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the duties of President protempore - Revd McCorkle [illegible]
of this state was appointed to the professorship of
moral Philosophy_ but as he could not immediately
accept of the appointment and the trustees began to
be very doubtful respecting his qualifications for
that business the appointment has been retracted--

Revd Holmes is now professor of Languages. I am the
other professor who besides the duties of my particular
office, am obliged for the want of teachers to attend
the moral Philosophy class & perform the duties of
President_ Besides there are two tutors of the lower
classes_. As to the classes _ the Moral Philosophy class
is the first and consists of six young men_ They
will study Paley, Burlemaqui, Montesquieu & [Mollet?]
elements of history_ The mathematical class will
consist of 15 who will study Simsons Euclid, Simson's
Algebra_ Trigonometry, Surveying, navigation