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usefulness, which had been long desired, but had not as yet been realised. But those hopes were subjected to a distressing disappointment. On the third day of October following, death put a termination to the life and useful labors of Dr. Finley, and to the expectations of the public benefits which would probably have resulted from his vigorous exertions.

On the 21st March, 1818, the Trustees appointed the Reverend Nathan S. S. Beman to the office vacated by the death of Dr. Finley; and, on the 29th June following, Mr. Beman announced to the Board his acceptance. In order to afford an opportunity to repair the President's house and the buildings connected with the Institution, so as to render them respectable and comfortable, it was deemed expedient by the President elect and the Trustees that the exercises of the College should be suspended until the first of January, 1819.

On the 9th November, 1818, Mr Beman addressed a letter to the Board while in session at Milledgeville, informing them that an act of Providence rendered it both inexpedient and impracticable to remove his family to Athens; as his wife was then laboring under a chronic disease, which precluded all hopes of her recovery. (Mr. Beman's fears were realised by her death within three months afterwards.) He therefore thought it his duty to resign the office which he had accepted.

Before the Board adjourned, they nominated the Reverend Ebenezer Porter, D. D. of Andover, as President; which appointment he declined to accept, as he signified by a letter dated 19th January, 1819.

[On the first day of March, 1819, the Reverend Moses Waddel D. D. whose reputation as a teacher is so well and extensively known, was unanimously chosen by the Board of Trustees President of the University of Georgia. On the 19th April following, he signified his acceptance, and on the 21st May, took charge of the College consisting at that time of seven students. By the following November, at which time his appointment was unanimously confirmed by the Senatus Academicus, the number of students had increased to nearly eighty. They have since been gradually increasing, so that the present number is one hundred and six; notwithstanding a Senior class respectable in numbers has graduated every year for the last four years.]

In the year 1815, the Legislature authorised a sale of the lands of the University, and directed the proceeds to be vested in Bank stock. Accordingly the lands were sold, and the amount produced enabled the Trustees to vest one hundred thousand dollars in stock of the Bank of the State of Georgia, which yields eight thousand dollars a year. If by any accident or misfortune of the Bank, that

amount is not realised, the State, by a law making permanent provision for the Institution, supplies any deficiency. This sum added to about $3500 arising from tuition, constitutes the annual income of the College. Its expenditure is about $ 10,000, including $ 1600 paid to two teachers of a Grammar school attached to the College; which, being made free, is usually thronged, and therefore a useful nursery to the college.

The University of Georgia, often known by the name of Franklin College, is in the town of Athens, Clark county, on the western margin of the North Oconee river, on the main route from the city of Augusta to Nashville in Tennessee; distant ninety-four miles from the former. The town of Athens in which it is located contains nearly one hundred families, many of whom have resorted thither for the advantage of educating their children; and are respectable on account of their morals and mental improvement. The situation is elevated and, affording a view of the mountains to the northwest, few places in any country can be more healthy than this has been found to be.

The buildings belonging to the College are

1. A three story house of brick 120 feet long and 45 broad, fronting nearly north and "south, containing 24 rooms for the accommodation of students. Each room has a fire-place, two dormitories, and two closets for firewood and water, attached to it.

rooms.

2. Another brick building four stories high, of the same dimensions as the former, and constructed on the same plan, containing 32 This building was erected by the liberality of the Legislature in 1822. It is an excellent structure; two of its rooms are allotted for instructers, and two, for recitations.

3. A brick building 40 feet by 32, two stories high. The upper story is divided into two apartments; one, for the philosophical apparatus; the other is used as a room for lecturing, recitations and philosophical experiments. The philosophical apparatus is a very complete one; and there are few phenomena in the several departments of natural philosophy which have not the appropriate instrument for their experimental illustration. A permanent provision, moreover, has been made by the Trustees for the purchase of new instruments, and replacing such as may be injured or lost. The lower story is used as a chemical laboratory. The chemical apparatus is respectable, and sufficiently ample for the performance of all those experiments which are necessary to illustrate and establish the principles of the science.

4. A chapel 40 feet by 60; a framed building, in which the students attend for morning and evening prayers, public worship is attended on the sabbath and the public Commencements are held on the first Wednesday in August.

5. A dwelling-house for the President, about 50 yards from the College-No. 1.

6. Besides these there are two halls for the accommodation of the two literary societies which are instituted in the College, viz. the Demosthenian and the Phi Kappa. The hall of the former is of brick; the other is a frame building. The interior of each is conveniently constructed and elegantly finished.

The officers of instruction at present are,

A President who instructs the higher classes in Logic, Moral Philosophy, and the Evidences of Christianity. His salary is $2200 per annum.

A Professor of Natural Philosophy and Botany, who also instructs in Rhetoric, Belles-lettres, and Criticism, salary $1400.

A Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, salary $1400. A Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and the French language, whose salary at present is $1200.

Two tutors who instruct the two lower classes in the Latin and Greek languages, Geography, Antiquities, and other studies preparatory to their admission into the Junior class; each of whom has a salary of $700.

