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242 where very few youth can be detained for a 'long period at infant unen- dowed colleges, where they must wholly maintain themselves at a consid- erable expence, and where the genius seems not only to be sooner ripe, but where there is also a more immediate demand, and a more easy settle- ment to be obtained, in all the ways of genteel employment, for Young Men of Parts, than there is in European Countries. N. B. The utmost care will be taken for a faithful execution of this plan in all its parts. The time for admitting Freshmen in the youngest philosophy class is May 75, according to the plan. But those who necessarily apply later in the first year will obtain Admission, provided it appears upon examination that they are sufficiently grounded in the parts laid down in the plan, previous to the date of such their admission ; which facts may always be known from inspection, together with the proficiency made by the class which they are to join. The Sentiments of Men of Learning will be thankfully received for perfecting the whole ; and upon a candid applica- tion to any of the professors, they will endeavor to explain and remove any difficulties that may occur to any persons concerning it. The plan was next published in the American Magazine, of which Mr. Smith was Editor, in its last number, October, 1758 ; and the year following he included it in the Appendix to his Discourses on Several Public Occasions during the War in America, published in London 1759, with an account of the College and Academy, which received a second edition, Lon- don, 1762, and which was dedicated to the Proprietaries, Thomas Penn and Richard Penn ; and these were repeated in the edition of his Works published in Philadelphia in 1803. In the Ameri- can Magazine he supplemented what has already been quoted from his pen on the Collegiate course, by an account of the Academy proper, from which we learn of its conduct and its tuition. This article entire will be found in the Appendix, and the narrative merits attention. In the account of the College and Academy in the edition of the Discourses, London, 1759, the foregoing plan is included with the addition of a short paragraph inserted in the middle of the first section, namely : Besides this rostrum, which is in their private school, there is also a large stage or oratory erected in the College hall, where the Speakers appear on all public occasions, before as many of the inhabitants as please to attend.