THE FERRAR MEMORIAL PRIZE. Ar a meeting of the subscribers to the Ferrar Memorial Fund, held in Trinity College, on Wednesday, the 11th of November, 1874, the Rev. George Salmon, D. D., Regius Professor of Divinity, in the Chair, it was resolved :— 1. That the entire Fund subscribed be invested in Bank of Ireland Stock, in the names of the Provost of Trinity College, the Rev. George Salmon, D.D., and William Ewart, Esq., J. P., as trustees for the purposes of the Fund. 2. That an annual Prize, payable out of the interest of the Fund, and depending on its amount, be founded in the University of Dublin, to be called "The Ferrar Memorial Prize." 3. That the Prize be awarded, subject to the restriction of sufficient absolute merit, to the best answerer at an Examination to be held in Trinity College, on a day or days of which due notice shall be given. 4. That the subject of Examination for the Prize be a course of Comparative Philology, to be fixed from time to time by the Board of Trinity College, and duly announced in the University Calendar for each year. 5. That the competition for the Prize be open to all under the standing of M.A.-not Fellows of the College, or Professors of the University-whose names shall be on the books of Trinity College during the day or days of Examination. 6. That successful competition for the Prize in any year shall preclude the successful candidate from competition for it again in any subsequent year. The Fund invested produces annually about £22; but as the Examiners' Fees are paid out of the Fund, the annual value of the Prize is about £15. The Examination for the Prize is held in Trinity Term. The Course for the Examination is Giles' Manual of Comparative Philology. Wright's Gothic Grammar, or, the following works in Sanskrit :— THE TYRRELL MEMORIAL PRIZE. AT a meeting of the subscribers to a fund for establishing a Memorial in memory of the late W. G. Tyrrell, held on the 20th October. 1877, certain resolutions were unanimously agreed to, were sanctioned by the Board on December 1, 1877, and slightly modified on December 8, 1900, so that they now are as follows:-1. That the Prize be a Biennial Gold Medal, to be awarded for the best Translations of passages into the four kinds of Classical Composition. 2. That the passages for the Compositions be announced in November each alternate year; the Compositions, with fictitious signatures, to be sent to the Senior Lecturer on or before the 1st of February following. 3. That the Competition be open to all Students under the standing of M. A., having their name on the College Books. 4. That the Examiners be the Regius Professor of Greek and the Professor of Latin. THE WILLIAM ROBERTS PRIZE. ON the 13th December, 1884, the sum of £200 was received from Mrs. William Roberts, to found a Prize in Classics, to be called the "William Roberts Prize." This Prize is awarded to the Student who, having passed the General Michaelmas Examination of the Senior Freshman Year, obtains the highest marks at the Classical Honor Examination of the Senior Freshmen in the Michaelmas Term. The Fund yields annually about £6. MULLINS CLASSICAL EXHIBITION. THE late Inspector-General Mullins having bequeathed to the College a sum of £600, for the "foundation of an Exhibition, to be called the Mullins Classical Exhibition, in such Greek and Latin authors, and under such regulations as the Provost and Senior Fellows may from time to time determine," the Board adopted the following Resolutions in the years 1898 and 1905 :— "The Exhibition shall be tenable for three years, and the Examination shall be held every third year, in Michaelmas Term. "The course shall consist of works of Greek or Latin authors not included in the General University Curriculum. The authors to be studied for each Examination shall be prescribed by the Board. "Besides answering in the prescribed course, candidates shall be required to write an original Dissertation, bearing on some part of the subject-matter of that course, or treating questions connected therewith." The competition is confined to students having their names on the College Books and Graduates under M.A. standing. The Fund yields annually about £17. The following is the subject for Examination in 1916:— Non-literary Ptolemaic Papyri. Books recommended :- Elephantine-Papyri. O. Rubensohn (Berlin). (Oxford). Grenfell and Mahaffy Hibeh Papyri. Grenfell and Hunt (Oxford). Petrie Papyri. Mahaffy and Smyly (Dublin). Tebtunis Papyri I. Grenfell, Hunt, and Smyly (Oxford). Papyrus Grecs de Lille, Jouguet (Paris). and the Ptolemaic documents in Papyrus Grecs du Louvre (Paris). Greek Papyri I. and II. Grenfell and Hunt (Oxford). The Dissertation should be sent in before November 1, 1916. Subjects suggested for the Dissertation. 