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OXFORD.—An important change has recently been made in the regulations for Responsions. The change affects the examination in the Elements of Geometry. Instead of Euclid's Elements Books i. and ii., with Euclid's axioms and Euclid's sequence of propositions, the subject will in future be defined as the subject-matter of certain specified portions of Euclid's Elements Books i., ii., iii., and the papers will contain elementary questions on this subject-matter and easy deductions from the specified propositions. The regulations state that any method of proof will be accepted which shows clearness and accuracy in geometrical reasoning, and that algebraical proofs of certain propositions in Book ii. will be allowed. The change is to come into force in the Michaelmas term of 1904. The announcement made by the Board of Studies for Responsions, in the University Gazette for November 25, reads as follows:—“In the regulations as to the Elements of Geometry (Examination Statutes, 1902, p. 18), the words Euclid's Elements, Books i., ii. Euclid's axioms will be required, and no proof of any proposition will be admitted which assumes the proof of anything not proved in preceding propositions of Euclid, have been struck out, and the following words substituted:—Elementary questions, including propositions enunciated by Euclid and easy deductions therefrom, will be set on the subject-matter contained in the following portions of Euclid's Elements, viz., Book i., the whole, excluding propositions 7, 16, 17, 21; Book ii., the whole, excluding proposition 8; Book iii., the whole, excluding propositions 2, 4-10, 13, 23, 24, 26-29. Any method of proof will be accepted which shows clearness and accuracy in geometrical reasoning. So far as possible, candidates should aim at making the proof of any proposition complete in itself. In the case of propositions 1-7, 9, 10, of Book ii., algebraical proofs will be allowed. This change will come into force at the examination of Michaelmas term, 1904.”
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 67, 116–117 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067116a0
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