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4. Passages from Cicero, In Catilinam I to IV, and In Verrem Actio I.

5. Passages from Cicero, Pro Murena and Pro Lege Manilia.

6. Passages from Cicero, De Senectute and De Amicitia.

7. Passages from Horace, Odes.

8. Passages from Horace, Satires.

9. Passages from Horace, Epistles.
10. Passages from Livy V, VI.

11. Passages from Virgil, Georgics.

12. Passages from Virgil, Bucolics and Eneid I to VI.

N. B.-Candidates must select one and only one of the sections numbered 1 to 12.

Translate into Latin:

LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION.

The prince, who had already been informed of the conspiracy, sent messengers to
all his allies to ask for reenforcements, and, as soon as he heard that these had set out,
called together three hundred of the most distinguished citizens, pretending that he
wished to consult them on the affairs of the republic. Orders were given that each,
But the people also were
as he entered the palace, should be put to death, and a large force of cavalry was drawn
up in the streets to prevent any danger of a popular tumult.
ready. During the whole day they had been quietly assembling in the houses, wait-
ing until the signal should be given. Suddenly there arose the cry, "To arms," and,
while some threw down stones and firebrands, the others rushed forth from the doors,
dragged the soldiers from their horses, and slew them before they had time to defend
themselves. The attack was too violent to be resisted, and when the reenforcement
arrived the city was in the hands of the populace.

ARITHMETIC.

1. Find the smallest integer which is divisible by all the numbers 143, 78, 91, 637, 286.

2. Multiply 1.16 by .428571, and divide .007424 by 25.6.

3. If a man can build 1 rod 1 yard 1 foot 6 inches of a wall in 1 day, how much can he build in 52 days?

4. Find the square roots of 122.1025 and 538.

5. The par of exchange with London being 4.8665, find the equivalents of £137 4s. 64d. and $542.84 to the nearest cent and farthing, respectively.

6. A walk 10 feet wide is made round a rectangular park within the fence, the park being 200 yards by 150 yards. How many square yards are there in the walk?

7. Two men of equal skill agreed to do a piece of work for $124. They completed it in 18 days, but one man was absent from work on 5 days. How should the pay be equitably divided?

8. Find the amount of $4,000 if lent for 3 years at 44 per cent per annum compound interest.

9. Three pipes can respectively fill a cistern in 22, 24, and 72 minutes. If, when He afterwards sold out the cistern is empty, all the pipes are opened, in how many minutes will it be full? Find the change in his 10. A person invested $22,050 in a 3 per cent stock at 90. at 934 and invested the proceeds in a 4 per cent stock at 98. income.

11. In what time will $1,260 amount to $1,496.25 if lent at 3 per cent per annum simple interest?

TRANSLATION FROM GREEK INTO ENGLISH.

The paper contains the following sections:

1. Passages from authors not specially prescribed.

2. Passages from Demosthenes, Philippics, I to III, and Olynthiacs, I to III.

3. Passages from Demosthenes, De Corona.

4. Passages from Euripides, (a) Hecuba, (b) Medea, (c) Alcestis, (d) Bacchae.

5. Passages from Homer, Iliad, I to IV.

6. Passages from Homer, Odyssey, I to VI.

7. Passages from Plato, Apology, Crito.

8. Passages from Sophocles, Antigone, and Ajax.

9. Passages from Xenophon, Anabasis, I to V.

N. B.-Candidates must select one, and only one, of the sections numbered 1 to 9.

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GREEK AND LATIN GRAMMAR.

1. Give the meaning, gender, and dative plural of 68ovs, Aεós, ráha, öpris, KÉλɛ005, and the meaning, gender, and (genitive plural of nummus, artus, dies, imber, calcar.

2. Give the comparative and superlative of vέos, äpraż, μakpós, vetus, utilis,

prope.

3. Decline in the singular ỏžú5, öót15, àλntýs; and in the plural, melior, qui, idem. 4. Distinguish between the uses of αὐτός and ὁ αὐτός, ποσός, ὅσος, and ὅποσος, mille and millia, aliquis and quisquam, is and ille.

5. State, with examples, the principal ways of forming the perfect tense in Greek and Latin.

6. Write down the third person, singular and plural, of the following tenses: Present subjunctive active of dnλów; aorist indicative active of aipέo; aorist optative passive of rionu; future indicative active of capio; future perfect indicative active of tribuo; imperfect subjunctive of nolo.

