An American at Oxford

by John Corbin

7. The Board of Studies shall by notice from time to time make regulations respecting the Examination; and shall have power—

(1) To prescribe authors or portions of authors.

(2) To specify one or more related languages or dialects to be offered either as a necessary or as an optional part of the Examination.

(3) To name periods of the history of English literature, and to fix their limits.

(4) To issue lists of Special Subjects in connexion either with language or with literature or with both, prescribing books or authorities where they think it desirable.

(5) To prescribe or recommend authors or portions of authors in languages other than English, to be studied in connexion with Special Subjects to which they are intimately related.

(6) To determine whether Candidates who aim at a place in the First or Second Class shall be required to offer more than one Special Subject.

(ii) Regulations of the Board of Studies for the
Examinations in 1901 and 1902.

The subjects of examination in this School are—

I.	Portions of English Authors.
II.	The History of the English Language.
III.	The History of English Literature.
IV.	(In the case of those Candidates who aim at a place in the First or Second Class) a Special Subject of Language or Literature.