Chemistry.-The Laws of Chemical Change and of Chemical Composition. A general knowledge of the Classification of the Elements will be expected and questions will be set on the Chemistry of the more important Non-metals and of the Metals and their Compounds in common use. 5. FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, AND GAELIC will comprise questions on grammar, idiom, philology and literature, translation from English into the foreign language, unseen translation from the foreign language into English, and free composition in the foreign language; and the standard will not be lower than that adopted, at the date when the Special Regulations above-mentioned come into force, for a pass on the Higher Standard at the Preliminary Examination hitherto held at the Scottish Universities. Two papers will be set in each language, two hours being allowed for each paper. The First Paper will contain a continuous prose passage and five sentences for translation from English into the foreign language, and an essay in the foreign language on some easy subject. The Second Paper will be divided into two sections. The first section will contain two passages for unseen translation in English (one in prose and one in verse). The second section will contain three questions on grammar and idiom, one question on philology, and one question on literature; of these five questions the candidate will be required to answer three. The question on literature will comprise a knowledge of at least one standard work in the foreign language. In the case of French, German and Spanish, four standard works will be prescribed each year (in French, two at least from the nineteenth century, and one at least from the seventeenth century); two of the works will be changed from year to year. The works prescribed for the literary question in French, German, and Spanish in Spring and Autumn 1928 will be as follows: French.-Corneille, Le Cid; Mérimée, Colomba; French Verse from Villon to Verlaine, the selections from Lamartine, Hugo, Vigny and Musset (Dent.); Dumas, La Tulipe Noire (Nelson). German.-Hauff, Lichenstein (Harrap); Gutzkow, Zopf und Schwert (Camb Univ. Press): Die hundert besten Gedichte, Lyrik, and Epik, the selections from Uhland, Morike, Heine, Storm, Keller and Meyer (Gowans & Gray); Goethe, Egmont. Spanish.-Tamayo y Baus, Un drama nuevo (Madrid, Sociedad de Autores españoles); Selections from Don Quixote (ed. Bévenot, Clarendon Press); A. P. Valdés, La Hermana San Sulpicio (Nelson); Las Cien mejores Poesias (líricas) de la Lengua castellana, Poems 61 to 80 (Gowans & Gray). Examinations in other languages approved by the Board will consist of two papers, each of two hours' duration, and drawn up, as far as possible, in accordance with the Regulations given above 6. DYNAMICS.-Candidates completing their qualification under the old Regulations, and professing Dynamics, must take the two papers in Physical Science. In March and September 1928 the second paper will contain a supplementary section to meet the case of these candidates. The subject "Dynamics "is not one of those recognised under the new Regulations. III. PRELIMINARY QUALIFICATIONS. 1. Attendance to count for a Degree only after an Entrance Board Certificate has been exhibited. While the ordinary University Courses are open to anyone (men and women) who may desire to take them on matriculation and payment of the requisite fees, attendance on any course shall not qualify for graduation unless the student has previously obtained a certificate issued by the Scottish Universities Entrance Board, 81 North Street, St. Andrews, showing that he has satisfied the Entrance Board as to his fitness to enter upon a curriculum for a Degree. Forms on which to make application for this certificate may be obtained on application to the Secretary to the University of Aberdeen. 2. Abstract of Entrance Board Regulations. N.B.-The question as to whether a student is or is not entitled to enter upon a course of study qualifying for graduation is one which by Ordinance must be decided by the Entrance Board. For full and official information on the subject, reference should be made to the Regulations issued by the Board which will be found in the University Calendar. All questions as to the interpretation of these regulations should be referred to the Secretary of the Entrance Board, 81 North Street, St. Andrews. The undernoted abstract summarises the Regulations, but is not authorised by the Board. 3. Persons to whom Entrance Board Certificates will be granted. The following will be accepted by the Entrance Board as entitling the holder to enter upon a course of study qualifying for graduation in any Faculty: (1) Leaving Certificates. A Group Leaving Certificate of the Scottish Education Department or a Certificate or Certificates testifying to the satisfactory completion of a course approved of by the Board, provided that the Certificate shows passes, at least two of which must be on the higher standard, in the following FOUR subjects : A. WHERE ONLY TWO OF THE SUBJECTS ARE PASSED ON THE B. WHERE AT LEAST THREE OF THE SUBJECTS ARE PASSED ON THE HIGHER STANDARD. 