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{\bf A Practice Based M Level Course}
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The idea that a degree was formally taken by the applicant
showing himself competent for it, may be well illustrated
from the quaint ceremony of admitting a Master in Grammar
at Cambridge, as described by the Elizabethan Esquire Bedel,
Mr. Stokys: 'The Bedel in Arts shall bring the Master in Grammar
to the Vice-Chancellor, delivering him a palmer with a rod,
which the Vice-Chancellor shall give to the said Master
in Grammar, and so create him Master. Then shall the Bedel
purvey for every Master in Grammar a shrewd boy,
whom the Master in Grammar shall beat openly in the Schools,
and he shall give the boy a groat for his labour, and another
groat to him that provideth the rod and the palmer.
And thus endeth the Act in that faculty.'
    
\hfill[See `The Oxford Degree Ceremony', J. Wells OUP 1906
on Guttenberg]`
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