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Trinity Monday following. The examiners are the provost and senior fellows, or such junior fellows as may be called on for that time, to supply the place of absent members of the board. The course appointed includes all the classics read for entrance, and in the extended course for under-graduates to the end of the second examination of the junior sophister year; or should the candidate be of higher standing than that of junior sophister, (reckoned from the time of his entrance,) to the end of the last examination which he might have added, had he proceeded regularly with his class. Sizars who in their first year descend to the new class, are to be considered as having entered in that class.

On or before the day of election, every candidate must send to each of the examiners his name, his father's name, the name of the county in which he was born, and of the schoolmaster by whom he was educated. For this proceeding there is a regular form of words.

The Statute directs, cæteris paribus, that a preference shall be given to those who have been educated in the Dublin schools, or born in those counties where the college has property. Thirty of these scholarships have the privilege of an exhibition of £20 per annum during their four years' scholarship. These are called Natives' Places, or Hibernici; but, in other respects, scholarships are conferred upon all British born subjects without distinction.

SECTION IV.

UNDER-GRADUATE LECTURES.

Students, during the under-graduate course, are required to attend the following lectures.

1st. Morning Lecture. This is held every morning during term, at half-past seven by the college clock". Each class is lectured in the sciences appointed for the

a Three-quarters past seven by the town clocks. See a former note as to College time.

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term, except on Saturdays, on which day the students compose a theme on a subject previously mentioned by the lecturer; and for merit or proficiency in these compositions, premiums are often given by the Board, on the recommendation of the lecturer.

2nd. Greek Lecture. Held on the mornings of every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, during Term, at nine o'clock. The subject of this lecture is the Greek author appointed for the term.

All the students who reside in the college, or within such a distance as renders their attendance practicable, are held responsible for morning and Greek lectures. To keep the term, one-half, at least, of the whole number of lectures must have been attended.

3rd. Catechetical Lectures. These are held every Saturday morning by nine o'clock, for the two freshman classes only. No student can regularly obtain his degree of A.B. until he shall have kept four Catechetical terms or examinations: two in the junior freshman year, and two in the senior freshman year.

Catechetical examinations are held at the beginning of each term, (immediately after the term examination,) for the benefit of those who have not been resident during the preceding term. The following tables will show the subjects of the last named lectures and examinations.

JUNIOR FRESHMEN.

Michaelmas Term (and Hilary Examination). The Gospel according to St. Luke.

Hilary Term (and Trinity Examination). The Acts of the Apostles.

Trinity Term (and Michaelmas Examination). Archbishop Secker's Lectures on the Church Catechism; (Lectures vi-xvii. incl. on the Creed).

SENIOR FRESHMEN.

Michaelmas Term (and Hilary Examination). Genesis, and the first twenty chapters of Exodus.

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The privilege of keeping supplemental terms of examinations, instead of those that may have been omitted at their proper time, is granted under the restrictions pointed out in the following rule:

"That in future every student shall be required to keep in each of his freshman years, two out of the three Catechetical Terms or Examinations belonging to such freshman year. For the enforcement of this Rule, an increased number will be required from those who shall not so have completed their attendance in the freshman years. Whenever, in a freshman year of a student, there is a deficiency of either one or two of the Catechetical Terms or Examinations of that year, such student must afterwards, as a supplementalist, complete the number of three, so as to have a separate credit for each of the three terms of the year.

DIVINITY LECTURES.

Students in Divinity must keep six terms. Formerly four were considered sufficient. Three with Archbishop King's Divinity Lecturer, and three with the Regius Professor.

During their first year, which Divinity students may commence in their senior sophister year of the undergraduate course, they are to attend the lectures of Archbishop King's lecturer in divinity, together with the lectures of one of his assistants. It is intended that the lecturer shall occupy two terms with the evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, and one with the Socinian Controversy.

During the second year, the students are required to attend the Regius Professor of Divinity and one of his assistants, the Professor's lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible, the Articles and Liturgy of the United Churches of England and Ireland, and the Controversy with the Church of Rome.

The Regius Professor of Divinity lectures on Tuesday and Friday, at eleven o'clock; and his assistant lecturer the same days, at one o'clock.

Archbishop King's Lecturer in Divinity lectures on

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Mondays and Thursdays, at eleven o'clock. His assistant lectures, on the same days, at one o'clock.

During the first year, the assistant to Archbishop King's Divinity lecturer, delivers lectures on the fol lowing subjects:

In Michaelmas Term, St. Luke's Gospel, in Greek, as the basis of a harmony.

In Hilary Term, St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, in Greek.

In Trinity Term, Bishop Pearson on the Creed, the first eight Articles.

The Divinity student cannot attend the lectures of the senior year, until his attendance upon the junior year is completed; and to complete that year, it will be necessary, in addition to the attendance on the lectures of King's Divinity lecturer, to pass an examination, which is conducted according to the following rules of the College:

The examination shall be held at the end of Trinity Term, for all Divinity students, who have attended and obtained credit for the three terms of the Divinity lectures of the junior year.

Archbishop King's lecturer is empowered to call on his assistants to take a part in conducting the examination.

A similar examination will be held at the end of the Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, for supplementalists who shall have completed their attendance in these terms respectively.

In rejecting a candidate, the examiners shall determine whether he is to present himself again, at any of the supplemental examinations, or to be kept back until the next annual examination.

COURSE FOR THE DIVINITY EXAMINATION.

In Greek, the candidates are examined in the following works:

The four Gospels, and St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; Evidences of Christianity; Chalmers on

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Natural Theology; Paley's Evidences; Newton on the Prophecies; Dissertations I. to XIII. incl., XVIII. XIX. XX. and XXI.

The Socinian Controversy; Pearson on the Creed; Magee on the Atonement, vols. 1. and 2, omitting Nos. LIII. LIX. and postscript to LXIX.

An additional examination for prizes is held in Michaelmas Term: the regulations follow below, but attendance on this examination is not compulsory.

During the second year, the Assistants to the Regius Professor of Divinity lecture on the following subjects:

Michaelmas Term, Whately on the Book of Common Prayer.

Hilary Term, Burnet on the Thirty-nine Articles. Trinity Term, on the Thirty-nine Årticles.

It is further necessary, in addition to the attendance upon the Regius Professor of Divinity and his assistants, to pass an examination held at the end of the Trinity term, conducted according to the rules of the examination held at the end of the junior year, by Archbishop King's Divinity Lecturer.

The following course has been appointed for this examination :

In Greek: The Epistle to the Hebrews.

Ecclesiastical History: Mosheim's History of the Church, (Soames's edition,) first three centuries, and sixteenth century.

Liturgy and Church Government: Whately on the Book of Common Prayer; Potter on Church Government (the Rev. J. C. Crossthwaite's edition).

Articles of Religion: Bishop Burnet's Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles.

Roman Catholic Controversy: Leslie's Case stated between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, with his Tract on The true Notion of the Catholic Church, in answer to the Bishop of Meaux.

When attendance upon the whole Divinity course has been completed according to the foregoing regulation, the Divinity Testimonium is given, signed by the Regius Professor of Divinity and one of his assistants.

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