as Baccalaurei ad Baptistam, or ad Diem Cinerum, and inserted in the list of seniority among the οι πολλοι.

In addition to the Examination thus described, it is also necessary to insert the following Plans of Examination, which were confirmed by Graces of the Senate May 28th, 1822. The first affects the seventh and eighth classes of the Questionists, and the second those B.A. who obtain Mathematical honors.

*Plan of Examination before Admission ad Respondendum Quæstioni.

I. The Examination of the first Six Classes of the Questionists shall remain precisely upon its present footing.

II. At the Examination in January, 1826, and every subsequent year, the Seventh and Eighth Classes shall be examined, on the first two days, in the Elements of Mathematics, as heretofore: on the third day, in Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, Paley's Moral Philosophy, and his Evidences of Christianity; and on the fourth day, they shall be required to translate passages selected from the first six books of the Iliad, and of the Æneid; and to answer Grammatical and other Questions arising immediately out of such pas

sages.

III. In addition to the two Members of the Senate who, according to regulations already existing, shall be appointed Examiners of the Seventh and Eighth Classes in January 1826, two others, nominated by Colleges according to the Cycle of Proctors, shall be elected by the Senate at the first Congregation after October 10, 1825; and so on, in every succeeding year. IV. Whenever an Examination for Admission ad Respondendum Quæstioni shall take place at any other time than that of the general Examination in January, such Examination shall be conducted by the Moderators, with the assistance of the two additional Examiners, on principles similar to those laid down in the second regulation.

By a Grace passed May 25, 1824, these Regulations apply only to those persons who came into residence after May 28, 1822.

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V. Each of the Examiners elected according to the third Regulation shall receive £20. from the University Chest.

VI. The preceding Regulations shall not interfere with the Composition between the University and King's College.

Plan of Classical Examination after Admission ad
Respondendum Quæstioni.

I. On the fourth Monday after the general Admission ad Respondendum Quæstioni in January 1824, and every subsequent year, shall commence an Examination in classical learning of such persons. as shall voluntarily offer themselves to be examined, provided that every person so offering himself shall have obtained an honour at the Mathematical Examination of the preceding January.

II. At this Examination in classical learning, Translations shall be required of passages selected from the best Greek and Latin Authors, as well as written answers to questions arising immediately out of such passages. No original composition, either in Greek or Latin, shall be required.

III. The Examination shall continue four days, the hours of attendance on each day being from half-past Nine o'clock in the Morning till Twelve, and from One till Four in the Afternoon.

IV. The names of those persons who shall pass the Examination with credit, shall be arranged in three Classes, according to their respective merits.

V. To conduct the Examination, four Examiners, appointed by Colleges according to the Cycle of Proctors and Taxors, shall be elected by the Senate at the first Congregation after October 10.

VI. Each of the Examiners shall receive £10, from the University Chest.

VII. The foregoing Regulations shall not interfere with the Composition between the University and King's College.

SATURDAY MORNING.

Admission of the Questionists.

This morning there is a Congregation; the bell begins to ring at nine o'clock, and at ten the whole appear in the Senate-Honse. Two papers exhibiting a list of the Questionists, arranged according to their merits, or seniority, are hung on the pillars for public inspection *.

One of the Bedells calls up the Houses, and the Senior Moderator makes a Latin speech; the ViceChancellor sitting in the chair, and the Moderator standing on his left hand.

The Junior Proctor delivers to the Vice-Chancellor the list of Honors and Seniority, subscribed thus, "Examinati et approbati a nobis ;" (viz. the Proctors, Moderators, and other Examiners.)

The Caput is then called for passing the supplicats of the Questionists t.

The name of each college is written on every supplicat, which is signed by the Prælector or Father of the college.

A certificate is also given to the Caput, signed and sealed by the Master of the college (or his locumtenens) shewing that each Questionist has kept his full number of terms; and if otherwise, the deficiency is mentioned in the supplicat; and a certificate explaining the cause is delivered to the Caput by the Father.

The Registrary shews to the Caput that every candidate has subscribed that he is bona fide a member of the Church of England.

