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are given at 9 a.m. daily, and there is rarely any required 
exercise as late as 5 p.m. Young men from a distance 
can readily find rooms and good board either in private 
dwellings or in boarding houses. It is possible to secure 
accommodations (room and board) for 5 or 6 dollars per 
week, and for a sum between 6 and 10 dollars per week 
it is still easier to be suited. The other necessary 
expenses of life are moderate. 
Are there any Scholarshi~s ?—In accordance with the 
request of the founder of the University, twenty Hopkins 
scholarships, giving free tuition, are annually conferred 
upon matriculated undergraduate students from Mary- 
land, Virginia, and North Carolina. In addition to these 
scholarships, eighteen honorary Hopkins scholarships, 
yielding 250 dollars and free tuition, are offered to those 
collegiate students from the three States above-named who 
pass the matriculation examinations with the most credit. 
Two scholarships giving free tuition are also open to matri- 
culated students from the district of Columbia. Twenty 
scholarships yielding 200 dollars, and twenty fellowships 
yielding 500 dollars are annually open to graduate 
students. 
What Special Opportunities are offered to University 
Students /—Advyanced and graduate students are received 
with or without reference to their being candidates for a 
degree, and they are permitted to attend such lectures 
and exercises as they may select. They are not examined 
for admission to the University, but each instructor satis- 
fies himself of the attainments of all who wish to follow 
his guidance before admitting them to his classes. 
Systematic courses of instruction, varying every year, 
are announced in the annual programme. The professors 
are free to give personal counsel and instruction to those 
who seek it ; books and instruments adapted to investi- 
gation and advanced work have been liberally provided ; 
the system of Fellowships secures the presence of twenty 
special students imbued with the University spirit, most 
of them looking forward to academic careers ; seminaries 
limited to a few advanced students under the guidance of 
a director have been organised in various subjects ; socie- 
ties devoted to philology, to mathematical, physical, and 
natural science, to metaphysics, to history and political 
science, and to archeology, afford opportunities for the 
presentation of memoirs and original communications, 
and there are also clubs for the reading and discussion of 
biological, physical, and chemical papers; during the 
year courses of lectures are given by resident and non- 
resident professors on topics to which they have given 
special attention ; the libraries of the Peabody Institute 
and Maryland Historical Society, founded for the ad- 
vantage of scholars, are easily accessible; the issuing, 
under the auspices of the trustees, of publications devoted 
to mathematics, chemistry, philology, biology, and history 
brings the University into advantageous connection with 
other foundations ; special libraries connected with the 
seminaries bring the most important works within easy 
reach of the student, and the University reading-room, 
which is constantly open, is liberally supplied with new 
and with standard books and with the Die and scien- 
tific journals of this and other lands. 
On what Conditions is the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 
Conferred?—The degree of Doctor of Philosophy and 
Master of Arts is conferred upon candidates who (after 
having taken their first degree) have pursued University 
studies, for three years, under approved conditions, have 
passed the required examinations and presented a satis- 
factory thesis. At least the last year of study must be 
spent in this University. 
How are the Fellowships Awarded 2—Twenty fellow- 
ships are annually open to competition, each yielding 
five hundred dollars and exempting the holder from all 
charges for tuition. A statement of the rules governing 
the awards will be sent if requested. Applications for the 
next year must reach the University before May 1, 1886. 
[August 20, 1885 
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Ls there what is commonly known as a College Course 2 
There are seven parallel courses, by following any one of 
which a matriculated student may attain the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. This plan combines the advantages of 
choice and restriction. From the variety of courses laid 
down, the scholar elects that which he prefers; having 
made his choice he finds a definite sequence of studies 
provided for him. The University marks out for those 
who elect a classical course, such a plan for the reading 
of Latin and Greek authors, sometimes with a teacher 
and sometimes privately, as will enable all who follow it 
to excel in these studies, while it requires that they should 
also learn to read French and German, and pursue during 
one year a course in science. It likewise provides a 
training which is mainly scientific, enabling the student 
to concentrate his attention chiefly on chemistry, or 
biology, or mathematics, or physics; but with these 
studies he must combine the study of languages, history, 
and philosophy. 
Every matriculated student is expected to follow, under 
the guidance of an adviser to whom he is specially 
assigned, one of these prescribed courses which are fully 
described in the Register. Some elect the classical 
course. Others may concentrate their main attention — 
upon the higher branches of mathematics. Courses are 
arranged also for those who wish to devote themselves 
chiefly to chemistry and physics. For those who expect 
at a later day to take up the study of medicine, there is a 
special course marked out, in which biology is the 
dominant subject. Arrangements are also made in other 
courses for the study of history and political science and 
of the modern languages and literatures. 
What ts required for Admission to the College Courses ? 
—Undergraduates who wish to enter, either as matricu- 
lates, candidates for matriculation, students in the pre- 
liminary medical course, or as special students, must 
begin by satisfying the University that they have been 
thoroughly taught the English studies which are usual in 
good high schools, academies, and private schools, in- 
cluding a knowledge of arithmetic (with the metric 
system) ; geography, physical and political ; the outlines 
of the history of the United States; English grammar 
and composition. The candidate for matriculation must 
also pass an examination in— 
(1) Latin; (2) Greek (or French and German); (3) 
mathematics (algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytical 
geometry) ; (4) English; (5) history ; (6) natural science. 
Those who do not intend to follow the classical course 
may offer French and German instead of Greek. A 
student may be admitted, under certain circumstances, 
without matriculation. 
Can a Student be aided in Completing his Studies for 
Matriculation ?—lf a student at his admission passes in 
a considerable part of the matriculation requirements he 
may postpone the remainder for a time. If he is well 
up in algebra and geometry he may join the University 
classes in trigonometry and analytical geometry ; if he is 
a good scholar in Latin and Greek, but has not read all 
the authors requisite for matriculation, he may receive in- 
struction in these authors from the University ; if he has 
not already acquired the elements of French and German 
he will be aided in doing so, in order that he may enter 
the courses here prov ided. 
THE HARVARD PHOTOMETRY}? 
' 
WE have waited for the second part of this very 
remarkable volume completing the Harvard Pho- 
tometry, rather than examine the separate portions piece- 
meal. There can be no doubt that its appearance is 
associated with an epoch in the general progress se 
astronomical science, coincident nearly with the other 
* Constituting Parts x and 2 of vol. xiv. of the A#aads of the Astronomica ; 
Observatory cf Harvard College. (1885.) 
