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gd^xpllJng-liouse for the president, - and a lar^e and elegant 



^^hjt«-4ih«-'U):thq erection of whicii the tru^esRCOutrlbuted, on 

 condition that the -officers and students of the college should 



.iS^l}yays be. accommodated therein oa; tJjjB LoiCci'^i^X?? ^and 

 have the use of it on public occasions. ' t- u,^j; .-.a^j,<To?q'>^- 

 The funds of this college are small, consisting of money on 

 intierest, amounting to about 3500 dollars, and a township of 



fjapd in the province of Maine, worth, perhaps, from 7000 to 

 10000 dollars. The income, from tuition, room-rent, &.C., is 



, about 2000 dollars annually. The institution has been 

 hitherto supported by colonel Williams's donation, by sub- 



.jscriptions among the inhabitants of Williamstown and its. vi- 

 cinity, by the product of a lottery, and by a grant of two 

 townships of land in the province of Maine by the legislature 



The officers of this college are, a president (who is at pre- 

 gent the r«v. Dr. Ebenezer Fitch) and four tutors. The in- 

 stitution is governed by sixteen gentlemen, of whom the pre- 

 sident for the time being is one, and always presides at their 

 ineetings. 



.,+• TJie number of students at the close of the year 1800>>^:^ 

 .93. - They are boarded in the college, and in private houses 

 in, the vicinity. The price of board, tuition, washing,,, )i'Qo4» 

 J&c, amounts annually to about 100 dollars. ^,jof;.<- 



The library consists of about 600 volumes. Two literary 

 societies belonging to the college have a library in common, 

 .consisting of 300 volmnes xiiore. The philosophical appara- 

 tus is small ; but well selected and good, so far as it goes. 

 A good telescope and some other articles are mucjijv^pted 

 ta render the collection tolerably complete. - ^, |t 



Y Tfhe, course of instruction is nearly similar to that which 

 >vas detailed .as taking place in Harvard College, The prin- 

 cipal points.of diiierence are the following: — ^There .appears, to 

 t»e rather less attention paid to classic literature hQrethajn at 

 Harvard. ,PfiesAey's Lectures on History are studied, by the 

 juaier cjassj instead ol MiUoJL'a. J[^Qmentsj..Ed>>ar45,.Qii^-Ui$ 



