Teschemacher, Hubert Engelbert, San Francisco, Cal.,

REQUISITIONS FOR ADMISSION.*

All candidates for admission to College in 1875 must be examined in one of the two following Courses of Study, each embracing fifteen subjects, numbered as below.

COURSE I.

1. Latin Grammar (including prosody).

2. Latin Composition and Latin at sight. Some passage in prose, not included in the following requisitions, will be given for translation.

3. Caesar, Sallust, and Ovid. Caesar, Gallic War, Books I.-IV. inclusive; Sallust, Catiline; Ovid, four thousand lines.

4. Cicero and Virgil. Cicero, eight orations and the Cato Major; Virgil, Eclogues and the Aeneid, Books I.-VI. inclusive.

5. Greek Grammar (including metres). 6. Greek Composition (with the accents).

7. Greek Prose. Goodwin and Allen's Greek Reader; or Xenophon's Anabasis, Books I.-IV. inclusive, and the Seventh Book of Herodotus. 8. Greek Poetry. Homer's Iliad, Books I.-III. inclusive, omitting the catalogue of ships.

9. Arithmetic (including the metric system of weights and measures, together with the use and the rudiments of the theory of logarithms). The examples requiring the use of logarithms at the examination will be adapted to a four-place table.

10. Algebra (through quadratic equations).

11. Plane Geometry (as much as is contained in the first thirteen chapters of Peirce's Geometry).

12. Ancient History and Geography. Greek History, to the death of Alexander; Roman History, to the death of Commodus. Smith's smaller histories of Greece and Rome will serve to indicate the amount of knowledge demanded in history.

13. Modern and Physical Geography. The following works will serve to indicate the amount of knowledge demanded in this subject: in modern geography, Guyot's Common School Geography, or Miss Hall's

For additional requisition for admission in 1876, see p. 44.

Our World, No. 2; in physical geography, Guyot's Physical Geography, Parts II. and III., or Warren's Physical Geography, the first forty-nine pages.

14. English Composition. Each candidate will be required to write a short English composition, correct in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and expression. The subject for 1875 will be taken from one of the following works: Shakspere's Tempest, Julius Cæsar, or Merchant of Venice; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Scott's Waverley or Marmion.

15. French or German. The translation at sight of easy French prose; or of easy German prose, if the candidate prefer to offer German. Proficiency in elementary grammar will be accepted as an offset for some deficiency in translation. There will be no examination in pronunciation, but it is recommended that attention be given to pronunciation from the outset. Candidates who offer German in place of French will be required to pass a corresponding examination in French, at the end of the Freshman year.

COURSE II.

1. Latin Grammar (including prosody).

2. Latin Authors. Caesar, Gallic War, Books I. and II.; Cicero, six orations and the Cato Major; Virgil, Aeneid, Books I.-VI. inclusive. 3. Greek Grammar (including metres).

4. Greek Authors. Goodwin and Allen's Greek Reader, first 111 pages, or Xenophon's Anabasis, Books I.-IV. inclusive; Homer's Iliad, Books I. and II., omitting the catalogue of ships.

5. Arithmetic. This requisition is the same as No. 9 of Course I.

6. Elementary Algebra. This requisition is the same as No. 10 of Course I.

7. Advanced Algebra. This subject, with the preceding, is regarded as embracing as much algebra as is contained in the advanced textbooks, such as the larger algebras of Todhunter, Loomis, Greenleaf, &c.

8. Plane Geometry. This requisition is the same as No. 11 of Course I. 9. Solid Geometry (as much as is contained in Peirce's Geometry). 10. Plane Trigonometry (by the Analytic Method, as much as is contained in the first six chapters of Peirce's Trigonometry, or in the large print of the first eight chapters of Chauvenet's Trigonometry).

11. The Elements of Plane Analytic Geometry (as much as is contained in Peck's Analytic Geometry, pages 1-151, omitting articles 40-43, 54, 57-61, 72, 74-76, and the more difficult problems).

12. Ancient History and Geography. This requisition is the same as No. 12 of Course I.

13. Modern and Physical Geography. This requisition is the same as No. 13 of Course I.

14. English Composition. This requisition is the same as No. 14 of Course I.

15. French or German. Course I.

This requisition is the same as No. 15 of

REMARKS.

No partial substitutions or interchanges between Courses I. and II. will be allowed; but candidates are encouraged to present themselves on both Courses, or on one of them with additional studies belonging to the other.

Students who enter College in Course II. may be admitted immediately to elective sections in mathematics, if they pass the examination with sufficient credit, and must, in any case, substitute elective studies amounting to four hours a week in place of the mathematics of the Freshman year. They may also substitute an elective study for the Latin and Greek Composition of the Freshman year. Those who desire to attain special distinction in Mathematics or Physical Science are advised to present themselves in this Course.

At the beginning of the Freshman year a special division in Classics is formed, consisting of those who pass with the highest credit the examinations in Latin and Greek.

No particular text-book in Grammar is required; but either Allen's or Harkness's Elementary Latin Grammar, and either Goodwin's or Hadley's Elementary Greek Grammar, will serve to indicate the nature and amount of the grammatical knowledge demanded.

In Latin the following pronunciation is recommended: a as in father, ǎ the same sound but shorter, like e in fête, è as in set, i as in machine, I as in sit, ō as in hole, Ŏ as in nor, û as in rude, u as in put; j like y in year, c and g like Greek x and y.

Instructors are requested to teach their pupils in pronouncing Greek to use the Greek Accents, and to give (for example) a the sound of a in father, n that of a in fate, that of i in machine, &c.

It is earnestly recommended that the requisitions in Latin and Greek Authors be accurately complied with: real equivalents, however, will be accepted; as, for example, Caesar's Gallic War, Books V. and VI. in place of Sallust's Catiline; two additional orations of Cicero in place of the Cato Major; five additional books of the Aeneid in place of Ovid.

In Geometry students are advised to study some introductory textbook, such as Hill's First Lessons, before beginning a systematic course in Geometry.

A set of recent examination papers will be sent to any teacher on application to the Secretary.