IN SCHOLARIBUS ADMITTENDIS.

1. Præbebis omnimodam debitam reverentiam honorandis magistratibus ac rev erendis Presbyteris et Præsidi Collegii unà cum Sociis singulis.

2. Debitam diligentiam studiis incumbendo adhibebis, studiis inquam lingua rum et artium liberalium, obsequendo tutori tuo et salutaribus ejus præceptis, quamdiu in statu pupillari versatus fueris in hoc Collegio.

3. Religiosè in te suscipies curam, dum hic commoraberis, observandi singulas salutares leges, statuta, et privilegia hujus societatis quantum in te situm est; atque etiam, ut observentur ab omnibus hujus Collegii membris in singulo uniuscujusque munere, fideliter curabis.

4. Sedulò prospicies nequid detrimenti Collegium capiat, quantum in te situm est, sive in ejus sumptibus, sive in ædificio et structurâ, fundis, proventibus, cæterisque omnibus, quæ nunc ad Collegium pertinent, aut, dum hic egeris, pertinere possunt.

Quod ad nos, Præsidem et Socios scilicet, spectat, pollicemur nos tibi non defuturos quibuscunque uostrâ intererit; imo verò in studiis tuis et pietate progressum, quantum in nobis fuerit, promovebimus.

SOCIIS ADMITTENDIS.

1. Præbebis omnimodam debitam reverentiam honorandis magistratibus ac reverendis Presbyteris et Præsidi, Collegii Inspectoribus.

2. Religiosè in te suscipies curam, dum hic commoraberis, observandi singulas salutares leges, statuta, et privilegia hujus societatis, quantum in te situm est, atque etiam, ut observentur ab omnibus hujus Collegii membris in singulo uniuscujusque munere.

3. Omnes et singulos studentes, qui tutelæ tuæ committuntur aut in posterum committendi sunt, ut promoveas in omni tam divinâ quam humanâ literaturâ, pro suo cujusque captu, atque, ut moribus honestè et inculpatè se gerant, summopere curabis.

4. Sedulo prospicies, nequid detrimenti Collegium capiat, quantum in te situm est, sive in ejus sumptibus, sive in ædificio et structurâ, fundis, proventibus, cæterisque omnibus, quæ nunc ad Collegium pertinent, aut, dum hic egeris, pertinere possint.

Quod etiam ad nos (Collegii Inspectores) spectat, pollicemur nos non tibi defuturos esse, quibuscunque tuâ intererit; imo verò te confirmabimus authoritate ac potestate nostrâ in omnibus tuis legitimis administrationibus, contra quoscunque contumaces. Et pro Collegii facultatibus erogabimus tibi idonea stipendia (i. e. pro modulo nostro), quæ sufficiant ad victum et amictum et literaturam tuam promovendam.

PRESENTATIO BACCALAUREORUM.

Honorandi viri, vosque, reverendi Presbyteri, præsento vobis hosce juvenes, quos scio tam doctrinâ quam moribus idoneos esse ad primum in artibus gradum suscipiendum pro more Academiarum in Angliâ.

ADMISSIO.

Admitto te ad primum gradum in artibus, scil. ad respondendum quæstioni pro more Academiarum in Angliâ, tibique trado hunc librum unà cum potestate publicè prælegendi (in aliquâ artium, quam profiteris) quotiescunque ad hoc munus evocatus fueris.

PRÆSENTATIO MAGISTRORUM.

Honorandi viri, vosque, reverendi Presbyteri, præsento vobis hosce viros, quos scio tam doctrinâ quam moribus esse idoneos ad incipiendum in artibus pro more Academiarum in Angliâ.

ADMISSIO INCEPTORUM.

Admitto te ad secundum gradum in artibus pro more Academiarum in Anglia; tibique trado hunc librum unà cum potestate publicè profitendi, ubicunque ad hoc munus publicè evocatus fueris.

FORMULA PUBLICE CONFESSIONIS.

Ego, S. W., qui à cultu divino in aulâ Collegii tam matutino quam vespertino toties per aliquot menses abfui (in quâ absentâ monitis et aliis in me animadversionum gradibus non obstantibus hactenus perstiti), nunc culpam meam agnosco, et publicæ agnitionis hoc testimonio me reum profiteor, et majorem in his exercitiis pietatis diligentiam in posterum (Deo volente), dum hic egero, polliceor.

CERTIFICATE FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE.

Per integrum biennium quo apud nos pupillari statu commoratus est A. B., Collegii Harvardini Cantabrigiæ in Nov-Angliâ alumnus, publicas lectiones tam philologicas quam philosophicas audivit, necnon declamationibus, disputationibus, cæterisque exercitiis, pro sui temporis ratione adeò incubuit, ut nobis certam spem fecerit illum suis coætaneis etiam in aliis collegiis (si admissus fuerit) non disparem fore. Quapropter hoc de illo testimonium omnibus, quorum interesse possit, perhibemus nos, quorum nomina subscripta sunt.

Datum.

CERTIFICATE FOR A BACHELOR OF ARTS.

Per integrum illud tempus quo apud nos commoratus est C. D. Collegii Harvardini Cantabrigiæ in Nov-Anglia alumnus, et in artibus liberalibus Baccalaureus, bonarum literarum studiis vitæ probitatem adjunxit; adeò ut nobis spem amplam fecerit se in Ecclesiæ et Reipublicæ commodum victurum. Quapropter hoc de illo testimonium omnibus, quorum interesse possit, perhibemus nos, quorum nomina subscripta sunt.

