from any one or more of such Regulations. In the event of two or more Courts intimating such dissent, the Regulation or Regulations so dissented from shall be inoperative. In the event of only a single Court intimating such dissent, the other Courts or any of them may petition His Majesty in Council to take the matter into consideration and to intimate approval or disapproval of the Regulation or Regulations as framed, and intimation of approval shall render the Regulation or Regulations as framed operative from the date of such approval.

VIII. The Entrance Board shall have power, in the case of an applicant for admission of not less than twenty-one years of age, or such higher age as the Board, with the approval of the four University Courts, shall determine, to grant exemption, in whole or in part, from any requirements laid down in the General or Special Regulations of the Board; but such exemption shall not be granted unless the applicant produces to the Board satisfactory evidence that he possesses a good general education, and unless the Board is satisfied of his fitness to enter upon the curriculum for a Degree.

IX. The Entrance Board, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, shall have power to make all necessary arrangements for giving effect to any of the General or Special Regulations that become operative.

X. The Entrance Board, with the approval of the four University Courts, shall prescribe what fee (if any) shall be paid to the General Fund of a University by applicants for admission thereto; and what additional fee (if any) shall be paid to the said General Fund by any applicant, the consideration of whose application for admission has involved additional expenditure by the Board.

XI. Funds sufficient to meet the expenditure of the Entrance Board shall be provided by means of contributions from the four Universities. The contribution of each University in any year shall be proportionate to the whole number of those who have applied for admission thereto.

XII. An applicant who has in any British or Foreign University been admitted (otherwise than honoris causa tantum) to a Degree, or who has obtained a Certificate recognised by the Entrance Board as equivalent to such a Degree, shall be entitled to receive from the Entrance Board a certificate of exemption from the requirements of the General or Special Regulations of the Board.

XIII. Attendance on any course shall not qualify for graduation unless the student has previously obtained a certificate issued or attested by the Board showing that he has, in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, satisfied the Entrance Board as

to his fitness to enter upon the curriculum for a Degree in the particular Faculty concerned. But if a student, before so satisfying the Entrance Board, has attended a course qualifying for graduation, the Senatus may, on special cause shown, permit him to count such course as qualifying for graduation, on condition of his so satisfying the Entrance Board within such time thereafter as the Senatus may appoint; and in every such case the Senatus shall make a report to the University Court setting forth the reasons for the relaxation.

XIV. In each University the Senatus may from time to time determine with respect to any particular class the conditions under which attendance thereon shall qualify for graduation, and shall in each case report the conditions to the University Court.

XV. Students may attend any classes without having qualified for admission under the provisions of this Ordinance, but such attendance shall not qualify for graduation.

XVI.—(1) All the members of the Joint Board holding office at the date on which this Ordinance comes into operation shall cease to hold office on the thirty-first day of the month of January next following, and no new members shall be appointed in their place. (2) The Secretary of the University Court who, at the date on which this Ordinance comes into operation, is Convener of the Joint Board and custodian of all its documents, shall act as Interim Secretary of the Entrance Board and shall convene its first meeting. Such first meeting shall take place during the month of February next following the date on which this Ordinance comes into operation. When a Secretary of the Entrance Board shall have been appointed, the Interim Secretary shall transmit to him the documents belonging to the Joint Board, and thereafter the Secretary of the Entrance Board for the time being shall be the custodian of the same and of all documents belonging to the Entrance Board. (3) The Professors, Lecturers, and Additional Examiners who, at the date on which this Ordinance comes into operation, have been appointed as Examiners for the Preliminary Examination under the Joint Board, for a period extending beyond the thirtyfirst day of the month of January next following, shall, if they consent in writing thereto, render such expert assistance to the Entrance Board as the Entrance Board may require, and shall in return therefore be held entitled to receive, for the remainder of the period for which they were appointed to act as Examiners under the Joint Board, such remuneration as would have been due to them bad they continued so to act.

XVII. The Entrance Board shall annually submit to the University Court of each University a statement specifying the probable number and the qualifications of the persons of expert knowledge, inclusive of Examiners, whom the said Board may

require in order to enable them to deal with the matters within their duties and powers so far as that particular University is concerned, and thereupon the University Court, either alone or in combination with one or more of the other University Courts, shall make the necessary appointments, the persons so appointed to hold office for such term of years and to receive such remuneration as the University Court or Courts may determine. A casual vacancy shall be filled by the University Court or Courts concerned, and any person so appointed shall hold office for the remainder of his predecessor's term.

