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Madras and the Punjab in rotation,* one Scholarship being given to each of the first two Universities during one year, and one Scholarship to each of the last two during next year.

2.

Each Scholarship entitles the holder to an allowance not exceeding £200 per annum, payable from date of his arrival in England, and is tenable for three years.

3.

Each scholar is provided with a free passage to and from England. 4. If any scholar, not being disabled by sickness, fails to complete a residence of three years in England, or is guilty of gross misconduct or disregard of the orders of His Majesty's Secretary of State, he will, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, forfeit his Scholarship, and will also be liable to refund the amount representing the cost of his free passage to England.

5. Scholars will be expected to reach England before the opening of the October term at the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, to one of which Universities they will be required to proceed.

RULES FOR ELECTION TO THE GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS.

1. Candidates for the Government Scholarships must be natives of India within the meaning of Section 6 of the Statute, 33 Vic, Cap. 3.

2. The selection of the scholars shall take place not later than the month of June in the year in which a Scholarship is placed at the disposal of this University.

3. The candidates for the Scholarship shall be only such Graduates of the University as have passed the examination for the degree of M.A., or the examination for the degree of B.A., or B.Sc. with Honours, and must in all cases be under 22 years of age on the 31st March, in the year in which the selection is made by this University.

4. Candidates for the examinations mentioned in the preceding rule, who are desirous of competing for the Government Scholarship at the disposal of this University either in the year of their examination, or in the three following years, shall intimate the fact to the Registrar at the time they make their applications for these examinations, and shall state whether they have the consent of their families to proceed to England in order to complete a University education there.

5. It shall be the duty of the Boards of Examiners in submitting the results of the examinations mentioned in Rule 3, to state which of the candidates are in their opinion fit and proper persons to be selected for the Government Scholarship.

6. Candidates for the Scholarship who have been nominated by the Boards of examiners under the preceding rule shall in the month of May in the year in which it is to be awarded be called upon to submit to the Registrar certificates of

(a) their good conduct, from persons of respectability and position with whom they may be acquainted;

(b) their knowledge of the English language, from one or more of the Professors of the College in which they have been educated, and

(c) their physical capacity to undergo the course of life and study which

Under Resolution, dated 17th October, 1888, consequent upon the establisment of the Allahabad University, the Government of India have decided that with effect from the year 1889, each of the Universities concerned shall participate in the Scholarships in the following sequence

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they will have to follow in England, signed or countersigned by a Presidency or Civil Surgeon.

7. In the year in which the selection is to take place, the names of those candidates recommended by the Boards of Examiners for the year and for the three preceding years shall be laid before a Committee of the Syndicate consisting of not more than three members, who shall have power to call for reports from the Principals and Professors of the Colleges in which the graduates were educated, and to make such other enquiries as they think fit, and who shall recommend to the Vice-Chancellor one of the candidates for selection.

1.

RULES FOR INDIAN GOVERNMENT SCHOLARS IN ENGLAND.

(As amended by the Secretary of State in Council, 11th July, 1893,)

Every scholar shall, on reaching England, at once present himself at the India Office and report his arrival in writing.

2 Every scholar shall, without any unnecessary delay, inform the Secretary of State to which University he intends to proceed, and shall at once take steps to enter himself at the College he has selected.

3. Every scholar shall, within four weeks of reaching England, submit for the approval of the Secretary of State, a statement showing the general course of study he proposes to follow; and the course approved shall not be changed without the sanction of the Secretary of State.

4.

Every scholar shall, at the end of each term of residence at the University, submit to the Secretary of State a certificate from the proper College or University authority, showing that his residence, conduct and progress in study have been satisfactory during the term.

5. Every scholar shall, at all times, obey such instructions as he may receive from the Secretary of State.

6. Subject to the due compliance with the above conditions, the allowance, at the rate of £200 a year, for three years, will be paid quarterly in advance by the India Office, commencing from the date of the scholar's reporting his arrival in England, but this allowance shall be reduced by the amount of any other sum which may become payable to him out of the revenues of India in respect of residence at a University during the same period or any part of it.

