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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    EXTRA SUBJECTS, In which Candidates may volunteer for examination. The values obtained in these will be acknowledged on the certificate granted, but not added to the Candidate's aggregate marks as qualifying for a certificate. A.—Department of Drawing. Drawing in Outline from the Flat. B.—Department of Music. The Grammar of Music. III.—SENIOR 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, and D. Department A. 1. Latin.—A paper consisting of, ist, a passage of simple English to be translated into Latin; 2d, four passages, such as the Candidate might, without previous preparation in them, be expected to translate ; two of these, at the choice of the Candidate, to be translated into English [the passages selected are generally taken from the following authors—Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Livy]; and 3d, gram- matical questions, arising out of the passages, or general. 2. Greek.—An easy passage (or passages), prose or verse, e.g., from Xenophon, Lucian, Homer, for translation into English, with gram- matical questions. A few easy sentences from English into Greek. 3. French.—Ad aperturam translation and retranslation, with ques- tions on the accidence and sjmtax of French gp-ammar, and French literature, viz., Montaigne, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Pascal, Bossuet, Fenelon, Lafontaine, Rousseau, Voltaire, Chateaubriand, Stael, Beran- ger, Lamartine, G. Sand, V. Hugo. Questions on Idioms will be taken from Bue's First Steps in French Idioms. 1 This Certificate is recommended by the Medical Council to the Licensing Boards as a sufficient test of Preliminary Education, so far as it includes the subjects demanded 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, comprismg (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 so as to suit the requirements of the Medical Council) ; (7) One of the following optional subjects :—Greek, French, German, Italian, any other Modern Language, Logic.