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 Tevr,e-Filius. N �:ounders benefac't-ion will grow too diffufive, and are wiI!'ng to check the torrent, officteffi'on, wh:cl is like to pcu? in upcn tl:em. Dr. WxL�,w:'.o for his meekneff bears the name of 3;ofes, l.as tecn two or three years in pofl'effiBn the coege, and his eminent vobity the fitute is difpmd with, aud he uow holds them together. . Mlvius, un this, id he would give his vote, tlnt every fiior-feor in the college have a hing tcked to his fiqkfii for which gave this ron, that .e mi2h, not e obliged to eo?,ny #h a arcel o youn ufirt maers. Under this hd, I wtl'menfion another con'up- tion in the univerfities, which clogs the fucceffin of col%es, and is grown very enormous. When  ccl!he-lvb[z falls, the perfon chofen to fucceed (w}o is ufealy the fiior-feYom of the college, if he reruns it, the utxt fiaior) is allowed a year fr (as it i .-u.a  th eM of which he muk refi either his living or his feofiip, as he thinks Ee; but, at prefenr, feveral perfons make ufe of this indulgence to pocket up a little money: they accept of livi:gs, which they do not intend t6 keep aty long than one yr; wten, having received the re,enues of t,at year, they throw it up to the next, who prhaps does the fame. I have heard that, a certain college in Oxro, o, it was a common thing er a l& ing to defccnd in this manner from the fenior fel;o= to the junior of fll5 every one had a yr's grace, and a yr's income, till it came down to the ]a. who was obliged m &rye it. But this was taken notice of, and flopt in that college. in other colleges it is flill pra&ifed i Dr. Busvo ofSt. Jmm's has kt a bring in this manner almo a vr, and &figns ortly to throw it up; unlefs the c6}lege will di<fe with his holding it with his re!- 1owjhip

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