and Clay's Sources for Roman History" or (b) 69-44 B.C. with Watson's "Select Letters of Cicero" or (c) 43-19 B.C. with select chapters of Suetonius "Life of Augustus" and the text of the "Monumentum Ancyranum". (f) HISTORY OF THE LATER MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND OF THE REFORMATION, 1300-1600 A.D., with particular study of Scottish Church History from 1523 to 1572 and of Knox's "History of the Reformation in Scotland," Book i. Books recommended (relative portions): Hardwick's "Church of the Middle Ages and "Reformation"; Milman's "Latin Christianity"; Moeller's "Medieval Church" and "Reformation" ; Ullmann's "Reformers before the Reformation"; Cunningham's "History of the Church of Scotland"; Grub's " Ecclesiastical History of Scotland"; Laing's "Works of Knox," Vol. i.; Cambridge Modern History, vol. ii.; Lindsay's "History of the Reformation"; Schaff's "German Reformation and "Swiss Reformation". Students who contemplate Honours in History are advised to call upon the Professor of History early in the Session for guidance in planning their curriculum. EXAMINATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES, ETC. 1. Fullerton, Moir and Gray Scholarships, The Examinations will be held as under : For Classics-On 28th, 29th and 30th September, 1915. For Mental Philosophy, and Mathematics and Natural Philosophy-On 21st and 22nd December, 1915. Candidates must give in their names to the Secretary of Faculties one week before the commencement of the Examinations. I. FOR CLASSICS. Latin. 1. Translation from Authors not prescribed. 2. Translations from the following: Cicero's "Speeches"; Tacitus, "Annals"; Virgil, "Aeneid". 3. Latin Prose Composition and Essay. Greek. 1. Unseen Translation. 2. Passages for translation with notes necessary to elucidate the sense from Homer, "The Odyssey"; Demosthenes, "Public Speeches"; Sophocles, "Oedipus Tyrannus," 'Oedipus Coloneus,' "Antigone,' "Ajax"; Thucydides, Books I.-IV. 3. Composition-Prose and Verse. II. FOR MENTAL PHILOSOPHY. 1. Logic and Metaphysics. 2. Psychology. 3. Moral Philosophy. 4. History of Metaphysical and Moral Philosophy, with special reference to Hume and Kant. III. FOR MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Pure Mathematics.-The Examination will involve wider reading than that Natural Philosophy, including the Statics and Dynamics of Solids and 2. Murray Scholarship. This Scholarship will be awarded in December, 1916. The Senatus has resolved that the principal subjects of examination shall be English Literature and Language. The examination will be on the lines of that for the degree with Honours in English, and shall include papers in : (1) History and Criticism of English Literature from 1350. Two papers of three hours each. (2) Shakespeare. (3) Any author chosen by the candidate, with the Professor's approval. (4) English Language. Two papers of three hours each. Prescribed Books: Sweet's "Anglo-Saxon Reader," Battles of Maldon and Brunanburgh; Cynewulf's "Elene"; "Beowulf"; Emerson's "Middle English Reader"; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; Malory's "Mort D'Arthur"; Gregory Smith's 'Specimens of Middle Scots". 3. Blackwell Prize. 66 The subject for next Essay will be announced later. 4. Gladstone Memorial Prize. IN POLITICAL SCIENCE. An annual Prize of the value of £5 in Books was instituted by the Committee of "The Liberal Memorial to Mr. Gladstone". The Prize is open both to Students under the standing of Master of Arts and to Graduates in Arts of not more than two years' standing, and it is awarded for the best Essay on a prescribed subject in Political Science. The subject of the Essay for 1916 is "The Political, Social and Economic Influence of War". Essays to be lodged with the Secretary of Senatus on or before 1st May, 1916. 5. Jenkyns Prize in Classical Philology. This Prize (value £9 10s. or thereby) will be awarded as a Uni-versity Prize to the Candidate who attains the highest marks by Examination in the department of Classical Philology. Subjects of Examination. I. GREEK.-Works recommended: Giles' "Manual of Comparative Philology"; Wright's "Comparative Grammar of the Greek Language" ;: D. B. Monro's "Homeric Grammar ". II. LATIN. (1) History of Latin Inflexion and Word-formation with Allen's "Remnants of Early Latin," Part 1; Giles' "Manual" and Lindsay's "Short Historical Latin Grammar ". Candidates are requested to apply to the Professors for advice.. 6. Liddel Prize.1 The subject for the above Prize (value £5), founded by Alex.. Kilgour, M.A. Mar. Coll. 1821; M.D. 1833, and given in alternate years for Greek or for Latin Verse, will be, for Session 1915-1916, the translation into Latin Hexameters of Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., lines 521-576. The Prize is open for competition to all Undergraduates matriculated in Arts during Session 1915-1916. Candidates are required to transmit their Compositions to the Professor of Humanity on or before 1st March, 1916. Each Composition to bear a motto, and to be accompanied by a sealed letter, bearing the same motto, and 1 So named, at the request of the founder, to perpetuate the memory of Duncan Liddel, M.D., the generous benefactor to Marischal College in the beginning of the: 17th century. enclosing the name of the Composer. Each Competitor is understood to pledge himself that he has used no assistance beyond what his own reading and judgment have supplied. The prize will not be awarded to the best Composition unless it be deemed satisfactory. The subject for the Prize in Session 1916-1917 will be the translation into Greek Iambics of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Act I., Scene 1, from "Who set this ancient quarrel" to "give cure, as know". 7. Seafield Gold Medal in English. This Medal being designed for "the best English Scholar in the Magistrand Class" (vide definition of magistrand in Calendar), will be awarded to the Magistrand who is most distinguished in the purely English portion of the Examination for Honours in English. 8. Summer Prize Work. GREEK. A Special Prize will be given for the best rendering into Attic Prose of Sargent and Dallin's "Materials and Models for Greek Prose Composition," Historical Exx. X.-XX. inclusive. Open to members of the Ordinary Graduation Greek Class-Session 19141915. Compositions to be sent in on or before 21st October, 1915. A Special Prize will be given for the best rendering into Attic Prose of Sargent and Dallin's "Materials and Models for Greek Prose Composition," Philosophical Exx. I.-X. inclusive. Open to members of the Advanced Graduation Greek Class-Session 1914-1915. Compositions to be sent in on or before 21st October, 1915. Prizes will be given to those members of the Ordinary Graduation Greek Class, 1914-1915, who, at the beginning of Session 19151916, pass the best Examination in the following work : " Demosthenes, De Pace" and "De Eschylus, "Prometheus Vinctus". Homer, "Odyssey," IX.-XI. Greek Composition, Prose and Verse. Graduates in Arts with Honours since 1861. Cl. Classical Literature. Math. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. = Gr. Eng. Greek-English. Lat.-Fr. = Latin-French. Ger..Eng. = German-English. In 1861 Honours were granted in accordance with what had been the usages in King's and Marischal Colleges. From 1862 to 1894 there were only two grades of Honours in each of the first three Departments and one in Natural Science. Under the Ordinances of 1892 the Honours Department in Natural Science was abolished, and there are now three grades of Honours in each of the Departments. * Sir William Davidson Niven, as Simpson Mathematical Prizeman, was the first to be actually capped as Master of Arts, after the fusion of King's and Marischal Colleges, into the University of Aberdeen. (1) Rector, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, (4) Late H.B.M. Consul, Yokohama. LL.D., Aberdeen. Member Univ. (5) B.A. (3rd Wrangler), Cantab, 1866. Court, 1889. (2) D.D. Abdn. (3) D.D. Abdn. Late Director of Studies, Royal |