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about one hundred and fifty words each to test his ability to use the English language. 3. ENGLISH LITERATURE.—(a) Each candidate is expected to have read certain assigned literary masterpieces, and will be subjected to such an examination as will determine whether or not he has done so. The books assigned for the next three years are as follows: 1896.—Shakspere's A Midsummer Night's Dream; Defoe's History of the Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveler; Scott's Woodstock; Macaulay's Essay on Milton; Longfellow's Evangeline, and George Eliot's Silas Marner. 1897.—Shakspere's As You Like It; Defoe's History of the Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveler; Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales; Longfellow's Evangeline, and George Eliot's Silas Marner. 1898.—Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I. and II.; Pope's Iliad, Books 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; Oarlyle's Essay on Burns ; 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 & Underwood's Handbook of English History ; Thomas's History of the United States; Oman's History of Greece; Allen's Short History of Rome. 6. PHYSIOS.—The elements of physical science as presented in such text-books as Appleton's School Physics, or Avery's Elements of Natural Philosophy, or Carhart & Chute's Elements of Physics, or Gage's Elements of Physics. The candidate must have had laboratory practice as given in Hays, Lowry & Rishel's Laboratory Manual of Physics, or an equivalent.