REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION, Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the following books: GREEK. Grammar, including Prosody (Hadley or Goodwin). Xenophon: Anabasis, Books I.-V. inclusive. Homer: Iliad, Books I. and II. (omitting the Catalogue of the Ships). Prose Composition (Arnold, §§ 1 to 12 inclusive). History of Greece (Sewell's or Smith's smaller work). LATIN. Grammar, including Prosody (Allen and Greenough). Virgil: Aeneid, Books I.-VI. inclusive; Georgics, Book I.; and the Eclogues. Cicero: the Orations against Catiline, on the Manilian Law, for the Poet Archias, and for Marcellus. Prose Composition (Arnold, Chapters I.-XII. inclusive). Roman History (Worcester's Elements of History). Ancient Geography. MATHEMATICS. Arithmetic, including Metric System of Weights and Measures. Algebra, through Quadratic Equations (Loomis's Treatise). Plane Geometry, Books I.-IV. inclusive (Loomis). ENGLISH. English Grammar, including Orthography. Modern Geography. Instead of the text-books mentioned above, any others, if fully equivalent, may be substituted at the time of examination. The examinations are chiefly in writing. No candidate can be admitted to the Freshman Class before he has completed his fifteenth year. Candidates for admission to any of the higher classes, whether from other Colleges or not, must sustain, besides the examination for admission to College, a further examination on the studies already pursued by the class which they propose to enter. Candidates for admission as Students in Special Courses are examined on such parts of the above-mentioned requirements as belong to the departments in which they desire to be admitted. All candidates for admission must bring testimonials of good moral character; and those who are from other Colleges must produce certificates of dismission in good standing. These testimonials and certificates must be presented at the time of the Examinations. DATES OF EXAMINATIONS FOR ADMISSION. The regular examinations for admission are held in Seabury Hall, on the Monday and Tuesday preceding Commencement-Day (in 1879, June 23d and 24th), beginning at 2 o'clock P. M. on Monday. Examinations for admission are held, also, on the Tuesday and Wednesday before the beginning of Christmas Term (in 1879, September 9th and 10th), beginning at 2 o'clock P. M. on Tuesday. Candidates will present themselves at the hour specified for the beginning of the Examinations. The order of the Examinations will be as follows: The papers which were used at the first Examinations in 1878 are printed at the close of this Catalogue. The Secretary of the Faculty will furnish copies to those who apply for them, COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS. FRESHMAN CLASS. CHRISTMAS TERM. 1. Selections). Greek Greek. Xenophon; Herodotus; Lucian (Boise's Moods and Tenses. Exercises in writing Greek. 2. Latin. Cicero: De Senectute. Livy: Book I. ough's Grammar. Latin Prose (Abbot). Mathematics. Algebra from the end of Quadratics (Loomis's Treatise). 4. English. Study of Words (Trench). Written Translations from Greek and Latin Authors, and Exercises in Composition. 3. 5. Natural History. Animal Physiology; Zoology (Carpenter). TRINITY TERM. 1. Greek. Lysias: against Eratosthenes or for Mantitheus. Odyssey: Book IX. or XI. Greek Moods and Tenses. Composition. Grote's History: the Persian Wars. Homer: 2. Latin. Livy: Book V. Horace: Odes and Epodes. Grammar. Latin Prose (Abbot). Roman Antiquities (Ramsay). 3. Mathematics. Geometry (Chauvenet). Plane Trigonometry, and Mensuration (Loomis). Lectures on the History of Mathematics. 4. English. Synonymes. English Past and Present (Trench). Written Translations, and Compositions. SOPHOMORE CLASS. CHRISTMAS TERM. 1. Greek. Plato: selections from the Phaedo, the Apology, and the Crito. Thucydides: part of Book I. 2. Latin. History of the Roman Republic (Liddell). 3. Mathematics. Surveying, Navigation, Spherical Trigonometry and Analytical Geometry (Loomis). 4. English. Structure and Analysis of the English Language. Themes and Exercises in Composition. 5. French. [First Division.] Grammar. Chardenal's Advanced Exercises. Les Prosateurs Français (Roche). Dictation. [Second Division.] Grammar. Les Prosateurs Français (Roche). 1. 2. 3. TRINITY TERM. Greek. Demosthenes: Third Olynthiac and part of the Oration on the Latin. Horace: Satires and Epistles. Exercises in writing Latin. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Analytical Geometry of Two 4. English and Rhetoric. Rhetoric (Whately). Themes and Exercises in Composition. 5. French. [First Division.] Les Prosateurs Français (Roche). La Fontaine's Fables. Selections from the Lyric Poets. Selections from Corneille, Racine, Molière. Translation of French prose at sight. Lectures on French Literature. [Second Division.] Chardenal's Advanced Exercises. Les Prosa teurs Français (Roche). Lyric Poetry (Mixer's Manual). Le Misanthrope (Molière). Dictation. Lectures on French Literature. JUNIOR CLASS. 1. CHRISTMAS TERM. Greek. Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus. History of Greek Oratory and Drama. 2. Latin. Tacitus: Annals. Extemporalia. Translations from English Authors. 3. Natural Philosophy. Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Acoustics, and Optics (Atkinson's Ganot). Experiments and Lectures. 4. English. Anglo-Saxon. English Literature and Language (Craik). Lectures on the Teutonic Languages. Themes. 5. German. [First Division.] Grammar. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. Dictation. [Second Division.] Grammar. Eigensinn (Benedix). Einer muss heirathen (Wilhelmi). 6. History. Lectures on the History of England. 7. Oratory. Original Orations and Extemporaneous Discussions. TRINITY TERM. 1. Greek. Antigone of Sophocles. Electra or Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. Lectures on the Greek Drama and Literature. 2. Latin. Juvenal: Satires. Terence: Adelphi. Lectures on the History of Roman Literature. |