Princeton Theological Seminary - Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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19 REPORTS TO PRESBYTERIES., Annual reports are sent to Presbyteries of the attendance upon the exercises ofthe Seminary of the students under their care. EXAMINATION. The next annual examination will begin on Thursday, April 21st, and be continued until the following Tuesday. The Committee of Examination, ap- pointed by the Board of Directors, for the present session, consists of Rev. W. E. Schenck, D.D., Rev. J. E. Rockwell, D.D., Rev. John Hall, D.D., Rev. E. R. Craven, D.D., Rev. W. M. Paxton, D.D., Hon. George Sharswood, LL.D., and Henry Day, Esq., with their alternates, Rev. Geo. W. Musgrave, D.D., Rev, W. B. Sprague, D.D., Rev R. Hamill, D.D., Rev. J. M. Dickey, D.D., Rev. J. Thompson, D.D , R. Carter, Esq., and E. B. Fuller, Esq. With the View of securing greater thoroughness and a fairer test of individual scholarship, the customary oral examination will this year be preceded by one conducted in writing, the papers prepared by the students to be submitted to the Committee of the Directors for their inspection and judgment. The examination is public, and the presence of visitors, particularly from Presbyteries having students under their care, will be welcomed. Students who are absent from the examination of their own class, or who fail to Ifass this test in a satisfactory manner, must submit to an examination with the corresponding class in a subsequent year. THE ACADEMICAL YEAR Opens on the first Thursday of September, and closes on the last WVednesday of April. The usual certificates will be conferred on the next graduating class on Tues- day, April 26th, in the presence of the Board of Directors, when the students will be dismissed with an address by Rev. W. E. Schenek, D.D. The annual sermon, at the close of the session, will be preached by Rev. J. E. Rockwell, D.D., or by his alternate, Rev. W. B. Sprague, D.D. The Address before the Religious Contribution Society, will be delivered on Thursday evening, April Qlst.