Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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flivquirvmruts fm' Zihmissinu. I. COURSE IN ARTS. Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the following books: GREEK. Grammar QI-Iadley or Goodwinl. . A Xenophon :t Anabasis, four Books. Homer: Iliad, three Books, with Prosody. 4 I Prose Composition Uones or White: the exercises in the first half ofthe bookl. History of Greece. ' fThe translation of average passages, not previously read, from Xenophon and Homer, will be accepted as an alternative to the above-mentioned quantities in these authorsj A I LATIN. E Grammar. Caesar: Gallic War, four Books. 1 Virgil: Aeneid, six Books, with Prosody. T I Cicero: the Orations against Catiline, and that for the Poet Archias. . Prose Composition: Translation into Latin of a passage of connected English narrative, based upon some passage in Caesar's Gallic War. ' Roman I-Iistory: Outlines, to the death of Marcus Aurelius CCreightonJ. ' - Ancient Geography. ' A I Candidates are also examined at sight upon average passages from Caesar's works, from Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses, and from Cicero's Orations. . IVIATHEIVIATICS. Arithmetic, including the Metric System. I Algebra, through Radicals and Quadratic, Equations, together with Proportion, Progres- sions, and the BinomiahTheorem. ' Plane Geometry. I ENGLISH. ' A Each candidate is required to write a short English composition, correct in spelling, punctuation, grammar, division by paragraphs, and expression, upon a subject announced at the time of the examination. In 1889 the subject will be chosen from the following works: Shakespea1'e's f7zeZz'zzs Caesar and As You Like fZ,' johnsonls Lives gf Sww aaa' Grey! ,' Thackx erayis ,Encgflzklz f7Q677Z07'Z..S'f.S',' Swiftis Gzellzklefflv T1fa7Je!s,' Gray's Elegy, Miss Austen's P7'z'a'e aaa' Pf'ey'ua'z'ee ,' SCott'S Rob Ray and Zlfaffflzzbfz. . Each candidate will also be required to criticise specimens of English composition. 2 499

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une 5. Wednesday. Senior Examinations. 6. Thursday. - ii ff 7. Friday. H 8. Saturday. H Io. Mofzday. U .4 U. Dlgsday, 4' 4 , Trinity Examinations. T ' 1 2. W ednesdzyf. ' . 6' H 0 ff 13. Thursday. Trinity Examinations. Senior Standing published 14. Friday. H V i ' - . ' 1 5. Salurday. H f' 16. Sunday. Trinity Sunday. ' 17. filonday. Trinity Examinations. ' IS. Tuesday. H ' 19. V Pffednesday. D ' 20. - Thursday. ' 21. Friday. 'Award of Prizes. ' ' 2 3. Sunday. Baccalaureate Sermon. 24. jldonday. Examinations for Admission. 25. Yuesday. . Class Day. ' 26. Wednesday. ' ' Wednesday. Annual Meetings of the Corporation and of the Association ofthe Alumni, ff 27. Thursday. SIXTYNTHIRD COMMENCEMENT. . , Trinity Vacation begins. ' 20. Sept. 17. Tuesday. Examinations for Admission begin. Q 19. T hursday. Christmas Term begins. Dec. 19. T hursday. Christmas Term ends. In 1889-90 the Christmas' Vacation will be two weeks. 433

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NoTE.- The works from which-the subject of the composition will be chosen in the fol- lowing years are: ' 1 D , A 1 In 1890: Shakespeare's falias Caesar and llllelsammeff Nzgfbl's Dream ,' Coleridge s xlllffrgllf Jl16zfz'1ze1',' Longfellow's E1Ja1zgelz'ne,' MacauIay's Essay on Lam' Clive, Tliackerayk lzlfqglub fhmorz'sz's,' XVebster's Flys! Banker Hill O1'aZz'01z,' Scott's Qaefzlzba DZl7'ZUd7'L2,,' George Eliovfs Silas 1lIa7'1ze1',' I-IaWthorne's Houseqf llze Seven Gables. In 1891: Shakespeare's f7alz'as Caesar and llfeafebaat fyf l7e1zz'ee,' Coleridge's Aueiezzf .fMzrz'aer,' Longfellowls Ewa1zgelz'ae,' Macaulayls Essay on Lora' Clz'7Je,' Webster's Has! Bzuzlwr Hill Oraz'z'oa,' Irving's Allzambffag Scottis Ola' M07fd!Z'Ql ,' George Eliot's Silas .lhrner Hawthorne's Hozzse' qt llze Seven Gables. ' In 1892: Shakespeare's jfalias Caesar and Asyea Like z'l,' Scottls Ma1'11zz'01z,' Longfellow's Cearlsbzlp of llhles Slaaellsb ,' Addison's Sir Roger ele Coverbf Pajfersj Macaulay's Seeaml Essay an Me Earl zyf Cbatbamg Webster's Fees! Banker Mll O1falz'07z,' Irving's Alhambra Scotts . ' . . ' 7 In 6 I 7Izl1's11za1z,' George El1ot's Seeaesfrom Cleffzeal Lyfe, Hawthorne s Hozlse af Zbe St dc zz G 1 es. II. COURSE IN LETTERS AND SCIENCE. The requirements for admission are the same as in the Course in Arts, with the omission of Greek and extempore Latin translation. I III. COURSE IN SCIENCE. V Candidates for the Course in Science are examined in Mathematics and in English as for the Course in Arts, with the addition of Algebra from Progressions to the Theory oil Equations, Solid Geometry, and Plane Trigonometry, and Trench's Slmly gf Worfls fSupplees eclitionlz also in the History of the United States, and in six books of Caesar's Gallic XVar Qor three books of Caesar and three books of Virgil's Aeneidl, together with Latin Grammar and the elements of Latin Composition. IV. COURSE IN LETTERS. Th ' - - . . . Greek e requirements for admission are the same as in the Course in Arts, with the omission of CO iEEO5f1i3hof1pa13e1's used at the Ezraminations in 1888 are printed at the end of thc Llrtalngug, P 1C may be had on application to the President or Secretary of the Faculty. I CIOD