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classification as cognate, and the order in which the subjects are to be studied, and also regarding the standard of the Honours Examinations and the conditions of admission thereto.

(3) Every candidate shall take up at least two subjects outside his Honours Group.

(4) Every candidate shall attend seven Classes, taking at least four Classes (two of which at least shall be Honours Classes under separate Professors or Lecturers) in his Honours Group.

(5) A candidate who has obtained Honours in any one Group, may, under such regulations as may be laid down from time to time by the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, present himself again for examination in a second Honours Group. In such a case, if the two Groups do not overlap, he shall not be required to take any subject or class outside his Honours Group.

(6) The examination in the subjects comprised in the candidate's Honours Group or Groups shall be on a higher standard than that required for the ordinary Degree of Master of Arts. In his other subjects the standard shall be that required for the ordinary Degree.

(7) The provisions of Section VII. of this Ordinance shall apply to candidates for Honours; but, in their case, not fewer than fifty meetings of the whole class on separate days, extending over at least two periods of the Academical year, shall constitute a full course for an Honours Class; and not fewer than twenty-five meetings of the whole class on separate days, extending over at least one of the periods of the Academical year, shall constitute a half course; and two half courses so sanctioned shall be held to be equivalent to a qualifying Honours Course in such cases as the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, may determine, and under such regulations as may from time to time be made for that purpose by the same authority.

XII. Where a subject is taught in a practical class as well as in a systematic class, the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, shall regulate the course of study, and determine the relative proportion of lectures and laboratory or practical work. XIII. (1) In each Group there shall be three Grades of Honours, to be denominated respectively the First, Second and Third Class. The names of the Candidates entitled to Honours in each class shall be arranged in alphabetical order.

(2) For the Degree of Master of Arts with Honours the graduate shall receive a Diploma setting forth the subjects in which he has passed with Honours, and those in which he has passed on the Standard required for the Ordinary Degree.

(3) A candidate for the Degree of Master of Arts with Honours, who has failed to be placed in any class, may, provided that in

the opinion of the Examiners he has given evidence of sufficient attainments in any subject for the ordinary Degree of Master of Arts, receive from them a certificate of having passed in such subject, which shall count pro tanto as part of the examination required under the regulations for the ordinary Degree of Master of Arts.

BOARDS OF STUDIES.

XIV. The Senatus shall from time to time institute Boards of Studies corresponding in general to the Departments of Study or to any two or more of such Departments enumerated in Section VIII. of this Ordinance.

XV. Each Board of Studies shall consist of such Members of the Senatus and Lecturers in the University as the Senatus may from time to time select, and the Senatus shall appoint one of the Members of the Board to be Convener thereof.

XVI. In the course of each Academical year each Professor and Lecturer in each of the said Departments of study shall submit to the proper Board of Studies for its approval (a) a syllabus of the subjects and books proposed for the work of his class for the next Academical year; and (b) a syllabus of the subjects and books to be prescribed for the Examinations for the ordinary Degree of Master of Arts in the next Academical year, and also for the Honours Examinations in the Academical year next but one. As soon as such approval has been given, each syllabus shall be transmitted to the Faculty of Arts for its consideration. Each syllabus, with such observations as the Faculty of Arts may see fit to make thereon, shall then be transmitted to the Senatus for its sanction.

XVII. Each Board of Studies shall in like manner make recommendations through the Faculty of Arts to the Senatus in regard to the Honours courses which may be sanctioned under the provisions of this Ordinance, and the lectures which may be given on special subjects.

XVIII. The Principal and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts shall be ex officio Members of each Board of Studies. The Convener shall preside, and, in his absence, each meeting shall appoint its own Chairman, and every Chairman shall have a deliberative, and, in cases of equality, a casting vote.

GENERAL.

