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194 UNIVERSITY iLOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
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In The Years 1857 And 1858, Examinations...
ivere of a Irunible order , they were , nevertheless , of considerable Importance . The new _University Examinations had been objected
the system to b pup y m of ils an ' y who cramming persons most ' as require * to lik divert ely their to the foster aid the attention , to conceit attention those ; of who to masters of encourage were bfrom most from a
able to dispense with it ; to divert oys subjects befitting their age and condition , to others of a more ambitious character . "We felt confident that such objections
would be most satisfactorily refuted , if the University rigidly required of all its candidates a certain minimum amount of
proendeavouring ficiency in the to rudiments fix this minimum of a p , lain we were English guide education d chiefl . y by In
two considerations . " 1 . That the standard for Oxford Associates in Arts ought not to found to be
be lower in the elementary subjects , than that which is easilattainable by boys and girls of thirteen or fourteen , educated
y in the " 2 common That some primary discredit scho would ols of attach the country to the . Oxford certificate , if
. those who obtained it should subsequently be found unable to satisfthe Civil Service Commissionerswhen examined on
appointment y to some of the junior situations , in the public service , such as a clerkshiin the Customs or Inland Revenue , where the
subjects are the p same as those of the Oxford Preliminary Examination" *
. The Regulations ultimately adopted by the two Universities are substantially the same .
EXAMINATION OF JUNIOR STUDENTS . ( Cambridge , 1862 . ) Part I . —Preliminary .
Ever 1 "Reading y Student aloud will a be passage required froni to satisfy sonie tlie standard Examiners English in— prose author .
3 2 . . . The Writing Rudiments from dictation of . English Grammar , including the analysis of
sentences . . . * 4 . The first four rules of Arithmetic , simp _^ le and compound , Vulgar and the Rule of Three
Fractions subject 5 . Geograp , and , Practice h to y : fill every , up Student an outline will chief map be required rivers . by in of serting to answer of the the questions chief countries ranges on in the the of
mounta following ins , list the — chief England towns , , Scotland and the , Ireland , France one , Europe , and North America 6 The . outlines of the History of England since the Conquest ; that isthe
. , succession The Oxforci of soverei Examiners gns , and require the chief also events a short in each Eng rei lish gn . composition , and and the first four rulessimple and
in Arithmetic , only Numeration , compound Parts . IIIII . and IV . embrace , for both Universities , Religious
Know-Drawing ledge , Latin , Music ., , Greek . , , For French Cambrid and , , German ge , , there Mathematics are candidate also , Mechanics separate is examined secti , Chemistry in ons for ,
English , and for Botany Zoology . No more * First Annual Report of the Delegacy rendered to Convocation ,
Dec . 31 , 1858 .
194 University Ilocal Examinations.
194 UNIVERSITY _iLOCAL EXAMINATIONS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/50/
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