At Worcester, application should be made to the Provost not less than a month before the date on which the candidate wishes to begin residence.

The examination is held on the Friday before the beginning, and on the Friday before the end, of each (full) Term: residence may begin in any Term.

The subjects are the same as those required for Responsions (p. 128). If Prepared Books are offered, it is important that these should be so selected as not to prevent the candidate from following subsequently the normal course of the College lectures. Caesar, de Bello Gallico, I-IV, and Xenophon, Anabasis, I-IV, are generally found to be the most suitable books.

Candidates who have passed Responsions, or an equivalent examination, are excused the Matriculation Examination.

Commoners are admitted on the Scholarship Examination.

Undergraduates, under special circumstances, are allowed to reside in lodgings during their whole course. All Commoners, but not Scholars, go out of College, unless they obtain special permission to remain in, after twelve Terms' residence.

The College endeavours to give rooms so far as possible to all Undergraduates beginning residence.

At St. Edmund Hall, application should be made to the Principal. Previous notice, although always desirable, is not necessary. Residence may begin in any Term.

Those who are already members of the University are not admitted to the Hall by migration from other Colleges.

Candidates are required to satisfy the Principal that they are likely to pass their University Examinations within a reasonable period of time, but beyond that it is not necessary to offer any specified subjects for examination as a condition of admission.

Undergraduates of less than twelve Terms' standing are allowed to reside in lodgings only under special circumstances.

Those who are in lodgings are not required to battel in Hall, but may do so to whatever extent they think proper.

Undergraduates obtain rooms on beginning residence.

Non-Collegiate Students. Persons who desire to be admitted to the University without becoming members of a College or Hall must apply to the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students, Students' Delegacy, High Street, Oxford.

If a candidate desires to read for Honours he should, if possible, matriculate at the beginning of the October Term, or in the second of the two Summer Terms, i. e. in Trinity Term; but residence may commence in any Term.

The Matriculation Examination is held at the beginning of each Term for those candidates who desire to follow the Arts course. Candidates can offer any of the Greek and Latin books presented for Responsions (see p. 128).

Those who have been unable to prepare the full amount required in Responsions may offer:-(1) One Greek play, or three books of Homer, or other Greek book of like amount. (2) Caesar, de Bell. Gall. I-III, or three books of Horace, or other Latin book of like amount. (3) Translation from English into Latin Prose. (4) The elements of Greek and Latin Grammar. (5) Arithmetic, including Fractions, Decimals, and Proportion. (6) Euclid, Books I, II, or Algebra to Simple Equations.

Candidates who have passed Responsions, or any examination which excuses from Responsions, are admitted without examination. Candidates who intend to take a degree are recommended to pass Responsions before entering; information as to the examination, forms for entering names, &c., can be obtained from the Censor. Failure in Responsions does not disqualify a candidate from entering for the next or any subsequent Matriculation Examination,

The Delegates are willing to admit without examination students in any branch of study who do not desire to proceed to the B.A. degree, provided they produce sufficient evidence of their ability to prosecute their studies with advantage. Such persons can enter in any Term and for any period which may seem desirable. In this way opportunity is offered for those who have graduated or been trained elsewhere to carry on work as advanced students.

Undergraduates must reside in the Term in which they matriculate, and must ordinarily continue to reside without break from their matriculation to the time when they pass the First Public Examination.

Non-Collegiate Students must, unless special leave be obtained, reside in lodgings licensed by the University.

MATRICULATION.

Any one whose name has been placed on the books of a College or Hall or of the Delegates of Non-Collegiate Students is eligible to be presented to the Vice-Chancellor for formal enrolment on the Register (Matricula) of the University. This enrolment is called. Matriculation, and until it has taken place a member of a College or Hall is not a member of the University. Accuracy is desirable in stating the details required, especially the place and date of birth, as the Register may chance to be used as evidence of identity in such matters as the title to property.

