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airain in the forenoon for the purpose of reading the philosophical works of Cicero , Lucretius , and the Novum Or ^ anuni of Lord Bacon ; or their own compositions on . subjects
preicribed to them once a-week . Ihe professor is often engaged this hour in examining his pupils , or in reading their voluntary exercises on topics selected by themselves from the
lectures . It would be pleasing to dwell upon the advantages of the students of this class , but I proceed to the last gowned class ; viz- the Natural Philosophy , The Professor of Natural
Philosophy delivers a lecture every day , and devotes an hour to the examination of his pupils ; and a third hour , three times a week , for a course of experiments . Exercises are also written by the students of this class , and given up to the professor , who takes them to his own house , and after having examined and corrected * reads the
majority of them before his class , and then returns them to their respective authors . Besides , these weekly essays , Latin Orations are composed by the natural philosophy students , and delivered once a fortnight , in the Common Hall , in the presence of all the professors and students . But as there
are generally more than seventy or eighty young men in the class , it is impossible for all to pronounce an oration in the Common Hall : this exercise therefore falls upon a certain
number who rank at the beginning or end of the catalogue ; and the rest of the class are exempted from the task , unless they wish to compete for the prize which is given to the best oration .
The students of Mathematics , Oriental Languages , and Divinity , are like the gowned classes , examined by their respective professors , and accustomed to compose on subjects connected with their lectures : but the rest of the non tocjati ^ ( those who do not wear gowns ) are in ereneral mere
auditors of the lectures of their protesaors . They are neither examined nor engaged in composition , if it be at all contrary to their inclinations . th ^ es ! des * these daily examinations , n * re is a public and formal examinaaft k allthe S owned students soon ato ¦ Tj ^ » wceineiit of every sesn : This annua j examination has * eea so well described by Mr . RusfVI
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seJ , whom I have before quoted , that * I shall take the liberty of presenting " it to your readers in his words . < c Early in the month of December , the public , or JBlaclistoney examination , is begun in the literary and phi *
losophical college , and continues about three weeks ; during which tim ^ every pupil is particularly and strictly examined on the studies of the preceding year . It commences with the students of the physic class ; who are examined on ethics and jurisprudence
by the professor of moral philosophy , in the pi-esence of the principal , the professor of natural philosophy , and of several hundred of the junior students . * The young men attending the ethical class are examined by the professor of logic 5 those attending
the logic by the professor of Greek , and those of the Greek class by the professor of humanity , on their re ~ spective departments of study . —That part of the examination on logic which respects the ancient dialectics , is still conducted in Latin .
" In philology the student is allowed to name the authors on which he is prepared to be examined , and before he takes his seat on the blackstone , ( which is an ancient oak chair decorated with laurel , a gift , I believe , of James VI . to the university , )
he presents his card to the examiner , containing the amount of his profession . On this he is strictly and minutely examined ; and as there is a public prize bestowed upon that pupil , both in the department of Greek and Latin , who at once professes the
greatest quantity , and answers beat the various questions which are put on the construction , the etymology , and the prosody of the language in which he is examined , there is a good deal of competition on the part of the students , and of course a good deal of labour and discrimination
necessary on the part of the professors . " This examination , so well known arid so formidable to every Glasgow student , was originally instituted to ascertain whether the pupils who had attended one course , were qualified to proceed to that immediately following ; and the power of remandiug to their studies such as are found
* The number present at the Blackstanc examination now seldom exceeds two buHdrorf .
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Advantages of an Education at the University of Glasgow . ( J 0 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/25/
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