Sizarships in Hebrew.

To encourage the study of Hebrew, one Sizarship is usually given annually. The special Course will consist of the Latin Prose Composition and the viva voce portion of the Examination for Classical Sizarships, together with the following Course of Hebrew:

Hebrew Grammar.

Exodus, Chaps. i.-xi. (inclusive).
Psalms, i.-xxiv. (inclusive).

In determining the election to the Hebrew Sizarship, equal weight is allowed to the answering in Classics and in Hebrew.

No Student is elected to a Sizarship for answering in Hebrew unless the Examiners report him to the Senior Lecturer as having positive merit of a high order.

Sizarships in Irish.

For the encouragement of the study of Irish, one Sizarship is usually given annually. The special Course will be as follows:(a) A thorough knowledge of Irish Grammar is required.

(b) Passages are set for Translation at sight from Irish into English, and from English into Irish.

(c) Candidates are examined vivâ voce in these books:

Eachtra Lomnochtáin.

Poems of Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara (ed. Flannery). No Sizarship is awarded to any Candidate unless the Senior Lecturer considers that sufficient merit has been shown.

Remoral of the limitation on the number of Sizars.- Before the year 1911 the maximum number of Sizars was fixed at thirty; and, in view of the inequality of the number of vacancies from year to year thus produced, it was resolved by the Board on 18th November, 1911, that, pending the obtaining of an Ordinance to legalize the use of the name " Sizar," such a number of special Sizarship Exhibitions, equal in value to Sizarships, should be awarded, that in effect the number of Sizars elected annually should be about ten.

On 8th December, 1917, it was ordained that the Board may elect to Sizarships in each year all candidates who display marked merit at the Sizarship Examination, irrespective of the number of vacancies created by the expiration of Sizarships previously

awarded.

Reid Sizarships.--In the scheme approved by the Master of the Rolls, filed 7th August, 1888, it was directed that the income of the Reid Sizarship bequest should be applied to found additional Sizarships or Exhibitions in the nature of Sizarships, "not to

exceed five in number, open only to Students of limited means, natives of the County of Kerry, who, having failed to obtain ordinary Sizarships, may be deemed to have shown sufficient merit. Such Exhibitions to be held on conditions similar in all respects to those upon which ordinary Sizarships are held in the said College, and not to preclude such Exhibitioners from obtaining any other Exhibitions or Prizes, for which an ordinary Sizar would be eligible, and the said College shall determine the annual stipend to be allowed to each such Exhibitioner, or the privileges in lieu of such stipend, in such way, as to place him, with respect to exemption from fees, free commons and free rooms, on a footing similar to that of ordinary Sizars."a

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UNDERGRADUATE COURSE.

Explanation of Terminology.

There are three Terms in each Calendar year. 1. e. Hilary Term, beginning on January 10, and ending on March 25; Trinity Term, beginning on April 15, and ending on June 30; and Michaelmas Term, beginning on October 10, and ending on December 20. If, however, Easter happens to fall within the limits of Hilary or of Trinity Term, that Term is increased by an additional week.

Then

The Academic Year commences in the beginning of November, i.e. with the Lectures of the Michaelmas Term. Afterwards, in the beginning of Hilary Term, there are the Hilary Term Examinations in the subjects of the Michaelmas Lectures. follow the Lectures of Hilary Term, and the Trinity Term Examinations, and finally the Lectures of Trinity Term and the Examinations of Michaelmas Term, which close the Academic Year, which therefore extends from November to November.

Freshmen and Sophisters.-During the first Academic Year, Students are called Junior Freshmen; during the second Academic Year, Senior Freshmen; during the third and fourth years, Junior and Senior Sophisters; then Junior, Middle, and Senior Bachelors; but a Student belonging to the Junior Bachelor Class is called a Candidate Bachelor, not a Junior Bachelor, until he has actually taken the B.A. Degree. Graduates who are of standing entitling them to take out the Degree of Master in Arts are called Candidate Masters. They are of this standing three years after they have passed the Examination for the Degree of B.A.

It was also arranged that the residue (if any) of the income of the Reid Sizarship endowment might be applied in paying the usual fees to the Examiners at the Examinations for such Sizarships, and in such manner as the Board of Trinity College might think best calculated to encourage superior education in the said County, as for instance, by assigning from time to time stipends to such Schoolmasters as may distinguish themselves in preparing Students for Trinity College, Dublin, such stipends to be given on condition that such Master or Masters shail undertake to prepare, free of expense, as Day-Scholars, a certain number of boys of limited means for the Sizarship Examination of the College, or in such other way as to the said College may seem most effectual and expedient for the promotion of superior education in the said County.

By a rising Junior Freshman is meant a Student who, having matriculated, has not yet entered on his actual Junior Freshman year, which begins in November.

At the commencement of each Term there is a general Pass Examination for each of the four academic classes, with the following exceptions:- The examination held at the end of the Senior Freshman year, or the Final Freshman Examination, commonly called the Little-Go, is held at the end of Trinity Term, and Supplemental Examinations are held in the following October and January. Also the Degree Examination is held in December at the end of the fourth year, when a student has become a Candidate Bachelor, and Supplemental Examinations are held in the following January and April.

At the beginning of each Term there are also Honor Examinations in the various Honor Schools.

In each Term the undergraduate Lectures in Arts, both those of the Pass course and those of the Honor Schools, commence after the general Pass examinations of the several classes are over.

