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Secretaries at Manchester , before the first day of May : they will be decided upon at the York Annual Meeting of Trustees on the last Wednesday in June , when such candidates will be preferred , as , from their testimonials , appear to be most eligible . The Divinity Students on the Foundation ^ ' hape every expense of lectures , board , mid lodging , defrayed for
them . In order to secure , as far as is possible , the respectability of the Students for the Ministry , with regard to character and literary attainments , it is a rule of this Institution , " That no candidate shall be admitted on the Foundation , but on the recommendation of three Protestant
Dissenting Ministers , residing in the neighbourhood where he lives , who shall certify , that at the commencement of his course he will have attained the full age of sixteen ; that on their personal examination , his moral character , natural
endowments , and classical proficiency , are found to be such as to qualify him for becoming a Student for the ministry ; and that the profession is the object of his own voluntary choice . His ability to read Homer and Horace will be considered
as essential to his admission . " It is further determined , " That no candidate shall be eligible as a Divinity Student on the Foundation , unless he be acquainted with the practical Rules of Arithmetic , as far as Vulgar and Decimal Fractions , as usually taught in schools : and unless the same be certified by three Dissenting Ministers , residing in the neighbourhood iu which the candidate lives . "
The Committee beg leave again to call the attention of the public to the advantages which this Institution offers , for the completion of a course of liberal P lication . Between the ordinary close of a school
wl ucution , an ( j j ) ie commencement of studies strictly professional , or of the occupations of civil and active life , an in terval occurs during which it is of the utmost importance to the future character that the mind be cultivated with
wore enlarged and varied knowledge than ® attainable at school , and be guarded y a superintending discipline , from the danger of having its moral principles corrupted .
With this view , the Trustees , in purs g their primary object , the Education U Assenting Ministers , have endeavoured ) render the Institution at the same tlnHt . subservient to the liberal education 0 youth in general , without distinction party or religious denomination , and ^ -xempt from every political tes t and doclri nal subscription . The course of induction for the Christian Ministry com-
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prehends five years ; but it is so arranged , that , with the sipgle exception of the study of Hebrew , the whole course dating the first three years is equally suitable for Lay Students . In the first year , the Students are instructed in the Greek and Latin Classics .
in Ancient History , and in Latin and English Composition ; in the Elements of Praaie Geometry , Algebra , and Trigonometry . In the second year , they proceed in the Greek and Latin Classics , and in the practice of Composition in English and Latin ; and read a course of Modern
History , in pursuing which their attention is particularly directed to the History and Principles of the English Constitution . They are instructed in the Geometry of Solids ; of the Conic Sections , and of the Sphere ; and in the higher parts of Algebra . Lectures are also given on the Philosophy of the Mind , on Ethicsj and the Elements of Political Science .
Iu the third year , they are further instructed in the Greek and Latin Classics , and in the Belles Lettres : in some of the higher branches of Mathematics and the Newtonian System of Physical
Astronomy . Lectures are also delivered on Logic : and on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion . An extensive course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry forms a part of the business both of the second and third
Sessions . The Committee have engaged a Gentleman of considerable experience as a teacher of Elocution , to spend a month in the College during the present Session , for the purpose of assisting the Students with his instructions .
The Rev . Charles Wellbeloved , Theological Tutor , and the Rev . John Kknkick , M . A ., Classical Tutor , reside near the buildings , in which the Students are lodged and boarded . The Rev . WTukner , M . A ., Mathematical Tutor , resides in the College with his family , and undertakes the charge of the domestic establishment .
The terms for Lay Stndents are 100 guineas per annum , whicU sum defrays the expense of board and lodging , and every other charge connected with a residence in the College . Letters on the subject of this
Institution , may be addressed to George William Wood , Esq ., Treasurer , Manchester , or the Rev . William Turner , Visitor , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , by whom , or by any of the Deputy-Trea . surers , Subscriptions and Donations are received . JOSEPH STRUTT , President . Manchester , January 17 , 1822 ,
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Intelligence <~ -Report of Manchester College , York . 281
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/59/
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