XV Foreign Universities and their Examinations. (I) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. In the Convocation of the Oxford University held on June 3rd, 1902, the following Revised Statute on Colonial and Indian Universities was approved :— Whereas it is expedient, (1) to provide for the making of regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of the Statute on Colonial and Indian Universities; (2) to enable candidates from these Universities under certain conditions to offer themselves for examination in any Honour School of the Second Public Examination, and to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts without having passed either Responsions or the First Public Examination; (3) to confine the requirement of a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language to candidates from Colonial Universities, and to determine the conditions under which candidates shall be permitted to satisfy the requirement by passing approved examinations of such Universities, the University enacts as follows: 1. Any University Add., page 932 [1887]. 2. The application situated in any part of the British Dominions other than the United Kingdom may apply to this University to be admitted to the privileges of this section of the statutes. shall be addressed to the Vice-Chancellor, who shall report the same to the Hebdomadal Council. 3. The Hebdomadal Council, after considering such application and after making such enquiry as it shall deem necessary, shall if it think fit, propose to Convocation that the University so applying shall be admitted to the privileges of this section of the Statutes. A University admitted to the privileges, conferred by this section of the Statutes may at any time renounce such privileges, and this University may at any time by a vote of Convocation withdraw the same from any University. 4. Any member of a University so admitted, who shall have pursued a course of study prescribed by it and extending over two years and who shall have passed all the examinations incident to the course, may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Junior Colonial or Indian Student. 5. Any member of a University so admitted, who shall have pursued a course of study prescribed by it and extending over three full years, and who shall have taken* Honours in the final examination incident to the course may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Senior, Colonial or Indian Student. 6. It shall be the duty of the Hebdomadal Council to draw up and submit to Convocation, a statement of the conditions under which member of a University so admitted shall be deemed to have taken Honours as aforesaid. Every such statement, if approved by Convocation, shall have the force of regulations made by Statute. 7. The status and privileges of a Junior Student shall be as follows :— (a) The term in which he is matriculated shall be reckoned, for the purpose of any provisions respecting the standing of members of the University as the fifth Term from the matriculation. * The University of Calcutta. (b) A Junior Student shall not be required to pass Responsions, or to pass in an Additional Subject at Responsions. (c) A Junior Student who has passed the Second Public Examination and has obtained Honours either in the First or in the Second Public Examination, shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for eight Terms. Provided thas, if he is a Colonial Student he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language. (d) A Junior Student who has passed the Second Public Examination but has not obtained Honours either in the First or in the Second Public Examination shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for twelve Terms. Provided that, if he is a Colonial Student, he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language. 8. The status and privileges of a Senior Student shall be as follows:-(a) The term in which he is matriculated shall be reckoned for the purposes of any provisions respecting the standing of the University, as the fifth Term from his matriculation. (b) A Senior Student shall not be required to pass any part of Responsions or of the First Public Examination or any Preliminary Examination of the Second Public Examination. (c) A Senior Student who has obtained Honours in the Second Public Examination shall be entitled to supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts so soon as he shall have kept statutable residence for eight Terms. Provided that if he is a Colonial Student, he has shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language. 9. Every person who, having been matriculated, desires to claim the status of a Junior or Senior Student, shall make his application through an officer of a College or Hall or of the Non-Collegiate Body, to the Secretary to the Boards of Faculties, and shall at the same time pay to the University Chest, through the Secretary, the sum of one pound or of two pounds according as he is admitted as a Junior or a Senior Student. If he makes his application later than a week from matriculation, he shall pay an additional fee of one pound. 