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EXAMINATIONS FOR GRADUATION.

These are partly oral and partly in writing, and are conducted
by the Professor of the Department, in the presence of two other
Professors, forming with him the committee of examination for the
school. Here the student is subjected to searching interrogations
upon the details and niceties as well as the leading principles of
the subject, and he is expected to be accurately versed in all the
topics treated of in the lectures and the correlative texts.

As a due acquaintance with our own language is made indispensable
to the attainment of even the inferior honours of the University,
all candidates for degrees are subjected to an examination, in order
to test their qualifications in this respect. At this, which is called
the English Examination, and is held near the close of the session,
the student is called upon to correct in writing numerous errors in
spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and is required to prepare at
the time a short composition on some appointed theme.