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(5) Plato, Republic, Books I-IV or the Gorgias and Protagoras. Baiter and Orelli.]

C. (1) Horace, Odes, Epodes, Carmen Sæculare, and Ars Poetica, with either the Satires or the Epistles. [Orelli.]

(2) Juvenal [Mayor, 2nd ed.] (omitting Satires 2, 6, 9), with either Persius [Conington 2nd ed.], or one book of the Satires of Horace.

(3) Catullus (selections published by the Clarendon Press): with Propertius, Books I–III, or IV, V. [Palmer.]

D. (1) Tacitus, Annals I-IV, or the Histories. [Halm.]

(2) Livy, Books II-V. [Madvig.].

(3) Plautus, any four of the following plays-Amphitruo, Aulularia, Captivi, Menæchmi, Miles Gloriosus, Mostellaria, Rudens, Trinummus. [Ritschl.]

(4) Terence. [Wagner.]

(5) Lucretius, Books I, II, III, V. [Munro, 3rd ed.]

(6) Cicero, Letters, Parts I and II of Watson's Selection, or De Oratore, Books I, II.

Candidates are recommended not to offer more than three books unless they do so under the regulations of Sect. III.

The examination in these books will include questions bearing upon their contents, style, and literary history.

Questions will also be set in Greek and Latin grammar, literary criticism, and antiquities.

The following arrangement of papers is contemplated in these Regulations:

Authors named in (a)-six hours.

Other authors, as in (b)—three hours.

Books offered, as in (c)-three hours for each.
General paper, grammar, &c.-three hours.

II. Candidates must also offer one of the following subjects:-
(1) The History of the Greek Drama, with Aristotle's Poetics,
ed. Vahlen (omitting cc. 20 and 25).

(2) The History of Attic Oratory, with Jebb's Selections.
(3) The History of Roman Poetry to the end of the Augustan
Age, with Quintilian, De Instit. Orat., Book X (ed. Bonnell).
(4) The elements of Deductive Logic, with

Either, Magrath's Selections from the Organon, §§ 3-6; 22-
33; 36-47; 50-53; 61-66; 68 and first paragraph of 69;
105-112; 118-127. (All these sections are to be under-
stood as inclusive.)

Or, such portions of Inductive Logic as are contained in Mill's
Logic, Bk. III, ch. i-iv, vi-viii, x–xii, and xx.

(5) The elements of Comparative Philology (including Syntax) as applied to the illustration of the Greek and Latin languages. Candidates are recommended not to offer more than two of these subjects unless they do so under the regulations of Sect. III.

III. All Candidates will be examined in Latin Prose Composition. Papers will also be set in Greek Prose Composition, and in Greek and Latin Verse Composition; but—

(1) The omission of either or both of the Verse Composition papers may be compensated for by a fourth book taken from the list in Sect. I (c), or an additional subject taken from the list in Sect. II.

(2) The omission of Greek Prose Composition may be compensated for by an additional subject taken from the list in Sect. II.

Failure in or the omission of one paper will not necessarily prevent a Candidate from gaining the highest honours.

4. Order OF THE EXAMINATION.-The Examination is conducted in writing. After all the Candidates have been examined, the Moderators distribute the names of those whom they judge to have shown sufficient merit into three Classes, with the names in each Class arranged alphabetically. Each Candidate who is so placed receives a Certificate, signed by the Moderators, to that effect: if he has also satisfied them in the Four Gospels (or the substituted matter) that fact is stated in the Certificate. If a Candidate, though not of sufficient merit to be placed in the Class-list, has yet shown as much knowledge of the several subjects as is required from those who do not seek Honours, the Moderators are empowered to give him a Testamur, which has the same effect as if he had satisfied the Moderators appointed to examine those who do not seek Honours. The Class-list is put up in the Hall of the Schools, and is also published in the University Gazette.

3. Examination of those who seek Honours in
Mathematics.

1. TIME.-This Examination is held twice a year, and begins

1 In this case the Candidate must select one book from each of the four groups A, B, C, D.

in Michaelmas Term and in Trinity Term on the Thursday immediately following the eighth week of full Term.

2. CANDIDATES must have begun the fourth and not have exceeded the eighth Term from the Term of their matriculation inclusively. Two preliminary conditions are necessary :

(1) Candidates must have passed Responsions, or one of the Examinations which are allowed in place of Responsions (p. 134).

