Desirous to manifest our solicitude for the prosperity of the institution, over which, you preside, with so much honour to yourself and advantage to the Publick; we request you to accept, for the use of the Philosophical Class, a quadrant, the best we could procure, but not the most valuable gift we could wish to present.

Our sex can never be indifferent to the promotion of Science, connected, as it is, with the virtues that impart civility to manners, and refinement to life. Nor can we suppress the emotions of (we hope) an honest pride, at the reflection, that our native country boasts a seminary where, by the proper extension of Legislative patronage, it's ingenuous youth might be taught to emulate the worth of their fathers; where, their minds might be enlightened with knowledge, and their hearts impressed with a love of justice, morality, and religion; where, they might learn to embellish the manly and patriotic endowments which constitute strength of character, and qualify men to cherish "the mountain nymph, sweet liberty," with all the arts that polish, all the charities that sweeten, the intercourse of social life.