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French or German (2nd or 3rd Class.) 4, 5 and 6. Any three of the following *: Greek (2nd Year or 3rd & 4th Years Class. b. History.

a.

C.

Political Economy.

d. Physics.

e.

Astronomy.

f. Practical Chemistry.

g.
h.

Hebrew.

The modern language not chosen as subject 3.

Undergraduates selecting Greek or German, shall take the Second Year Class or the Second Class, respectively, if they have not studied the subject during the first two years, and the Third and Fourth Years Class or the Third Class, respectively, if they have studied the subject during the first two years.

N. B.-If the languages, Greek, French, or German, are chosen as parts of the course, they must be studied in consecutive years, and for at least two years.

(2.) Undergraduates are required to attend with regularity the classes of their respective years.-The amount of absence, as recorded in the class registers (see § Iv. 1), which shall disqualify for the keeping of a Session, shall be determined by the Faculty.

(3.) Attendance on Tutorial Classes is, for the more advanced undergraduates, voluntary; but the Professors in connection with whose classes they are held, have the right of requiring the attendance of undergraduates whom they may consider to need the Tutors' help.

§ XVI.-DEGREE EXAMINATIONS.-(1.) The examinations which candidates for the B. A. Degree are required to pass after matriculation, consist of (a) the Entrance Examinations, and (b) the Sessional Examinations.

(2.) The Entrance Examinations are held at the beginning of the Session in the Second, the Third, and the Fourth Years of the Course. The subjects of these Examinations in 1884-5 shall be as follows:

Second Year.-1. CLASSICAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.-History of Rome to B.C. 31.—Geography of Italia, Sicilia, Gallia, Hispania.

Books Recommended: Liddell's Students' History of Rome; Tozer's Primer of Classical Geography; Ginn & Heath's, or Schmitz's Classical Atlas.

* So far as the provisions of the Time Table permit.

2.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.-Macaulay's Essays on Boswell's Life of Johnson, Warren Hastings, Life and Writings of Addison, the Earl of Chatham.

Third Year.-1. CLASSICAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.-History of Greece to the death of Alexander.-Geography of Græcia, Asia, Africa.

Books Recommended: Smith's Students' History of Greece; Tozer's Primer of Classical Geography; Ginn & Heath's, or Schmitz's Classical Atlas.

2. ENGLISH LITERATURE.-Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, Absalom and Achitophel, The Hind and the Panther, (Clarendon Press edition).

Fourth Year.-HISTORY.-Green's History of the English People; Guizot's Concise History of France.

(3.) The Sessional Examinations are held at the end of the Session in each of the four years of the Course, in the subjects of the classes of that year, as specified in §xv.

(4.) An undergraduate shall not be allowed as such to enter the classes of any year, unless he has passed all the required Examinations of the previous year.

(5.) If an undergraduate absent himself from any University Examination, except for such cause as may be considered sufficient by the Faculty, he shall lose his Session.

(6.) If an undergraduate fail to pass in more than two subjects at any Sessional Examination he shall lose his Session. In the case of an undergraduate taking a Session a second time the Faculty may remit attendance on classes, the examinations of which he has already passed with credit.

(7.) If an undergraduate fail to pass in more than two subjects at the Sessional Examinations of the First Year, he shall be allowed to appear as a candidate at the Second Year Matriculation Examination of any subsequent Session

(8.) If an undergraduate fail to pass in one or two subjects at any Sessional Examination, he shall be allowed a Supplementary Examination in such subject or subjects at the beginning of any subsequent Session, on the day fixed for that purpose in the Calendar. For fee see § XXIV.

(9.) If an undergraduate fail to pass in one or more subjects of any Entrance Examination, he shall be allowed a Supplementary Examination in such subject or subjects in the same Session, on the day fixed for that purpose in the Calendar. For fee see SXXIV.

(10.) If an undergraduate absent himself from any Entrance or Sessional Examination on the day appointed in the Calendar, for reasons considered sufficient by the Faculty, he shall be allowed to appear for examination on the day fixed in the Calendar for the corresponding Supplementary Examination. For fee see § XXIV.

(11.) If an undergraduate absent himself from a Supplementary Examination, for reasons deemed sufficient by the Faculty, he shall be allowed to appear as a candidate at a Special Examination, on a day to be appointed for that purpose by the Faculty. For fee see § XXIV.

(12.) A second Supplementary Examination in the same Session, in any subject of the Sessional Examinations shall in no case be granted.

(13.) Undergraduates wishing to appear as candidates at any Examinations other than Entrance and Sessional Examinations, shall be required to give notice of their intention, to the Secretary of the Faculty at least one week before the date of such examination.

(14.) Students are forbidden to take any book or manuscript into the Examination Hall, except by direction of the Examiner, or to give or to receive assistance, or to hold any communication with one another at the examinations. If a student violate this rule he shall either lose his Session or suffer such penalty as the Faculty may see fit to impose.

