Degrees.—Term examinations having been duly passed, the student is promoted to the degree of A.B., which is conferred by the senate in full congregation. The comities for granting degrees are held on Shrove Tuesday and the last Wednesday in Trinity and Michaelmas terms. Those students who, at the final ordeal of the fourth year, stand highest in an examination over an extra course in (1) mathematics and mathematical physics; (2) classics; (3) mental and moral philosophy; (4) experimental science; (5) natural science; (6)history and political science; (7) modern literature, are called (accord ing to merit) senior or junior moderators. These form the first class of graduates, the second being called respondents. The third consists of "unclassed candidates." The higher degrees are procurable after the lapse of a fixed number of years, and on the performance of certain exercises, and the payment of fees.
Fees.—For entrance and first half-year the fees are—Noblemen, £60; fellow-com moner, £30; pensioner, £15; sizar, £5 18. 3d. Other half-years, £33 12s., £16 16s., And £8 8s.—the sizars being exempt. This does not include rooms and commons. For degrees, the fees for pensioners are—A.B., £8 17s. 6d.; A.m., £9 16s. 6d.; LL.B., Ell 158.; LL.D., £22; B.D., £13 15s. D.D., £26; M.B., g1.1 15s. ; M.D., £22 Iffeinity, and Engineering Schools.—Connected with Trinity college there are schools for medicine and engineering. The Divinity school of the church of Ireland is also in connection with the university. Graduates in medicine and in engineering must previously.graduate in arts. The divinity testimonium is obtained after two years'
attendance on lectures, with an examination at the end of each term.
Church Patronage.—The university formerly held a large and valuable patronage, but this has been abolished by the recent church act.
Studentships.—In 1859, 14 studentships were founded, worth £100 a year each, tena ble for seven years, to encourage graduates in the pursuit of some special branch of study which they may afterwards be called on to teach, should they become fellows and lecturers. Two are given every year, and (like every other prize or distinction in the' university, not connected with the divinity school) are open to persons of all religious denominations. They are awarded to those candidates at the degree examination who take the highest places in science and classics respectively.
General Remarks.—The university of Dublin is well equipped for carrying education to a high degree of perfection. The teaching staff is numerous, and in the actual work of tuition, the tutorial and professorial elements are more largely combined than in any other British university. Many distinguished men have, in past generations, gone forth from her halls. The names of Ussher and Berkeley; of Elrington, Lloyd, Magee, sir W. Hamilton, Romney Robinson, Maccullagh, Archer Butler, lord Cairns; and of Burke, Sheridan, Curran, Swift, and Goldsmith, with a host of others celebrated in politics, in law, in science, and in literature, are sufficient to indicate the success which has attended her sons.
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