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MAY 23.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 749
Of the Value and Tenure of Scholarships.
I. There shall be scholarships of three kinds, to be called
Junior, Senior, and Medical Scholarships, of the annual value
of £45, £60, and £100 respectively.
II. The number of scholarships to be offered in any year
shall be fixed by the Senate at the annual meeting held pre-
viously to the examination for such scholarships.
III. No scholar shall be permitted to hold more than one
scholarship at the same time.
Of Junior Scholarships.
I. The Junior Scholarships shall be open to candidates between
the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years, who have not entered
upon the University course, and shall be tenable for three years,
unless otherwise herein provided.
II. Candidates for Junior Scholarships must state the schools
at which they have been educated during the previous five years.
III. The Junior Scholarships shall be awarded at the entrance
examination for excellence in any number not exceeding five of
the following subjects:-1. Latin; 2. Greek; 3. English; 4.
French; 5. German or Italian; 6. Mathematics; 7. History and
Geography; 8. Natural and Physical Science. The time allowed
for each paper set in these subjects shall be three hours. The
following shall be the papers set :---
(1.) LATIN.-(a.) The Matriculation Paper. (b.) Translation
at sight from and into Latin, and questions on history and
antiquities.
(2.) GREEK.-As in Latin.
(3.) ENGLISH.- (a.) The Matriculation Paper. (b.) Paraphrase,
illustration, and explanation of passages selected from the Eng-
lish historical plays of Shakespeare, and from Milton's poetical
works; general questions on etymology, grammar, and the uses
of words; also a short essay on some easily understood subject.
(4.) FRENCH.- (a.) The Matriculation Paper. (b.) Translation
at sight from and into French, and questions on the literature of
the age of Louis XIV.
(5.) GERMAN OR ITALIAN.-German, as in French, substituting
the literature of the age of Goethe and Schiller. Italian, as in
French, substituting the literature of the Age of Leo X.
(6.) MATHEMATICS.--(a.) Arithmetic (the whole subject), and
Algebra, to quadratic equations, inclusive. (b.) Euclid, Books
I., II., III., IV., and VI., and Plane Trigonometry, to solution
of triangles, inclusive, with easy transformations and examples.
(7.) HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.---- (a.) The Matriculation Paper
on History. (b.) The Matriculation Paper on Geography. (c.)
A paper on outlines of the history of England from the acces-
sion of Elizabeth, with especial reference to the colonies, and on
Geography, political and physical.
(8.) NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE.---Any two of the fol-
lowing :--
(a.) Inorganic Chemistry.
(b.) Electricity.
(c.) Sound and Light.
(d.) Heat.
(e.) Elementary Mechanics of Solids and Fluids.
(f.) Elementary Biology.---The structure and life-history of
such typical unicellular organisms as Bacterium, Saccharomyces,
Protococcus or Closterium and Amaba, and of such multicellular
organisms having no differentiation of tissues as Penicillium,
Mucor or Agaricus, Spirogyra or any other multicellular Alga,
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