10. Any person qualified to become a Junior Student on matriculation may be admitted to any part of Responsions, any part of the First Public Examination, and any Preliminary Examination in the Second Public Examina tion. That any member of the University of Calcutta who shall have passed the Examination at the University for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, and shall have been placed in the First Division in two or more subjects of that Examination, shall be deemed to have taken Honours as required by the provisions of Statt. Tit. II Sect. VIII, cl, 5, October 22, 1903. The above decree remained in force until December 31, 1915. On January 1st, 1916, the following decree came into force instead : "That any member of the University of Calcutta who shall have passed the Examination at the University for the degree of Master of Arts and shall have been placed in the First or Second Class in that Examination, shall be deemed to have taken Honours as required by the provisions of Statt. Tit. II, Sect VIII, cl. 5." (Minutes, 1st August, 1914.) 11. Every person who, being qualified to become a Junior or Senior Student on matriculation, desires to have his name entered for an examination before he has been matriculated, shall make his application to the Secretary through an officer of a College or Hall or of the Non-Collegiate Body, who shall send the name to the Secretary seven clear days before the day fixed for entering names for the examination in questions, together with (a) The statutable fee, and in addition thereto the sum of one pound or of two pounds according as the caadidate claims to be qualified to become a Junior or a Senior Student; (b) a declaration that the candidate in his opinion bonafide desires admission to his College or Hall or as a Non-Collegiate Student as the case may be and (c) evidence showing that the candidate is qualified as aforesaid. Any candidate whose name has been entered for an examination as aforesaid shall, as soon as he has been matriculated, become a Junior or a Senior Student as the case may be. 12. A Colonial Student shall be deemed to have shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language if he has passed either (a) one of the examinations enumerated below in the Schedule, or (b) such examination or examinations of his University as shall satisfy the conditions laid down under the provision of the next following clause. Provided that evidence of his having satisfied these conditions shall have been produced to the Secretary within one week from his matriculation and that a registration fee of five shillings shall have been paid through the Secretary to the University Chest. 13. It shall be the duty of the Hebdamadal Council to draw up a statement of the conditions under which a Member of a University which has been admitted to the privileges of this Statute shall be deemed to have shown a sufficient knowledge of the Greek language in the examinations of his University. Every such statement shall be submitted to Convocation and, if approved, shall have the force of regulations made by Statute. 14. The Secretary shall have power to make and vary from time to time regulations for the admission of qualified persons to the status of Junior or Senior Students, and for enabling Junior or Senior Students, or persons qualified to become Junior or Senior Students to offer themselves for Examination under the provisions of this section provided that all such regulations and any variation in them shall be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors for approval. 15. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a sufficient record of the members of the University who have the status and privileges of a Junior or Senior Student, respectively, and of the persons not yet matriculated whose names have been entered for an examination under the provision of this section and to see that no candidate is admitted to the examination or to any of the privileges of a Junior or Senior Student who has not satisfied the conditions of this section. SCHEDULE. 1. The examination in Stated Subjects in Responsions, or any examination which under Tit. VI, Sect. 1 § 2, exempts a candidate from Responsion. Add. p. 1026 [1898]. 2. The examination in additional subjects in Responsion, the subject offered being a Greek book, or any examination, including Greek, which is accepted by the University as equivalent to the examination. 3. The examination of candidates in the Greek language only at Responsions. 4. The examination of candidates not seeking Honours in the First Public Examination. 5. The examination of candidates for Honours in Greek and Latin Literature in the first Public Examination. 6. The Preliminary Examination in the Honour School of Jurisprudence provided that the candidate satisfies the Examiners in a Greek book in that Examination. 7. Groups A, I and D of the examination of candidates who do not seek Honours in the Second Public Examination. 