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Science.

Science A. Physical Geography:—The entrance requirements in
Physical Geography include such elementary knowledge of the following
topics, as would be obtained from the study of a text-book
like Maury's "Physical Geography" or Tarr's "Elementary Physical
Geography." The earth as a planet; planetary movements; magnetism
of the earth; internal heat of the earth; volcanoes; earthquakes;
arrangement of land masses; forms of land; relief forms of the continents;
islands; properties of water; waters of the land; drainage;
continental drainage; the sea; the oceans; waves and tides; currents of
the sea; physical properties of the atmosphere; climate; winds and
circulation of the air; storms; moisture of the air; hail, snow and
glaciers; electrical and optical phenomena of the atmosphere; relations
between plants and animals; range of plants and animals; man,
including range of human habitation, division into races, conditions
favorable to civilization, and man's influence on physical geography;
influence of physical geography on the industries of countries. (One
unit).

Science B. Inorganic Chemistry:—The candidate for entrance
credit in Chemistry should have studied, under a competent teacher,
such a course in the elements of inorganic chemistry as can be covered
in three meetings a week during a nine-months' school year, and
in addition thereto should have worked in the laboratory about one
hundred hours, or enough time to perform intelligently the usual experiments
given in a High School laboratory course. The ground
covered by Remsen's "Introduction to the Study of Chemistry" is
the accepted standard. The student's autograph laboratory notes must
be submitted with the examination paper or entrance certificate. (One
unit).

Science C. Experimental Physics:—A course of one full year, covering
the topics of Mechanics, Sound, Light, Heat, Electricity, and
Magnetism. The work should include (a) lecture-table demonstrations
by the teacher, with appropriate yet simple apparatus; (b) textbook
work, in which the pupil solves numerical problems; and (c)
laboratory exercises by the pupil—all three embodying fundamental
principles of the subject. In the laboratory work at least thirty exercises

should be performed; the following distribution is advised: In
Mechanics, 14; in Sound, 1; in Light, 5; in Heat, 3; in Electricity and
Magnetism, 7. The pupil's note-book of written reports on these experiments
should be submitted with indication of acceptance on the
part of the teacher. Any one of the standard texts and laboratory
manuals may be followed. (One unit).

Science D. Botany and Zoölogy:—The entrance examinations in
these two subjects, which together count as a single unit, presupposes
such sound elementary knowledge of the structure and functions of
plants and animals, respectively, and of their classifications, as may
reasonably be regarded as representing a half year's work, in each
case, upon plants or animals with the aid of such a text-book on the
one hand, as Coulter's "Plant Structure," and on the other by Jordan
and Kellogg's "Animal Forms;" or other books of similar grade and
character.

In each case the candidate will be required to submit (with his certificate
of preparation or his written examination) his own laboratory
notes and drawings as an evidence of the amount and character of the
direct personal work done by him upon the plants or the animals,
which he has studied.