PRIZES IN LANGUAGES.

PRIZES IN IRISH.

FOR the encouragement of the study of the Irish Language, in 1842 the Board resolved to place annually the sum of £20 at the disposal of the Professor of Irish, to be given in Premiums to such Students as shall distinguish themselves in the Irish Language. The Examination is held in Trinity Term, on a day named in the Almanac.

The following Courses have been appointed :—

Junior Class—

1. Elements of Irish Grammar.

2. Irish Composition.

3. Irish Texts, for translation into English: Mac-Ghniomhartha Fhinn and Tir na n-Og.

Middle Class

1. Irish Grammar.

2. Irish Composition.

3. Irish Text, for translation into English: Tóruigheacht Dhiarmuda agus Ghráinne (Parts 1. and II., Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language).

Senior Class

1. A thorough knowledge of Irish Grammar.
2. Irish Composition.

3. Irish Texts, for translation into English :

Eachtra Lomnochtáin.

Oidhe Cloinne Lir.

FERGUSON MEMORIAL PRIZE.

On the 31st of May, 1907, a sum of £240, raised by public subscription, was made over to the Board of Trinity College, for the purpose of founding a Prize in Celtic Literature, as a memorial of the late Sir Samuel Ferguson.

The sum received was invested in Bank of Ireland Stock, in the name of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars, and of the Librarian of Trinity College, and produces annually about £8 128.

The Board of Trinity College have adopted the following regulations:

1. The Prize shall be known as the Ferguson Memorial Prize.

2. It shall be awarded for the best Edition of a text in Old or Middle Irish, hitherto unpublished, and relating to any part of the history or literature of Ireland prior to the year 1200 A.D. The Edition shall include a translation, textual criticism, explanatory commentary, and a glossary, and shall be completely prepared as if for publication. The Prize shall not be awarded unless the text selected be deemed by the Examiner to be of adequate length and interest, and unless a sufficient standard of merit be attained.

3. The Prize shall be open to all undergraduates and to graduates under the standing of M.A. It shall be offered for competition every third year beginning with the year 1910, and the exercises submitted must be sent to the Senior Lecturer not later than March 17. If on any occasion the Prize is not awarded, the interest of the Fund shall be added to the capital.

4. The value of the Prize shall be £20. The fees of the Examiners shall be paid out of the Fund. Any unexpended balance of interest shall be added to the capital.

PRIZES IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH.

EXAMINATIONS for Prizes in Italian, and for Prizes in Spanish, were instituted in 1875, and are held annually, usually in Trinity Term, when a First and a Second Prize in Italian, and a First and a Second Prize in Spanish, are awarded, if sufficient merit be shown. The Prizes are £4 and £2 respectively, in books, and are open for competition to all Undergraduates, but can be obtained only once by any Candidate.

Candidates are required to give one week's previous notice to the Senior Lecturer, stating the Language or Languages in which they desire to compete.

The following Courses have been appointed :—

ITALIAN.

Alfieri, Saul, Bruto Secondo, Agide.

Manzoni, I promessi Sposi (Chaps. I.-XII.).

Dante, Il Purgatorio, Cantos 1-20.

SPANISH.

Calderon, La vida es sueño, Il magico prodigioso.

Cervantes, Don Quijote, Part I.

F. Caballero, La Gaviota.

PRIZES IN OLD FRENCH AND PROVENÇAL.

IN Trinity Term, 1908, the Board agreed to institute an annual Prize of £5 in Old French and Provençal, to be awarded on the result of an Annual Examination held in Trinity Term, and open to all Students up to Trinity Term after Degree. The Examiner may, at his discretion, divide the £5 into £3 and £2.

The following Course has been appointed

I. 'La Vie de Saint-Léger' (in Koschwitz: 'Les plus anciens monuments de la langue française, Textes critiques').

Paris et Langlois : Chrestomathie du Moyen-Age,' pp. 3-11, 27-36, 95-129, 165-251, 268-337.

Paris Extraits de la Chanson de Roland.'

