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SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS.

Senior Scholarships.

FIRST CLASS.

Literature.

Prose.—Bacon's Novum Organum, 1st Part.

Poetry—Shakspeare's Hamlet.

History.—Arnold's Lectures on Modern History, except the 2nd and the Appendix to the Inaugural Lecture.

Mental Philosophy.—Stewart's Philosophy of the Human Mind. Introduction and first five Chapters of Part II.

Mathematics.

Differential and Integral Calculus.

Optics, (as in Potter.)

Astronomy, (as in Brinkley.)

SECOND CLASS.

Literature.

(Same as First Class.)

Mathematics.

Newton's Principia, (as in Goodwyn or Evans.)

Doctrine of Limits and Elements of Differential and Integral Calculus.

Analytical Geometry and Spherical Trigonometry.

Hydrostatics, (as in Webster.)

THIRD CLASS.

Literature.

(Same as First Class.)

Mathematics.}}

Conic Sections, (as in Goodwyn.)

Theory of Algebraical Equations.

Mechanics, (as in Potter and Snowball.)

FOURTH CLASS.

Literature.

Prose.—Johnson's Rasselas.

Poetry.—Richardson's Selections from Gray and Collins.

History.—Elphinstone's India, Vol. I., except Chapter IV., Book I. and Chapters IV., V., Book II.