CONCERNING THE ENGLISH FUND AND THE MANAGEMENT THEREOF.

[Statt. Tit. V. Sect. XIV.]

I. There shall be a Fund, which shall be styled the English Fund, and shall be applied to the provision of instruction in the English Language or in English Literature or in both.

2. The English Fund shall be administered by the Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Literature.

3. The Board of the Faculty shall have power to appoint lecturers in English and to pay them, to fix and to receive fees payable by those attending their lectures, and to receive such sums as by arrangement with the Colleges may be entrusted to them for the tuition of students, and also to receive sums otherwise contributed to the Fund for the promotion of the study and teaching of English. Any lecturer appointed under the provisions of this clause shall receive at the time of his appointment a written statement of the conditions, emoluments, and duration of his office, and notice of his appointment shall be published in the usual manner. appointment of a lecturer, other than an occasional lecturer, his emoluments, and the conditions of his office, including the fees payable for attendance at his lectures, shall in every case be subject to the approval of Convocation.

4. The Board of the Faculty shall also have power to apply to the provision of occasional lectures or courses of lectures any surplus in the Fund remaining after the payment of lecturers under the provisions of clause 3 above.

5. No fee shall be required in respect of attendance at any of the lectures provided by the Board of the Faculty from any student for whom there shall have been paid to the Board of the Faculty, by himself or by the Society to which he belongs, a composition fee for lectures. The amount of such composition fee shall be determined from time to time by the Board of the Faculty, but shall not exceed £2 per Term.

6. Neither the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature nor the Professor of English Literature shall receive any remuneration out of the English Fund.

7. All sums received by the Board of the Faculty shall be paid into the University Chest to be carried to the credit of the Fund.

8. The accounts of the Board of the Faculty shall be audited annually by the University Auditor.

9. It shall be the duty of the Board of the Faculty to prepare and lay before Convocation annually a printed report on the administration of the Fund.

[Statt. Tit. XVII. Sect. IX. § 4. cl. 4.]

4. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar to receive all fees due to the English Fund, to pay them to the Curators of the Chest, and to notify to the Curators the amounts payable out of the Fund under the authority of the Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.

OF THE BOARDS OF FACULTIES
AND BOARDS OF STUDIES.

[Statt. Tit. V. Sect. XV. cl. 3.]

The Secretary to the Boards of Faculties shall, before the expiration of the Easter Term of each year, send to the Vice-Chancellor complete copies of the regulations of the several Boards of Faculties and Boards of Studies; and the Vice-Chancellor shall cause these Regulations to be published, so soon as may be, in such manner as he shall think fit, and no regulation shall take effect which has not been published as aforesaid by the Vice-Chancellor. Notice of any change made by a Board in its regulations shall be published by the Chairman in the usual manner as soon as may be.

The date at which a change of regulation shall take effect shall be determined, subject to the foregoing provision, by the Board, provided that no change by which a book or subject is either removed or altered, otherwise than by reduction of amount, shall affect

(1) any of the Preliminary Examinations in the Second Public Examination before the Easter Term,

(2) any of the Examinations of Candidates seeking Honours in the First or Second Public Examination or any of the Examinations for Degrees in Music before the second Michaelmas Term,

following the date of its publication as aforesaid by the ViceChancellor; and that no change by which a book or subject is removed shall affect the Examination in Additional Subjects at Responsions or the Preliminary Examination for Students in Music until the end of the second Trinity Term after notice of removal has been issued.

Provided also that a Candidate not seeking Honours who shall have failed to satisfy the Moderators or Public Examiners, or who shall not have offered himself for the First or Second Public Examination when otherwise statutably qualified, shall be permitted to offer the same books and subjects which he then offered, or might have offered, at any subsequent Examination within [two years] from the time when such books or subjects, or any of them, were removed from the list by the Board of Faculties or Board of Studies having the supervision of the Examination in question. A book or subject shall be deemed to have been removed on the first day of the Term in which the order for its removal shall take effect.

