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Rh to this Seminary, if they could be lodged and boarded in a Collegiate Way, under the immediate Care and Inspection of the Professors and Masters ; by which it was hoped the Youth would make greater Proficiency in their Studies, and the Expence be considerably less. The Trustees do, therefore, now give Notice, that a New Building is completely finished as a Wing to the College, capable of accomodating about Sixty Students, and that the Rev Mr EBENEZER KINNERSLEY, one of the Professors, a Gentleman of regular and exemplary Life, hath under- taken the particular Management and Stewardship of the same. A Num- ber of the Senior Students and Scholars are now entered into this Building ; and Parents residing at a Distance are hereby acquainted that their Children, being ten or eleven Years of Age, or upwards will be admitted into it, and the Greatest Care taken of their Health, Morals and Education. For, besides the general Inspection committed to Mr Kinnersley, the Trustees visit every Month ; the Provost, Vice Provost, and Professors will also take their weekly Turns in Visiting ; and the Ushers of the several Schools lodge and board with the Youth in the said Building, to preserve the greater Decorum and Order. The plentiful and commodious Market, with which this City is blest, will give an opportunity of providing every Thing good in its Kind ; and as a regular Account of the whole will be kept by Mr Kinnersley and (after Examination by the Trustees or Masters) proportioned Quarterly among the Youth, without any other Charge than the prime Cost of Provisions and Firewood, with the stated Fees to the Steward and Servants, it is hoped that the Youth will be accomodated in the most easy and reasonable Terms. But if there should be, nevertheless, any Parents at a Distance, who may have any Person in Town, with whom they would particularly chuse to entrust their Children as private Lodgers, it is not intended, by this public Plan, to prevent such Persons from following their own inclination in this Respect ; the Trustees being ever desirous so to manage the Institution, as that the greatest Good may be done thereby. Some questions arising upon the powers and duties of Mr Kinnersley in this government of the collegiate family he solicited from the Trustees an explanation and definition of these, and at their meeting of 19 November, 1765, they think it necessary in general to declare, that as they cannot, without further Trial, frame Rules that may provide against all possible cases, it was their Intention to give Mr Kinnersley all the Powers necessary for pre- serving good Order among the Youth in the said Buildings ; and that he may and ought in ordinary Cases to exercise such Discretionary Authority as a Father would in the government of his own Family ; and in difficult cases to take the Advice and Assistance of the Faculty of Masters, or to consult the Trustees when the case may require it.