3. Make a neat plan showing the arrangement of lines and appliances provided at a terminal railway station on a branch line, mining, cattle, and sheep traffic being anticipated. 4. What are curves of transition? When should they be used, and how should they be laid out? CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF SECOND PAper. The Board of Examiners. 1. Write an Essay on the subject of Water Supply to country railway stations. 2. Discuss the various ways of arranging Locomotive Running Sheds, and illustrate your answer by a plan of a shed to accommodate 20 engines. 3. Discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of subways and bridges for foot passengers crossing railways, and supply an outline sketch of a simple timber bridge crossing a double line of way in a cutting 10 feet deep having 1 to 1 slopes. 4. Write an Essay on Railway Collisions and the best means of guarding against them. EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF LOGIC. Professor Laurie. 1. What is the Method of Concomitant Variations? Under what conditions may a result obtained by this method be safely extended beyond the limits of our actual experience? 2. What is meant by the plurality of causes? And in what circumstances is the supposition of such a plurality sufficiently rebutted ? 3. Show the importance of connecting inductions by ratiocination. 4. Mention different kinds of empirical laws. Why is it that only a limited degree of reliance can be placed on such laws? 5. In what respects does an argument by Analogy fall short of a complete induction? Give an instance of a legitimate and useful employment of this argument. 6. What is the value of Description in connexion with induction ? 7. Show the importance of fixing the connotation of words with as little alteration as possible. Why is a dispute about a definition often a question, not of words but of things? 8. Explain, and discuss, the statement that "natural groups should be arranged in a natural series." MENTAL PATHOLOGY, MENTAL THERAPEUTICS, AND MENTAL HYGIENE. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe a typical case of general paralysis through all its stages. Give post mortem appearances of brain and its membranes. 2. Describe Cretinism. 3. What are the different varieties of melancholia? Give prognosis and treatment. 4. Contrast delirium accompanying ordinary bodily disease with insanity. 5. Give a description of the various forms of puerperal and lactational insanities, the causes, prognosis, and treatment. EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF LOGIC. Professor Laurie. 1. What is the Method of Concomitant Variations? Under what conditions may a result obtained by this method be safely extended beyond the limits of our actual experience? And 2. What is meant by the plurality of causes? in what circumstances is the supposition of such a plurality sufficiently rebutted? 3. Show the importance of connecting inductions by ratiocination. 4. Mention different kinds of empirical laws. Why is it that only a limited degree of reliance can be placed on such laws? 5. In what respects does an argument by Analogy fall short of a complete induction? Give an instance of a legitimate and useful employment of this argument. 6. What is the value of Description in connexion with induction? 7. Show the importance of fixing the connotation of words with as little alteration as possible. Why is a dispute about a definition often a question, not of words but of things? 8. Explain, and discuss, the statement that "natural groups should be arranged in a natural series." MENTAL PATHOLOGY, MENTAL THERAPEUTICS, AND MENTAL HYGIENE. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe a typical case of general paralysis. through all its stages. Give post mortem appearances of brain and its membranes. 2. Describe Cretinism. 3. What are the different varieties of melancholia? Give prognosis and treatment. 4. Contrast delirium accompanying ordinary bodily disease with insanity. 5. Give a description of the various forms of puerperal and lactational insanities, the causes, prognosis, and treatment. |