The Student's Handbook to the University and Colleges of Oxford

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Clarendon Press, 1873 - 184 pages

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Page 9 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 16 - Literature ; and should he never be able to pursue the subject beyond the limits here prescribed, he will have laid the foundation of accurate habits of thought and judgment, which cannot fail of being serviceable to him hereafter. The authors and works selected are such as will best serve to illustrate English Literature in its historical aspect. As ' the eye of history,' without which history cannot be understood, the literature of a nation is the clearest and most intelligible record of its life....
Page 2 - It must, at the same time, be borne in mind, that the developement of the subject can only be found in the full details of chemical science.
Page 117 - Logic and in the first five chapters of Fowler's Elements of Inductive Logic (omitting the sections on Classification, Nomenclature, and Terminology, and the notes appended at the end of each chapter). The subject as thus defined may be studied in the abovenamed works of Fowler, or in Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, or in Mellone's Introductory Text-book of Logic, or in any other works which cover the same ground.
Page 135 - Aphorisms 1-20. Under the head of Political Philosophy, Candidates are recommended to study the following subjects :— The origin and growth of Society; Political institutions and forms of government, with especial reference to the history of Greece and Rome; The sphere and duties of Government; The leading principles of Political Economy.
Page 4 - It is open without respect of birth, age, or creed to all persons who satisfy the appointed officers that they are likely to derive educational advantage from its membership : and, subject only to necessary limitations of academical standing, any person who has been admitted as a member is eligible to compete for all its prizes and distinctions, save only that Degrees in Divinity are conf1ned to members of the Church of England.
Page 10 - A Treatise on the Theory of Determinants and their Applications in Analysis and Geometry. By ROBERT FORSYTH SCOTT, MA, Fellow of St John's College. Demy 8vo.
Page 165 - Counterpoint, in not more than four parts. It is conducted partly viva voce, partly in writing. Those candidates who satisfy the Examiners receive, on application to the Clerk of the Schools, a certificate to that effect. 2. Second Examination. 1. TIME. — The Examination takes place annually in Michaelmas Term, on a day of which notice is given in the University Gazette. 2. CANDIDATES.
Page 133 - Part I. MECHANICS, HYDROSTATICS, and PNEUMATICS. Part II. HEAT. Part III. ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM. Part IV.
Page 91 - Candidates have also to satisfy the electors of their ability to pass the ordinary Classical Examinations required by the University. y. In the examination for Natural Science Demyships, questions are set relating to...

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