§ XVII.-DEGREE OF B. A. WITH HONOURS.-(1.)-An Undergraduate shall be allowed, during the third and fourth years of his course, to restrict his attention to a more limited range of subjects than that demanded of candidates for the ordinary degree of B. A., by entering upon one of the following Honours Courses, viz., (1) Classics, (2) Mathematics and Physics, (3) Mental and Moral Philosophy, (4) Experimental Physics and Chemistry, (5) English Literature and History; provided he has attained a First or Second Class standing at the previous Sessional Examination in the subject corresponding to that of the Honours Course selected.

(2.) A candidate for Honours in any of the above departments shall be required to attend the classes provided in the subjects of such department (See § XI.), to make progress satisfactory to the Professors who conduct such classes, and to pass the examinations in the subjects of such department; and he shall be allowed to omit, from the subjects demanded of candidates for the ordinary degree, certain subjects specified below.

(3.) The Examinations for Honours shall be held at the end of the Fourth Session. But a candidate for Honours may defer his examinations in the subjects of his Honours Course until a year after he has passed the Sessional Examinations in the ordinary subjects of the fourth year; in which case, however, such candidate shall not be entitled to the degree of Bachelor until he has passed the Honours Examination.

(4.) A candidate for Honours, who attains a First or Second Class standing at the examination for Honours, shall obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with First or Second Rank Honours in such department.

(5.) A candidate for Honours, who fails to obtain them, shall receive the ordinary degree of Bachelor of Arts, if his examinations in the subjects of the ordinary course and in those of the department of Honours in which he has studied, are of sufficient merit.

(6.) Candidates for Honours in Classics may, in each of the third and fourth years, omit any two of the subjects of those years not bearing on their Honours Course.

Such candidates shall be examined in the following subjects, viz. :

LATIN.-Plautus: Trinumamus.

Terence Heautontimorumenos.

Virgil: Georgics, Books I., IV.

Horace Epistles, Books I., II., Ars Poetica.

Juvenal: Satires, VII.. VIII., XIV.

Cicero De Oratore, Books I., II.

Livy Books XXI., XXII.

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Tacitus: Annals, II.

GREEK.-Eschylus: Agamemnon.
Sophocles: Edipus Coloneus.
Aristophanes: The Clouds.
Homer: Odyssey, Book v.-VIII.
Thucydides: Book II.

Plato: Phædo.

Demosthenes: De Corona.

COMPOSITION: Latin Prose.

PHILOLOGY.-Müller's Science of Language, vol. I., Chaps. I-7 Peile's Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology. Class Lectures.

LITERATURE.-Mahaffy's History of Greek Literature (the portions bearing on the authors and subjects of the course); Crutwell's History of Roman Literature, selected chapters; Theatre of the Greeks (Donaldson), selected portions.

(7.) Candidates for Honours in Mathematics and Physics may omit in the Third Year any two, and in the Fourth Year any three, of the subjects of those years, not bearing on their Honours Course. Such candidates shall be required to take in the Third Year of their Course, the Physics Class of the Fourth Year. They shall be examined in the following subjects, viz.:

MATHEMATICS.

TRIGONOMETRY.-Angular Analysis; Solution of Spherical Triangles, Napier's Analogies; with application to Astronomical Problems.

ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY.-The Conic Sections, and the Equation of the Second Degree between two variables: as far as set forth in any Standard Treatise on the subject.

CALCULUS.-Differential and Integral, as set forth in any standard Treatises on these subjects. Differential Equations (selected course), with practical applications to Physical Problems.

PHYSICS.

The subjects of the Professor's lectures on the application of the higher Mathematics to the study of physical problems, consisting of selected chapters in Kinematics, Dynamics of a Particle, Rigid Dynamics, Hydrodynamics, Thermodynamics and Electrodynamics.

(8.) Candidates for Honours in Mental and Moral Philosophy may, in each of the Third and Fourth Years, omit any two of the subjects of those years, not bearing on their Honours Course. They shall be examined in the following subjects, viz.

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Plato's Theætetus, and Republic.

Aristotle's De Anima and Metaphysics, Book 1.

Descartes' Method and Meditations.

Locke's Essay on Human Understanding.

Berkeley's Philosophical Works (Ed. Fraser).

Hume's Treatise on Human Nature, vol. 1., (with Green's Intro

duction).

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

ETHICS.

Aristotle's Ethics, Books I., III., VI,, X., (in English).

Butler's Sermons on Human Nature, with the Preface and the

Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue.

Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Mackintosh's Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue.

Kant's Metaphysic of Ethics.

Mill's Utilitarianism.

(9.) Candidates for Honours in Experimental Physics and Chemistry may, in each of the Third and Fourth Years, omit any two of the subjects of those years, not bearing on their Honours Course. Such candidates shall be required to take in the Third Year of their course the Physics Class of the Fourth Year. They shall be examined in the following sub jects, viz.:

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