To describe (in words) and draws the map of the four quarters of the globe, and the map of each country in Europe (that of Great Britain in fuller detail). 3. Commercial, 4. Elementary propositions in Geography, which depend upon Astronomy for explanation.¶ HISTORY. The questions will be such as can be answered from a perusal of any of the standard Histories of England. Candidates will be expected to know something of the Biographies of the eminent men of the period. § The neatness as well as the correctness of these outlines will be taken into consideration. The degrees of longitude and latitude must be given, in order to obtain full credit for the exercise. This subject may be studied in selected chapters from Sir J. Herschel's Treatise on Astronomy, in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia (Longmans), or from Arago's Popular Astronomy, translated by Rev. E. Tomlinson (Routledge). There are many other manuals, and most of the Text Books of Geography contain a chapter upon the same subject. First Year. The History of England to the Death of Queen Elizabeth. The paper will contain questions in Scottish History; and candidates in Scotland may confine themselves to those questions. Second Year. The History of England from the Death of Queen Elizabeth to the Year 1815. 1. To work Arithmetical sums both mentally and on paper. 2. To prove and explain the rules. The figures should be well formed and the work methodically arranged as a good model for Also (in a separate paper) to answer simple questions, both theoretical and practical, in Algebra, In Algebra, the students of the 1st year should understand the 4 simple rules, involution, evolution, com- In Mensuration, the students of the 1st year should understand the measurement of every species of plane Second Year. To answer more difficult questions, and work problems in Arithmetic, Algebra, and Men suration. GEOMETRY. First Year. The first two books of Euclid, with simple deductions from the propositions. Second Year. The first four books of Euclid, with simple deductions from the propositions. ECONOMY. Elementary Questions in Political Economy. Works on this subject, published of late years use in Schools, contain matter to which these questions will have reference. VOCAL MUSIC. First Year. 1. Notation: The treble and bass staves, and the relation between them. 2. Time: Simple common, and simple triple. for 3. The scales, major and minor; with the intervals (major and minor, perfect or other) found in both, and the chromatic intervals found in the latter. 4. Transposition from one key to another; and transcription from one variety of time to another (as from to). Second Year. 1. Notation: The alto and tenor staves, and their relations to the treble and bass. 2. Time: compound common, and compound triple. 3. Classification of intervals, as perfect and imperfect, consonant and dissonant. 4. Resolution of individual dissonant intervals. 5. Rudiments of harmony: Positions of chords; progression; inversion; discords by suspension (on fundamental basses only); the discord of the dominant seventh (in its direct form only.) NOTE.-A paper on this subject is not given to any student, about to leave the Training College, who has not passed the Musical Inspector's examination in practical skill. Acting teachers who take this paper must produce a certificate from some competent person (such as the organist of their church) that they children to sing from notes." have "such an amount of musical skill, vocal or instrumental, as is sufficient for the purpose of teaching DRAWING. [N.B-This exercise does not form part of the December examination. Annual examinations in drawing only are held at each of the Training for a drawing certificate of the second grade. The series of exercises prescribed in the Art Directory* of the Department of Science and Art, LANGUAGES. 4. German will be set for each year, and candidates may take one, or two, (but not more) of these languages. First Year. This paper will contain grammatical questions, and easy passagest in prose for translation from and into English. Second Year. This paper will contain harder passagest (in poetry as well as prose), for translation from and into English prose, with questions upon the construction of particular sentences. SCIENCE EXAMINATIONS. Additional marks will be given to any candidate who has passed with success in certain of the subjects enumerated in Article VI. of the Science Directory of the Science and Art Department, at the examinations fixed by Article XVIII. of the same Directory; provided that 1. He obtains the minimum number of marks for a certificate according to this Syllabus, without counting his Science Marks. 2. He has obtained a first or second class at the Science Examinations, either in honours or in N.B.-Students in Training Colleges are admissible to the Science Examination in those subjects only *For information respecting the examinations in Science and Art, and for copies of the Science and Art Directories, application may be made to "The Secretary, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London, W." In 1876, the passages will be taken from Cæsar's Bell. Gall., Books I. and II., Virgil's Eneid, Books I. and II., Xenophon's Anabasis, Book I., Euripides' Hecuba, Derrière les Haies, by Mme. de Witt, Racine's Athalie, Schiller's Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Kriegs, and Das Lied von der Glocke. |