No 6257
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Vol cxlii No 22
pp. 482–487
The Council submits 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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 9 March 2012.
1. That, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Classics, the regulations for certain Classical Prizes and Medals be amended as follows:1
A. By amending Regulation 2 for the Browne Fund and Medals (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 745) so as to read:
2. Any resident undergraduate may be a candidate for any of Sir William Browne’s Medals.
B. By amending Regulation 4 for the Montagu Butler Prize (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 750) so as to read:
4. Any resident undergraduate may be a candidate for the Montagu Butler Prize.
C. By amending Regulations 11 and 14 for the Members’ Classical Prizes (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 849) as follows:
Regulation 11.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
11. The Prizes shall be open to all undergraduate students in residence.
Regulation 14.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
14. The Prizes shall be open to all undergraduate students in residence.
D. By amending Regulation 2 for the Porson Fund and Prize (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 874) so as to read:
2. Any resident undergraduate may be a candidate for the Prize.
2. That, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Classics, Regulation 16 for the Henry Arthur Thomas Fund (Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibitions) be amended by replacing the words ‘Two Awarders shall be appointed annually’ by the words ‘Three Awarders shall be appointed annually’.2
3. That the regulations for the Fujitsu Studentship be rescinded.3
4. That certain regulations be amended as follows4
A. The regulations for the Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarships (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 789)
Regulation 6.
By replacing in line 2 the reference to the Registrary by reference to the Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies.
B. The regulations for the Sims Fund and Scholarship (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 904)
Regulation 9.
By replacing in line 3 the reference to the Registrary by reference to the Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies.
5. That a Connell Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:5
1. The sum bequeathed to the University by Anthony Murdoch Connell for the purchase of books shall form a fund called the Connell Fund.
2. The income, and in exceptional cases the capital, of the Fund shall be applied at the discretion of the Library Syndicate for the purchase of books for the University Library to support the study of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and human relations.
3. Any unexpended income in a financial year may at the discretion of the Syndicate either be added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in any one or more subsequent years.
1The Faculty Board of Classics have proposed that all prizes for prose and verse composition, or for translation, should be available to any undergraduate student, in whatever year of the Tripos. Many of the prizes currently stipulate that students should have been in residence for seven terms or less, which means that some students who took Preliminary Examinations may be ineligible.
2Statutes and Ordinances, p. 927. The Faculty Board have proposed the amendment so that they can appoint as Awarders the Chairmen of Examiners for each Part of the Classical Tripos.
3Statutes and Ordinances, p. 787. The funding for this Studentship has ceased.
4The regulations have been amended to reflect the current administrative arrangements.
5See the Vice-Chancellor’s Notice on p. 483.