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Rh which latter however, the Clerk failed to do, and thus deprived us of the pleasure of knowing the works of a College Library at that day. Professor Ewing's name first appeared in the Minutes of 22 November, 1758, when provision had to be made to supply Mr. Smith's place, who was then granted leave to depart for England : The President further acquainted the Trustees that Mr Ewing, late Professor and teacher of the Mathematics in the new College erected at Princeton in New Jersey, was represented to him as a Person capable of continuing Mr Smith's Lectures in the Philosophical Classes, and of instructing the Students in the several Branches of Knowledge alloted to Mr Smith, and that it was believed he would readily give his Assistance in the Academy till Mr Smith's return. The Trustees desired Mr Peters would immediately write to Mr Ewing to know if he would supply the Place of Mr Smith in the Philosophical Classes, and if he should accept, and be found capable of this service then to engage him on such Terms as could be agreed to, to be paid by Mr Smith out of his Salary. [And with further concern for the College, whose interests doubtless felt the depressing effects of all the political turmoil in which its head was involved,] The Professors were ordered to attend upon this occasion and desire respectively to give their assistance in their respective services to the Students under Mr Smith' s care and to Mr Ewing or whoever else should be got to supply his Place, and they with the utmost Cheerfulness, each for himself, declared Nothing should be wanting in their Power to serve the Students and likewise Mr Ewing or any other Gentleman who should be employed to do Mr. Smith's Duty. At this meeting attended Messrs. Peters, White, Cadwalader, Allen, Stedman, Maddox, P. Bond, M'Call, Mifflin, Inglis, T. Bond, Plumsted, Turner and Shippen. It was a grave moment, and called out a larger number than customary of the Trustees; two of whom, Maddox and Mifflin, were now to meet with them no more. At the following meeting, on 12 December, the President acquainted the Trustees that having wrote to Mr. Ewing, according to the Desire of the Trustees at the last Meeting he had been kind enough to come to Town, and had, by Way of Trial, assisted Mr Alison in reading the Lectures and giving the Instructions to the Students in the highest classes in the same Manner Mr. Smith used to do, and