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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 31, 1912.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 181. It is hereby notified that the following amendment to the Statutes of the University of Hongkong which has been made by the Court pursuant to the powers vested in it by Section 14 of the University Ordinance, 1911, (No. 10 of 911), has been approved by the Officer Administering the Government-in-Council:-
"That the first paragraph of Statute 21, Section 1, be repealed and the following sub- stituted therefor:
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The Senior Oxford Local Examination (with a certificate in the case of the Medical Faculty of exemption from responsions) and the Senior Cambridge Local Ex- amination (with a certificate in the case of the Medical Faculty of exemption from the previous examination) and such matriculation examinations of
any British University as the Council may by resolution approve shall be accepted as equivalent to and in lieu of the entrance examination of the University. The subjects and conditions of the entrance examination to the University shall (until the Council shall otherwise prescribe) consist (save for exemption there- from as above set out and subject to the Agreement made between the Univer- sity and the Hongkong College of Medicine dated the 12th March, 1912) of the subjects and conditions set out in the Schedule to this Statute. The Council may on a recommendation made by any Board of any Faculty and approved by the Senate prescribe any special subjects for examination for students of any Faculty additional to those comprised in the entrance examination above referred to and may also prescribe the standard of such additional subjects.
The Schedule above referred to.
The subjects prescribed for the entrance examination are as follows :-
I.--English including Reading, Dictation, Composition, Grammar, Analysis; with questions on the general outlines of English History, and on the general outlines of the Geography of Europe and Asia with special reference to the Geography of China.
II.-Latin or Classical Chinese, or other Classical Oriental Language.
Latin :--Candidates must pass in (1) Grammar (2) translation of a passage of English prose (3) translation into English of an, unprepared passage (4) either (a) additional unprepared translation or (b) Virgil Aeneid I, II or (c) Cæsar de Bello Gallico III, IV or (d) Cicero, in Catilinam I, II or (e) any two of the above mentioned books.
Classical Chinese:- Candidates must pass in (1) translation from English into
Chinese; and (2) Chinese into English, prepared work, Mencius Ĩ to IV.
III-Mathematics.
(1) Arithmetic.
(2) Algebra up to and including the Binomial Theorem.
(3) Geometry including the subject matter of Euclid Books I, I and III,
with easy deductions.
IV. One Optional subject: Greek, French, German, a modern Chinese dialect, or other modern Language. (Grammar and easy translation from and into English.)
A candidate shall be required to pass in I, II and III at one and the same time
but may pass the Optional subject, IV, separately.
A candidate, who has obtained in all the four subjects a number of marks equi- valent to the sum of the marks required for a pass in each, may be allowed a pass in the whole examination; provided that in no single subject he has obtained less than half of the marks required for a pass, and that the pass-mark be reached in the English l'aper."