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The Bowdoin Prizes.

4. The water supply of Ancient Rome.

5. The accession of the Flavian dynasty.

6. Cicero's translation from the Greek compared with the originals.

7. The character and sources of Varro's conception of Education.

A translation into Greek from Landor's Pericles and Aspasia Letters 162 and 163.

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A dissertation in Latin of from 2,000 to 2500 words on any subject at the pleasure of the competitor.

GROUP II (B).The passages set for translation are:

1. Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Chapter I, beginning, "Of the Indian character much has been written foolishly" and ending "his look of grim defiance," to be translated into Greek.

2. John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University (Essay on Christianity and Letters) from "In the country which has been" through "the best guarantees for intellectual progress," to be translated into Latin.

GROUP III.1. The necessity of assuming the existence of an ether.

2. The advance in the study of periodic currents of electricity.

3. The modern theories of the galvanic cells.

4. Chemotropic movements of plants and animals.

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