II. Bartsch: Chrestomathie Provençale,' Cols. 2-8, 27-48, 59–66, 101-120, 171-178, 183-188, 238-246, 293-298, 353-360.

III. Bourciez Eléments de linguistique romane,' pp. 25-399.

IV. Old French and Provençal versification.

Exhibitions.

EXHIBITIONS AWARDED ON THE RESULTS OF THE EXAMINATIONS HELD BY THE BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION, IRELAND.

THE Board of Trinity College, Dublin, with the view of coordinating Intermediate and University Education, established in Michaelmas Term, 1904, Exhibitions to be awarded on the result of the yearly Intermediate Examinations without any restriction as to the schools at which candidates shall have received their education.

The Board will accordingly appoint from those candidates of either sex in the Senior or Middle Grade who shall have distinguished themselves at the Intermediate Examinations of 1910, twelve students to Exhibitions, six of £20 and six of £15 a year for two years.

The Board lay down the following conditions for holding these Exhibitions:-The holders must prosecute their course in Trinity College, must attend Lectures and Examinations, and must obtain Honors in some subject during each academic year.

Exhibitioners need not necessarily reside in the College, but will, of course, be subject to the ordinary discipline of Undergraduates. The Board desire that Intermediate Exhibitioners or Prizemen willing to accept these conditions will communicate with the Senior Lecturer as soon as the results of the Intermediate Examinations are known.

The Board will proceed to the election before October 17th in each year.

If the candidates nominated have not answered at their Intermediate Examinations in all the subjects required for Matriculation in the College, they must qualify in the subjects which they have omitted.

JUNIOR AND SENIOR EXHIBITIONS.

IN Trinity Term, 1870, it was resolved by the Board that, in pursuance of the Decree of the Board and Visitors, dated March 19, 1870, certain Exhibitions should be established in the College, subject to such changes as the Provost and Senior Fellows might from time to time ordain. The number of these Exhibitions was increased in Trinity Term, 1875, and in Michaelmas Term, 1904.

I. JUNIOR EXHIBITIONS AWARDED AT ENTRANCE.

1. Sixteen Exhibitions, twelve of £20, and four of £15 a year, tenable. for two years, are awarded in each year to Students in the rising Junior Freshman Class, who have entered within the year, provided sufficient merit be shown by the Candidates.

This rule has been modified by the following resolutions, adopted by the Provost and Senior Fellows, February 17, 1899:

I. That the Junior Exhibition Examination be open, not only to all Students in the rising Junior Freshman Class, but also to Candidates whose names are not on the College Books, who shall conform to the regulations as to age and to character already in force, and who shall pay a fee of £1 seven days before the commencement of the Examination. II. The latter class of Candidates will not be elected to Exhibitions unless the Senior Lecturer be satisfied that they have qualified at this Examination in each of the subjects required at an Entrance Examination. If elected they will be required to place their names on the College Books according to the ordinary rules."

2. These Exhibitions are called the Junior Exhibitions.

3. The Examinations are held annually, in Michaelmas Term, on days notified in the University Calendar.

4. No Student is allowed to be a Candidate who shall have completed his nineteenth year before the 1st of June immediately preceding the commencement of the Examination.

5. All Students intending to compete for these Exhibitions must forward their names, and a certified copy of their baptismal registry, or other satisfactory evidence of age, to the Senior Lecturer, at least three days before the commencement of the Examination.

6. No Student holding a Supplemented Erasmus Smith Exhibition, is entitled to hold one of these Exhibitions.

7. An Exhibitioner losing his class in College, or not keeping his name on the College Books, forfeits his Exhibition.

8. At the end of the Michaelmas Term Examinations each year, the Senior Lecturer reports to the Board the names of any of the Junior Exhibitioners elected in the previous year who do not appear to have made satisfactory progress in the Junior Freshman year; and the Board then considers whether they will continue the Exhibition for the second year.

9. Any grave violation of College discipline subjects the holder of an Exhibition to forfeiture.

10. The Examination lasts four days, beginning at 9.30 o'clock, A.M., and is in the following Courses:

Compositions,

Unprescribed Passages,

120

Ancient History,

60

Viva voce (see below),

60