Modern Irish. Modern Irish Grammar and Composition. Dion-brollac Forais Feara ar ‘Eirinn, The Course appointed in Experimental Science consists of two sub-courses, Experimental Physics and Chemical Science, which are as follows: Experimental Physics. Candidates will be expected to be familiar with elementary physical principles, such as those necessary to explain the use of levers, cogwheels, whistles, pumps, lenses, magnets, the magnetic effects of electric currents, the measurement of atmospheric pressure by the mercurial barometer. There will be a practical examination in which their ability to make simple physical measurements may be tested by requiring them to measure lengths, areas, volumes, weights, velocities, accelerations, the pressures of liquids, or the focal lengths of lenses. They should be able to plot their results on squared paper, draw plans to scale of the things they measure, and plot the paths of rays of light passing through or reflected by plane surfaces. They will be expected to be familiar with the metric system. Chemical Science. Physical and Chemical changes of matter-how distinguished. Elements and compounds. Law of definite proportions-Equivalents. Water-its chief physical and chemical properties-its ultimate composition-Analysis--Electrolysis-Chief properties of hydrogen and oxygen. Synthesis of water. Laws of gaseous combination. Elementary ideas relating to molecules and atoms. Avogadro's law. Water as a solvent-Natural waters. Peroxide of hydrogen. Valence-law of multiple proportions. Atmospheric Air-the principal substances contained in it-how they are recognized—their condition in air. Relations by air to processes of combustion and animal respiration. Nitrogen-its chief compounds with oxygen and hydrogen. Acids, alkalies, salts-their general characters. Carbon-its forms. Allotropism. The two oxides of carbon--their chief physical and chemical properties and relations. The hydrides of carbon, marsh gas and olefiant gas. Coal gas and the nature of flame. Deductions of formulæ and solutions of simple chemical problems. At the Practical part of the examination, candidates will be expected to recognise one or more of the elements or compounds named above, or to prepare any of them. They may also be asked to perform simple quantitative operations illustrating general principles, such as--the action of heat on a metallic salt, the displacement of one metal by another from solution, or the measurement by the volume of a gas evolved. NOTE. Systematic qualitative analysis is not required at this stage. The course appointed in Natural Science consists of three sub-courses, Zoology, Botany, and Geology, which are follows: Zoology-Thomson's Outlines of Zoology, Chaps. i. and ii. as External structure of the Lobster or Crayfish, Insect, Frog, Life-history of Frog, and Butterfly or Moth. Botany-Stenhouse's Introduction to Nature Study, Part i. The Examiners are For Greek and Latin Verse and Prose: -The Regius Professor of Greek and the Professor of Latin. For English History and Modern Geography:-The Professor of Modern History and one Examiner appointed by the Board. For English Literature and Composition :-The Professor of English Literature and one Examiner appointed by the Board. For French-The Professor of the Romance Languages and one Examiner appointed by the Board. For German :-The Professor of German and one Examiner appointed by the Board. For Hebrew :—The Professor of Hebrew and one Examiner appointed by the Board. For Experimental Science :-The Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and the Professor of Chemistry. For Natural Science :-The Professors of Botany, of Geology and Mineralogy, and of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. For Modern Irish:-The Professor of Irish and one Examiner appointed by the Board. SIZARS are Students of limited means, who have their commons free of expense, and are exempted from annual fees. Women Students who obtain Sizarships are allowed £12 a year in lieu of commons. The Entrance fee for Sizars is £1 1s. 3d. The poverty of the Candidates is one of the qualifications to be inquired into before they are admitted Sizars. Candidates for Sizarship are required to send in to the Senior Lecturer, on or before the 1st day of July in each year, a statement proving that they are persons of limited means and entitled to compete for admission on the ground of poverty; and only those persons who appear to the Senior Lecturer to be qualified are permitted to compete. No candidates are admitted to the Sizarship Examination who (1) are already Matriculated Students of the University; or (2) are Graduates of any Chartered University; or (3) are over nineteen on the 1st of June of the year in which they compete. The Board may, if they think fit, award, independently of the Sizarship Examination, not more than one Sizarship in Mathematics and one in Classics to such members of the Junior Freshman Class as they may consider to have especially distinguished themselves since their matriculation, and to be otherwise suitable to be awarded a Sizarship. In this case no limit of age is imposed. The Board offer Sizarships in Experimental Science, to be competed for by such candidates as can produce definite evidence that they have already received Laboratory instruction. Students who enter College as Sizars are permitted to hold their Sizarships for four years. In the event of persons who are already Students of the College being admitted as Sizars, the duration of their Sizarships shall not exceed four years from the Sizarship Examination next succeeding their entrance into College. Sizars who fail to keep their class, or who drop a class without the express permission of the Board, ipso facto, vacate their Sizarships. The Examination for Sizarships is held annually on the two weekdays before October 10th, and is marked in the Almanac for the year. The Examination commences at 9.30. Sizarships in Mathematics, Classics, Experimental Science, and Modern Languages.