STATUTES OF N.Z, UNIVERSITY. B A. DEGREE. VIII. A Bachelor of Laws may obtain the degree of Bachelor of Arts by passing in Pure Mathematics and in two other subjects of the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, on condition that the two subjects are such as he has not passed in already. IX. Teachers in affiliated Institutions, and certificated teachers of good repute in any school established or conducted under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly or of a Provincial Council of this Colony, having been in the practice of their profession for at least five years, who have passed prior to 1885 the first section of the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, may be admitted to the final examination on payment of the ordinary fee, without matriculation and the kee ing of University terms; and on passing that examination shall be entitled to all the other privileges of graduates of the University of the same standing, anything in other Statutes of the University notwithstanding: Provided that every teacher admitted to examination under this clause shall signify to the Chancellor, not later than the 1st day of September preceding the examination, the subjects in which he shall elect to be examined.* X. The fee for each examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be one guinea, subject to the provisions of the Statute "Conduct of University Examinations." By special arrangement with the Education Department, teachers who desire to obtain the certificate of Class C under the Department, are allowed to sit at the University B.A. Pass Examination on payment of the fee of one guinea; but by passing that Examination they gain no standing whatever in the University. STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY.-HONOURS IN ARTS. HONOURS IN ARTS. I. An examination for Honours in Arts shall be held in the month of November in each year.* * II. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination for Honours excepting at the examination of the year following that in which he shall have passed for the degree of Bachelor of Arts † III. Candidates for Honours shall be examined in one or more of the following groups of subjects: Group I.- LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE: any two of the following subdivisions : 1. LATIN. 2. GREEK 3. ENGLISH. 4. Either FRENCH or GERMAN. Group II.--POLITICAL SCIENCE, including 1. GENERAL HISTORY. 2. POLITICAL ECONOMY. 3. JURISPRUDEnce. 4. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. Group III-MATHEMATICS and MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. Group IV. PHYSICAL SCIENCE. Group V.-CHEMISTRY. Group VI.-NATURAL SCIENCE. Group VII.-MENTAL SCIENce. *Places of Examination-Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin. +Candidates' notices must be sent in not later than April 8th; the fee may be sent up to May 1-t; or a treble fee up to May 8th. STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY.-HONOURS IN ARTS. The subjects shall be divided as follows: (1.) Languages and Literature :- (a.) Passages from any of the best classical Latin (b.) Detailed examination in the history, literature, and language of a selected period.* Accurate knowledge of the principal works of one prose and one verse author.* (c.) Passages for translation from English into Latin prose. (B) GREEK (Three papers): (a.) Passages from any of the best classical Greek. authors; questions on grammar, history, and antiquities. (b.) Detailed examination in the history, literature, and language of a selected period. Accurate knowledge of the principal works of one prose and one verse author.† (c.) Passages for translation from English into Greek prose. *1894. Authors: Tacitus-Agricola, Germania, Histories: Ovid-Tristia. Peric 3-From the death of Augustus to the death of Trajan. 1895. Authors: Cæsar-De Bello Gallico; Poetica. Period-The Ciceronian Period. 1896. Authors: Livy, Books VIII., IX., X.; Augustan Period. Horace-Satires, Epistles and Ars Virgil-Georgics. Period-The 1897 Authors: Cicero-Pro Sestio, Pro Plancio, Pro Rabirio Postumo, Pro Milone; Virgil--Eneid, Books IX., X., XI., XII. +1894. Authors: Herodotus-Books I., II., III., IV.; Eschylus-Prometheus Vinctus, Agamemnon. Period-From Homer to the commencement of the Peloponnesian War. 1895. Authors: Thucydides-Books V., VI., VII.; Aristophanes-Knights, Clouds, Birds. Period-The Age of Pericles. 