New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-05
AMONG THE COLLEGES,
PRINCETON.
THE NEW REcu1REMENTs For ENTRANCE.

THE NEW REQUIREMENTS FOX ENlhANOE'
Princeton. Dec d (specal).The changes IN the
entrance requirements 10 the academic department
Of Princeton as announced Yesterday, have created
a stir among the students here The wisdom vi 10:
Innovations is universally acknowledged. and the re-
suit will be awaited with no little Interest Tn"
chairman OF the Faculty Committee on CiFTc I'M
makes the following Statements "Th" heAy reVs"'
requirements for freshman academic entrance, ie-
Gently passed In the facHlty and sanctioned by The
trustees. are NOW announced and viii 40 mo elect
with the June entrance examination in 1894 The
fundamental ideas which undere the reviscn are
both simplify and slightly raise the essential ic
ohrements expected Of all academic applicants, a.
well to adapt the requirements 60 as 10 encourage
fine advanced preparation both IA quantity aud qua lily
IN separate departments. This latter object l. sought
10 be accomplished BY the Introduction OF mav'mnm
requirements, not necessary for entrance. but nd
hitting candidates who pass In certain 81 thtm !"
corresponding advanced standing at the start III "
or more departments OF the freshman year "or"'
THE minimum requirements Of the future are ~
be English the classics, French or German NJ '''
candidates. option) and ma;hematc.. Thc phbh' may
depeud upon IL tina: Princeton will 81 no wave Z
in sdherfng 10 classics ana mathematics Ms me hcarI
and strength OF her academic entrance requirements
with English and modern languages sdded as lar ~
may be practicable. More precisely. the new MINI
mum requirements English coinpesi'ioh' La'ii'
grammar, Latin prose, Caesar (fve books Virsh t'A
Greek prose, Xenophon -four books. llrrod fns
(selcctions arithmetic, algebra through qnsdtn'cs
and all plane geometry. As 'omparea
With the Yale entrance Requirements o: 1919.
,bers are the following differences:
Princeton has in exce's OF iac EnSl sh tompo III H.
one book OF and three orati0ls OF Cicero wmie
Yale has as an Offset. vigirs Bucolics $50 lines,
Greek and Latin sight reading and the elements OF
Greek ard Roman history. with very Slight excess
In algebra. In Greek Princeton has selections nom
Her0dotus In place OF the three books oi Homer
asked at Yale. The amount OF lierWiotus asked Is
about half more In quantity than The Tire books OF
Homer, but probably no, much more IN amount Of
study required. Jskcr whole Tie
Princeton minimum is tins very closely
the same in quantity and difficulty rs
tue Yale general entrance
The substitution Of IicroGotns fer Homer Is the
most striking change in the minialm Greek Tie
Princeton faculty feels that Homer has been used long
enough In this country as psrsing book instead ct
q great epic. Many Of them feed that man who
would deliberately use Homer as pafsing BOOK might
be expected as u bright writer recently observed 10
'botanize his mothers grave Moreover, 10 read
Greek beginning with XeGophon representative late
Ionic or Attic writer. and then 10 leap all the way
back Homer old Ionic writer Is very much HE
what would happen IL foreigner tried to learn English
BY taking ThackeFay Irving and then Jumped all
the way back to Chaucer, without taking any thing
between. ierodotus. the representative middle Ionic
writer ard treasury Of Greek narrative history is tho
satisfactory writer TO connect Attic with the early
Greek. and at the same time give the boy while yet
III the preparatory school Of the great tales
OF Greek heroism as told by the father of Greek
history.
"TGe maximum entrance requirements Us fol
lows LatinSallust, Virgls Georges and Ecogues
or the last half Of the Aeneid ovid $500 lines.
sight reading from Nepos. Aulus Gellius. Quin,us
'Cnrtiis and Eutropus Roman history and geography.
in Grcek-XenOphon, the latter part Of the Anabasis
almost entire Homer's Had temporary substitute
Tor Herodotus, sight reading from easy Greek writer's
Greek history and geography. In Frcnch-selected
books Of Daudet and Dumas with TRANSACTIONS into
French based On these books In Communications
from Goethes wilhelm Meister,' with TRANSACTIONS
Into German based thereon. In mathematics-Plane
and spherical uigonometry and solid and spherical
geometry Under certain limitations those who show
themselves well prepared In these advanced require
ments In either latin Crock. mathematics French or
German. will be put at the start In honor divisions
Where they may 60 ahead according TO their capabty
for higher work This feature, 1t Is thought, will prove
very stimulating TO bright boys in the schools