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LECTURES AND DAILY EXAMINATIONS.

Favored as the student is in the comprehensiveness, scientific basis
and order of his studies, he is not less favored by arrangements which
give ample time for the preparation of every lecture, and address motives
to him for such preparation. Each professor gives three regular lectures
a week, with occasional extra lectures, making the average weekly aggregate
not over fourteen, or a little more than two a day. The student, therefore,
is not over-burdened with lecture-room attendance. He has time
for study in his private room, to consult books, and compare their teachings
with the oral instructions of his Professor, and to digest and systematise
his acquisitions from both sources. The daily examinations which
precede every lecture supply the stimulus to regular and active study,

serve as summary reviews of what he has already heard or read, and as
correctives of any misconceptions he may have fallen into in his hearing or
reading. The daily examinations constitute a very valuable part of the
exercises of the Institution, and are taken into account in determining
the fitness of a student for graduation.