Rhetoric. The student should be grounded in the essentials of rhetoric, but those principles should receive emphasis which are most likely to be of service to him in his practice in writing, such as the principles of sentential structure, paragraphing, and the outlining of the essay. The correction of stock specimens of bad English is not recommended, and will form no part of the entrance requirement. Grammar.―The applicant should be prepared to state intelligently the essential principles of grammar and to explain the syntactical structure of any sentence encountered in his reading. Reading of classics.-The following books are recommended by the Joint Conference on Uniform Entrance Requirements in English: 1906-1911. For reading, ten books selected from the following list: Group I (two to be selected): Shakespeare's As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Cæsar, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night. Group II (one to be selected): Bacon's Essays; Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator; Franklin's Autobiography. Group III (one to be selected): Chaucer's Prologue; Spenser's Faerie Queene (selections); Pope's The Rape of the Lock; Goldsmith's The Deserted Village; Palgrave's Golden Treasury (first series), Books II and III, with especial attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and Burns. Group IV (two to be selected): Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Scott's Ivanhoe; Scott's Quentin Durward; Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables; Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford; Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Blackmore's Lorna Doone. Group V (two to be selected): Irving's Sketch Book; Lamb's Essays of Elia; De Quincey's Joan of Arc and The English Mail Coach; Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship; Emerson's Essays (selected); Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies. Group VI (two to be selected): Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's The Lady of the Lake; Byron's Mazeppa and The Prisoner of Chillon; Palgrave's Golden Treasury (first series), Book IV, with special attention to Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley; Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome; Poe's Poems; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal; Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum; Longfellow's the Courtship of Miles Standish; Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and the Passing of Arthur; Browning's Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Evelyn Hope, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, The Boy and the Angel, One Word More, Hervé Riel, Pheidippides. For study and practice: Shakespeare's Macbeth; Milton's Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, or Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration; Macaulay's Life of Johnson, or Carlyle's Essay on Burns. It is expected that the applicant will have read these books appreciatively and will have made himself familiar with the subject-matter and the form of each work. The reading should be connected, in reasonable measure, with the lives and characters of the authors read and with the history of their times. Although the books mentioned above are recommended as preparation for this part of the requirement, they are not prescribed. Books of equal merit covering a similar range of literary types, will be accepted as equivalents. It is recommended that in connection with the reading of classics, the memorizing of notable passages, in both prose and poetry, should form a regular exercise throughout the whole preparatory period. This is all-important for the development of a correct taste in language and literature. History of English Literature.-The applicant who offers four units in English composition and literature should have pursued the study throughout the four years of the high-school course. In addition to the foregoing requirement his preparation should include a systematic study of the outlines of English literary history. Due emphasis should be laid upon the division of the subject into periods; and the leading characteristics of each period should be studied and, as far as is possible, illustrated by the reading of representative authors. Any of the current manuals of English literature may serve as the basis of this part of the work, which should occupy the third or fourth year of the course. The historical study should, however, be associated as closely as possible with the reading of classics. Applicants who present themselves for examination will be asked to write two essays of not less than 200 words each, one upon a subject drawn from the books of the foregoing list, and the other upon a subject drawn from experience or observation. The language of these essays must be grammatical and clear. The spelling, punctuation, and capitalizing must be correct. The applicant must show ability to discriminate in the use of words and to construct wellorganized sentences and paragraphs. A topical outline should accompany each essay. The applicant should also be prepared to answer questions upon the fundamental principles of grammar and rhetoric. Additional questions in the history of English literature will be given to applicants for four units. MATHEMATICS. The three units in mathematics required of all applicants include algebra through quadratics, and geometry, both plane and solid (including spherical). Beman and Smith's Elements of Algebra, and the same authors' New Plane and Solid Geometry are mentioned to indicate the scope and character of the work required. TRIGONOMETRY. The one-half unit in trigonometry should cover the work in plane trignometry as given in Crockett's Trigonometry or an equivalent in other authors. PHYSICS. The required unit in physics includes an amount represented by Carhart and Chute's High School Physics. The instruction in the class room should be supplemented by work in the physical laboratory to the extent of at least one period a week throughout the school year. GREEK. The two units in Greek should be made up of grammar, prose composition, and reading, as follows: Grammar.