(b) The Board shall give not less than six months' notice of any such Examination, and shall fix the dates for the entry of names for Examination. (c) No one shall be permitted to enter his name for the Examination for such Certificate in French unless he has either satisfied the Examiners in Group B. (2) of the Pass School or obtained Honours in French in the Honour School of Modern Languages, and no one shall be permitted to enter his name for the Examination for such Certificate in German, unless he has either satisfied the Examiners in Group B. (5) of the Pass School or obtained Honours in German in the Honour School of Modern Languages. (d) A fee of ten shillings for the Examination in each language shall be paid by the Candidate to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar. (e) Every Candidate shall be required to satisfy the Examiners in dictation, reading aloud, conversation, and phonetics. In the Examination in phonetics special regard shall be had to the requirements for teaching in English Schools. 3. (a) There shall be holden twice in every year an Examination in French Composition and an Examination in German Composition for the purpose of granting Certificates in French and Certificates in German. (b) The Board shall give not less than six months' notice of any such Examination, and shall fix the dates for the entry of names for Examination. (c) A fee of thirty shillings for the Examination in each language shall be paid by the Candidate to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar. (d) Each Examination shall consist of translation of one or more passages of English into French or into German and of original composition in French or in German, as the case may be. 4. There shall be two Examiners for French and two Examiners for German, who shall be nominated, subject to the approval of Convocation, to serve for two years. If members of the University, they shall be Masters of Arts or Bachelors of Civil Law or of Letters or of Science at the least. 5. Nominations of Examiners shall be made by a Committee of six persons, of whom three shall be the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors for the time being, and three shall be chosen by the Board. 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 Board shall make regulations as to the dates for the nomination of, Examiners. 6. At the close of each Examination the Examiners shall enter and sign in a book, to be kept by the Assistant Registrar for the purpose, a list of the Candidates who have satisfied them in the subjects enumerated in clause 2 (e) above, and a list of the Candidates who have satisfied them in French Composition or in German Composition. They shall also make and sign two copies of each list, and shall cause one copy of each to be sent the same day to the Assistant Registrar, and the other to be affixed to a notice board at the Schools. 7. When a Candidate has satisfied the Examiners in the subjects enumerated in clause 2 (e) above, they shall issue to the Candidate a Certificate of proficiency in the colloquial use of French or of German, as the case may be. The form of such Certificate shall be determined by the Board subject to the approval of Convocation. 8. When a Candidate has obtained a Certificate of proficiency in the colloquial use of French or of German, and has satisfied the Examiners in French Composition or in German Composition, the Board shall issue to the Candidate a Certificate in French or in German, as the case may be. The form of such Certificate shall be determined by the Board subject to the approval of Convocation. 9. Notice of all Certificates issued under the provisions of this Section shall be sent to the Assistant Registrar, and shall be published in the usual manner. io. Persons who are certified to the Assistant Registrar by the Board as intending bona fide to become candidates for the Certificate in French or for the Certificate in German may offer themselves as candidates in Group B. (2) or in Group B. (5) of the Pass School of the Second Public Examination, although they have not passed Responsions, or any examination accepted by the University as exempting from Responsions, provided that no Woman Candidate shall be admitted to any of these Examinations except under the provisions of the Section "Of the Delegacy for Women Students". Such persons, if they are not members of the University or Women Students, shall, on being certified in the aforesaid manner, pay a fee of five shillings to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar. II. It shall be lawful for the Board to delegate from time to time all or any of their functions or powers under this Section to a Committee, and to appoint persons who are not members of the Board to be members of the Committee provided that at any time more than one half of the members of the Committee shall be members of the Board. The Committee shall make an annual Report to the Board. * (ii) Regulations. 1. Dates and Place of Examination. The Examinations will begin at 9.30 a.m. on the Thursday in the tenth week from the beginning of Easter Full Term and Michaelmas Full Term in each year, and will be held in the Examination Schools. 