University Terms.
For all practical purposes the academical year consists of three Terms of eight weeks each:—
1. Michaelmas Term,—beginning on the first Monday after October 10.
2. Hilary or Lent Term,—on the first Monday after January 14.
3. Easter and Trinity Term,—kept continuously as one Term, beginning on the second or third Monday after Easter Sunday, according as Easter falls late or early.
For degree purposes, however, Easter and Trinity Terms are reckoned separately, so that four University Terms go to make up a year of residence (or standing).[51]
These University Terms may be still further reduced. Michaelmas and Hilary Terms may be kept by a residence of forty-two days respectively; Easter and Trinity Terms by residing twenty-one days in each Term, or forty-eight days in the two Terms conjointly.
Residence, or, in the words of the statute, ‘victum sumendo et pernoctando,’ is no longer confined to living within the College walls. Candidates for University degrees may under certain conditions ‘pernoctate’ in lodgings.
Lodgings.
The Rhodes Trustees have decided that every Rhodes Scholar shall reside in College for at least the first two years at Oxford, except in cases where the College is unable to offer him rooms. At the end of two years of residence in College, Rhodes Scholars who have either taken an Oxford degree, or who are of ‘mature age’ as defined by University regulations, i. e. twenty-five years or over, may, with the permission of the College authorities and the consent of the Rhodes Trust, live in unlicensed lodgings during their third year. All others who cannot satisfy one of these two conditions are required to live in licensed lodgings, which are under the direct supervision of University authorities.