Oxford and the Rhodes ScholarshipsScholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)
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Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships
Scholz, R. F. (Richard Frederick)
Rhodes scholarships
Candidates who take either the Law or the Natural Science Preliminary
Examination are further required to pass in an ‘Additional Subject’,
additional, i. e., to the Stated Subjects for Responsions. The
examinations may be in the nature of translations from (1) a prescribed
Greek or Latin, (2) French, German, or Italian author, or on (3) Book
I of Bacon’s _Novum Organum_, or (4) Elementary Logic. This Additional
Subject may be taken any time after matriculation; except that it must
be taken before the student enters for the Law Preliminary Examination,
and it must be passed before any candidate is admitted to the Final
Examination in Natural Science.
All candidates who have passed in the written papers in any one of
the three Intermediate _Pass_ Examinations must undergo a ‘viva voce’
examination in the subjects offered.
[Sidenote: ‘Honour Mods.’]
Instead of taking one of these three Pass Examinations, the more
ambitious and scholarly _may_ decide to take Honours in the Intermediate
Examination—‘Honour Moderations.’ This examination is of more than
average difficulty and requires thorough and conscientious preparation.
The candidate must be prepared (1) to translate any passage set from
Homer and Virgil and from the orations of Demosthenes and Cicero; (2) he
must choose for special study at least three authors from a list of eight
Greek and eleven Latin authors, and be prepared to answer questions on
the text, contents, style, and literary history. (3) A fairly difficult
Latin Prose Composition is set, also (4) unprepared translations in Greek
and Latin, and (5) a general paper, covering the field of Greek and Latin
grammar, literary criticism, and classical antiquities in general. In
addition there are certain optional subjects, which may mean a better
place in the ‘Class Lists’. Great importance is attached to the literary
character and the style in which the examination papers are written.
There is no ‘viva voce’ examination.
[Sidenote: ‘Honour Maths.’]
Those who wish to escape the Classical part of ‘Honour Moderations’ may
take instead the Intermediate Examination in ‘Honour Mathematics’ and an
‘Additional Subject’, although this is not often done. The subjects to
be offered are (1) Algebra, (2) Trigonometry, (3) Pure and Analytical
Geometry, (4) Differential and Integral Calculus, (5) Elements of
Mechanics of Solids and Fluids.
[Sidenote: Examination in Holy Scripture.]
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