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Black Book
No. 10
Letter
No. 21

their Disposition: To take into his more Immediate Charge such of
the Youth, who are far Advanced in their School Learning: to give
them a better Taste of the Elegancies of the Classics: To Lecture
to them duly, according to their Divisions, in Ancient & Modern
History, illustrated with Geography, Chronology, and Jewish, Gre-
cian, Roman & British Antiquities; To Ground them in the Principles
of their Religion: To institute Oratory Lectures: To hear them
often Declaim on Various Subjects: To pass them thro' Courses
(unincumber'd with the Targon and Trifling Subtilities of the Old
Scholiasts) of the New Logic; Natural & Reveald Religion; Moral
& Natural Philosophy: To give them as Just notions as possible of
the Constitution and Trade of Great Britain, and of the Provinces,
particularly Maryland, Dependent on it: To watch the least Ten-
dency to a Corruption in the Morals of every Collegiate Member :
to Regulate the Amusements and Diversions of the Youth so as they
may not be entirely unedifying: to take Care that they be well
treated as to their Diet, Washing, Lodging &c. in the Several Houses,
where they shall Board; And To Hold twice a Year public Examina-
tions, where he shall preside. To which his Excellency and the Visi-
tors shall be Invited, and every Gentleman and Clergyman shall be
Admitted.

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Where all the Youth in General Distributed according to their
Capacities and Proficiency into Classes, shall have proper Examiners
assignd them, to whom they are to give an Account of all they have
learnd; at which Time Premiums of Books, and Honorary Rewards
are to be presented to Those Who have acquitted themselves well;
and suitable Censures & Disgraces pass'd on those, who have not duly
Prepared themselves; Which Method of proceeding before such Wit-
nesses, must Create a Generous Emulation among Boys, and have
much better Efforts than Barren Praise or Corporal punishment.
The Proposer presumes not to Dictate to the Legislative Powers,
now Conven'd, (to Whose Consideration what he has offerd is
humbly submitted) by what methods or in what Manner, a Fund
may be Rais'd sufficient to support a Collegiate school or Academy
upon the foregoing Plan, with reasonable Salaries to the Masters;
and only Insinuates, that as the absolute necessity of immediately
Establishing such a Seminary is but too Apparent, he believes so
urgent & Laudable a work may be Accomplished by ways very agree-
able & by no means Burdensome to the Country; And if any Diffi-
culty's or Misapprehensions concerning What He has laid down, and
Prays the Sanction of a Law for, should Arise; He is Ready to
attend Either of the Honourable Houses, when Call'd upon, with
all Integrity and Submission, to the best of his Power, to give them
Due Satisfaction, being Prepard, as they shall Judge proper, to En-
large or Contract the Design, and Accommodate the Whole to the
Circumstances of the Province; The Genius of Whose Youth He has