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Special Examinations.

After passing the General Examination, the Virginia students who
desire to study Latin, Greek, Mathematics, or History and Literature,
will be required to pass the following Special Examinations for each
school:

I. For admission to the School of Latin—the full knowledge of the
Inflections of the language will be rigorously demanded; besides this,
acquaintance with the elementary principles of Syntax, and ability to
translate any passage from Books I and II of Cæsar's Commentaries, or
from Cicero's four orations against Catiline.

II. For admission to the School of Greek—a full and exact knowledge

of the Attic Inflections, especially of the verb, will be rigorously demanded;
besides this, acquaintance with the elementary principles of Syntax, and
ability to translate any passage from the first two books of Xenophon's
Anabasis.

III. For admission to the School of Mathematics—the knowledge of
Algebra, embracing the fundamental operations, simple and quadratic
equations, and proportion, and the first three books of Plane Geometry.

IV. For admission to the School of History and Literature: For the
Class of History—Modern Geography, and an Elementary History of
Greece, Rome, the United States, or England; for the Class of Literature—an
Elementary History of England.

For admission to the other Academic Schools, not specified above'
only the General Examination will be required. The preparation required
for the advanced classes, Intermediate or Senior, in the several
schools, is shown by the courses laid down in the Catalogue.

The examinations of Academic Students from Virginia, over eighteen
years of age, for admission under the late act of the Legislature, will
be held on the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th of September.

All students that intend to apply for examination under the law are
urged to report themselves promptly to the Chairman of the Faculty before
the beginning of the session, (1st of October) Those that come
later, after the work of the session has begun, will of necessity be subjected
to inconvenience and delay.

The time of the special examinations will be fixed by the several professors,
each for his own school.

The Faculty of the University, prompted by their experience of the
preliminary examinations of the present session, wish most earnestly to
call the attention of the public, and especially of their brother teachers
in Virginia, to the importance of accuracy and thoroughness in the elements
of education, especially in English orthography and composition,
in elementary geography and history, in arithmetic, and in the inflections
of the classical languages. Students that are well grounded in these
elementary studies can do well from the first, and can advance themselves
steadily from class to class; but looseness and inaccuracy of knowledge
in these lead only to prolonged and disheartening failure. The stress of
the preliminary examinations will, therefore, be laid upon accuracy in
elementary knowledge.

Note.—In the Schools of Greek and Mathematics, young men are
advised to prepare themselves at least for the intermediate classes.