VIII. DEGREES IN THEOLOGY.

(The presentation is by the Regius Professor of Divinity.)

BACHELOR OF DIVINITY.

1. Standing, Dissertation, &c. See Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. x. §§ 1, 2 (p. 248).

2. Certificates. Letters of Orders (ibid. § 2, cl. 3, p. 248).

3. Fees. The University Fee is £14.

Accumulation of Degrees. Statt. Tit. XI. Sect. II. § 2, cl. 6.
DOCTOR OF DIVINITY.

1. Standing, Dissertation, &c. See Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. x. §§ 3, 4 (p. 249).

2. Fees. The University Fee is £40.

DEGREES CONFERRED IN ABSENCE.

Under Statt. Tit. IX. Sect. v. cl. 1, the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, of Bachelor of Letters, or of Bachelor of Science may be conferred upon a person who is not present to receive the degree, if he satisfies the following conditions:

(a) He must not be resident in the United Kingdom.

(b) He must obtain the grace of his College or Hall, or if a Non-Collegiate Student, of the Delegacy of Non-Collegiate Students, and he must have satisfied all other statutory conditions precedent to the degree for which he desires to supplicate.

(c) He must apply, through the Society to which he belongs, to the Hebdomadal Council for leave to supplicate in absence, and must satisfy the Hebdomadal Council (i) that he has not had a reasonable opportunity of taking the degree in person, (ii) that the taking of the degree is a matter of urgent importance to him.

(d) The application must be made not more than six calendar months after the degree day next following the day on which he became qualified to supplicate for the degree.

(e) The Society shall at the same time notify the Proctors of the application.

(f) If Council approves the application, its approval shall be forthwith published in the usual manner.

(g) He shall be at liberty to supplicate for the degree on any degree day being not less than seven days nor more than two calendar months after the day on which the approval of the Council has been published as aforesaid.

Under Statt. Tit. IX. Sect. v. cl. 2, the Degree of Doctor of Letters or Science, of Master of Arts, of Bachelor or Doctor of Medicine, of Bachelor or Doctor of Civil Law, of Bachelor or Doctor of Divinity, may be conferred upon a person who is not present to receive the degree, if he satisfies the following conditions:

(a) He must not be resident in the United Kingdom.

(b) He must have satisfied all statutory conditions precedent to the degree for which he desires to supplicate, except such as require the public

reading of any Dissertation or Exposition. In case he desires to proceed to the degree of Bachelor or Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Civil Law or Doctor of Medicine, he shall transmit to the Regius Professor of the Faculty the exercises required for such degree, and his sufficient performance of the same must be attested by a certificate from the Regius Professor, to be supplied to the Registrar.

(c) He must obtain the grace of his College or Hall, or if a NonCollegiate Student, of the Delegacy of Non-Collegiate Students; and the Dean of his College or the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students, or the Deputy of the Dean or Censor, must supplicate for the grace of the Ancient House of Congregation.

(d) He must satisfy the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors that the nature of his occupation, or the distance of his place of residence, or some other exceptional circumstance places serious difficulties in the way of his taking the degree in person; and, if more than a year has elapsed since he ceased to reside in Oxford, he must produce a testimonial as to character and conduct satisfactory to the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors.1

(e) If he desires to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity or Doctor of Divinity, he must offer to the Vice-Chancellor sufficient evidence of his subscription to the declaration required by Statute.

Fees.-The University fees are those shown under the several Degrees on the preceding pages with an Additional fee of £5.

The Vice-Chancellor and Proctors have given notice that 'testimonials as to character and conduct' must include evidence from some ecclesiastical, civil, or military official, or other person in a responsible position, resident abroad in the same locality as the Candidate. Testimonials must be transmitted by the College or Hall of the Candidate, or by the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students, to the Junior Proctor.

II.

NOTICES OF THE SUBJECTS ANNOUNCED FOR UNIVERSITY PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE YEAR 1915-1916.

(Other information can be obtained from the University Calendar.)

N.B.-Candidates for University Scholarships or Prizes are reminded that they are not eligible unless their names are at the time actually on the books of some College or Hall, or of the Delegacy of Non-Collegiate Students.

All compositions are left with the Registrar, and can be received from him at the University Registry within the space of one year. If not claimed within that time, they will be destroyed.

I. SCHOLARSHIPS.

The following notices have been published. For most other Scholarships the subjects are not specified from year to year.

ABBOTT SCHOLARSHIP.

Candidates must be sons of Clergymen of the Church of England who stand in need of assistance to enable them to obtain a University Education, and, if members of the University, Undergraduates who have not exceeded their third Term of Residence.

One Scholarship of the value of £80 per annum tenable for three years, is awarded annually in Easter Term.

The subjects of examination are for 1916, Classics; for 1917, Natural Science.

