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 64 Teme-F?kius. N �_ Indeed, they ha_v,e long, tedious orms, which they �,!I exercifes, thro which every can&date for a gree mutt ?ali, before he is invetted in the convoca. tion-hou_/e: but, by the fame rule that the ,vulgar etteem him a deep febolaf, who has gone thro thel forms, they may eeem the city b$oats, who took/./fie m Bunhill-fields gallant foldiers and ex?e, ienced leaders. There fcholatlick exerci�es may be divided into four branches, viz. di./jutation,, freauentin pubhd: le&res, examinations. anti det.� a.ons. I have explained the manner of their dtfputatio: in a former paper, and have fhewn them to bc nothing but the repetition of longflring of thre.d- bare fyliogi�ms upon rome ridiculous, obfolete, and unedif} ing quellions in Iogiek, metqhyfick, andre&o! dvinity, which a lere-man can d% a well as the oldell closer in the univerfity. It is alfo required, by fidrote, of all andidam, that they have been confiant hea.. of the iubtkk le!um in thole faculties, in which they !and for deg..  for inthnce, every candidate for the degree o{ batddov o arts is obliged for one vhole ear, from this firft entrance into the tmverfity, to be �ent at the grammar leglure twice every week, on Wurday and Irridayi and_at the rhet_orit?l legtm_e on Mnda)'s and WhurJda)'  after the end of the year, 'fill he is ?rdinted to his Dst., he i obliged " to attend the 1og. eal kaure every Monday nd Whuf- da.  and the mora!-pbiloj3?by lure every Tuefda_ and Fridayi and from the end of hsje0nd year untfi one whole year after he has taken his batchelor's degree, he is obliged, according to the Savitiay ftatutes, to. attend the geometry lec'tur every tdnefday and In otler degrees, the time attendance i required at the p.&lik r. in other fi�lti� i .for a!l which, DaD

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