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errors which I was little prepared to discover in the conduct of " A Friend to the permanence of Unitarian Dissent j" and which 1 expected would long before this have been noticed by some of your correspondents . I was not aware that all . sense of obligation to our venerable Alma Mater would
cease with the revolution of one or two years . I have eagerly perused every number of your Repository since May , with the expectation of rinding " A tribute of Gratitude in Defence of Glasgow College , " from some of those gentlemen whom we are proud to class amongst the brightest ornaments of our cause . I can
wait no longer ; and with your permission sh ill lay before your reader * some account of the Advantages of an Education at the University of Glasgow , in reply to a letter entitled the " Necessity of a Dissenting Education for Lav Dissenters . *'
At Glasgow , a Student has an op * portunity of acquiring a most extensive knowledge on all subjects ; for there are Professors of every important branch of science * Humanity . Greek .
Logic and Rhetoric . Mathematics and Geograph y * Chemistry . Moral Philosophy and Political Natural Philosophy . { Economy Practical Astronomy . Divinity .
Oriental Languages . Ecclesiastical History * Natural History . Anatomy and Botany * . Surgery . Midwifer }' . Materia Medica *
Medicine . Civil Law . particular , without acquiring ft degree of knowledge ..- * ' of which he will continue to reap the fruits as long as he lives ;*'
The Professors of Humanity and Gre&k , divide their pupils into two classes 5 viz . Seniores and Juniores . The Greek classes , and the junior Latin meet twice a day : the senior Latin three times . The junior Latin students are engaged in reading Virf ...
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Advantage * of an Education at the Untveritty of Glasgow * & ? 3
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? enter " but in order to keep Unitarian youths in the principles which the y have received froai their parents and dissecting schools , is it necessary that their education should be completed at some Dissenting Academy ? 1 heartily agree with your correspondent in saying , " that a young mm who has been led through such a course , " as that pursued at York Dislenting Academy , " with proper attention on his own part , will have
acquired an extent and variety of knowledge , and a general enl irgement of mind , of which he will continue to reap the fruits as long as he lives : " but I cannot say the same of the account he has given of the advantages of an education at the University of Glasgow . In fact he has
overlooked all the advantages , and only wandered to the defects of this justly celebrated seminary . He has attempted to recommend the Dissentjtfg Academy at the expense of an institution , which it seems he has yet to learn , stands pre-eminent for its spirit of independence , and respect to tbft principles of dissent . These are
JOHN WALKER , JOHN YOUNG , GEORGE JARDINE , JAMES MILLAR , ROBjEftT CLEGHORN , * JAMES MYLNJE , WILLIAM MEIKLEHAM , JAMES COUPER , STEVENSON M'GILL , PATRICK CUMIN , f WILLIAM MACTURK , LOCKHART MUIKHJttAD , JAMES JEFFHAY , JOHN BURNS , JAMEJS TONERS , RICHARD fyriLLER , * RO&ERT FREER , , ROBERT DAVIDSON ,
It is imneeessary to sl d ^ , that trough the ' care and abilities of the professolrB , i > o young man , except he oe singularly idle * can attend any of these claafcefc , —the gowned classes J in
* Lecturer . t Prpfoior Onmh * has long- been pre-*^ d by ; indisposition frogi discharging « £ dttttea of £ teachef . Dr . Qayip Gihb , Lf . 5 * * i * l FdultfoJ who has been ap ~ * j"J « Tiwi successor , uow officiate * U bis * Tk * © tttU ^ u # f tfttii ami Cwk ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/23/
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