Additional Notes. 4i)7 



In Rhode-Island there is one College, viz. 



Rhode-Island College. The charter for this seminary was 

 obtained in 1764. The Rev. James Manning, of New- 

 Jersey, had the principal agency in founding it, and was cho- 

 sen the first President. The College edifice was erected in. 

 1770. It is a spacious building, 150 feet long, 46 feet wide, 

 and four stones high, and contains 56 apartments. 



The Government of the College is vested in a Board of 

 Trustees. The immediate Officers are, a President, Professor 

 of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Professor of Law, 

 and three Tutors. 



The Funds of this institution'are small, amounting to little 

 more than eight thousand dollars, chiefly raised by subscrip- 

 tion. 



The Philosophical Apparatus is tolerably complete. It 

 has lately received considerable accessions by the liberality of 

 Samuel Elam, Esq. of New-Port. The Library contains 

 about 3000 volumes. 



The number of students in 1801 was 107. They are chiefly 

 boarded in the College; and the necessary annual expense of 

 each is about 100 dollars. 



There is by no means a general taste for literature in this 

 State. Of the 107 students above mentioned only 12 be- 

 longed to the State. The greater part of the rest were from 

 Massachusetts, and a number from the southward, especially 

 from South-Carolina. 



In Connecticut there is one College, viz. 



Yale College, at New-Haven. This institution was in- 

 corporated in 1701, and was the third College established in 

 the American Colonies. It received this name in honour of 

 Thomas Yale, Esq. who had been Governor of Fort St. 

 George, in India, and who was one of its liberal benefactors. 



The Officers of this College are, a President (now the 

 Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight); a Professor of Divinity; 

 Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ; Professor 

 of Oriental Languages; and three Tutors. 



The number of Students in this College is believed to be 

 greater than in any other in the United States. In 1801 they 

 amounted to 217; and the number since that time has pro- 

 bably increased. The students are chiefly boarded in the 

 College, and the annual expense attending the accommoda- 

 tion of each is from 120 to 150 dollars. 



The College Buildings are spacious and elegant. The Li- 



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