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 which t would explain to my .E,$1/FI, reader with all my heart, ifI could. Having defcrib'd the ptrj3ns of' this ethico-logico. phyfico-netaphyfi'co-tteologial drama, I will now give �ome account'of the drama it fell, or rather of the method of condu&ing it. /lcadmical di utat:ons are two-fold, ordinary and extraordinary: ordinary difputauons are tho whtch are.privately perform'd in colleges every day, or twice or thrice a week (according to different cuoms or fatutes) in term-timei extraordinary difputations I call thofe which are perform'd in the publick fchoots of the university, as requifite quali- fications {'or degrees: the method of both is the time, and equally arduous is tl, e performance. But I will conrifle my account to the publick difputa- lions, becaufe more roleran aM importart than the other. When any peffon is to ome up in the fchools to difpute (lro formS) for his degree, he is obliged by flulute to fix a pper upon both th.. gates of the hools, before dg'ht'a clock in the morning, figni- f in that he is to difi ute in the afternoon upon yg, p tuch a queftion (which is to be approved of by the mailer $f the fihools) with his own name, and tl:te name of the eollge or hall to which he belongs. All fiu&nts in the univerfity, who are above one year; {landing, and have not taken their Batchder o a,ts de ree are re uired b a ftatu'e to be re- (,f ).g q. .Y. ., x%t at ths afulj31ernmty, which s dchgn d for a publick proof of the progret he has made in the art o tea onin ; tho', h th& it is no more than a formal re?el,non of a fet o� fyllogifins upon lsme ridiculous quellion in 1ogick, which they ge, by rote, or, perhapb only read out of their cas, before them with their notes in them. Thffe commodious f&s of fyllogifm$ are calkd $xumas, and defcend from undergraduate to under- �radare,

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