PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS OF 1847. The papers on the various subjects were prepared by the undermentioned gentlemen : The answers were examined by the gentlemen whose names are appended to each. MIXED MATHEMATICS VERNACULAR ESSAY... ... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... The Honorable C. H. Cameron. J. W. Colvile, Esq. {The Honorable Sir Henry Seton and { D. Eliott, Esq. E. A. Samuells and C. Beadon, Esqrs., J. Newmarch, Esq. The Revd. J. H. Pratt and J. Newmarch, Esq. The Revd. K. M. Banerjea. Junior Scholarships. The Principals and Professors of the Hindu and Hooghly Colleges, and Baboo Kissenchunder Dutt. The following is the manner in which the examinations are conducted :— 1. Sets of questions on the various branches of study in the Senior and Junior Departments are prepared under the direction of the Council of Education. 2. Each member presiding at the examination is furnished with a copy of each of the sets of Scholarship Questions under a sealed cover, with a superscription specifying the subject of the contained paper, and the day on which it is to be opened in the presence of the scholarship candidates. 3. The students are assembled in a room without books, papers, or references of any kind; are not allowed to communicate with each other during the examination, and on that account are placed at a proper distance from each other. 4. They are required to answer the questions and to write the essays without any assistance whatever; and to ensure this, one of the members of the Council remains in the room, and superintends the whole examination. 5. Any attempt at, or practice of unfair means subjects the offending party to a fine of 100 Rs. in cases of Senior, and 50 Rs. in cases of Junior Scholarships: non-payment of the fine within one month, subjecting the offender to exclusion from the Institution till payment, and no offender is capable of then, or again competing for any Scholarship. 6. At the hour fixed for the close of each day's examination, every student delivers to the superintending member of the Council his answers or his essays signed by himself. The member immediately puts them into an envelope and seals it up. 7. The Council of Education fix a uniform standard of value for each question according to its importance. A perfectly correct and complete answer obtains the full number of marks attached to the question, an imperfect answer obtains a part only of the full number in proportion to its approximation to correctness and completeness. At least 50 per cent. of the aggregate number of marks attached to an entire set of examination questions, is necessary to entitle a student either to a Senior or Junior Scholarship. 8. A junior scholar of one year's standing will in future be examined in the junior scholarship papers; 75 per cent. of the maximum number of marks being required to admit of his retaining his scholarship. Junior scholars of 2 and 3 years' standing will undergo their examinations in the senior scholarship papers: they must obtain 20 and 30 per cent. respectively of the aggregate number of marks to entitle them to retain their scholarships. All senior scholarship holders must pass their examination in the senior scholarship papers. A senior scholar of one year's standing must obtain at least 65 per cent. of the aggregate number of marks allowed, and of all subsequent years, at least 75 per cent. to entitle him to retain his scholarship. 9. No student is allowed to compete for a Junior Scholarship whom the Principal of the College or the Head Master of the school to which he belongs, does not consider competent to attain the requisite standard. 10. No student is allowed to compete for a Senior who has not already obtained a Junior Scholarship, or proved himself qualified to hold one, had there been a vacancy at the last previous examination. FRED. J. MOuat, M. D. Council of Education, January 1, 1848. Secretary. SCHOLARSHIP QUESTIONS. Milton. SENIOR SCHOLARSHIPS 1847. Literature Proper. 1. This evening late by then the chewing flocks, Was took ere she was 'ware and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear And took in strains that might create a soul "Till an unusual stop of sudden silence," &c. Explain this and the two following lines : From "That even silence," &c. down to " still to be so displaced." Explain this passage fully. Explain the expression" that might create a soul under the ribs of Death." Whence is the image of the ribs of death derived. Give any instances of the like image that may occur to you. Explain the expressions " by then," " dew-besprent," "Till fancy had her fill," " but ere a close the wonted roar was up amidst the woods." Whose was the wonted roar? What is the meaning of " sceptered pall"? and why is Tragedy represented as so arrayed? Why is the tragic termed " the buskined" stage? What are the principal tragedies which present the line of Thebes-or that of Pelops? or the tale of Troy? and who were the authors of those tragedies? 3. Thus saying from her side the fatal key, And towards the gate rolling her bestial train, What is meant by her bestial train'? State the allegorical meaning of this passage, and in particular of the words " she opened, but to shut excelled her power." 66 What is there unusual in the manner in which the word grate" is here used? 4. "That stone, or like to that which here below In vain, though by their powerful art they bind In various shapes old Proteus from the sea, Drained through a limbec to his native form," To what study do the two first lines allude? to what science the four last? and what is personified by “Volatile Hermes?" Pope. 5. Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Who would not weep if Atticus were he! Which of Pope's contemporaries is here satirized under the name of Atticus. What was the immediate cause of disagreement between him and Pope? |