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time, emphasis should be placed on general movements and tendencies as
shown in the selections studied. In the history of English literature char-
acteristic selections from most of the following authors should be read:
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Addison, Goldsmith, .Gray,
Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning,
Lamb, George Eliot, Dickens, and Thackeray. In American literature,
selections from the following: Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes,
Irving, Hawthorne, Cooper, Poe, Lowell, and Emerson. A study of the
principles of composition and practice in theme-writing must be included
in this unit.

ADVANCED STUDY OF CLASSICS. 1 unit. In addition to the two units of
‘required work, which include the reading and study of English Classics,
students may offer one unit representing advanced work in the study of lit-
erature. This should consist of an intensive study of typical examples of
the novel, the drama, the lyric, and the oration or the essay. At least one
work from each of the following four groups should be included: I. (a)
Thackeray’s Henry Esmond; (b) Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables;
(c) Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities; (d) George Eliot’s Silas Marner. II.
Shakespeare’s (a) Macbeth, (b) Hamlet, (c) King Lear. III. Palgrave’s
Golden Treasury (First Series), (a) Books ii and iii, or (b) Book iv; (c)
Milton’s Lycidas, L’Allegro, and Il Penseroso. IV. (a) Burke’s Speech on
Conciliation; (b) Webster’s First Bunker Hill Oration, and Washington’s
Farewell Address; (c) Macauley’s Life of Johnson, Essays on Milton; (d)
Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. A study of the principles of rhetoric, with
frequent and systematic theme-writing, must form a part of this unit.

MATHEMATICS

ALGEBRA: 1, 1%, or 2 units. The one required unit should include:
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, equations of the first degree
with one unknown number, simultaneous equations of the first degree,
including the graphical solution of a pair of linear equations with two un-
knowns, factors, highest common factor, lowest common multiple, solution
of quadratic equations.

A third half year of algebra is strongly recommended for all students
and is required of engineering students. The work should cover: the
theory of quadratic equations; elementary theory of exponents and rad-
icals; systems of non-linear equations including linear quadratic systems,
‘quadratic systems containing no first degree terms; graphic representations
of quadratic equations in two variables; examples involving binomial
theorem with positive integral exponents; arithmetical and geometrical
progressions; logarithms; ratio, proportion, and variation.

“If a fourth half year is given it should cover: proof of binomial
theorem for positive integral exponents, with examples involving negative
and fractional exponents; polynomials and equations of any degree in one
variable, including factor theorem, remainder theorem, determination of
rational roots, graphic and algebraic approximate determination of real
irrational roots, roots common to two equations, relation between roots and
coefficients of the equation; permutations and combinations; determinants.

GEOMETRY. 1 unit of plane geometry. An additional half year of solid
geometry is strongly recommended for students who expect to enter the
College of Engineering.