The presentation to the Vice-Chancellor is made by an officer of the Society to which those who are to be matriculated belong: they write their names in Latin in the Register, and every one describes his rank ('utrum scilicet nobilis, equitis, doctoris, armigeri, clerici, generosi, plebeii, filius sit '). They receive from the ViceChancellor a copy of the Statutes, and are addressed by him in the formula Scitote vos in matriculam Universitatis hodie relatos esse et ad observandum omnia statuta hoc libro comprehensa quantum ad vos spectent teneri.' Finally they are given a matriculation paper, which may be used and is for some purposes required as evidence of standing. From this time they enjoy all the privileges of Undergraduate members of the University, and become amenable to its discipline.

The fee payable to the University on Matriculation is given on It is sometimes paid beforehand through the College

P. 64.

or Hall.

INCORPORATION.

The conditions under which members of the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin are admitted to the status which they hold in their own University are stated on p. 259.

RE-ADMISSION AND MIGRATION.

No person in statu pupillari (i.e. who has not taken the degree of M.A., B.C.L., B.M., or one of the superior degrees) whose name has

been removed from the books of a College or Hall, or of the Delegates of Non-Collegiate Students, can migrate to another Society except under the following conditions (Statt. Tit. III. Sect. III):

1. If his name has been removed in any other way than that of expulsion, he must produce a written permission and written testimonial of good character (a bene discessit') from the College or Hall to which he belongs, or last belonged, or from the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students, together with a certificate from the two Proctors that they have seen such permission and testimonial and know of no reason why he should not be allowed to migrate.

If he has been absent from the University for at least one year, he must produce a written permission from the College or Hall to which he last belonged or from the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students, together with a certificate from the two Proctors that they have seen such permission and do not oppose his migration.

In case of such permission or testimonial being refused, the Chancellor of the University may, if he think fit, grant his consent in writing for such migration.

No one whose name has been removed while he was still subject to any penalty inflicted by the Proctors can be re-admitted without the permission of the Proctors.

2. If he has been expelled by the authorities of a College or Hall, or by the Delegates of Non-Collegiate Students, he cannot be readmitted unless the Chancellor of the University has heard the case, and given his consent in writing for his re-admission.

These provisions do not apply to any person migrating in virtue of his election to any office or emolument.

(The provisions governing the re-admission of Masters of Arts to their privileges as members of Convocation, the jus suffragii, are given on p. 243.)

CHAPTER II.

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, AND

CLERKSHIPS.

SCHOLARSHIPS-at Merton Postmasterships, at Magdalen Demyships-are, with the exceptions noted below, open to all candidates who have not exceeded the age of nineteen years on the day of election. They are tenable in the first instance for two years 1, but are renewed for a further period of two years if the conduct and diligence of the Scholar have been satisfactory, and the tenure may be extended on special grounds for one year longer.

The annual value of an Open Scholarship is, by order of the University Commissioners of 1877, not to exceed £80, inclusive of all privileges and allowances; but those Scholarships which were founded within fifty years of the appointment of the Commissioners are excepted from the order, and the statutes of the Commissioners do not apply to Lincoln and Hertford Colleges, nor to the New Foundation of Keble College. Moreover many Colleges maintain 'Exhibition Funds,' out of which they may, if they think fit, make grants to Scholars already elected and in residence, whom they may judge to be in need and deserving of pecuniary assistance; though no prospect of such assistance is allowed to be announced when notice is given of a forthcoming election to a vacant Scholarship.

Candidates are not required to be in need of pecuniary assistance, but a successful candidate may relinquish the whole or part of the emoluments while retaining the other rights, privileges, and status of a Scholar, and the money so relinquished will be devoted to other Scholarships or Exhibitions.

Exhibitions differ from Scholarships partly in that the limit of

1 This period begins on the day of election in almost every case if the Scholar be already matriculated; if not, Colleges may within specified limits fix a day from which the two years shall be reckoned.