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University Jany 24th 1797. Sir, I received your letter containing a request to get Allen & Hyde into a room with a good companion, and also directions for their education. The persons you wished them to live with are so situatued as not to have it in their power to receive them. When you were here a cetain Mr. Brown lived with his family in the kitchen. As there were several circumstances which rendered it improper for him to stay there, after due warning he has removed into the village. The house he was in, was considered as convenient for students who should not be able to find room in the college. Mr. Crawford with several others have applied for it, and have permission to occupy it. We have placed Mr. R. Moore in a room of the president's house which was before held by two students, in consequence of his being obliged to give up up his share in the room in which he formerly lived with Mr. Harris.

Upon looking over the situation of the rooms in college I could find more into which he could be admitted at all, so proper as the one in which he was before with Frank Burton & Mr. Sneed. If there were any rooms that had not their complement they were inhabited

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entirely by small boys unft for them to live with as roommates. They will now live in a room almost opposite to mine where they ^and^ will near at hand should any improper proceeding be taking place. Allen is now studying Sallust, French, arithmitic, english reading writing and spellng. He will no doubt be ready two years hence to stand a good exa-mination on the studies of the pre-paratory school_ Hydes is reading latin grammar from which he soon is to go into Corderii, and also He also reads writes and spells in english. I have been applied to more than once for information when it is expected that degrees will begin to be given at the university. I have been unable to say any thing on this subject except what might be de-duced from the plan of education. But as this contains nothing pointed or explicit about degrees of any kind on this subject after all the attention I could have given to it, I could can only form conjectures. There It is to be understood in general from the plan of education that it is not no person is obliged to study any thing previous to what he wishes to enter upon immediately unless it be absolutely necessary to his understanding the sciences science or branch he is desirous of acquiring. This provision is made noticed more than once

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perhaps in the plan. When we come, then, to fix upon /strikethrough the? ^a regular^ course of study /strikethrough which/ or of knowledge which shall be required of one who applies for a degree of batchelor of arts, it is impossible precisely to ascertain it. I think I remember to have heard Mr Harris mention an opinion which met with your concurrence that of those authors spoken of in the plan of education only such should be chosen out and taught which might be most fit to lay at the foundation of a science and the rest be recommended as proper to be read at the same time. If this be the case, were even the latin and the greek made necessary to a degree, a youth might perhaps prepare himself on those and every other study in seven years from the commencement of his education. There are 3 young men here at present who have passed regularly through the studies and sciences of the university as far as belles lettres logic and chemistry- As affairs are situated at present perhaps chemistry would not be made necessary to a degree, and as soon as these students have gone through the remainder of their studies & filled up any small [vaccenities?] or irregularities that may have happened in any part of their previous preparation, they might with properiety be considered as fit candidates for degrees of Bachelor of arts.

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Halifax Feb'y 26th 97.

Dear Sir,

I feel myself greatly indebted to you for your obliging attention to my boys, and beg you to accept of my thanks.

The subject of conferring degrees has been attended with some difficulty, and differences of opinion, and this difficulty has been occasioned principally by the variation of our plan of education from that of other colleges or Universities. A Bachelors degree generally imports a knowledge of the learned languages as well as the sciences, to confer such a degree upon a person who understood neither Latin or Greek does not appear to be proper. The ruling or leading principle in our plan of education is, that the student may apply himself to those branches of learning and science alone which are absolutely necessary to fit him for his destined profession or occupation

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in life, that is you observe "one study does not imply the necessity of any other, unless of one which is necessary to make it intelligible": but I am well convinced of the utility and policy of conferring [a?] degree and granting special certificates as soon as a general plan can be adopted ; which I think may be done at the next meetings so that those entitled to a degree or diploma at the November examinations might receive them soon afterwards.

My own mind has not been perfectly made up on this subject but I will be obliged to you for your opinion upon the following plan.

That every Student who should stand an approved examination upon the English Language, and such of the Latin or Greek classics as are directed to be studied, and the sciences should receive a Bachelors degree in the usual form confered by a diploma in the Latin language, making a knowledge of one of the dead languages necessary.

That the Student who should pass an approved Examination upon the English lan-

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