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Title:
Board of Trustees Minutes, July 18, 1834 [Containing Discussion
of Modifying Instruction Methods and Standards of Scholarship]:
Electronic Edition.
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees
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2007
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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, July 18, 1834 [Containing
Discussion of Modifying Instruction Methods and Standards of
Scholarship]
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees
Description: 4 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 40001 (University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Board of
Trustees Minutes, July 18, 1834 [Containing Discussion of Modifying
Instruction Methods and Standards of Scholarship]
Page 263
Executive Office
18th July 1834 —
18th July 1834 —
At a meeting of the Trustees of the University at the Executive Office in the City of Raleigh,
called by the President of the Board on the 18th day of July
A:D 1834 -
present
- His Excy
D. L.
Swain
Prest
James Iredell
Charles Manly
William S. Mhoon
Dr William McPheeters
R. M. Saunders
Henry Seawell
Dr
McPheeters
submitted the following
submitted the followingReport.
The Committee appointed at the last annual meeting of the Board to consider in conjunction with the Professors of the College the propriety of increasing the amount of study
& scholarship at present required of Candidates for admission into
the Institution.
And also to inquire whether certain modifications might not be adopted in
regard to the duties of the Faculty with a view to the better government of
the College & a more equal distribution
of labor among the Professors & Tutors in the instruction of the
classes & for other purposes — report that they have
duly attended to the several subjects
Page 264
referred to their consideration and aided by written communications received
from the President & Professors beg leave to recommend to the Board the adoption of the following
Page 264
Resolutions.
1. Resolved that the quantity of preparatory of study for admission into
the University be increased & that
from & after the next Annual Commencement in June 1835, in
addition to the present list, Candidates for admission be required to
pass an approved examination on the following Books. In Mathematics, the
whole of Arithmetic (Barnard's or Adams') & Young's
Algebra to simple equations
Algebra to simple equationsIn the Classics, Jacobs' Greek reader, the whole of the prose or graca minora
& the latter part of Jacob's Greek Reader the whole of Virgil, and Cicero's select Orations except the
Philippics.
2. Resolved that the several members of the Faculty give instruction
& hear recitations on the various branches of study &
education taught in the University as follows.
President Caldwell
to hear, each week (if his health permit,
& if not Professor Anderson
to hear for him) three
to hear, each week (if his health permit,
& if not Professor Anderson
to hear for him) three
| Recitations | 3. |
| Profr
Anderson
.
.
. .
.
. . |
6 |
| Prof. Mitchell
.
.
. .
.
. . |
8 |
| Profr
Hooper
.
.
. .
.
. . |
8 |
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| Prof. Phillips
.
.
. .
.
. |
8 |
| Three Tutors, each 9. | 27 |
| 60 |
3. Resolved that for the next Session there be three Tutors whose
salaries & duties shall be as heretofore prescribed and that
President Caldwell
or in his absence Profr
Mitchell
be authorized & requested to make said
appointments without delay.
or in his absence Profr
Mitchell
be authorized & requested to make said
appointments without delay.4. Resolved that from & after the 1st day of
January 1835 there be three Tutors, one of whom shall reside in each of
the College buildings, and they be entitled
to receive each a salary of $600. That one of these be styled
the Tutor of Ancient & Modern Languages — a second
Tutor of Ancient Languages, and the third, Tutor of Mathematics. And the
Committee of Appointments are
requested, after public notice, to fill these offices.
5. Resolved that the President & Professors of the University be requested to present to the
next Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees
in Decr next such alterations in the plan of
education & such improvements in the general method of
conducting & governing public institutions of learning as their
own experience & their acquaintance with the practice
& arrangements of other colleges may suggest.
6. Resolved that in the present
Page 266
precarious
state of the funds of the Institution it is not expedient to take
steps for the erection of a Building for the two Literary Societies
& for Professor's Offices.
Page 266
The foregoing report was read & concurred in & the
Resolution adopted.
On motion of Mr Iredell
Resolved
That the said Committee be further directed to report to the next Annual
Meeting of the Board the length of time that each Professor
is engaged in hearing the recitation of each class and that the Secretary
correspond with some of the Principal Colleges for the purpose of
ascertaining the duties of their officers & the time devoted to
recitations & lecturing.
Board Adjourned
Sin die
Chas.
Manly
Secty: