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THE revised Code for these examinations has at length been published. It is to come into force after January 1, 1891. There is to be a preliminary examination in elementary Arithmetic, Euclid, Algebra, French or German, writing English from dictation, elementary Latin, Geometrical Drawing, and Geography, for which no marks are given. We regret that as this examination has now been extended till it includes nearly all the main subjects of a modern education, an elementary knowledge of some branch of science is not also required. There is also to be a further examination for those who pass the preliminary, for which the following Code has been adopted:—
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The Examinations for Woolwich and Sandhurst. Nature 40, 43 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040043a0
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