1. The financial administration of the Ptolemies. It is to be distinctly understood that these subjects are merely suggested, and that candidates are at liberty to choose any subject for investigation they please, provided it be connected with the history of the period treated by the prescribed authors. THE MARSHALL PORTER MEMORIAL PRIZE. IN November, 1900, £500 Great Northern Railway 4 per cent. Debenture Stock was presented by the Right Hon. A. M. Porter, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and Mrs. Porter, for the purpose of founding a prize in memory of their son, Andrew Marshall Porter, B.A., elected Scholar of the House in 1895, and University Student in 1897, who died on the 5th June, from wounds received in action, on the 31st May, 1900, at Lindley, in South Africa, where he was serving as a volunteer. The following conditions were suggested by the Donors, and agreed to by the Board, November 3, 1900 :— 1. The income derived from the investment shall be awarded each year as a prize to the candidate for Classical Scholarship who, having failed to obtain a Scholarship, shall have obtained the highest marks of any unsuccessful candidate, subject always to the same conditions as to conduct as apply to the election of Scholars. 2. In case of equality of marks amongst two or more eligible candidates, preference shall be given to him who shall have obtained the higher marks in Classical Composition. If the eligible candidates shall be equal in Classical Composition, the prize shall be divided. 3. The Board shall have power to withhold the prize in case the Examiners certify that no candidate is of adequate merit. In such case the interest on the fund for the year shall be added to the capital. The Prize is payable in October by the Bursar. PRIZE IN MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. THE WRAY PRIZE. A SUM of £500 was given in 1848, by Mrs. Catherine Wray, widow of the late Rev. Henry Wray, D.D., Vice-Provost and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, to found a Prize for the encouragement of Metaphysical Studies among the Undergraduates of the University of Dublin. Students in the Senior Sophister Class are alone admissible as Candidates. The Examination is held in Hilary Term, on a day given in the Almanac. The Course for Examination is as follows: 1. The General History of Philosophy. 2. The following works: Descartes' Meditations. Spinoza's Ethics, Books i and ii. Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Kant's Kritik of the Pure Reason. Rogers' Short History of Ethics. 3. A special work to be chosen by the Honor Examiners and the Professor of Moral Philosophy, and submitted to the Council not later than June 25th in the year preceding the Examination. Special work for 1916:-Green's "Prolegomena to Ethics," books iii and iv. The value of the Prize is about £28. PRIZES IN EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE. EKENHEAD SCHOLARSHIP. A SCHOLARSHIP, called "THE EKENHEAD SCHOLARSHIP, "tenabl for three years, was founded in 1879 by Mrs. Mary Dummett, in memory of her brother, Thomas Ekenhead, Esq. This Scholarship, which is open only to natives of the county of Antrim, will be awarded to the best answerer (provided that sufficient merit be shown) at an Examination in Elementary Physics and Chemistry, to be held in the Trinity Term of every third year. Candidates must have their names on the College Books, and must not have passed the Examination (Moderatorship or General) for the Degree of A.B. An Examination will be held in Trinity Term, 1917, the appointed subjects of Examination being as follows: ELEMENTARY COURSE IN PHYSICS. Density and Heat. Comparison of weights (balance). Measurement of pressure (barometer, manometer, Marriott's tube). Measurement of densities (specific gravity balance, specific gravity bottle, hydrometers). Petit's, Thermometry (mercurial thermometers, Fahrenheit and Centigrade scales). Expansion of solids, liquids, and gases (Roy and Ramsden's, Dulong and and Regnault's experiments, compensating pendulums, maximum density of water, air thermometers). Measurement of densities of gases and vapours (Regnault's and Guy Lussac's methods). Measurement of specific heats (method of mixtures, Dulong and Petit's law). Changes of state (liquefaction, evaporation, and boiling). Measurement of tension of saturated vapours (Regnault's experiments). Measurement of latent heat (ice calorimeters, Carrè's freezing machine). Measurement of heat of combustion. Determination of mechanical equivalent of heat (Joule's experiments). Work done by a body expanding (indicator diagram, steam-engine). Electricity. Production of electric currents by chemical action (Wollaston's, Daniell's and Grove's cells). Measurement of intensity of current (tangent galvanometer). Laws of electrolysis (Faraday's experiments, voltameters, electrotyping) Optics. Laws of Reflexion and Refraction, experimentally considered; Prisms; Spectroscope; Lenses. |