Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-09-15
COMMUNICATIONS.

| COMMUNICATIONS
me principal object of the meeting of the Visitors
of William and Mary College on the 10th of Octobc,
next is to appoint President and Professor of Moral
Philosophy For the information of those who MAJ
DC "i.hng 10 receive an appointment in the College,
and o others who may be disposed communicate any
information that tend TO aid the Board in selecting
ut persons for the Offices that it may be necessary 10
hil 1t IS deemed proper To stae-hat the saar, of the
fresident is 500 per annum, payable quarterly in
advance, and that excellent house, calculated for
the accommodation of large family is furnished him.
with an extensive garden cultivated at the College
expense:-that the President convenes the Faculty
and always presdes at the Board carries on all The
correspondence of the College, and performs MANY
olher duties, none of which however are difficult or
ourthensome:-that the Professor Of Moral PHILOSOPHY
Is entitled 10 salary of $3.50, payable aforesaid
ana 10 fee OF $50 for every student that attends either
O' MS Two classes, to of which he lectures every
day;-hat The ProfessorshiP of Moral Philosophy al
present embraces the following sciences, to vii: the
Phosophy OF grammar rhetoric, bellies ettres log c
metaphysics natural and national law, poIiticks
ana political oconomy:-tlat from 1883, with the ex
CeP'h OF lew years immediately after the death of
the hight Rev. Bishop Madison who long presided
over te College, the offices of President and Profess
soi ol "orai philosophy were bestowed the same
person. uiat out few students other than those who
attend the Law Lectures fail enter the Moral school
anu every year some OF the Law students become
inenoers OF The senior Moral cla.s:-at has been
suggested rs probable that the Convention may deem
II eHpedcnt to establish PIocssorship of Political
Law, assign TO that chair of the SUBJECTS now
embraced by the Professorship OF Moral Philosophy
~
onconomy, limit the salary of the Professor of Moral
Philosophy TO $500 appoint the President to be elected
professor OF Moral Philosophy, fix the salary of the
Professor of Political Law at $3.50 allow TO each |
Professor fee of $50 for every student that may at
TEND him, and require of each TO lecture at eas,
thtee tunes week:-and that the College as to the
higher schools, opens the 3Oth October, when the
Lectures are TO cominence, and closes on the 18th July
Ii gentlemen willing to accept either or both the
Offices now vacant either of the situations under
me suggested arrangement (f adoptcd,l would make
known their views to the Rector either of the Vi.
sitors to be laid before the Convocaon and forward
any testimonials of their fitness for the situation de.
sired, t they should deem il exped lent do SOL il
is confidently believed that the course would be an
proved entirely, and that would enable the Board o
ill the Offices to which they may have 10 appoint with
greater abstraction, and in TO promote more
the interests OF the Institution and the
cause of science and humanity
williamsburg, Sept. 8, 1926.
The Grammar School opens tie Isl October, and
closes on the last day OF July following.