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variety, cannot well he imposed upon the student to be 

 mastered in a four-years course, he proposes, at the 

 pleasure of the student or his parents, to substitute, 

 instead of so much Greek, Latin, and mathematics, an 

 equivalent of certain other studies. And further, he 

 offers special degrees or certificates of proficiency in any 

 one or more branches of learning to which a student may 

 prefer to devote himself. 



With the view of providing such equivalent studies, he 

 creates more professorships, and offers the public in 

 Brown University the following courses of instruction : 



1. Latin, occupying 2 years. 



2. Greek, occupying 2 years. 



3. Three modern languages. 



4. Pure mathematics, 2 years. 



5. Mechanics, optics, and astronomy, with or without mathe 



matical demonstrations, 1^ year. 



6. Chemistry, physiology, and geology, 1| year. 



7. English language and rhetoric, 1 year. 



8. Moral and intellectual philosophy, 1 year. 



9. Political economy, 1 term. 



10. History, 1 term. 



11. In the science of teaching. 



12. Principles of agriculture. 



13. Chemistry applied to the arts. 



14. Other sciences applied to the arts. 



15. The science of law. 



Some of these courses would require a lesson or lec 

 ture every working day, others only two or three in the 

 week, and the same professor might conduct more than 

 one course at the discretion of the governing body. 



Now, the working of the system would be as follows : 

 The student or his parents, with the advice of the pro 

 fessors, will .select the courses of instruction which he 

 thinks will be most useful to him in the line of life he is 

 afterwards to follow. He omits one-half or the whole of 

 the Latin, or the Greek, or the mathematics, and he 

 introduces instead a year and a half of chemistry, physi- 



