Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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Sept. Nov. CC Dec. GC C6 I C H Jan. Feb. CC March Cl April C6 I H it CC GC CC CC May CS CC U June 66 GC 6 Clellege Qialeqdaa. 1887. Thursday. Christmas Term begins. Tuesday. All Saints' Day. Holiday. Thursday. Thanksgiving-D ay. Friday. Christmas Examinations. Saiurday. ' Monday. Tuesday. ' Wednesday. if Thursday. Appointment of Toucey Scholar. Christmas Vacation begins. . , 1S8SM Thursday. .Trinity Term begins. Wednesday. Ash-Wednesday. Wednesday. Holiday. Prize Version Appointments published. Oratorical Prize Contest. A -e Tuesday. Junior Standing published. ' Friday. Good Friday. ' Wednesday.' English Prize Essays handed in. Friday. ' Easter Recess begins. A ' Zldonday. Easter Recess ends. T uesday. English Literature Prize Examination. Wednesday. Chemical Prize Essays handed in. Thursday. Historical Prize Essays handed in. Friday. Tuttle Prize Essays handed in. Saiurday. Latin Prize Examination. Saiurday. Mathematical Prize Examination. Thursday. Ascension-Day. Thursday. Prize Version Declamations. Sunday. Trinity-Sunday. S Wednesday. Senior Examinations. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Monday. ' 479

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uhh li? IMF 1 if Requirements lien Admission. I. COURSE IN ARTS. V - Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the following books: ' , GREEK. Grammar f Hadley or Goodwinj. Q Xenophon: Anabasis, four Books. Q I-Iomer: Iliad, three books, with Prosody. - Prose Composition Uones or White: the exercises in the Hrst half of the bookl. History of Greece. ' A I I ' fThe translation of average passages, not previously read, from Xenophon and I-Iomer will be accepted as an alternative to the above-mentioned quantities in these'authors.:I LATI N . Grammar. ' Caesar: Gallic War,'four Books. Virgil: Aeneid, six Books, with Prosocly. ' Cicero: the Orations against Catiline, and that for the Poet Archias. I H Prose Composition: Translation into Latin of a passage of connected English narrative, based upon some passage in Caesar's Gallic War. , Roman History: Outlines, to the death of Marcus Aurelius fCreightonl. V Ancient Geography. Candidates are also examined at, sight upon average passages from Caesar's works, from Virgil's Aeneid, and Ovidls Metamorphoses, and from Cicerois Orations. , MATHEIVIATICS. Arithmetic, including the Metric System. 1 ' .4 ' Algebra, through Radicals and Quadratic Equations, together with Proportion, Progressions and the Binomial,The'orem. Plane Geometry. V . ENGLISH. Each candidate is required to write a short English composition, correct in spelling, punctu- ation, grammar, division bynparagraphs, and expression, upon a subject announced at the time of the examination. I ' I In 1888 the subject will be chosen from the following-works: Shakspeare's .7alz'as Caesar and T wewa NzQght,' hjohnsonis Lives qf Aa'a'z's01z aaa' Pope, Thackeray's Eaglislz Efamorzstsg Dob- son's Ezlgkieenta Ceafary Essaysg Pope's Rape zyfilze .Lacie and Essay aa Crz'lz'ez'saz,' Miss Austen's Pride aaa' Prey'ua'z'ee ,' Irving's Braeebrielge Hall ,' Macaulay's Lays Q' Aaeieazf Rome. Each candidate will also be required to criticize specimens of English composition. NOTE. -The works from which the subject of the composition will be chosen in the following years are : In 1889: Shakspeare's ?7lZZ.7lS Caesar and As you Lzke if ,' Johnson's Lives af Swfzf and Gray: Thackeray's English H1e1norz1stsg Swift's Gzellz'7Jer's Travels 5 Gray's E legy ,' Miss Austen's Pride and Prejzaizke g Scottls R06 Roy and lllarmzbn. . In 1890: Shakspeare's f7alz'us Caesar and llbkisammer N zlglzfs Dream 5 Macaulay's Lzk af f7olmson and Essay on BOS'Zs!8lf,S LW qff?olmso1z 5 CarIyle's Essay aa Boswell 's LW af Qfahnsong 1-Iohnson's Vaazily q'Hama7z W zslzes g Goldsmith s Vzcar qf Wakefield and Deserted Vzllage g Dobson's Ezglzfeezzfli Cemfury Essays g Scott's,Quem'z3z Dur- wardg Macaulay's Lays aj A nezmz, Rome. V 2 l 93 '