New Examination Statutes

[For Dates of Examinations see Page 6.]

(i) Statute.

[Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. B.]

§ 1.

Of Admission to the First Public Examination. No Candidate shall be admitted to any part of the First Public Examination unless he is a member of the University, and has passed Responsions or is statutably exempt therefrom.

§ 2. Of the parts of the First Public Examination. 1. The First Public Examination shall be conducted by the Moderators, and shall include

An Examination in Holy Scripture;

An Examination of Candidates not seeking Honours;
An Examination of Candidates seeking Honours in
Greek and Latin Literature;

An Examination of Candidates seeking Honours in
Mathematics.

§ 3. Of passing the First Public Examination. A Candidate shall be deemed to have passed the First Public Examination if he shall (1) have satisfied the Moderators in Holy Scripture or in a book offered instead thereof, as hereinafter provided, and shall (2) either have satisfied the Moderators in the Examination of Candidates not seeking Honours or obtained Honours in Greek and Latin Literature, or have been certified, as hereinafter provided, by the Moderators for Honours in Greek and Latin Literature to have shown sufficient merit in the Examination to satisfy them 1.

The several parts of the First Public Examination may be passed at different times.

4. Of the Examination in Holy Scripture.

1. Candidates for examination in Holy Scripture shall be examined in—

(1) One of the Synoptic Gospels, and the Gospel according to St. John.

(2) Either the subject-matter of the Acts of the Apostles, or an equivalent portion of the Old Testament.

2. A Candidate who being of full age shall object, or for whom not being of full age his parent or guardian shall object, on religious grounds, to the examination in Holy Scripture, may offer instead thereof a Greek philosophical book from

1 See p. 152, cl. 12.

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among those prescribed for Candidates not seeking Honours in the First Public Examination, not being the same as any of the books which he offers in the Examination of Candidates not seeking Honours or in which he satisfied the Moderators in that Examination, or in which he satisfied the Masters of the Schools1. The examination of such Candidates shall be conducted by the Moderators appointed to examine Candidates not seeking Honours in the First Public Examination.

3. A Candidate who is an Indian Student or is qualified to become an Indian Student or who has received the necessary permission from the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors 2 may offer, instead of the examination in Holy Scripture, [a book to be approved by the Board of Studies in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Pāli, Classical Chinese, or English], or may substitute for that part of the Examination which involves a knowledge of Greek, such additional matter as may be sanctioned by the Board.

§ 5. Of the Examination of Candidates not seeking Honours. 1. Candidates not seeking Honours shall be examined in(1) Portions of Greek and Latin authors of the best age specially offered.

Either Logic or the elements of Geometry and of Algebra. (3) Latin prose composition.

(4) Translation of passages from Greek and Latin authors not specially offered.

Every Candidate shall offer three books, of which one shall be Latin and two Greek, or two Latin and one Greek, and one at least shall be some portion of an historical or philosophical work, provided that no book offered by any Candidate shall be the same as any of the books in which he satisfied the Masters of the Schools, or any book offered by him instead of the Examination in Holy Scripture, or any book in which, offered instead of Holy Scripture, he has satisfied the Moderators.

2. A Candidate who is an Indian Student or is qualified to become an Indian Student or who has received the necessary permission from the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors 2 may offer substitutes for Greek or Latin or both, as follows. For either of these languages he may substitute English or French or (at the Examinations held in Hilary and Trinity Terms) Sanskrit or Arabic or Persian, provided that every Candidate who is 1 See p. 173, cl. 5. 2 See p. 20, cl. 8.

3 After the Examination in Hilary Term, 1916, the words in square brackets will be struck out and the following words substituted :-'an English book to be approved by the Board of Studies'.

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By decree of Convocation any Candidate who is qualified to offer an Oriental

examined in the English language shall be required to satisfy the Moderators in English Composition.

§ 6. Of the Examination of Candidates seeking Honours

in Greek and Latin Literature.

Candidates seeking Honours in Greek and Latin Literature shall be examined in

(1) Latin and Greek authors, especially Poets and Orators. The Board of the Faculty of Literæ Humaniores shall from time to time publish lists of authors or portions of authors, distinguishing, if they think fit, books to be specially offered either as necessary or as optional, and authors or portions of authors from which passages may be set for translation by all Candidates.

(2) Translation from Latin and Greek authors not specially offered.

(3) Latin prose composition.

(4) Latin verse and Greek verse and prose composition; subject to such regulations as the Board of the Faculty may make to allow quantity and excellence of other work to compensate for the omission of these subjects or any of them. (5) One or more of the following subjects

The History of Greek and Latin Literature, or some

periods thereof, with such portions of ancient writers on the arts of Poetry and Style as the Board of the Faculty may specify.

The elements of Comparative Philology as illustrating the Greek and Latin languages.

The elements of Classical Archæology.

The elements of Deductive Logic together with some other department of Logic or some portion of an ancient writer on Logic or Language: such department or portion to be specified by the Board of the Faculty.

The Board of the Faculty may include in the Examination other books and subjects either as necessary or as optional, subsidiary to the knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages.

§ 7. Of the Examination of Candidates seeking
Honours in Mathematics.

Candidates seeking Honours in Mathematics shall be examined in

(1) Pure Mathematics.

(2) The elements of Mechanics of Solids and Fluids.

language shall be permitted to offer either Sanskrit or Arabic or Persian or Pāli or Classical Chinese at the Examination in Michaelmas Term, 1915.

among those prescribed for Candidates not seeking Honours in the First Public Examination, not being the same as any of the books which he offers in the Examination of Candidates not seeking Honours or in which he satisfied the Moderators in that Examination, or in which he satisfied the Masters of the Schools1. The examination of such Candidates shall be conducted by the Moderators appointed to examine Candidates not seeking Honours in the First Public Examina

tion.

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3. A Candidate who is an Indian Student or is qualified to become an Indian Student or who has received the necessary permission from the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors may offer, instead of the examination in Holy Scripture, [a book to be approved by the Board of Studies in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Pāli, Classical Chinese, or English],3 or may substitute for that part of the Examination which involves a knowledge of Greek, such additional matter as may be sanctioned by the Board.

§ 5. Of the Examination of Candidates not seeking Honours. 1. Candidates not seeking Honours shall be examined in— (1) Portions of Greek and Latin authors of the best age specially offered.

(2) Either Logic or the elements of Geometry and of Algebra. (3) Latin prose composition.