1896. Authors: Xenophon-Anabasis, Books I., II., III., IV.; Euripides-Hecuba, Medea, Orestes, Phoenissa. Period-From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the fall of Corinth. 1897. Authors: Plato-Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phado; Homer-Odyssey, 1X. to XII. Period-Early to commencement of Peloponnesian War. STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY.-HONOURS IN ARTS. (C.) ENGLISH (Three papers) :— (a.) 1. The history and structure of the English (b.) 1. The history of some one period of English (c.) Essay on some subject arising out of the works selected under (b. 2). NOTE. Great importance is attached to Composition. (D.) MODERN LANGUAGES (Three papers in each): French or German : (a.) Passages for translation at sight from and into the language chosen, questions on grammar and idiom. *1894. Authors: Thackeray-Esmond and the Virginians; Shakespeare-The Merchant of Venice, Coriolanus, Julius Cæsar, A Midsummer Night's Dream. PeriodThe latter half of the Eighteenth Century. Milton-Samson 1895. Authors: Carlyle Sartor Resartus, Life of Sterling; Agonistes, Comus, Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso. Shelley-Prometheus Unbound, Alastor, Adonais. Period-1800 to 1850. 1896. Authors: Shakespeare--King Lear, The Tempest, Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale; George Eliot-Romola, Middlemarch. Period-1558 to 1625. 1897. Authors: Scott -The Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy; De Quincey-Confessions of an Opium Eater; Shakespeare-Macbeth, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra. Period-1625 to 1688. STATUTES OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY.-HONOURS IN ARTS. (b.) Detailed examination in the literature of a selected period. Accurate knowledge of selected works of one or more authors.* Candidates will be expected to have such a knowledge of the selected period as may be gained from reading the principal works of the leading authors. (c.) Origin, history and structure of the language. Short essay (to be written in the language) on some subject arising out of the works selected under (b.). (2.) Political Science (Four papers) : (a.) GENERAL HISTORY -Period to be selected† year by year. (b.) POLITICAL ECONOMY.-Treated more fully than for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the addition of economical doctrines. *1894. French. Authors: Corneille-Les Horaces. Cinna, Le Cid, Le Menteur; Molière-Le Misanthrope, Les Précieuses Ridicules, Le Malade imaginaire, Le Médecin malgré lui; Voltaire-Charles XII., Louis XIV. Period--The Age of Louis XIV. German. Authors: Goethe-Aus Meinem Leben, Parts I. and II., Hermann und Dorothea; Schiller-Maria Stuart, Wallenstein. Period of Goethe and Schiller. 1895. French. Authors: Guizot-Histoire de la Civilisation en Europe; MolièreLe Bourgeois Gentilhomme, L'Avare; Racine-Phèdre; Corneille-Les Horaces; La Fontaine-Fables. Period-From 1789 to 1850. German. Authors: Goethe-Tasso, Werther's Leiden: Schiller-Wallenstein (the whole trilogy), Geschichte des Abfalls der Vereinigten Niederlande. Period of Goethe and Schiller. 1896. French. Authors: Bossuet-Oraisons Funèbres (édition Hachette); Des Commines-Books I., II., III., IV.; Lamartine-Jocelyn; Racine-Athalie, Andromaque. Period-The Seventeenth Century. German. Authors: Ebers - Die Schwestern; Richter-Flegeljahre, Leben des Quintus Fixlein; Freiligrath-Gedichte. Period - The Seventeenth Century. 1897. French. Authors: Le Sage-Gil Blas; Boileau Despréaux-Euvres. Period-From Mlherbe to Fénelon and La Bruyère. German. Authors: Palleske-Schiller's Leben und Werke; Von Sybel-Prinz Eugen Von Savoyen; Goethe-Faust, Part 1.; Schiller-Wilhelm Tell, Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Period of Goethe and Schiller. +1894. European History, including English History, from 1558 to 1625. 1895. European History, including English History, from the beginning of the Sixth to the end of the Fourteenth Centuries. 1896. European History, including English History, from 1625 to 1688. 1897. European History, including English History, from 1688 to 1789, |