Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-07-02
Second OfnnriinenI


aud Political Geography.
9. A school of Law and Police.
). school Ut National or Political Econo
my, and Law Of Nations.
IhId department.
I. A school Of Anatomy.
2. "A school of Surgery.
s. school Of Materia Medica and Pbar
macy.
a.. A school ofthe Theory aud Practice OF
Medicine.
5. A school Of Chemistry, in common with
the first d. paitment.
6. a school Of Obstetrics, &c.
/ The mode Uf instruction. in each Of the
schools, except those of Mathematics and Ana
tony, should be by regular and formal lee
lures, delivered chiefly from written notes,
win occasional familiar explanations when the
suoject Is of an experimental kind, or admits
OF any ready illustration, by diagrams, models,
specimens, or Instruments OF any kind.
I6. The senatus academicls shall elect
President annually, on the last Monday of
october: or rather let the members talks this
once In rotation for the term of one year, as
Is usual IN respect to the Office Of dean il the
medical faculties of several Universities. II
shall be the duty Of the President to preside
al meetings of that body, To convene its mem
bers, apd ~ carry its decisions and resolutions
into effect.
IL. Two thirds of the whole number Of
professors shall constitute a quorum of the
senatus academicus. This body shall have
Inc sole regulation of the acadenical opera
lions OF the University, and shall determine all
matters Of discipline. There are many sue
cessfui precedents ofihis disposition of acad
emo government II is reasonable, as we'll as
"sriui, since the professors, as body, are al
vpIx III. 4.
uon OF the institution /; just AS each individual
Is responsible for that Of his own school.
III. Each faculty shall examine candidates
ior degrees IN its own department, privately,
ana apart from the other professors, in the
'rs' instance Ii the merit of candidate is
unanimously approved by the faculty, a sec
oho examination shall be held before a uuo-
rum OF the senatns academicus, at which ex-
:",nao'on visitors may be present. If a ma
Jor'ty OF two thirds Of the senatus academicus
consent, the degree shall be conferred at a
public commencement.
~. Each session Of the University shall
commence in the first week of November. and
e"a'' terminate In the last week Of April in
every year: but the medical schools shall NOT
remain open after the first day of March
some deviation from this rule viii be required
ior particular courses. Botany, for instance,
u.
ana June. Long sessions of Universities have
been found Unnecessarily expensive 10 str.
dents, and otherwise productive of much in
convenience. The term proposed above is
exactly that Of the University of Edinburg.
except that some of the medical schools Of
that celebrated institution are kept open for
h'e I'D ohths. One advantage of short sessions,
10 tpe pubic, is, that scientific acquisitions ar.
placed more within the reach Of Young men
vi narrow circumstances. In the winter of
1880 there were two thousand and one
students attending the courses of the Uniyer-
sty of Edinburgh; while there were six hun
dred youths engaged in the rudiments Of lit
| erature and Mathematics, under the usual
school discipline, IN the high school of that
c''y:. In the University of Aberdeen, where
medicine Is not taught, the annual session
continues only five months. "From the ses-
sion being SO short, and living not very high.
nnmbers IN Scotland take the benefit of a
classical education at this Univers,,y.n Tn.
number of the students that attend both ol
| HE Colleges of Aberdeen, in each session
| averages three hundred In William and Ma.
~ college there is good experience of the
folly OF long sessions. The professors in some
branches find il difficult to fill up the time If
any useful manner, without introducing IN,
great acomplicatiOn of subjects for one course
The students becoming weary and indolent
very few are inclined, and many do not fine
:" convenient, to remain to the close of thu
| session, which lasts eight months. They be-
g'e to Withdraw in April, and commonly no
o"e-iouTth OF the whole number remains tt
the end.
1t is said that DR.. johnson, no great love,
VI ocott'sh things, greatly preferred the pIar
OF giving continued courses of instruction fo
I'VE or SIX months in each year, 10 the Eng
l'sh method Of occupying the whole wear will
several short sessions and as many long yaca
tions. In the Universities of England priyat.
assistance gwen by tutor to the student. il
ms reading, constitutes principal part of tn,
plan OF instruction. Ii is material TO rpmart
That IN each of the last ten years, except an,
IN which some profess0rships were vacan,
more science has been demonstrated IN ,b,
small classes of William and Mary Collen. II
Virginia, than is usually demonstrated dnr;n,
the year, in all the twenty colleges of Oxford
taken together.
20. Students shall be permitted to attend
any OF the schools they please: but none shall
be allowed to enter under the age of seven
teen, unless they can give evidence of due
preparation. tn the professor whose Iectur,
they may desire to attend. Above that ag,
there shall be no restriction. In the medic,
and law schools the neglect of regular atten
dance on the lectures, shall not be a subject n
an academic enquiry. Students in tbes
branches are generally Of mature age; and i
the strong motive of acquiring a profession
should moi produce sufficient diligence, n,
good can be expected TO result from coerc;ou
Perhaps regular attendance at lecture shonl,
be required in several Of the other schools.
FL. None Of the classes shall be subjects,
to examination or interrogation by the oro
lessor at public lecture. This discipline il hes
left to the students themselves, who u,uall,
form associations for the purpose of mu,ua