Board of Instruction, 65 4. Board of Improvement, 66 III. CONDITIONS AND EXAMINATIONS FOR ADMISSION, 66 Who may be Candidates for Admission, 66 Subjects of Entrance Examination, 66 Preliminary Examination, 67 Written Examination, 67 Oral Examination, 68 Scale of Merit, and Latitude in Amount of Credit given, 68 Reports of Examiners to Minister of War, 69 Co-efficients of Influence, varying with the Study and Mode of Examination, 69 Decision of Jury on all the Documents of each Candidate, 70 Final Action of the Minister of War, 70 IV. SCHOOL BUILDINGS, COURSE AND METHOD OF STUDY, 70 Situation, Number, and Purposes of Buildings, 70 Daily Routine of Exercises, 72 Method of Teaching and Study, 73 Professorial and Répétitorial, 74 Interrogations, _Général_, 74 “ _Particulieres_ by the _Répétiteurs_, 74 One Répétiteur to every eight Pupils, 74 System of Credits for every Lecture, every Interrogation, and Exercise, 75 Final Admission to Public Service, depends on daily and hourly fidelity, 76 Division of First Year’s Work into three portions, 76 First portion--Analysis and Descriptive Geometry, 76 Second “ Mechanics, Geodesy, Physics, &c., 76 Third “ General Private Study, 76 Number and Subjects of Lectures in Second Course, 78