Development of the Language; (3) Composition. B. Literature(1) Lectures on German Literature from 1700 to 1832; (2) Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, Schiller's Die Braut von Messina, Goethe's Egmont, Lessing's Laokoon, Heine's Harzreise; (3) Composition. SUMMER SESSION. A Summer Session was instituted in the United College in 1893. It opens in the third week of April and closes in the last week of June. The Classes are taught principally by the University Lecturers, and by the University Assistants who are specially appointed as Lecturers for the purpose. The fee for each class is £2, 2s., with the exception of Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, and Physiology, which are £3, 3s. each. The Matriculation Fee for Students who have not matriculated for the academical year is 10s. 6d. The Classes are offered conditionally on a sufficient number of Students presenting themselves. Students who purpose attending any of the Classes are accordingly requested to send in their names to the respective Lecturers not later than Wednesday, 18th March 1903. The following is a list of the Classes offered in 1902, and may be taken generally as a guide to the Summer Session of 1903 : HUMANITY. Lecturer-John A. J. Drewitt, M.A. -- Junior.-Preparation for the Higher Standard Preliminary Examination in Latin. Horace, Book I. of the Odes. Cicero, Pro Archia. Ordinary.-Degree Books for October 1902. Versions and Unseens. Honours (Three days a-week).—Degree Books for 1902-3. GREEK. Lecturer-R. K. Hannay, M.A. Junior.-Preparation for the Higher Standard Preliminary Examination in Greek. Homer, Lysias, &c. Ordinary.-Degree Books for October 1902. Honours (Three days a-week). Books prescribed for the Honours Degree. Subjects to be arranged. ENGLISH. Lecturer-William Bayne. Ordinary.-Degree subjects for October 1902. tions. FRENCH. Lecturer-Alfred Mercier, L.-ès-L. Ordinary. A course of 50 Lectures qualifying as a half-course in Arts and Science. The work of the class, which will meet daily at 10 A.M., will comprise the following subjects: 1. French style and composition. Translation from English into French. 2. Historical French Grammar (Text-book: Darmesteter, Grammaire historique, 3rd part). 3. Literature: (a) Lectures on the epistolary writers of the seventeenth century. (b) Reading of selected letters of the above (Text-book: Lanson, Choix de lettres du XVIIe siècle). (c) Literary Essays. HEBREW. Lecturer-James Robb, M.A., B.D. Introductory.-Davidson's Introductory Grammar, as far as sect. 31, including the more important exercises, Hebrew-English and English-Hebrew. Junior.-Davidson's Introductory Grammar, from sect. 32 to the end, including all the paradigms, and the English-Hebrew exercises. Genesis I.-IV. Ordinary.-The Book of Amos. Psalms CVII.-CXVIII. Grammar. Prose composition. History and exegesis of books read. Syriac.-Nestle's Grammar. Matthew XXVI.-XXVIII. in Syriac New Testament. LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS. Lecturer-George R. T. Ross, M.A. Ordinary.-A course of Lectures will be given on Logic and Psychology. This class will meet daily, and will be adapted either for those preparing for the Ordinary Class next Winter Session, or for those who have already attended the class during the winter and are preparing for the M.A. Degree. Considerable attention will be devoted to the working of Exercises in Formal Logic. Text-books. Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic; Mill's Logic; Ryland's Psychology (7th edition). Note.-Students intending to join the Ordinary Class next winter are strongly recommended to acquire a knowledge of Elementary Logic beforehand. Honours. A course of 25 Lectures will be given on the Critical Philosophy of Kant. MORAL PHILOSOPHY. Lecturer-John Sime, M.A. Ordinary.-Consisting of Lectures preparatory for the Ordinary Class work of the Winter Session. The course is intended (a) as a transition from Mental to Moral Philosophy for students who have already attended a class in Logic, or (b) as introductory for those who have not taken Logic. Honours. A half-course of 25 Lectures upon one of the special subjects included under the heading "Second Paper" for the Examination (M.A. Degree with Honours, Moral Philosophy), October 1902, March and October 1903. