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FOURTH YEAR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.

Vergil's Aeneid, I-VI, High School grammar, and prose composition
—five hours a week for one year. Readings in Ovid introductory to Vergil,
and later on, varying the reading of the Aeneid; principles of quantitative
rhythm and scansion of the dactylic hexameter. The study of the author
should be both literary and grammatical. Constant practice in sight reading.
Systematic study of High School grammar, with accompanying prose
composition. Three hours a week to reading, two to grammar and prose.

The suggested equivalents in Viri Romae, Nepos and Ovid may be
offered in place of portions of Cæsar, Cicero, and Vergil, respectively.

Greek.—Two blocks of questions will be set as follows:

• A. Grammar and Composition.

• B. Xenophon's Anabasis, Books I-IV.

The candidate should have studied Greek under competent instruction
for two years, and must satisfy the examiners in both blocks. He should
know the regular paradigms thoroughly, and be familiar with the general
principles of syntax. The exercise will consist of simple connected narrative
based on Xenophon. The applicant should know the principal parts
of all the verbs that occur in the passage set for translation. This examination
admits to Greek 2A.

German.—Two blocks of questions will be set as follows:

A. Grammar and Composition:—The examination in Grammar will
cover the declension of the articles (definite and indefinite), of pronouns
(personal, demonstrative, interrogative, relative and indefinite), of nouns
(regular and irregular), and of adjectives; the comparison of adjectives;
the conjugation of the Weak, Strong, and Irregular Verbs, including the
Temporal and Modal Auxiliaries; the uses of the articles, the pronouns,
and the cases; the uses and meanings of the tenses, the modes, the temporal,
modal and causative auxiliaries, of prepositions and conjunctions;
and the general laws governing sentence-arrangement and word-formation.

The exercise set in Composition will consist of English sentences,
giving the natural forms of every-day expression, to be translated into
German, and of the translation into German of a piece of connected English
prose, based on one of the extracts assigned for translation in Block B.

B. Translation of Easy Modern German:—The candidate, in order
to satisfy the examiner in this block, should have read between 600 and 700
pages of German, divided as follows: Seventy-five to 100 pages of graduated
text, such as is found in any of the standard introductory readers;
150 to 200 pages of literature in the form of easy stories and plays; and
about 400 pages of moderately difficult prose or poetry.

This examination admits to German 2B or German 3. The candidate
for admission to either of these two courses must satisfy the examiner in
both blocks.

French.—Two blocks of questions will be set as follows:

• A. Grammar and Composition.

• B. Translation of Easy Modern French Prose.

The candidate should have studied French two years under competent
instruction, should have read 600 pages, written 30 pages of prose, and
mastered the principles of grammar, including the irregular verb.

This examination admits to French 2B.

Spanish.—Two blocks of questions will be set as follows:

• A. Grammar and Composition.

• B. Translation of Easy Modern Spanish Prose.

The candidate should have studied Spanish two years under competent
instruction, should have read 600 pages, written 30 pages of prose, and
mastered the principles of grammar, including the irregular verb.

This examination admits to Spanish 2B.

Science.—Four blocks of questions will be set as follows. The
candidate should have studied each of the four topics under competent
instruction and with proper laboratory facilities for at least the equivalent
of one full school year.

A. Physical Geography:—The entrance requirements in Physical
Geography include an elementary knowledge of the following topics,
such 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.

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 papers.

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) text-book 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, distributed as follows:
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.

D. Botany:—The entrance examinations in Botany will presuppose a
sound elementary knowledge of each of the following divisions of the
subject:

Morphology.—The anatomy of vascular and of non-vascular
plants (including algae and fungi): cellular structure: histological
differentiation.

Physiology.—Plant nutrition and growth: the most important
tropisms. Reproduction: in seed-plants; in terrestrial seedless plants;
in algae; in fungi.

Taxonomy.—Nature and object of classifications: determination
of genera and species: recognition of the characteristics of some
leading families of seed-plants.

Ecology.—Types of plant societies: causes of their segregation,
of their groupings into local floras.

In addition to the written paper, each candidate will be required
to submit his own laboratory notes and drawings indicating the

amount and character of the direct personal work done by him upon
the plants which he has studied.

Applied Mathematics.—Four blocks of questions will be set as
follows:

A. Plane Trigonometry and Surveying:—The ratio definitions of
the trigonometric functions and the relations among them; solution of
right triangles and applications; functions of the sum and the difference
of two angles, of double angles and half angles; product formulae; solution
of oblique triangles and applications; theory of logarithms (without
series) and use of logarithmic tables; exercises in logarithmic computation;
the surveyor's compass—construction, adjustment, and use; computation
of latitudes and departures; platting surveys and finding areas; the
engineer's level—construction, adjustment and use; platting profiles and
finding elevations.

B. Elementary Mechanics:—Fundamental conceptions of displacement,
velocity, momentum, acceleration, force, work, energy, power; laws
of motion; falling bodies; motion on inclined planes; parallelogram and
polygon of forces; parallel forces; principle of moments; centres of gravity;
uniform circular motion; simple harmonic motion; pendulum motion;
projectile motion; hydrostatic pressure and the Bramah press; centre of
pressure and reservoir walls; Archimedes principle and floating bodies;
specific gravity of solids and liquids.

C. Graphical Arithmetic:—Fundamental problems of practical
geometry; construction of scales; graphical addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division, and involution; graphical extraction of the square root and
solution of quadratics; graphs of linear functions and solution of simultaneous
linear equations; graphs of quadratic functions; graphical solutions
of cubics and biquadratics; graphs of powers of the variable; applications
to the solution of numerical equations; graphs of trigonometric functions;
harmonic curves.

D. Mechanical Drawing:—Projections of cubes, prisms, and pyramids
in simple positions; method of revolving the solid into new positions;
method of changing the planes of projection; projections of the three round
bodies in simple positions and in revolved positions; sections by planes
parallel to the planes of projection. Sections by inclined planes; developments
of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, and cones; intersections of palyedra
and curved surfaces; distances from a point to a point or a plane or a line;
angles between planes and lines.