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 ABBREVIATIONS. B. A. — Bachelor in Arts. M. A. — Master in Atts. 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.— FeUow. Vern. {Comitia Verna). — Spring Commencements. ^st. (^Comitia uEstiva) Summer Commencements. Hiem. {Comitia Hiemulia). — 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 Candi- date for M. A. is, that the completion of certain exercises " sufficiant ei ad INCIPIEXBUM in Artibus"; and so for D. D., that 20 years spent in the Study of Theology " sufhciant ei ad incipiendum in S. Theologia". — See the Supplicationum formulcs (Univ. Stat. cap. n). But for the lower Degrees, A.B., B. D., M. B., &c., the phrase used is, ad kespondendum QTjJcsxioxi in Artibus ; in S. Theologia ; in Medicina ; &c. Hence the term CoMMESCEJiENTS, bccause the Candidates were said to commence, when they took their highest Degree in each Faculty. [The singular form Commence- ment is less correct. The Latin word is, ■Comitia.'] '^ Incipere, Doctoris gradum adipisci," apud Bula3um torn. v. Hist. Univ. Paris, p. 9^1. '' Incipiens, Doctorali infula donatus". Ap. Bula)um, /. c, p. 913.— See Du Cange, Gloss. Med. et Infim. Latinitatis, ed. Carpentier, in voc.