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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

University of Otago.

THE Third Session will be opened on 1st May, 1873.
CLASSES.

1. Classics. Separate classes for junior and
   senior Latin and Greek. Professor: G. S.
   Sale, M.A..
2. Class for English Language and Literature.
   Professor: G. S. Sale, M.A.
3. Mathematics.-I. Junior Mathematics. II.
   Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. III.
   Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Pro-
   fessor : John Shand, M.A.
4. Mental and Moral Science. - Classes for Logic
   and Psychology, Moral Philosophy, Political
   Economy. Professor : D. Macgregor, M.A.,
   M.B.
5. Natural Science. - Classes for Chemistry,
   Mineralogy, and Geology. Professor : J. B.
   Black, M.A., D.Sc.
   The Session will last for six months continuously,
   during the entire course of which instruction will be
   given to each class by the Professor, by means of
   text books, lectures, and oral and written examina-
   tions.

Matriculation fee, £1 ; Laboratory fee, £1.
The fee for each class is three guineas per Session.

MATRICULATION.
The Matriculation Examinations for 1873 will be
held at Dunedin on the 2nd and 3rd days of May.
The following are the subjects of examination :—
Latin.
Cicero-" De Amicitia."
Greek.
Xenophon's Anabasis, Book I.
English.
Writing and dictation.
French or German.
Translation from French or German into English ;
translation from English into French or German.
Arithmetic.
The compound rules, especially square and cubic
measures; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion;
extraction of the square root.
Algebra.
Meaning of the Algebraical signs, the four element-
ary rules, simple equations.
Geometry.
Euclid, Book I.
Geography.
The chief physical features and principal towns of
Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America;
together with more minute details of the geography
of Great Britain and Ireland, Australia and New
Zealand.

Candidates will be entitled to matriculate who
shall have passed in Latin, English, and Arithmetic ;
and in any two at least of the other subjects of
examination.

DEGREES.
The degree of B.A. will be attainable by attend-
ance upon the prescribed lectures during three
sessions, and passing an examination in certain
subjects either at the end of the third or at the
beginning of the fourth session after matriculation ;
or at the beginning or end of any subsequent session.
There will be no honor examination in connection
with the B.A. degree.

The degree of M.A. will be attainable only by
those who have already taken the B.A. degree. The
ordinary M.A. degree will be attainable by attendance
on the prescribed lectures for at least one session
after the taking of the B.A. degree, and by passing a
further examination similar in kind to that required
of candidates for the degree of B.A.; such examina-
tion to be held at the end of one year from the B.A.
degree, or at the commencement or end of any sub-
sequent session. There will be an honor examination
in connection with the M.A. degree. No one will be
admitted to the degree of M.A., with honors, except
such as have declared their intention of entering for
honors at the time of taking the B.A. degree, or
within six months afterwards. Candidates for the
degree of M.A. with honors will be allowed to select
one or more of the following subjects, and will be
examined in such subject or subjects only :—

1. Classics.
2. Philosophy.
3. Pure and Applied Mathematics.
4. Natural Science.
   No candidate will be admitted to the degree of
   M.A., with honors, after the expiration of three
   academical years from the date of his B.A. degree,
   nor after the expiration of six years from the date
   of his matriculation.

All candidates for the B.A. and ordinary M.A.
degrees will be required to furnish certificates of
their attendance at the several courses of lectures
prescribed for them. Candidates for the B.A. degree
may select one of the two following courses :—

LITERARY COURSE.
1st year.-Latin, Greek, Mathematics, English.
2nd year.-Latin, Mathematics, Mental Science,
Natural Science.
3rd
year.
{Greek
{
Moral Philosophy, (Natural
including
*English Political Economy (osophy.
Phil-

SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
1st year.-Latin, Mathematics, Natural Science.
2nd year.-Latin, Mathematics, Natural Science,
Mental Science.
3rd year.-Natural Philosophy, Natural Science.
Classes marked * are taught only three days a
week.

In the Scientific Course, students will not be re-
quired to attend both the English classes and the
Moral Philosophy class, but must take one or the
other.

Though students are recommended to adhere to
one or other of the above courses, if they wish to
graduate at the end of three years, the Council
desires it to be understood that they are at liberty to
take the prescribed classes in any order, and to spread
them over a longer period.

SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION FOR THE B.A. DEGREE.
Latin.-Portions from the works of two verse and
two prose authors; selections to be made from year
to year from the works of Lucretius, Virgil, Horace,
Juvenal, Cicero, Livy and Tacitus. Questions on
Grammar, History, and Antiquities.
Greek.-Portions from the works of two verse and
two prose authors; selections to be made from year
to year from the works of Homer, Æschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato,
Xenophon. Questions on Grammar, History, and
Antiquities.
English.-A general knowledge of the structure
and history of the English Language and of the
principal periods of English Literature, with their
representative authors. Portions from the works of
the following authors:-Chaucer, Langland, Spenser,
Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden; selections to be
made from year to year.
Mental and Moral Science.-1. Logic, deductive
and inductive; books recommended-Bain's Logic
and Jevons' Logic. 2. Psychology.-Lectures on
Nervous System; books recommended-Carpenter's