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
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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
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
In 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
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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 Prof
r
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
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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.