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ernment for the troops stationed here at one time. 

 The building is in a miserable condition, because the 

 American troops which occupied them, (the rule held 

 throughout), were not the most orderly lodgers. 



Promotion and furtherance of the sciences have long 

 since been a care with the state of Pensylvania. In the 

 year 1754 a College was founded for the instruction of 

 the young. The building stands at the corner of 

 Fourth and Arch-street, and intended for a different 

 purpose, is not of the distinguished, handsome appear- 

 ance of the College at New York. Particular attention 

 was given to the English language. A special teacher 

 imparted to the young the principles of their mother- 

 tongue, and disciplined them in correct reading and 

 pronunciation, not a superfluous exercise among youths 

 sent from such different provinces of the British Em- 

 pire. At the same time capable men gave instruction 

 in the Latin and Greek languages, Geography, Mathe- 

 matics, Logick, Rhetorick, History, Natural and 

 Moral Philosophy. Later a school of Medicine was 

 added. At the yearly public Commencements certain 

 ceremonies are observed. The Rector or Provost be- 

 gins these with several collects from the English lit- 

 urgy, and there follow sundry public exercises, partly 

 short speeches, partly disputations, in English or in 

 Latin. The Latin, here as with Englishmen every- 

 where, is so mangled, the vowels and consonants pro- 

 nounced according to their own usage, that it is not to 

 be understood by unanglicized ears. By an Act of the 

 Assembly, confirmed by the Congress, this College was 

 raised to a University in the year 1780. The Uni- 

 versity consists of two departments, the Academy or 

 lower preparatory schools for younger students, and 