7. Every scholar will forfeit his Scholarship, who, not being disabled by illness or prevented by any other cause which the Secretary of State may consider sufficient, fails to complete a residence of three years in England, according to the terms and conditions approved by the Secretary of State under Rule 3, or who is guilty of misconduct or disregard of the orders of the Secretary of State. If a Scholarship be forfeited, the scholar will lose his claim to a free return passage to India, and will further become liable to refund the cost of his free passage to England.

8. The scholar will be under the special supervision and charge of the Political Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of State, through whom the neces sary orders will be given, and to whom all reports and other communication respecting them should be sent.

SCHOLARS.

1886 Jogindranath Das, B.A.

1888 Abdul Majid, B.A.

1890 J. Platel, B.A.

1893 Atulchandra Chattopadhyay, B.A.

1895 Jogindranath Pal, B.A.

1898 Harinath De, M.A.

1900 Mahimchandra Ghosh, B.A.

1903 Birendranath De, B.A.

1905 Praphullakumar Chakrabarti, M.A.

XI.

AFFILIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY

OF CALCUTTA TO THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, DUBLIN AND EDINBURGH.

(1). UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

In a convocation of the Oxford University held on June 3rd, 1902, the following Revised Statute on Colonial and Indian Universities was approved:

Whereas it is expedient (1) to provide for the making of regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of the Statute on Colonial and Indian Universities; (2) to enable Candidates from these Universities under certain conditions to offer themselves for examination in any Honour School of the Second Public Examination, and to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts without having passed either Responsions or the First Public Examination; and (3) to confine the requirement of a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language to Candidates from Colonial Universities, and to determine the conditions under which Candidates shall be permitted to satisfy the requirement by passing approved examinations of such Universities, the University enacts as follows:

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1. Any University situated in any part of the British Dominions other than the United Kingdom may apply to this Add., page 932 [1887]. University to be admitted to the privileges of

this section of the statutes.

2. The application shall be addressed to the Vice-Chancellor, who shall report the same to the Hebdomadal Council.

3. The Hebdomadal Council, after considering such application and after making such enquiry as it shall deem necessary, shall, if it think fit, propose to Convocation that the University so applying shall be admitted to the privileges of this section of the Statutes. A University admitted to the privileges conferred by this section of the Statutes may at any time renounce such privileges, and this University may at any time by a vote of convocation withdraw the same from any University.

4. Any member of a University so admitted, who shall have pursued a course of study prescribed by it and extending over two years, and who shall have passed all the examinations incident to the course, may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Junior Colonial or Indian Student.

5. Any member of a University so admitted, who shall have pursued a course of study prescribed by it and extending over three full years, and

who shall have taken

Honours in the final examination incident to the coarse, may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Senior, Colonial or Indian Student.

6. It shall be the duty of the Hebdomadal Council to draw up and submit to Convocation a statement of the conditions under which a member of a University so admitted shall be deemed to have taken Honours as aforesaid. Every such statement, if approved by Convocation, shall have the force of regulations made by Statute.

7. The status and privileges of a Junior Student shall be as follows:

(a) The Term in which he is matriculated shall be reckoned, for the purposes of any provisions respecting the standing of members of the University, as the fifth Term from his matriculation

(b) A Junior Student shall not be required to pass Responsions, or to Pass in an Additional Subject at Responsions.

(c) A Junior Student who has passed the Second Public Examination and has obtained Honours either in the First or in the Second Public Examination, shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for eight Terms, provided that, if he is a Colonial Student, he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language.

(d) A Junior Student who has passed the Second Public Examination, but has not obtained Honours either in the First or in the Second Public Examination, shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for twelve Terms. Provided that, if he is a Colonial Student, he has shown a sufficient Knowledge of the Greek language.

