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Eglin, Raphael · 1584

must be placed. The method for correcting writings shall be as follows: once all the writings have been collected, each individual shall come forward in order and read their own work in a clear voice, while the others pay attention to what others have done either poorly or correctly. A judgment shall be made regarding each individual based on their progress, namely by proposing themes monthly, according to which some shall be preferred over others, as mentioned above.
There remains the study of the Latin language in speaking, which shall be exercised in four ways under penalty of the Asinus Donkey; a disciplinary label for a student who speaks incorrectly. First, in proposing questions on Grammar, and answering from memory those things which were noted in the lectures: then, in conversing in Latin.
And in the lowest class, the pupils of the second decade shall only propose to one another examples of inflections from the Nomenclatura Vocabulary/Glossary, and all shall be free from speaking Latin.
In the second class, however, questions pertaining to the eight parts of speech shall be taken from the lectures, and all are compelled to speak Latin in such a way that whoever speaks in the vernacular language, or is warned of an error while speaking Latin, shall receive the Asinus Donkey.
In the highest class, all grammatical questions can be asked from the lectures, as well as from those things which were dictated for the pen. Likewise, everyone speaks Latin, so that if anyone can be corrected for speaking either in the vernacular language, or saying anything incongruously or barbarously in Latin, he shall take the Asinus Donkey. However, no more than two-word questions shall be demanded at a time from him whom the order of responding requires.
Every year, the pupils shall be subjected to a public Examination in the presence of the school inspectors and learned men; and if equal success corresponds to the labor of the individual classes, the pupils—like plants worthy of a foreign soil—are sent from class to class through the annual cultivation of the institute, and prizes are to be given to the leaders in place of others, as a specimen exhibited.