THE UNIVERSITIES. 



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first and second divisions aro placed in order of merit ; those in 

 tin' third divUion in numerical order under the several centres. 

 Certificates are issued to the aucccanful candidates, specifying 

 the subject* in which they satisfied the examiners, ami th 

 division in wlu.-li th.-ir numiM are placed. Lists are published 

 of th.t candidutuii who dUfcLogoUh thoniBolvea in each of the 

 subjects from 1 to 9 inclusive, provided that they also obtain 

 certificates. The namoa aro arranged in order of merit. 



REGULATIONS TOR SENIOR CANDIDATES. 



Pomona of either BOX will be admitted without limit of age 

 to the examination of senior candidates. Successful candidates 

 born on or after July 1st, 1867, will receive certificates confer- 

 ring the titlo of Associate of Arts. Successful candidates born 

 before that date will receive posa certificates. 



(i.) Preliminary Subjects. 



Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in : 

 1. Knglish Grammar, Analysis, and Composition. 2. Arith- 

 metic. The quality of the handwriting and the spoiling will be 

 taken into account. 



fii.) Optional Subjects. 



The examination will comprise the following sections : 

 (a) Religious Knowledge ; (b) English ; (c) Languages ; (d) 

 Mathematics ; (e) Natural Science ; (/) Drawing ; (g) Music. 

 Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in 

 two at least of the sections (a), (6), (c), (d), (e), but if both (a) 

 and (b) are offered they will also be required to satisfy the 

 examiners in either (c), (d), or (e). No candidate will be ex- 

 amined in more than five of the sections (a), (6), (c), (d), (e), (/), 

 (g) * All candidates must be examined in one at least of the 

 divisions of Religious Knowledge, unless in the case of candi- 

 dates born on or after July 1st, 1865, their parents or guardians 

 object to this part of the examination, or in the case of candi- 

 dates born before that date, the candidates themselves so object. 



Section A. Religious Knowledge. 



1. The First Book of Kings. 2. The Gospel according to St. 

 John, or the Gospel according to St. Matthew. 3. The Acts, 

 i. xii. 4. The Epistle to the Galatians and the First and 

 Second Epistles to the Thessalonians. f 5. The Catechism, the 

 Morning and Evening Services, and the Litany and the outlines 

 of the History of the Book of Common Prayer. 



Opportunity will be given for showing knowledge of the Greek 

 text of the New Testament. No candidate will pass in Religious 

 Knowledge who does not satisfy the examiners in two of these 

 divisions. No candidate will be examined in more than three. 



Section B. English. 



1 The outlines of Greek History from 510 404 B.C., with 

 special questions on the Persian War, and the outlines of Roman 

 History from 509 242 B.C., with special questions on the First 

 Punic War. 



2. English History, from 1603 1648, and the outlines of the 

 History of English Literature during the same period, together 

 with the general outlines of English History from the Norman 

 Conquest to the Battle of Waterloo. 



3. Shakespeare's "Julius Cassar," and Johnson's "Lives of 

 Pope and Dryden."f 



4. Physical, Political, and Commercial Geography. An out- 

 line map of one of the following will also be given to be filled up 

 viz (1) England and Wales; (2) Scotland; (3) India; (4) 

 Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor ; or (5) North America. 



5. The elements of Political Economy. 



No candidate will pass in this section who does not show a 

 fair knowledge of two of these five divisions. No candidate will 

 be examined in more than three of them, or be allowed to offer 

 1 and 2, or 4 and 5, together. 



Section C. Languages. 



1. Latin. 2. Greek. 3. French. 4. German. 5. Italian. 



No candidate will pass in this section who does not show a 

 fair knowledge of one of these languages. No candidate will be 

 examined in more than four of them. French and Italian may 

 not be taken together. 



Candidates who offer Latin will be examined in Livy, Book vi., 

 and Horace, " Od." ii., iii.,tand those who offer Greek, in Xen., 



* Candidates may not offer both French and Italian ; or both Music 

 and Physics ; or both Greek and Botuuy, Zoology, or Geology. 

 f The books given vary from year to year. 



