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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE OPENING OF KING'S COLLEGE.

May 31, 1754.

ADVERTISEMENT.

To such Parents as have now (or expect to have) children prepared to be educated in the College of New York.

I. AS the Gentlemen who are appointed by the Assembly, to be Trustees of the intended Seminary or College of New York, have thought fit to appoint me to take Charge of it, and have concluded to set up a Course of Tuition in the learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences; They have judged it advisable, that I should publish this Advertisement, to inform such as have Children ready for a College Education, that it is proposed to begin Tuition upon the first Day of July next, at the Vestry Room in the new School House, adjoining to Trinity Church in New York, which the Gentlemen of the Vestry are so good as to favour them with the Use of in the Interim, till a convenient Place may be built.

II. The lowest Qualifications they have judged requisite, in order to Admission into the said College, are as follows, viz.: That they be able to read well, and write a good legible Hand; and that they be well versed in the Five first Rules in Arithmetic, i. e. as far as Division and Reduction; and as to Latin and Greek, That they have a good Knowledge in the Grammars, and be able to make grammatical Latin, and both in construing and parsing, to give a good Account of two or three of the first Orations of Tully, and of the first Books of Virgil 's AZneid, and some of the first Chapters of the Gospel of St John, in Greek. In these Books therefore they may expect to be examined.; but higher Qualifications must hereafter be expected: and if there be any of the higher Classes in any College, or under private Instruction, that incline to come hither, they may expect Admission to proportionably higher classes here.

III. And that People may be the better satisfied in sending their Children for Education to this College, it is to be understood, that as to Religion, there is no Intention to impose on the Scholars, the peculiar Tenets of any particular Sect of Christians; but to inculcate upon their tender minds, the great Principles of Christianity and Morality, in which true Christians of each Denomination are generally agreed. And as to