which t would explain to my .E,?$1/FI, reader with all my heart, ifI could. Having defcrib'd the ptrj3ns of' this ethico-logico. phyfico-n?etaphyfi'co-tt?eologi?al drama, I will now give �ome account'of the drama it fell, or rather of the method of condu&ing it. /lcad?mical di ?utat:ons are two-fold, ordinary and extraordinary: ordinary difputauons are tho? whtch are.privately perform'd in colleges every day, or twice or thrice a week (according to different cu?oms or f?atutes) in term-timei extraordinary difputations I call thofe which are perform'd in the publick fchoots of the university, as requifite quali- fications {'or degrees: the method of both is the time, and equally arduous is tl, e performance. But I will conrifle my account to the publick difputa- lions, becaufe more roleran aM importart than the other. When any peffon is to ?ome up in the fchools to difpute (l?ro formS) for his degree, he is obliged by flulute to fix a p?per upon both th.. gates of the ?hools, before dg'ht'a clock in the morning, figni- f in that he is to difi ute in the afternoon upon yg , p tuch a queftion (which is to be approved of by the mailer $f the fihools) with his own name, and tl:te name of the eoll?ge or hall to which he belongs. All fiu&nts in the univerfity, who are above one year?; {landing, and have not taken their Batchder o a,ts de ree? are re uired b a ftatu'e to be re- (,f ).g q. .Y . ., x%t at th?s a?fulj31ernmty, which ?s dchgn d for a publick proof of the progret? he has made in the art o tea onin ; tho', h? th& it is no more than a formal re?el,non of a fet o� fyllogifins upon lsme ridiculous quellion in 1ogick, which they ge, by rote, or, perhapb only read out of their ca?s, before them with their notes in them. Thffe commodious f&s of fyllogifm$ are calkd $xumas, and defcend from undergraduate to under- �rad?are,
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