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-burthened 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 Professors, 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.
