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Rh of exponents, integral and fractional, positive and negative, and the calculus of radicals. 4. Plane Geometry. 5. History and Geography. History of the United States and of England, and the general facts of Physical and Political Geography. 6. Latin. Caesar, Gallic War, Books I .-IV. (or Civil War, Books L—II.); Cicero, the Four Catilinarian Orations, and the Orations Pro Archia Pocta and Pro Lege Manilla; with questions in each

case on the implied gram mar and on the subjectmatter and the corre sponding archaeology. These examinations are conducted by the Faculty of the Uni versity at the same times and places as those for entrance to the undergraduate de partments. Further more, no one is re ceived into the Junior Class unless he is at least eighteen years of age. An applicant for admission to the Middle Class, besides being qualified to enter the Junior Class, must be at least nine teen years of age, and OLIVER must pass a satisfac tory examination on the work of the Junior year. Similar con ditions exist for admission into the Senior Class, the required age being twenty. No one has ever yet been admitted into the Senior Class, without an actual attendance upon the exercises of the previous year. The college authorities very strongly pre fer to have students who wish to commence at the beginning of the Junior year. The effect of these entrance requirements has been to diminish the number of students about one half. There are now seventy-seven students in the school: sixteen seniors, twenty-five middle men, and thirty-six juniors. Of these, forty-three, or more than fifty-five per cent of the entire number, hold collegiate degrees. The average age is about twenty-two or twenty-three years. It would be difficult to find in any college a body of young men of equal number who are supe rior in point of education, ability, earnestness, and in all the qualities which go to make up perfect gentlemen. Not only is this true of the present, but of previous classes. The writer has always found it a pleasure to meet them. At the end of each year an examination on the year's work, lasting several days, is held. A standing of seventy-five per cent in each subject is re quired to pass. Some idea of the severity of these examinations may be had from the fact that in 1886 twenty -five seniors passed and five were rejected; in 1887 twenty-one passed and three were rejected; P. EVANS. in 1888, twenty-five again passed, with three rejections; and in 1889 eleven passed, and two were recommended not to appear. A proportionately larger number of rejections occurs in the junior and middle classes. It might be further stated that if a student fails at the end of the first year, he is almost always admitted to the Supreme Court, on examination, shortly afterwards. The number of graduates of the school thus far, in nine years, is two hundred and fifty-nine. Of these, eight are dead; and fifty-one of the remainder are not in prac tice. Of the other two hundred, sixteen