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Rh duration of Fellowships to seven full years after taking the De- gree of Master.

2. From this it follows that the students constitute a special society, although not in the strictly legal sense a corporation ; and that all students of the College, although not members of the College Corporation (unless they be Fellows or Scholars of the College), are members of the University, whether the Uni- versity be a corporation or not : for it is by no means essential to an University that it should be a corporate body, in the mo- dern legal sense. It is in any case a Society ; and the privilege of taking all Degrees, in all Arts and Faculties, which Elizabeth's Charter grants to all students of Trinity College, binds them to- gether, as belonging to that Society, and makes them ipso facto on their matriculation members of the University.

3. Again, it is to be observed that the students of the Col- lege, who alone are concerned in the privilege granted, are em- powered to take all the old Degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor, in all the old Studies, Arts, and Faculties, subject only