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candidates will be examined by a medical practitioner (lady) appointed by the Board, and the scholarships will be granted subject to the result of this examination being satisfactory to the Board. 4. Each scholar when elected will be required to forward for the inspection of the Board an authenticated copy of her certificate of birth. 5. The names of candidates must be sent to the secretary of the Board, marked "Domestic Economy Department," not later than the 7th May, 1898, on forms which will be obtainable on application at the Board's offices. The Board will require evidence that the candidates are not in a position to provide their own training without such aid as the scholarships are intended to afford. 6. The Board reserves the right at any time to determine any scholarship without notice upon being satisfied that its continuance is for any reason undesirable, and on all questions connected with the award or tenure of the scholarships the decision of the Board shall be final. 7. The scholarships of the Board will not be tenable with any other scholarships, exhibitions, or similar emoluments, whether awarded by the Board or by any other body, except under special circumstances to be approved by the Board. 8. The school at which the scholarships will be tenable will be the Training School of Domestic Economy at Battersea Polytechnic. 9. The successful candidates will receive a thorough training in the teaching of cookery, laundry-work, needlework, dressmaking, and housewifery, and will also receive instruction in school method and in hygiene, sick-nursing, and "first aid." All materials required will be supplied by the Polytechnic, and the students will be provided with two meals a day free of expense, and will retain possession of the garments made by them in the course of their instruction. 10. The scholarships will be awarded on the result of a competitive examination. The examination will include certain subjects of the examination for intermediate scholarships as defined below, and will be held at the same time and place as that examination : — (1.) The preliminary examination will be held on Thursday, the 9th June, 1898, and will comprise the following subjects : Arithmetic, English composition, geography, and history. The preliminary examination is intended only as a qualifying examination, and the marks will not be counted in the competition. A pass in any of the following examinations will be accepted as a substitute for the preliminary examination : Cambridge senior local examination ; Oxford senior local examination; Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board higher certificate; College of Preceptors' examination (first class) ; Cambridge higher local examination; London matriculation; Queen's scholarship examination (first and second class); L.L.A., St. Andrew's; the examination for vice-chancellor's certificate of Oxford University extension ; the Cambridge University extension examination for certificates for affiliation to the University ; the Cambridge University examination for the vice-chancellor's certificate of systematic study, including the examination in mathematics and languages; the examination corresponding to responsions, Oxford ; the examination corresponding to the previous examination, Cambridge. Candidates who have obtained passes in any of the above examinations should send copies of their certificates to the Board's secretary when they forward their application forms. (2.) The final examination will be held during the week commencing on Monday, the 28th June, and will consist of two parts — (a.) Compulsory: *Needlework, freehand drawing. (6.) Optional, which will comprise the following subjects, two subjects only may be taken, of which one must be chosen from each group : A—English literature, French, German, Latin; B—Botany (to include practical work), elementary chemistry (to include practical work), elementary mathematics, the laws of health. 11. No candidate will be elected to a scholarship who has not shown in the course of the examination that she is capable of profiting by the instruction provided at the training school. The Technical Education Board does not, however, bind itself to award the scholarships simply on the results of the examination, but reserves the right to take any other considerations into account, and in particular may, if it see fit, restrict the number of scholars to be elected from any particular school or district. The Board also reserves the right to take any steps to satisfy itself that the parents or guardians of the proposed scholar are not in such a position as reasonably to be expected to maintain the candidate at the school without the help of the scholarship. The Board will consider that, under ordinary circumstances, no candidate whose parents are in receipt of an income from all sources of more than £400 a year will be qualified to hold a training scholarship in domestic economy, and the Board reserves the right of awarding one-half of the scholarships to candidates not falling below scholarship standard whose parents are in receipt of not more than £250 a year. 12. The Board does not undertake to employ the students, or any of them, on the expiration of their training, but they will be free to accept any appointment that may be offered to them, whether in London or elsewhere. The following syllabus is intended to indicate the scope of the examination, but the questions asked will not necessarily be strictly confined to the subjects named. The papers set in the last examination for intermediate scholarships, in connection with which the coming examination will be held, were published in the London Technical Education Gazette for August, 1896. I. Preliminary Subjects. Arithmetic. —General arithmetic, including mensuration of the simpler plane and solid figures. Mensuration will not be obligatory. English. —(l.) A short essay of one of three given subjects. (2.) A paraphrase of a passage from a classical English author. (3.) An analysis of a similar passage.

* Any candidate failing to satisfy the examiners in this subject will be disqualified.