The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-06 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 2.—At a congregation on Wednesday last, the
Mowing degrees were conferred :
MASTERS OF ARTS.
William Vizard, Trinity College.
Charles Broadbelt Clavdon, Trinity College.
Rev. Edward Langdale Smith, St. John's College.
Rev. T. J. Boys, St. John's College.
William Guise Tucker, St. Peter's College.
John Letts, Sidney Sussex College.
Charles Peers, Catharine Hall.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.
John Harvkes Mules, Trinity College.
John Holdsworth, St. John's College.
John Augustus Brown Marshall, St. John's College.
William Frederick Douglas, Christ's College.
Samuel Barrett, Queen's College.
William Mackenzie, Trinity Hall.
Wilford George Brett, Magdalene College.
At the same congregation Robert Wells Whitford, M.A. of St. Ed.
mund's Hall, and Frederick Rogers, M.A. Oriel College, Oxford, were
admitted ad eundem of this University.
EMANUEL COLLEGE EXAM INATION S.--The following are the names
of the first class of each year :
FIRST YE AR. —Easther—Smythies—Woodd—Woodcock—Bayton.
Secoso YEAR.—Peach Treacy Chambers— Parker—Dixie—
A inslie—Thorold—Turner.
THIRD

MATHEMATICAL HONOURS.
The Syndicate appointed May 16, 1635, " to consider whether any
and what alterations can be advantageously made in the present mode of
examining the candidates of Mathematical Honours;" beg leave to make
following report to 4he senate.
There are at present five days of Examination commencing on the
Wednesday proceeding the first Monday in Lent term • It is recom-
mended that in future there be days of examinatien commencing
on the Monday preceding the first Monday hi Lent term.
It is further recommended that the present division of the candi-
dates into four classes be discontinued ; and that in future the same
questions be propesed throughout the examintion to all the persons
whom the Moderators shall judge, from the public exercises in the
schoo's, to be qualified for examination as candidates for Mathematical

Honours!
That, as at present, the examination on the first day extend only to
such parts of Pure Mathematics and National philosophy, as do not re-
quire the methods of the Differential Calculus ; •
That on the second and third days the questions from books include,
in a,idition to the above subjects, the parts of Natural Philosophy some-
what more advanced and the simple applications of the Calculus ;
That on the fourth and fifth days the examination extend to subjects
of difficulty. care, however, being taken that there be in each paper a
due proportion of questions selected from the lower subjects ;
That on the sixth day all the questions proposed be selected from the
higher parts of the subjects of examination ;
That there be not contained in any paper more questions than students
well prepared have generally been found able to answer within the
time allowed for that paper ;
That during the examination the distribution of the candidates in the
examination rooms be-left to the discretion of the Moderators;

That the days and hours of examination be regulated according to the
subjoined plan ;

That tho questions proposed on the first four days be fixed upon, and
the answers to them examined, by the Moderators and Examiners ac-
cording to the plan ;

That the questions proposed on the last two days be fixed upon by
the Moderators and Examiners in common ; but that the duty of ex-
amining the answers to those questions be apportioned amongst the Mo.
d,rators and Examiners according to the plan ;
That the result of the Examination be published in the Senate-house
on the morning of the Friday succeeding the first Monday in Lent term,
at nine o'clock ; but if it should happen that the relative merits of any
of the candidates are not then determined to the satisfaction of the Mo
dderators and Examiners, that such candidates be re-examined on that
day ;

That this mode of examination commence in January, 1839,
PLAN FOR THE EXAMINATION.
MONDAY.

9-11 i, Pure Mathematics Jun. Mod. and Sen. Ex.
1— 4, Natural Philosophy .. ...... —Sen. Mod. and Jun. Ex,

TUESDAY.

--111., Natural Philosophy
1— 4, Problems