The Vice-Chancellor reads the supplicats to the Caput, and on those who are admitted he writes Ad.

When they have been all read, one of the Bedells carries them into the Non-Regent House, to be read by the Scrutators; and if all are approved, the Scru

*For the honors of the present year, see p. 140.

+ For a Student of King's College, who undergoes no examination for his Bachelor's degree, but claims it by a composition between the University and his college, no supplicat is offered. A grace is shewn to the Caput, and read by the Senior Proctor in the Regent-House only.

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tators walk, and the senior says Omnes placent. But if any are disapproved of, he says, A.B. &c. non placent, reliqui placent.

Those supplicats in which any cause is assigned for not keeping the whole number of terms are read separately; but those which are of the same kind are read together in the usual manner.

The supplicats are then carried into the RegentHouse, where the Senior Proctor reads them in the same manner as the Scrutators did in the Non-Regent House. If all are approved of, the Proctors walk, and the senior says, Placent omnes, placet vobis ut intrent. If any are disapproved of, he says as above.

The supplicats are then delivered to the Registrary, who writes on them, Lect. et concess. die-Jan.

In the mean time the candidates, who during the whole proceedings of the Senate are usually in the saloon or gallery, put on their hoods over their undergraduate gowns, and the School-keeper gives to each of them a printed copy of the oath he is to take at his admission.

The Vice-Chancellor takes the chair, and a Bedell having desired the respective Fathers to be in readiness with their Sons, he precedes the Father of the Senior Wrangler (the rest of the Fathers following with their Sons) to the Vice-Chancellor.

The Father, taking the Senior Wrangler by the right hand, presents him in these words:

Dignissime Domine, Domine Pro-Cancellarie et tota Universitas, præsento vobis hune juvenem, quem scio, tam moribus quam doctrinâ, esse idoneum ad respondendum quæstioni, idque tibi fide meâ præsto, totique Academiæ.

The Father of King's next presents his Sons in the same manner. The Fellow-Commoners are then presented, and after them the Questionists of Trinity and St. John's, and then those of the other colleges, according to the seniority of the Fathers. Four or five may be presented at once, the Father saying, Præsento vobis hos juvenes, quos, &c.

As they are presented, they are directed by one of the Bedells to the south side of the Senate-House.

When all are presented, the Senior Wrangler takes the oaths of allegiance and supremacy; and the Senior

Proctor (with his colleague standing by him) reads to him the printed oath :

Jurabis quod nihil ex iis omnibus, sciens, volens, prætermisisti, quæ per leges aut probatas consuetudines hujus Academice, ad hunc gradum, quam ambis adipiscendum, aut peragenda, aut persolvenda, requiruntur nisi quatenus per gratiam ab Academiâ concessum tecum dispensatum fuerit. Jurabis etiam quod Cancellario et Pro-Cancellario nostro comiter obtemperabis, et quod statuta nostra, ordinationes, et consuetudines approbatas, observabis. Denique jurabis quod compositionem inter Academiam_et_collegium Regale factam sciens, volens, non violabis. In hæc autem verba jurabis secundum tenorem Senatus-Consulti in cautelam jurantium facti.

Ita te Deus adjuvet, et sancta Dei Evangelia.

A Bedell then calls four of the Fellow-Commoners, who take the same oaths, the Senior Proctor saying, Eadem juramenta quæ præstitit, &c. and so on with all the Questionists, as their names stand in the list signed by the Proctors and Examiners.

When all are sworn, the Senior Wrangler kneels down, and the Vice-Chancellor taking his hands between his own, admits him in these words:

Authoritate mihi, commissa, admitto te ad respondendum quæstioni. In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen.

The Students of King's, Fellow-Commoners, and all the other Questionists, are then called by a Bedell, and admitted in the same manner.

As the Questionists are admitted, they go to the Sophs' Schools, to answer the question which is asked them by their respective Fathers.

When there is an end of the admissions, the ViceChancellor dissolves the Congregation.

FIRST TRIPOS DAY.

On the day after Ash Wednesday, at one o'clock, the bell rings for the first Tripos.

At two, the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctors meet in the vestry of Great St. Mary's church.