ABSTRACT
THAT candidates for the degree of B. A. had some instruction in Philosophy (probably as much as they ever had) we have already seen. But since the Reformation there does not seem to have been any great effort made to incite bachelors to spend their three years in the statutable pursuit of the University quadriuium of Music Arithmetic, Geometry and Astronomy. Still in 1787 the University still required of candidates for a Mastership in Arts three years continuance as B.A., and (in that capacity)
Three Respondencies against M.A. Opponents. Two . B.A. . One Declamation ¹
Hence we gather that even M.A.S were called upon to dispute 2. (See Statut. Acad. cap. L.)
Accordingly the colleges3 bade their bachelors to exercise themselves in Acts within their walls. I t was in order to remunerate M.A. Fellows who acted as moderators in these college disputations, that oollege fees for M.A. degrees were levied originally from B.A.S. But, as I have observed, when
Member of the Senate. Camb. 1788. p. 43. Appendix I.
