New Entrance Examination.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted recently to offer an advanced entrance examination in Counterpoint. Yesterday the following announcement was made:

"The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have studied Counterpoint in a systematic course of three lessons a week through the school year, and presupposes training in pianoforte playing. As Counter-point applies the principles of harmony to the melodious treatment of the several voice-parts in combination, and as the art of musical composition begins properly with this study, the work should consist principally of written exercises on given themes, in the following order:

"Chorals and melodies harmonized, with a free use of passing notes; the several orders of Counterpoint in two, three, and four voices with and without cantus firmus; Double Counterpoint; Free Imitative Counterpoint; analysis of the Two-part Inventions of Sebastian Bach; simple forms of free composition, Organ Preludes, Two-part inventions, and part songs.

"Students should use as models simple organ compositions and part-songs of modern composers. For the exercises in the Counterpoint the Alto and Tenor clefs should be used."