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ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in said college ; 

 nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or 

 as a visitor within the premises appropriated to the purposes of 

 the said college. In making this restriction, I do not mean to 

 cast any reflection upon any sects. There is such a diversity of 

 opinion amongst them I desire to keep the tender minds of the 

 orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free 

 from excitement, which clashing doctrines and sectarian contro- 

 versy are so apt to produce. My desire is that all the instructors 

 and teachers in the college shall take pains to instill into the 

 minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality. So that 

 on their entrance into active life they may from inclination and 

 habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow creatures and a 

 love of truth, sobriety and industry, adopting at the same time 

 such religious tenets as their natural reason may enable them to 

 prefer." 



