competent persons, to consider the application of any particular Candidate and to report to the Board.

6. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar to notify the decision of the Board to the Candidate as soon as may be, and a Candidate whose application has been approved by the Board shall be admitted as a Student for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or Bachelor of Science so soon after receiving such notification as he shall have paid the statutable fee of £5 to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar; provided that no Candidate shall be so admitted until he has been matriculated as a member of the University.

7. Any Candidate may with the permission of the Board alter the subject and nature of the course of special study or research which has been approved for him by the Board, and the date on which such permission has been granted shall be reckoned as the date of his admission for all the purposes of this Section, unless the Board shall otherwise order on the ground that the change is not of a substantial character.

8. The Committee appointed to consider whether an intending Candidate has received a good general education shall be styled the Education Committee and shall be composed of one representative of each of the following Boards of Faculties, namely, Theology, Law, Medicine, Natural Science, Literæ Humaniores, Oriental Languages, Modern History, and Medieval and Modern Languages, elected by the Board from among its own members.

Each representative shall hold office for two years unless he shall, before the expiration of that period, cease to be a member of the Board which elected him, and shall be re-eligible.

Vacancies on the Committee caused otherwise than by lapse of time shall be filled up for the remainder of the period for which the vacating member was elected.

The Assistant Registrar shall act as Secretary to the Committee, and it shall be his duty to lay before the Committee the evidence produced by Candidates applying under cl. 3 (2) of this subsection.

§ 3. Of the supervision of Students for the Degrees of Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor of Science.

1. A Board may appoint one or more Graduate members of the University or other competent persons to superintend the work of any student admitted as aforesaid. Persons so

appointed shall be styled Supervisors, and the Board may at any time request a Supervisor to report to it concerning the work of a Student.

It shall be the duty of a Supervisor to direct and superintend the work of a Student, but not to give him systematic instruction.

2. A Board shall have power to direct that a fee shall be paid for supervision, provided that the amount of such fee shall not exceed £2 per Term for any Student.

When a Board orders such a fee to be paid, the Assistant Registrar shall notify the fact, as soon as may be, to the Supervisor and to the Student and to the Society of which the Student is a member. The fee shall be paid by or on behalf of the Student to the Supervisor before the end of each Term for which it is due.

§ 4. Of the issue of Certificates.

1. Any Student who has completed his proposed course of special study or research and has embodied the results thereof in a dissertation, may at any time not earlier than the third Term after that in which he was admitted apply to the Board of the Faculty for a Certificate that the work done by him in his course of special study or research is of a high standard of merit. Such application shall be made through the Assistant Registrar and shall be accompanied by two copies, or if special leave has been obtained from the Board, one copy, of his dissertation and by a Certificate from the proper officer of his Society that his name has been continuously on the books of that Society since the date of his admission, and the Student shall at the same time pay to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar the statutable fee of £5.

2. On receipt of any such application the Assistant Registrar shall inform the Supervisor or Supervisors of the Student, if any were appointed, and shall bring the application, together with any report thereon that the Supervisor or Supervisors may desire to make, before the Board as soon as may be. Whenever the payment of a fee for supervision has been ordered, the Supervisor shall report whether it has been duly paid. The Board shall thereupon, if the Candidate has satisfied the conditions hereinbefore laid down, appoint two Examiners whose duties shall be (1) to consider the dissertation sent in by the Student with his application, (2) to examine the Student publicly in the subject of such dissertation and in matters relevant to his course of special study or research, (3) to report to the Board through the Assistant Registrar,

(4) to return the Student's dissertation to the Assistant Registrar with their report.

3. Any report sent in by a Supervisor under the provisions of the preceding clause shall be transmitted to the Examiners with the Student's dissertation.

4. No Supervisor of a Student shall be eligible for appointment as an Examiner of that Student, unless special leave from the Vice-Chancellor has been obtained by the Board concerned, but the Examiners appointed for any Student shall have power to consult his Supervisor or Supervisors.

5. On receipt of the report of the Examiners it shall be the duty of the Board to decide whether a Certificate shall be issued to the Student or not, but a Certificate shall in no case be issued to a Student unless his Examiners have reported that the work done by him in his course of special study or research, as embodied in his dissertation and as tested by his public Examination, is of a high standard of merit. Provided that if the Examiners are divided as to its standard of merit, the Board shall have the power to satisfy itself in some other way as to the merit of the work done by the Student and to grant him a Certificate if it sees fit.

