Trinity College - Ivy Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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Sept. Nov. Dec. jan. Feb. March April May KK june KK KK CCLLECE CALENDAR. 189o. -Tkizrsziay. Christmas Term begins. Sczfmfday. All Saints' Day. Holiday. Thwfsziay, Thanksgiving-Day. IfVea'7zesfz'ay. Christmas Examinations. Tftzzrsriczy. Frzkiczy. 1 V Saiwfday. Mofzday. Tzzesriay. Appointment of Toucey Scholar. Christmas Vacation begins. 1891. Tzmsdzzy. Trinity Term begins. lfVefz'7ze.m'fzy. Ash-Wednesday. fllofzday. Holiday Qfor VVashington's Birthdayj. Oratorical Prize Contest f73'z?Zzzy. Good Friday. ' V Frzkiay. Easter Recess begins. N Mofzday. Easter Recess ends. Tzzesficzy. English Literature Prize Examination. Wezifzesday. Chemical Prize Essays handed in. Frzkiczy. Tuttle Prize Essays handed in. Szzzfzzrday. Latin Prize Examination. Srzmniay. History Prize Examination. Thursday. Ascension-Day. Safizrday. Mathematical Prize Examination. Tkzzrsriay. Prize Version Declamations. Szmziay. Trinity-Sunday. IfVefZ1zesday. Senior Examinations. Tkmfsziay. Frzkirzy. ' Saimfday. zlfamiczy. 171

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Tw! 1 u 2 fl-rzslwi, he-gtizion of REQUIREMENTS EGR ADMISSION. I. COURSE IN ARTS. ' Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined in the following studies : GREEK. I Grammar QHadley or Goodwinj. Xenophon: Anabasis, four Books. Homer: Iliad, three Books, with Prosody. Prose Composition Clones or VVhite: the exercises in the first half of the bookj. History of Greece. D IThe 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 ' ' LATIN . Grammar. Caesar: Gallic VVar, four Books. Virgil: Aeneid, six Books, with Prosody. Cicero: The Orations against Catiline, and that for the Poet Archias. Prose Composition : Translation into Latin of a passage of connected English nar- rative, based upon some passage in Caesars Gallic War. IRoman History: Cutlines, to the death of Marcus Aurelius. Ancient Geography. 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. I Arithmetic, including the Metric System. Algebra, through Radicals and Quadratic Equations, together with Proportion, Progression, and the Binomial Theorem. Plane Geometry. ' ENGLISH. Each candidate is required to Write a short English composition, correct in spell- ing, punctuation, grammar, division by paragraphs, and expression, upon, a subject announced at the time of the examination. In 1891 the subject Will be chosen from Shakespeare's falzizzs Caesar and Jlferekafzf gf Venzeep Coleridge's Afzezefzi iflffarzkzerg LongfelloW's .Evauge!z'7ze,' Macaulay's Essay 072 Lora' Clztfeg Webster's Refs! Bzzfzkef'-Hz'!! O7'lZfZb7Z,' lrving's Alaambrag Scott's Ola' M0rZaZz7y,- George Eliot's Silas rwarizerg Hawthorne's House qt Me Seven Gables. Each candidate will also be required to criticise specimens of English composition. .2 ' C97 V.