students are admitted to free scholarships on the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools in each county after passing the required examinations. The scholarships provided by the act of 1864 are distributed among the counties in proportion to their population, as follows: SCHOLARSHIPS-AT-LARGE.—In June, 1888, the Trustees of Rutgers College provided ten additional free State scholarships. STATE SCHOLARSHIPS, ACT OF 1890.-By a law passed March 31st, 1890, a number of free scholarships, one for each Assembly district for each year, is established and offered to students in all parts of the State. The candidates for these scholarships are selected as follows: A competitive examination, under the direction of the City Superintendents and the County Superintendent of Education in each county shall be held at the County Court House in each county of the State, upon the first Saturday in June in each year. If several candidates for appointment pass the examination from the same Assembly district, all who are suitably qualified shall receive appointment to such free scholarships, excess from certain Assembly districts being counterbalanced by vacancies in other Assembly districts, provided only that the entire number of appointees shall not exceed the entire number of free scholarships created by the State. The following are the names and addresses of the County Superintendents: Atlantic-S. D. Hoffman, Atlantic City. Mercer A. W. Hartwell, Princeton. Ocean-Edward M. Lonan, Toms River. Passaic-James D. Donnell, Paterson. Salem-Robert Gwynne, Jr., Salem. Somerset-John L. Anderson, Somerville. Union-B. Holmes, Elizabeth. Warren-Robert S. Price, Hackettstown. Letters of inquiry to the President, or to the Registrar, will receive careful attention. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION. The following are the subjects in which those who wish to enter the Freshman Class of the Scientific School are examined. Since all are such as can be acquired in our best common schools, it is insisted that the preparation in them shall be thorough and complete. 1. Mathematics. ARITHMETIC.-Fundamental operations; Common and Decimal Fractions; Denominate Numbers, including the Metric System; Percentage, including Interest and Discount; Proportion; Square and Cube Root. In preparing the student for this course, it is recommended that he be drilled thoroughly in Arithmetic, as a clear understanding of its simple elementary and practical principles is essential to a good Mathematician. ALGEBRA through Arithmetic, Geometric and Harmonic Progressions, or the first seventeen chapters of Bowser's College Algebra. His preparation in Algebra should be very thorough. In addition to understanding the PRINCIPLES of the science he must fix them in his memory, and learn their bearing and utility, and for this reason he should pay great attention to the solution of practical examples. What is needed is ability to solve ordinary examples with facility and to explain them thoroughly. Attention is specially called to the solution of Simultaneous Quadratic Equations, and of Equations of Higher Degrees than the Second, which may be reduced to the quadratic form, and then solved by the methods of solving quadratics. The student should form the habit of arranging his work, whether on the blackboard or on paper, in a neat and orderly manner. GEOMETRY.-The whole of Plane and Solid Geometry. 2. The English Branches. ENGLISH GRAMMAR-including spelling. A short English Essay is also required, to be written at the examination, on some theme drawn from books announced in advance; the essay to be correct in spelling, punctuation, division into paragraphs, grammar and expression. In June and September, 1897, the themes will be drawn from these books, which all students who apply for admission then should have read carefully: Shakespeare's As You Like It; Defoe's History of the Plague in London; Irving's Tales of a Traveler; Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales; Longfellow's Evangeline; George Eliot's Silas Marner. The following books are set apart for examination upon subjectmatter, form and structure, 1897: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Scott's Marmion; Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson. In 1898, the examination will be upon Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I and II; Pope's Iliad, Books I and XXII; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Southey's Life of Nelson; Carlyle's Essay on Burns; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal; Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. The following books are set apart for examination upon subjectmatter, form and structure, 1898: Shakespeare's Macbeth; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; De Quincey's The Flight of a Tartar Tribe; Tennyson's The Princess. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.-Johnston's History of the United States, or its equivalent. Students often lack thorough or recent preparation in this subject. A more accurate knowledge of American History has become necessary as preliminary to the systematic instruction now given on the duties and relations of American citizenship. 3. Science. PHYSICS.-Students are required to show satisfactory acquaintance with Wells' or Cooley's Natural Philosophy, or Peck's Ganot's Physics. CHEMISTRY.-Such knowledge of Chemistry as may be obtained from a thorough study of Remsen's, Cooley's or Steele's Chemistry complete. Remsen's Elements of Chemistry is recommended, because Remsen's text-books are used during the course. 4. COURSES OF STUDY. During the first year the studies of the full courses are the same, and are designed to furnish a suitable introduction to the pursuit of the higher branches in either course. The elements of Agriculture, of Biology and of Botany are taught during the first, second and third terms respectively. Mathematics (Algebra, Trigonometry and Surveying), Draughting, English and French are taught throughout the year. At the end of the first year, students elect to pursue one of the full courses, and for the remaining three years their studies are directed with particular reference to the choice made. Some studies which go to the equipment of the intelligent citizen, whatever his occupation, such as History, English Literature, Political Economy, Practical Ethics, Astronomy and others, are interspersed throughout the entire four years, in order that students may not only acquire a thorough preparation for their special pursuits in life, but may at the same time receive a liberal training which will fit them to discharge wisely and usefully the duties of good citizenship. Five distinct courses of study are included in the schedule which follows: I. A COURSE IN AGRICULTURE. II. A COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS. III. A COURSE IN CHEMISTRY. Exercises in English are required throughout the entire course, as follows: Essays, two each term; Forensics, four times each term, Declamations and Extempore Speaking during the Freshman and Sophomore years and Orations and Extempore Speaking during the Junior and Senior years. Military Drill is required of all students in the Scientific School twice each week throughout the entire course. FRESHMAN CLASS. Uniform Schedule for All Scientific Courses. FIRST TERM, Thirteen Weeks. Hours a week. 552 1. FRENCH.-Bevier's French Grammar; Easy Prose.......... 2. MATHEMATICS.-Bowser's Algebra, completed................................. 3. PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURE -Voorhees........ 4. RHETORIC.-Clark; Lectures; Essays.......... 5. CIVICS... 6. DRAUGHTING.-Practice in Use of Instruments; Geometrical Problems and Applications....... SECOND TERM, Thirteen Weeks. 1. FRENCH.-Modern Drama; sight reading.......... 2. MATHEMATICS.-Bowser's Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical............... 3. ZOOLOGY.-Orton; Lectures........ 4. ENGLISH LITERATURE.-Pancoast's Introduction to English Literature.. 5. DRAUGHTING.-Projections...... THIRD TERM, Ten Weeks. 1. FRENCH.-Lamartine or Hugo; Prose Composition 2. MATHEMATICS.-Surveying, Carhart........... 3. BOTANY.-Gray's Revised Lessons.... ........ 4. ENGLISH LITERATURE.—Pancoast's Introduction to English Literature... 5. DRAUGHTING.-Free-hand Drawing and Perspective........ |