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The Committee appointed to prepare and digest a plan of Education for the
The Students of the Institution to be divided into a Preparatory School, and the
Professorships of the
The English Language to be taught Grammatically on the plan of
Writing in a neat and correct manner.
Arithmetic, the four first rules with the Rule of Three.
English Additional exercises.
Reading and pronouncing select passages from the present English Authors.
Copying in a fair and correct manner select English Essays.
When they can read English with fluency and write fairly and legibly,
Students shall begin to learn the Latin language on the following plan, to
Wit.
The Rudiments of Geography on the plan of
After the Student commences the Study of the French Language, the Study of the French & Latin Language shall be associated, and the time so appropriated to each, that the course in both may be finished nearly at the same time.
When the Greek Languge is Studied without the French the Student will commence it at the time prescribed for the French.
When the Latin, Greek, and French are all directed to be studied, the Study of Greek shall then commence so that the Student may be able to Read the Gospels in Greek and Translate them correctly when he finishes his course in the Preparatory School.
The English exercises shall be regularly continued, this Language being always considered as a primary object, and the other Languages but Auxiliaries.
Any of the Languages (the English excepted) may be omitted if the Parent or Guardian of the Student shall so direct.
Thus far shall be the regular course of Study. The remainder may be taught if requested.
The Professor of Languages to attend when required, the Reading of
The Rudiments of Language are still to be attended to; the different forms and the figure of Speech will be noticed by the Professor, and Comments made on the Sentiments and beauties of the Authors; parallel Sentences quoted; particular idioms observed; and all allusions to distant Customs and manners explained.
The Students under the 5th Professorship shall
deliver twice a Week, to the Professor of Languages an English
translation from some of the Latin or Greek Classics, in which,
after expressing the sence of the Author, the Spirit and eligance of
the translation are principally to be regarded.
The Students of the other Classes shall every Saturday deliver to the President an English composition on a subject of their own chusing, and he shall correct the Errors in Orthography, Grammar, Style or Sentiment, and make the necessary Observations thereon when he returns the Composition to the Writer.
A Student who shall pass an approved examination upon the Exercises of
the Preparatory School shall be admitted upon the general establishment
of the
Any Candidate shall be admitted into the
Any person may also be admitted as a Student under the fifth
Professorship who can pass an approved examination on the English
language and render
No specific Qualifications are required for a Student under the fourth Professorship alone.
The Preparatory School shall be considered as a branch of the
Institution, and in all respects under the direction and regulation of
the
That the present Students who are not qualified to be entered on the
General Establishment of the
That the Studies and exercises of these Students be so arranged after the next vacation as to remedy the defects of their past education, & come as nearly and as early as possible to the plan prescribed by the Board.
Resolved that the said plan of Education be referred back to the same Committee to draw an Ordinance to carry the same into effect.
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