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oral examination testing his acquirements in religion, 

 history, geography, mathematics and the natural sciences. 

 In the German language, the student must be able to 

 work out a theme in logical order and in correct, good 

 language. He must also speak the language correctly and 

 fluently, and must be acquainted with the principal periods 

 of German literature. In Latin, he must be able to 

 translate into good German, portions of Csesar, Sallust, 

 Livy, Ovid and Virgil, read before. In French and 

 English he must possess a thorough knowledge ot 

 grammar and be able to write an exercise and a dictation 

 from the German without strong Germanism or gramma- 

 tical mistakes. He must also converse with some facility 

 in these languages and have some acquaintance with their 

 literature. He must have a systematic knowledge of 

 universal history and general chronology. In natural 

 philosophy he must know its laws and fundamental 

 ideas, as well as the methods of experiment ; the laws of 

 gravitation and motion ; the principles of heat, electricity, 

 magnetism, sound and light. In chemistry and orycto- 

 gnosy is required a knowledge, based upon experiments, of 

 the affinities of the more common inorganic and organic 

 substances. The student must be able to describe and to 

 employ the best processes for the more common chemical 

 products and also to state the nature and uses of the latter. 

 He must exercise a scientific knowledge of the whole field 

 of mathematics, as algebra, proportions, equations, 

 progression, binomial theorems, logarithms, plane trigo- 

 nometry, stereometry, descriptive and analytic geometry, 

 conic sections, statics, and mechanics. 



The Polytechnic Schools prepare their pupils by 

 scientific instruction for the arts and technical profes- 

 sions. They differ from the common schools of art or 

 industry in that they enter more systematically into the 

 technical sciences, and presuppose a complete course of 



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