M.A. Vice-Presidents-A. Hewat, M.A., H. T. J. Waring. Secretary-N. M. Caie, M.A. Treasurer-E. H. Duke, M.Ă. This Society exists for the promotion of Conservative principles in the University, and meets during the Session for the discussion of political questions. It also organises political debates, and occasionally holds Public Meetings in the Town Hall. Liberal Association.-Session 1895-96-Honorary President -Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Q.C., M.P. Honorary Vice-Presidents-Principal Donaldson, and Professors Burnet and Ritchie. President —Ď. R. Kerr. Vice-President — J. Sime. Secretary - F. S. Findon. Treasurer-J. A. F. Dean. The object of the Association is to promote the principles of Liberalism. Meetings are held at regular intervals, and addresses delivered during the Session by eminent Liberals connected with the University. The Junior St Andrews University Club, Edinburgh. -This Club was formed in 1884 in order to give expression to the strong community of feeling which exists among St Andrews Students; and its formation has been found to supply a means of preserving amongst St Andrews Students now in Edinburgh the social element so characteristic of St Andrews Student life. The membership is open to all who have studied at St Andrews University, and who are now in Edinburgh; but others who, although they do not satisfy these tests, have a St Andrews connection, are admitted as associates. The annual subscription is nominal, and the Club holds social meetings during the winter and summer Sessions, as may be arranged. The members of the Club will be glad to welcome any St Andrews Students coming to Edinburgh, and such are requested to communicate with the President or the Secretary, the University, Edinburgh. The "College Echoes," the University Magazine, is issued on the Thursday of each week during the Session. Each issue consists of eight pages, royal 8vo, with cover, and costs one penny : the Christmas number, however, is always a double one. Magazine is under the auspices of the S. R. C. which annually appoints an Editing Committee of six present Students, of which the Convener is Mr Hugh Menzies, M.A., and the Business Manager is Mr T. Cargill. Company of Artillery Volunteers.-This Company, which is open to all Students in the University, and is attached to the First Fifeshire Corps of Volunteer Artillery, was instituted in Session 1882-83. Uniform and accoutrements are supplied free to those who join for three years. It sends representative detachments to Barry camp every summer. Representative in Council-Sergeant Graham. THE WANTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. The following statement regarding the more pressing wants of the University has been authorised by the Senatus to be inserted in the Calendar, and is earnestly commended to the favourable consideration of friends and former students of the University. 1.-EXTENSION OF BUILDINGS. Additional class-rooms are urgently required. The Professor of Education has no class-room, nor any accommodation for a class library, or for maps, diagrams, &c. The Professors of Science have great difficulties to encounter owing to want of room. There is a laboratory connected with the Chemical Class, but there is far from adequate accommodation for practical classes of Natural Philosophy, Zoology, Physiology, and Botany. These classes, too, have no suitable apparatus-rooms. The accommodation in the Museum is much too limited, and it is greatly overcrowded. II. SCHOLARSHIPS. Scholarships, such as exist in other universities as a stimulus to the higher learning, are very much wanted in the Faculties of Arts, Divinity, Medicine, and Science. In the case of the Arts Faculty, what may be described as Departmental Scholarships are especially needed. The subjects of study required for the M.A. degree are grouped into three departments viz., Classics, Mental Philosophy, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. In every one of the other Scottish Universities there are every year Scholarships open for competition to students who are on the eve of graduating, or who have recently graduated, and who are eminent in one or other of these departments. The University of St Andrews, in consequence of the_small_number of its students, is specially qualified to carry them beyond what is required for the ordinary degree, and, as a matter of fact, a large proportion do go beyond this standard. But to take Honours in a department requires, as a rule, an additional year's study, and therefore intermission from professional or remunerative work, and the circumstances of many students do not permit them to give this when the prospect of an immediate return in the form of a Scholarship does not exist. About £2000 would found one such Scholarship, open for competition every third year. Consequently £6000 would provide three such, which could be arranged so as either to have one Scholarship open for competition every year in one department, or one open for competition every year in the three departments in succession-say, first year, Classics; next year, Mental Philosophy; third year, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. In the case of Medicine and Science, Bursaries and Scholarships are urgently required. The facilities for original investigation at St Andrews are considerable: besides class laboratories, there is a Marine Station, and the opportunities which it affords for original work are almost unique. III.