On the question of authorship in "Academical Dissertations" : a paper read at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, Sept. 15, 1881 / by Benjamin R. Wheatley.

  • Wheatley, Benjamin Robert.
Date:
1883
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Credit: On the question of authorship in "Academical Dissertations" : a paper read at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, Sept. 15, 1881 / by Benjamin R. Wheatley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    defend his assertion or negation, and to answer all objections against it; he is called the respondent, and the rest of the students in the same class or who pursue the same science are the opponents, who are appointed to dispute or raise objec- tions against the proposition affirmed or denied. It is the business of the respon- dent to write a thesis in Latin, or short discourse on the question proposed, and he either affirms or denies the question according to the opinion of the tutor, which is supposed to be the truth, and he reads it at the beginning of the dispute. The opponent, or opponents in succes- sion, make objections in the form of a syllogism, the proposition in which is in reply argued against and denied by the respondent. During this time the tutor sits in the chair as President or Moderator A 2