The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 21 January 2005.
1. That Regulation 1 of the regulations for admission to the Museum of Classical Archaeology be amended so as to read:1
1. Except as provided in Regulation 2, the Museum shall be open to the public on each weekday in the year as follows:
Monday to Friday: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
2. That the regulations for the Burney Prize and Studentship be amended as follows:2
Regulation 11.
By replacing in line 2 the words 'not more than eighteen terms' by the words 'not more than seventeen terms', and by replacing the last sentence so as to read:
Candidates for the Studentship shall send their names to the Registrary not later than the division of the Lent Term, and the election to the Studentship shall be made before the end of the Lent Term.
Regulation 15.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
15. The Student shall not undertake without the sanction of the Electors during the tenure of the Studentship any other work to which remuneration is attached.
3. That the regulations for the William Vaughan Lewis Fund and Prizes be amended as follows:3
Regulation 4.
By amending the final sentence so as to read:
A grant may be made to any member of the University who is of not less than one year's and not more than ten years' standing from his or her first degree, whether of this or another university.
4. That the following regulations for a Henry Arthur Thomas Research Facilitation Fund be appended to the regulations for the Henry Arthur Thomas Fund:4
22. The sums available to the Faculty Board of Classics on 1 January 2005 from the unexpended income accumulated in the Henry Arthur Thomas, Battie, Browne, Craven, Davies, Oldham, Porson, Waddington, and Winter Warr Funds, shall be invested separately in the name of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University and shall be called the Henry Arthur Thomas Research Facilitation Fund.
23. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Faculty Board of Classics who may delegate all or any of their functions concerning the Fund to a committee consisting of not less than three members appointed by the Board.
24. The income of the Fund shall be applied at the discretion of the Faculty Board to support the research activities of registered Graduate Students and University officers in the Faculty.
25. Any unexpended income of the Fund in a financial year may be either added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in future years, as the Managers may determine.
5. That the regulations for the Anthony Wilkin Studentship in Ethnology and Archaeology be amended as follows:5
Regulation 4.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
4. Members of the University shall be eligible for the Studentship, preference being given ceteris paribus to candidates who have obtained honours in the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos or have been approved for the award of the degree of Master of Philosophy having followed a course under the supervision of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Regulations 6 and 9.
By inserting after the word 'Ethnology' in each regulation the words 'or Anthropology'.
6. That the recommendations in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 17 November 2004, on the establishment of a Herchel Smith Professorship of Biochemistry (Reporter, p. 216) be approved.
1 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 562. The Committee of the Museum of Classical Archaeology have proposed revised opening hours for the Museum.
2 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 723. The Electors to the Burney Studentship have proposed changes to the regulations for the Prize and Studentship to bring forward the date of the election and to remove the requirement that the Studentship be paid in equal half-yearly payments.
3 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 789. When the lower age limit for eligibility for grants from this Fund was recently changed from a minimum of five years' to one year's standing from the applicant's first degree the upper age limit was inadvertently removed. This upper limit is now being restored.
4 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 868. The Faculty Board of Classics have proposed a new fund, to be linked to the Henry Arthur Thomas Fund, using moneys available to the Faculty Board to support research into classical studies.
5 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 884. The regulations have been amended to take account of recent changes in postgraduate courses in the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology.