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 arranged at the end of the preceding Hilary Term, after due notice has been received. The following Courses have been appointed : Junior Class 1. Elements of Irish Grammar. 2. Irish Composition. 3. Irish Texts, for translation into English: P. O'Leary, Séadna, pp. 1 to 53. Middle Class 1. Irish Grammar. Irish Composition. Irish Text, for translation into English: Eachtra Thaidg mhic Céin, by An Seabhac. Senior Class 1. A thorough knowledge of Irish Grammar. 3. Irish Texts, for translation into English : Oidhe Cloinne Visnigh. Sgéalaigheacht Chéitinn (Bergin). Geoffrey Keating's Poems, ed. M'Erlean, i to xi, inclusive. 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 purpose of founding a Prize in Celtic Literature, as a memorial of Sir Samuel and Lady Ferguson. the 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 £7 10s. 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 It shall be awarded for the best Edition of a text in Old or Middle Irish, hitherto unpublished, and relating to any part of the history or literature of Ireland prior to the year 1200 A.D. The Edition shall include a translation, textual criticism,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. The following Courses have been appointed: ITALIAN. Manzoni: I promessi Sposi (Chaps. I.-XII.). Dante Il Purgatorio, Cantos 1-20. Dante: L'Inferno. The Italian Poets (Blackie). The Italian Prose-Writers (Blackie). Goldoni: Un Curioso Accidente; Il Vero Amico. SPANISH. Calderon: La vida es sueño, Il magico prodigioso. Cervantes: Don Quijote, Part I. F. Caballero: La Gaviota. Antologia de los mejores Poetas Castellanos (Nelson). : Moratín El Sí de las Niñas (Ginn). PRIZES IN OLD FRENCH AND PROVENCAL. 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. Oulmont: La Poésie Française du Moyen-Age (Mercure de Le Mystère d'Adam (Studer -Manchester University Press). II. (a) Mistral: Mireïo, Cantos i, ii, iii, and iv. Mistral: Memòri e Raconte, Chapters x to end. (b) Les Poésies de Peire Vidal (in Champion's Classiques Bertran de Marseille : La Vie de Sainte Enemie (in III. Bourciez Éléments de linguistique romane,' pp. 25–399. THE DOMPIERRE-CHAUFEPIÉ PRIZE. In Trinity Term, 1912, Mr. Gerard Alston Exham, M.A., F.T.C.D., presented £150 Mexican Railway 1st Preference Stock, to found a prize of about £12 annually, for the encouragement of the practical knowledge of French, to be called "The DompierreChaufepié Prize," in memory of a very great friend, Eugénie de Dompierre de Chaufpié, of the Hague, Holland, who died recently. The following regulations were suggested by Mr. Exham and approved of by the Board : (1) That the prize be given in the Trinity Term of each year, beginning in 1913, in connexion with the Senior Freshman Honor Examination in French, only the Essay and a special viva voce examination (to test the practical knowledge of French) to be taken into account. (2) That Candidates must have attended (any) three Terms of Honor Lectures in French previous to the examination, and must be recommended by the Honor Lecturer. (3) That the regulations may be altered on giving one year's notice. MISCELLANEOUS PRIZES. ALICE OLDHAM MEMORIAL PRIZE. THE friends of the late Alice Oldham, desiring to record their appreciation of her work for the advancement of the higher education of women, subscribed a sum of money which it was decided to devote to the founding of a Prize in the University of Dublin. The Prize is to be awarded to the woman Student who, having attended Alexandra College as a Student for at least one Session, shall in her Junior Sophister year obtain highest place among women Students similarly qualified, in one of the Honor Courses of the Michaelmas Term examinations; the award to be made by the Board of Trinity College. The money subscribed is to be invested in securities authorized by the Trustees Acts; the interest, to a sum not exceeding £10, is to form the Prize, which is to be awarded biennially from 1910: interest in excess is to be added to capital, with the view of so increasing the capital that the Prize may eventually be awarded annually. The Provost and Lady Registrar of Trinity College and the Lady Principal of Alexandra College are the Trustees for the administration of the fund. Exhibitions and Special Prizes awarded at JUNIOR AND SENIOR EXHIBITIONS. IN Trinity Term, 1870, it was resolved by the Board that, iu 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. On March 8, 1913, the Board discontinued the twelve Exhibitions hitherto awarded on the results of the Intermediate Examination, and on June 7, 1913, resolved, that Exhibitions shall in future be distributed by the Board at their discretion when the results of the Senior and Junior Exhibition Examinations are laid before them. 1.-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 :— 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. Such Candidates are permitted to place their names on the College Books by payment of the excess of the Entrance fee over the above fee of £1 within one week of the declaration of the result, after which the usual Tardy Payment charge commences. If a Candidate is elected to an Exhibition, the Bursar will, at the request of his Tutor, place the December payment of his Exhibition to the credit of the Candidate with the Junior Bursar, as part payment of the Entrance fee." 2. These Exhibitions are called the Junior Exhibitions. 3. The Examinations are held annually, in Michaelmas Term, on days notified in the University Calendar. |