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Department of General Literature and Science.

SECTION I.

INSTRUCTION GIVEN, AND BY WHOM.

The Course of Education in this Department comprises the following:

I. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION, according to the principles of the United Church of England and Ireland, by the Rev. the PRINCIPAL, and the Rev. E. H. PLUMPTRE, M.A. Chaplain.

II. The GREEK and LATIN CLASSICS, by the Rev R. W. BROWNE, M.A. Professor; and the Rev. J. S. BREWER, M.A. Lecturer.

III. MATHEMATICS, by the Rev. T. G. HALL, M.A. Professor; the Rev. T. A. Cock, M.A., and T. M. GOODEVE, Esq. M.A. Lecturers.

IV. ENGLISH LITERATURE and MODERN HISTORY, by the Rev. F. D. MAURICE, M.A. Professor, and JOHN JULIUS STUTZER, Esq. M.A. Lecturer.

V. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. The Rev. MATTHEW O'BRIEN, M.A. Professor.

I. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

Lectures upon the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are delivered every Wednesday Afternoon during the Academical Year, by the Principal; and on Saturday, by the Chaplain, in the Greek Testament. There are also examinations every alternate week on the subjects treated of in the Lectures, and in Text-books chosen by the Principal. These Text-books for the Academical Year 1850-51, will be—

For Third Year Students. Butler's Analogy.

These Examination Papers are accurately looked over, and a system of marks indicating relative merit is established. At the close of the Michaelmas and Easter Terms the Students are classed according to merit, and, on the last day of the Academical Year, prizes are adjudged to the two best Students in the first, second, and third year respectively.

A Student who has obtained a Divinity Prize in any one year cannot again become a candidate for these Prizes.

II. THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS.

The subjects of these Lectures are the works of the best Latin and Greek writers, and Greek and Latin Composition, both in Prose and Verse. Besides the work which is done in the Lecture Room, the Students are expected to prepare a given portion of Roman and Greek History for each College Examination, and to commit to memory weekly a certain portion of Horace, Virgil, or Cicero.

The Students are divided into three classes, according to their proficiency, and in these classes they are arranged in order of merit at each examination.

1st Class. Aristotle-Plato-Thucydides-Demosthenes - Pindar-Eschylus-Aristophanes-Cicero-Livy

-Juvenal-Plautus.

2d Class.

Herodotus-Demosthenes-Sophocles-Euripides-Livy-Cicero-Terence-Horace-Virgil.

3d Class. Euripides-Homer-Cicero-Virgil. The Exercises in each class are

Translations from English into Latin and Greek-Prose and Verse-and Original Composition.

The Student who stands first in each Class at the Examination which takes place at the close of the Easter Term receives a Prize, and Prizes are also given annually for a Latin Essay. Latin Verse, English Prose, and English Verse.

III. MATHEMATICS.

The subjects of these Lectures are Euclid, Algebra, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Conic Sections, the application of Algebra to Plane and Solid Geometry, the Differential and Integral Calculus, Newton's Principia, and the theoretical parts of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy.

The Students are directed to read in their

1st Year: Euclid, Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 11; Arithmetic; Algebra; Plane Trigonometry, and the elementary parts of the Differential Calculus.

2d Year: Elementary Mechanics; the Theory of Equations; the Differential and Integral Calculus; Newton's Principia, sect. 1, 2, 3; and Conic Sections.

3d Year: Geometry of three dimensions and Spherical Trigonometry, Analytical Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics and Astronomy, Newton's Principia, sect. 9, 11, and Differential Equations.

These courses are modified to suit individual circumstances. The Student who stands first in each Class at the Examination which takes place at the close of the Easter Term receives a Prize.

IV. ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HISTORY.

The Lectures are given three times each week, and embrace English Literature, History, and Composition.

V.

A course of not fewer than Twelve Lectures on Natural Philosophy is given in the Easter Term of each year to all Students of this Department, on some subject connected with Natural Philosophy.

VI. EXTRA INSTRUCTION.

Instruction is also given within the walls of the College in Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, the Oriental

Languages (including Sanscrit, Arabic, Persian, and Hindoostani), Vocal Music, Drawing, Fencing; but these are all independent of the regular prescribed course. The Fees and the hours of attendance, together with the names of the Professors, will be found at pages 70 and 71.

SECTION II.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING STUDENTS.

The Students received into this Department are—

I. Matriculated Students, or those admitted to the regular and full prescribed course of study. Each candidate for Matriculation must produce a testimonial of good character from his last instructor; and when admitted by the Principal, must subscribe his name to a declaration that he will conform to all the rules and regulations which may from time to time be prescribed for the good government of the College, under the sanction and authority of the Council. Matriculated Students wear a cap and gown, and, with the exception of the Daniell Scholarship, which is open to all Students, alone have the privilege of conténding for Scholarships.

II. Occasional Students, or those who enter to one or more particular classes. Every class is open to such Students, on payment of the specified amount of fees.

Except by the special permission of the Principal, no one is admitted a Student of this Department under sixteen years of age.

The regular Course of Instruction in this Department carries the Student through three Academical Years. Each Year consists of Three Terms; viz. Michaelmas Term, from the beginning of October to the week before Christmas; Lent Term, from the middle of January to the week before Easter; Easter Term, from Easter to the beginning of July.

There is a special Examination every year at Easter for all Students of Four, Five, and Six Terms standing; and there are also examinations for all Students at the end of the Michaelmas and Easter Terms. At these Examinations the Students are

classed according to their proficiency. The Examination in June is followed by a public Distribution of Prizes. A detailed Report is sent at the end of each term to the parents or guardians of each Student, both as to his progress, and as to his general attention and good conduct during the Term.

The General Library is open daily to all Students for the purposes of study. See Regulations, page 206.

A limited number of Students are admitted to reside within the College (see page 207); and some of the Professors, as well as others connected with the College, receive Students in their own houses. See page 210.

Dinner is provided in the College Hall every day at Six o'clock, for such Students as wish to avail themselves of that accommodation. See page 211.

SECTION III.

THE ASSOCIATESHIP.

I. Students, who have pursued their studies in this Department with credit for three years, who have been regular in their attendance at Chapel and at the Divinity Lectures, and have also attended two extra Courses of Lectures, are entitled to be recommended to the Council for election as Associates of King's College. (See p. 221 for the privileges of an Associate.)

II. It will suffice that a Student applying for the Associateship shall have passed two years in the Department to which he belongs at the time of his application, provided he have passed one year previously in any other Department of the College.

III. The term of study in the College required to gain the Associateship is reduced to two years in the case of those Students who have previously passed two years either in King's College School, or in one of the Schools in Union, and who had reached the head form of that School before leaving it.

IV. One of the "Extra Courses" must be a course of three Terms in Hebrew, or in one of the modern European or Oriental languages taught in the College; and no Certificate