and Decimal Fractions, Practice, Proportion and its applications, Interest (simple and compound), Square Measure, and Square Root: Hensley's Scholar's Arithmetic will be found a convenient manual.] (3) Greek and Latin Grammar. [A Candidate is expected to possess the kind of knowledge which is involved in the parsing of a regular grammatical sentence, i. e. to decline substantives, adjectives, and pronouns: to conjugate verbs: and to understand the elementary rules of Syntax.] (4) Translation from English into Latin prose. [A short passage of easy English narrative is usually chosen, and a Candidate is expected to render it into Latin without violating any of the simpler rules of Latin Syntax. It is sufficient if the Latin be grammatically correct, without being elegant in style. A student who has not been accustomed to write Latin should, in preparing for this Examination, imitate Cæsar rather than Livy or Tacitus. A convenient collection of passages representing the average standard of both this and the First Public Examination is Sargent's Easy Passages for Translation into Latin Prose.] (5) One Greek Author: and one Latin Author. A Candidate is free to offer any standard Classical authors, but the selection is usually made from the following list, the required amount of each book in which is specified by the Board of Studies. Candidates who wish to offer other books are required to communicate with the Chairman of the Board of Studies fourteen days before the names are received by the Proctor: Homer: any five consecutive books. Eschylus: any two plays. Sophocles; any two plays. Euripides: any two plays of at least 2400 lines in the aggregate. Herodotus: any two consecutive books. Thucydides: any two consecutive books. Xenophon: Anabasis, any four consecutive books; or Hellenics, any three consecutive books; or Memorabilia, any three books. Demosthenes: Philippics and Olynthiacs; or, De Corona; or Contra Midiam. Eschines: In Ctesiphontem. Virgil: (1) the Bucolics, with any three consecutive books of the Æneid; or (2) the Georgics; or (3) any five consecutive books of the Æneid. Horace: (1) any three books of the Odes (counting the Epodes as a book of the Odes), together with either a book of the Satires, or a book of the Epistles, or the Ars Poetica; or (2) the Satires, with the Ars Poetica; or (3) the Epistles with the Ars Poetica. Juvenal: the whole, except Satires II, VI, IX. Plautus: any three plays. Livy: any two complete consecutive books. Cæsar: De Bello Gallico, any four consecutive books. Cicero: (1) the first three Philippics; or (2) de Senectute and de Tacitus: any two complete consecutive books of (1) either the Annals (2) or the Histories; (3) the Germania and Agricola with one complete book of the Annals or of the Histories. A candidate who is permitted to offer either Sanskrit or Arabic (p. 130), and who offers any of the following books and authors, is required, until further notice, to offer the following amounts of the several books or authors: (1) Sanskrit. Hitopadesa: Books I, II, III, with Introduction. Nala: the whole, with any one of the four Books of the Hitopadeśa. Raghuvansa: I-VII. Kumara sambhava: I-VII, Bhagavad-gita: the whole. Bhaṭṭi-kavya: I-V, with the commentary of Jaya-mangala. (2) Arabic. (1) Kur'an: Sur. 1, 19, 90-114, with the commentary of al-Baidawi (ed. Fleischer) on Sur. 19. (2) The Mu'allakāt: any two of the poems with the commentary (ed. Arnold). (3) Al-Hariri: any three Makāmas with commentary. (4) El-Fakhri (ed. Ahlwardt), pp. 1-175, or 176-390. (5) [El-Beladhori]: Anonyme Arabische Chronik (ed. Ahlwardt, Bd. xi, ed. 1883), pp. 161-359. (6) The portion of the Ikhwanu-s-Safa edited by Dieterici, under the title Thier und Mensch. 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1881. Every Candidate will be examined in the Sanskrit or Arabic book or author which he offers in such manner as to test especially his knowledge of the grammar of the language. Candidates who do not offer Latin are required to translate an easy passage of English into the language which they offer. Tutors of Candidates who are desirous of offering books or authors not contained in the above list are desired to communicate with the Chairman of the Board of Studies for Responsions (the Provost of Queen's) as early as possible. 4. ORDER OF THE EXAMINATION.-The order of the Examina tion is left to a considerable extent in the hands of the Examiners (who from the analogy which they bear to certain ancient officers are called 'Masters of the Schools'). The following is, however, the order from which there is seldom any considerable departure. On the first three days all the Candidates are assembled together in one or more of the large rooms within the precincts of the 'Schools,' and printed questions in subjects 1, 2, 3, 4 (and sometimes in subject 5) are given to all alike, to be answered in writing. On the succeeding days the Candidates are examined viva voce, chiefly, but not exclusively, in their Greek and Latin books. For this purpose they are arranged in two divisions, and to each division three Examiners are assigned. The Examination in each of these divisions goes on simultaneously, and in each of them not more than twenty-one