This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...he must pass before he could present himself as a questionist, ad respondendum qucestioni. This Tin? ordeal took place in the arts schools, where he was examined by the proctors, 'posers, ' and regent masters of arts: as a test of proficiency it appears to have corresponded to the present final examination for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...he must pass before he could present himself as a questionist, ad respondendum qucestioni. This Tin? ordeal took place in the arts schools, where he was examined by the proctors, 'posers, ' and regent masters of arts: as a test of proficiency it appears to have corresponded to the present final examination for the ordinary degree or for honours, and when it had been passed the candidate received, either from the authorities of his college or the master of his hostel, a supplicat to the chancellor and the senate. This supplicat nio having been favorably entertained he was allowed to present "VP himself as a questionist. Of this ceremony, which was probably little more than a matter of form, we have an amusing account in Stokys' Book, a volume compiled in the sixteenth stokv century by a fellow of King's College who had filled for O'b"duTMr many years the office of esquire bedell, and that of registrary j" of the university. On the appointed day one of the bedells made his appearance in the court of the college or hostel, shortly before nine o'clock, crying 'AUons, a/lions, goe, Misters, goe, ' and having assembled masters, bachelors, scholars, and questionists, and marshalled them in due order, proceeded to conduct them to the arts schools. As they entered, oae of the bedells cried, Nostra mater, bona iwva, bona nova, and the father of the college1 took his seat in the responsions' chair, 'his children standing over against him in order.' Then the bedell, turning to the father, said, Eeverende pater, licebit tibi incipere, sedere, et cooperiri si placet. Then the father proceeded to propound his questions to each of his children in order, and when they had been duly answered he summed up his conclusions. This questioning again was...
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