(2) They must have given in their names to the Junior Proctor on the same days as those which are fixed for those who do not seek Honours (p. 134). In so giving in their names they are required

a. To exhibit the certificate of their matriculation (unless they are members of an Affiliated College, p. 224).

b. To exhibit the Testamur of the Masters of the Schools, or one of the certificates which are accepted in lieu of such Testamur (p. 134).

c. To pay a fee of £1.

3. SUBJECTS.-The following is the list of subjects:

(1) Algebra and the Theory of Equations.

(2) Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.

(3) Plane Geometry, including the Conic Sections, treated both geometrically and analytically.

(4) Geometry of Three Dimensions, including the straight line, plane, and sphere, treated both geometrically and analytically, and the surfaces of the second order referred to their principal

axes.

(5) The Differential Calculus, including its applications to plane geometry; and to the determination of tangents and normals to surfaces and lines in space.

(6) The Integration of Differential Expressions (including Differential Equations), with Geometrical applications.

(7) The Elements of the Calculus of Finite Differences.

4. ORDER OF THE EXAMINATION.-The Examination may be wholly conducted in writing. At the close of it those Candidates who are judged by the Moderators to have shown sufficient merit are arranged by them in three Classes, the names in each Class being placed in alphabetical order. This list is published in the

same way as the list of those who have obtained Honours in Classics.

3. SECOND PUBLIC EXAMINATION.

The Second Public Examination is conducted by the Public Examiners. It consists (1) of an Examination in the Rudiments of Faith and Religion; (2) of an Examination for Candidates who do not seek Honours; and (3) of an Examination of Candidates for Honours in six different Schools, of which the subjects are (i) Literæ Humaniores, (ii) Mathematics, (iii) Natural Science, (iv) Jurisprudence, (v) Modern History, (vi) Theology.

Candidates are considered to have passed the Second Public Examination who have obtained Honours in any of the six Honour Schools or who have passed the Examination appointed for those who do not seek Honours.

But all Candidates must satisfy the Examiners in the Rudiments of Faith and Religion, or in the matter substituted under the conditions hereafter mentioned (pp. 146, 148).

1. TIME.-The several parts of the Examination are held as follows:

(a) The Examination in the Rudiments of Faith and Religion held in Michaelmas and in Hilary Terms begins on the Saturday in the seventh week of full Term.

(b) The Examination of Candidates who do not seek Honours begins in Michaelmas Term on the Monday in the eighth week of full Term, and in Trinity Term on the Monday in the week before Commemoration.

(c) The Examination in the School of Literæ Humaniores begins not earlier than some day in the week before Commemoration.

(d) The Preliminary Examination in the School of Natural Science begins in Michaelmas Term on the Thursday in the sixth week of full Term, and in Easter or Trinity Term on the Thursday in the third week before the Commemoration. The Final Honour Examination, held only once a year, begins not later than seven days after the end of the Preliminary Examination in Easter or Trinity Term.

(e) The Examinations in the Schools of Modern History,

Jurisprudence, and Theology, begin not earlier than some day in the week before Commemoration.

(ƒ) The Examination in the School of Mathematics begins in Trinity Term on the Thursday immediately following the eighth week of full Term.

2. CANDIDAtes.

(1) (a) Candidates are admitted to the Examination in the Rudiments of Faith and Religion, or in the substituted matter, in any Term subsequent to that in which they passed the First Public Examination.

(b) Candidates who seek Honours must have entered upon the eleventh Term from their matriculation; but Candidates for the Preliminary Examination in Natural Science (p. 159) may pass that Examination, or any part of it, in any Term after they have passed Responsions. No one is admitted as a Candidate in any Honour School after the lapse of sixteen Terms from the Term of his matriculation inclusively, unless he has been classed in some other School of the Second Public Examination, in which case he may be admitted up to the twentieth Term inclusively.

(c) Candidates who do not seek Honours are admitted to the Pass School, or any part of it, in any Term subsequent to that in which they have passed the First Public Examination.

(2) All Candidates (except those for the Preliminary Examination in Natural Science) must have passed the First Public Examination, or they must have passed the General Examination at Cambridge and have been incorporated at Oxford.

(3) All Candidates must, either in person or through their Tutors, give in their names to the Senior Proctor, at a place and time fixed and announced by him (about a fortnight before the beginning 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 Nine o'clock in the evening on the fourth day before that on which the Examination begins, or in any single Group up to Nine o'clock in the evening of the fourth day before the Examination in that Group begins, or if the fourth day before be a Sunday, then up to Nine o'clock in the

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