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UNIVERSITY OF HALIFAX. 
 
 REGULATIONS 
 
 RELATING TO LEGEEES m 
 
 AETS. 
 
 "Ul commanlcations sJionld be addressed " To the Rjistrar oj 
 the Uaiversity of HaUfacc^ Uidifcuv, N, ^." 
 
 FEBRUARY, 1877. 
 
 HALIFAX, N. 8. 
 TKINTED BY WM. MAGNAB, 1£ PBINCE ST. 
 
 1877. 
 
EXAMINATIONS IN iS77. 
 
 DATES OF COMMENCEMENT. 
 
 Matriculation. — Tuesday, September 4, 
 
 Bachelor of Arts. — Eirst B. A., Tuesday, July 17; Second 
 
 B, A., J^o Examination will be held this year. 
 Bachelor of Laws. — First Ll. B., and Second Ll. B., 
 
 Tuesday, July 17. 
 Bachelor of Medicine. — First M. B., Tuesday, May 1 i 
 
 Second M. B., Tuesday, May 1. 
 Doctor of Medicine. — Tuesday, May 1. 
 
 LATEST DATES FOR RECEPTION OF CERTIFI- 
 CATES AT REGISTRAR'S OFFICE. 
 
 Matriculation. — Tuesday, August 21. 
 
 Bacuelob of Arts. — First B. A., Monday, June 18. 
 
 Bachelor of Laws. — First Ll. B., and Second Ll. B. 
 
 Monday, June 18. 
 Bachelor of Medicine. — First M.B., and Second M.B,? 
 
 Monday, April 2. 
 Doctor of Medicine. — Monday, April 2. 
 
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 ARTS. 
 
 BACHELOR OF ARTS. 
 
 Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Aets shall 
 be required to have passed the Matricitlatiox Ex.imina- 
 TiON and to pass Two subsequent Examinations (1). 
 
 FIRST B. A. EXAMINATION. 
 
 The First B. A. Examination shall take place once in 
 each year, and shall commence on the first Tuesday after 
 the 15th July. (2) 
 
 No Candidate shall be admitted to this Examination 
 within One Academical year (3) of the time of his passinj^ 
 the Matbicdlation Examination ; nor shall any Candidate 
 be admitted unless he have|produced a satisfactory Certificate 
 of Good Conduct, which shall be transmitted to the Regis- 
 trar at least one adendar month before the commencement of 
 the Examination. 
 
 The Fee for this Examination shall be Five Dollars. No 
 Candidate shall be admitted to tl^e Examination unless he 
 have previously paid this Eee to the Registrar. (4). If, 
 after payment of his Fee, a Candidate withdraws his name, 
 or fails to present himself at the Examination, or fails to 
 pass it, the Fee shall not be returned to him ; but he shall 
 be allowed to enter for any two subsequent First B. A. Exa- 
 minations without the payment of any additional Fee, pro- 
 vided that he give notice to the Registrar at least fourteoi 
 days before the commencement of the Examination ; such 
 notice in respect to the privilege aforesaid, being considered 
 equivalent to entry. 
 
 The Examination shall be conducted by means of Written 
 or Printed Papers ; but the Examiners shall not be preclu- 
 ded from nutting, for the purpose of ascertaining the com- 
 petence of the Candidates to pass, viva voce questions to any 
 Candidate in the subjects in which they are appointed to 
 examine. 
 
 fl.) The Pass Examinations may be hold not only in the City of Halifax, but 
 also, under a special arrangement (see page 11), in other parts of the Province. 
 
 (2.) This Regulation is temporary, but due notice of anj- change in the date of 
 holding the Examination will be given. 
 
 (:}.) By the term " Academical Y uir" is ordinarily meant the period interven- 
 ing between any Examination and an Examination of a liigher grade in the fol- 
 lowing year; which period may be either more or tpnit than a Calendar year, 
 
 (i.) Payment of the Fee is not expected until the Candidate enters his name on 
 tlie liegisterof the University ; for which entry a time is appointed, of which lie 
 is informed when the receipt of liis Certificate is acknowledged by tlie Registrar. 
 
 2/7'P7S 
 
Candidates will be examined in the ftllowing subjects : — 
 
 CLASSICS. 
 
 The Latin Lanouage. (1) 
 
 Three Books, e. </., Horace, two Books of Odes, aud Cict-ro, Do 
 Senectuto or fie Aiuicitia. Or Livi/, Books 21 ami 22, anil 
 Jforace, Ars Poetica. 
 
