( 1 ) THIS is an application of an unusual nature even by the standards of those under Article 226 of the Constitution. This year, the two text books prescribed for general English for the B. Sc. Part I Examination of the Vikram University have been changed; in other words, those for the examination of 1961 are different from those in 1960. The petitioner is a student who had failed in the B. Sc. Part I Examination of 1960 and is preparing to appear for the examination in 1961. She has already studied these two old books and feels that the change has put her "to financial loss and exposed her to extra strain". Accordingly, she challenges this change, which under the law is made on the recommendation of the Board of Studies constituted by the University; according to her, this change is legally invalid, because the Board at the meeting of the 4th February, 1960, did not have a chairman nominated by the Vice Chancellor, but elected ad hoc, one of its own members for that office. It is further alleged that the practice of not changing the textbooks, except after a number of years, has been given up on this occasion and the direction of the University Grants Commission, th