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hoc, malefici generis plurima animalia. Sed qui mortales initio Africam habuerint, quique postea accesserint, aut quomodo inter se permixti sint; quamquam ab ea fama, quæ plerosque obtinet, diversum est; tamen, uti ex libris Punicis, qui regis Hiempsalis dicebantur, interpretatum nobis est, utique rem sese habere cultores ejus terræ putant, quam paucissumis dicam. Ceterum fides ejus rei penes auctores erit.-SALLUST.

Translate the following passage into Latin Verse:

Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing,
And flies where Britain courts the western spring;
Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride,
And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspes glide,
There all around the gentlest breezes stray,
There gentle music melts on every spray;
Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd,
Extremes are only in the master's mind!
Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state,
With daring aims irregularly great;
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of human kind pass by;
Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,

By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand,
Fierce in their native hardiness of soul,

True to imagin'd right, above control,

While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan,
And learns to venerate himself as man.

Translate the following passage into Latin Prose :

GOLDSMITH.

Above all, those are most subject to envy which carry the greatness of their fortunes in an insolent and proud manner: being never well, but while they are showing how great they are, either by outward pomp, or by triumphing over all opposition or competition; whereas wise men will rather do sacrifice to envy, in suffering themselves, sometimes of purpose, to be crossed and overborne in things that do not much concern them. Notwithstanding so much is true; that the carriage of greatness in a plain and open manner (so it be without arrogancy and vain-glory) doth draw less envy than if it be in a more crafty and cunning fashion. For in that course a man doth but disavow fortune, and seemeth to be conscious of his own want in worth, and doth but teach others to envy him.

BACON.

Experimental Physics.

DR. HAUGHTON.

MECHANICS.

1. If a simple pendulum be supposed drawn towards its position of rest, by a force varying as the distance; prove that

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2. If a compound pendulum be formed of a sphere whose radius is r; show that its vibrations are equivalent to those of a simple pendulum, whose length is

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3. Explain the following facts :

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a. Two bodies floating on a liquid attract each other, if they be both wetted by the liquid.

b. They attract each other, also, if they be not wetted by the liquid.

c. If one be wetted, and the other not wetted, they will repel each other.

4. Show that the tidal wave, formed on the side of the earth opposite to the Moon, is the result of centrifugal force.

5. What are the laws of Torsion in solid bodies?

1. Describe the relations of the Heat spectrum to the Light spectrum. 2. Show that the intensity of heat diminishes inversely as the square of the distance from the source of heat.

3. Prove that heat is reflected according to the same laws as light. 4. Define the terms

Adiathermic;
Thermochroic;

and give the corresponding terms as applied to light.

5. Express the quantity of heat given out by a body during a short interval of time.

6. Give a geometrical construction to show the law of statical conduction of heat.

7. Explain the manner in which the absolute expansion of mercury was found by Dulong and Petit.

8. Explain the mode of finding specific heats by the “method of mixtures."

HFAT.

DR. APJOHN.

1. If a bar of metal has at t° Fahrenheit a length 7, and at ť° a length 1a, what must be its coefficient of expansion?

2. A barometer with a moveable metallic scale, the lower end of which is, on the occasion of each observation, made to touch the surface of the mercury in the cistern, indicates a height of p inches, the temperature of the mercury and scale being t° Fahr.; what is the expression by which p is reduced to what it would be if mercury and scale were both at 32°? N. B.-ẞ is the coefficient of the cubic expansion of mercury, and the coefficient of the lineal expansion of the scale.

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3. If P be the weight in grains of a liquid which fills a weight thermometer at 32°, and p be the number of grains expelled at t°; what is the value of 8, the coefficient of absolute expansion of the liquid, in terms of P, p, t, and of K, the coefficient of absolute expansion of glass?

4. Jamin mentions two methods of testing the law of cooling as laid down by Newton; what are they? State also within what limits of temperature this law is sufficiently exact.

5. Write the expression for the actual weight of vapour in air whose temperature is to Fahr., and from thence deduce the value of what is called the fraction of saturation.

6. If a weight thermometer which contains at 32° 2000 grains of mercury, upon being plunged in warm water, loses eighteen grains of its weight, what must have been the temperature of the water?

