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ular academic course. ana we oOSerVe Win
interest that the playground is provided
with running track and tennis courts.
We have before US catalogue Of the
school for the year 1892 90. and an inspection
Of the list of students shows that the instl-
tuition is anational rather than state oae.
| In the four classes. known respectively as
senior. middle. junior. and preparatory.
there are two hundred and ffty-one pupils,
of whom only forty-thrce are contributed
by New Hampshire. From Massachusetts
come hfty-slx. from New York thirt y-sevcn.
and from Pennsylvania and New Jersey
nty-three. Illinois sends eleven. Iowa
nine, Colorado six. and from the former slave
States there are as many as fifteen. From
Maine to Utah and New Mexico. every Sec
tion OF the republic is represented.
As to tho cost Of education at the school.
we learn that the price .! tuition is eighty
one dollars year. exclusive OF the fees IN
chemistry and physics. which may involve
an additional outlay Of thirty-nine dollars
annually. The rent OF an unfurnished room
In one OF the school dormitorics varies from
seventy-five cents to two dollars and a hall
week. and the price Of board in COM
mons does not exceed three dollars. For
rooms and board in private families. the
prices range from seven dollars TO twelve
dollars Il week. 1t Is obvious that, even
without assistance from the school funds.
youth OF modest means can obtain an edu-
cation at Exeter Academy. AS matter OF
fact. however. the trustees are empowered
to distribute no fewer than eighty-thrce
scholarships. ranging in annual value from
seventy to one hundred and forty dollars.
and there is additional provision for reliev-
ing deserving students In whole or in part
from the expense OF tuition. To the credit
OF Exeter, it should be said that not the
fantest social distinction has ever been
made between those students who depend
partially or wholly upon assistance, and
those who pay their way. In this respect.
the school may be favorably contrasted
with Eton where line Of social demarca-
tion is drawn between the oppidans and
tho " co!legians." as the young men on the
foundation or receiving the incomes OF
scholarships are called.
Now. let us mark the range and quality
Of the studies pursued at Exeter. The
school course, as we have seen, comprises
four years. and tho minimum number OF
rccitations. of one hour each. Is sixteen a
week. In the first year. Latin. mathe-
matics. English. and Roman history. arc
required OF every student. Afterward there
Is some freedom OF choice; but, in general
four years arc devoted to Latin, mathe-
matcs. and English: three to Greek. two
to history. one to PHI hysics or chemistry, and
one to French or German. though we infer
from the catalogue that pupils are encour-
aged To give two years to the last-namcd
studies. Tho Latin course comprehends
four books Of CgsAR's GailLc War and selec-
tions from his Commentaries on the Civil |
War; eight books OF VIEGIL's .Eneid, his |
Eclogues, and selections from OvID's Met |
seven oratous Of CICERO and |
his DE Senectute: SALLUsTs Catline. and |
Satires. In addition to these !
books. the student will be expected to
read such an author as QUISTUs CUHTIuS :
without preparation. and to write easy
Latin at sight. In Greek an Exeter boy |
will read four books of XESoPHoS's Anab- ,
asis and extracts from his Hellcnica or
CyropG.dia: also. three books OF the Iliad, !
I book OF HERODOTUs. and the Greek Testa-
nent He WILL moreover. be exercised in |
the composition Of Greek prose. and will be
called upon to prove his familiarity with ,
Greek grammar and to construe average
from XENoPHOS. HERoDoTus. and
HOMER at sight. In history. the text books
ire MYERss Rome and ALIENS Rome;
MYEIs's Greece and OMANs Greece. In
the curriculum is correspond
ngiy extensive. 1t includes arithmetic, q
thorough knowledge OF algebra. plane,
solid. and analytic geometry. and plane
The courses in chemistry
md physics include laboratory work from
he beginning.
1t is evident that tho field OF study at
Phillips Exeter Academy is well nigh us
broad as that traversed at many in
'titutions which figure under the name
II colleges. We can vouch for the
act that in respect Of thoroughness tho
Instruction is superior. That the school Is
Intended not for children. but for youths
manhood. is made plain by the
'egulation that candidates even for the pre-
class must be at least fourteen
'ears OF age. That is to say. they must be
year older than the age at which EDWARD
EVERETT and many other New England
,oys entered Harvard College In the first
quarter OF the present century. The prac-
ically collegiate character Of the education
eceived at Exeter Is indicated by the cir
that. almost every year, some
tudcnts 90 directly from the academy to
chools OF medicine. divinity. and law.