Calendar: 1856-1857 Page 69

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 69 The Exercises in each class are- Translations from English into Latin and Greek-Prose and Verse-and Original Composition The Student who stands first in each Class at the Examina- tion which takes place at the close of the Easter Term receives Prize unless he have gained one of the Classical Scholarships of the same year and Prizes are also given annually for Latin Essay Latin Verse English Prose and English Verse III Mathematics Lectures daily Saturday excepted from 10J to For the Course of Study in 1856-7 see page 76 The subjects of these Lectures are Euclid Algebra Plane and Spherical Trigonometry Conic Sections the application of Algebra to Plane and Solid Geometry the Differential and Integral Calculus Newton's Principia and the theoretical parts of Mechanics Hydrostatics Optics and Astronomy The Students are directed to read in their- 1st Year Euclid Books 11 Arithmetic Algebra Plane Trigonometry and the elementary parts of the Differential Calculus 2d Year Elementary Mechanics the Theory of Equa- tions the Differential and Integral Calculus Newton's Principia sect and Conic Sections 3d Year Geometry of three dimensions and Spherical Trigonometry Analytical Mechanics Hydrostatics Optics and Astronomy Newton's Principia sect 11 and Differential Equations These courses are modified to suit individual circumstances The Student who stands first in each Class at the Examina- tion which takes place at the close of the Easter Term receives Prize unless he have gained one of the Mathematical Scholarships of the same year