APPENDIX III

COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

[The following questions have been taken, in part, directly from examination papers of the various colleges, in part from the reprints in the Twentieth Century series of text-books.]

AMHERST COLLEGE

Write a composition of two or more paragraphs on each of three topics taken from the list below:

1. The Spectator's Account of Himself. 2. Sir Roger de Coverley.

3. A Sunday at Sir Roger's.

4. Will Wimble.

(June, 1898.)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Broadly compare and contrast the true presentation of character found in Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley and Macaulay's Warren Hastings. Touch upon the following points: 1. The personalities presented. 2. The general method and form. 3. Nature of the interest aroused in you. (August, 1898.)

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Write a short composition on The Character of Sir Roger de Coverley. (March, 1898.)

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Write an essay of two or three paragraphs on one of the follow

ing subjects:

(a) Sir Roger in Town.

(b) Sir Roger's Household.

(c) Will Wimble.

(June, 1898.)

Write an essay of several paragraphs on one of the following subjects:

(a) Sir Roger and the People on his Estate.

(b) The Spectator and the Other Members of the Club.

(a) Sir Roger on Witchcraft.

(b) One Way to choose a Chaplain.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

(June, 1899.)

(September, 1899.)

Write a paragraph of about seventy-five words on either (a)

or (b)

(a) Sir Roger in Church.

(b) The Coverley Witch.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

(1898.)

Write, with due attention to the form of your work, short essays upon either of the following subjects:

(a) Sir Roger and the Widow.

(b) Sir Roger and the Saracen's Head.

LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY

(June, 1899.)

What was the purpose of the Spectator? Did it accomplish this purpose?

Describe very briefly the members of the Spectator Club.

Describe Sir Roger de Coverley at Church.

(May, 1898.) (May, 1899.)

UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Give from the Sir Roger de Coverley Papers an account of

Write a composition of not less than three hundred words

on:

Sir Roger de Coverley.

Sir Roger de Coverley and his Friends.

PRINCETON COLLEGE

(June, 1898.)

(September, 1898.)

Point out the leading features in the character of Sir Roger de

Coverley, referring to incidents in the book to illustrate your

State what impressions of women you have gained from The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, The Vicar of Wakefield, The Last of the Mohicans, and The House of the Seven Gables. (June, 1899.)

What different kinds of interest have you found in The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, The Vicar of Wakefield, The Last of the Mohicans, and The House of the Seven Gables? (June, 1899.)

VASSAR COLLEGE

What has made Sir Roger de Coverley an enduring figure in literature? (September, 1898.) Write a letter purporting to be written by "the Widow" to a friend on hearing of Sir Roger's decease, and characterizing her suitor.

What was the aim and what the effect of The Spectator?

(June, 1898.) Compare the characters of Dr. Primrose and Sir Roger de Coverley.

What was Addison's purpose in writing The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers? (September, 1899.)

WELLESLEY COLLEGE

Write a composition on one of the subjects suggested below. (It will be helpful to write an outline of the matter for the composition before putting it into literary form; but the outline is optional.)

1. Give an account of Sir Roger de Coverley's care of his tenants at church.

2. Describe Christmas at Sir Roger's.

3. Describe Sir Roger going through Westminster Abbey.

Describe the character of Sir Roger de Coverley.

(June, 1899.)

(September, 1899.)

YALE UNIVERSITY

Write not more than three hundred words on either of the fol

APPENDIX IV

BIBLIOGRAPHY

It is assumed that use will be made, without special reference, of all good encyclopædias and dictionaries of biography, of standard histories, and histories of literature. For this reason no men

tion is made of such invaluable reference books as Green's History of the English People and Macaulay's History of England.

THE SPECTATOR

Aitken, George A.: The Spectator. Nimmo, London, 1898, 8 vols. Morley, Henry: The Spectator. Routledge, New York, 1891, 3 vols. Routledge, New York, 1896, 1 vol.

Smith, G. Gregory: The Spectator. Scribner, New York, 1897-98, 8 vols.

Wheeler, William: A Digest Index to the Spectator. Routledge, New York, 1892. (Arranged for reference to the 1 vol. edition of Henry Morley's Spectator.)

Green, J. R.: Selections from the Essays of Addison. Macmillan, New York, 1885.

THE TATLER

Aitken, George A.: The Tatler. Duckworth, London, 1898–99, 4 vols.

The Tatler and Guardian. Nimmo, London, 1876.

Ewald, A. C.: Selections from The Tatler and Guardian. Warne, London, 1888.

ADDISON

Aikin, Lucy: Life of Joseph Addison. Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1843.

Beljame, A.: Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au dix-huitième Siècle. Joseph Addison. Librairie Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1881.

Courthope, W. J.: Joseph Addison. In English Men of Letters. Harper, New York, 1899.

Johnson, Samuel: Addison. Chief Lives of Poets. Edited by Matthew Arnold. Holt, New York, 1880.