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of the last-mentioned , there are at present fifteen actual pastors , seven retired , in the town ; fourteen actual pastors , and seven retired , in the country ; total forty-three . For the election of the professors of the AcadSmie , the Compagnie des Pasteurs is united with the Senatus Academicus , or whole body of the professors , and is them called the Compagnie Acadimique ; this is the legislative council for college affairs , and the Senatus Academicus the executive .
14 tb . Was present at the distribution of the prizes in the Lancasterian school in the parish of San Gervais . There are two hundred boys in the school ; they were all neatly dressed , and seemed well pleased with their rewards . The gentleman who presided was M . Heyer , president of the Cornmission for the Inspection of the Schools of the Canton . Besides this , there is another boys school in the parish of Saint Antoine , and also one
school for the girls . This may appear a very inadequate provision for the education of the poor children in a town of 27 , 000 inhabitants ; but it must be considered how very small , comparatively speaking , the number of poor people at Geneva is—how very few parents there are who cannot afford to give their children a better education than what such schools as these profess to supply .
Sunday , 15 tb . Heard M . Galland at nine in the morning . I did not much like him ; the art de la chaire was too evident . At two o ' clock I heard M . Martin , He is one of the most esteemed preachers at Geneva , and certainly his style and manner are very striking and impressive ; but they appear to me to be characterized rather by force than by dignity or persuasiveness . There was a shaking of the head , and a stretching out of the hands , which were not in good taste . The same matter ( and the matter was good ) would have produced a better effect had it been delivered in a quieter and gentler style .
16 th . This was a high day at Geneva , it being the termination both of the Collegiate and the Academical year . At one o ' clock the professors of the Acadbmie , and the regents or masters of the Coll&ge , * the first syndic or chief officer , and the smaller council of the canton , with many of the pastors and ministers , entered the cathedral church with the rolling of drums and the
blowing of trumpets , and occupied their appointed seats , a large concourse of strangers having already taken possession of those which were not wanted for persons in authority . Professor Chenevi&re , the rector ,- )* then , opened the business of the day by a short prayer , and by an address to the boys of the College ; after which , those of them who were prize-men came forward , each as he was called , and received their medals from the hands of the first
syndic . This interesting ceremony lasted a considerable time . After it was over , Professor Chenevi £ re read a long report of all the work which had been done in the literary world of Geneva during the coarse of the last year , comprehending not only an account of the lectures which had been given by the professors , and the instructions of the regents of the College , but noticing all the literary and scientific works which had been published in the city . This was followed , according to ancient custom , by a discourse on law : the
* The word Colttge , m France and Switzerland , does not signify what College does in England . It corresponds most exactly to what we should call a Grammar School , or a High School . The higher institution is the Acaddmie ,- and the theological students are generally called students of the Auditoire , as distinguished from those of Law , Philosophy , and Belles Lettres . t It is the business of the rector to superintend the public instruction , both that of the Collkge and that of the AcuddnUe . He is elected every two years .
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310 Journal of a Tour on the Continent ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/14/
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