" Cyropaedia," iv., v., or in Thncydidea, Book vii., and Kuripides, 

 " Alceatw." In other language! no books are prescribed. 



In each of the fire language* questions on Grammar will be 

 Bet, and passage* will be given both from unprepared booki for 

 translation into English, and of English for translation into 

 Latin, French, German, or Italian, aa the case may be. 

 Section D. Mathematics. 



Pure Mathematics to Algebraical Geometry, inclusive, Me- 

 chanics (including Mechanism), and Hydrostatic*. 



No candidate will paaa in thin section who does not show a 

 fair knowledge of four books of Euclid, and of Algebra to the 

 end of Quadratic Equations, comprising Addition, Subtraction, 

 Multiplication, and Division of Algebraical Quantities (includ- 

 ing simple irrational quantities expressed by radical signs or 

 fractional indices;, Greatest Common Measure and Least Com- 

 mon Multiple, Fractions, Extraction of Square Boot, Simple 

 Equations, containing one or two unknown quantities, Quadratic 

 Equations containing one unknown quantity, questions pro- 

 ducing such equations, and the simplest properties of Ratio and 

 Proportion. The answers should be illustrated by diagrams, 

 where these can be introduced. 



Euclid's axioms will be required, and no proof of any proposi- 

 tion will be admitted which assumes the proof of anything not 

 proved in preceding propositions of Euclid. . 



Section E. Natural Science. 



1. Physics. (a) The elementary properties of matter in its 

 solid, fluid, and gaseous forms ; density, mass, gravity, weight, 

 specific gravity and inertia ; composition of two forces ; centre 

 of gravity ; pressure of fluids ; laws of motion ; construction and 

 use of simple mechanical, hydrostatical, and hydraulic machines. 

 (6) Elements of Heat, (c) Elements of Electricity and Magne- 

 tism. No candidate will pass in this subject who does not show 

 a fair knowledge of (a), and of either (b) or (c). No candidate 

 will be examined in (6) and (c) together. Physics and Music 

 may not be taken together. 



2. Chemistry, including the facts and general principles of 

 Chemical Science. There will be a practical examination in 

 the elements of Analysis. Candidates must satisfy the exami- 

 ners in the practical examination, in order to pass. 



3. (a) Botany, including Elementary Vegetable Physiology 

 and the types of the chief divisions of the Vegetable Kingdom ; 

 (b) Zoology, including Elementary Animal Physiology and the 

 types of the Animal sub-kingdoms , (c) Geology and Mineralogy. 



No candidate may offer more than one of these subjects (o), 

 (b), or (c). No part of 3 may be taken with Greek. 



No candidate will pass in this section who does not show a 

 fair knowledge of one at least of the divisions 1, 2, 3. In all 

 cases a practical acquaintance with the subject-matter will be 

 indispensable. The answers should be illustrated by diagrams 

 and drawings, where theae can be introduced. 

 Section F. Drawing. 



1. Drawing from the solid, with light and shade. 2. Drawing 

 in perspective. 3. Drawing in colour from a natural object. 

 4. Drawing from memory. 



No candidate will pass in this section who does not satisfy the 

 examiners in drawing from the solid. 



Section G. Music. 



In addition to a thorough knowledge of the subjects prescribed 

 for Junior candidates, the Seniors must show an acquaintance 

 with the chords of the Added Ninth and Minor Ninth and their 

 inversions, and must be able to harmonise a figured bass, intro- 

 ducing these chords. They may be called upon to add three 

 parts to a given melody. 



The results of the examination held in June and of that held 

 in July will be combined. 



The names of all the successful candidates born on or after 

 July 1st, 1867, will be published in one list, arranged in three 

 divisions, the first and second divisions in order of merit, the 

 third in numerical order under the aeveral centres. Lists of 

 those who distinguish themselves will also be published for each 

 of the sections A, B, C, D, E, F, G, arranged in two divisions. 

 The names in each first division will be placed in order of merit ; 

 those in each second division alphabetically. 



Certificates, signed by the Vice-Chancellor, will be issued to 

 the successful candidates, conferring the title of Associate in 

 Arts, and specifying the subjects in which they satisfied the 



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