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I. and XXII.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Southey's Life of Nelson; Carlyle's Essay on Barns; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. i8gg.—Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; Pope's Iliad, Books I., VI , XXL, and XXIV.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's The Vicar, of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; De Quincey's Flight of a Tartar Tribe; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. (b) In addition to the above, the candidate will be required to present a brief outline of American Literature. Hawthorne and Lemmon's Outline of American Literature, or an equivalent. 4. GEOMETRY.—Plane Geometry, as given in Wells's or Wentworth's Geometry, or an equivalent. Great importance is attached to the ability of the student to solve original problems. 5. HISTORY.—At least one year in one of the following subjects: (a) English and United States History; (b) General History; or (c) Greek and Roman History. The following text-books indicate the scope of the requirements; Guest and Underwood's Handbook of English History; Thomas's History of the United States; Oman's History of Greece; Allen's Short History of the Roman People; Myers's General History. 6. PHYSICS. —The elements of physical science as presented in such text-books as Appleton's School Physics, orAvery's Elements of Natural Philosophy, or Carhart and Chute's Elements of Physics, or Gage's Elements of Physics. The candidate must have had laboratory practice equivalent to that described in the laboratory text-books of Hall and Bergen, Allen, or Chute. The candidate's laboratory note-book will be accepted as part of the examination. In addition to the preceding subjects, any tzvo of the folio-wing:

7. ASTRONOMY.—The subject as given in Young's Elements of Astronomy, or Newcomb and Holden's Astronomy for High Schools. 8. BOTANY.—The subject as given in Bergen's Elements of Botany or its equivalent. The text of Gray's School and Field Book of Botany with such laboratory work, preferably including the use of the compound microscope, as is outlined in the former book, is accepted; but laboratory practice in any case is essential. The ability to determine species and some knowledge of the most important families of flowering plants are required. 9. CHEMISTRY.—Elementary Inorganic Chemistry as presented in Freer's Elementary Chemistry; Shepard's Elements of Chemistry; Williams's Elementary Chemistry; Storer and Lindsey's Manual of Elementary Chemistry; Armstrong and Norton's Laboratory Manual of