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of study, which they regard as by far the most 

 proper to form a physician, and because his 

 admission will tend to prevent the necessity of 

 their adopting persons of a different education, 

 to render their number sufficient for the cus- 

 tomary rotation of corporate offices. Nor can 

 any of the members well entertain a personal 

 dislike to him, as he has scarcely yet begun 

 to contend with them for employment. Under 

 these circumstances he applies to the college, 

 at any time he finds convenient, for an examina- 

 tion of his qualifications, which is immediately 

 granted as a matter of course. The examina- 

 tion is delegated to the president and the four 

 censors, who are all chosen to their offices for 

 only a year, and, to use the language of the 

 college, " are strictly sworn to do justice." It 

 is divided by them into three parts, each of 

 which is .held at one of their separate meet- 

 ings*, and their decision upon his fitness is 

 seldom or never formed, until he has been sub- 

 jected to all the parts. Should the decision be 

 in his favour, at the next general meeting of 



* I know that the president and censors may hold the 

 examination, if they please, at the general meetings of the 

 college ; but no instance of their doing so has, I believe, oc- 

 curred for many years^ and if they were to hold it at those 

 meetings, none^ except themselves would have a title to de- 

 termine on the fitness of .the person examined. 



