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A college on the plan of a university — that is to 

 say, where a reasonable approach to universality of 

 instruction is proposed — would supply this deficiency, 

 remedy the consequent evils, and be a blessing and a 

 source of blessing to the colonies. Its hall and lec- 

 tures should be thrown open to every white resident, 

 as well as to the people of colour, in the British West 

 Indies. For their rooms and commons the students 

 should of course pay, and the surplus funds of the 

 charity should be laid out in the erection of fel- 

 lowships, in salaries to professors, and prizes for 

 youthful talent. Tutors of undoubted zeal and 

 ability should be provided, and the principal should 

 be a man of that nerve and judgment which will be 

 requisite to govern and defend a great and novel 

 institution. 



The domestic economy of the college would be on 

 a much simpler and less expensive plan than that of 

 the universities in England; less than half what is 

 now spent by the Creoles in travelling or idleness, , 

 would decently maintain them. 



In the widely-extended operations of the Society 

 for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 

 this college might be made to exercise an influence 

 prolific of incalculable good ; and with all deference 

 to the members of that venerable body, I exhort 



