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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 oc-
casioned 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 lan-
guages as well as the sciences, to con-
fer such a degree upon a person who un-
derstood 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