104 THK NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AT BERLIN. 



1810 one liiindrod iiiid niiiety-eiglit students were received at the 

 Universit^^ (and i'or tlie summer term twenty-nine), the number of 

 matriculations for the corresponding" terms of 1880 were two thousand 

 onehundred and sixty-seven, and one tliousand and seventy-one, respect- 

 ively. 



Notwithstanding the comparatively short period of its existence, the 

 University has already be<;omc the recipient of many rich bequests for 

 the IxMielit of worthy and needy students. 



In order to ])romote diligence among the students prize questions are 

 propounded annually in accordance with the following ministerial regu- 

 lations : 



REGULATION OP SEPTEMBER 10, 1824, WITU REGARD TO PRIZE QUESTIOKS. 



(1) The faculties of the Koyal University are to publish annually 

 prize questions for solution by the students. 



(2) These prize questions are to relate to strictlj^ scientific subjects, 

 and, although the fundamental knowledge may have be(;ome known in 

 the academic lectures, tiiey nuist be of such a character as to demand 

 thorough study and independent research in order to show, in the 

 answers, the amount of education received and the individual judgment. 



(3) One prize question each is to be published annually by the theo- 

 logical, juristical, a-nd nuHlical faculties, and two by the philosophical 

 faculty, the latter alternating from year to year between one general 

 philosophical and one historical, against one i)hilologhical and one 

 mathematical or physical. 



(4) Each faculty selects its own questions alternately from its various 

 branches. The member to whose s])ecialty the (piestion belongs is the 

 privileged questioner. Tlie proposition has to be made in writing and 

 be submitted to the faculty in regular session on the 20th July, and is 

 accei)ted with two-thirds majority. 



(5) All })rize questions are published annually, on the birthday of 

 the King, by means of a Latin programme. 



(G) Only students of the Berlin University are admitted to com])eti- 

 tion, and the essay has to be written in Latin. 



(7) Nine months are allowed for the essay, viz, from August 3 of one 

 year to May 3 of the following year. 



(8) The rei)lies have to be delivered to the University secretary in 

 seale<l envelopes and addressed to the respective faculty. Each essay is 

 to contain a sealed slip bearing on its inside the name of the writer and 

 on the outside the motto which has to be written in the essay under- 

 neath the title. These essays have to be delivered to the faculty un- 

 opened. Before a decision can be made it is necessary that the essays 

 circulate among all members of the facultj' ; the member who has pro- 

 pounded the <iuestion then has to make an explicit report of all the es- 

 says and submit the same to the faculty at the latest on the20th of July, 

 when the ])ai)ers will be discussed as to their merits. Every regular 