7. What prepositions in Latin and Greek may be used with two cases? Give examples and append to each its English equivalent.

8. State and illustrate (a) the rules for conditional sentences in Greek; (b) the rules for the sequence of tenses in Latin.

9. Translate into Latin: (a) The consul left the city without saluting his colleague; (b) He is too wise to disobey his orders; (c) If you finish your work to-morrow you will be allowed to return home; (d) I fear that he will not reach Italy in time to see his brother; (e) When he was at Athens I told him to remain there until I came.

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10. Put into Oratio Obliqua: Quoniam me una vobiscum servare non possum vestrae quidem certe vitae prospiciam quos cupiditate gloriae adductus in periculum deduxi. Frustra meae vitae subvenire conamini quem iam sanguis viresque deficiunt. Proinde hinc abite dum est facultas vosque ad legionem recipite.

2. Multiply a—3x3+2x-1 by x3+3x3-2x+1, and verify the result in the case where x=2.

3. Find the remainder when 3+5x2-7x+4 is divided by x2+x+2. For what value of will the remainder be zero?

4. Resolve into their simplest real factors—

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7. Describe clearly the process of solving graphically two simultaneous equations of the first degree in two variables. How would you apply this process in the case of the equations given in question 6 (3)?

8. Find four consecutive odd numbers whose sum is 1904.

9. A sum of $4,950 is invested partly in Canadian Pacific common shares, paying 6 per cent, at 115, and partly in United States 4 per cent loan, at 132. The total income being $200, find the amount of each investment.

Geometry.

[The use of reasonable symbols and abbreviations is permitted.]

1. Define right angle, rhombus, parallel straight lines.

2. If two angles of a triangle be equal to one another, the sides also which subtend, or are opposite to, the equal angles, shall be equal to one another.

3. If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle shall be greater than either of the interior opposite angles.

4. If a straight line falling on two other straight lines, make the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite angle on the same side of the line, or make the interior angles on the same side together equal to two right angles, the two straight lines shall be parallel to one another.

5. The opposite sides and angles of a parallelogram are equal to one another, and the diameter bisects the parallelogram-that is, divides it into two equal parts.

6. If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the squares described on the other two sides of it, the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle.

7. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square on the whole line is equal to the squares on the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the two parts.

8. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square on the other part.

The following is a list of the names of the Rhodes scholars for 1904, with the colleges at Oxford to which they were assigned and the States from which they were appointed:

American Rhodes scholars, 1904.

The experience gained in 1904 suggested some changes in the instructions to the committees of selection for the examinations of 1905, which were embodied in the following memorandum and declaration sent out by the Rhodes trustees. It was found advisable to hold the examinations in January to allow the Oxford examiners time to complete their work before midsummer. The same precautions were observed in transmitting the papers as in the previous year.

MEMORANDUM.

THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1905.

The trustees of the will of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes have prepared the following memorandum for the information of college authorities and intending candidates for scholarships in the United States:

The next qualifying examinations for scholars in the United States under the Rhodes bequest will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 17 and 18, 1905. The selection of scholars is to be completed before the end of March, and the elected scholars will begin residence at Oxford in October, 1905.

The examination will be held in each State and Territory to which scholarships are assigned, at centers to be fixed by the local committee of selection. This committee will appoint a suitable person to supervise the examination and will arrange for its impartial conduct. It should be clearly understood that this examination is not competitive, but simply qualifying, and is merely intended to give assurance that every elected scholar is able to pass the first examination which the university demands of all candidates for the B. A. degree.

The Rhodes scholars will be selected from candidates who have successfully passed this examination. One scholar will be chosen for each State and Territory to which scholarships are assigned.

Candidates must be unmarried, must be citizens of the United States, and must be not younger than 19 nor older than 25 years of age on October 1 of the year in which they are elected.

It has been decided that all scholars shall have reached, before going into residence, at least the end of their sophomore or second-year work at some recognized degreegranting university or college of the United States.

An exception to this rule is made in the case of the State of Massachusetts, where, at the request of the committee of selection, authority is given to appoint from the secondary schools.