 History and Geoouapiiy. 
 
 RomaD History to Battle of Actiiim, as in Liddell's History of 
 
 Home. 
 Ancient Geography of Italy, Sicily, Ciaiil, Spain. 
 
 Latin Prose Composition. 
 
 As in iMTiith's Priucipia Latina, part IV., or Arnold's Prose^ 
 Composition, Practical Introduction, part I. Grammar. 
 
 (iREEK. (2) 
 
 Two Books, as one of Homer and one of Xenophon, or an 
 equivalent portion of Herodotus. 
 
 Questions in History anil Geography arising out of Books pre- 
 scribed. 
 
 Greek Grammar. 
 
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 MATHEMATICS. 
 
 Algebra. 
 
 To end of Quadratic E(iuations. 
 
 Arithmetical and Geometrical Progressions. 
 
 Propoition and Variation. 
 
 Permutations and Combinations. 
 
 Binomial Theorem for the positive integral exponent. 
 
 Nature aud use of Logarithms. 
 
 Interest and Annuities. 
 
 (tEGMETRY. 
 
 Euclid, Books .3, 4 and 6, and Book 1 1 to 2'lst proposition, or 
 the subjects tliereoL 
 
 Analytical Geometry. 
 
 The Equations of the Straight L'ne, and the Equations of the 
 
 Circle referred to rectangular co-ordinates. 
 The Etpiations of the Conic Sectious referred to rectangular 
 
 co-ordinates. 
 
 Plane Trigonometry. 
 
 To the end of the solution of Triangles. 
 
 ( 1> The Latin Subjects for 1877 and 1878 are:— 
 
 For 1877 •.—Inrarr, Odes, Rooks I. and IT. ; Cicero, De Amicitia. 
 For It 78 •.—L'vy, Books XXI. and XXII. ; Horace, Ars Poetica. 
 
 { 2) The Greek Subjects for 1877 and 1878 are :— 
 
 For 1877 ■.—Homer, Iliad, Book T.; Xewfhon, C5Top!)ed!a, Book I. 
 For 18"8 :— 2/omer, Cdyssey, Book V.; Xenophon, Meinorabii'a, Book I« 
 
i • 
 
 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. (1) 
 
 Selected portions of Smith's Student's English lianKuaRe, niul 
 An,i?us' iran(l-Iliu)k of the ICiigliHh Tt)nj;;uo, or Adams'. 
 
 Whately's Rhetoric, or some other etiuivnlent text-hook. 
 
 Shakespeare, one play, and an equivalent portion of some other 
 English author, or a paper on Anglo-Saxon or Early FlngUsh. 
 
 CHEMISTRY. 
 
 Heat, Light, Magnetism, Electricity, in their relation to Che- 
 mical AiRuity. 
 Principles of Chemical Philosophy— The Atomic Theory. 
 The Non-Metallic Elements and their compounds. 
 Metals and Metallic Salts. 
 Outlines of Organic Chemistry. 
 
 LOGIC. 
 
 Terms, Methodology, Propositions. 
 
 Syllogisms. 
 
 Induction, as in Whately's, or Fowler's, or Jevou's. 
 
 The Examinations shall bo conducted in the following 
 order : — 
 
 Tuesday. 
 
 Morning, 10 ^o 1. Latin. 
 Afternoon, 3 to (5. Greek. 
 
 Wednesday. 
 
 Morning, 10 to 1, Geometry and Algebra. 
 
 Afternoon, 3 to 6. Analytical Geometry and Plane Trigonometry^ 
 
 Thursday. • . 
 
 Aforning, \0to 1. English Language and Literature. 
 Afternoon, 3 to 6. Chemistry, 
 
 Friday. 
 
 Morning, 10 /o 1. Logic. 
 
 Within Ten Days after the Exanaination, the Exanainers 
 shall publish a List of the Candidates who have passed, 
 arranged in Two Pivisions, the First in the order of profi- 
 ciency and the Second in alphabetical order. 
 
 A Pass Cortificate signed by the Registrar shall be deliv- 
 ered to each successful Candidate who shall apply for it, 
 after the Report of the Examiners shall have been approved 
 bv the Senate. 
 
 (1) The English Subjects for 1877 and 1878 are :— 
 
 For 1877 •.—Smith ; Student's English Language, Lectures I.-lV. 
 Shakespeare ; Julius Caesar. 
 Macaulay .- Essay on Warren Hastings. 
 
