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124 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT The course of instruction given by the Medical Tutor is intended to assist the Junior Students in overcoming some of the difficulties which thev have to contend with at the com- mencement of their attendance upon Lectures The following is the plan pursued by the Tutor Each class attends for an hour during the Winter Session three times week one day being devoted to Chemistry another to Anatomy and third to Physiology Each class is examined viva voce upon the subject of the Lectures which they have been attending during the preceding week An opportunity is thus afforded of ascertaining the progress which each Student is making of correcting any misapprehensions and of explaining any difficulties which may have arisen With this familiar and conversational mode of instruction the Tutor is enabled to combine advice to each Student as to his plan of reading and note-taking and residing within the College he is constantly accessible and may be consulted upon numerous subjects to which the Professors could scarcely be expected to give their time and attention The Tutor's course of instruction is especially calculated to promote and encourage regular and diligent attendance upon Lectures During the Summer Session the same method is pursued with the subjects of Botany and Materia Medica XVI The Dean of the Medical Department The Dean of the Medical Department is an Officer appointed by the Council for the immediate purpose of facilitating the current business No card of admission to Lectures can be obtained from the Secretary's office without his written order and when obtained must be signed by the Dean previously to being taken to the other Professors All Certificates like- wise must be signed by the Dean previously to being signed by the Professors During the last fortnight in September and during the Winter and Summer Sessions the Dean gives daily attendance in the Marsden Library from 10 to 11 o'clock every day