Candidates can be examined every day. The order in which Candidates are required to present themselves is usually that of the printed list, but the Examiners have power to vary it, and Candidates should be careful to consult from day to day the list prepared by the Clerk of the Schools which is exhibited in the Hall of the Schools. Any Candidate who fails to appear at the appointed time is liable to have his name erased from the list, unless he is able to satisfy the Vice-Chancellor of his having had a valid reason for absence, in which case another place in the order of the Examination is assigned to him by the Examiners. At the close of each day those Candidates who have satisfied the Examiners in all the subjects of Examination, receive, on application to the Clerk of the Schools, a written certificate or Testamur, signed by them, to that effect. Those Candidates who have failed to satisfy the Examiners are at liberty to present themselves for examination again in a subsequent Term, provided that on each occasion of their doing so they give in their names to the Junior Proctor in the way mentioned above (p. 129). At the close of the Examination the names of those who have passed are printed in the University Gazette. 2. FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATION. This Examination, which from the circumstance of the Exami ners being styled 'Moderators' is sometimes known as 'Moderations,' varies according as the Candidates (1) do not seek Honours, (2) seek Honours in Classics, (3) seek Honours in Mathematics. Every Candidate must satisfy the Examiners in one or the other of the first two divisions, the third is wholly voluntary. 1. Examination of those who do not seek Honours. 1. TIME.—The Examination is held twice a year: (1) in Michaelmas Term, beginning on the Monday in the eighth week of full Term; (2) in Trinity Term, beginning on the Monday in the week before Commemoration. 2. CANDIDATES.-Two preliminary conditions must have been fulfilled by those who offer themselves. (1) They must have entered upon the fourth Term from their Matriculation. (But members of an Affiliated College, who wish to claim the privileges mentioned on p. 224, must not have been matriculated.) (2) They must be able to present one or other of the following certificates: (a) That of having passed Responsions (or the Examination in lieu of Responsions) (p. 129). (b) That of having passed the Previous Examination at Cambridge. (c) That of having satisfied the Oxford and Cambridge Schools' Examiners in Latin, Greek, and Elementary Mathematics (p. 213). (d) That of having shown sufficient merit in the Local Examinations to be excused Responsions (p. 216). (e) That of having completed a course of three years, and of having obtained honours in the Final Examination, at an Affiliated College (p. 224). (ƒ) That of being on the List of Selected Candidates for the Civil Service of India, or of having been on such list and having become a member of that Service (p. 222). (3) Those who have satisfied these conditions must further, either in person or through their Tutor, have given in their names to the Junior Proctor, at a place and time of which notice is previously given by him (about a fortnight before the be ginning of the Examination). But Candidates who have omitted to enter their names at the appointed time may do so by application to the Proctor up to Twelve o'clock at noon on the day before that on which the Examination begins, or if the day before be a Sunday, then up to Twelve o'clock at noon on the Saturday preceding, on payment of Two Guineas in addition to the statutable fee or fees, on the occasion of each such application. In so giving in their names they are required— (a) To exhibit their Matriculation paper (unless they offer themselves as members of an Affiliated College under the conditions mentioned on p. 224). (b) To exhibit one or other of the six certificates mentioned above. (c) To pay a fee of £1 105. (d) To state in writing, on a form provided for the purpose1. The particular Greek and Latin books which they offer. * [See p. 137.] ** A Candidate born in India of parents born in India may offer one Oriental language, either Sanskrit or Arabic, in place of either Greek or Latin. 2. Whether they offer Logic, or Mathematics. 3. In what Greek and Latin books they satisfied the Masters of the Schools, or the Oxford and Cambridge Schools' Examiners, or the Examiners of Senior Candidates at the Local Examinations. (e) Every Candidate who desires to be excused from examination in the Gospels must deliver, or transmit through his Tutor, to the Proctor a statement signed, if he be of full age, by himself, or, if he be not of full age, by his parent or guardian, that he or his parent or guardian for him, as the case may be, objects on religious grounds to such an examination. The book which such Candidate offers in place of the Gospels (see below) must be specified on the list of subjects given in by him to the Proctor, A Candidate who offers an Oriental language instead either of Greek or of Latin may offer, in lieu of the Holy Gospels, an additional book in that Oriental language to be approved by the Board of Studies; or he may substitute for an examination in |