--------------+----+----+----+----+---+---+----+----+----+----+---- From the preceding tables and explanations, it will be apparent that, as the whole of the students for each year are compelled to follow precisely the same course of study, the system of professorial instruction, combined with the constant tutelage and supervision exercised by the _répétiteurs_, and the examinations (_interrogations particulières_) of the _répétiteurs_, at short intervals of time, have for their principal object the keeping alive in the minds of the students the information which has been communicated to them. As a stimulus to continuous and unceasing exertion, it will be seen by an inspection of the tables of the co-efficients of influence, that the manner in which the students acquit themselves from day to day, and from week to week, is made an element, and a very important one, in determining their final position in the list arranged according to merit, exceeding as it does in most instances the influence exerted on their classification by their final examination at the close of each year. This principle thus recognizes not only their knowledge at the end of each year, but also the manner in which they have proved it to the professors and _répétiteurs_ in the course of the year; and with reference to the second year’s study, the final result of the first year’s classification exercises an influence amounting to about one-third of the whole, in the final classification at the end of the second year. It follows also, that as the examinations at the end of each year are made by examiners, otherwise unconnected with the school, and not by the professors belonging to it, the positions of the students in the classified list is partly dependent on the judgment of the professors with whom they are constantly in communication, and partly on the public examiners, whom they meet only in the examination rooms.[10] [Footnote 10: The influence exercised in the various branches of study, and consequently in the position of the students in the list classified according to merit, by the professors and _répétiteurs_ on the one hand, and by the examiners on the other, as in the table above.] The examiners of the students are not frequently changed, and practically the same may be said of the examiners for admission. [KEY] PR By Professors and _Répétiteurs_. Ex By Examiners. Y1 By the results of the first Year’s Examination.