8 and 9. The Honour Schools of Litera Humaniores and of Theology in the same Examination. REVISED Statute of the University of Oxford regarding Admission of Indian Junior and Senior Students to that University. "Section VIII-on Indian Universities." "1. Any student of an Indian University who shall have pursued at that University a course of study prescribed by it and extending over two years at the least, and shall have obtained the Degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science at that University, may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Junior student, provided that such Degree and such University shall have been approved by the Hebdomadal Council. No Degree shall be approved for the purposes of this clause which does not include the study of English and in addition of two of the following languages, Latin, Greek, French, German, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Pali, Classical Chinese, of which two either Latin or Greek or French or German must be one. "2. Any student of an Indian University who shall have pursued at that University a course of study prescribed by it and extending over three years at the least, and shall have obtained at that University a Degree with first or second class Honours, may be admitted to the status and privileges of a Senior student, provided that such Degree and such University shall have been approved, for the purposes of this clause, by the Hebdomadal Council. "3. The status and privileges of a Junior student shall be as follows:(a) The term in which he is Matriculated shall be reckoned, for the purposes of any provisions respecting the standing of members of the University, as the fourth Term from his Matriculation. (b) A Junior student shall not be required to pass Responsions. (1) shall have obtained a place, or his name shall have been (2) having obtained Honours in the First Public Examination, shall have passed the Second Public Examination, or (3) shall have satisfied the provisions of Statt. Tit. VI, Sect. i, D. § 3, cl. 17; provided that he shall have statisfied the examiners in Holy Scripture or in a book offered instead thereof. No Junior student shall be entitled to supplicate for the 4. The status and privileges of a Senior student shall be as follows:- (c) A Senior student shall be entitled to supplicate for the (II) UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. On the 31st May, 1915, the following revised Regulations were adopted by the Senate of the University of Cambridge for the affiliation of the Calcutta University: 1. That the University of Calcutta be adopted as an institution affiliated to the University of Cambridge. Provided (1) that he has, in accordance with the Regulations of that University studied for not less than two years at one or more institutions for the education of the adult students affiliated up to the standard of graduation, and (2) that he has in the Matriculation Examination or in some higher examination of the University of Calcutta satisfied the examiners in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian or Pali, and (3) that he has passed in the first division in the Intermediate Examination in Arts or in Science or has passed in honours in the final examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science or has passed the examination for the degree of Master of Arts or Master of Science. (III) UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. ARTS STUDIES. The University of Dublin is prepared to recognise the Arts Studies of the following Colonial and Indian Universities and such others as the Board and Council may, from time to time, direct to be added to the list :-The Universities of Adelaide, Allahabad, Bombay, Calcutta, Cape of Good Hope, Madras, Melbourne, M'Gill (Montreal), New Brunswick, New Zealand, Punjab, Sydney, Tasmania, Toronto. Any student producing the proper Certificates that he has passed two years in Arts studies at such Universities, or has passed the examinations belonging to that period, will be entitled to put his name on the College Books as a senior Freshman, a student with one year's credit; with this reservation, that if the Course of Arts which he has pursued does not include all the subjects of the Junior Freshman year, the Senior Lecturer may require him to qualify by examination in the omitted subject or subjects within one month after his name has been entered on the Books. Furthermore, the Senior Lecturer is authorized by the Board, upon due inquiry, to admit students who have passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of Cape Colony, without further examination. MEDICAL STUDIES. The Board, on the recommendation of the Medical School Committee, have adopted the following Resolution (January 13, 1900) :: "That in Medical Schools recognised by the University of Dublin, two consecutive anni medici taken at any period during the four years, of the medical Curriculum, be recognised as qualifying for admission to the Examinations of the School of Physic." "The Medical Schools which the Board and the School of Physic" are now prepared to recognise are In India --Madras, Bombay, Lahore, Calcutta. In Australia-Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide. In Ceylon-Colombo. In New Zealand-Otago. In Canada-Montreal (M'Gill), Toronto. In Tasmania-Hobart. (IV) UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. MEDICAL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. The attention of candidates who may intend to proceed to the Degrees of M.B. and Ch.B. of the University of Edinburgh is specially directed to the following regulation regarding the Medical Preliminary Examination which it is necessary to pass before entering upon the Course of Study for the Degrees "Before commencing medical studies each student must pass a Preliminary Examination in 1. ENGLISH, 2. LATIN, 3. ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS, |