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 68 Terr,e.�l;s. It is a notorious truth that moOt candidates get leave of the proc7or, by paying his man a crown, (which is cal:ed his perui t?e,) to choo�e their ,  own examiners, who never fait to be their old cronies and roping comnioas.  The quefiion therefore whether it may not  Rrongly presumed flora hce, that te candidates expe& more fayour from there mm, tn from angers; becaufe otherwith it would be throwin awa a cronto no ur g y p p , and if they do meet with flyour from them, whether the examiner is not revail'd uo by intrea- ties or iendfiip? It is fo well-known to bethecuom forthecm- ddate$ either to prefer eir examiners with a piece of gold, or to give them  handrome etertainmem, and make them drunk; wNch they commonly do the night &fore examNatbn, and rometimes kee}, them till morning, and fo adjourn, Cheek by fiom their drink;ng room to the chool, where they are to te examined uare, whether t woutd not very unatef of theexaminer to refufe ny candi- date a timonium, who has trtedhim fo fp!cndi- ly or= night ? and whether he is not, in this pe=zil by bribe:? When there and rome more trifling exercifes are rform'd, my perfort is intitled to his bathelor o arts degree, proided he has en ur years (or fix- teen terms) a memb of any coege or ball, and no, by his mals, render himfell obnoxious to the u:ivqO'i of which ! MI treat in my next paper. But though a candidate obtains his grace, and pr(o;ted to his batcbebr's (in art) degree, and wears the habit fuitable to it i vet heis not poperly a com- -lt rednat, until the'Lent following, when he obliged to perform certain other exercifes, called hi &terminations, under the penalty, that if he negle,s is, the grace Nfore granted him 1 be

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