C.-PHYSIOLOGY. D. SANITARY SCIENCE. 1. Introduction. Meaning of the terms Sanitation and Hygiene. Objects in view in studying these subjects. Division into two great subjects-public health and personal health. 2. General functions of the body.-Anatomy and Physiology. Treatment of the two subjects together in a very elementary manner, so as to teach something of digestion, circulation of the blood, respiration, secretion, and excretion, &c. 3. Water.-Importance of its purity. Sources-rivers, tanks, wells, and their relative value. Composition. Characters and classifications of potable waters. Origin of impurities. Purification. Prevention of pollution of tanks, wells and rivers. Diseases caused by impure supply. Artificial water-supply and the different ways of effecting it. Water-works, &c. 4. Air.-Composition. Impurities. Effect of human beings, animals and plants on the air. Cubic space necessary for each person. Dangers of overcrowding. Ventilation. 5. Local conditions.-Soil, climate, meteorology, sites for buildings, influence of swamps, vegetation, winds, rainfall, temperature, and humidity. Diseases connected with the soil. 6. Food and diet.-Classification, uses and physiology, animal and vegetable food. Principles of diet. Cooking and preparation of food. Hours for meals. Effects of excess or deficiency of food. Condiments. Effects of unwholesomeness. Adulteration. Food in use in native homes. connected with food. Diseases 7. Disease.-Contagion. Epidemics. Modern ideas as to the causes of epidemic and endemic disease amongst men and animals. Bacteriology, Cholera, smallpox, plague, malarial fevers, &c. Prevention by segregation, disinfection, heat, &c. 8. Personal Hygiene.—Habits, exercise, sleep, cleanliness, washing, attention to the skin and bowels. Parasites. Clothing. Effects of early marriage. Care of children. Effects of excess and intemperance; of tobacco, opium, and other articles of a similar kind. 9. Waste and impurities.-Disposal of excreta, sewage, and refuse. Latrines. Offensive trades. Drainage. Disposal of the dead. Diseases connected with filth. 10. Vital statistics.- Reasons why they are necessary. 11. Sanitary Inspections and Sanitary Law.-Reasons why they are necessary. Duties of the citizen as regards sanitation. Instruction is best afforded by lectures which need not exceed 20 in number. They should be extremely practical, as well as of a popular character. and in many of the sections will necessarily be quite elementary; they should be illustrated by simple experiments and demonstrations. 8. An optional paper, requiring an original composition in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu or Uriya, shall be set at the F.A. examination, proficiency in which shall entitle a candidate to a special certificate, but shall not be counted towards a pass. BACHELOR OF ARTS. 1. An examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be held annually in Calcutta and such other places* as shall The following places have already been appointed :- Barisal, Bhagalpur, Cooch-Behar, Dacca, Hughli, Katak, Patna, RampurBaulia, and Rangoon. from time to time be appointed by the Syndicate, and shall commence at such time as the Syndicate shall determine, the date to be approximately notified in the Calendar for the year. 2. An undergraduate of the University may be admitted to the examination, provided he has prosecuted a regular course of study in any affiliated. Institution for not less than two academical years after passing the First Examination in Arts.* No candidate shall be considered to have prosecuted a regular course of study unless he has attended at least 66 per cent. of the lectures delivered in the Institution to which he belongs, in each of the subjects in which he is to be examined. This percentage shall be calculated on the total number of lectures in each subject delivered in the Institution from the commencement of the academical year after the summer vacation. If a student is transferred from one Institution to another in the course of a year, the percentage of attendances in the second Institution shall be calculated on the total number of lectures on each subject delivered in that Institution after the date of the transfer certificate. If a student fails to enter an affiliated Institution before the 1st August in any year, his attendance for that year shall not, except with the special sanction of the Syndicate, be counted. 3. Any candidate may be examined either for a pass or for honours in any branch. A candidate, who desires to be examined for honours in any branch must take up instead of the pass subject the corresponding honour subject. A candidate who obtains honours in any branch will be considered to have also passed in that branch. Should a candidate not have deserved honours in any branch, the examiners shall be authorised to declare that he has passed in that branch, if they consider that his attainments come up to the pass standard. 4. Every candidate shall send his application, with a certificate in the form entered in Appendix A, to the Registrar at least six weeks before the date fixed for the commencement of the examination. If he desires to be examined for honours, he shall state in his application the subject or subjects in which he desires to be so examined. 5. A fee of thirty rupees shall be payable by each candidate. