Calendar of the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women, lecture rooms, 15 Shandwick Place. Session 1890-91.

  • Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women
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[1890]
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Credit: Calendar of the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women, lecture rooms, 15 Shandwick Place. Session 1890-91. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    *3. Latin.—Grammar; Cornelius Nepos (the lives in White's Grammar School Texts), and thorotigh parsing of the same. * This subject will be optional for Female Candidates, except when Latin is taken as a Special Subject for the Junior or Senior Certificate. 4. Arithmetic, hichiding Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal. 5. Scripture History.—Genesis, Exodus i.-xxiii., and Gospel of St Luke. Note.—When parents or guardians request that the Scripture paper be omitted, a paper in French Grammar (accidence generally, excluding irregular verbs) will be substituted. Candidates for Junior or Senior Scripture Knowledge Certificate must have passed the Preliminary Examination, or take it along with the Junior or Senior, as the case may be. N.B.—The Preliminary Certificates of Glasgow, St Andrews, Aber- deen, Oxford, and Cambridge, the Government Admission Examination in Training Colleges, and the Matriculation Examination of the Royal University, Ireland, are accepted instead of the above Examination. (See also p. 17.) II.—JUNIOR CERTIFICATE.! At least two, and not more than four of the following subjects are to be selected by the Candidate. The selection must be made from at least two of the Departments A, B, C. Department A. I. Latin.—A passage for translation into English, with grammatical and general questions. (Ccesar, De Bello Gallico, B, IV. ; and Selections from Ovid's Fasti and Epistles, by Shuckburgh, to p. 30 (Macmillan). A short easy piece of unprepared Latin will be set. An easy passage of EngHsh, for translation into Latin (unusual words being given). [Special importance is attached to this exercise, and to the grammatical questions on the passages given for translation into English.] ' This Certificate is recommended by the Medical Council io the Licensing Boards as a sufficient test of Preliminary Education, so far as it includes the subjectsdemanded by the Council, viz. :—(i) English Language, including Grammar and Composition • (2) English History ; (3) Modern Geography ; (4) Latin, including Translation from the Original and Grammar; (5) Elements of Mathematics, comprising (a) Arithmetic including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions ; {b) Algebra, including Simple Equations • (c) Geometry, including the first book of Euclid, or the subjects thereof - (6) Elementary Mechanics of Solids and Fluids, comprising the Elements of Statics Dynamics, and Hydrostatics; Blaikie's Mechanics (this paper will be drawn to suit the requirements of Medical Council); (7) One of the following optional subjects - Greek French, German, Italian, any other Modern Language, Logic.