However accurate in subject matter, no paper will be considered satisfactory if seriously defective in punctuation, spelling or other essentials of good usage.

The examination will be divided into two parts:

1. Grammar and Composition

In grammar and composition, the candidate may be asked specific questions upon the practical essentials of these studies, such as the relations of the various parts of a sentence to one another, the construction of individual words in a sentence of reasonable difficulty, and those good usages of modern English, which one should know in distinction from current errors. The main test in composition will consist of one or more essays, developing a theme through several paragraphs; the subjects will be drawn from the books read, from the candidate's other studies, and from his personal knowledge and experience quite apart from reading. For this purpose the examiner will provide several subjects, perhaps eight or ten, from which the candidate may make his own selections. He will not be expected to write more than four hundred words per hour.

2. Literature

The examination in literature will include:

A. Reading.-General questions designed to test such a knowledge and appreciation of literature as may be gained by an intelligent reading of at least two books under each of five groups as follows: Group I-Classics in Translation (a selection from any other group may be substituted for this), Group II-Shakespeare, Group III-Prose Fiction, Group IV-Essays, Biography, etc., Group V-Poetry. Other books than those named in the Uniform Entrance Requirement list will be accepted under each group, provided the books are of standard literary character. The candidate will be required to submit a list of the books read in preparation for the examination, certified by the principal of the school in which he was prepared; but the books named in this list will not be made the basis of detailed questions.

B. Study.-The books provided for study are arranged in four groups, from each of which one selection is to be made.

GROUP I, DRAMA

Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, Macbeth, or Hamlet.

GROUP II, POETRY

Milton: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and either Comus or Lycidas.

Tennyson: The Coming of Arthur, The Holy Grail, and The Passing of Arthur.

The selections from Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in Book IV of Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series).

GROUP III, ORATORY

Burke: Speech on Conciliation with America.

Macaulay's Two Speeches on Copyright, and Lincoln's Speech at Cooper Union.

Washington's Farewell Address and Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration.

GROUP IV, ESSAYS

Carlyle: Essay on Burns, with a selection from Burns' Poems.

Macaulay: Life of Johnson.

Emerson: Essay on Manners.

A test on the books prescribed under the Study groups will consist of questions upon their content, form, and structure, and upon the meaning of such words, phrases, and allusions as may be necessary to an understanding of the works and an appreciation of their salient qualities of style. General questions may also be asked concerning the lives of the authors, their other works, and the periods of literary history to which they belong. For the George Washington University Scholarship Entrance Examinations the books for Reading and Study will be the required English of the Washington High Schools.

LATIN

Elementary (two units)

a. I. Latin Grammar The inflections; the simpler rules for composition and derivation of words; syntax of cases and the verb; structure of sentences in general, with particular regard to relative and conditional sentences, indirect discourse, and the subjunctive.

II. Latin Prose Composition: Translation into Latin of detached sentences and easy continuous prose based on Cæsar.

b. Cæsar: Any four books of the Gallic War, preferably the first four.

Advanced (two units)

a. Cicero: Any six orations from the following list, but preferably the first six mentioned. The four orations against Catiline, Archias, the Manilian Law, Marcellus, Roscius, Milo, Sestius, Ligarius, the Fourteenth Philippic.

b. Virgil: The first six books of Æneid.

c. Advanced Prose Composition, consisting of continuous prose of moderate difficulty based on Cicero.

d. Sight Translation, based on prose of no greater difficulty than the easier portions of Cicero's orations.

GREEK

Elementary (two units)

a. I. Greek Grammar: The topics for the examination in Greek grammar are similar to those detailed under Latin grammar.

II. Greek Prose Composition, consisting principally of detached sentences to test the candidate's knowledge of grammatical constructions. The examination in grammar and prose composition will be based on the first two books of Xenophon's Anabasis.

b. Xenophon: The first four books of the Anabasis.

Advanced (one unit)

a. Homer: The first three books of the Iliad (omitting II, 494, to end). b. Sight Translation, based on prose of no greater difficulty than Xenophon's Anabasis.

FRENCH

Elementary (two units)

Candidates in Elementary French must have a good knowledge of the essential parts of grammar, with stress on pronouns and on regular verbs and the common irregular verbs. They must know the principles of pronunciation; must be able to translate simple English sentences or easy connected prose into French. and to translate accurately ordinary modern French prose. Candidates must have translated not less than 450 duodecimo pages by at least four different authors, of which amount at least onethird must be history. Candidates must have had a two-year's course of five periods per week.