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1 On the first day of Michaelmas Term, 1914, the words in square brackets will be struck out and the words 'one year' will be substituted for them.

CONCERNING DIPLOMAS.

OF THE COMMITTEE FOR GEOGRAPHY, AND
OF THE EXAMINATIONS IN GEOGRAPHY.

(i) Statute.

[Statt. Tit. VIII. Sect. IV.]

1. There shall be a Committee for Geography, consisting of the Vice-Chancellor, the Proctors, the Camden Professor of Ancient History, the Regius Professor of Modern History, the Beit Professor of Colonial History, the Reader in Geography, three members of Convocation each holding office for three years, one elected by the Board of the Faculty of Literæ Humaniores, one by the Board of the Faculty of Modern History, and one by the Board of the Faculty of Natural Science, and three members appointed by the Council of the Royal Geographical Society as long as that Society continues its contribution of £400 per annum to the School of Geography. The Committee shall have power to co-opt not more than two other members of Convocation each for a period of four years. One of the co-opted members shall retire at the end of every two years. The Reader in Geography shall act as Secretary of the Committee.

2. The Committee shall have power (1) to make arrangements for lectures and courses of instruction in Geography to be given within the University, (2) to require such fees to be paid by Students as it may deem expedient, (3) to administer the funds of the School of Geography, and to receive all gifts made to the School.

3. Students, whether members of the University or not, may be admitted to the School under such conditions as the Committee shall prescribe, provided always that, before admission to a course of study approved by the said Committee, Students, if not members of the University, shall have satisfied the Committee that they have received a good general education and are qualified to pursue the study of Geography.

4. Subject to the approval of Convocation the Committee shall make from time to time regulations for the admission to the Examinations in Geography of candidates who shall have pursued an approved course of study.

5. The Committee shall fix the dates for the holding of examinations, and for the entry of names for examinations. It shall also issue from time to time particulars of subjects to be offered in the examination, and shall make such further regulations as it shall deem necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Section.

*6. There shall be holden in every year one examination or more, for the purpose of granting certificates of proficiency in Geography. The certificates so granted shall be styled Diplomas in Geography. It shall also be lawful for the Committee to grant Certificates of proficiency in (a) Surveying, and (b) General and Regional Geography.

7. Every examination shall be open to members of the University and to others, subject to such regulations as shall be made from time to time by the said Committee with the approval of Convocation.

Every candidate must before admission to the examination present a certificate signed by the Reader in Geography stating that the candidate has attended a prescribed course of lectures, study, and practical work, at the School of Geography.

8. There shall be three examiners, of whom the Reader in Geography, or, in his absence, some person appointed by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, shall always be one, and the other two shall be nominated, subject to the approval of Convocation, to serve for two years. The examiners, if members of the University, shall be Masters of Arts, or Bachelors of Civil Law, or of Medicine, or of Letters, or of Science, at the least; or they may be persons not members of the University.

9. The nomination of examiners shall be made by a Committee of six persons, of whom three shall be the ViceChancellor and Proctors, and three shall be chosen by the Committee for Geography. The tenure of office of the elected members and the procedure of the Committee shall be subject to the regulations of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. E. §§ 2 and 3. The Committee for Geography shall make regulations as to the dates for the nomination of examiners. The Reader in Geography shall act as Secretary of the Committee for nominating Examiners in Geography..

10. At the close of each examination the examiners shall enter and sign, in a book to be kept by the Committee for the purpose, a list of the candidates who have satisfied them or have obtained distinction in the subjects of the examination. They shall also make and sign two copies of this list, and shall cause one to be sent the same day to the Assistant Registrar, and the other to be affixed to a notice-board at the Schools.

11. When a candidate has satisfied the examiners, or has obtained distinction in the subjects of the examination, the

*See clauses 10 and 11, p. 50.