5. Write two compositions of about 200 words each selecting your subjects from the following list: (_a_) The story of the chase. (Lady of the Lake--Scott.) (_b_) Silas Marner’s Early Life. (Silas Marner--George Eliot.) (_c_) The Story of Jessica. (Merchant of Venice--Shakespeare.) (_d_) The Character of Brutus. (Julius Caesar--Shakespeare.) (_e_) The Story of Ida and the Prince. (The Princess--Tennyson.) (_f_) The Trial of Rebecca. (Ivanhoe--Scott.) (_g_) The Murder of Duncan. (Macbeth--Shakespeare.) (_h_) Character Sketch of the Ancient Mariner. (The Ancient Mariner--Coleridge.) (_i_) Threshing Day on a Western Farm. (_j_) The Village Drug Store. (_k_) Along the Wharves in a Seaport Town. (_l_) An Irrigated Farm. (_m_) A Cotton Mill. (_n_) An Accident. * * * * * =Geography.=--Candidates will be required to pass a satisfactory examination in _descriptive geography_ and the elements of _physical geography_. A preponderance of weight is attached to a knowledge of the geography of the United States. In descriptive geography of the United States, candidates should be thoroughly informed as to its general features and boundaries; adjacent oceans, seas, bays, gulfs, sounds, straits, and islands; lakes, the location and extent of mountain ranges; the sources, directions, and terminations of the important rivers, the names of their principal tributaries, and at what points, if any, these rivers break through highlands on their way to the ocean; the water routes of communication from one part of the country to another; the location and termination of important railroad lines; the boundaries of the several States and Territories and their order along the coasts, frontiers, and principal rivers; the location and boundaries of the island possessions; and the names and locations of the capitals and other important cities of the several States, Territories, and island possessions. In short, the knowledge should be so complete that a clear mental picture of the whole of the United States is impressed on the mind of the candidate. In descriptive geography of other countries, candidates should be familiar with the continental areas and grand divisions of water; the earth’s surface; the large bodies of water which in part or wholly surround the grand divisions of the land; the capes, from what part they project and into what waters; the principal peninsulas, location, and by what waters embraced; the parts connected by an isthmus; the principal islands, locations, and surrounding waters; the seas, gulfs, and bays, the coasts they indent, and the waters to which they are subordinate; the straits, the lands they separate, and the waters they connect; the locations of the principal lakes, the locations, boundaries, capitals and principal cities of the political divisions of the world.