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tunate as he is the fooner thrown out of the field of compe- 
tition. He then abandons the glittering but deceptive chafe, 
compelled to return to. profperity in the humbler walks of 
life.. 
In fhort, I think it better to increafe the value of the liter-- 
ary places at prefent endowed in this kingdom, than to add 
to their number and diminifh their eftimation. I think it better 
to preferve our charter {chools, and. our diocefan {chools, on the’ 
plans which their founders devifed, taking care to corre what- 
ever. abufes-may have crept into the condué of them, than to * 
confolidate them into three or, four great provincial feminaries,. 
wherein profitable inftruction would be difficult, proper atten- 
tion to morals impracticable, combination amongft the boys: 
formidable, and the. breaking out of any. epidemical difeafe 
peculiarly dangerous, 
I Ave only, then, to propofe, that the heads of our univerfity 
fhould take into confideration the following hints for the im-- 
provement of education in that feminary, 
SHOULD not fome knowledge of ancient hiftory as well as of 
languages be tee earintes infifted on at the examination for en-- 
trance t ? : 
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Woutp not the collegiate courfe be amended by being ren- 
‘dered more fubfervient to the views of general education? In: 
particular, might not the abftrufe and fterile fcience of meta- 
phyfics be in a great meafure difpenfed with? Ought not an 
account of the chemical as well as of the mechanical properties 
of 