1. English (including Literature and History). 2. Mathematics or Science.2 3. A Language. 1 4. Art, Music, Applied Science, another Language1 or Science 2 if not already taken. (2) Preliminary Examination. A Certificate of having passed the University Preliminary Examination conducted by the Board in the following FOUR subjects, 1 A language means Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Gaelic. 2 A pass in Higher Science which does not include Physics will only count as a pass on the Lower Standard, and the recognition of Science on either a Higher or a Lower Standard is conditional on Mathematics having been studied at least to the end of the third year of the post-qualifying stage. * It will be observed that it is possible to obtain an Entrance Board Certificate which will admit a Student to any Faculty although Latin or Greek has not been passed at the Leaving Certificate or Preliminary Examinations. The attention of Teachers and intending Students is therefore specially directed to the new Regula tions for the ordinary Degree of Master of Arts (M. A.) which come into force on 1st October, 1928, under which every Student must take either Latin or Greek as one of the compulsory subjects of his curriculum for the Degree of M.A., and the consequentnecessity of Students intending to proceed to an ordinary Degree in Arts including either Latin or Greek in their School curricula. at least two of which must have been passed on the higher 1 standard. A. WHERE AT LEAST TWO OF THE SUBJECTS ARE PASSED ON THE 1In Latin, Greek and Mathematics, there shall be two standards, a higher and a lower, and in all other subjects there shall be a higher standard only. 2 A language means Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Gaelic, or such other language as may from time to time be approved by the Board. The following languages have been approved :-Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Bengali, Burmese, Celtic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hindustani, Japanese, Kanarese, Malavalam. Marathi, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Swedish, Tamil, Tolugu, Turkish, Urdu, Welsh, Yoruba. Physical Science shall comprise Dynamics (Elementary Statics and Kinetics of Solids, Liquids and Gases), Physics and Chemistry. *It will be observed that it is possible to obtain an Entrance Board Certificate which will admit a Student to any Faculty although Latin or Greek has not been passed at the Leaving Certificate or Preliminary Examinations. The attention of Teachers and intending Students is therefore specially directed to the New Regulations for the ordinary Degree of Master of Arts (M.A.) which come into force on 1st October, 1928, under which every Student must take either Latin or Greek as one of the compulsory subjects of his curriculum for the Degree of M. A., and the consequent necessity of Students intending to proceed to an ordinary Degree in Arts including either Latin or Greek in their School curricula. B. WHERE AT LEAST THREE OF THE SUBJECTS ARE PASSED ON THE HIGHER STANDARD. 1. English (including Literature and History). 2. Mathematics or a Physical Science.3 3. A language.2* 4. Another Language,2 or Physical Science 3 if not already taken. The Board may accept passes in other examinations as equivalent to passes in the same or similar subjects of the Board's Examination. (3) A University Degree. A University Degree granted (otherwise than honoris causa tantum) by any British or Foreign University, or a Certificate recognised by the Entrance Board as equivalent to such a Degree. (4) Certificates Recognised as Exempting from the (a) ENGLISH, IRISH, AND WELSH CERTIFICATES. 1. Responsions in the University of Oxford. 2. The previous Examination of the University of Cambridge. 3. The Matriculation Examination of the University of London. 4. A certificate by the Registrar of a University in England or Wales or Ireland, testifying that the candidate's qualifications would be accepted for admission to a graduating course in that University. (b) THE BRITISH EMPIRE. An authenticated declaration by a Government official or official of an Embassy, Legation or Consulate of the country to which the applicant belongs testifying that the Certificate tendered would entitle the holder to enter on a regular course of study in a University in the Dominion or Colony concerned provided that where the candidate's language is other than English he passes the special examination laid down for such candidates. (c) OTHER UNIVERSITIES. For full particulars as to the certificates of other universities accepted, see list attached to the Regulations issued by the Scottish Universities Entrance Board, printed in full in the University |