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 ABBPvEYlATlONS. B. A Bachelor in Arts. M. A.— Master in Arts. Lie. Eng.— Licentiate in Engineering. LL. B. — Bachelor in Laws. M. B Bachelor in Medicine. Mus. B.— Bachelor In Music. B. D., or S. T. B Bachelor in Divinity, or in Sacred Theology. M. Eng.— Master in Engineering. LL. D. — Doctor in Laws. M. D Doctor in Medicine. Mus. D. — Doctor in Music. D. D., or S.T. D.— Doctor in Divinity, or Doctor in Sacred Theology. Sch Scholar of Trinity College. Fell.— Fellow. Vern. (Comitia Ferwi).— Spring Commencements. ^st. {Comitia Estiva) Summer Commencements. Hiem. {Comitia Hiemalia), — Winter Commencements. Dr, Reeves has suggested that an explanation of the Term "Commence- ments" might be useful to some readers : — To take the highest Degree In each Faculty is described in the Old Statutes as Commencing In that Faculty, i. e. commencing as a Teacher or Doctor. Thus the supplication of a Candidate for hi, A. is, that the completion of certain exercises " sufficiant el ad incipiex- DUM In Artibus ; " and so for D. D., that 20 years spent in the Study of The- ology " sufficiant ei ad incipiendum in S. Theologia." — See the Supplicatio- numformulcB (Univ. Stat., cap. 11). But for the lower Degrees, A. B., B. D., M. B., &c., the phrase used is, ad respondendum qu^stioni in Artibus; in S, Theologia; in Medicina ; &c. Hence the Term Commencements, because the Candidates were said to commence, when they took their highest Degree in each Faculty. [The singular form Commencement is less correct. The Latin word Is Comitia.'] " Incijjere, Doctorls gradum adipisci," apud Boulffium torn. v. Hist. Univ. Paris. , p. 9 1 •. " Incipiens, Doctorali infula donatus." Ap. Boulmitn, I. c, p. 913 See Du Cange, Gloss. Med. et infim. Latinitatis ed. Cai'pentier in voce.