MATHEMATICS. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA. The ordinary rules of Arithmetic. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division of Alge- Explain the Composition and Resolution of Statical Forces. Give the General Laws of Motion, and describe the chief State the Law of the Motion of Falling Bodies. HYDROSTATICS, HYDRAULICS, AND PNEUMATICS. Explain the Pressure of Liquids and Gases, its equal diffusion, and variation with the depth. Define Specific Gravity, and show how the specific gravity of bodies may be ascertained. Describe and explain the Barometer, the Siphon, the Common Pump and Forcing-Pump, and the Air-Pump. ACOUSTICS. Describe the nature of Sound. OPTICS. State the Laws of Reflection and Refraction. Explain the formation of Images by Simple Lenses. * A popular knowledge only of these subjects in Natural Philosophy will be required, such as may be attained by attending a Course of Experimental Lectures. CHEMISTRY. The Atmosphere. Its general nature and condition; its component parts. Oxygen and Nitrogen; their properties. Water and Carbonic Acid. Proportions of these substances in the air. Chlorine and Iodine, as compared with Oxygen. Water. Its general relation to the atmosphere and earth; Nitric Acid, Sulphuric Acid, Carbonic Acid; their elements. Alkalies, Earths, Oxides generally. Salts. Their nature generally; Sulphates, Nitrates, Car- Metals generally. Iron, Copper, Lead, Tin, Zinc, Gold, Powers of Matter. Aggregation, crystallization, chemical Combustion. Flame; nature of ordinary fuel; chief results of combustion, i. e. the bodies produced. Heat. Natural and artificial sources; its effects. Expansion; solids, liquids, gases. Thermometer; conduction; radiation; capacity; change of form; liquefaction; steam. The chief elements of Vegetable bodies; of Animal bodies. CLASSICS. THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES. One Greek and one Latin subject, to be selected one year and a half previously by the Senate from the works of the under-mentioned authors*: Homer......One Book. Xenophon...One Book. * For the Classical Subjects for 1852 and 1853 see page 17. Virgil.....One Book of the Georgics, or the Sixth Book of the Æneid. Horace ...One Book of the Odes. Sallust...The Conspiracy of Catiline, or the War with Cæsar .The Civil War, or the Fifth and Sixth Books of the Gallic War. Livy......One Book. Cicero....The treatises De Senectute and De Amicitiâ; or two of the shorter, or one of the longer Orations. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.* The Grammatical Structure of the Language. Proficiency in Composition will be judged of by the style of answers generally. OUTLINES OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. History of England to the end of the Seventeenth century. The papers in Classics shall contain questions in History and Geography. Easy Grammatical questions shall be introduced in the Classical Papers. Simple and easy sentences, to be translated from English into Latin, shall be introduced in the Latin Paper. It shall be indispensable for passing the Examination that each Candidate answer the questions and translate the sentences in a manner generally satisfactory to the Examiners in Classics. Candidates shall not be approved by the Examiners unless they show a competent knowledge in 1. Classics+; 2. Mathematics; 3. Either Natural Philosophy or Chemistry. In the first week of examination the Examinations shall be conducted in the following order: *After the year 1852, Translation from the French or the German Language will be required. Including the English Language, History and Geography. After the year 1852, Candidates must pass in both Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. Friday, 2 to 5, ......The English Language. On Monday Morning at Nine o'clock in the week next but one ensuing, the Examiners shall arrange in Two Divisions, each in alphabetical order, such of the Candidates as have passed. EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS. Any Candidate who has passed may be examined for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Classics, Chemistry, and Natural History. Candidates for Honours in MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY shall be examined in the following subjects: ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA. GEOMETRY. PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY. THE ELEMENTS OF STATICS AND DYNAMICS. THE ELEMENTS OF OPTICS. This Examination shall take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, in the week next but one after the Matriculation Examination; in the Morning from Ten to One, and in the Afternoon from Three to Six. In determining the relative position of Candidates, the Examiners shall have regard to the proficiency in Mathematics evinced by the Candidates at the Matriculation Examination. The Examiners shall publish in the course of the fol lowing week a list of the Candidates who acquit themselves to their satisfaction, in the order of proficiency; and Candidates shall be bracketed together unless the Examiners are of opinion that there is a clear difference between them. Candidates for Honours in CLASSICS shall be examined in the following subjects: THE GREEK AND LATIN Languages. Homer........The First Six Books of the Iliad, and Books IX- Eschylus....Prometheus. Euripides....Medea. Sophocles....Antigone. Thucydides..Book I. Herodotus ...Book II. Demosthenes.The Olynthiacs and Philippics. Plato.........Apology of Socrates, and Crito. Xenophon....The Memorabilia. Virgil. Horace. Sallust........The Wars with Catiline and Jugurtha. ........ Cicero ....De Senectute; De Amicitiâ; the Orations against Catiline, Pro Milone, Pro Archiâ, and the 2nd Philippic. Tacitus.... .Agricola; Germania; and Annals, Book I. COMPOSITION IN LATIN AND IN ENGLISH. Latin Prose. Translation and retranslation. English Prose. Analysis of any of the subjects selected for examination; original composition upon questions arising out of the classical authors selected for examination. The papers in Classics shall consist of passages to be translated, accompanied by questions in Grammar, History, and Geography. This Examination shall take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, in the week following the Examination for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; in the Morning from Ten to One, and in the Afternoon from Three to Six. |