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REGULATIONS.

MATRICULATED STUDENTS.

In order to obtain a Degree or Diploma in the Queen's University, it is necessary to enter one of the Colleges* of the University, to pass the Entrance Examination, and to pursue a fixed course of study.

The names of those students who pass the Entrance Examination are placed on the Roll of the University, and they thereby become Matriculated Students.

The Matriculated Students may be classed as follow:I. Those intending to proceed to the Degrees of B.A. and M.A.

II. Those intending to proceed to the Diploma in Elementary Law, or to the Degrees of LL.B. and LL.D. along with that of B.A.

III. Those intending to proceed to the Degrecs of M.D., M.Ch., and the Diploma in Midwifery.

IV. Those intending to proceed to the Degree in Engineering.

OCCASIONAL STUDENTS.

Persons may attend the Lectures of any of the Professors without passing the Entrance or any other Examination.

EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY.

These Examinations are held annually in June.

The Examinations for men and boys will this year be held in Dublin, in the Queen's Colleges at Belfast, Cork, and Galway, and simultaneously in other places, if it be requested and found expedient.

Local Committees wishing to have Examinations held in their several districts may obtain all necessary information from the Secretary, Queen's University, Dublin Castle.

* Queen's College, Belfast; Queen's College, Cork; Queen's College, Galway.

The Examinations for women will this year be held in Belfast, Galway, and simultaneously in other places, if it be requested and found expedient.

Ladies' Superintending Committees wishing to have Examinations held in their several districts may obtain all necessary information from the Secretary, Queen's University, Dublin Castle.

MEMBERS OF OTHER UNIVERSITIES.

Students who have pursued part of their studies in other Universities, and who have been admitted to corresponding rank in one of the Colleges of the Queen's University, may be admitted to Examination for Degrees and Diplomas in Arts, Law, and Engineering, provided they have attended the Lectures of the Queen's College to which they have been admitted, in all subjects prescribed by the following Regulations, in which they had not previously passed; and that their entire Undergraduate Course have extended to the number of Sessions required by these Regulations.

Faculty of Arts.

THE DEGREe of BachelOR IN ARTS.*

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor in Arts are required—

1. To have been admitted Matriculated Students of the Queen's University in the Faculty of Arts.

2. To have subsequently studied in one of the Colleges of the University the Course herein prescribed.

3. To have passed two University Examinations.

Candidates for this Degree must enter their names with the Registrar of one of the Colleges of the University, and pay to the Bursar the prescribed College and Class Fees. They must then pass the Entrance Examination.

In each of the Colleges, the Session extends from the third Tuesday in October to the second Saturday in the following June, with short recesses at Christmas and Easter. Each Session consists of three terms.

See foot note, p. 50.

The course for the Degree of Bachelor in Arts extends over three Sessions, and comprises attendance on the following curriculum :

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Along with any two of the following:-
Greek (Second Course).
Latin (Second Course).

A Modern Continental Language (Second Course)
Mathematics (Second Course).

THIRD SESSION.

English Language and Literature.

Metaphysics, or History, or Political Economy.
(Two Terms).

Chemistry.

Zoology, or Botany.

Third year's Students may substitute attendance on one or on two courses of Honor Lectures, for a like number of the courses above set down for study in the third Session.*

Under this Regulation Candidates are at liberty to substitute one or two of the following courses for a like number of the courses set down for study in the Third Session, viz. :—

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provided that the Rules of the College Council admit of their making this substitution, and provided further that the courses substituted are courses specially preparing Students for one or more of the Honor Examinations for the degree of B.A.

Candidates are allowed under the same conditions to attend Honor Courses on two of the subjects, Metaphysics, History, and Political Economy, as two of the courses of the Third Session. Candidates who avail themselves of this permission are at liberty to attend the third of these subjects as another course of the Third Session.

A similar interpretation applies to the courses of Botany and Zoology, which will count as two courses of the Third Session, provided that one of them be an Honor Course, attended under the conditions stated above.

Attendance on all the foregoing courses includes passing such Examinations as may be appointed by the College Council, and the catechetical parts of the courses of Lectures.

In each College there is a General Examination in the subjects upon which lectures have been delivered during the Session. There is also a Supplementary Examination in the same subjects, at the commencement of the following Session. All Students must pass either the General Examination or the Supplementary Examination, before they proceed with the course of the succeeding year.

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor in Arts must reside at their respective Colleges during at least the first two terms of each Session, but may be exempted from residence during the third term by a special grace of the College Council.

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor in Arts are required to pass two University Examinations-the First University Examination and the Degree Examinationboth of which are held in Dublin.

Students who have completed their second Session must attempt the First University Examination before rising to the third year, unless prevented by illness or other inevitable accident, in which case the Senate may admit them to a Supplementary Examination.

Candidates who have attempted, but failed to pass, the First University Examination in October, will be admitted to a Supplementary Examination in December or January. The courses at the Supplementary Examination are the same as the Pass Courses prescribed for the Examination of the previous October. Each candidate must forward to the Secretary, on or before the 1st of December, notice of his intention to offer himself as a candidate, stating the grounds upon which he applies to be admitted.

FIRST UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION IN ARTS.

The curriculum for the Pass Examination includes the following courses in Greek, Latin, a Modern Continental Language, and Mathematical Science.

English Composition forms a part of all University Examinations.

The courses prescribed in Greek and Latin are

1875.

In Greek.

Euripides-Alcestis.

1876.

In Greek.
Euripides-Alcestis.

Xenophon-Memorabilia, Book Xenophon-Memorabilia, Book

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Horace Epistles.

Cicero-Ad Familiares, I., II., Cicero-Ad Familiares, I., II.,

III.

Prose Composition.

III.
Prose Composition.

In Modern Languages, cach Candidate will be allowed to select for Examination the French, the German, or the Italian Language, and will be required to translate from two modern Authors, in the Language selected, and to translate an Exercise from English into the same Language. No Candidate who fails to satisfy the Examiner in Composition will be allowed to pass.

Mathematical Science includes Mathematics and Mathematical Physics.

The Mathematical Course comprises

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th Books of Euclid, and the
Definitions of the 5th Book.

Arithmetic.

Algebra, including the usual Rules, to the end of Quadratic Equations, Proportion, Binomial Theorem for positive integral exponents, Geometrical and Arithmetical Progressions, and the Nature and Use of Logarithms.

Plane Trigonometry to the end of the solution of triangles.

The Course of Mathematical Physics comprises Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Elementary Astronomy, as treated in such works as Newth's First Book of Natural Philosophy, and Galbraith and Haughton's Manuals.

The Examination will be held in October.

Each Candidate must forward to the Secretary, on or before the 1st of September, notice of his intention to offer himself as a Candidate.

Honors.-Competitors for Honors at the First University Examination will be required to answer in Formal Logic as well as in the subjects of the Pass Course.

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