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EXAMINATION AT TRINITY COLLEGE, Cav.
BRIDGE, ENGLAsD.-Dr. Tying, of Phiiadelpha,
gives the following description of an examination.
part OF which he witnessed:


Monday was the first day of the examination Of
Trinity College. 1 attended it for some time with
Mr. c. The large hall was filled with the stu.
dents, all seated ut the dinner tables in perfect 81
Ience. There were about 400 present. The ex.
animation is entirely in writing. They are allowed
no books But examination papers ofvarous kinds
are printed and prepared for them, and given 10
them upon the spot. They are required, with pen
aud paper, to furnish, in a given time, the ads.
quate translation or solution, without any assist.
ance whatsoever. 1t is severe but fair trial i
knowledge and mental strength. They seemed a,
,ently engaged in their work-not sound was ,c
be heard in the hail. At the upper liable sa, tic
examiners in their square caps, and as each as
pointed hour arrived, the papers were dehvereduI
to them. The examination OF the papers i.


work for subsequent private hours The rank ani
character of scholarship is then assigned and
the returns are wholly unsatisfactory, the famis;
college epithet is, the man is pfucked. The ,ra
WIS a very severe one long passages of the Cree
Tragedies were to be translated into English proa
Others into English yerse-equally long extracl
of English poetry were to be translated ine Lst
Lyrics others into Greek Iambics passages fIoI
Plato to be translated into English, and EnsE1
prose to be translated into Greek. English pros
to be translated into the Greek of Herodotus, !
Xenophon, or Longinus. Then in Geometry an
Mathematics, the trials were equally severe. Al /
these were to be done by young men without Il: |
aid Of books of any kind-whqy from their aclra
knowledge and memory, in the course of the fes
hours they were seated together in the hall.