68 Terr,e.�l;s. It is a notorious truth that moOt candidates get leave of the proc7or, by paying his man a crown, (which is cal:ed his per?ui t?e,) to choo�e their , ? own examiners, who never fait to be their old cronies and roping com?nioas. ? The quefiion therefore whether it may not ? Rrongly presumed flora h?ce, that t?e candidates expe& more fayour from there mm, t?n from ?angers; becaufe otherwith it would be throwin awa a cro?nto no ur g y p p , and if they do meet with flyour from them, whether the examiner is not ?revail'd u?o? by intrea- ties or ?iendfi?ip? It is ?fo well-known to bethecu?om forthecm?- d?date$ either to prefer ?eir examiners with a piece of gold, or to give them ? handrome e?tertainmem, and make them drunk; wNch they commonly do the night &fore examNatbn, and rometimes kee}, them till morning, and fo adjourn, Cheek by fiom their drink;ng room to the chool, where they are to te examined ?uare, whether ?t woutd not very un?atef? of theexaminer to refufe ?ny candi- date a t?imonium, who has tr?tedhim fo fp!cndi- ly or= night ? and whether he is not, in this pe=zil by bribe:? When there and rome more trifling exercifes are ?rform'd, my perfort is intitled to his bat?helor o? arts degree, pro?ided he has ?en ?ur years (or fix- teen terms) a memb? of any co?ege or ball, and no?, by his m?als, render? himfell obnoxious to the u?:iv?qO'i of which ! ?MI treat in my next paper. But though a candidate obtains his grace, and pr(o;ted to his batcbebr's (in art?) degree, and wears the habit fuitable to it i vet heis not p?operly a com- -l?t rednat, until the'Lent following, when he obliged to perform certain other exercifes, called hi? &terminations, under the penalty, that if he negle,?s ?is, the grace Nfore granted him ?1 be
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