Graduation under the Medical and Scottish Universities Acts : with some account of the origin of universities and degrees / by Robert Christison.

  • Robert Christison
Date:
1861
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    doceant, ac studere volentes, undecunque fuerint, studeant et proficiant, ac benemeriti gradus et insignia recipere, illaque eis inipendi valeant, ipsorumque studium ibidem eadem auctoritate erigimus et statnimus. [Fasti Aberdon- enses, published by the Spalding Club, 1854, p. 4 ; or Report of a Eoyal Commission of Inquiry into the State of the Universities of Scotland, 1831. Evidence, iv. 129.] Note L. P. 82. T cannot refrain from adding here my voice to the few which have been already raised against the present popular clamour for Examination, as both an essential and sufficient test of qualification in almost all imaginable circumstances. I have been an examiner since 1832, and must have had 2250 candidates through my hands in the last twenty-nine years, besides acting for five years as Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University. The conclusion I have been forced to by this ample experience is, that in not a few instances an examination is no test of proficiency—taken singly, and without a knowledge of the candidate’s character as a student : That, owing to confusion of mind, not apparent to the examiners, or slow- ness of thought, or difference in manner of education be- tween examiner and examinee, or peculiarity of manner on the part of the examiner, an able candidate will not seldom fail to give satisfaction : And that no examination will prove a candidate’s judgment, discretion, steadiness, and conduct,—which are most important requirements, especi-