XVIII. The provisions of Section XIX. of Ordinance No. 13 (General No. 8-Regulations as to Examinations) are hereby revoked, and the following provision is substituted therefor, namely:

"No person shall be appointed, or shall continue to hold office as an Additional Examiner for a Degree in any University who holds office as a Professor, Lecturer, University Assistant, or Demonstrator in that University. But a Professor, Lecturer, University Assistant, or Demonstrator shall not in respect of his office be ineligible for appointment to render expert assistance to the Entrance Board." XIX. From and after the date on which this Ordinance comes into operation the Regulations relating to the Joint Board contained in Ordinances No. 13 (General No. 8), No. 43 (General No. 15), and No. 152 (General No. 35) are hereby revoked; and, so far as they are not inconsistent with the terms of this Ordinance, any references made in the said or other existing Ordinances to the Joint Board shall be deemed to refer to the Entrance Board, and, from and after the date on which the first sets of General and Special Regulations to be framed by the Entrance Board come into operation, the Regulations relating to Preliminary Examinations contained in the several Ordinances for Degrees in Law, Medicine, Arts, Science and Music are hereby revoked, and the corresponding provisions of the said General and Special Regulations are respectively substituted therefor: Provided always that a student who, at the latter date, has already commenced one of the courses of study approved for purposes of graduation, or has already passed or become entitled to exemption from the whole or part of the Preliminary Examination, under any Regulations at the time in force, may continue and complete his course of study and examinations in conformity with such Regulations; and provided also that all supplementary Regulations, rules, lists of recognised examinations, and general directions, issued by the Joint Board and in force at the said date, shall continue in force until they are altered or revoked by the Entrance Board in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.

XX. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the thirty-first day of December next following the date on which it is approved by His Majesty in Council.

In accordance with the provisions of the foregoing Ordinance, the Entrance Board has issued certain regulations, to the following effect:

(1) All applicants for admission to a University must submit their certificates of preliminary qualification to the Secretary of the Entrance Board, 81 North Street, St. Andrews, together with a fee of two shillings and sixpence. If found duly qualified, the applicant will receive the Board's Certificate of fitness, which should then be presented to the Secretary of the University. Intending students who have completed the Preliminary Examination at the University must send their certificate of pass, with the fee of two shillings and sixpence, to the Secretary of the Board, in the same way as those who hold exempting certificates.

(2) The Intermediate Certificate of the Scotch Education Department is not recognised as a voucher for passes on the Lower Grade in the Leaving Certificate Examination. No Lower Grade pass will be accepted unless it is recorded on a Leaving Certificate.

(3) The Board propose that from and after 1st January, 1921, the qualification for admission to a course of study in the Faculty of Medicine shall be the same as that required for a course of study in the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Science (Pure Science).

CURRICULA FOR THE M.A. DEGREE.

On or before the first day of his first term every student must state, on a form provided for the purpose, the subjects he proposes to study in the ensuing Academical year, and also those selected by him for the completion of his curriculum, for the approval of the Faculty. Any subsequent alteration of the approved curriculum must be submitted to the Official Advisers.

THE ORDINARY M.A. DEGREE.

(1) A candidate for the Ordinary Degree must present himself for Examination in five subjects selected from at least three of the following Departments of Study :

1. Language and Literature.-Latin, Greek, English, French, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac.

* The Academical year commences on the 1st day of October. It includes at least twenty-five teaching weeks, and is divided into three periods or terms (Winter, Spring and Summer).

2. Mental Philosophy. - Logic and Metaphysics, Moral
Philosophy, Political Economy, Education (Theory,
History, and Art of), Comparative Psychology.
Science.-Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry,
Zoology, Botany, Geology.

*3.

4. History and Law. -History, Constitutional Law and History, General Jurisprudence, Roman Law, Public International Law, International Private Law, Ecclesiastical History.

(2) Of the five subjects selected by the candidate two must be studied in Double Courses.

A Double Course means either the study of a single subject (e.g., Latin) for two separate Academical years, or the study of two Cognate subjects (e.g., Latin and Greek) for two separate Academical years or concurrently.

(3) Except in cases where the Senatus has determined that the two parts of a Double Course may be taken in the same Academical year, a student is not permitted to attend the second part of a Double Course before he has passed the Degree Examination in the first part, or has satisfied some test deemed equivalent by the Faculty.

(4) When two Cognate subjects are taken as a Double Course, the Degree Examination in each will be on the ordinary standard. But when the Double Course is in a single subject studied in two separate Academical years, the final Degree Examination in that subject will be on a higher standard.

(5) Double Courses may be taken in the following single subjects: Latin, Greek, English, French, German, Hebrew, Logic and Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, Political Economy, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, History.

(6) Double Courses in two Cognate subjects may be taken in the following groups:

(a) Any two of Latin, Greek, English, French, German. (b) Any two of Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac.

(c) English, with British History.

(d) Logic and Metaphysics, with Moral Philosophy, or with Education, or followed by Comparative Psychology, Moral Philosophy, with Political Economy. The Course in Political Science and Sociology may, with the approval of the Advisers of Studies, be taken as an alternative Advanced Course in Political Economy.

(e) Any two of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chem

istry.

*In the department of Science, the Systematic and Practical Courses should be attended concurrently in each of the subjects Zoology, Botany, Geology, and Chemistry.