated with the title of OPTIMUS.

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 of the second term of Sophomore year, his standing for the term or terms during which he was absent is considered to have the same ratio to the maximum as that which he gains while in residence up to the time of the first publication of his aggregate standing, and, having been once published, is not recomputed. The standing of a student entering later in the course is computed in the same manner, with a deduction of five per cent.

Each student, the sum of whose marks for the entire course is to the maximum attainable in the ratio of at least seven and three. fourths to ten, receives an appointment for Commencement; and the names of students receiving appointments are printed on the

programme in the order of their standing, followed by the names of the rest of the class in alphabetical order.

The first three appointments to speak at Commencement are given according to the aggregate of marks in the entire College course. Not less than two nor more than four other speakers are selected, after competition before a special committee of the Faculty; those members of the class being eligible who, besides receiv. ing appointments for Commencement, have attained a mark of seven and three-fourths on the Theme-writing of the course and a mark of nine on the Graduating Oration.

No appointment is ordinarily assigned to any student who has entered College at or after the beginning of the Senior year.

LIBRARY.

The Library is open on Saturdays from 10 A. M. to 12:30 P. M., and on other week-days from 1:45 to 3 P. M.; and the students are allowed free access to the shelves. It contains over 28,000 volumes, besides 2,250 duplicates and 15,000 unbound pamphlets. The funds for the increase of the Library are as follows:

The Burgess Fund, founded in 1843 by a gift of $500 from the Rev. George Burgess, of Hartford, afterwards Bishop of Maine.

The Elton Fund, founded in 1854 by a gift of $5,000 from John P. Elton, Esq., of Waterbury.

The Sheffield Fund, founded in 1856 by a gift of $5,000 from Joseph E. Sheffield, Esq., of New Haven.

The Peters Fund, founded in 1858 by a legacy of $2,000 from the Hon. John S. Peters, LL.D., of Hebron.

The Alumni Fund, founded in 1859 by subscriptions from the Alumni, and now amounting to about $3,300.

The Athenæum Fund, founded in 1870 by a gift of $300 from the Athenæum Literary Society at the time of its dissolution.

The Northam Fund, founded in 1887 by a legacy of $12,000 from Charles H. Northam, Esq., of Hartford.

The College Reading-Room is supplied with newspapers and periodicals published in this country and in England.

The Watkinson Library, a valuable collection of books for reference, containing more than 40,000 volumes, is also accessible to the students.

CABINET.

The College possesses valuable collections in Natural History, Geology, and Mineralogy, which are displayed in a hall specially arranged for that purpose. Other collections of minerals, fossils, and shells will be arranged for study and use as soon as the neces sary cases can be obtained and put in place.

Instruction in Geology is aided by a complete suite of Ward's casts of celebrated fossils, including the megatherium, the glyptodon, the plesiosaurus, and other large specimens, and by a series of carefully selected actual fossils, representing characteristic forms in each geological period from the earliest Silurian to the Tertiary. In addition to this, students are referred to a suite of typical rocks of the State of New York, a series of rocks arranged both lithologically and stratigraphically, and a number of geological and relief maps.

Instruction in Natural History is aided by a valuable collection of mounted skeletons of modern animals, sixty in number, including the elephant, the walrus, the lion, the ourang-outan, man, etc., by Blaschka's glass models of invertebrates, and by a collection of specimens in alcohol.

The cabinet is open every week-day from 2:30 to 4 P. M.

OBSERVATORY.

The Observatory, erected on the College Campus in 1883, is furnished with sufficient apparatus for astronomical work. The transit instrument and the telescope, which is a six-inch Fitz refractor equatorially mounted and fitted with a driving-clock, were presented by Dr. and Miss St. John of Hartford, from the estate of their father, the late Professor St. John of New Canaan, Conn., and in his memory. The sidereal clock is of the best modern manufacture. There are also in the observatory a smaller refractor and a portable transit.

EXPENSES.

The amount of the Treasurer's bills each year is as follows:

Board can be obtained at $4.00 a week and upward; the charge in the College dining-hall is $4.50 a week, making the cost for thirty-seven weeks $166.50. To this must be added laundrycharges, together with the expense of books, furniture, clothing, travel, and society-fees, which varies according to the taste and habits of the student, and of which no estimate can be given.

Students taking practical instruction in the chemical laboratory make deposits of $15 each with the Treasurer of the College, against which drawbacks are allowed on vouchers from the Instructor in Chemistry. A charge is made to students in practical Physics for the cost of apparatus broken or injured while in their care.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

The amount of the Treasurer's bills can be considerably reduced to holders of scholarships. The income of these scholarships, which are of different values, is placed to the credit of students of limited means, and serves to meet the charges for tuition and roomrent in whole or in part. A list of the scholarships is given at page 63 of this Catalogue. Other funds are sometimes placed at the disposal of the President for the assistance of students in special emergencies.

For holders of those scholarships which remit the entire charges for tuition and room-rent, the Treasurer's bills are reduced to $42.50; and the necessary expenses of such students, including board and other personal items, will not exceed $250 or $300 a

year.

Application for any scholarship should be made in writing to the President by the parent or guardian, at or before the beginning of the term in which the student intends to enter.