 For 1878 -.—Smith -. Studfint's English Langur-ge, Lectures V.-VII. ftTldXXVI' 
 Shakespeare : King Lear. 
 Maoaulay .• Essay on Lord Clive. 
 
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 rni/>E8. 
 
 If in the opinion of tl.o Examiners nny CiuululatoH ni the 
 l'ir«t Division slmll possess suffldent merit, the first 
 among such Candidates sh.ill receive a Prize ot tiie value O 
 Heventv-Fivc Dollars ; the second shall receive a I rize ot 
 the value of Fifty Dollars ; the third a Pri/.o ot the va ue ot 
 Forty Dollars, and the fourth a Prize ot the value of Ibirty- 
 Fivo DoUai's. 
 
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SECOND B. A. EXAMINATION. 
 
 The Second B. A. Examination f<lmll take place once in 
 each year, and sliall cunnnonce on the Tuesday in the second 
 week after the coniincucement of the Eiust B. A. Exami- 
 nation [1.] 
 
 No Candidate shall be admitted tu this Examinal ' within 
 one Academical year [2\ of the time of his passinj; ' I''ikst 
 B. A. Examination, nor shall any Candidate he .idinitted 
 unless he have produced a satisfactory Certificate of (}ood 
 Conduct, which shay be transmitted to the Hegistrarat least 
 one ailemhtr month before the commencement of the Exami- 
 nation. 
 
 The Fee for this Examination shall be Five Dollars. No 
 Candidate shall bo admitted to the Examination indcss he 
 liave previously paid this Fee to the Rer^istrar. [3.] If, after 
 paymciit of his I'Ve, a Candidate withdraws his luime, or fails 
 to present himself at the lOxamination, or fails to pass it, 
 the Fee shall not be returned to him, but he shall be allowed 
 to enter for any two subsequent Second B. A. Examinations 
 without the payment of any additional Fee, provided that 
 he give notice to the Kegistrar nt \eiiHt fourteen days before 
 the commencement of the Examination ; such notice, in 
 respect to the privilege aforesaid, being considered equivalent 
 to entry. 
 
 The Examination shall be conducted by means of Writtc 
 or Printed Papers; but the Examiners shall not be preclu- 
 ded from putting, for the purpose of ascertaining the com- 
 petence of the Candidates to pass, viva voce questions to any 
 Candidate in the subjects in which they are appointed to 
 examine. 
 
 Candidates shall be examined in the following subiects : — 
 
 \_N, B. — The firat two subjects, Mathematics and Physics 
 and Classics, are compulsory (except that Spherical Trigono- 
 metry and Astronomy may be omitted by Candidates who 
 pass in Classics, and that one subject in Greek and Latin 
 may be omitted by Candidates who pass in Mathematics and 
 Physics.) Of the remaining three subjects, French or Ger- 
 inau or Hebrew, Mental and Moral Philosophy, Constitu- 
 tional History and Political Economy, two arc compulsory.] 
 
 1.] No Second B. A. Examination will be held in 1877. 
 
 2,1 See Note 3, page 8. 
 
 3.] Payment of the Fee Is not expected until the Caudidate enters his naiiir 
 on the Register of tlie University; for which entry a tiuje ia appointed, ia" 
 which he is informed when the receipt of his Certificate ia acknowledged by 
 the iiegititrur*' 
 
8 
 
 MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. 
 
 Spherical Trigonometry (resolution of Triangles). 
 
 Statics and Dynamics. 
 
 Hydrostatics. 
 
 Optics: (Jeometrical and Pliysicnl, 
 
 Acoustics. 
 
 Astronomy. 
 
 lleut. 
 
 Kloctricity. 
 
 .\tHgnotism. 
 
 Books suggested: For Statics, Dynamics and Hydrostatics. 
 Galbrailh and Haughton's or Parkinson's Mechanics ; Newth's 
 Klemonts of Mechanics ; Balfour Stewart's Lessons in Ele- 
 mentary riiysics. Optics and Astronomy by (Jalbraitli and 
 llaughton, or Lockyer's Astronomy. 
 
 CLASSICS. 
 
 Latin. (1) 
 
 Two 8ubjocl9, r. _ry., Tacitus, one Book of Annals or History, 
 and Horace, the Satires. Or one Play of Terence «r Plautus. 
 and Cicero^ De Oratoro. 
 
 Geeek. (2) 
 
 Two subjects, e. y„ One Tragedy and one Book of Tkucjfduhs, 
 
 Or one Tragedy and one of the long Orations of Demosfheiteti. 
 History of Greece to the death of Alexander, as in Smith''^ 
 
 Student's Greece or Cox's General Histoly of Greece. 
 Ancient Geography of Greece and Asia. 
 
