343 Additioyial Notes. 



'The annual commencement* is bh the second AVedncs^ay-' 

 or September ; and the number of students who had graduated^ 

 at this college, at the end of the year 1800, was about 26OO. 



The state of Vermont has one college, viz. ' " •^^JP o '' 



'Middlebury college, situate in the town of Middleljilry/ 113 

 A^disori county. This seminary was founded in iiSOd/ tind'"* 

 is yet in an inl'ant state. '' -i" '=''f '^i 



The government of this college is vested 'jVi a^ ob^Sf ^ 

 trustees, consisting of sixteen gentlemen. The bflficcrs'^Sr 

 1^1 were, a president (the rev. Mr. J. Atwater) ; and a tutor. " 

 One or more piK)fsssors have probably been elected since. ' 



The funds consist chiefly of lands, Avhich, though little 

 productive at present, promise hereafter to afford an aiftlple 

 support to the institution. "" ' 



The number of students in the college, and grammar-schbiol' 

 annexed to it, was, in 1801, about 30. Since that time ft 1^ 

 believed they have increased. They are all boarded in pfli3 

 vate houses. The annual expense of each, including board- 

 ing, washing, tuition, &c., is from 80 to 90 dollars. '^^ ""^ 



The library is small, but increasing. The philosopfiical ' 

 apparatus is incomplete ; but measures have been adopted to 

 render it less so ; and, on the whole, the institution has a' 

 prospect of becoming, at no great distance of time, ekteit- 

 sively useful. i .<' i 



' Kev.' York has two colleges, viz- ' '^^ 



1. Co^Mwim co//t;g^f, in the city of New York. This ftl^i-"' 

 tution was founded in 1754, under the title oi King's colte^', 

 which name, after the revolution, was exchanged for theione 

 which it now bears. (See p. 218 of this volume.) ':' '' 



This college is under the direction of a board of trustfee's; 

 The immediate officers are, a president (at present the i^eV.'' 

 Dr. Benjamin Moore, bishop of the protestant episcopal 

 church in the state of New York) ; a professor of moral pM-'- 

 losbpliy, ibrf^ie, ftietbrie, and belles lettres; a professor b-f tfefe' 



