establishment, "that every system of general education for the youth of a Christian community ought to comprise instruction in the Christian religion, as an indispensable part; without which the acquisition of other branches of knowledge will be conducive neither to the happiness of individuals, nor to the welfare of the State." In the senior department, which opened on Monday, October 17, the prescribed course of education will embrace religious and moral instruction, in conformity with the principles of the Established Church; the Greek and Latin classics; mathematics; English literature and composition; and history. Terms.-The matriculation-fee, to be paid by every student, upon his admission, will be 17. 18. For the year's course, of which the half-yearly expense must be paid in advance, the fee to be paid by every student, if nominated by a proprietor, will be 217.; if not so nominated, 261. 5s. The proprietors are entitled, in respect of each donation of 50%. and upwards, or of each share, to nominate one student. The academical year will consist of three terms. The first term will extend from the beginning of October to the week before Christmas; the second, from the middle of January to the week before Easter; and the third, from the week after Easter to the end of June, or beginning of July. With respect to religious instruction, the Rev. W. Otter, M. A. Principal of the College, will begin a course of instruction in religion and morals, at the commencement of the October term, and will continue it twice a week, on Monday and Thursday, at one o'clock, through the whole of the academic year. His lectures will embrace the evidences of natural and revealed religion, and the doctrines and duties of Christianity, in conformity with the principles of the Established Church. On the first day, the time of the students will be occupied with a lecture; on the second, with an examination. The works which will at present form the basis of the lecture, and be made the subjects of examination with the pupils, as those subjects come regularly under review in the first course, are Paley's Natural Theology, Butler's Analogy, Paley's Evidences, and the Greek Testament. The Principal also proposes to preach every Sunday morning, during term, in the College Chapel, where accommodations will be provided for students of every description belonging to the College. In the junior department, or school, the course of education will partake of a liberal and useful character, adapted equally to professional and commercial pursuits. It will be founded on the systematic inculcation of the soundest principles of religion and morality; and will comprise the Greek, Latin, French, and English languages; writing, arithmetic, and elementary mathematics; history and geography, ancient and modern; general literature, elocution, and composition. The Hebrew, German, and Italian languages, the principles and practice of commerce, natural philosophy, drawing, &c. will be taught out of the course. By the system of examinations, both public and private, and the distribution of prizes, it is anticipated that an honourable spirit of emulation will be excited and cherished in the minds of the scholars. The age of admission will not be under nine years. The hours of attendance will be from nine till three, from Michaelmas to Lady-day; and from nine till four during the remainder of the year. On Saturdays, the school will close at one o'clock. The vacations will consist of six weeks in August and September: one month at Christmas; and ten days at Easter. There will be annually a public examination, and distribution of prizes awarded by the Council. A register will be kept by the Head Master, of the attendance, employments, and general conduct of the pupils, from which periodical reports will be transmitted to their friends. Every class will come under the examination and tuition of the Head Master. A library will be gradually formed for the use of the pupils. The terms for the course of tuition specified will be fifteen guineas annually to a pupil nominated by a proprietor; and eighteen guineas to one not so nominated, with one guinea as an entrance-fee. The Head and Second Masters will receive boarders on terms sanctioned by the Council. SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF KING'S COLLEGE, FREDERICTON. NUMEROUS inquiries having been made concerning the actual state of King's College, Fredericton, and some misconception appearing to exist on the subject in remoter places; it has been judged advisable to furnish the public with a distinct and authoritative statement of the provision made in the College for the instruction of youth, the regulations established for the maintenance of discipline, and the expense of an academical course. The object of the College, as expressly declared in the charter by which his late Majesty endowed it with the privileges of an university, is "the education of youth in the principles of the Christian religion, and their instruction in the various branches of literature and science." In pursuance of this object, the plan adopted by the Council has been, to receive such students as had acquired the elements of a liberal education at the grammarschools of the province, or elsewhere; and to afford them the means of those