-Goodwin's or Hadley's. The inflections must be thoroughly mastered. Prose Composition.-Jones's Exercises, with special reference to the writing of Greek with the accents, and to the general principles of syntax. Woodruff's Greek Prose Composition is taken as an equivalent. Reading. Three books of Xenophon's Anabasis and two books of Homer. The so-called continental sound of the vowels and diphthongs and pronunciation according to the written accents are preferred. LATIN. An applicant offering two units in Latin should have completed Jones's First Latin Book or an equivalent amount in some other introductory text-book ; and should have read four books of Caesar's Gallic War, or an equivalent; and he should, further, be prepared to meet one-half of the requirement in Latin prose composition described below. N. B.-This preparation is sufficient to enable the student to enter Latin A or B in the university. An applicant offering three units in Latin should have completed the foregoing requirements for two units. He should, in addition, have read not less than six orations of Cicero or six books of Virgil's Aeneid, or an equivalent. And he should, further, be prepared to meet the requirement in Latin prose composition described below. The four units in Latin should be made up of grammar, prose composition, and reading, as follows: Grammar.-A thorough preparation in the elements of etymology, syntax, and prosody. Prose Composition.—Applicants will be asked to translate into Latin a passage of connected English narrative, based upon some portion of the Caesar or Cicero read. As a text-book, Jones's, Collar's, Daniell's, or Bennett's is recommended. Special care should be taken with the training in prose composition. Reading.-Four books of Cæsar's Gallic War, six select orations of Cicero, and six books of Virgil's Aeneid. For any two books of the Aeneid, 1,500 lines of Ovid may be substituted. The books named may serve to indicate the amount and kind of text adapted to give the ability to read passages of moderate difficulty at sight, which is what the university requires. The Roman method of pronouncing Latin is used at the university. FRENCH. The applicant who offers 2 units in French will be expected to pronounce French intelligibly and with some fluency, to understand French when spoken in simple phrases and about familiar subjects, to read ordinary prose easily and accurately, and to write correctly in French simple sentences based on texts studied. This ability demands a firm grasp of the elements of grammar (such as the conjugation of the verb, both regular and irregular, the use of auxiliaries, the forms of the pronoun, the agreement of adjectives and participles, the main uses of the articles, and the order of words in the sentence), and such a familiarity with the structure of the sentence and common turns of expression and such command of vocabulary as may be given by the careful, well directed reading of 300 or 400 pages of easy prose. The applicant who offers 3 units in French should be able to read ordinary prose rapidly at sight, with clear understanding of the distinctions of tense and mode and all the common points of syntax, to reproduce in simple but connected French the substance of a narrative or dramatic text, and to follow ordinary explanations and commentaries made orally in French. In acquiring this ability accent should be laid on the rapid understanding of the French phrase, whether it be addressed to the eye or the ear. Much should be read, spoken, and dictated. At least 600 pages of prose should be read, and in the end it should not be too easy. The applicant who offers 4 units in French should be able to read at sight any French not offering very unusual difficulties of vocabulary or syntax, to translate into French a passage of simple English, and to carry on a conversation in French upon a familiar subject. He should have read, in addition to what is required for 3 units, at least 1,000 pages of French chosen from standard authors, and he should be able to answer questions on the content and meaning of the works read as well as upon the language in which they are written. GERMAN. The applicant who offers 2 units in German should be able to pronounce German correctly and should be thoroughly familiar with the everyday facts of the grammar. He should have read about 300 to 350 pages of standard modern prose and should be able to take part in a simple conversation in German on topics drawn from the works read. He should also be able to translate easy English prose into German. The applicant who offers 3 units in German should, in addition