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 I INTRODUCTION. exercises are to be a public disputation " de qujestionibus Philo- sophicis," viz. two respondencies and two opponencies (one pri- vately in the College, as the Provost and Senior Fellows shall appoint, and one publicly in the Schools) ; also one Decla- mation. Then each Candidate is to appear in the Hall for three days (from 8 to lo, and 2 to 4 each day), to be examined, by Examiners appointed by the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctors, in Greek, Hebrew, and the liberal Arts (Latin seems taken for granted). If the Candidates perform their exercises satis- factorily, and have received the consent of the Provost and Senior Fellows, together with that of the Senate and of the Yice- Chancellor, they are admitted to the degree of B. A.,'' otherwise they are rejected for a year, or if hopelessly ignorant, removed from the College altogether. The Books prescribed for the Examination are, in Greek, the New Testament, to be rendered into Latin ; and in Hebrew, the Grammar, with the first two Psalms, also to be translated into Latin {cap. vii.). the book we see little or nothing of scribed : for the next clause, in which pomp or pageant ; the statutes it the exercises are described, begins enacts are all of them meant as a se- with these words : — " Sed qui futuri curity that the prescribed acts and sunt Baccalaurei, &c." exercises have been performed, and ** "Acquotquot judicioExaminato- that no unfit persons are promoted rum digni comperiuntur qui gradu et to Degrees. It is ridiculous to sup- titulo Baccalaurei ornentur, ii, inter- pose that a modern addition, made in cedente consensu Pra3positi et Socio- the title page, can alter the character rum scniorum Collegii in quo Candi- and intention of a book, although no dati degunt, deinde majoris partis alteration has been made in the book Senatus Academic! prsesentis, cum itself. suffragio Pro-Cancellarii, &c." In triculationis tempore quadriennium the only one in Temple's Statutes) to compleverit, licebit ei Baccalaureatum other Colleges in the University, in artibus suscipere, ac non ante ex- The Candidates are to have the. pletum id tempus." This seems to of the Provost and Senior Fellows apply to those who had completed (not of Trinity College, but) of the the four years before these Statutes College in which they live. This is were drawn up, and who were not fatal to Dr. Miller's theory of a "pa- considered liable to the exercises pre- ramount " College.
 * " Si quis e studentibus a ma- this passage there is an allusion (not