 FREiVCH OR GERMAN OR HEBREW. 
 
 FBENCn. 
 
 French Grammar. 
 
 Translation from Racine, Moliere, Lamartine, Chateaubriand 
 
 Guizot, or similar standard authors. 
 Translation of ordinary prose English into French. 
 
 German. [3] 
 
 Otto's German Conversation Grammar. 
 Schiller's Wiihelm Tell, or Ga:the's Faust. 
 Translation of easy prose English into German, 
 
 Hebrew. [4] 
 
 Green's ov Arnold's Grammar. 
 
 Genesis, Chapter XX. to end, or first Twenty Psalms. 
 
 MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 The Intellect. 
 
 The Emotions. 
 
 The Active and Moral Xature. 
 
 Text-Books suggested : —Mansell's Metaphysics or Porter's 
 
 Human Intellect. 
 Dugald Stewart's Active and Moral Powers of Man, or llilFfi 
 
 Elements of Philosophy. 
 Fleming's Manual, or La Foret's Philosophic Morale. 
 
 [1] The Latin Subjects forl878 Arei—Tacittis, Annals, Book I.; Homce, the 
 
 Satires. 
 [2] The Greek Subjects for 1878 are-.— Euripides, Hecuba; Tliucydides, Book I , 
 |:j.] The German suWect for 1878 is -.—SchiUer, Wiihelm Tell. 
 [4,J The Hebrew subject for 1878 is :— First Twenty Psalms. 
 
fostatit'8. 
 
 Novvtii's 
 
 in Kle- 
 
 laitli and 
 
 Ilisitoiy, 
 Phtufus, 
 
 ■ucifdulfSt 
 tosthenes. 
 
 . Smith's 
 
 ttubriand 
 
 Porters 
 or IlillV 
 
 Tornce, the 
 is, Book I 
 
 CONSTITrTlONAI. IIISTOItV AM) ToUTIi \1. 
 
 ('liai>teron Knylixli History, in Ihillinn's MitMIe Aj^i'!'. 
 Ililllllnl■^( or StiililiV ('.institiitiiinul History and Miiy'n. 
 I'awcL'tt'rt I'ulitioal lA'onniny. 
 
 The ExaminutiDiis »\\\\\\ ho t'Diuluck'il in I lie I'ollDuinij; 
 order: — 
 
 Tuesday. 
 
 MttniliHj, \C\ tit I. L'ltiii. 
 Aftcniuou, .".< iu (i. (li't-ek. 
 
 \V'i:i)Ni;si).vY. 
 
 Miiniiiif/, 10 /o I. MiifIit'niati(.'S anil I'liy.-ics. 
 
 Afh 
 
 ■Uoii. I'll 
 
 irnooiu 
 TlIUHSDAY. 
 
 MuniiH//, 10 A* 1. Mcnta' i'liilosopliy. 
 Aflcrnuoii, ."{ to (I. Ktliic". 
 
 FltlUVY. 
 
 .Voriii'/if/, \() to 1. Constitutional History. 
 Affcniuoii, 3 to (!. J'oliticul i'^cunomy. 
 
 AVilliiii Ten Days after tlic Exauiiiiatloii llie Examiners 
 shall |)iil)li.«h a l-ist of the Caiidivlales who have ])asso(l. 
 arranged in Two Divisions, the I'irst in the order of pruii- 
 cieiK'v, andtiie Second in alphabetical order. 
 
 A Certificate under the Seal of the University and si'^'ned 
 by tlie Clianeellor, shall be delivered at the I'ublie I'rosentU- 
 tion for l)e<,'rees to eaeh Candidate who has passed. 
 
 EXAMIXATIOX Ft)K HONOURS. 
 
 Any Candidate who has passed the Skcoxd B. A. Exa^ii- 
 >'ATi()X may be examined at tlie Honours Examination next 
 following the Second li. A. Examination at whicli he has 
 passed, for Jlouours in 
 
 J.— Classics. 
 
 1.*.- Mathfiiiatics and Pliysics. 
 
 3.— Lnj^'ic, .Mental and .Moral I'liilosophy and Political EcoU'imy. 
 
 4. — Chemistry. 
 
 "). — Hn;,disli Lani;iia;,'e ami Literature. 
 
 <).— Modern L;ui^nages. 
 