Advanced (two units)

Candidates in advanced French must have partly translated, partly read, in addition to the requirements for Elementary French, at least 1000 pages of difficult French of several different authors, including history, fiction, drama, and poetry. Candidates must have had a four-year's course of five periods per week.

Fraser and Squair's French Grammar or Grandgent's Essentials of French Grammar is recommended.

SPANISH

(Two units)

Candidates in Spanish must have a good knowledge of grammar including syntax, with stress on pronouns and verbs, regular and irregular. They must know the principles of pronunciation. They must be able to translate simple English sentences or easy connected prose into Spanish, and to translate accurately fairly difficult modern Spanish prose and verse. Candidates must have translated not less than 500 pages by at least four different authors, of which amount at least one-fourth must be history or drama. Candidates must have had a two-year's course of five periods per week.

GERMAN

Elementary (two units)

Candidates in Elementary German must have had a two-year's course or five periods a week. They must be able to read fluently at sight and to translate easy narrative prose and poetry. An accurate knowledge of the elements of German grammar and the ability to translate simple prose into German are requisite. About 300 pages of graduated narrative prose, one short play, and such poetry as is usually found in a First Reader will be considered an adequate preparation.

Advanced (two units)

Candidates in Advanced German must have had a four-year's course of five periods a week. They should be well trained in the syntactical laws of the language, have read about 800 pages of good literature in prose, preferably such prose works as are given in the Report of the Committee of Twelve of the Modern Language Association, and poetry, especially dramas by Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe, and studied an elementary history of German literature. German composition should comprise a number of short themes upon assigned historical or literary topics, lives of the authors read, etc.

HISTORY

In this subject special importance is attached to preparation in geography.

Ancient (one unit)

a. Greek History, through the Roman Conquest; as much as is contained in Myer's, Bottsford's, or West's History of Greece.

b. Roman History; as much as is contained in Allen's, Bottsford's or West's History of the Roman People.

Mediaeval History (one unit)

As much as is contained in first twenty chapters of Robinson's Mediaeval and Modern Times.

Modern European History (one unit)

As much as is contained in Robinson's Mediaeval and Modern Times from chapter 21 to the end.

English History (one unit)

As much as is contained in Larned's or Cheyney's History of England.

American History with the Elements of Civil Government (one unit)

As much as is contained in Fiske's History of the United States, and Fiske's Civil Government.

MATHEMATICS

Elementary and Intermediate Algebra (one and one-half units)

I. Algebra to Quadratics: The four fundamental operations for rational algebraic expressions, factoring, highest common factor, lowest common multiple, complex fractions, the solution of equations of the first degree containing one or more unknown quantities, radicals, including the extraction of the square root of polynomials and numbers, and fractional and negative exponents.

II. Quadratics, etc.: Quadratic equations and equations containing one or more unknown quantities that can be solved by the methods of quadratic equations, problems depending upon such equations, ratio and proportion, and the binomial theorem for positive integral exponents.

Advanced Algebra (one-half unit)

The progressions; the elementary treatment of permutations and combinations; the use of four and five place tables of logarithms; undertermined coefficients; the elementary treatment of infinite series, the binomial theorem for fractional and negative exponents; the elementary treatment of the theory of equations.

Plane Geometry (one unit)

General text propositions, including the solution of simple original exercises and numerical problems.

Solid Geometry (one-half unit)

Properties of straight lines and planes, of dihedral and polyhedral angles, of projections, of polyhedrons, including prisms, pyramids, and the regular solids; of cylinders, cones, and spheres; of spherical triangles and the measurement of surfaces and solids.

Plane Trigonometry (one-half unit)

The definitions and relations of the six trigonometrical functions as ratios, proof of important formulas, theory of logarithms and use of tables, solution of right and oblique plane triangles.

PHYSICS (One unit)

It is recommended that the candidate's preparation should include: a. Individual laboratory work, comprising at least thirty-five exercises well distributed over the subjects of physics.

b. Instruction by lecture-table demonstrations.

c. The study of at least one standard text-book, supplemented by the use of many and varied numerical problems. The metric system should be familiar to the student.

The laboratory note-book must be submitted for inspection, whether the candidate is admitted on certificate or by examination.