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3 18 UnitariaTir Academy at York .
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on it alone for support , " being urged besides by the objections which were made against the institution being continued in a populous commercial town ( objections which lay equally against Birmingham , which had been proposed as in several other respects desirable ) , made an application to the Rev . Charles Wellbeloved < r a gentleman in the full vigour of life ^ accustomed ' to the education of youth , and highly esteemed for his rational piety , sound judgment , and amiable manners , * " to take the ditection of the Institution at York , the place of his residence ; iC
a situation , upon the whole ^ as favourable as can reasonably be expected . Though a considerable city , itis 3 in a great measure , free from the dissipation and vice which are inseparable from the close population and growing riches of a commercial district ; and though the number of Dissenters in it is small , the dissenting interest has always been rendered truly respectable by the talents and character of its ministers /'
But the same difficulties which occurred at Manchester still continue to be felt at York . The funds of the institution are not sufficient to supply an adequate number of instructors . Though the Trustees were very fortunate in obtaining for Mr . Wellbeloved the able assistance of Mr . Kerr of Glasgow , a gentleman who had enjoyed the unprecedented honour of carrying off the first prize through all the classes which compose the course of education in that celebrated university , and whose lectures , in the classical and mathematical departments , are highly acceptable to a set of as regular and diligent youths as ever , probably , composed a society of this nature , yet it is obvious that there must still rest upon the principal Tutor , a weight of business , which , but to mention , will convince any reasonable person that it cannot be executed with satisfaction to himself , by any single person who is at the same time engaged to perform the various duties of a Minister .
The course of study for young rneu designed for the Ministry comprehends five years : in the first of which , besides continuing their classical , and commencing their mathematical Studies fthe course of which is three years ) under the direction of Mr . Kerr , th £ y begin the study of the Hebrew language , the elements of which when they have acquired , they join a class formed of all the divinity-students , in which a regular course is pursued through both the Old and New' Testaments , in their original languages ; so that the whole of the scriptures are critically read by each student . From the beginning , also , the students are exercised in Latin and English composition , and the divinity-students , in their turn , conduct the devotions of the fa - * Committee's Report 4 th July , x 8 o ^ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/6/
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