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FELLOW COMMONERS. PENSIONERS.

A student, who has kept three examinations in his freshman years, one of them being in the senior freshman year, but who has omitted or lost the Michaelmas examination of that year, is not permitted to rise into the class of junior sophisters, unless he keep the next Hilary examination with the senior freshman class, answering, however, in the subjects appointed for the omitted Michaelmas examination.

To rise from the class of junior sophister to that of senior sophister, an examination kept as a junior sophister is necessary.

If the Hilary examination of the junior sophister year be kept with the senior freshman class, as a supplemental examination, in place of the Michaelmas examination of the senior freshman year, it does not count as a senior sophister examination.

3. The qualifications necessary for admission to the final, or degree examination, and also the period and subjects of that examination, are different according to the rank of the student.

Fellow commoners must answer, at the least, two examinations as sophister, prior to their degree examination, these may be both kept in the junior sophister year.

Fellow commoners, thus qualified, answer for their degree regularly at the Trinity examination of the senior sophisters.

A fellow commoner who, at the period of the regular degree examinations, has credit for but one sophister examination, must answer then, or at some subsequent examination, in the subjects of the Hilary examination of senior sophisters, after which he may answer for his degree in the subjects of the Trinity examination at any subsequent examination of senior sophisters.

Pensioners and sizars must answer, at the least, three examinations prior to their degree examination, one of which must be in the senior sophister year.

Pensioners and sizars thus qualified, answer for their degree regularly at the Michaelmas examination of the senior sophister year, but if that be lost or

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omitted, they may answer for their degree at any subsequent examination of senior sophisters.

The fees for attending on the clinical lectures are regulated by an act of parliament-they amount to £3 3s. to the professors for each three months' attendance, and (provided the student be of two years' standing in the university) £3 3s. to the treasurer of the hospital, for the first year, with a proportionate sum for any longer period.-The fees for each of the other courses are £4 4s.

The examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine are conducted by the regius professor of the university, the six professors of the school of physic, and the Professor of Midwifery to the College of Phy

sicians.

No further examination is requisite for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, which may be taken at the expiration of three years from taking the degree of M.B., provided the candidates shall have graduated in arts. The fees for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, which entitles the professor to the same elective privileges as the degree of Master of Arts, are £2 2s.

A Bachelor of Music must compose and perform a service before the university. The standing necessary is the same as that required for a Bachelor of Laws.

A Doctor in Music must be a Bachelor of Music of five years' standing, and his exercise is the same.

The total amount of the fees paid for each degree:

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A pensioner or sizar who may have risen to the rank of senior sophister, but who, previous to the Michaelmas examination of that year, wants either one or two of the preliminary sophister examinations, may, at Michaelmas, answer in the subject of the examination last omitted by him, and at any following examination, in the subject of the examinations last but one omitted by him. After he has so put in such examination, as a supplementalist, he may appear as a candidate for the degree of A.B., at any succeeding examination, answering in the subjects of the Michaelmas examination of senior sophisters.

4. Honours and Prizes.-The examiners of the first two days select from their divisions those whom they deem qualified to become candidates for honours or prizes, whether in science or in classics, and furnish the senior lecturer with lists of the same. All the candidates in the same department from the several divisions of the class, are then, on two additional days, examined together by a court of examiners appointed for that purpose.

At the October examination in each of the three first years' prizes of £4 and £2 are awarded by the Court of Examiners to the best answerers among the candidates.

The limit of the number of first prizes, is the onefortieth of the entire class, or the next integer above the quotient, should the number in the class not be measured by forty.

The limit of the number of the second prizes, is double the number of the former.

At the first and second examinations of each of the four years' honours without prizes are awarded in like manner by the Court of Examiners, of which honours there are two ranks, the limit to the number of each rank being regulated as before stated.

At the October examinations of the fourth year, the examiners of the first two days recommend to the senior lecturer, from among the candidates for degrees, those students whom they have considered qualified to become candidates for honours in any of the three following departments, viz.-1. Physics and mathe

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matics. 2. Classics. candidates in the same department are then examined together by a court of examiners during two days, which are not the same for the candidates in different departments.

3. Ethics and Logics. The

Of the successful candidates in each department there are two grades, called senior and junior moderators, the limit to the number of moderators of each grade to be determined, as in the case of honours and prizes, at the previous examinations.

Those candidates for degrees who have obtained honours in the preceding part of the college course, are entitled to offer themselves as candidates for moderatorships without appearing at the preliminary examinations.

Distinctions of the first order, whether by prizes, honours, or moderatorships, are confined to those candidates who are prepared in the extended courses as set forth in the programme of the under-graduate course.

Fellow commoners who do not avail themselves of their privilege of graduating at the July commencement of the senior sophister year, may become candidates for moderatorships in Michaelmas term, in which case they are examined in the same course as the pensioners.

At the conclusion of each examination, lists of the successful candidates for prizes, honours, or moderatorships, are made out by the senior lecturer, inserted in his book, and also placed upon the college gates, published in the University Calendar, the newspapers and other periodicals, in which lists the successful candidates of each rank are arranged according to the order of their standing on the college books, except the senior moderators at the degree examination, who are placed according to the order of merit.

THE UNDER-GRADUATE COURSE.

This course is at each examination divided into two parts, the one to be read by such students as aim only at respectable judgments, the other to be re

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quired of those who aspire to the higher honours of their class.

The following Tables contain a programme of the undergraduate course, as altered and fixed by the recent regulations:

JUNIOR FRESHMEN.

HILARY EXAMINATION.-For all Students.-Mathematics: Elrington's Euclid, Books i. ii.-Greek: Homer, Iliad, ix. x. xi.-Latin: Virgil, Æn. vii. viii. ix. Additional for Honours.-Greek: Iliad, xii. xiii. xiv.-Latin: Æn. x. xi. xii.

TRINITY EXAMINATION.-For all Students.-Mathematics: Euclid, Books i. ii. iii.; Definitions of Book v. and Book vi., omitting props. 27, 28, 29.Greek Homer, Iliad, xviii. xxiii. xxiv.-Latin: Virgil, Georgics. Additional for Honours.-Greek : Iliad, xix. xx. xxi. xxii.-Latin: Virgil, Eclogues.

MICHAELMAS EXAMINATION.-For all Students.Mathematics: Euclid, as before. Compendium of Algebra. Simpson's Trigonometry to the end of Plane Triangles.-Greek: Homer, Odyss. ix. x. xi. xii.— Latin: Juvenal, Sat. i. iii. iv. vii. viii. x. xiii. xiv.

Additional for Honours.-Mathem.: Analytic Geometry, first 31 sections. Spherical Trigonometry to the end of Neper's Rules.-Greek: The Knights of Aristophanes.-Latin: Persius, except Sat. iv.

SENIOR FRESHMEN.

HILARY EXAMINATION.-For all Students.-Mathematics: All the Mathematics read in the Junior Freshman year.-Logic: Murray's Logic with Walker's Commentary. Greek: Euripides, Hecuba. — Latin: Terence, Adelphi, and Hecyra. -Additional for Honours.-Mathem.: The additional Mathe

a It was intended that, in 1843, the Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, (Ringwood's selection,) should be substituted for these books of Homer; but that change is postponed until the year 1845.