Modern History.
Laws of England.
Civil Law.

Political Economy.
Applications of Science to Arts and Manufactures.

Chemistry.
Mineralogy.
Geology.

Zoology, including Physiology and Comparative Anatomy.
Botany, including Vegetable Physiology and Anatomy.

One of the great advantages of such a system would be, that no
young person would have an excuse for not studying, by stating,
as is most frequently done, that the only pursuits followed at
Cambridge, classics and mathematics, are not adapted either to
his taste, or to the wants of his after life. His friends and
relatives would then reasonably expect every student to have
acquired distinction in SOME pursuit. If it should be feared
that this plan would lead to too great a diversity of pursuits in
the same individual, a limitation might be placed upon the number
of examinations into which the same person might be permitted to
enter. It might also be desirable not to restrict the whole of
these examinations to the third year, but to allow the student to
enter on some portion of them in the first or second year, if he
should prefer it.

By such an arrangement, which would scarcely interfere seriously