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination unless he shall have paid this fee to the Registrar. A candidate who fails to pass or to present himself for examination shall not be entitled to claim a refund of the fee. A candidate who fails to pass may be admitted to one or more subsequent examinations The Syndicate have power to make exceptions to this rule in favour of those Deputy Inspectors of Schools, Sub-Inspectors of Schools, and bond fide Masters of English Schools, who have served as such for the full period of two academical years. Their applications must be signed by the Inspector of Schools in whose circle they are employed. + The Syndicate have power to make exceptions to this rule. for the degree of Bachelor of Arts on payment of a like fee of thirty rupees on each occasion, provided he produces a certificate from the head of an affiliated Institution showing that his name has been on the rolls of that Institution for six calendar months since the date of the last examination to which he was admitted, and that he has attended 66 per cent.t of the lectures delivered in the Institution during those six months, in each of the subjects in which he is to be examined. A candidate who fails to present himself may be admitted to any one subsequent B.A. Examination on payment of half the fee. * 6. The examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be conducted by means of printed papers. 7. As soon as possible after the examination, the Syndicate shall publish a list of the candidates who have passed, arranged in alphabetical order, together with a list of those who have obtained honours in each branch, arranged in two divisions, both in order of merit. The names of those successful candidates who have not prosecuted a regular course of study in an affiliated Institution shall be submitted to the Senate every year before the Convocation, with a view to their being admitted to the degree of B.A. At the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, every candidate shall be examined in one or other of the two following courses marked A and B : Pass Subjects. I-English. A.I : II.-Mental and Moral Science, as defined below. Corresponding Honour Subjects. I.--In addition to the pass subject, a further course in English, and the History of the English language and literature, and an original English essay. II. In addition to the pass course, the History of Philosophy and Natural Theology, as defined below. And one of the following: Pass Subjects. III.-One of the following langu. Corresponding Honour Subjects. III.—In addition to the pass course, Comparative Grammar, and a second course in the classical language. The Syndicate have power to make exceptions to this rule in the case of candidates who, after failing in the examination, have served as teachers for six months since the date of the last examination. The Syndicate have power to make exceptions to this rule. The text-books are fixed from time to time by the Syndicate. (See Section VIII.) Philosophy and Psychology. Scope and Method of Psychology. Relation of Psychology to Metaphysics and Physiology. Mind, Consciousness, Self-consciousness. Analysis and Classifications of Mental Processes and Products. Development of Mental Life. Laws of Mind. The Text-books are fixed from time to time by the Syndicate. (See Section VIII.) + The questions of Mental and Moral Science will have no special reference to the writing of any one author or school of authors. In matters of opinion answers will be judged according to their accuracy of thought and expression. The Honour papers in the subjects of the Pass Course shall consist of more advanced questions than the Pass papers. Psychology of Cognition. Perception and Sensation. The Senses and the Nervons System. Localisation of Sensation. Primary and Secondary Qualities of body. Object of Perception. Perception of the different Senses. Acquired Perceptions. Imagination, Expectation, Memory. Thinking, Conception, Judgment. Reasoning. Generalisation, Belief and Knowledge. Experience and Reason, Self, External World. Time, Space, Substance, Cause, Power. Psychology of Feelings. Sense-feelings, Emotions and Sentiments, Pleasure and Pain. Psychology of the will. Attention and Volition. Appetite and Desire. Instinct and Habit. Voluntary Action. Couflict of Motives, Deliberation, Choice. Freedom of the Will. (b) Logic Definition and Province of Logic. Relation of Logic to Metaphysics and the Special Sciences. Thonght, Knowledge, Truth, Science. Immediate and Mediate Kowledge. Intuitive and Inferential Truths. Observation and Experiment. Analysis and Synthesis. Classification and Definition. Hypothesis and Explanation. Induction, Analogy, and Probability. The Ground of Induction. Experimental Methods. Deductive Method. Relation of Induction to Deduction. Demonstration, Syllogism, Functions of Syllogism. (c) Ethics Scope and Method of Ethics. Relation of Ethics to Metaphysics, Psychology, Sociology, and Politics. Analysis of the Moral Consciousness, Moral Sentiment, Moral Judgment, the Moral Faculty, Springs of Action and their Mutual Relation. The Good or Ultimate End of Action. Moral Obligation. Standards of Right and Wrong. Sanctions of Morality. The Individual and Society. Duties and Virtues. The Honour subjects shall include (a) Natural Theology Theology and Religion. Natural and Revealed, Relation of Religion to Metaphysics and Ethics. Analysis of the Religious Consciousness; The Religious Sentiment, the Religious Faculty, the Sense of Dependence, the Ides of the Infinite, the Causal Belief, the Sense of Duty, the Belief and Worship of God, the Belief in a Fature Life. God, Man and Nature. The Existence and Attributes of God. The Relation of God to Nature and Man. Theory of the Universe. Theism, Pantheism, Agnosticism, Materialism, Panphenomenalism, Optimism, Pessimism, Teleology, Evolution. Necessity and Freedom. Immortality of the Soul. (b) History of Philosophy General Knowledge of the Systems of Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Leibnitz, Kant, Cousin, Hamilton, and Mill; and Special Study of subjects to be selected from year to year. Equilibrium, conditions of equlibrium of any forces acting on a particle or rigid body. |