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    en trusted with your education : whereas here , instead of being treated as children , and having every thing managed for you , you make a step , as it were , into the world , and are , to a

    certain degree , entrusted with the management of yourselves : your friends in this way making the experiment , how far you are qualified for being afterwards left more entirely to vour own direction . On the use which

    you make of this privilege will depend its continuance and further extension . If abused , it may be necessary for vour parents or other friends to recal it ; particularly with regard to the article of expense .

    " To prevent the possibility of one particular source of abuse , in this respect , the trustees have determined to follow in future the salutaiy rule of both our Universities , viz . to prohibit all credit with the trades-people of the

    city , unless with the previous knowiecfge , and consent of the tutors . They ihiuk it proper that both you and your friends should be explicitly informed of this . ; and they assure themselves that it will meet with their cordial

    approbation an 4 concurrence . "At the same time your tutors desire me expressly to state to this assembly , that , while these arrangements are adopted by the trustees as a necessary measure of precaution ^ there has

    been nothing morally wrong ; among you that they have observed or even suspect : on the contrary , they cheerfully bear , testimony to your general good behaviour . And we trust that you will ajl , my young friends , in a

    succeeding session , join to the natural vivacity q £ youth , the thought and manliness of those who feel that they are approaching the period of active usefulness ; and exemplify in all your future conduct the truth of the uropoaitjon so well supported , by your fellowstudent , ^ t . hat mental cultivation has

    a powerful influence to promote good Morals" in every individual among you " . For myself , it is always much roore agreeable to me to commend than to censure , to encourage than to caution pr admonish . And I assure y ° , thai ; when I consider , trhe great timber of ; you wh . o jhave no ^ jvr for . the rst tira A been t \ ipf ftuWic iy 1 examined , t ^^; fe ^ ft extrfeinety ^ pjeased ivith ' ^ i /^ WiPtrt ^ s week ' s business * t > X liKi ! v , i : . . 1 . . : ?/ •¦ ' . ; i l . '• ;* - ; ' ' " ' >

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    only wish we could have prevaUe 4 with some of you to speak more distinctly ; am ] I am sorry to hear from your tutors a complaint of a t . 6 genera ! inattention , through the whole of the session , to the article of elocution . The importance of a distinct and audible utterance to persons of every rank is so obvious , that I should have

    expected it would bean object of prim $ ambition , and that you would have endeavoured to avail yourselves of tlwe judicious directions which' I had the

    honour to convey to you last year from rriy friend l ) r . Thomson ; " and in this case I should have had better encouragement to add to them a useful observation lately pointed out to me , by another friend , in Mr . Jones ' s Life

    of Bishop Home . The observation is this ; " Every speaker wishes to be understood as well as . heard ; but many are deficient m this respect for want of a distinct articulation , which might easily be acquired if they would attend to a simple rule , without the observance of which no man ' s delivery can be perfect . It is well known that

    apiece of writing may be understood if all the vowels be omitted ; but if the vowels are set 4 own , and the consonants are outfitted , nothing can be made of it . It is the same in speaking as in writing- the vowels make a noise , but they discriminate nothing . Many speakers think that they are h-eard if they bellow them out ; ancl so they are , but they are not understood : because the discrimination of

    words depends upon a distinct articulation of their consonants ; for want of considering which many speakers spend their breath to little effect . The late Bishop of Peterborough , l } r . HinchJifYe , was one of the iriopt pleasing preachers of his time . His

    melodious voice was the gift of nature , and he spoke with the accent of a man of sense ; but it Was remarkable , anc } tp those who did not know the cause , mysterious , that there Was not a corner of the church in which he could not be heard distinctly . By watching him attentively I perceived that'it was an invariable rule with him to do full justice to every consonant , [ knowing tHat the vowels would be , suf ^' td ' spcajt 1 them ^] ves : ' ^ A ! nd * thlfs ' ' ^ ' l ^ c anift ¦ ( the surest and Heare ^ t of Weakers ^ hi ? enunciation waft ; rigrfti ^ i a « 4 never ^ ppoi ^ ed ; ^ c ; ^^^ ^ & ;

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    Intelligence . —Manchester College 9 York . 4 iq

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/47/