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compulsory in that University on Candidates at the Matriculation exaiuiuation, but 

 IS ranked at that time as an optional subject, with French and German. Latin is 

 compulsory at Matriculation ; and a Student is required also to pass in any two of the 

 three following languages — Greek, French, and German. The remaining subjects 

 for Mati'iculation comprise mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry, and English 

 language and histor3^ 



It is recommended in Owens College, that if a Student elects to take up Greek, 

 and either French or German for Matriculation, he should enter for the first year's 

 Arts course, taking chemistry and one of the modern languages ; and that those 

 Students who propose to take up both French and German for Matriculation 

 should enter for the first year's science course, taking Latin and both the modern 

 languages of France and Germany. 



In Jvme 1873, at the Matriculation Examination of the University of London, 

 32 Students of Owens College passed ; and 3 Students passed, in January 1874. Of 

 these 35 Students, 7 were evening Students. 



Students formerly at Owens College have obtained at Oxford a Stowell Civil-Law 

 Fellowship at University College, a Burdett-Coutts Scholarship in Geology, a 

 Fellowship at Pembroke College, and a Senior Mathematical University Scholarship, 

 also an Exhibition and a Scholarship at Exeter College in natural science, and a 

 Studentship in natural science at Christ Church. 



At Cambridge an Owens-College Student has been rewarded by attaining the 

 place of eighteenth wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1874 ; and other Owens 

 CoUege Students have been elected to scholarships at Trinity College, St. John's 

 College, and Sidney-Sussex College, and to a Sizarship at St. John's College. 



Two Whitworth Scholarships have been gained by Owens-College Students. 



In twenty-one years, from 1853 to 1874, there have been 234 Owens-College Stu- 

 dents matriculated in the University of London, and 225 have successfully presented 

 themselves at higher examinations of that LTniversity. During the three years 

 1871-74 seventy-one have matriculated, and seventy-five have passed the further 

 examinations of the same University. Principal Greenwood observes that of the 

 Owens-College Students a large body do not contemplate graduation either in Lon- 

 don or elsewhere, and are yet in every sense devoted to academic work. 



Prizes and scholarships are awarded to Students in the Medical department of 

 Owens College ; and the names of those who pass in universities and professional 

 colleges are duly recorded in the Owens-College ' Calendar.' 



A College for higher education at Bristol has a right to gather round it an ever- 

 jncreasiug number of students, and to give an importance to its own certificates 

 and rewards, which will soon be appreciated as nearly equivalent to degrees in 

 imiversities. 



Girton CoUege, three miles from Cambridge, affords an instance of lady students 

 succeeding in the same academical examinations to which Cambridge-University 

 gentlemen students are admitted. The Cambridge Examiners have kindly allowed 

 marks to the papers of the lady candidates ; and one lady student from Girton has 

 recently obtained a few more marks than the highest gentleman student in the 

 examination for the " pol.," or .ordinary B.A. degree, at Cambridge. 



Ladies who are ambitious of obtaining literary and scientific distinctions, seem to 

 wish to enter the same examinations for which there are gentlemen candidates ; and 

 several lady students of Girton CoUege have obtained places corresponding to 

 that of Senior Optime in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, and of the second 

 class in the Cambridge Classical Tripos. 



The Middle-Class School in Cowper Street, London, under Dr. WormeU, has a 

 high range of mathematical instruction ; and the boys are encouraged to construct 

 their own apparatus from simple materials, and to employ themselves in workshops 

 recently added to the school. The English language and English histoiy are 

 admirably taught in that institution. The senior boys of the sixth form show 

 a creditable knowledge of the elements of constitutional law and of political 

 economy. 



Ireland has of late years increased in prosperity from the more ready transfer of 

 landed property in that island. The Irish Commissioners, under the Incumbered- 

 Estates Act, commenced their sittings in 18495 and in 1868 an act was passed ex- 