DR. TRAILL.

7. (a). By what experiments did Prévost show that heat can traverse a medium without raising its temperature ?

(b). Describe Rumford's experiment to prove that radiant heat will

cross a vacuum.

8. (a). How is a galvanometer graduated for measuring the intensity of radiant heat?

(b). State how far the deviation of the needle is directly proportional to the intensity.

(c). How did Melloni get over the difficulty of waiting until the needle became stationary in making observations?

9. (a.) What is the "Hypothesis of Particular Radiation ?"

(6). Describe the experiment from which it originated.

10. If the law of cooling be given by the formula

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find the relation connecting the excess of temperature, with the time x, ✔ being the original excess of temperature.

11. (a). Knowing the specific heats of a substance in the solid and liquid state, by what formula do you determine its latent heat?

(b). The specific and latent heats of ice can be determined by a single experiment; describe it, and give the results.

12. Plates of rocksalt and alum are placed successively in the path of a ray of heat; describe the effects observed

(a). When the ray is luminous.

(b). When the ray is obscure.

(c). If the plates be both covered with lamp-black, what alteration occurs in the phenomena in each case?

History and English Literature.

HISTORY.

PROFESSOR BARLOW.

1. Give the names, and dates of accession, of all the Carlovingian and Saxon emperors of Germany.

2. The period between Conrad of Franconia and Frederick Barbarossa is marked by three great events in Italian history; what were these events? Write a short account of any one of them.

3. The Merovingian period may be conveniently distributed into six divisions?

4. Write a short sketch of the reign of Philip I. of France.

5. Write notes on the causes, circumstances, and results of the event known in English history as the "Massacre on St. Brice's Day."

6. Discuss the claims of the various competitors for the Crown of England on the death of Edward the Confessor.

7. Write a short life of Dunstan.

8. State the views of Sir Francis Palgrave, Mr. Hallam, and Mr. Thorpe with respect to the constitution of the Anglo-Saxon witenagemot.

9. Give an account of the law of frank-pledge, and trace the successive stages through which this peculiar system seems to have passed.

10. Translate and explain the meaning of the following sentence:"Has terras qui tenuerunt T. R. E. quo voluerunt ire poterunt, præter unum Seric vocatum, qui in Ragendal tenuit iii carucatas terræ ; sed non poterat cum ea alicubi recedere."

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1. New words are formed

a. By bringing existing words into new combinations.

b. According to the analogy of formations which in seemingly parallel cases have been already allowed.

c. From the names of persons, actual or mythical, and the names of popular characters in literature.

d. By recovering treasures of the language which for a while had been lost or foregone.

e. Through the splitting of single words into two or more. Illustrate, as fully as you think fit, each of these processes.

2. Archbishop Trench illustrates the tendency of our language to dispense with inflections, and reduce the number of its forms, by several examples, viz. :—

a. Two suffixes of substantives.

b. A suffix of adjectives.

c. An inflection of certain verbs.

d. An inflection of adjectives.

e. A personal pronoun.

f. A suffix or person-ending of the verb.

g. Transgressions of the laws of language consequent upon the true law and significance of some form being lost sight of.

3. Write notes upon the etymology of the following words: alligator, assassin, carnival, Lollard, luncheon, orange, isle, demure, sardonic, limner.

4. Desynonymize:

a. Fancy, imagination. b. Authentic, genuine. c. Contrary, opposite.

d. Patience, fortitude, resignation.

e. Hindrance, obstacle, impediment.

f. To shun, avoid, elude.

5. Write a notice of the Celtic element in the English language.

6. Write a notice of the decline and fall of the French language in England.

7. What explanation would you give of the final e in each of the following instances:

a. "The tendre croppes and the yonge sonne." Comparing this with

"With him ther was his sone, a yong squyer."
"With lokkes crulle."

b.

C.

"Wel cowde he sitte on hors, and faire ryde."

d.

e.

f.

g.

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8. Explain the following passages from the Prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales:"

a.

"Of smal coral aboute hire arme sche baar
A peire of bedes gaudid al with grene."

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