INTRODUCTION. xxxlii 



The Secretary informed the Society, tjiat the Legillature, 

 by an A£l pafled April 12, 1792, had granted the fum of 

 L. 750 for five years to the Truflees * of Columbia College, 

 for the purpofe of endowing additional Profeflbrfhips, and that 



* \fTHE Editors trujl they ivlll be exctifdd for inferting the folloiuhtg account of the prcfcnt 

 fiate of Learning in Columbia ColLgSy as coniaimd in Jl-fr, Jllitchili's report to the Senatus 

 Academicus in Jidy, 1 794.] 



i HE College confifts of two Faculties; i. The Facxdtj of Arts, compofed of the 

 Prcfident and feven Profeffbrs ; and, a. The Faculty of Phyftc, comprehending the Dean 

 and feven otiier ProfexTors. 



The Plan of Inftru<ftIon Is as follows ; 



1. Under the Faculty of Arts. 



I. The Prefident, William Samuel Johnson, LL. D. is Leflurer in Rhetoric and 

 Belles Lettres, and inftrudts the Students in the grammar and proper pronunciation of 

 the Englifh language, on the plan of Webfter's and Lowth's grammars, and Sheridan's 

 rhetorical grammar. In rhetoric, on the plan of Holme's and Sterling's rhetoric ; and 

 in Belles Lettres, on the plan of Blair's ledlures; together with fuch other obfervations 

 and elucidations as, from time to time, appear neceffary and expedient, fo as to 

 comprehend, as far as pofllble, a complete courfe of inflrudion in the Origin, Nature, 

 and Progiefs of Language in general, and of the Englilh language in particular ; in the 

 art of writing and fpeaking it with propriety, elegance and force — the rules and principles 

 of every fpecies of eloquence — the principles o- true tafte, and the rules of juft ciiticifm, 

 whereby the Students may be enabled to judge properly of each fpecies of compofition 

 in every branch of elegant literature : and that they may apply the whole to practice, 

 each Student is obliged, every Saturday, to deliver him a compofition, in which be 

 -corredls the errors, either in orthography, grammar, ftyle, or fentiment, and makes the 

 nficcffary obfervations on them, when he returns the compofition to the writer, 



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