298 Report on a Course of Liberal Education. 



McEwen, be a committee to inquire into the expediency of 

 so altering the regular course of instruction in this college, 

 as to leave out of said course the study of the dead Ian- 

 a;uages, substituting other studies therefor ; and either re- 

 quiring a competent knowledge of said languages, as a 

 condition of admittance into the college, or providing in- 

 struction in the same, for such as shall choose to study them 

 after admittance ; and that the said committee be requested 

 to report at the next annual meeting of this corporation. 



This committee, at their first meeting in April, 1328, af- 

 ter taking into consideration the case referred to them, re- 

 quested the Faculty of the college to express their views on 

 the subject of the resolution. 



The expediency of retaining the ancient languages, as an 

 essential part of our course of instruction, is so obviously 

 connected with the object and plan of education in the col- 

 lege, that justice could not be done to the particular subject 

 of inquiry in the resolution, without a brief statement of the 

 nature and arrangement of the various branches of the 

 whole system. The report of the faculty was accordingly 

 made out in tivo parts ; one containing a summary view of 

 the plan of education in the college ; the other, an inquiry 

 into the expediency of insisting on the study of the ancient 

 languages. 



This report was read to the committee, at their meeting 

 in August. The committee reported their views to the cor- 

 poration, at their session in September ; who voted to accept 

 the report, and ordered it to be printed, together with the 

 papers read before the committee, or such parts of them as 

 the prudential committee and the faculty should judge it ex- 

 pedient to publish. 



RETORT OF THE FACULTY. 



Part I. 



Containing a summary view of the plan of education in the 



college. 



The committee of the corporation, to whom was referred 

 the motion, to inquire into the expediency of dispensing with 

 the study of the ancient languages, as a part of the regular 

 course of instruction in this college, having requested the 



