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Title: Board of Trustees Minutes, December 19, 1818 [Containing the Plans of Education for the Preparatory School and the College]: Electronic Edition.
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 18K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2005-12-06, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Records of the Board of Trustees of the University
of North Carolina (#40001), University Archives, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Board of Trustees Minutes, December 19, 1818 [Containing the Plans of Education for the Preparatory School and the College]
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees
Description: 7 pages, 7 page images
Note:
Call number 40001 (University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
DocSouth staff created a 600 dpi uncompressed TIFF file for each image. The TIFF images were then saved as JPEG images at 100 dpi for web access.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
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Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Board of Trustees Minutes, December 19, 1818 [Containing the Plans of Education for the Preparatory School and the College]
Page 176
December 19th A.D. 1818
The Board met according to adjournment when were present
-
James
Mebane Esqr President pro tem by special
deputation from His Excellency the Governor &c
Thomas Love
Revd Wm McPheeters
Revd Doctor Joseph Caldwell
5. John Haywood
William Polk
Simmons I. Baker
Bartlett Yancey
John Winslow
10. Henry Seawell
Archibald D. Murphey
Henry Potter
13. Robert Williams (Raleigh)
The memorial of John
Hogg and Doctor Nathaniel Hill Executer and Devisee of Thomas Jennings
decd was received and read whereupon it was
Resolved that the prayer of the politicians be not granted, but that such should
be instituted &c.
Page 177
Mr
Murphey from the committee appointed to investigate the propriety of
building at the University a Laboratory & made a report;
which being read was ordered to lie upon the table for further consideration.
Ordered that Messrs
Polk, Seawell, &
Murphey be
appointed a committee to enquire into the right and propriety of selling Mr
Gerrards service right of land and the land warrants
belonging to the Trustees, and to make a report thereon.
Be it ordained by the Trustees of the University of North Carolina; and
it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same; that the following plan of
education shall be adopted for the preparatory school and College in the University of this State for the future tenet.
For the preparatory School
Page 178
- 1. Latin Grammar
2. Corderius or Sacra historia
3. Asops fables. 25.
4. Selectæ veteri.
5. Cornelius Nepos or Viri Romæ
6. Mairs introduction
7. Cæsari Commentarius
8. Prosody.
9. Ovidi editio expurgatæ.
10. Virgil, Bucolics & Six books of Æneid
11. Greek Grammar.
12. St Johns
Gospel and acts of the Apostles in Greek.13. Græca Minora to Lucians Dialogues.
College
- Freshman Class. First Session.
- 14. Sallust.
15. Adams' antiquities.
16. Græca minora continued.
Page 179
- 17. Elements of anticent & modern geography
18. Arithmetick.
19. Algebra.
20. English grammar.
21. Composition — Meso's Declamation.
Second Session
- 22. Virgil
— georgicks — Ciceros Orations
23. Græca Majora, First Volume.
24. Algebra continued
25. Adams' antiquities — English grammar composition, Declamation, Theses.
Sophomore Class.
First Session
- 26. Græca Majora continued, First Volume
27. Horace.
28. Algebra continued
29. Geometry.
30. Theses, Composition, Declamation.
Page 180
- Second Session
- 31. Horace
continued
32. Homers Iliad.
33. Geometry continued
34. Geography.
35. Composition, Declamation.
Junior Sophisters
First Class
- 36. Plane Trigonometry
37. Logarithms.
38. Mensuration of heights & distances.
39. Surveying.
40. Spherical Trigonometry.
41. Classicks, Composition, Declamation
Second Session
- 42. Navigation
43. Conick Sections
44. Fluxions.
45. Natural philosophy.
46. Classicks, Composition; Declamation.
Page 181
- Senior Class.
First Session
- 47. Chemistry.
48. Mineralogy.
49. Geology.
50. Philosophy of natural history.
51. Moral philosophy.
52. Stuarts Essay on the progress of the moral and ethical Sciences.
53. Logick.
54. Natural philosophy continued
55. Playfairs
Essay on the progress of the
mathematical and physical Sciences.56. Astronomy.
57. Classicks, English grammar, Composition Declamation.
Second Session
- 58. Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology continued
59. Rhetorick.
60. Chronology.
Page 182
- 61. Metaphysicks.
62. Classicks, Composition, Declamation.
The Board then adjourned until the 22d instant