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truth, he has only gained a title to have a vote 

 taken by the secret method of ballot at the 

 present meeting of the corporation, whether 

 his qualifications for a fellowship shall hereafter 

 be examined. If a bare majority be against his 

 being examined, the proceedings are stopped, 

 and cannot be begun again for a twelvemonth. 

 I need not, however, point out to your Lord- 

 ship, how much more likely it is, that a ma- 

 jority of votes, secretly taken, should appear 

 against a licentiate before an examination, than 

 that an English graduate should be rejected by 

 a similar mode of voting, after he has been exa- 

 mined and approved by the president and cen- 

 sors, this being the only time at which tiie latter 

 is subjected to a general ballot, before admission 

 into the college. 



The examination, which may have been al- 

 lowed to the licentiate in consequence of the 

 ballot, is of the same kind as that which an 

 English graduate undergoes; but the first part 

 of it is not held till three months after the 

 grant, and the same space of time is interposed 

 between its first and second parts, and between 

 the second and third. In this way, if he is not 

 in the mean time rejected, he is to be tortured 

 for nine months with doubt and anxiety respect- 

 ing its event. All its parts too are held, not at 

 the private meetings of the president and cen- 

 sors, as in the case of an English graduate, but 



