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UNIVERSITY IjOCAL EXAMINATIONS. 193
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In The Years 1857 And 1858, Examinations...
A scheme of Examinations was sanctioned "b y Grace of the Senate of the University of Cambridge , February JL 1 , 1858 ,
and a Syndicate was appointed , by whom , with the advice of prescribing schoolmasters 1 a list and of other subjects persons of Examination , _Regulations "in were accordance drawn with up ,
the Senate instructions . " contained in the . propositions _- ¦¦¦ adopted by the Considerable difficulty was felt at both . Universitiesin
arrang-, ing the details of the Examination in ReBgious Knowledge . It was desired to give every encouragement to religious teaching ,
and at the same time to act with perfect fairness towards candidates of all creeds and denominations .
The Cambridge Syndics , " after much , careful thought , determined that the Examination should be made to consist of three
parts , embracing severally : 1 st , some of the books of the Old _. and New Testament Scriptures ; 2 nd , some portion of the Book
of Common Prayer , or other formulary of the Church of England ; _. 3 rd , the work of some standard writer on religious subjects .
The books of the Old and New Testament Scriptures were madea necessary part of the Examination , while every student was
left at liberty to take the second or third part of the Examination ,, or both of themaccording to his pleasure . The Syndics further
, determined that credit should be given to every student for the knowledge shown in that Examination in the same way as for any
other kind of knowledge , and that it should be added to the credit gained from other subjects of Examination in determining the
class in which the name of the student should be placed . " A similar plan has subsequently been adopted by the Oxford !
Delegacy , whose regulations now stand as follows . The section is divided into two parts , the first including questions on the
Bible only , the second having reference to the Book of Common Prayer . " -Marks will henceforth be given for answers in this
section . Every candidate will be required to answer questions in both portions of this section , unless his parents of guardians object
on conscientious grounds ( _conscientise causa ) to his being examined in it . Any candidate , however , on whose behalf such objection
shall be made , may , if he chooses , answer questions and so gain marks in the first portion only ; but no one can be held to have
satisfied the Examiners in the section without both portions . " The Examinations for junior and senior students are distinct .
Senior candidates must be under eighteen , junior at Oxford under fifteen and a half , at Cambridge under sixteen . Candidates
of both divisions are required to pass a preliminary examination in elementary subjects . >
The ( Oxford ) Examiners for the Preliminary Examination give the following account of what they conceived to be the purpose
of their part of the work , and -of the standard which they fixed : — " We believed that thougli the subjects in which we had . to examine
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University Ijocal Examinations. 193
UNIVERSITY IjOCAL EXAMINATIONS . 193
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/49/
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