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52 applied sciences Religious Instruction Lectures upon the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are delivered every Wednesday Afternoon during the Academical Year by the Principal and on Saturday by the Chaplain in the Greek Testament Paley's Evidences Barrow's Sermons and Butler's Analogv There are also weeklv examinations on paper upon the lectures of the preceding week These Examination Papers are accurately looked over and system of marks indicating relative merit is established At the close of the Michaelmas and Easter Terms the Students are classed according to merit and after the latter prizes are adjudged to the two best Students in the first and second year respectively Student who has obtained Divinity Prize in any one yer cannot again become candidate for these Prizes II Mathematics The subjects of these Lectures are for the- First Year -Euclid Books II III IV VI XL Arith- metic Algebra Plane Trigonometry and Logarithms Second Year -Conic Sections application of Algebra to Geometry the Differential and Integral Calculus Third Year -Spherical Trigonometry Geometry of Three Dimensions Differential Calculus 111 Natural Philosophy and Astronomy The object of these Lectures is to teach the principal Mechanical Sciences namely Statics Dynamics Hydrostatics Pneumatics and Hydraulics Some time is also devoted to Optics and Astronomy in order to explain the construction and use of the principal Optical and Astronomical Instru- ments The instruction given in the first year is confined to those arts of Natural Philosophy which do not recjuire any mathe- matical knowledge on the part of the Student Most of the fundamental propositions in Statics Dynamics and Hydro-