XIX. A candidate for the Degree of Master of Arts shall not be deemed to have attended a class as part of the Curriculum for that Degree who does not present a certificate bearing not only

that he has regularly attended the class, but also that he has duly performed the work thereof.*

XX. A student, who has given attendance at classes recognised as qualifying for graduation in Arts during one or more Academical years in any one or more of the other Scottish Universities, may complete his Curriculum by giving attendance during the remainder of his course in the University of Aberdeen, and may proceed to a Degree in that University in the same way in all respects, as if the previous part of his Curriculum had been taken therein Provided always that no such student shall be admitted to a Degree in the University of Aberdeen unless he has attended qualifying classes therein during the whole of the last Academical year of his Curriculum. Further, the Senatus may accept, under such conditions as they may from time to time prescribe, attendance at other Universities specially recognised by the University Court, and the examinations passed therein, provided always that every student whose attendance or examinations are thus accepted, shall attend qualifying classes for at least two Academical years in the University of Aberdeen, and shall pass the Examinations of that University in the subjects studied therein. XXI. The Degree of Master of Arts shall in no case be conferred on persons who have not satisfied the conditions hereinbefore set forth, and shall not be conferred honoris causâ tantum; but the Senatus shall have power to admit (ad eundem gradum) to the Degree of Master of Arts any person who has already received that Degree from another University recognised by the University Court, provided that he is of distinguished merit or has been appointed to an academic office in the University of Aberdeen.

XXII. Students may attend any classes without having passed the Preliminary Examination within the meaning of this Ordinance, but such attendance shall not qualify for graduation.

XXIII. From and after the date at which this Ordinance comes into operation, Ordinances numbered 12, 14, 18 and 69 of the Commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, as altered under the provisions of the said Act, and Ordinances Nos. 11, 44, 148, 160 and 168 of the Commissioners appointed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, the first clause of Section III. Sub-section (1) of their Ordinance No. 18 and Ordinance General No. 1 of the University Courts of the Scottish Universities are hereby repealed as regards the University of Aberdeen, in so far as they are inconsistent with this Ordinance; and any references made in existing Ordinances ap

*By Resolution of the Senatus Academicus of 29th March, 1910, Absence from 25 per cent. or more of the class meetings constitutes failure except in very special circumstances approved of by the Senatus.

plicable to the University of Aberdeen to the said repealed Ordinances or Sub-section shall be deemed to refer to this Ordinance and the corresponding Sections and Sub-sections thereof: Provided always that a student who, at the aforesaid date has already commenced his course of study with a view to graduation in Arts in any of the Scottish Universities under the regulations in force at the time in such University may complete his course and become a candidate for the Degree of Master of Arts with or without Honours at the University of Aberdeen, in conformity with such regulations.

XXIV. This Ordinance shall come into force at the beginning of the first Academical year after the date on which it is approved by His Majesty in Council.

In Witness Whereof these presents are sealed with the Common Seal of the University Court of the University of Aberdeen, and subscribed on behalf of the said University Court as required by Ordinance No. 6 (General No. 3) of the said Commissioners.

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(1) The Church of Scotland Committee on Education for the Ministry consider it of great importance that the student in Arts should include those subjects in his curriculum which bear intimately on his theological studies. In the five subjects required for the degree of M.A. he should endeavour to include Latin and Greek, Logic and Moral Philosophy. A Science ought also to be studied. If English is not taken as a graduating subject, it is most desirable that the intending divinity student should attend a course of lectures in this department. (2) The student should bear in mind that if he has not passed his degree examinations in Latin, Greek, or Philosophy, he will be examined in these subjects before admission to the Divinity Hall. If Greek forms no part of his graduating course, he should attend the Junior Greek class. Though Hebrew is now a graduating subject in the Faculty of Arts, there is no room for it when only five subjects are taken and in no case should it displace Latin, Greek, Logic, or Moral

Philosophy. But it is most desirable that the student should attend a course of Introductory Hebrew during his last year in Arts. (3) In the case of intending divinity students who are studying for M.A. with Honours, the best departments in which to take the degree are those of Classics or Philosophy, though the student may also select Greek and English or Moral Philosophy and English.

(4) The following are examples of model courses :

Latin
Greek

Logic

Moral Philosophy

1.

Either Latin and Greek or Logic and Moral Philosophy to be studied during two sessions and passed on a higher standard.

A Science

Latin

Greek

Logic

Moral Philosophy
A Science
English

II.

Either Greek or Moral Philosophy might with advantage be taken as a double course, to be studied during two sessions and passed on a higher standard.

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V. TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

The work in connection with the Training of Teachers now is carried on by the Provincial Committee appointed under the Minute of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland of 10th February, 1920.

All students should note that after 1st January, 1926, no male student will be admitted to training as a Teacher unless he holds a University Degree.

All inquiries should be addressed to the Director of Studies, William A. Edward, M.A., D.Litt., 46 Charlotte Street, Aberdeen.

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