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I. Amount and Range of the Reading Required.

1. The Latin reading required of candidates for admission to
college, without regard to the prescription of particular authors and
works, shall be not less in amount than Cæsar, Gallic War, I-IV;
Cicero, the orations against Catiline, for the Manilian Law, and for
Archias; Vergil, Aeneid, I-VI.


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2. The amount of reading specified above shall be selected by
the schools from the following authors and works: Cæsar (Gallic
War and the Civil War) and Nepos (Lives); Cicero (orations, letters,
and De Senectute) and Sallust (Catiline and Jugurthine War);
Vergil (Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid) and Ovid (Metamorphoses,
Fasti, and Tristia).