shall instruct all the classes of the Institution, including the Infant Classes. This instruction shall be in English, as one means of preserving that language among the children. Public quarterly concerts of vocal and instrumental music may be held.

GENERAL REMARKS.

After the boys leave the Infant Department, it will be advisable, and is indeed absolutely necessary to maintain their health, that they engage in some manual labour. It may be on the farm, at gardening, or in improving the place, or at some mechanical employment, to afford opportunities for which, work shops shall be erected.

Encouragement shall be given to the pupils to invent, and manufacture any machine of useful application, or any instrument or apparatus which may be calculated to illustrate science, or by which useful experiments may be made. And also, to propound original mathemaitcal and philosophical propositions for investigation and solution; which, with any discovery in science, shall be placed on record, with the names of the authors, and published when a sufficient collection of such interesting matter will warrant.

One evening in the week shall be devoted to scientific discussion and debate.

Those of the Grammar and Collegiate Department shall commit to memory some of the best parts of the Classic authors. Those of the Collegiate Department, in rotation, shall daily recite short, select and original pieces, before the Faculty.

All the boys during the last two or three years of their study, shall spend a portion of their leisure time, by way of recreation and exercise, in manufacturing drugs, paints, &c., under the instruction of a practical chemist. Those articles, when sold, will more than pay all the expenses of a laboratory.

In the College, every boy shall have his separate desk and chair, with every convenience for study. His books and papers shall be under lock and key, when not in use. Every scholar shall thus be kept entirely separate,

Perhaps the upper story had best be appropriated for the Collegiate Department.

No boy shall be unnecessarily detained in any class. As his talents, application and acquirements merit, he shall be advanced when it can be done to his advantage.

Boys after the age of fourteen, may be taken, during the vacation in summer, to see something of the world outside of the walls of the College. Such as the natural curiosities of the country, the falls of Niagara, or some of the

Also, a Professor of Medicine, whose duty it shall be to attend the sick of the institution, and to lecture during the winter evenings, on the outlines of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene, or the art of preserving health. These lectures will only be designed to illustrate and explain the elements of the Medical science, without going into that detail which may be necessary for those designed for the Medical profession.

The Professors shall give a regular course of familiar lectures in their respective branches of science, always examining their pupils before each lecture on that which preceded.

The Professors in the various branches of science shall be accountable for the progress and efficiency of their pupils and that every facility may be given them, they shall chose their respective assistants and tutors, with the approbation of the proper authorities.

There shall be a Library composed of scientific and other books, in French, Spanish, Latin Greek and English, for the use of the students, under such regulations as may be adopted.

principal cities, in which they may make a public exhibition of their talents, in declaiming in French, Spanish and English; during the exercises of which, an opportunity may be afforded of exhibiting their talents in music, vocal and instrumental.

That all may feel that the continuance of their employment in the Institution, depends upon the faithful and efficient discharge of their respective duties, the Councils during the last month of their services, shall re-elect all the Professors, and others employed, or make such alterations as the best interests of the Institution may demand.

Connected with the Institution shall be a Botanic and Horticultural Garden.

During the whole course of study, the French and Spanish languages shall have sufficient share of attention by those who have left the Infant Department.* They will, however, more particularly study the philology of those languages, under the Professors attached to the Infant Department, who shall take the general superintendence of their respective languages, from the instruction of infants in the alphabet, to the compositions of young men of eighteen.

There shall be a public Quarterly examination of all the Pupils, and also Quarterly exhibitions of public speaking in original and select pieces, two of which shall be in the French and Spanish languages.

When the students graduate, Orations shall be made in the French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, and English languages.

It will at once be perceived that this system only embraces an intellectual education. It is, however, of the first importance, that a complete system of moral training should be introduced. [This we had left to those whose inclinations led them to make this a subject of particular study, but having received highly flattering commendations of this system, we have entered fully into the subject of moral training in our Philosophy of Education.]

* See Commendatory letters-note to President Bates' letter, page 31.

The above system was written in March, 1832, [published in 1834, and re-published in 1838,] and as it contains only the great leading principles of a system of education, some points may require further explanation; however, it has been very deliberately studied, and is now offered after long mature reflection, with the advantage of twenty-four years active employment in the education of youth,

The notes constitute the detail, which is not essential to the system. The whole may be rejected, part retained, or other matter substituted or added.

The following is an exhibition of the proportional number of students in all the classes, allowing for the whole Institution five hundred and ten scholars, and admitting fifty annually.

French Infant class admitting 50 annually, will for 2 years, contain 100

* This is assumed as the probable proportion of superior talents.

THE FIRST OBJECT OF ATTENTION

Should be to commence building immediately the Infant Department, (beginning with the French,) in order to have children in a course of training, and with as little delay as possible, prepared for the higher classes when the college building shall be erected. The Professors and teachers, together with the apparatus and mathematical instruments, may be procured as the progress of classes may demand.