ASTRONOMY. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give some account of how the dimensions and figure of the earth have been determined. 2. Describe some good method of determining solar parallax. 3. Describe how to determine the meridian from azimuth observations of the sun. 4. When the time is found by observing equal altitudes of the sun, find a correction to be applied to the mean of the observed times arising from the sun's change of declination in the interval. 5. Establish Simpson's formula of refraction— n sin (z sin z 6. Find the elongation of an inferior planet when stationary. 7. What is the special scientific interest in the coming solar eclipse? 8. What do you know about meteor swarms? ANCIENT HISTORY. FIRST PAPER. Professor Elkington. Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions. 1. "The Prince of Wales and the ex-Crown Prince of Hanover are Sapindas but their children fall into the wider circle of Samanodocas."-ARYAN HOUSEHOLD, p. 169. Explain this citation. 2. Describe (a) the functions and (b) the powers of the Censors. 3. "The result of the Licinian laws in reality, therefore, amounted nearly to what we would now call the creation of a batch of peers."MOMMSEN, ii., p. 318. Explain the analogy carefully. 4. Compare Carthage and Rome (a) as to their constitution, (b) as to their treatment of their subjects. 5. Explain the position of the Roman provincial governor, and shew how far it was compatible (a) with the welfare of the provinces, (6) with the Roman constitution. 6. Shew how Sulla reorganized the judicial system of Rome. 7. What were the disabilities and wrongs of the Italians which led to the Social war? 8. In treating of certain financial reforms effected by Caesar, Dr. Mommsen says "By this conversion of a political privilege into a provision for the poor, a principle remarkable in a moral as well as in a historical point of view came for the first time into living operation." To what does he refer? 9. Consider Dr. Mommsen's estimate of Cicero. 10. In what ways were the functions of government divided between Tiberius and the Senate ? 11. In what manner was the Empire subdivided (a) in the time of Augustus, (b) in the time of Constantine ? 12. Trace shortly the career of Alaric, king of the Visigoths. 13. Contrast legendary Greece with historical Greece (a) as to the administration of justice, (b) as to the relation of the king to the chiefs. 14. What were the (a) political and (b) social conditions of Athens which led to the demand for the legislation of Solon? How did he deal with the more important matters in dispute? 15. What were the characteristic merits and defects of the type of character which the Spartan institutions tended to produce? HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART I. Professor Elkington. Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions. 1. What interest has the Germania of Tacitus to the student of English history? 2. Give an account of the organization of the English Church before the Norman Conquest, and explain its relation (a) to the English state, (b) to Rome. 3. In what respects were the Norman kings (a) the introducers of new ideas, (6) the inheritors of the traditions of the old English monarchy? 4. Explain shortly the importance of (a) the Constitutions of Clarendon, (b) the Assize of Clarendon, (c) the Assize of Arms. 5. Write a historical note upon the "Mise of Amiens." 16. Account shortly (a) for the victories won by the English in France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and (b) for the ultimate failure of the English to keep their conquests. 7. Discuss the meaning and the limitation of the term "the New Monarchy." 8. Discuss Wolsey's attitude towards the Reformation. 9. What were the causes of the war between England and Spain in the reign of Elizabeth? Why was its outbreak so long delayed? 10. Discuss the views inculcated by Bacon as a states man. 11. Discuss the view that Strafford was an apostate to the Parliament. 12. How do you account for the breakdown of the Commonwealth and the restoration of the Stuarts? 13. "Few measures have ever brought about more startling results than the Test Act" (of 1673). Green, vol. iii., p. 407. Explain fully. HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-PART II. Professor Elkington. Answer fully and clearly TEN, and only Ten, of the following questions. 1. What in early Irish history is meant by Flaith, Deis right, Bo-airé, Fuidhir? Were there any corresponding distinctions in Teutonic society? |