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REGULATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION.

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especially the main features of the constitution and the development under it of the republic and of the states. Grammar or high school study. , ENGLISH GRAMMAR.—The essentials of orthography, etymology, and syntax, including the derivation and composition of words, their classification as parts of speech, declension and conjugation; sentential analysis, with definition and classification of parts, whether principal or subordinate, whether words, phrases, or clauses. Illustrative words, sentences, etc., may be required, as well as the correction of ungrammatical examples.

ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE.—Correct spelling, capital-

ization, punctuation, paragraphing, definition and proper use of rhetorical figures; a knowledge of the qualities of style, the kinds of discourse, and the elements of versification; an acquaintance with the masterpieces of English literature. Besides answering questions on the above, the candidate will be required to write an essay of something like 500 words to illustrate his power of using the English language, and his knowledge of the literature. For 1894 the works required will be: Shakspere's Merchant of Venice, Scott's Lady of the Lake, Emerson's American Scholar, Longfellow's Evangeline, Macaulay's Second Essay on the Earl of Chatham. For 1895 the works required will be: Shakspere's Henry V., Scott's Ivanhoe, Macaulay'sEssay on Clive, Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn. Real equivalents for any of these works will be accepted. ALGEBRA.—Fundamental operations, factoring, fractions, simple equations, involution and evolution, radicals, quadratic equations and equations reducible to the quadratic form. The subject as given in Wells's Higher Algebra through quadratic equations, or ihe same in Wentworth's Algebra. GEOMETRY.—Plane, solid, and spherical geometry as given in Wells's Plane and Solid Geometry. LATIN.—Three books of Caesar's Commentaries, five Orations of Cicero, six books of Vergil's Aeneid, with scansion of hexameter verse and the translation of English sentences into Latin prose, based on the portions of Caesar and Cicero above named. This will necessitate a thorough knowledge of the etymology and syntax of Latin grammar.