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SUBJECTS FOR ADMISSION

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course, but the German script is not insisted upon. Besides the work in grammar, the student should read not less than 150 pages of easy narrative or descriptive prose, giving careful attention to its translation into good English. Two years' work.—In addition to the work outlined under the one year's requirement, the pupil should know the syntax of cases, uses of the subjunctive and infinitive, complex sentence structure, uses of modal auxiliaries and of participial constructions. The translation into German of about thirty-five pages of narrative prose should insure ready application of grammatical principles. As an additional reading requirement, from 250 to 300 pages, including one of Schiller's historical dramas, and about thirty pages of German lyrics, should be translated. . Constant practice in reading German should secure an accurate pronunciation and a feeling of the rhythm and rhetorical form of the works studied. Three years' work.—The third year's study should aim to secure an easy reading knowledge of the language. Accurate and idiomatic translations into English, constant practice in sight translation and in writing from dictation should be insisted upon. Standard prose of the grade represented by Heine, Freytag, or Dahn, not less than 100 pages should be read, together with selections from classic poetry. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm and Goethe's Egmont or Iphigenie auf Tauris are especially recommended. Additional work in prose composition, or in the writing of paraphrases of the texts read, should insure the ability to write simple German. 14. GREEK.—To obtain three credits, the exercises in any of the beginning books, and one book of the Anabasis, or its equivalent, must be offered. For six credits, two books of the Anabasis and three of Homer, or their equivalents, additional to the above, must be presented, together with an amount of Greek prose composition equal to that given in Woodruff's Greek Prose Composition. 15. HISTORY.—At least one year in one of the following subjects: (a) The History of England and of the United States; (b) General History; (c) The History of Greece and Rome. The statement of requirements in each subject implies the use of a substantial text-book, together with some elementary training in the use of reference books. 16. LATIN.—One year's work.—Such knowledge of inflections and syntax as is given in any good preparatory Latin book, together with the ability to read simple fables and stories. Two years' work.—Four books of Caesar's Gallic War, or its