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the principal, shall, as regards his eligibility for his examination, be required 
to attend three months in addition to the time specified in Rule III. 
YII. — If it can be shown that a pupil is in the habit of signing his name 
at the prescribed times, and of absenting himself from the College during 
the intervening periods, such procedure shall be considered equal to a 
month’s absence. 
VIII. — Pupils of the second session are required, unless exempted by the 
principal, to act in rotation as clinical clerks. Two of them shall be se- 
lected, by ballot or otherwise, as may be determined on, who shall officiate 
for one week, and be succeeded by others. Their duty to be as follows : 
they shall accompany the professors on their visits to the patients, and 
note down the nature of each case, its symptoms and treatment, and also 
any observations that may be thought worthy of being recorded. At 
the end of each week the professors will examine the record, and report 
thereon. 
IX. — Those pupils who have performed the office of clinical clerk to the 
satisfaction of the professors shall, on obtaining their diploma, receive a 
certificate to that effect. 
X. — Pupils wishing to avail themselves of the advantages of being ff pro- 
sectors” are directed to send in their names, within the first fourteen days 
of the session, to the clerk of the College, as candidates for the office, when 
two of them will be selected by the professors. None but pupils attending 
their second session are eligible for this duty. 
XI. — Each “ prosector,” having filled the office to the satisfaction of the 
professor of that particular department, shall, after having obtained his 
diploma, receive a certificate of his having so done. 
XII. — The dissecting-room will be open for dissections as late as five in 
the afternoon. The professors or demonstrator will report to the principal 
any irregularity of conduct that may take place therein. 
XIII. — The pupils are required to take their seats in the theatre before 
the time specified for the commencement of each lecture. Orderly conduct 
is strictly enjoined both before and during the delivery of the lecture. 
XIV. — At the end of their first session, the pupils will be examined by 
the professors, with a view to ascertain the progress they have made in 
their studies. 
XV. — At the end of his second session, each pupil, should he have con- 
formed to the rules of the institution, will be subjected to a preliminary 
examination, instituted by the professors, and if the result of such exami- 
nation shall satisfy them that he has acquired sufficient knowledge of each 
branch of the science of veterinary medicine to entitle him to be examined 
for his diploma, then a certificate setting forth that he has been duly edu- 
cated at the college will be forwarded to the secretary of the Royal College 
of Veterinary Surgeons. Without this certificate a pupil will not be 
eligible to be examined by the court of examiners appointed by the council 
of that body. 
XVI. — Should the preliminary examination of a pupil prove unsatis- 
factory, the principal professor shall inform him in what branch of his 
education he has failed, and also direct his subsequent course of study until 
he be subjected to another examination. 
XVII. — When a pupil has obtained his diploma, he shall then receive 
certificates from the professors of attendance on their respective lectures, or 
one signed by all of them, as may be hereafter determined upon, and like- 
wise any other testimonial of merit that may have been awarded him. 
These rules will show 7 you at a glance the range of subjects 
which are deemed essentially necessary for a sound veterinary 
