ADMISSION

Eligibility

Candidates for admission to freshman grade must not be less than sixteen years of age. Candidates for admission to advanced work must be of corresponding ages. Unless the candidate is known to some officer of the College, satisfactory testimonials of moral character should accompany the application. Applicants coming from other colleges will be required to present with applications letters of honorable dismissal.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE FRESHMAN GRADE

I. English

The college entrance requirements adopted by the associated colleges and preparatory schools of New England and also of the Middle States and Maryland, are accepted. Exmainations will be based upon them and will be divided into two parts, which, however, may not be taken separately.

1. The applicant is expected to read intelligently all the books prescribed and to acquire a ready acquaintance with their general content. She will be required to write a paragraph or more on each of teh several topics which she may select from a number taken from the books designated to be read for the year. The knowledge of particular books, however, will be regarded as of less importance than ability to write English.

The books set for this part of the examination will be:

1899: Palamon and Arcite; Iliad, Books i., vi., xxii. and xxiv.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers; The Vicar of Wakefield; The Ancient Mariner; The Flight of a Tartar Tribe; The Last of the Mohican; The Vision of Sir Launfal; The House of Seven Gables.
1900: Palomon and Arcite; Iliad, Books i., vi., xxi., and xxii.; The Vicar of Wakefield; Ivanhoe; The Flight of a Tartar Tribe; The Last of the Mohicans; The Princess; The Vision of Sir Launfal; The Sir Roger de Coverly Papers.
1901 and 1902: Ivanhoe; Iliad, Books i., vi., xxii. and xxiv.; The Sir Roger de Coverly Papers; The Vicar of Wakefield; The Last of the Mohicans; The Princess; the Ancient Mariner; Silas Marner; The Merchant of Venice.

2. The second part of the examination presupposes the thorough study of each of the books named for the year. Examination in this part will be upon subject-matter, form and structure.

1899: Macbeth; Paradise Lost, Books i. and ii.; Speech on Conciliation with America; Essay on Burns.
1900: Macbeth; Paradise Lost, Books i. and ii.; Speech on Conciliation with America; Essay on Milton and Addison.
1901 and 1902: Macbeth; Speech on Conciliation with America; Essay on Milton and Addison; Milton's Minor Poems, Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso.

II. Mathematics

(1) Arithmetic/ No formal examination will be given, but knowledge of the metric system and ability to reckon accurately will be presupposed. (2)Algebra. The requirements include factors, common divisors and multipliers, fractions; equations of the first degree with one or more unknown quantities; involution, including the binomial theorem for positive, entire exponents; evolution; the doctrine of exponents; radicals and equations involving radicals; quadratic equations of one or two unknown quantities and equations solved like quadratics; ratio and proportion and putting problems into equations. (3) Geometry. Plane geometry, including the solution of simple original exercises and numerical problems.

III. History

The outlines of the history of the United States and of England.

In the history of the United States the texts of Barnes, Fiske, or Montgomery, and in the history of England, that of Montgomery, are recommended for preparation.

IV. Elementary Science

A general knowledge of teh elements of one natural science is required, such as may be obtained from any good text-book. Physics and chemistry are preferred. Gage's Physics and Remsen's Chemistry (Briefer Course) are recommended.

V. Latin

(1) Grammar, including general rules of prosody and the structure and scanning of the dactylic hexameter. (2) Composition. For this, such drill as is supplied by Gildersleeve's, Allen's, Daniell's, or Jones's Prose should suffice. (3) Caesar, Gallic War, first four books, or two books of Caesar and as much of Viri Romae as will be the equivalent of two books of Caesar. Arrowsmith and Whicher's First Latin Readings will be accepted as an equivalent. (4) Cicero, In Catilinam, I., II., III., IV., Pro Archia, and Pro Lege Manilia. (5) Virgil, Aeneid, I.-VI., (6) Translation at sight of simple prose, with due allowance for unusual words.

In these examinations the candidate will be expected to answer general questions on the subject-matter selected for translation, but the main purpose will be to test her knowledge of grammatical forms and constructions. A serious deficiency in this respect will cause the rejection or conditioning of the candidate. Instructors engaged inpreparing students for admission are requested to teach them the Roman method of pronounciation as given in Allen and Greenough's Grammar, Revised Edition. Equivalents will be accepted, in part, for the authors named and greater stress will be laid upon the candidate's knowledge of the essential facts of the language and her ability to handle it with facility, than upon the perusal of certain books.

VI. A Second Language

In addition to Latin, the applicant must offer either Greek, French, or German. Since no student is graduated who does not possess sufficient knowlege of both French and German to enable her to read ordinary prose in those languages, applicants who offer Greek are advised to offer also eithe r French or German; otherwise it must be taken in course.

Greek

(1)Grammar, including accent and Homeric prosody. (2) Composition, such knowledge of the subject as may be obtained from White's Lessons, Jones's Prose, or Sidgwick's First Writer. (3) Xenophon, Anabasis, Books I.-IV. (4) Homer, Iliad, Books I.-III. (5) Translation at sight of simple Attic prose, with allowance for the less common words.

French and German

The candidate should be proficient in the essentials of grammar, having a thorough knowledge of accidence and being familiar with the principles of construction, especially the use of modes and tenses, and with the more frequently recurring idiomatic phrases. She should be able to translate at sight ordinary prose and poetry, and as a ground of this ability should have read in French not less than one thousand duodecimo pages, or in German not less than five hundred duodecimo pages, of nineteenth century authors. She should be able to read aloud intelligently what she is expected to translate, and to write in the language a paragraph upon an assigned subject chosen from the works which she has studied in class.

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