Calendar: 1891-1892 Page 527

CIVIL SERVICE CLASSES 521 50 English Composition 200 Geography 200 Copying Manuscript 200 Books required -Brook-Smith's Arithmetic Macmillan Is King's College Junior Problems in Arithmetic 6d md Boy Clerks' and Customs Arithmetic Papers Sd both be had at the College by Students only Recommended -High School Manual of Geography All man 3s 6d Skertchley's Physical Geography Murby Is Spelling Vocabulary Chambers Qd Abbott's How to Write Olearly for Composition Seeley Is 6d Collins's Progres- ive Atlas Is King's College Tots to be had at the College by Students only Boy Clerks -Limits of age 15 and 17 rate of pay 14s er week rising Is per week per year Boy Clerks are not etained as such after the age of 20 They are excused the Preliminary Examination for Second Division Clerkships They are eligible after two years' service or if 17 before appointed after one year's service to compete among them- selves for Second Division Clerkships they are also eligible for the Open Competitions for Second Division Clerkships at any time if between 17 and 20 the ordinary limits of age Boy Clerk who has served period of two years or more can obtain an extension of the maximum limit of age for Second Division Clerkships equal to such period and this privilege is not lost if he should be discharged at 20 Office hours generally 10 to Holidays with pay from fortnight to month per year in addition to the Bank Holidays &e One who has passed the Boy Clerk's Examina- tion can while awaiting appointment obtain employment as Boy Copyist without further examination As the competition for Second Division Clerkships is so severe no unnecessary interval should elapse after ceasing to prepare for Boy Clerkship and before joining the Second Division Clerks' Class Students can if necessary be trans- ferred to the Second Division Clerks' Class before the expira- tion of their fee and proportionate period of attendance will be allowed