ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SESSION 1904-1905.

Programme of Classes.

St Mary's College will be opened on Monday, 10th October. Principal-ALEXANDER STEWART, M.A., D.D.

Competition Bursaries Vacant.

A competitive examination for the undermentioned Bursaries will be held on Friday and Saturday, 8th and 9th October :

A Taylour Thomson Bursary, of the annual value of £40, tenable for three years.

The Wemyss Bursary, of the annual value of £25, tenable for three years.

A Foundation Bursary, of the annual value of £24, tenable for three years.

The Buist Bursary, of the annual value of £20, tenable for three years.

Two Beath Bursaries, of the annual value of £18 each, tenable for three years.

The New Endowment Association Bursary, of the value of £6, tenable for one year.

Candidates for these Bursaries will be examined in the following subjects :

Latin.-Cicero, De Nat. Deorum, Bk. I. A short unseen

passage.

Greek.-Xenophon, Memorab., Bk. I. The Gospel of Mark. Short unseen passage. Questions on Grammar.

Moral Philosophy.-Muirhead's Elements of Ethics.
Apologetics.-Flint's Theism.

Hebrew.-Paradigm of the Regular Verb, and of the Guttural Verb, with suffixes as appended both to verbs and nouns; the large print of the sections explanatory of the above in Gesenius's Grammar, or Davidson's Grammar, sections 1-31. Translation and grammatical analysis of Genesis iii.

Scripture History. 1st and 2nd Samuel; the Acts of the Apostles. History of the period between the Old and New Testaments. [Book recommended: From the Exile to the Advent,' by Fairweather. (T. & T. Clark.)]

None of the Entrance Bursaries open to competition shall be held by any successful candidate holding an outside bursary of £20 or more per annum, tenable for three or more years.

No successful candidate shall hold a competition bursary along with any other competition or presentation bursary without the special permission of the College, and such permission will in no case be given when the combined value of the bursaries amounts to £30 or upwards.

Presentation Bursaries Vacant.

A Bell or Dron Bursary, of the annual value of about £15, tenable for one year. Patrons-The Presbytery of Perth.

A Craig-Buchanan Bursary, of the value of about £17, tenable for three years. Patrons-The Kirk-Session of Kinross.

Two Gillian Maclaine Bursaries, of the value of about £50 each per annum, in the Divinity Course of three sessions, open to Gaelic speakers purposing to study for the ministry of the Church of Scotland in any Scottish University. Application to be made to the Rev. P. N. Mackichan, Inveraray.

PRIZES.

CHANCELLOR'S PRIZE. The Chancellor of the University offers a prize of £21 for the best Essay on "The Source and Development of Parliamentary Institutions in Scotland down to 1707." The competition is open to graduates of the University the date of whose first matriculation as students of this or any other Scottish University is not more than ten years prior to the beginning of Session 1904-5. The essays of competitors must be given in to the Secretary of the University not later than Satur

day, 30th September 1905, with mottoes and sealed notes, containing a declaration by the writers that the essays are bona fide their own production.

GRAY PRIZE. A prize of about £5 will be awarded for the best Essay on "The Importance of Codex Bezæ for the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, especially in the Gospel of St Luke." A prize of equal amount will also be awarded for the best Essay on "The ecclesiastical relations of Scotland and England in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries."

The essays must be given in to the Secretary of the University, with mottoes and sealed notes, not later than 6th January 1905.

GLADSTONE MEMORIAL PRIZE.-A prize of £10 (in books) will be awarded in Session 1904-1905 for the best essay on "Contrast the Modern with the Ancient or with the Medieval Conception of the State." The Competition is open to all Matriculated students of the University of Sessions 1903-1904 and 19041905. The essays of Competitors must be sent to the Secretary of the University not later than 15th February 1905, with mottoes and sealed notes containing a declaration by the writers that their essays are bona fide their own production.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

BERRY SCHOLARSHIP.

A Berry Scholarship in Theology will be open to competition at the close of Session 1904-1905. Candidates must have taken their whole course in Divinity at St Mary's College, and must at the date of their appointment have passed all the examinations required for the Degree of B.D. within two years, and the last of them at the close of the Session in which the Scholarship is awarded. The Scholar must undertake to pursue advanced studies in the subjects of his department, under the supervision of the Professors, and to give, if required, five hours a-week to tutorial work, under the direction of the Professors in his department. Either of the following departments may be taken Divinity and Church History, or Biblical Criticism and Hebrew. The Scholarship is of the value of £80, tenable for one year, but the University Court may continue the same for a second year on the recommendation of the Senatus Academicus. The subjects of examination are the same as those prescribed for the B.D. Degree, but on a higher standard. Candidates must send in their names to Principal Stewart, not later than 1st February 1905. The Scholarship will not be awarded unless Candidates of sufficient merit present themselves.

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COOK AND MACFARLAN SCHOLARSHIP.

This Scholarship, of about £21, tenable for one year, will be open for competition at the annual Scholarship Examination at the close of next Session. For subjects of examination see Berry Scholarship. If there are no candidates for the Berry Scholarship, the Cook and Macfarlan Scholarship may be awarded to a candidate who has made at least 65 per cent in any two of the subjects at the ordinary B.D. Examinations in March. Candidates must give in their names to Principal Stewart on or before the 1st of February 1905.

TULLOCH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP.

This Scholarship, of about £14, tenable for one year, will be open for competition at the annual Scholarship Examination at the close of next Session. For subjects of Examination see Berry Scholarship. If there are no candidates for the Berry Scholarship, the Tulloch Memorial Scholarship may be awarded to a candidate who has made at least 65 per cent in any two of the subjects at the ordinary B.D. Examinations in March. Candidates must give in their names to Principal Stewart on or before the 1st of February 1905.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.

At a General Meeting of the Committee appointed under Acts of the General Assembly for the Examination of Students entering the Divinity Halls, the following programme of books and subjects, on which all Students entering the Divinity Halls for the Session 1904-1905-with the exceptions undernoted-will be examined, was unanimously agreed to.

LATIN. (1) Livy, Book XXIV. Horace, Odes, Book III. (2) Prose Composition and translation of unseen passages. GREEK.-(1) Xenophon, Memorabilia, Book III. The Gospel according to St John. (2) Prose Composition and translation of unseen passages. HEBREW.-Davidson's Hebrew Grammar, Sections 1-30. Genesis, Chapters I. and II. with grammatical questions limited to the subject in the grammar.

MATHEMATICS.-Euclid, Books I., II., and III. Algebra to Quadratic Equations.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.-Deschanel's Physics, Part II.