to the work described above, be prepared as follows: He should have read two classics selected from the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller, and about 250 pages of standard prose fiction and history. He should have a good knowledge of German syntax and should be able to write a short essay on some subject taken from the works read. He should also be able to translate ordinary English into German and to express himself in German grammatically and with ease on topics connected with his reading. The 4 units in German include the foregoing requirements and additional preparation as follows: The reading of five standard dramas (exclusive of those read in the third year) selected from the works of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Heinrich v. Kleist, and Grillparzer; a .thorough command of German grammar, and the ability to speak and write German with considerable ease and correctness. The applicant should have written several longer essays on the works read. HISTORY. The applicant who offers 1, 2, or 3 units in history may select from the following list: Ancient history to the year 800 A. D., 1 unit. English history, 1 unit. United States history and government, 1 unit. A year's, work in general history, with the use of such a book as Myers's General History, will still be accepted as 1 unit, though it is believed that better results will be obtained if a year is given to ancient history down to the fall of the Roman Empire (or, preferably, to the year 800 A. D.), and a year to mediæval and modern history. PHYSIOGRAPHY. The applicant who offers one-half unit in physiography is expected to have studied one of the following books for a half year: Dryer's Lessons in Physical Geography; Gilbert and Brigham's Introduction to Physical Geography; Davis's Elementary Physical Geography; or Tarr's New Physical Geography. this connection field excursions are earnestly recommended. In The applicant who offers 1 unit in physiography should have a thorough course in the subject, extended over a year and supplemented by field excursions. The ability to read a topographic map is essential in physiographic study; teachers will find the topographic maps issued by the United States Geographical Survey an important aid. CHEMISTRY. The nature and extent of the requirement in this subject are indicated by the mention of Remsen's Introduction to the Study of Chemistry. The study of the text should be accompanied by laboratory work. BOTANY. The unit required of those who offer botany for admission is expected to include as much as a competent teacher, trained in laboratory methods, can accomplish with his classes in a year. No attempt is here made to indicate the exact extent of the ground to be covered, for the teacher should have large liberty in selecting material and topics as occasion requires; but it is recommended that one half year be given to the form, structure, and habits of flowering plants, while the other half year may be given to the natural groups of plants, physiology, and the adaptation of form and structure to environment. The following text-books are recommended as offering numerous and helpful suggestions: Atkinson's Elementary Botany, Bailey's Botany, Barnes's Plant Life, Bergen's Foundations of Botany, Coulter's Plant Relations and Plant Structures, Spalding's Introduction to Botany, Stevens's Introduction to Botany. Ganong's Teaching Botanist is one of the most useful books for the teacher. ZOOLOGY. An applicant who offers a unit in zoology will be expected to have a knowledge of at least eight of the following animal types: (1 and 2) Two protozoa : Amoeba, Paramecium, Vorticella, Stentor, Volvox; (3) a sponge: Spongilla or Grantia; (4) a hydroid: Hydra, to be compared with a medusoid form; (5) an echinoderm: starfish or sea-urchin; (6) an annelid: the earthworm or the leech; (7) a crustacean: crayfish, lobster, or crab; (8) an insect: butterfly, (including immature stages), grasshopper, cricket, cockroach, or other insect; (9) a mollusk the fresh-water mussel or one of the snails; (10) a fish: minnow or perch; (11) an amphibian: frog, toad, tree toad, salamander (Amblystoma), or mudpuppy (Necturus). These forms must be studied by the laboratory method. Laboratory work should be directed not merely toward a study of animal structure, but as far as practicable toward the study of habits and reactions. It should furnish the basis for the class room discussion of principles; especially of evolution. Of the four periods per week that must be given to the work, two at least should be laboratory periods of two hours each, and the other two should be given to recitations or other class exercises. Careful original notes and drawings must be presented by applicants as part of the examination. The mention of the following books may serve to indicate the character of the work required: Needham's Elementary Lessons in Zoology, Davenport's Introduction to Zoology, Jordan and Kellogg's Animal Life, French's Animal Activities. BIOLOGY. One-half of the work above outlined in botany, together with one-half of that outlined in zoology, will meet the requirements in biology. DIVISION OF THE EXAMINATION. The applicant may divide the examination into two parts, taking one part either a year or a semester before the date of his admission and the second part at the time of admission. But if he fail to secure the requisite number of |