Eligibility.
Candidates must be subjects of those countries which they represent, i. e. Colonials—British subjects; Americans—citizens of the United States; Germans—German subjects.
Candidates must be unmarried.
Candidates must have passed their nineteenth birthday (except: West Australia—seventeenth, Queensland, Jamaica, and Newfoundland—eighteenth); but must not have passed their twenty-fifth (Newfoundland—twenty-first, South Africa—twenty-fourth) by October 1st of the year for which they are elected.
Candidates, except those who are exempted by the Colonial Universities Statute or by special regulations (see, for various States, Provinces, and Colonies, below), shall pass the ‘Responsions’ examination of the University of Oxford or its equivalent before becoming eligible for election.[33]
This examination is in no way competitive. It is merely a qualifying test to guarantee a degree of scholarship which will allow a student to take up a course at Oxford.
The Examination.
Papers.
At the request of the Trustees, the University of Oxford named in 1904 and 1905 a Board of Examiners to prepare and handle papers for this special examination. The same method will be adopted in 1907, and probably with little change henceforth. Papers are arranged in Oxford, printed, enclosed in sealed packages, and sent to the Chairman of each Committee of Selection. These packages are opened by the supervising examiner at the time and place announced for the examination and in the presence of the candidates.