maturer attainments, which experience has proved to be the fittest qualifications for the higher stations and offices of society. Nothing farther, therefore, is required of candidates for matriculation, than that they be competently acquainted with the grammatical structure of the Latin and Greek languages, and be capable of expressing their thoughts in writing in Latin as well as English. It is desired, indeed, that they should have some previous acquaintance with the first principles of mathematics; but until these have been generally taught in the grammarschools, the College contents itself with recommending and encouraging such studies. No restriction is imposed with respect to the age, religion, or place of birth or education, of any person presenting himself for admission. The instruction of the students is conducted by the Vice-president and two other Professors, who have adopted such arrangements as appeared calculated to occupy the time of their pupils during the whole of the several terms, with the exception of such hours as would be absolutely requisite for meals and recreation. The day begins and concludes with divine worship. In the morning, at seven o'clock during the summer, and eight in the winter, and at ten in the evening throughout the year, all the students (not having permission to the contrary) are required to repair to the college chapel. The service consists of a selection from the liturgy of the Established Church, with one of the daily lessons from the Holy Scriptures. The lessons are read by the students in succession, and the officiating chaplain is bound to take care that they perform this duty with becoming solemnity. in The time actually spent by the students in attendance on the daily lectures, extends in general from ten in the morning to two in the afternoon. The other hours of the day, not necessarily required for meals or exercise, they are expected to occupy preparing for these lectures by private study, and in writing exercises on various subjects proposed to them. Where this latter division of their time is duly employed, it may be considered that nine or ten hours of every day are directly devoted to mental improve ment. At ten in the morning the students repair to their respective lectures, and read a classical author until eleven. At eleven they take up another classical work, which engages them until twelve. From twelve they are variously occupied with logic, mathematics, or divinity. One o'clock is the regular hour for the more public and formal lectures of the several Professors, which the whole body of the students attend; as they do also an additional lecture by the Vice-president on the Saturday evening. The system is so arranged, that every student, from the commencement of his residence in College, will be engaged during every week of term in the successive study of four of the most approved classical authors; of logic, rhetoric, and mathematics; of history, mental and moral philosophy; and of the evidences and general principles of the Christian religion. There are also separate classes in divinity and Hebrew, for those who declare their intention to devote themselves to the sacred profession. The junior students begin with such classical authors as Homer, Xenophon, Livy, and Cicero; they afterwards advance to Euripides and Demosthenes. The senior enter on the study of Herodotus and Sophocles, and proceed to Thucydides, Aristotle, Pindar, and Tacitus. The Oxford system of Logic and the Cambridge course of Mathematics are adopted by the respective Professors; and it is attempted so to teach these sciences that they may be found of practical use to the future inquiries and pursuits of the students. In History the Professor delivers a course of lectures, commencing with the Mosaic records, and presenting an epitome of the most important and instructive events in the progress of time, and the formation, establishment, and decline of the several nations of the world. In Metaphysics, or mental philosophy, the Professor, availing himself of the researches of Locke, Reid, and Stewart, conducts his pupils in the interesting inquiry into the various powers and operations of the human mind. In Moral Philosophy, the great object of the Professor is to establish sound and solid principles of action. For this purpose he investigates the groundwork of morals, as it is laid in the nature of things and the attributes of the Deity; and proceeds to shew, by the example afforded in the writings of the philosophers of Greece and Rome, how far the light of reason is capable of conducting men. Thence he infers the necessity of a divine revelation, and illustrates the superior excellence and inestimable value of Christian precepts, institutions and laws. The Professor of Divinity lays the foundation of Christian knowledge in a diligent examination of the Greek Testament; and gradually leads the students to an acquaintance with the principles which establish its authenticity and truth, and enable men duly to understand and apply its divine instructions. Those of his pupils who compose the special divinity-class are more peculiarly instructed in such points of doctrine and ecclesiastical history as relate to the constitution and government of the church; and in such studies as are likely, by the blessing