6. The Certificate shall be signed on behalf of the Board by the Chairman and Secretary, and shall be of the following form:

'Board of the Faculty of

(Date.) This is to certify that A. B., of College (or of Hall, or Non-Collegiate Student), has, in conformity with the requirements of the Statutes, completed a course of special study (or research) approved by the Board, that he has embodied the results thereof in a dissertation, that he has been publicly examined, and that in the opinion of the Board his work has reached a high standard of merit and he is entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters (or Science).

:

Oxford.

Signed on behalf of the Board,

C. D., Chairman.
E. F., Secretary.'

When a Certificate has been issued it shall be the duty of the Board to publish in the usual manner the grounds on which such Certificate has been granted, together with the names of the Examiners who have reported to the Board.

7. Before granting a Certificate the Board shall have power to require the publication of the Dissertation or of some portion of it in such manner as the Board shall think desirable.

8. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar:

(1) To keep a record of the names of those Candidates
who have been admitted as Students for the Degrees
of Bachelor of Letters or of Science together with
a description of the course of special study or
research to which each was admitted, and, where
a Certificate has been granted, a statement of the
grounds on which it has been granted.
(2) To publish in the usual manner at the end of each
Trinity Term the names of those persons to whom
Certificates have been granted in the preceding
academical year, together with a statement of the
course of special study or research which each pursued.

§ 5. Of the Conditions of Supplicating for the Degrees of Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor of Science.

1. A Student who has been granted a Certificate by a Board of a Faculty may supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or of Science, as the case may be, provided that he has kept eight Terms by residence within one mile and a half of Carfax as a matriculated member of the University.

2. Any Student who, after admission under § 2 of this Statute, has, for the purpose of carrying on his course of special study or research, resided as a matriculated member of the University within one mile and a half of Carfax, for a period of forty-two days, not necessarily consecutive, but falling within the same academical year, may apply to the Board for leave to reckon such period as one Term's residence towards that required for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or of Science by the preceding clause. The Board shall have power to grant such leave provided that: (1) no day so reckoned which falls within any Term shall also be reckoned for the purpose of keeping that Term by residence; and (2) no Student who has kept by residence the Michaelmas, or the Hilary, or the Easter and Trinity Terms shall be allowed to reckon in this manner any day that falls within the eight weeks beginning on the first day of Full Term in Michaelmas, or Hilary, or Easter Term, as the case may be; and (3) no Student shall be allowed to reckon in this manner more than one such period in the same academical year; and (4) no

Student shall be allowed to reckon more than four Terms as kept by residence in the same academical year.

3. Applications for leave to reckon any period as a Term kept by residence under the provisions of the preceding clause shall be made to the Board, through the Assistant Registrar, by the Head or a Tutor of the Student's College or Hall or by the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar, whenever a Term's residence has been allowed in the aforesaid manner by a Board, to report the fact as soon as may be to the Society of which the Student is a member.

§ 6. Of the Readmission of Candidates.

If a Candidate who has failed to obtain a Certificate applies to the Board for permission to continue his course of special study or research and to offer himself again for examination, the Board shall have power to grant such permission. Applications for readmission shall be transmitted to the Assistant Registrar by the Head or a Tutor of the Candidate's College or Hall or by the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students. The Assistant Registrar shall notify the decision of the Board to the Candidate as soon as may be, and a Candidate whose application has been approved by the Board shall be readmitted so soon after receiving such notification as he shall have paid to the University Chest, through the Assistant Registrar, the statutable fee of £5. Thereupon the provisions of this Statute shall apply to him as if he were then for the first time admitted as a Student for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or of Science, except that he may apply to the Board for a Certificate that the work done by him in his course of special study or research is of a high standard of merit, after a period, not being less than four months, which shall be fixed by the Board at the time of his admission, provided that he produces a certificate from the proper officer of his Society that his name has been continuously on the books of that Society since the date of his readmission.

§ 7. Of the Admission of Candidates for the Degrees of Doctor of Letters and Doctor of Science, and the Conditions of supplicating for these Degrees.

Members of the University may be admitted as Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Letters or of Doctor of Science and may supplicate for these degrees subject to the following conditions::