Preparatory Department.

Entrance Examinations.

For the benefit of persons who have not enjoyed such facilities elsewhere, a Preparatory Department has been established. The School of Mines does not undertake to do the work of the Common Schools, therefore all candidates for admission will be examined as follows:

Arithmetic: Fundamental rules; fractions, common and decimal; denominate numbers; percentage including interest.

Grammar: Orthography; principles of punctuation; use of capitals; etymology; construction of easy sentences.

Geography: Descriptive, with special reference to Europe and the United States.

Composition: Two pages on an assigned topic, written in the presence of the examiner.