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of the first term of residence, due regard being made with respect to their pecuniary circumstances.

The revised statutes direct that there shall be no further election to any of the following exhibitions :—

The exhibition founded by the Rev. N. Aspinall,

The two exhibitions founded by Mr. Hobbs,

The exhibition founded by Mr. J. Wells,

The two exhibitions founded by the Rev. W. Branthwaite,
The two exhibitions founded by the Lady G. Mildmay,
The two exhibitions founded by Mrs. Ann Hunt;

but that all the emoluments derived from the foundations of these benefactions shall be consolidated into one general fund, the proceeds of which shall be applied from time to time by the master and fellows of the college, at their discretion, for the support and encouragement of poor and deserving students.

ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.

The statutes of the college ordain that no person is to be admitted a pensioner who is not of unblemished life and of good character, and who engages to obey the statutes and ordinances of the college, and who promises to devote himself to the exercises prescribed for the acquirement of sound learning and a religious education.

A student who desires to be admitted a member of the college is required to send to the tutor of the college a satisfactory certificate. There is no college examination of students before coming into residence.

LECTURES AND EXAMINATIONS.

The subjects for students of the first year :Mathematics.-Euclid, Geometrical Conics, Arithmetic and Algebra, Plane Trigonometry, Algebraical Geometry.

Classics.-Three Classical subjects, and Greek and Latin Composition.

Divinity. One of the Gospels and one or more Epistles in Greek.

The subjects for students of the second year :Mathematics.-Analytical Geometry of two and three dimensions, Differential and Integral Calculus, Statics, Dynamics of a particle.

Classics.-The subjects of the Previous Examination, and a third subject; Greek and Latin Composition.

Divinity. One of the Gospels and one or more Epistles in Greek.

The subjects for students of the third year :Classics.-Voluntary Classical Lectures. There are also lectures on all the subjects for the ordinary degree. Mathematics.-Hydrostatics, Optics, Newton, Rigid Dyna

mics, Astronomy, Differential Equations.

The general college examination takes place in the Easter Term, after which the scholars and exhibitioners are elected from those who are found to be the most distinguished. There are also prizes of books awarded to those who stand first in the examination of each year.

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SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE.

See Lib. Cant., Part I., pp. 371–381.

The college of Lady Frances Sidney, including the foundations of other benefactors, at present consists of the master, ten fellows, and twenty foundation scholars; the number of scholars being always double the number of fellows; and the number of fellows and scholars may be augmented or diminished according as the state of the revenues of the college, for the time being, may render expedient.

The master acts as the bursar of the college; but in the management of the college affairs, all points of importance are to be submitted to the fellows assembled in a duly convened college meeting, and sanctioned by such meeting. On the other hand, no alteration in, or addition to, the college buildings is to take place without the consent of the master. The accounts of the bursar are to be submitted to a general audit twice a year. The master may propose to the college the election of one of the fellows as bursar in his stead; or, if the fellows, or two-thirds of their whole number, are dissatisfied with the master's proceedings as bursar, and deem him unfit for that office, they may demand that one of the fellows be elected bursar. And in either case, the fellow so elected shall receive, in addition to all his other emoluments, the sum of £100 per annum out of the master's stipend.

If at any time the college revenues are found inadequate to maintain the full number of fellows and scholars, as fixed by the statutes, so that the average dividend of a fellow for ten years be less than £200 a year, it shall be lawful for the master and fellows to reduce the number of fellowships in such manner as the state of the revenues shall require. And if, on the other hand, the state of the revenues shall be such as to admit of the average dividend of a fellow for ten years being not less than £250 a year, the master and fellows shall apply any surplus over that amount in augmenting the number of fellowships or of scholarships, as they shall think

fit; provided that the number of scholars be not more than double that of the fellows for the time being.

If at any time it shall appear to the master and fellows that, by reason of any change in the value of money, the specific sums fixed by the statutes, or which may be hereafter fixed in exercise of any power given by the statutes, have become insufficient or excessive, and that such insufficiency or excess is productive of injustice or hardship, or is injurious to the general interests of the college; they may, by an instrument under the seal of the college, and with the sanction of the visitor, for the purpose of correcting or obviating such injustice, hardship, or injury, direct that such annual sums shall be increased or diminished, as they shall think fit, and the increased or diminished sums shall thenceforth be substituted for, and stand in the place of, the sums originally fixed.

When and so soon as the interests to be regulated by the old statutes shall have expired or otherwise determined, to such an extent as may, in the judgment of the master and fellows, enable the pecuniary arrangements prescribed by the new statutes to be partially carried into effect, without prejudice to such of those interests as may not have expired, or otherwise determined, the master and fellows shall from time to time, as circumstances may permit, bring into operation so much and such part or parts of the prescribed arrangements as they shall deem most expedient.

THE MASTERSHIP.

The master is required to be, at least, of the degree of Master of Arts, and in Priests' Orders. It is his duty to superintend generally the affairs of the college, to take care that every member of the college is giving due attention to his collegiate duties. He is to preside at all college meetings, but to have one vote only in questions to be decided, unless the numbers be equal; in which case he shall have the casting vote. He is to regulate the distribution of the several departments of instruction among the college officers appointed to

take part therein, and shall fix the times of lectures, exercises, and examinations.

On the occurrence of a vacancy in the mastership, the fellows are directed to elect a master on the twentieth day after notice has been given of the vacancy; except the vacancy occur in the Long Vacation; in which case the election may be deferred to some day not later than the twentieth day after the commencement of the next Michaelmas Term.

It is lawful for the fellows to propose any duly qualified member of the University-that is to say, any one of, at least, the degree of Master of Arts, and in Priests' Orders-as the new master; and if any one of the persons so proposed be found to have the votes of a majority of the fellows, the senior fellow present shall pronounce him elected. If, however, no one of the persons proposed for the office of master has a majority of the votes of the fellows present, and if on that day such a majority cannot agree upon some one person as master, then on the next day the election shall devolve upon the three senior fellows present; and if they, or two of them, cannot agree on that day upon some one person to be master, then on the following day the names of all those who have been proposed shall be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, and he shall have authority to select one out of the number to be the new master. The master, on his election or appointment, shall make a declaration that he is bona fide a member of the Church of England; and be admitted to the office of the mastership.

In the interval between the master's decease and the admission of a new master, the senior fellow in residence, or the vice-master, if there be one at the time, shall act as master in all such matters as cannot be deferred, and shall have authority as master over all persons in the college.

The master has the lodge for his place of residence, and a stipend of £550 a year. He also, besides, receives out of the divisible revenues of the college, after all statutable and other payments have been discharged, twice the dividend of a fellow who is a Master of Arts.

The master shall not be allowed to be absent from college

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