Medical Branch of the Royal Navy so as to provide that the Board of Admiralty may admit annually one candidate, proposed by the governing bodies of Public Schools of Medicine in the United Kingdom, or attached to such Colonial Universities as they may think proper; the candidate so proposed to be approved by the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy, and to be certified by the Governing Body proposing him to be duly qualified according to the Regulations in force for the entry of candidates. The Colonial candidates will have to pass a physical and test examination before a Board of Naval Medical Officers on the Station. The question papers for these examinations will be issued from the Medical Department of the Navy. The conditions as to age, character, registration, &c., are similar to those in force for the Army Medical Staff. The full regulations may be seen in the Registrar's Office. EXAMINATIONS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA. Appointments in the Civil Service of India are made after open competition. These examinations are held in England annually in the month of August, and applicants are required to send their applications on the prescribed form before the 31st of May. Each candidate must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners 1. That he is a natural born subject of Her Majesty. 2. That he had attained the age of 21 and had not attained the age of 23 on the first day of the year in which the examination is held. 3. That he has no disease, constitutional affection or bodily infirmity unfitting him, or likely to unfit him, for the Civil Service of India. 4. That he is of good moral character. The full regulations, including the subjects of examination, may be seen in the Registrar's Office. The regulations for the entry of Engineering students in Her Majesty's Navy, for the entry of students in Naval Construction, and the regulations for the guidance of candidates for direct appointments as probationary Assistant Engineers in the Royal Navy, may be seen in the Registrar's Office. *EXAMINATION PAPERS. DECEMBER, 1897. FACULTY OF ARTS. FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION. ENGLISH. Not more than NINE questions to be attempted. 1. Explain and discuss the statement that "the standard of language is to be found in usage, recent, reputable and national.' 2. What are the chief advantages and disadvantages of an uninflected language? 3. What is the meaning of Tautology? Is it ever to be justified? 4. Describe the chief instances of the improper employment of metaphor. Are mixed metaphors ever excusable? 5. Render into modern English, with full explanatory notes attached (a) Shortly hyt was so ful of bestes, that thogh Argus, the noble countour, sete to rekene in hys countour, and counten with his figures ten- *NOTE.-The time allowed for each paper is three hours, except where otherwise stated. |