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The following is the result of the University and other outside examinations in 1912 : Wellington College—Senior National Scholarship, 1 ; passed Junior Scholarship Examination with credit, 3 ; passed Matriculation Examination on Junior Scholarship papers, 2 ; passed Medical Preliminary, 1 ; passed Solicitors' General Knowledge, 13 ; passed Matriculation, 1 ; passed Engineering Preliminary. 2 ; Smior Education Board Scholarships, 3 ; Junior Education Board Scholarships, 2 ; passed Junior Civil Service Examination with credit, 15 ; passed Junior Civil Service Examination, 36 ; Senior Free Places by special examination, 44. Girls' College—Junior University Scholarship, 1 ; passed Matriculation Examination, 18 ; passed Matriculation on Junior Scholarship papers, 3 ; passed Junior Civil S ;rvice Examination with credit, 13 ; passed Junior Civil Service Examination, 21 ; Senior Education Board Scholarships, 2 ; Junior Education Board Scholarships. 2 : free places by special examination. 11 ; proficiency certificates, 12. The number of pupils at the Wellington College was 408, of whom 304 held free places. The number at the Girls' College was 342. of whom 285 held free places. Chas. P. Powles, Secretary. 2. Work of the Highest and Lowest Classes. Boys' College. Highest. —English—Nesfield's Historical English Grammar ; Words and Their Ways (Greenougb and Kettridge) ; Nesfield's Manual ; King Lear (Macmillan) ; Epoch of Milton (Stobart) ; Epoch of Chaucer (Stobart) ; Arnold's Prose Books, Bacon, Lamb, Addison, Froude; Arnold's Poetry, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Browning ; Questions and Exercises in English Composition (Nicol). Latin —Bradley's Aids to Latin Prose ; Bradley's Arnold's Composition ; Horton's Roman History : Wilkins's Antiquities ; Gow's Companion to School Classics ; Horace, Odes, II ; Virgil, Aeneid, VI ; Cicero, Select Letters; Caesar, Civil War, Book I ; Blackie's Latin Unseens. French—Wellington College French Grammar ; exercises on same ; Longmans' Advanced Unseens ; Moliere, Les Femmes Sivantes ; Corneille, Le Cid ; Merimee, Colomba. Mathematics—Algebra, Hall and Knight's Higher Algebra ; geometry, New Geometry for Schools (Barnard and Childs); A School Geometry, Part VI (Hall and Sevens); Loney's Trigonometry. Science—Bailey's Tutorial Chemistry, Second Stage : Practical Inorganic Chemistry (Briggs and Stewart) : Poyser's Electricity and Magnetism; Longmans' Advanced Science Manuals. Lowest. —Latin—lnglis and Prettyman, to p. 115. History—Oman's Junior History, to end of Queen Elizabeth. Mathematics—Geometry, Godfrey and Siddons, practical part, pp. 1-59, theorems 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 ; algebra, Baker and Bourne, to p. 81 ; arithmetic, elementary rules, Laying's Arithmetic. French—Siepmann, First Term, Part I, to exercise 18. English —Westward Ho, The Armada, Ivry, &c. ; Nesfield's Outlines, to analysis of compound and complex sentences. Geography—Arnold's The World. Science —Physical measurements. • Girls' College. Highest. —English (Form Vl—Junior University Scholarship standard) —Longmans' Literature, Part II ; Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet; selections from Browning ; Carlyle, Hero as a Man of Letters ; Macaulay's Essay of Milton : general reading—Carlyle's Essay on Burns ; selected English essays (Froude) ; Arnold's Prose Books—Carlyle, Macaulay. Arnold's Laureate Poetry Books— Milton : grammar, &c.—-Nesfield's Aids to the Study of English Composition. History (Form Va— M itriculation standard) —Hassall's Class-book of English History. Geography (Form Va —Matriculation standard) —Longmans, Book 11. The World ; Marshall's Geography of New Zealand ; commercial geography from general sources, and practical work : reference books—Hazell's Annual, New Zealand Year-book. Physiology (Form Va—Matriculation standard) —Joste and Shore, Physiology ; Reynold's Hygiene : practical work—dissection of rabbit ; detailed examination of bones and various organs ; circulation (from frog) ; tests of foods ; ventilation; beverages, &c. Botany (Form VI —Junior University Scholarship standard) —Lowson's Botany (second stage) ; Dendy and Lucas ; Thomson's New Z -aland Botany ; practical work. Latin (Form Vl—Junior University Scholarship standard) — Bradley's Arnold; prose, Potts; Steadman's papers; Rivington's Unseens, xi and xii; Aeneid, Book VI ; Cicero's Letters, De Senectute ; Horace's Odes : Roman history—Antiquities (Wilkins) : Res Romanae (Bell). Physics (Form VI —Junior University Scholarship standard) —Heat, Draper's Heat. Mathematics (Form VI —-Junior University Scholarship standard) —Geometry, Baker and Bourne ; algebra. Hall and Knight, and Tutorial (Briggs and Bryan) ; trigonometry, Pendlebury. Trigonometry Papers (Ward's) ; arithmetic, Workman's Tutorial ; algebraioal exercises, Jones and Cheque. Hygiene and domestic soience (senior) —Home nursing and first aid—Lister's First Stage 11 ygiene, and practical work ; Britannia History Reader. Nature-study (senior) —Insect-life in Australia ; reading—The Greenwood Tree ; Citizen Reader. Lowest —Hygiene and domestic science (junior)— Simple Lessons in Household Management (Blaokie), and notes; reader, The Storied Past. Nature-study (junior). English (Form IHa) —Nesfield's Outlines ; Westward Ho ! (Arnold) ; Ancient Mariner : Black's Picture Lessons. 11l and IV ; Copybooks 8 and 9 ; Oxford Reader ; Essays, and general English. History (Form lIIa) —First History of England (Ransome). Geography (Form lIIa) —The Round World. Physiology (Form Hie) —Coleman's Hygiene. Mathematics (Form lIIb) —Arithmetic, Pendlebury's New Arithmetic, Part I. and Simple Rules, Part 11. Botany (Form lll)—Thomson, New Zealand Botany, and notes. Geometry —Hall and Knight's Praotioal Geometry. Algebra (Form IV) —Hall and Knight's Algebra.
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