of Almighty God, to conduce to a profitable discharge of the functions of the Christian ministry. Various questions and subjects for more private exercises in writing are proposed by the several Professors as they may find occasion in connexion with their respective lectures; and on every Saturday the Vice-president affixes in the hall a subject for a general theme or essay, which at the end of the following week every student is required to present. Such is the provision actually made for the instruction of students. But the Council hope to find themselves enabled at no very distant period to establish distinct professorships of natural philosophy, law, and anatomy and medicine, by which the circle of collegiate education would be rendered almost complete. The necessary discipline is established by the statutes of the university, and regulations founded on them. Every Professor is authorized to enforce attendance on his lectures, and good behaviour at them, by imposition and fine to a certain extent. The immediate superintendence of the College is committed to the Vice-president, who in graver cases convenes the other professors for consultation, or gives information to the Council. To the Council alone is reserved the power of expulsion and other severe inflictions, which it may be hoped will never be requisite in practice. The students are required to be constant in their attendance at church, chapel, and lectures, unless they shall have obtained special permission to the contrary. In the case of public worship, this permission will be granted as a matter of course to such students as may not belong to the Established Church. In every other case, indisposition or some other urgent plea can alone be admitted. All the meals are provided for the students in the public refectory, and one of the higher officers of the College is required to be always present and preside at the common table. The doors of the College are regularly locked at ten o'clock at night; and it is ordained by the statutes that no student shall remain out of College, nor any visitor in a student's apartment, after that hour, without special permission. The attendance at chapel in the evening is a valuable auxiliary to the foregoing rule; but it is farther provided that the principal officers of the College shall have authority to enter a student's apartment at all hours. Every exertion is required to be made by all the officers to maintain good morals; and it is especially provided, that no undergraduate shall resort to any inn, tavern, or place of public amusement, without special pernission. The academical year begins on the first Thursday in September; and continues, with a vacation of three weeks at Christmas, and a few days at Easter and Whitsuntide, to the beginning of July. Four of these years are requisite for the first degree, of Bachelor of Arts; but the actual residence will seldom much exceed three years. For higher degrees residence is not absolutely necessary, except during two terms in the case of candidates for the degree of Master of Arts. No religious test is imposed on admission to any degree, except in divinity. VOL. XII. NO. X. The annual charge for tuition, including public and private lectures, is 81. currency. The weekly charge for lodging, board and attendance, is 12s. 6d.; which is required for the period of actual residence only. The fees payable for the first degree do not amount to 5. No other payment of any amount is incurred by a student, except what he may find necessary for clothing, books, furniture, and fuel for his private apartment. With these exceptions, the entire expense of a collegiate course for the whole four years, including the first degree, need not amount to much more than 110%. The other charges, which apply to graduates only, are proportionately low. The fees payable on admission to the degree of Master of Arts, or Bachelor in Civil Law, are under 71.; and those on admission to a Doctor's degree in any faculty very little exceed 10%. A Master of Arts or superior Graduate preserves his title to a vote in convocation by an annual payment of 17. 10s. towards the support of the university. From this statement it will be perIceived that it has been the wish and design of the College Council to render the invaluable benefits of a liberal education accessible to as many as possible of the youth of a newly-settled country. With this view they have also established a scholarship of 257. a-year, by way of specimen, which they propose as an object of competition to candidates, without restriction, who shall offer themselves for examination in mathematical as well as classical subjects; intending, as soon as the funds of the College will admit, to found other scholarships of a like description. By means of these, and six divinity-scholarships promised by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,provision would be made for students who might be unable to afford the very moderate expense above detailed; and the Council indulge an ardent hope that the College will eventually be found productive of a due supply of men qualified to fill the several departments which may require an enlarged and elevated measure of knowledge, with equal honour and advantage to themselves and the community to which they belong. 4 x |