 Candidates for Honours in Classics shall be examined in 
 Latin. 
 
 Lh-ii, Books XXI. and XXII. 
 Tai-i/vs, Histories, Book I. 
 Tercmt, Adelphi. 
 7 7r////, Geovi'iics, 
 Cicero. De ()ratore. 
 Prose CumposltiuH. 
 
 GrJ'Ek. 
 
 Arktot'ip, Etliii's, Bo.dcs I. ar.d II. 
 Jhnulolus, IJooks I.-III. 
 Sojthocles, Aja.T. 
 .Li^chiilus, V\\ tmethen?. 
 Ari,ifo/)/)anrfi, The Clouds. 
 Prose Comiio^itiuu. 
 
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 Caiulidatcs Ibr JFonours in Mathematics and Piivhics 
 shall be examined iu 
 
 Algebra, including the Tlie ny of E.iualions. 
 iMiineaii'! Sphnriral Trigonometry. 
 Differential and Integral Calculiit;. 
 (! )nic Sections. 
 
 Geometry of three dimen.»<ions. 
 
 I'liysic? -extension of siiltject-* of the ordinary course of 
 riiysics iu the Second Ji. A. Pass E.xamination. 
 
 Candidates for lIoiKMirs in Looic, Mental and ^lonvi, 
 PiiiLosoPiiv, and Political Economy, sliall be examined iu 
 
 An E.vtension of the .subjects iu the Pass Course. 
 
 lJ>oks recommended : Jevon's I'rinciides of Science; Tlionij)- 
 son's Jjjiws of Thought; ]Iamilt.)ii'.s Metaphysics ; .Niill's Rr- 
 view of Hamilton's Pliilosi)i)hy ; McCosh's Defence of Fiii.iia- 
 meatal Truth — or, as an allernativo for the three works last 
 named, Liberatori's Philosophy, or Barnie's Philosoj^hy. 
 ^lill's Political Economy; Archer Butler's Ancient I'hilosu- 
 pliy ; Maurice's ^ledijeval Philosophy ; Morell's History of 
 •the Speculative Philosophy uf the Niueteenth Century ; Mc- 
 Cosh's History of the Scottish Philosophy. 
 
 Candidates for Honours in CjiE.\risTitY shall be examined in 
 
 Organic Chemistry, as in Watt's Edition of Fownes' Chen)is(ry 
 QuHlitative Analysis — Detection of Bases and Acids (iiii.,t- 
 
 >;anic). 
 v/uantitative Inorganic Analysis, 
 Manipulation and Calculation of Kesults. 
 
 Candidates for Honours in English Lanouage and 
 Literature shall be examined in 
 
 S)/''*h, Student's English Language. 
 Trti'ji, Study of Words, English Past and Present. 
 W^iately, Synonyms. 
 Spenser, Faery Queen, Books I. to HI. 
 IShakespeare, King I^ear and Macbeth. 
 Bacon, Essays- 
 
 I'ope, Essay on Man, Satires and Epistles (M. Pattisou's edition 
 recommended). 
 
 Candidates for Honours in ^Modern Languages shall be 
 examined in 
 
 French and German, 
 
 or 
 French and Italian, 
 
 or 
 French and Spanish. 
 Translation into English of passages fnmi standard works in the 
 
 two languages cliosen. 
 Translation of English prose into .the same two langufiges. 
 
 Candidates may also be required to dhow facility in con- 
 versation in French. 
 
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 LOCAL EXAMINATIONS 
 
 Fon 
 
 MATRICULATION AND DEGREES IN AKTS. 
 
 Upon the request of the Governing Board of any of the 
 Colleges in connexion witli the University Jis to ^latricula- 
 tion and Arts, the Senate may appoint P^xaininations to be 
 held at such places as they sec lit. 
 
 These Examinations will be carried on simnltaneonsly with 
 the Examinations in Halifax, under the supervision of Sub- 
 Examiners appointed by the Senate. The Answers of the 
 Candidates at the Local Examinations will be reviewed by 
 the Examiners at the same time with the Answers of t!;c 
 Candidates examined in Halifax ; and a List of the Cu'.nh- 
 dates who have passed at eacii Local Examination will be 
 published, at the time fixed by the Regulations, at the place 
 where such Examination has been held. 
 
 The Regulations respecting the transmission of Certiii- 
 cates to the Registrar, the Fees |.ayable to the University, 
 the times and the mode of conducting the Examinations, 
 and the arrangement of the Canuidates after Examinatio)i. 
 are the same for all Candidates.