li» Ofi education. J^^y 3*« 



months ; and these lectures to take up about an hour 

 each in delivering; or if he neglected to do thii his 

 chair fhould be declared vacant, and the place gi- 

 ven to another. 



To enforce these regulations, perhaps no better 

 method needs be sought for, than to appoint a PRIN- 

 CIPAL, whose businefs it fhould be to act as a censor 

 over the conduct of the profefsors ; and who, by the 

 aid of a senatus concilium, consisting of all the pro- 

 fefsors wilhout exception, might be authorised to 

 admonifli, suspend, or depose any of the members of 

 that bodj^ who lliould, by a majority of that coun- 

 cil, bfr deemed worthy of such punifhments. The 

 election to vacant places might be by the votes of a 

 majority of the senatus co7icilium, with such checks as 

 fhould be judged proper. One indispensible requisite 

 for the office of the principal lliould be, that he ought 

 TO reside in the seminary always during the time of 

 the sefsion. Perhaps a permifsion of absence for a 

 fhort time, might be granted on urgent occasions ; 

 but the occasion ought to be very urgent indeed, 

 and fliould perhaps never be granted for more than 

 weeks at a time; nor even that, without an 

 vnanijnous yottoi \he members of the senatus concili- 

 um. The ruin of every literary, or religious institu- 

 tion 1 have seen, commences with a negligence 

 in the discharge of duties, in consequence of the 

 ■absence of those who ought to officiate : it 

 cannot be therefore too much guarded against. 

 Neither ought any one to be be permitted to teach 

 by a deputy, unlefs in very particuiar cases, and in 



