Calendar: 1856-1857 Page 68

68 general literature and science in Text-books chosen by the Principal These Text-books for the Academical Year 1856-7 will be- For Third Year Students Bishop Butler's Sermons 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 on the last day of the Academical Year prizes are adjudged to the two best Stu- dents in the first second and third years respectively Student who has obtained Divinity Prize in any one year cannot again become candidate for these Prizes II The Greek and Latin Classics Lectures daily Saturday excepted from 10 to For the Course of Study in 1856-7 see page 75 The subjects of these Lectures are the works of the best Latin and Greek writers and Greek and Latin Composition both in Prose and Verse Besides the work which is done in the Lecture Room the Students are expected to prepare given portion of Roman and Greek History for each College Examination and to commit to memory weekly certain portion of Horace Virgil or Cicero The Students are divided into three classes according to their proficiency and in these classes they are arranged in order of merit at each examination The Authors read are as follows 1st Class Aristotle-Plato-Thucydides-Demosthenes -Pindar- isehylus -Aristophanes-Cicero-Livy -Juvenal-Plautus 2d Class Herodotus-Demosthenes-Sophocles-Euri- pides-Livy-Cicero-Terence-Horace-Virgil 3d Class Euripides-Homer-Cicero-Virgil Second First Blunt's Scriptural Coincidences The Historical Books of the Old Testament