IV. EXHIBITIONS FOR UNATTACHED STUDENTS.

I. Two Exhibitions are offered every year by the Worshipful Company of Grocers for the benefit of Students in the University of Oxford not attached to any College or Hall.

The Exhibitions are open to any Unattached Student who

(1) Shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Delegates of such Students his need of help;

(2) Shall have resided in the University during one Term at least (Easter and Act Terms being for this purpose reckoned as one Term);

(3) Shall have passed Responsions; and

(4) Shall have been examined in such manner as shall from time to time have been appointed by the Delegates

aforesaid.

The Exhibitions are tenable for three years; and must in any case be vacated at the end of the eighteenth Term from matriculation, or on the admittance of the Exhibitioner as a member of any College or Hall in the University of Oxford.

Each Exhibitioner receives his annual stipend in two equal portions, as determined by the Court of Assistants, on production to the Clerk of the Grocers' Company of a certificate, signed by the Censors, and certifying that he has kept by actual residence such portion of the half-year as is required by the University Regulations; that he has during the same period been diligent in pursuing his studies; that his conduct has been entirely satisfactory; and that he is not in receipt of an income from Exhibitions, Scholarships, or other such emoluments exceeding in the aggregate £80 a year, exclusive of the Grocers' Company's Exhibition.

II. The Clothworkers' Company in London have founded three Exhibitions for the benefit of Unattached Students in the University of Oxford.

The Exhibitions are of the value of £50 a year each, tenable for three years from the date of matriculation, and one Exhibition is awarded each year by the Company, after a competitive

examination among candidates proposing to matriculate in the Michaelmas Term.

The Exhibitions are given for the encouragement of the study of Natural Science, and the subjects of examination are as follows:-Candidates must offer (1) Elementary Mathematics (i. e. Algebra, Euclid I-IV and VI, Plane Trigonometry); (2) Elementary Mechanics and Hydromechanics. They are at liberty also to offer one, or at most two, of the following subjects:(a) Chemistry, (b) Heat, (c) Electricity, (d) Geology, (e) Botany. The selected candidate must satisfy the Censors (1) that he will be able with due diligence to pass the several Examinations required for the B.A. degree; (2) that his character is good.

In case the Examiners state that there is no candidate worthy of an Exhibition, the Delegates are required to report the fact to the Company, and (subject to their approval) may either suppress the Exhibition for the year, or may offer it for competition in some other subject recognised by the University among its examination subjects for the B.A. degree.

The other conditions of the Exhibition are as follows:

(1) The elected candidate is required to matriculate at once, and to keep residence from the time of election, unless hindered by some serious and sufficient cause to be approved and certified by the Censors.

(2) Exhibitioners must pass Responsions within four Terms from matriculation, and Moderations within eight Terms; failure in either case carrying with it the loss of the Exhibition. Before payment of the second and third years' Exhibition, the Censors must certify to the Company that the Exhibitioner has been duly diligent in the study of Natural Science, and well-conditioned, and has passed the requisite Examinations. In case the Censors refuse to grant such certificate, the Company reserves to itself the right of withdrawing the Exhibition.

(3) If an Exhibitioner becomes a member of a College or Hall, or removes his name from the books of the University, he vacates his Exhibition.

V. ABBOTT SCHOLARSHIPS.

In 1871 the University accepted the sum of £6,000 sterling for the foundation of three Scholarships to be competed for annually in Easter Term under certain regulations, of which the following are the most important:

The candidates for these Scholarships must be sons of clergymen of the Church of England who stand in need of assistance to enable them to obtain the benefits of an University education, and, if members of the University, Undergraduates who have not exceeded their third Term of residence.

For every election the Trustees appoint two or more Members of Convocation, not necessarily of their own body, to examine the claims of all persons wishing to become candidates. Every claim on which the judges so appointed cannot agree is referred to the Vice-Chancellor, and his decision is final. No person is received as a candidate without the consent of the Head or Vicegerent of his College or Hall or of the Censors of Unattached Students, or, if not already a member of the University, without sufficient testimonials. The names of those who have been found to be duly qualified are sent to the Examiners; and the election is then made upon the ground of merit only, except that candidates born in the West Riding of the County of York are cæteris paribus preferred.

Each Scholarship is tenable for three years from the date of election. If however a person not a member of the University is elected and his residence is deferred for more than one Term beyond the Term in which he was elected, he only has the profits of his Scholarship from the date of the commencement of his residence.

The Scholarships are not tenable with any Scholarship or Exhibition in any College or Hall, the annual value of which exceeds the sum of fifty pounds.

CHAPTER IV.

OF DEGREES AND EXAMINATIONS FOR DEGREES.

I. OF DEGREES.

§ 1. General Conditions.

Faculties, viz. in Arts, The three latter are attainment of a degree

THE University grants degrees in five Music, Law, Medicine, and Divinity. termed 'superior' Faculties, that is, the in Arts, or at least the possession of the necessary qualifications for the attainment of such a degree, is a 'condition precedent' for entrance upon them. Degrees in Music stand on a peculiar footing, and do not confer the privileges which are attached to a complete course of liberal study.

The special conditions which are required before a candidate is eligible to receive any of these degrees in ordinary course are mentioned below. Three further conditions are common to all degrees. (1) Candidates must obtain the consent of their College or Hall, or of the Censors of Unattached Students, as the case may be: this consent must be signified in writing to the Registrar on or before the day on which the degree is to be conferred. (2) They must obtain the consent of the University, for which purpose their names are publicly read out in Congregation by one of the Proctors. (3) They must give notice of their intention to become candidates, by entering their names in a book, which is kept for the purpose at the Vice-Chancellor's house, not later than the day before that on which they purpose to take their degrees.

When all the required conditions have been satisfied, the candidates are presented to the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors in the House of Congregation: those who are to be admitted to the degree of B.A., B.C.L., or B.M., give a promise to conform to the Statutes of the University; those who are to be admitted to the degree of M.A., D.C.L., D.M., B.D., or D.D., also give a

promise in reference to their privileges as members of the House of Convocation; and those who are to be admitted to the degree of B.D., or D.D., are further required to signify their assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer. The formula which is employed by the Vice-Chancellor in conferring the degrees of M.A., D.C.L., D.M., and in which the name of the Holy Trinity occurs, may be varied, if objection be urged.

§ 2. Special Conditions of the several Degrees.

1. DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS.

(a) Candidates must have resided for twelve Terms within the limits of the University, under the conditions mentioned in Chapter I, pp. 16–21: a certificate to this effect must be given by their College or Hall, or by the Censors of Unattached Students, as the case may be. And since the statutable time of residence in each Term is shorter than the Term itself, candidates who have resided for twelve consecutive Terms from their matriculation are eligible for their degree in their twelfth Term as soon as they have completed the statutable residence for that Term: for example, a student who matriculates in Michaelmas Term 1876, may be eligible for a degree in Trinity Term 1879, i.e. in about two years and eight months.

(B) They must exhibit to the Registrar, on or before the day on which they propose to take their degree, certificates of having passed the First and Second Public Examinations, i.e. (1) either the Testamur of the Classical Moderators, or, in the case referred to on p. 125. § 3. 1, a certificate of having been placed in a Class in Greek and Latin Literature, together with a certificate of having subsequently satisfied the Moderators in the Gospels or the substituted matter: (2) the Testamur of the Examiners in the Rudiments of Faith and Religion or in the substituted matter; (3) either the Testamurs of having passed one of the legitimate combinations of three subjects in the Pass School, or the certificate of having been placed in a Class in one of the Honour Schools, at the Second Public Examination.

(7) They must pay to the University a fee of £7 10s. (Mem