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ADMISSION AND CLASSIFICATION.
It is recommended that the candidate acquire the ability to follow a
recitation conducted in German and to answer in that language ques
tions asked by the instructor.
For examination no specific authors or works are designated. An
examination in pronunciation and the writing of German from dicta
tion may be included. All applicants for admission are required to
present a statement from their teacher, mentioning the text-books
used and the authors read, including the number of pages translated
from German into English and English into German.
i. In Advanced French as above.
2. In Advanced German as above.
3. In Advanced Mathematics as below. See page 46.
As an alternate requirement for advanced mathematics one of the
following sciences, viz., Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Geology, or
Zoology may be offered as below.
1. Physics. Students offering physics for entrance must show an
acquaintance with the more important phenomena and with the prin
ciples involved in the explanation of them. They must, in addition
to a year's work with the text-book, have completed a year of labora
practice tory and must be prepared to work simple numerical problems
upon the laws of falling bodies ; upon the pendulum ; upon properties
of liquids and gases, including the determination of density ; upon
thermometry and calorimetry, specific including heats and heats of
fusion and liquefaction ; upon the relations of current and electro-
tive force and resistance ; upon velocity, wave length and resonance
in sound ; upon refractive indices, focal lengths and the size and posi
tion of images in optics. The student must understand and be able to
use the metric system in measurement and computation.
The laboratory work offered must be chiefly quantitative in charac
ter, and must consist of at least forty exercises or experiments of the
character given in Nichols's "
Outlines of Physics," or other works
similar to this in grade and method. The laboratory work prescribed
above must have been performed by the student individually, in
evidence whereof he must present his notebook laboratory at the time
of examination. He must, moreover, be prepared to describe intelli
gently the method pursued and the results obtained in the experiments
which he has performed.
2. Chemistry. Remsen's " Introduction to the Study of Chemis
try," or its equivalent, is to be taken as the basis of the examination.
In addition to practice must have been
that, laboratory taken with the