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GENERAL EXAMINATIONS.

Two general examinations of each class are held during the session
in the presence of a committee of the Faculty, which every student
is required to stand. The first, called the Intermediate examination,
is held about the middle of the session, and embraces in its scope the
subjects of instruction in the first half of the course. The second,
called the Final examination, is held in the closing week of the session,
and embraces the subjects treated of in the second half of the
course. These examinations are conducted in writing. The questions
propounded have each numerical values attached to them. If
the answers of the student are valued in the aggregate at not less
than three-fourths of the aggregate values assigned to the questions,
he is ranked in the first division; if less than three-fourths and more
than one-half, in the second division; if less than one-half and more
than one-fourth, in the third division; and if less than one-fourth, in
the fourth division.

Certificates of distinction are awarded to those who attain the first
division at one or both of these examinations, and their names are
published or announced in the closing exercises of the session.

The general examinations are sufficiently comprehensive and difficult
to render it impossible for the student without steady diligence
to secure a place in the first division. The results, whatever they
may be, are communicated to parents and guardians respectively in
the final circular of the session.

The standing of the student at the daily and general examinations
is taken into account in ascertaining his qualifications for graduation
in any of the schools.