Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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ADELPHI COLLEGE. 15 1. Reading. The candidate will be required to present evidence of a general knowledge of the subject matter of the books here named, and to answer simple questions concerning the lives of the authors. The form of the test will usually be the writing of paragraphs upon chosen topics. In connection with these tests the candidate may present an exercise- book, properly certified by an instructor, containing compositions or other written work done in connection with the reading of the books. The books set for this part of the examination are: 1897 : Shakspere’s As You Like It; Defoe’s History of the Plague in London ; Irving’s Tales of a Traveller ; Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales; Longfellow’sJS-vghgeline; George Eliot’s SikCs 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 Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner; Southey’s Life of Nel- son ; Carlyle’s Essay on Burns; Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal; Haw- thorne’s House of the Seven Gables. 1899 : Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite ; Pope’s Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV ; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Gold- smith’s Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner; De Quincey’s Flight of a Tartar Tribe ; Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans ; Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal; Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables. 1900 ; Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite ; Pope’s Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV ; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Gold- smith’s Vicar of Wakefield ; Scott’s Ivan hoe ; De Quincey’s Flight of a Tartar Tribe; Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans; Tennyson’s Princess; Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal. 2. This part of the examination presupposes a more careful study of each of the works named below. The examination will be upon subject matter, form and structure. 1897 : Shakspere’s Merchant of Venice; Burke’s Speech on Concili- ation with America ; Scott’s Mar mi on ; Macaulay’s Life of Samuel John son. 1898: Shakspere’s Macbeth; Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America ; De Quincey’s Flight of a Tartar Tribe ; Tennyson’s Princess. 1899; Shakspere’s' Macbeth ; Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books I and II; Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America ; Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. 1900: Shakspere’s Macbeth; Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books I and II ; Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America ; Macaulay’s Essays on Milton and Addison. B. In lieu of the uniform college entrance requirement in English, can- didates for admission to college from the Literary Course in the Sub-Col- legiate Department of the Adelphi Academy will be permitted to offer the work in English in the first three years of that Department.

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14 ADELPHI COLLEGE. TERflS OF ADMISSION. Members of the Third Year Class in the Sub-Collegiate Department of the Adelphi Academy, who have satisfactorily completed the required studies of the year and of the regular curriculum of the Sub-Collegiate Department up to that point, are admitted without examination, in accordance with the usual rules of promotion in the Adelphi Academy, to the Freshman Cias in Adelphi College in any course for which they have been prepared. Other applicants for admission to Adelphi College may present them- selves at the College (Clifton Place entrance, Room No. 53) for examination on the Thursday and Friday after Commencement (June 10 and 11, 1897); or on the first two days of the Fall Term (September 15 and 16, 1897). ORDER OF EXAMINATIONS. 8.30- 9. 9-10. 10-11.15. 11.30- 12.45 2-3-30- 3.30- 4.30. 3.30- 4.30. 4-30-5-30. First Day. Registration. Caesar and Cicero. Vergil and Sight Reading. Chemistry, Sci. Course. German. English. 2-3-15. Physics, Sci. Course. Anc. History. 3.15-4.30. U. S. Hist. Second Day. Academic Algebra. Plane Geometry. French. Anabasis, Adv. Algebra. Physics and Chemistry, Lit. Course. Iliad and Sight Reading. Solid Geom., Botany, Zoology. From students in well-known and reputable schools certificates will ordi- narily be accepted, so far as the studies pursued in such schools cover the entrance requirements of Adelphi College. All such certificates should be signed by the responsible instructors in the school last attended, and should state explicitly, under each subject of study, the text books used, the extent of the work done, and the time devoted to it, with dates. Regents’ certifi- cates or pass cards will be accepted for the ground they cover. All such certificates should be presented as early in June as possible. Special students of a mature age, not candidates for a degree, may be admitted to courses of study which they are competent to pursue, upon pres- entation of satisfactory evidence of proficiency. Applicants for admission to the Freshman Class in Adelphi College, in any one of the three courses, must be at least fifteen years of age and be able to pass satisfactory examinations in the specified number of the following subjects : I. English. Note.—No candidate will be accepted in English whose work is notably deficient in point of spelling, punctuation, idiom or division into paragraphs. A. The candidate may offer preparation in the uniform college en- trance requirements in English, as follows:

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i6 ADELPHI COLLEGE. II. French. A. Minimum requirement. A knowledge of fundamental principles of grammar; as, rules for the formation of the plural and of the feminine in nouns and adjectives, the use of the articles, the place of the pronouns and the regular and irregular verbs. Reading of two French books, as, “Colomba,” by Merimee; “ L’Abbe Constantin,” by Halevy; and of two plays arranged by Bocher, such as : “Mademoiselle de la Seigliere,” by J. Sandeau; and “ Le roman d’un jeune homme pauvre,” by Feuillet. Equivalents may be offered. B. Maximum requirement. A thorough knowledge of French grammar ; use of the tenses, rules for the subjunctive and for the past participle, gov- ernment of verbs, formation of adverbs, French idioms. Reading: Le P§cheur d’Islande,” by Loti; “La Tulipe Noire,” by Dumas; “ La Mare au Diable,” G. Sand ; “La Belle Nivernaise,” Daudet; “ Le Cure de Tours,” by Balzac; “ Quatre-vingt-treize,” V. Hugo. Com- position, based upon the books read. Ability to take part in recitations conducted in French. Equivalents may be offered. III. German. A. Minimum requirement. A knowledge of elementary German (Otis ; Joynes-Meissner, Part I), including irregular verbs, prepositions and con- junctions. Reading of four German books, as, Storm, Immensee; Hillern, Hoeher als die Kirche; Heyse, Das Maedchen von Treppi; Schiller, Der Neffe als Onkel. Equivalents may be offered. B. Maximum requirement. A thorough knowledge of German gram- mar (Joynes-Meissner, Thomas, complete); translation of easy English into German ; ability to take part in recitations conducted in German ; reading and writing of German script. Reading of the following books (or their equivalent' Lessing, Minna Von Bamhelm ; Schiller, Wilhelm Tell: Freitag, Aus dem Staate Friedrichs des Grossen ; Freitag, Soli und Haben. IV. Greek. Xenophon’s Anabasis, 4 books ; Homer’s Iliad, 3 books; sight reading ; Woodruff’s Prose Composition. V. Latin. A. Minimum requirement. Caesar, 4 books or its equivalent; Cicero, 5 orations. B. Maximum requirement. Caesar, 4 books or its equivalent; Cicero, 5 orations; Vergil, iEneid, 4 books; sight reading in Ovid, Cicero and Vergil; Daniell’s Prose Composition. VI. History. A. Ancient History down to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. Myers’ text-book is recommended, though not prescribed. B. United States History.