Calendar: 1878-1879 Page 218

2 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT II Occasional Students or those who enter to one or more particular Classes Every Class is open to such Students on payment of the prescribed amount of fees see page 221 They have the privilege of competing for Class Prizes and Certificates The regular Course of Instruction in this Department occa- pies either three or four years according to particular circum- stances See Section IX The year is divided into two Sessions The Winter Session beginning October 1st terminates at the end of March The Summer Session beginning May 1st terminates at the end of July No one can be admitted into this Department under the age of sixteen except by the special permission of the Principal There is short vacation at Christmas extending from the day before Christmas Day to the day after New Year's Day inclusive The Students of each Class are examined at regular intervals throughout the Session there are also Scholarship and Prize Examinations at the close of each Session public distri- bution of Prizes takes place in the course of each Summer Session Every Student must at the beginning of each Session make application to the Dean for written order for admission to such College Lectures as he requires to Hospital Practice and to whichever Surgical Clinical Course he proposes to attend This order will be exchanged in the Secretary's office for card of admission which must after- wards be signed first by the Dean and secondly by the respective Professors Leave of absence from Lectures or Hospital Practice can be obtained from the Dean of the Medical Department alone to whom in case of sickness or other unavoidable cause of non-attendance written notice is to be immediately sent