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ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

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to take courses including Greek, 9 is required and may be presented instead of the three sciences which would otherwise be selected from 12 to 18. 2. For the Colleges of Engineering, Science, and Agriculture. —Subjects 1,2,7, 8,and any three from 9,10,11,12,13,14. Instead of the'literature part of 2, 3 or 4 will be accepted; but candidates presenting one of these will be required to take language work for one year more in his undergraduate course. For 1896 and afterwards the whole of parts (1) and (2) of subject 2 and one of subjects 3, 4, 6, will be required for the Colleges of Engineering and Science, and subject 15 will be required for the College of Engineering. 3. For entrance to the University without designation of a particular department.—Subjects 1, 2, 7, 8, and any three from 3, 4, 5, 6, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14. In this case special attention must be paid to the requirements for entrance to particular classes as given above and in connection with the description of the subjects taught, p. 95, also to the requirements for a degree, if this is desired, p. 195. 4. Persons over twenty-one years of age, not candidates for a degree, may be admitted to classes, after satisfying the president and professor in charge of the department in which such classes are taught, that they possess the requisite information and ability to pursue profitably, as special students, the chosen subjects. Such students are not matriculated; they pay the fees required of students in the preparatory classes.

SUBJECTS FOR ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

1. The most important facts in the history of the United States from the settlement of the country to the present time, but especially the main features of the constitution and the development under it of the republic and of the states. At examinations for 1896 and afterwards the requirements for admission in History will be as follows: At least one full year's work in any one of the three following subjects: (a) History of Greece and Rome; (6) History of England and the United States; (c) General History. The following text books will indicate roughly the amount of knowledge required: Greece—Oman, History of Greece; Rome —Allen, Short History of the Roman People; England —Guest and