Excerpt from Views in Edinburgh and Its Vicinity, Vol. 2 of 2
Virgil, and Homer, with miscellaneous authors, besides producing exercises both in prose and verse, characterized by the most elegant Latinity.
The master conducts the whole business of his department for the first year himself, but afterwards calls in the assistance of his monitors, forming for this purpose his class into divisions, the number of which is diminished as the pupils improve. The classes are opened to the inspection of any person at all times, and, besides a public quarterly examination of his own class by the rector, there is a general examination of the whole school in the beginning of August when the Session is about to close. On this occasion the Dux of the rector’s class, and the best Greek scholar receive gold medals, and in the other classes, from one third to one fourth of each class, are rewarded with prizes of books, those at the top getting the most valuable. The course commences in October, and the vacation is six weeks or two months. The hours of attendance are from 9 to 11, and from 19 to Q during the earlier part of the course, but an additional hour is given in summer for the purpose of preparing for a respectable appearance at the general exami nation.
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