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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 examinations.

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 elementary 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 attendance 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 examination to be held at the end of one year from the B.A. degree, or at the commencement or end of any subsequent 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.—Natural Philosophy, Natural Science.

Classes marked are taught only three days a week.

In the Scientific Course students will not be required 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 physiology; lectures on the special senses and the intellect, including the historical evolution of modern doctrines. 3. Ethics—class lectures and the study of ancient and modern ethical theories; books recommended—Stewart’s outlines and Bain’s mental and moral science. 4. Political Economy; books recommended—Mill’s political economy.

Mathematics.—1. Plane geometry; 2. Algebra; 3. Plane trigonometry; 4. Plane co-ordinate geometry and conic sections.

Natural Philosophy.—1. The elements of statics, dynamics, hydrostatics, and pneumatics, with the solution of problems not requiring the differential or integral calculus. 2. Heat and light as far as explained in the class.

Chemistry and Mineralogy.—1. Chemistry.—The principles of chemical combination and action; the chemistry of non-metallic elements, of the metals, and of organic compounds; complex qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis of simple salts, and of limestones, silicates, soil, water, coal. 2. Geology and mineralogy: physical geography; dynamical geology; the nature and operations of geological agents; structural geology: rock-masses, their structure and relations, joints, cleavage, metamorphism, faults, unconformability; stratigraphical geology: structural characters of successive geological periods; Paleontological geology: characters and distribution of the more important organic remains. Mineralogy: physical and chemical characters and composition of minerals.

Subjects of Examination for the M.A. Degree.

Attendance on two additional classes—both literary or both scientific. Additional subjects in Latin and Greek: portions from authors not included in the examination for the B.A. degree. Additional subjects in mathematics: elements of differential and integral calculus. Natural philosophy: electricity and magnetism, as far as explained in the class. Astronomy as in Herschel’s Outlines.

Mental and moral science and natural science; the examination more extended than for the B.A. degree.

Intending students and persons desirous of obtaining further information are requested to communicate with

A. LIVINGSTON,

Secretary.

WANTED, a Schoolmistress, for the Alexandra School.

Salary: £25 per annum, with Government allowance, Free residence. Applications with testimonials, to be sent to the undersigned on or before the 6th day of March, 1873.

CHARLES MORRIS,

Hon. Sec. Alexandra School Committee.