Practical Examination. Candidates will be expected to show knowledge of- Simple methods of conducting tests on the composition and properties of soil, and of fertilizers. The identification of seeds, soils, grasses, weeds, and farm crop-plants. Group D. Candidates will be required to offer together at the same examination the subject (a) and any two of the three other subjects (b), (c), (d). (a) Genesis i-xxv. 18 and Amos. and The First Epistle to the Corinthians, to be studied in the original Greek. [N.B. For the Old Testament the Revised Version with the notes and variants in the margin will be used; for the New Testament the Oxford Text of 1881 will be used.] (b) The Apostles' Creed, together with the Articles of Religion I-VIII. (c) The History of the English Church down to 1529 A. D. (d) Either Butler's Analogy of Religion, Part II, chaps. i-vii, or Gore: The Incarnation of the Son of God, Lectures I-IV. (i) Statute. [Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. C.] § 4. Of the Honour School of Literæ Humaniores. I. The Examination in the Honour School of Literæ Humaniores shall always include, as stated subjects, (1) The Greek and Latin languages. (2) The histories of ancient Greece and Rome, to be studied as far as possible in the original authors. (3) Logic, and the Outlines of Moral and Political Philosophy, each Candidate being required to offer at the least two treatises by ancient authors. The writings of Modern Philosophers shall be admitted, but not required. 2. Candidates shall be permitted to offer, in addition, as special subjects, one or more authors or portions of authors, or departments, or periods falling within or usually studied in connexion with any of the stated subjects of this School. For the purpose of this provision the study of the Greek and Latin languages shall be taken to include the minute critical study of authors or portions of authors, the history of Ancient Literature, and Comparative Philology as illustrating the Greek and Latin languages, the study of the histories of ancient Greece and Rome shall be taken to include Classical Archæology and Art and the Law of Greece and Rome, and Logic and the Outlines of Moral and Political Philosophy shall be taken to include the history of Philosophy. Every Candidate offering a Special Subject shall be required to give notice of his intention to the Assistant Registrar, and to specify the Subject, not later than the Saturday of the eighth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination. 3. Candidates shall be expected to show such knowledge of the history of Philosophy, or of the history of the period of Philosophy to which the philosophical authors offered by them either as part of the general examination or as special subjects belong, as shall be necessary for the profitable study of these authors. 4. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination in this School unless he has passed the First Public Examination, or is qualified for admission under the provisions of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. cl. 6, or is an Affiliated, Indian, Colonial, or Foreign Senior Student, or has obtained Honours in another Final Honour School. 5. The Examination in this School shall be under the supervision of the Board of the Faculty of Literæ Humaniores. 6. The Board shall have power to prescribe or recommend authors or portions of authors or departments or periods to be offered in each of the stated subjects of this School, and shall from time to time publish lists of special subjects, prescribing particular authorities where they think it desirable; provided always that a distinction of books and subjects in the First and Second Public Examinations shall be so far as possible maintained. Candidates proposing to offer any subject not included in the lists or notices so published by the Board must submit it to the approval of the Board at such time, not being later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination, as the Board shall prescribe. 7. Any Candidate who shall not appear for examination in the first Term in which he is of sufficient standing to do so, or whose name shall not have been placed in the list of Honours, shall be permitted to offer at any future examination the same special subjects which he then offered or might have offered. (ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. The Examination in the Honour School of Literæ Humaniores will include (1) The Greek and Latin Languages. (2) The Histories of Ancient Greece and Rome. Logic, and the Outlines of Moral and Political Philosophy. The examination will consist of Stated and of Special Subjects. Stated Subjects are those in which papers or questions will always be set; Special Subjects are those which are offered by the Candidates themselves. Marked excellence in either History or Philosophy together with an adequate knowledge of the prescribed texts in both subjects will be allowed to compensate for comparative deficiency in other parts of the Examination. It is not necessary for the attainment of the highest Honours that any Special Subject should be offered; but in the assignment of such Honours great weight will be attached to excellence in a Special Subject in any one of the three departments of the Examination. Such excellence, however, will not be allowed to compensate for comparative deficiency in other parts of the Examination, unless it is combined with adequate knowledge of the prescribed work in the Stated Subjects. STATED SUBJECTS. 1. GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES. All Candidates will be expected to translate the Greek and Latin books offered by them for examination, and to translate passages from other books not specially offered. Passages will also be set for translation into Greek and Latin Prose. 2. THE HISTORIES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME. All Candidates are required to offer a period of Greek and a period of Roman History. The periods which may be offered are: In Greek History (1) From B. C. 776 to B.C. 403. (2) From B.C. 478 to B.C. 322. With the first of these periods Candidates are recommended to offerHerodotus. Thucydides. Xenophon's Hellenics I, II. With the second-Thucydides. Xenophon, Hellenics. Diodorus, Book XVI. Demosthenes, Philippics, I-III. Isocrates, Panegyricus, Philippus, Areopagiticus, De Pace. Arrian, Anabasis. In Roman History— (1) From the beginning of the First Punic War to the Battle of Actium. (2) From the end of the Third Punic War to the accession of Vespasian. (3) From B.C. 43 to the death of Trajan. With the first of these periods Candidates are recommended to offer -Polybius (Strachan-Davidson's Selections). Appian, Civil War, Book I. Cicero's Letters, Watson's Selections, Parts I and II, the whole. Part III, Epp. 47, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 67, 69, 71, 76. Part IV, Epp. 80, 81, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 96, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104. Part V, Epp. 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 121, 122, 126, 127, 128, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 144, 145, 146, 148. Sallust, Catiline. With the second-Appian, Civil War, Book I. Sallust, Catiline. Cicero's Letters, Watson's Selections, Parts I and II, the whole. Epp. 47, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 63, 67, 69, 71, 76. Epp. 80, 81, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 96, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104. Epp. 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 121, 122, 126, 127, 128, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 144, 145, 146, 148. Tacitus, Annals I, XI-XVI. Part III, With the third-Tacitus, Annals I and XI to XVI; Histories, Agricola. Suetonius, Lives of Vespasian and Domitian. Pliny's Letters, the following selection:-Book I, Epp. 1, 3, 5, 13, 14, 17, 19, 23, 24. Book II, Epp. 1, 7, 9, 11, 17. Book III, Epp. 5, 7, 11, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21. Book IV, Epp. 1, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 22, 25. Book V, Epp. 3, 4, 8, 9, 14, [15], 19, 20. Book VI, Epp. 2, 6, 10, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 27, 29, 31. Book VII, Epp. 6, 16, 18, 19, 20, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33. Book VIII, Epp. 4, 6, 8, 17, 18, 23, 24. Book IX, Epp. 7, 11, 13, 19, 22, 23, 33, 37, 39. Book X (Pliny and Trajan), the whole. Candidates will be expected to show such a knowledge of Classical Geography and Antiquities, and of the general History of Greece and Rome, as shall be necessary for the profitable study of the authors or periods which they offer. 3. PHILOSOPHY. (a) Prepared Books. Candidates will be required to offer one book of Plato and one of Aristotle from the following list:— (1) Plato's Republic; (2) Plato's Theætetus, Sophistes, Philebus; (3) Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics; (4) Aristotle's Politics. (b) Logic, including questions in Metaphysics and Psychology. Candidates are recommended to study the Logic of Aristotle and Bacon as well as Modern Logic. (c) Moral Philosophy. d) Political Philosophy, including the outlines of Political Economy. Candidates will be expected to show such knowledge of the History of Philosophy as shall be necessary for the profitable study of the books and subjects which they offer. SPECIAL SUBJECTS. GENERAL REGULATIONS. Candidates desiring to offer any Subject not included in the following list, or any treatise which requires the approval of the Board of the Faculty, must give notice of their desire not later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination, and obtain the approval of the Board. Any such notice or any enquiry respecting the books or subjects mentioned in the Regulations is to be addressed to the Assistant Registrar, University Registry, Oxford. Candidates offering a Special Subject, whether included in the following list or not, must give notice of their intention, and specify the Subject, to the Assistant Registrar not later than the Saturday of the eighth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination. LIST OF SPECIAL SUBJECTS. Candidates may offer as a special subject any one of the following : GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES. (1) The phonology and morphology of the Latin language and the Italic dialects connected with it. Passages will be set for translation into English. (2) The phonology and morphology of the Greek dialects. Passages will be set for translation into English. (3) The philology and syntax of either the Greek or the Latin language as studied by the comparative method. (4) The principles of Textual Criticism, with an exact study of (1) two critical treatises, (2) the text of some author or authors, in whole or in part; treatises and authors to be approved by the Board.+ The approval of the Board must be asked before the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the Examination. See General Regulations above. |