DENYER AND JOHNSON JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP.

The Board of the Faculty of Theology has appointed the following subject of examination, with special reference to the books named, for the Denyer and Johnson Junior Scholarship in 1916:—

Church and State.

1. The Maccabean Revolt, with Dan. vii-xii, 1 Maccabees, and Bevan, The House of Seleucus, Vol. ii, pp. 126-204.

2. The teaching of our Lord and his Apostles, with special reference to St. Mark xii. 13-17; St. John xviii. 28-xix. 16; Acts xviii. 12-17, xxv. 1-27; Rom. xiii. 1-10; 1 Tim. i. 8 to ii. 8; 1 Peter ii. 13-17; Apocalypse xviii-xxi.

3. The Edict of Milan; St. Hilary of Poictiers, Ad Constantium, lib. I; St. Augustine, De Civitate, IV. iv, xxxiii, xxxiv, V. xxi, XI. i, XIV. xxviii, XIX. xiii-xvii, xxi, xxiv, xxv, and Epistolæ, xciii, cv; 'Cunctos populos', Cod. Theod. XVI. i. 2, and 'Nullus hæreticis Cod. Theod. XVI. v. 6.

4. Dante, De Monarchia, Book I, and Hooker, Eccl. Polity, Book I. 5. The subject may be studied in A. L. Smith, Church and State in the Middle Ages; J. N. Figgis, Churches in the Modern State; Troeltsch, E., Die Soziallebren der christlichen Kirchen und Gruppen, pp. 1-173; A. J. Carlyle, Medieval Political Theory in the West, Vol. i, chs. viii, xiii, xiv, xv, xxi; H. W. C. Davis, Political Thought of Treitschke, and Selections from Treitschke's Lectures on Politics, translated by A. L. Gowans.

PUSEY AND ELLERTON HEBREW SCHOLARSHIPS.

Notice is given that an Examination for two Scholarships will be held on Tuesday, October 19, 1915, and following days, commencing at 9.30 A.M.

Candidates are requested to call on the Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, on Saturday, October 16, between Noon and I P.M., bringing with them certificates of their age, of their University standing, and of the consent of the Head of their College or Hall, or of the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students. Candidates not resident may send their names and certificates by letter.

Candidates for these Scholarships will be examined in passages set from the following portions of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, Psalms i-lxxii, Isaiah xl-lxvi. Papers will be given as hitherto in Composition, Grammar, and Miscellaneous Questions.

There will also be set questions involving an elementary knowledge of Arabic, with passages for translation from the Arabic version of Jonah (published in Dr. Wright's Book of Jonah in Four Oriental Versions, Williams and Norgate, 1857).

CHARLES OLDHAM SCHOLARSHIP, 1915.

The Board of Management of the Charles Oldham Scholarship give notice that the subject of the Examination for the Scholarship in 1915 will be

Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, together with the Sonnets.

II. PRIZES.

CHANCELLOR'S AND NEWDIGATE Prizes.

1. Chancellor's.

The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's Prizes for 1916:

For an English Essay: Bunyan as a man of letters.

For a Latin Essay: Vita et ingenium Cæcilii Rhodes.
For Latin Verse: Vallum Hadriani.

The prizes are open to those members of the University who, on the thirtyfirst day of March, 1916, shall not have exceeded four years from their Matriculation.

The length of the Essays should not exceed 30-35 printed pages, allowing about 360 words to each such printed page. The Latin Verse should not exceed 250 lines.

It is recommended that the compositions should, if possible, be typewritten; or, at any rate, not in the competitor's own handwriting. Candidates are not restricted to the use of Hexameters, but are at liberty to use any metre which they think suitable to their subject.

2. Sir Roger Newdigate's.

For the best composition in English Verse, by any Undergraduate who, on the day above specified, shall not have exceeded four years from his Matriculation.

The subject proposed for 1916 is:

Venice.

The length of the Poem is not to exceed 300 lines. The metre is not restricted to Heroic Couplets; but dramatic form of composition is not allowed.

General Regulations.

In every case the time is to be computed by Calendar, not Academical years, and strictly, from the day of Matriculation to the day above specified without reference to any intervening circumstances whatever.

No person who has already obtained a Prize will be deemed entitled to a second Prize of the same description.

The Exercises are all to be sent in under a sealed cover to the Registrar of the University on or before the thirty-first day of March, 1916. The Exercises must reach the University Registry not later than 6 P.M. on that day. Each Author is required to conceal his Name, and to distinguish his composition by what Motto he pleases; sending at the same time his Name, and the date of his Matriculation, sealed up under another cover, with the same Motto inscribed upon it.

Such portions of the successful compositions will be recited in the Theatre upon the Commemoration-Day as the Public Orator and the Professor of Poetry shall appoint.