2. Qualifications for Admission. No Candidate will be allowed to enter for the Examination (a) for a Certificate of proficiency in the colloquial use of French, (d) in German Composition, unless he has either obtained a 3. Entry of Names. Names must be entered with the Assistant Registrar, on forms provided by him and to be obtained at his office, not later than 3 p.m. on the Wednesday in the fourth week of Easter Full Term and Michaelmas Full Term respectively. The Statutory Fees must be paid at the same time, viz. for each language: For the Examination for a Certificate of colloquial proficiency For the Examination in Composition 4. The Examination for a Certificate of proficiency in the colloquial use of a language will consist of (a) Dictation of one or more prose passages. (2) Reading aloud from a prescribed book. (c) Conversation, including the explanation in the foreign language of passages read aloud by the Candidate. (d) An Examination in the phonetics of the foreign language, special regard being had to the requirements of teaching in English Schools. It is contemplated that the Examination of a Candidate in (6) and (c) together will last not less than half an hour. *The Examinations in 1913 and 1914 will begin on the following days respectively : Thursday, December 18, 1913; Thursday, July 2, 1914; Thursday, December 17, 1914. Names of candidates for these examinations must be received on or before Wednesday, November 5, 1913; Wednesday, May 20, 1914; Wednesday, November 4, 1914. For 1913 and 1914 the prescribed books will be Sainte-Beuve, Trois portraits littéraires (Clarendon Press Series). 5. The Examination in Composition will consist of two three-hour Papers, viz. (a) The translation of two or more passages of English Prose. (6) An Essay in the foreign language. Alternative subjects dealing with the literate re, I story, and institutions of the foreign country will be set in (¿). ASSESSORS TO EXAMINERS FOR DIPLOMAS. Statute. [Statt. Tit. VIII. Sect. XIV.] OF ASSESSORS TO THE EXAMINERS FOR DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES. 1. The Committee for the Nomination of Examiners in any Examination may, with the consent of the Vice-Chancellor, request persons selected by them and approved by the ViceChancellor, to act in particular parts of the Examination as Assessors to the Examiners, provided that the same person shall not act as Examiner and Assessor in the same Examination. 2. Any application for the appointment of an Assessor or Assessors shall be made by the Examiners in any Examination to the Secretary of the Delegacy or Committee concerned, not later than one calendar month before the date of such Examination. 3. The persons so acting as Assessors shall make a report to the Examiners on the parts of the Examination submitted to them, but shall have no right of voting on the question whether a candidate has satisfied the Examiners or has been adjudged worthy of distinction. 4. The remuneration of Assessors so selected and approved shall be fixed by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors. U OF THE DELEGACY FOR WOMEN [Statt. Tit. VIII. Sect. xv.] § 1. Of the Number of the Delegates. 1. For the purposes of this Statute there shall be a Delegacy consisting of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, nine members of Convocation, the Principal of the Society of Oxford HomeStudents, and eight other women. Women members of the Delegacy shall enjoy all the powers and privileges of Delegates notwithstanding anything contained in Statt. Tit. XII. Sect. I. 2. Of the nine members of Convocation three shall be elected by the Hebdomadal Council, three by the Congregation of the University, and three by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors, and one of each class shall vacate office every two years. 3. Of the eight women, two shall be elected by the ViceChancellor and Proctors, and six by an Electoral Board constituted as hereinafter provided. One of the former and three of the latter class shall vacate office every three years. At least two of the Delegates elected by the Electoral Board shall be the Principals of recognized Societies. 4. Every elected member shall be elected in Easter or Trinity Term, shall hold office for six years from the first day of the Michaelmas Term following the day of election, and shall be eligible for re-election. Vacancies occurring at any time before the expiration of the proper period shall be filled up as soon as may be, for the residue only of that period. 5. The Delegates shall have power to appoint and to pay a Secretary. 6. All expenses incurred by the Delegacy shall be defrayed out of payments made by or in behalf of women students, or from funds otherwise provided, and shall not be defrayed out of University Funds. 7. The Delegates shall make a report of their proceedings every year to Convocation, and submit a duly audited state ment of accounts. § 2. Of Societies of Women Students. 1. Any Society which has been or may hereafter be founded for the reception of women students for the purpose of Academical study may be recognized and admitted, on the recommendation of the Delegates, to the privileges of this Statute by a vote of Convocation; provided that its Members are incorporated by Royal Charter or that provision has been otherwise made for the establishment of the Society |