UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.

EXAMINATION PAPERS

FOR THE YEAR 1880,

WITH

LISTS OF THE DELEGATES AND THE EXAMINERS,

AND THE REGULATIONS AND NOTICES,

PREFIXED.

OXFORD:

PRINTED FOR THE DELEGACY

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS:

AND SOLD BY JAMES PARKER AND CO., OXFORD, AND 377 STRAND, LONDON.

CONTENTS.

The Statute for Local Examinations.

List of the Delegates.....

Regulations for the Year 1880....

Notice for Local Examinations, with List of Local Secretaries

List of Examiners

EXAMINATION PAPERS FOR JUNIOR CANDIDATES.

I. PRELIMINARY SUBJECTS:

1. (Reading aloud a passage from some English author) ..

2. Passage for Dictation.....

3. Gray's Elegy and Ode

4. Short English Composition...

5. Arithmetic

II. THE RUDIMENTS OF FAITH AND RELIGION:

1. Questions on Holy Scripture ....

2. The Catechism and Prayer Book

2. Judges I-XVIII

III. OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:

1. English, (a.) Shakspeare's 'Coriolanus'

(b.) Geography

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(Second Paper.) Euclid I, II, and III, IV, VI

(Third Paper.) Plane Trigonometry and use of Loga-

rithms, Mensuration. . . . . . . .

7. Mechanics and Mechanism

8. Chemistry (Questions)

(Practical).

II. THE RUDIMENTS OF FAITH AND RELIGION:

I. Questions on Holy Scripture

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2 (a). The Catechism and Prayer Book

2 (b). Joshua, Judges I-XVIII..........

III. OPTIONAL SUBJECTS.

Section A. ENGLISH:

1. English History

2. Shakspeare's 'Coriolanus' and Bacon's 'Henry VII'

3. Outlines of Political Economy and English Law

4. Physical, Political, and Commercial Geography.

Section B. LANGUAGES:

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(First Paper.) Algebra to Quadratics and Higher

Algebra..

(Second Paper.) Euclid I-IV, VI-XI, and Conic

Sections.....

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(Third Paper.) Trigonometry, Mensuration and Sur-

veying, Algebraical Geometry.... 53

(Fourth Paper.) Mechanics and Mechanism, Hydro-

statics....

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