8. The Status and privileges of a Senior Student shall be as follows:

(a) The Term in which he is matriculated shall be reckoned for the purposes of any provisions respecting the standing of members of the University as the fifth Term from his matriculation.

(b) A Senior Student shall not be required to pass any part of Responsions or of the First Public Examination or any Preliminary Examination of the Second Public Examination.

(c) A Senior Student who has obtained Honours in the Second Public Examination shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for eight Terms. Provided that, if he is a Colonial Student, he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language.

9. Every person who, having been matriculated, desires to claim the status of a Junior or Senior Student, shall make his application through an officer of a College or Hall or of the Non-Collegiate Body, to the Secretary to the Boards of Faculties, and shall at the same time pay to the University Chest, through the Secretary, the sum of one pound or of two pounds, according as he is admitted as a Junior or a Senior Student. If he makes his application later than a week from matriculation, he shall pay an additional fee of one pound.

10. Any person qualified to become a Junior Student on Matriculation may be admitted to any part of Responsions, any part of the First Public Exami nation, and any Preliminary Examination in the Second Public Examination.

The University of Calcutta.

That any member of the University of Calcutta who shall have passed the Examination at that University for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, and shall have been placed in the First Division in two or more subjects of that Examination, shall be deemed to have taken Honours as required by the provisions of Statt. Tit. II. Sect. VIII. cl. 5. October 22, 1903.

11. Every person who, being qualified to become a Junior or Senior Student on matriculation, desires to have his name entered for an examination before he has been matriculated shall make his application to the Secretary through an officer of a College or Hall or of the Non-Collegiate Body, who shall send the name to the Secretary seven clear days before the day fixed for entering names for the examination in question, together with

(a) The statutable fee, and in addition thereto the sum of one pound or of two pounds according as the Candidate claims to be qualified to become a Junior or a Senior Student;

(b) A declaration that the Candidate in his opinion bona-fide desires admission to his College or Hall or as a non-Collegiate Student as the case may be; and

(c) Evidence showing that the Candidate is qualified as aforesaid. Any Candidate whose name has been entered for an examination as aforesaid shall, so soon as he has been matriculated, become a Junior or a Senior Student, as the case may be.

12. A Colonial Student shall be deemed to have shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language if he has passed

either (a) one of the examinations enumerated below in the Schedule: or (b) such examination or examinations of his University as shall satisfy the conditions laid down under the provision of the next following clause. Provided that evidence of his having satisfied these conditions shall have been produced to the Secretary within one week from his matriculation, and that a registration fee of five shillings shall have been paid through the Secretary to the University Chest.

13. It shall be the duty of the Hebdomadal Council to draw up a statement of the conditions under which a member of a University which has been admitted to the privileges of this Statute shall be deemed to have shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language in the examinations of his University. Every such statement shall be submitted to Convocation, and, if approved, shall have the force of regulations made by Statute.

14. The Secretary shall have power to make and vary from time to time regulations for the admission of qualified persons to the status of Junior or Senior Student, and for enabling Junior or Senior Students, or persons qualified to become Junior or Senior Students, to offer themselves for examination under the provisions of this section, provided that all such regulations and any variation in them shall be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors for approval.

15. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a sufficient record of the members of the University who have the status and privileges of a Junior or Senior Student respectively, and of the persons not yet matriculated whose names have been entered for an examination under the provisions of this section, and to see that no candidate is admitted to the examination or to any of the privileges of a Junior or Senior Student who has not satisfied the conditions of this section.

SCHEDULE.

1. The examination in Stated Subjects in Responsions, or any examination which under Tit. VI., Sect. 1, § 2, exempts a CanAdd, p. 1026 [1898]. didate from Responsion. 2. The examination in additional Subjects in Responsion, the subjects offered being a Greek book, or any examination, including Greek, which is accepted by the University as equivalent to the examination.

3. The Examination of Candidates in the Greek language only at Responsions.

4. The Examination of Candidates not seeking Honours in the First Public Examination.

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