-BURSARIES. The University is greatly in need of additional Bursaries, both for Entrance and for Second-Year Students. The Bursaries open to competition are mostly of small amount, averaging altogether little over £12 each annually. Some of them have been temporarily augmented from a fund raised for that purpose by friends of the University. Two thousand pounds would found three Bursaries of about £25 each per annum, each tenable for three years; and these could be so arranged as that one would be open for competition every year. FORM OF BEQUEST. I give and bequeath to the University of St Andrews the sum of for furthering the usefulness of the said University [or for such specific purposes as the Donor may think proper], to be paid out of such part of my personal estate as I can lawfully charge with the payment of legacies for such purposes, and to be paid, free of legacy duty, within from my death, to the Quæstor for the time being of the said University, whose receipt shall be a sufficient discharge for the same. EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE ARMY. The Royal Military College is maintained for the purpose of affording a special military education to Candidates for commissions in the Cavalry and Infantry. Admission to the College as Cadets is granted, inter alia, to Graduates in Arts of the Univer sity of St Andrews, or to any one who has passed the examinations required for the degree of M.A. Admission is also granted to Students of the University who have passed the "Examination of Candidates for the Army." This Examination embraces three out of the seven subjects required for the ordinary degree of M.A., and is of the same standard. It is imperative that one subject should be selected out of each of the three separate departments of Classical Literature, Mental Philosophy, and Mathematics and attendance must have been given at the University on the classes in which the subjects so selected are taught. ; The limits of age of University Candidates for admission to the Royal Military College are as follow: (1) Students of the University who have passed the Examination above specified, 17 to 22; (2) Graduates of the University, 17 to 23. The names of intending Candidates for certificates of having passed the Army Examination must be given in to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and the fees paid to the Secretary of the University, at the same time as those of Candidates for the M.A. Examinations. The fee for the Examination is Two Guineas. Graduates or Students who, having obtained their University qualification, are desirous of becoming Candidates for Cadetships at the Royal Military College, must send in applications to the Military Secretary not later than the 15th of May or 15th of October. All University Candidates will be required to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners of their proficiency in geometrical drawing. Further information will be found in the "Regulations" issued from time to time by the War Office. ASSISTED STUDENTSHIPS IN SCIENCE. In accordance with a Minute dated the 5th day of March 1891, the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education are prepared to pay three-fourths of the fees at the University of St Andrews for a limited number of Teachers engaged in teaching Science Classes in connection with the Department of Science and Art, on condition that satisfactory terminal reports of their progress (to be ascertained by examination) and of their conduct be received. Applications for this privilege must be made to the Secretary, Department of Science and Art, London, S.W., not later than the 31st August, on the form (No. 985 B) provided for the purpose. The selection of the applicants will rest with the Department of Science and Art. The Courses, and the fees payable for each, for an attendance of one or two days per week, are as follows: For Chemistry وو دو do. extending Laboratory Instruction (for six Physiology (including Practical Instruction). ,, Zoology (including Practical Zoology) وو Mathematics £3 3 0 3 3 0 NOTES.-One-fourth of the fee for the whole session must be paid by the Student on entrance, under the usual conditions of the University. The remaining three-fourths of the fee will be paid by the Department in equal instalments at the commencement of each term, subject, however, to the right of the Department to withhold payment of the second and third instalments, should the reports not be satisfactory. Students proposing to enter any of the most Advanced Courses in any subject, should first ascertain that they are duly qualified to profit by them. Science teachers who desire to avail themselves of this privilege are recommended, before sending in their application to the Department, to ascertain the days and hours of the classes which they propose to attend. STUDY AT FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES. On 23d July 1890, the Senatus Academicus of the University of St Andrews appointed a Committee to consider the question of the foreign residence of Scottish students generally, and in particular the desirability of approaching the governing body of the ancient Scots College in Paris, with the view of obtaining quarters for such students within at least a portion of this historic |