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oriental languages ; all the modern languages of any use to the scholar, 

 with their literature ; mathematics, carried as far as any one would desire 

 to pursue them; astronomy ; engineering, civil and military ; the art of 

 war, beginning where it is left at West Point; chemistry ; geology ; mi- 

 ning ; rhetoric and poetiy ; political economy ; intellectual philosophy ; 

 physiology, vegetable and animal ; anatomy, human and comparative ; 

 history ; the laws of nations ; and the general principles of law, the con- 

 stitution of the United States, &c. 



5. Supposing such an institution to be established, something may be 

 added respecting the mode of its constitution and organization. 



I suppose, then, that an institution of this kind is a sort of copartnership 

 between the instructors and the public. The public furnish means of edu- 

 cation, as building, libraries, apparatus, and a portion of the salary. The 

 professors do the labor, and provide for the remaining part of their in- 

 come by their own exertions. Hence there arises naturally a division 

 ■ of the powers and duties of the parties. To the corporation, or gov- 

 ernors, or trustees, or by what name they may be called, would belong 

 the management of the iiscal concerns of the institution, and the control 

 of that portion of its affairs which depended specially upon its relation 

 with the public donation. The government of the institution, the con- 

 ferring of degrees, the appointment of professors, would be performed 

 jointly by fhe officers of instruction and the corporation. 



In the English universities, the governmentof the institution is vested 

 in a general meeting of the former graduates. This forms a literary 

 public, which exercises ultimate jurisdiction in most matters which re- 

 quire deliberation. How far such an institution might be constructed 

 upon this principle, may be faiily a question. 



6. If the above-mentioned views should be adopted, it will be per- 

 ceived that no funds will be required for dormitories. The young meri 

 will provide for themselves board and lodging wherever they please, 

 and the professors will be responsible for nothing more than their educa- 



on. It is supposed that they are old enough to govern themselves. 



Hence the funds may be devoted to the following purposes: 



1st. A part would be appropriated to the creation of a library, cabinets, 

 and lor the furnishing of all the apparatus necessary to the instructors. 



2d. A part to the erection of buildings for the above purposes, together 

 with buildings for professors' houses. 



3d. A fund would be established for the endowment of professorships, 

 giving to each so much as may form a portion, say one third or one half, 

 of his living, and the rest to be provided for by the sale of the tickets to 

 his courses. 



7. If the institution is governed by a board, this board should be ap- 

 pointed by tiie President and Senate, or by the President alone, and 



,they should hold their office for no longer a period than six years, one 

 third of them retiring, unless reappointed, every two years. 



8. Graduates of the university should be allowed to teach classes and 

 receive payment for tickets, upon any of the subjects on which instruc- 

 tion is given in the regular course. This will prove a strong stimulant 

 to the regular professors, and will train men up for teachers. 



Degrees should never be conferred as a matter of course, but only 

 after a strict and public examination. They should never be conferred 

 either in course, or causa hoiioris, unless by the recommendation of the 

 faculty. 



