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preses of this meeting is the Rector or his de- 

 pute. The higher academical degrees are grant- 

 ed by the University. The Rectpr confers the 

 degree of Master of Arts in the United College. 

 The Dean and Faculty confer the degree of Ba- 

 chelor of Arts. The Rector is chosen annually, 

 on the first Monday of March > by the comitia of 

 the University, consisting of the Rector, Princi- 

 pals, and Professors of both colleges, with the 

 Students of Divinity, of Moral and of Natural 

 Philosophy. All these masters and students are 

 divided, according to the place of their birth, in- 

 to 4 nations, Fifans, Angusians, Lothians, and 

 Albans, which last class comprehends all who 

 belong to none of the first three. Each nation 

 chooses an intrant : and the 4 intrants name the 

 Rector. If the votes of the intrants are equally 

 divided, the Eist Rector, who is preses of the 

 comitia, has the casting voice. The only per- 

 sons eligible into the office of Rectorate, are the 

 Principals, and the Professors of Divinity, who 

 are designed Vlrl major Is dlgnltatis ac nomlnis^ or 

 Vlri Rectoraks. The Rector, immediately after 

 his instalment, (which is performed by his put- 

 ting on the gown of office, being a purple robe, 

 with a large hood, the hood and borders of the 

 robe lined with crimson satin ; and by receiving 

 the oath de Jideli) names deputies from among 

 the Vlrl Rectorales^ and assessors from the Sena- 

 tus Academlcus. He is a civil judge in the Uni- 

 versity, before whom may be brought complaints 

 against masters, students, or supposts of the Uni- 

 versity. To his court there lies also an appeal 

 from the judgments of either college, in matters 

 of discipline. In the Rectorial court, the asses- 

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