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Donnelly </name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc04-10"> <body> <div1 type="minutes"> <pb id="unc04-10-p01" n="263"/> <head> <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board of Trustees</name> Minutes, July 18, 1834 [Containing Discussion of Modifying Instruction Methods and Standards of Scholarship] </head> <opener> <dateline rend="center">Executive Office<lb/><date>18<hi rend="sup">th</hi> July 1834 — </date></dateline> </opener> <p>At a meeting of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization" rend="yes">Trustees</name> of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization" rend="yes">University</name> at the Executive Office in the City of <name key="name0000934" reg="Raleigh, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Raleigh</name>, called by the President of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> on the 18<hi rend="sup">th</hi> day of July A:D 1834 -</p> <list rend="center"> <head rend="normal">present</head> <item>His Excy <hi rend="underscore">     </hi><name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">D. L. Swain</name> Pres<hi rend="sup">t</hi></item> <item> <name key="pn0003106" reg="Iredell, James" type="person" rend="yes">James Iredell</name> </item> <item> <name key="pn0001074" reg="Manley, Charles" type="person">Charles Manly</name> </item> <item> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">William S. Mhoon</name> </item> <item>D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0001165" reg="McPheeters, William" type="person">William M<hi rend="sup">c</hi>Pheeters</name></item> <item> <name key="pn0001487" reg="Saunders, Romulus Mitchell" type="person" rend="yes">R. M. Saunders</name> </item> <item> <name key="pn0003200" reg="Seawell, Henry" type="person">Henry Seawell</name> </item> </list> <p>D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0001165" reg="McPheeters, William" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">c</hi>Pheeters</name> submitted the following</p> <div2> <head>Report.</head> <p>The Committee appointed at the last annual meeting of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> to consider in conjunction with the Professors of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">College</name> the propriety of increasing the amount of study & scholarship at present required of Candidates for admission into the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">Institution</name>.</p> <p>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 <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">College</name> & 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 <pb id="unc04-10-p02" n="264"/> referred to their consideration and aided by written communications received from the President & Professors beg leave to recommend to the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> the adoption of the following</p> <div3> <head>Resolutions.</head> <p>1. Resolved that the quantity of preparatory of study for admission into the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> 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 (<name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Barnard's</name> or <name key="x" reg="yes" type="person" rend="">Adams'</name>) & <name key="pn0003256" reg="Young, John Radford" type="person" rend="yes">Young's</name> Algebra to simple equations</p> <p>In the Classics, <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Jacobs'</name> Greek reader, the whole of the prose or graca minora & the latter part of <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Jacob's</name> Greek Reader the whole of <name key="pn0001711" reg="Virgil" type="person">Virgil</name>, and <name key="pn0000314" reg="Cicero, Marcus Tullius" type="person" rend="yes">Cicero's</name> select Orations except the Philippics.</p> <p>2. Resolved that the several members of the Faculty give instruction & hear recitations on the various branches of study & education taught in the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> as follows.</p> <p>President <name key="pn0000268" reg="Caldwell, Joseph" type="person" rend="yes">Caldwell</name> to hear, each week (if his health permit, & if not Professor <name key="pn0000033" reg="Anderson, Walker" type="person" rend="yes">Anderson</name> to hear for him) three <table cols="2" rows="4"> <row> <cell>Recitations <hi rend="underscore">                       </hi></cell> <cell>3.</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Prof<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000033" reg="Anderson, Walker" type="person">Anderson</name>.    .    .    .    .    .   .   </cell> <cell>6</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Prof. <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person" rend="yes">Mitchell</name>.    .    .    .    .    .   .   </cell> <cell>8</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Prof<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000783" reg="Hooper, William (b. 1792)" type="person">Hooper</name>.    .    .    .    .    .   .   </cell> <cell>8</cell> </row> </table> </p> <pb id="unc04-10-p03" n="265"/> <p> <table cols="2" rows="3"> <row> <cell>Prof. <name key="pn0001360" reg="Phillips, James" type="person" rend="yes">Phillips</name>.    .    .    .    .    .    </cell> <cell>8</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Three Tutors, each 9.                       </cell> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">27</hi> </cell> </row> <row> <cell/> <cell>60</cell> </row> </table> </p> <p>3. Resolved that for the next Session there be three Tutors whose salaries & duties shall be as heretofore prescribed and that President <name key="pn0000268" reg="Caldwell, Joseph" type="person">Caldwell</name> or in his absence Prof<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person"> Mitchell</name> be authorized & requested to make said appointments without delay.</p> <p>4. Resolved that from & after the 1<hi rend="sup">st</hi> day of January 1835 there be three Tutors, one of whom shall reside in each of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">College</name> 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 <name key="name0000224" reg="Committee of Appointments, Board of Trustees" type="organization" rend="yes">Committee of Appointments</name> are requested, after public notice, to fill these offices.</p> <p>5. Resolved that the President & Professors of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> be requested to present to the next Annual Meeting of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board of Trustees</name> in Dec<hi rend="sup">r</hi> 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.</p> <p>6. Resolved that in the present <pb id="unc04-10-p04" n="266"/>precarious state of the funds of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">Institution</name> it is not expedient to take steps for the erection of a Building for the two Literary Societies & for Professor's Offices.</p> </div3> </div2> <div2> <p>The foregoing report was read & concurred in & the Resolution adopted.</p> <p>On motion of M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Iredell</p> <p rend="center">Resolved</p> <p>That the said Committee be further directed to report to the next Annual Meeting of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> 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. </p> </div2> </div1> <closer> <salute rend="right">Board Adjourned<lb/>Sin die </salute> <signed rend="left"><name key="pn0001074" reg="Manley, Charles" type="person">Chas. 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