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and if required Conic sections- Projection of the Sphere & e
Nicholson's Nat. Philosophy & Ferguson's Astronomy.
The Geography & arithmetic will be composed of
10 students the Latin class of nearly as many &
there will be five or six in Greek_ The tutors each
attend to near 30 scholars, so that the whole number
will be about 100- I have not been very parti=
cular, or accurate in some of the statements of
the classes because it is now vacation & the
young gentlemen when they meet, will commence
their studies in new classes_ We imitate [Napace=Hale?]
in the conduct of our affairs as much as much as the our
circumstances will admit_ The Professor^ship of mathe=
matics & natural Philosophy will not be more
burdensome nor laborious at this place than at
Princeton_ I have been at the University since
the first commencement of business & determined to
devote to myself during my stay, entirely to its in=
terests_ For this reason I have always been employed