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Lecturer-R. K. Hannay, M.A. Lectures on the Rise and Development of Political Philosophy among the Greeks (three days a-week). ANCIENT HISTORY. Lecturer-R. K. Hannay, M.A. The Outlines of the Constitutional History of the Greeks and Romans (three days a-week). MATHEMATICS. Lecturer-James Thomson, M.A., B.Sc. The following classes are offered : I. Preparatory Class. Students will be prepared for the Arts and Science Preliminary Examination. II. Class constituting a half-course for the Ordinary M.A. Degree and for the First B.Sc. Examination. III. Junior Honours Class. Calculus, Conic Sections. IV. Senior Honours Class. Differential Calculus, Integral Newton's Principia, Differential Equations, Dynamics and Statics. Text-books: Frost's Newton, Tait and Steele's Dynamics of a Particle, Routh's Rigid Dynamics, Minchin's Statics. These classes will meet daily at hours to be arranged at the beginning of the Session. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Lecturer-John C. Bagot. Ordinary.-A course of 50 Lectures, qualifying as a halfcourse in Arts and Science, and as a full course in Medicine. The elementary principles of Mechanics, Sound, Heat, Light, Electricity, and Magnetism. Honours.-An advanced course of 25 Lectures on Light, visible and invisible. The Physical Laboratory will be open daily, at times to be arranged, for Ordinary and Honours Practical Physics. Deschanel's Books of Reference.-Glazebrook & Shaw's Practical Physics. Stewart & Gee's Magnetism and Electricity. Natural Philosophy. PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY. Lecturer-Sydney A. Kay, B.Sc. The Chemical Laboratory will be open daily from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M., and the courses will comprise at least three hours' work daily. The instruction, which will qualify (pro tanto) for Arts, Science, and Medical Degrees, will be suited to the requirements of individual students, and will be based mainly on the following lines: I. The performance of experiments illustrative of the principles of the Science. This course will be suitable for beginners, to whom tutorial instruction will also be given. Text-Books. - Inorganic Chemistry for Beginners, Walker; and Elementary Practical Chemistry, Clowes. II. Simple Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, adapted for the First Professional Examination in Medicine, Ordinary M.A., and First B.Sc. Examinations. Text-Books.-Elementary Practical Chemistry, Clowes; and Elementary Quantitative Analysis, Clowes. III. Complex Qualitative Analysis, more Advanced Quantitative Analysis, Organic Preparations, Organic Analysis (combustions, &c.), and Physico-chemical Measurements. This course is intended for Candidates for the Final B.Sc. on the Higher Standard or with special distinction. Text-Books.-Manual of Chemical Analysis, Qualitative and Quantitative, Newth; Practical Methods of Organic Chemistry, Gattermann; Physico-chemical Measurements, Ostwald-Walker. IV. The Laboratory will also be available for students who, in the opinion of Professor Purdie, are competent to conduct Original Research. Lecture Course.-Should a sufficient number of students present themselves, an Honours course of Lectures will be given, qualifying as one of the higher courses of instruction prescribed for candidates for the Final Science Examination. NATURAL HISTORY.1 Lecturer-R. C. Punnett, M.A. The Ordinary Course will consist of not less than 60 Lectures, given daily throughout the Session at 10 a.m. In this course the general principles of Zoology will be dealt with, as illustrated from the morphology, development, life-history, and distribution of the leading types of the animal kingdom. A Class of Practical Zoology, of not less than 120 hours, will be conducted daily in the practical class-room, when the structure of the following types, amongst others, will be examined: Amaba, Paramecium, Vorticella, Grantia, Hydra, Gonothyræa, Actinia, Asterias, Arenicola (Lumbricus), Blatta, Astacus, Mytilus, Helix, Gadus (Raja), Rana, Columba, Lepus. Skeletons of the last four, and in addition those of Struthio, Crocodilus, Macropus, Equus, Balana, Felis, Canis (skull), Vespertilio, Troglodytes. Facilities will be given in the Practical Course for the study of any special types that may be required in individual cases, and the Practical Course will be supplemented by demonstrations in the University Museum and at the Gatty Marine Laboratory. 1 For the conditions on which the courses in Zoology qualify for Graduation in Arts, vide p. 63. |