Candidates may elect whether they will apply for the scholarship of the State or Territory in which they have acquired any large part of their educational qualification, or for that of the State or Territory in which they have their ordinary private domicile, home, or residence. They may pass the qualifying examination at any center, but they must be prepared to present themselves before election to the committee in the State or Territory they select.

No candidate may compete in more than one State or Territory.

To meet the requirements of the responsions examination candidates will be examined in the following subjects

1. Arithmetic-the whole.

2. Either the elements of algebra (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, greatest common measure, least common multiple, fractions, extraction of square root,

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simple equations containing one or two unknown quantities, and problems producing
such equations) or the elements of geometry.

Elementary questions, including propositions enunciated by Euclid, and easy
deductions therefrom, will be set on the subject-matter contained in the following
portions of Euclid's Elements, viz, Book I, the whole, excluding propositions 7, 16,
17, 21; Book II, the whole, excluding proposition 8; Book III, the whole, excluding
propositions 2, 4-10, 13, 23, 24, 26–29.

Any method of proof will be accepted which shows clearness and accuracy in geometrical reasoning.

So far as possible, candidates should aim at making the proof of any proposition
complete in itself.

In the case of propositions 1-7, 9, 10, of Book II, algebraical proofs will be allowed.
3. Greek and Latin grammar.

4. Translation from English into Latin.

5. One Greek and one Latin book.

Any of the following portions of the under-mentioned authors will be accepted as
a "book:"
Demosthenes: De Corona.

Euripides (any two of the following plays): Hecuba, Medea, Alcestis, Baccha.
Homer: (1) Iliad, 1-5 or 2-6; or (2) Odyssey, 1-5 or 2-6.

Plato: Apology and Crito.

Sophocles: Antigone and Ajax.
Xenophon: Anabasis, 1-4 or 2-5.

Cæsar: De Bello Gallico, 1-4.

Cicero: (1) Philippics 1,2; or (2) In Catilinam 1-3, and In Verrem Actio I; or (3)
pro Murena and pro Lege Manilia; or (4) de Senectute and de Amicitia.
Horace: (1) Odes 1-4; or (2) Satires; or (3) Epistles.

Livy: Books 5 and 6.

Virgil: (1) the Bucolics, with Books 1-3 of the Eneid; or (2) the Georgics; or (3) the Eneid, Books 1-5 or 2-6.

The texts used in setting the examination papers will be those of the series of Oxford classical texts, so far as these have been published by the Oxford University Press. At the request of the trustees the University of Oxford has named for next year a board of examiners to prepare examination papers covering this range of study and to report upon the replies given. The papers will be forwarded in sealed parcels to the chairman of the committee of selection. Within these parcels will be inclosed sealed envelopes containing the examination papers. These envelopes shall only be opened by the supervising examiner at the time and place of examination. Printed time-tables will be supplied. As the papers contain the full text of all classical passages used in examination no text-books will be required by candidates. Arrangements will be made to supply stationery to candidates at the place of examination. The replies made by candidates shall be collected at the close of each examination and forwarded at the close of each day's work in sealed parcels to Dr. G. R. Parkin, care of Hon. W. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, Washington.

The University of Oxford has agreed to accept in lieu of responsions the certificates of its examiners that students have passed this examination, so that all scholars elected will be excused from that test when they come into residence at Oxford. As a certificate of exemption from responsions holds good permanently persons who have passed in previous years, if otherwise eligible, need not take the examination a second time in order to become qualified as candidates.

As soon as the report of the examiners has been received the chairman of the committee of selection in each State will be furnished with a list of the candidates who have passed and are therefore eligible for election.

The committee of selection will then proceed to choose the scholar for the year. In accordance with the wish of Mr. Rhodes the trustees desire that "in the election of a student to a scholarship regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments; (2) his fondness for and success in manly out-door sports, such as cricket, football, and the like; (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates." Mr. Rhodes suggested that (2) and (3) should be decided in any school or college by the votes of fellow-students and (4) by the head of the school or college.

Where circumstances render it impracticable to carry out the letter of these suggestions the trustees hope that every effort will be made to give effect to their spirit, but desire it to be understood that the final decision must rest with the committee of selection. To aid in making a choice each qualified candidate should be required to furnish to the chairman of the committee of selection