The students are divided in four classes, viz. Senior, Junior, Sophomore and Freshman. The studies of the Freshman year are four books of Xenophon's Cyropædia, Homer, Horace, Roman Antiquities, Murray's English Grammar, Day's Algebra, Morse's Geography, and Playfair's Geometry.

The studies of the Sophomore year are Homer continued, five books of Livy, French, Algebra continued, Plain Trigonometry and Surveying.

The Junior studies are Belles-lettres and criticism, Spherical Trigonometry, Navigation, Conic sections, Priestley's lectures on History, Natural Philosophy, and Logic, with Cicero de Oratore, and a recitation in the Greek Testament on every Monday morning.

The studies of the Senior class are,

Natural Philosophy and Logic continued, (in which Enfield and Andrews' are the text books) Paley's Moral Philosophy and Evidences of Christianity, Astronomy, Brande's Chemistry, Vattel's Law of Nations, Stewart's Philosophy of the Mind, and such classics as the President may direct, with forensic disputation and original speeches, delivered publicly.

The Laws require declamation from the three lower classes and original composition. On each evening after evening prayers two or more, having been appointed on the preceding day, declaim on the stage, in the college chapel, in presence of the Faculty and their fellow students. On every Wednesday at 2 o'clock eight of

them from these three classes declaim before the President in the chapel; when the necessary remarks are made on their pronunciation, attitude, gesture, and manner of delivery.

The price of tuition is thirty-six dollars per annum, and one dollar annually for the use of the library, payable semi-annually in advance.

Each class recites three times a day, viz. immediately after morning prayers, (to which the students are summoned at sunrise by the ringing of the bell,) at 11 o'clock A. M. and at 4 P. M. The forenoon of Saturday is spent by the two societies in their respective halls, for the purpose of literary improvement. As a generous emulation subsists betwixt them, they are regarded as valuable auxiliaries to the Institution.

A strict regard to moral duties, as well as diligent attention to study, is required of the students by the laws of the University. The punishments to be inflicted for the violation of any law, are entirely addressed to the sense of honor and shame, and proportioned to the nature and aggravation of the offence: they are admonition, private, or public, supension, dismission, or expulsion.

In 1820, the Legislature granted two thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a frame building to accommodate a school preparatory to admission into college. This seminary is placed under the immediate instruction and care of two tutors, and has been by the Trustees subjected to the superintendence of the President. The tuition in this preparatory academy is without cost to the pupils. The tutors receive each a salary of $800 out of the funds of the University; and as a number are annually prepared in this branch for entering college, it has proved an excellent auxiliary and nursery to the institution. It consists at present of about sixty pupils.

The following are the officers of instruction at this time, 1826, viz.

Moses Waddel, D. D. President. Reverend Alonzo Church, A. M. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Henry Jackson M. D. Professor of Natural Philosophy and Botany. James Jackson, A. M. Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and the French language. Ephraim S. Hopping, A. M., Alvin Lathrop, A. B., tutors in college. Moses W. Dobbins, Ebenezer Newton, tutors of the preparatory academy.

The whole number of trustees 17; who, together with the senators of the different counties of the state, constitute the Senatus Academicus. All college laws and the appointments of all officers must be confirmed by this body. Their annual meeting, at which the governor presides, is held at the seat of government on the second Monday in November, during the session of the Legisla

ture.

M. M-A. JULLIEN'S QUESTIONS ON COMPARATIVE EDUCATION.
(See last Number.)

Moral and Religious Education.

66. Is particular attention paid to the developement of the moral faculties, and to religious instruction-whether in the family or at school?

67. How are children taught submission, respect, and obedience, to their parents and their superiors, and how are they induced to love them? Is severity or mildness employed for these purposes? (The exciting of fear is exceedingly injurious to the moral developement of children, to their character, and their mind.) 68. How are they led to goodness, beneficence, humanity?

69. What are the moral sentiments which are most carefully cherished in them,-filial piety, fraternal affection, benevolence to mankind, and especially to the unfortunate?

70. What are the moral habits with which pains are taken to render children familiar-obedience and docility, the spirit of order, force of character and will, combined with a reflecting submission to the orders of persons of greater age and judgement?

71. Is care taken to surround children constantly with good examples which they may be induced to imitate?

72. By what means are children early rendered hardy and courageous?

73. Is it customary to terrify them with stories of witches, ghosts, and other apparitions-or are they taught to put no faith in such ridiculous fables, and to remain alone in the dark without fear?

74. What means are made use of to correct infants subject to anger?

75. What measures are taken to correct those who manifest a certain disposition to cruelty, or to the destruction of things which they know to be useful?

76. How are children inspired with an abhorrence of falsehood, and are they encouraged to speak the truth?

77. How is idleness prevented or corrected, and how are children early habituated to labor, without causing in them a repugnance to it?

78. Do mothers exercise a great influence upon the primary moral education of their children; and how is this influence directed?

79. What difference may be remarked in the proportion of this influence, as exercised in the poor, and in the rich classes?

80. What course is taken in religious instruction? Is this course uniform in all schools, or is it left to the will of each instructer?

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