A Student is said to have credit for a Term by Lectures or to have kept a Term by Lectures when he has attended with diligence the Lectures prescribed for that Term. He is said to have kept a Term by Examination when he has passed an examination in the subjects of the Lectures prescribed for that Term. Thus, for example, a Student keeps Michaelmas Term by Lectures when he attends the Lectures given daily during Michaelmas Term; and he keeps Michaelmas Term by Examination when he passes the Examination in the same Courses held at the beginning of the succeeding Hilary Term. Two Terms are said to be distinct when they are not kept by Lectures and by Examination in the same courses; for example, when a Junior Freshman attends Lectures in Michaelmas Term, and passes the Hilary Examination in January or the Supplemental Hilary Examination in June, he does not thereby get credit for two distinct Terms.

Students who are familiar with the regulations prior to the year 1918 will observe that there are considerable changes in those now issued, the object of which is to secure that every student shall, throughout his College Course, be required to make the best use of his opportunities by full attendance on Lectures. A Lecture Attendance Committee has been appointed to secure the proper working of the new regulations, and also to prevent their resulting in undue hardship to students whose circumstances render it impossible or undesirable for them to attend on the instruction provided by the College. But while it is not intended

to prevent the possibility of students keeping Terms by examination alone, permission to do so will in future be granted only when sufficient reason is shown. Before Entrance a student may apply for such permission to the Lecture Attendance Committee through the Senior Lecturer or the Tutor under whom he intends to enter; but if permission be granted, after Entrance it will be necessary for him formally to renew the application each Term through his Tutor, in order to show the continued existence of the reasons which justified the permission originally.

Course of Study.

In order to obtain the Degree of B.A., or Bachelor in Arts, a Student, unless exempted, is required to keep every Term by Lectures, and is not required to keep every Term by Examination, but must keep one Term by Examination in the Junior Freshman year, pass the Final Freshman Examination, keep one Term by Examination in the Junior Sophister Year, and pass the Degree Examination. In the normal course a Student keeps a Term by Lectures when he attends with diligence the prescribed Pass Lectures; but he may substitute Honor Lectures for the Pass Lectures in the same subject, and if properly qualified (see § 21) may in his Freshman years keep his Term by attending one Course alone of Honor Lectures. Professional Students also are allowed to substitute in the Sophister years the lectures of their Schools for one of the courses of Lectures required from other Students. Also the Lecture Attendance Committee is empowered to allow a Student to substitute other Lectures for the Pass Lectures, if application is made to them through the Tutor of the Student, and if they deem the reason adequate, and consider the substitution desirable in the interests of the Student.

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Exemptions from Attendance on Lectures.

In dealing with exemptions from the regulation that Students must keep every Lecture Term, it is laid down as a fundamental rule that to obtain the B.A. Degree all Students except Medical Students must obtain credit for the following minimum of eight Terms, viz. :-They must keep one Term by Examination in the Junior Freshman year, pass the Final Freshman Examination, keep one Term by Examination in the Junior Sophister year, pass the Degree Examination, obtain credit for two other distinct Terms either by Lectures or by Examination in the Freshman years, one of which must be in the Senior Freshman year, and obtain credit for two other distinct Terms either by Lectures or by Examination in the Sophister years, one of which must be in the Senior Sophister year.

A Special Course in Arts has been arranged for Medical Students. Students while attending in full the Lectures of the Professional School of Divinity, or Engineering, or the Indian Civil Service, or the Army, or Agriculture, or Forestry, are not required to keep every Term by Lectures, but may omit keeping a particular Term, provided that they keep the above minimum of eight Terms. In every Term, however, in which they do not intend to keep the Term by Lectures, they must give information to the Senior Lecturer, so that an entry of their professional qualification may be inserted in the Term Book.

In the case of other students who, owing to their circumstances, seek exemption from keeping a particular Term by Lectures, it is provided that, on sufficient reason being shown, the Lecture Attendance Committee may either allow a student to keep the Term by Examination instead of by Lectures, or, if they think fit, grant him complete exemption from attendance on Lectures during the Term. Such students must submit their reasons to their Tutors, who must lay them in writing before the Lecture Attendance Committee, at least one week before Lectures begin, and if in their opinion the reasons are sufficient, an entry to that effect will be made in the Term Book.

A student against whose name there is not a satisfactory entry covering each Lecture Term of the Academic year, does not rise with his class.

It is not intended to deprive non-resident students of the possibility of obtaining the B.A. Degree by examination alone, but this concession will be granted only to students who satisfy as above the Lecture Attendance Committee that their reasons for non-attendance at Lectures are sufficient, and such students will have to keep the minimum number of eight Terms by examination (making with the Entrance nine examinations in all).

8. A Student who desires to avail himself, to the full extent, of the benefits of a University Education, should, in addition to the Ordinary Course, take the Lectures and Examinations in some one or more of the various Honor and Prize Courses. He is also permitted to attend such of the Professorial Lectures as deal with subjects of interest to him.

A Junior Freshman or a Junior Sophister who fails to obtain credit for the compulsory examination of his year loses his class, but in other cases where a student fails to keep the exercises necessary to rise in November to the next higher class, he may, with the permission of the Lecture Attendance Committee, retain his class by keeping certain supplemental Terms. In all such cases application must be made through the Senior Lecturer.