-The Sizarship Examination lasts for two days, and 400 marks are assigned at it. The first day, and the morning of the second day, are devoted to the special subject, Mathematics, Classics, Experimental Science, or Modern Languages, and 300 marks assigned to it. The last afternoon is devoted (1) to an English Essay (counting 50 marks), for which all candidates, whether in Mathematics, Classics, Experimental Science, or Modern Languages, must compete; (2) for the candidates in Mathematics and Experimental Science, to an easy paper in Latin Composition and a viva voce Examination in a Latin and a Greek author of his own selection, it being permissible for candidates to substitute French or German for Greek; and (3) for the candidates in Classics and Modern Languages, to a paper in Arithmetic and Algebra, and a vivâ voce Examination in Geometry (as in the Entrance Course); and this portion of the Examination will, in each case, count 50 marks. Candidates in Modern Languages must also pass a qualifying Examination in Latin. Classics. First Morning.-Translation from Greek authors (unprescribed), 70 marks. First Evening.-Translation from Latin authors (unprescribed), 70 marks. During the first day the candidates are examined viva voce in one Greek and one Latin author, as prescribed below. The mark assigned to this viva voce Examination is 40. prescribed authors are Any three books of Homer, or any one book of Thucydides. The Any one book of Livy, or any one of the following portions of Horace :-(a) Odes, (b) Satires, (c) Epistles, including the Ars Poetica. [Candidates must send to the Senior Lecturer, at least a month before the Examination, notice of the portions of these authors in which they intend to present themselves.] Second Morning.-Greek Prose Composition, 40 marks. Ancient History (viva voce in a class), [Candidates are expected to know the principal facts in Greek History, and the Outlines of Greek Literature and Art, from the earliest times to 323 B.C.; and the principal facts in Roman History, and the Outlines of Roman Literature, from the earliest times to 37 A.D.] A paper in Greek and Latin Verse Composition is set as a voluntary exercise on the third morning. It counts 40 marks; but no credit is given unless positive merit is shown. Mathematics. Geometry.-Deductions from Euclid. The Methods of Coordinates, Graphs, Analytical Geometry of the Right Line (Cartesian Coordinates). Algebra.-Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression - Scales of Notation--Surds and Imaginary Quantities-Quadratic Equations and Simultaneous Equations of the second Degree-Permutations and Combinations Binomial Theorem-Logarithms Exponential and Logarithmic Series-Partial Fractions-Continued Fractions--Algebraic Series. N.B.-Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra, chaps. i.-xvii. (inclusive), xxiii., xxiv., xxv., xxix., is recommended. Theory of Equations.—Relation between the Roots and Coefficients of Equations-Elementary Symmetric Functions of the Roots-Transformation of Equations-Horner's Method of Solving Numerical Equations. Trigonometry. To the end of the Solution of Plane Triangles--De Moivre's Theorem-Exponential Forms of Trigonometric FunctionsTrigonometric Series. Experimental Science. Elementary Mathematics.-A Paper will be set in Elementary Mathematics. Such a knowledge of Mathematics will be expected as is required for a proper study of the Course in Experimental Science. Simple questions may be set in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Geometrical Optics. Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the use of squared paper, and to know how to plot their results on it. Experimental Physics.-Measurement of length, area, volume, mass, and weight; density, time, velocity, acceleration, and pressureSimpler phenomena of Heat, Light, and Sound. There will be a Practical Examination as well as a Written Examination. Chemistry.-General properties of substances-Mixtures and solutions-Processes employed in the Laboratory, such as evaporation, distillation, solution, crystallization, filtration—Effect of heat on solubility of solids and gases in water-Oxidation of elementary substances by heating in air or oxygen, and by other methods-Properties of oxygen and nitrogen-Atmospheric air, its composition and properties--Preparation and properties of the commoner acids and alkalies-Calcium carbonate, carbon dioxide, lime-Action of acids on metals-HydrogenWater-Chemical elements and compounds-Distinction between metals and non-metals, and between chemical compounds and mechanical mixtures-Volume of gas evolved by action of various acids on metals--Effect of temperature and pressure on the volume of a gas-Density of a gas-Calculation of the weight of a gas from its volume and densityIndestructibility of matter-Law of definite proportions-Law of equivalent weights. There will be a Practical as well as a Written Examination. NOTE.-The atomic theory is not required, nor are chemical formulæ or equations. Modern Languages. One Sizarship is offered each year in Modern Languages, French and German. The Examination will consist of passages (unprescribed) for translation from French and German, and of passages for Composition in both languages. The candidates will also be examined viva voce in the following authors:— French, German,. C. Delavigne: Louis XI. (ed. Eve). Michelet: Louis XI. et Charles le Téméraire (ed. Gustav Freytag: Bilder aus der deutschen Vergan genheit, vol. ii. Vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit, chaps. i., ii., iii., iv. |