Datum.

CERTIFICATE FOR A MASTER OF ARTS.

Per integrum illud tempus quo apud nos commoratus est E. F., Collegii Harvardini Cantabrigiæ in Nov-Angliâ alumnus, et in artibus liberalibus Magister, bonarum literarum studiis sedulò incubuit, sinceram veræ fidei professionem inculpatis suæ vitæ moribus exornavit, adeò ut nobis certam et amplam spem fecerit se in Ecclesiæ et Reipublicæ commodum victurum. Quapropter hoc de illo testimonium omnibus, quorum interesse possit, perhibemus nos, quorum nomina subscripta sunt.

Datum.

BACCALAUREORUM PRÆSENTATIO.

Supplicat Reverentiis vestris A. B., ut quadriennium ab admissione completum, quo ordinarias lectiones audiverit unà cum disputationibus, declamationibus, cæterisque exercitiis per statuta Col. requisitis (licet non omnino secumdum formam statuti), sufficiat ei ad primum gradum in artibus suscipiendum.

MAG. PRESENTATIO IN ANGL.

Supplicat Reverentiis vestris N. N., ut novem termini completi post finalem ejus determinationem, in quibus ordinarias lectiones audiverit (licet non omnino secundum formam statuti) unà cum omnibus oppositionibus, responsionibus, declamationibus, cæterisque exercitiis per statuta regia requisitis, sufficiant ei ad incipiendum in artibus.

VII. SCHOOL OF MINES

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FREYBERG, SAXONY.

THIS celebrated school is one of the richest mining districts of Saxony, and the proximity of the mines permits an easy combination of practice with theory. Its first object is to furnish educated young men for the corps of mines of the kingdom, but it also admits strangers to its courses at a trifling expense for their instruction, the pupils boarding in the town.

General government. The school of mines is under the immediate government of the directory of mines (oberbergamt,) and is thus a branch of the ministry of finance. The professors form a board for the execution of the general regulations, and one of them is specially charged by the directory with the superintendence of the instruction of discipline.

Admission. Applications for free admission to the institution are made to the directory of mines, and must be accompanied by certificates that the applicant is between sixteen and twenty-three years of age, is of good moral character, in sound health, writes German correctly, and understands the grammar of the language; has made some proficiency in geography and history, can read easy Latin authors, is acquainted with arithmetic, the elements of geometry, and has made a beginning in drawing. If he understands the French or English language, it is a recommendation. The testimonials must be handed between the months of January and June, and the directory decide which of the applicants may present themselves for examination before the professors of the school. Those found qualified in all the courses enter, and others may, in particular cases, be allowed to join the classes, undergoing subsequently an examination in the studies in which they were defective. According to an edict of the German diet, in regard to the attendance of foreigners upon the scholastic institutions of any of the German states, strangers must apply to the minister of finance for permission to attend the school and present a testimonial of character and proficiency, and the written expression of their parents' wish that they should attend the school. Admission is, however, freely granted. Those pupils who are in part, or entirely, supported by the goverment, are divided into two classes. The first division includes the regular students, called beneficiaries (beneficianteu,) who pass through a course of four years at the school, and become candidates for the corps of mines; the other is composed of those who enter for places not requiring more than one or two years of study, or who have passed a superior examination for admission, but can not enter as regular students, in consequence of the want of a vacancy in the corps. Besides these there are two other divisions, namely, Saxons, who pay their own expenses at the school, and foreigners. These different divisions are distinguished by characteristic differences in the uniform which they wear. The gratuitously educated students come under an obligation at entering, in event of leaving the service of the government, to refund the pay which they may have received, and to pay the cost of their tuition. The regular pupils receive a pay proportioned in general to the length of time which they have been in the school. The first class receives from twenty-two to thirty dollars per annum; the second, from fifteen to twenty-two; the third, from seven to fifteen. The fourth class receive only the compensation to which they may be entitled for their work in the mines.

Instruction. The courses of instruction are divided into those which are to be pursued by all the pupils, or general, and those which depend upon the branch to which they intend devoting themselves, or special. The first consist of elementary, higher, and applied or mixed mathematics, mechanics and the machinery of mines, general, analytical, and special or technical chemistry, physics, drawing, general and topographical, of shades, shadows, and perspective, and of mining implements, of mining and metallurgic machines and constructions, oryctognosy (mineralogy,)

geognosy (geology,) crystallography the art of mining, metallurgy, civil engineering, mining jurisprudence and correspondence, the French language. The second or special courses consist of the surveying of mines and land surveying, the keeping of books, registers, &c., of fossil geology, for those who are intended as miners, and of the examination of minerals, and analytical chemistry, with special reference to the ores of Saxony, for those who are to serve at the furnaces.

These courses are pursued by the regular students according to the following plan:-The first year is devoted to elementary mathematics, to physics, to geognosy, to general and topographical drawing, to French, and to general practical operations of mining and metallurgy. All these pupils are allowed at certain times to be present in the mines and at the furnaces, under the charge of miners and smeltors, who act as instructors, and who report at the end of the year upon the character of their pupils.

During the second year the courses pursued are-higher mathematics, general chemistry, mineralogy, with practical exercises, crystallography, the art of mining,, civil engineering, drawing, French, practical mining, and geological exercises.

After this year the student determines whether he will devote himself to mining or metallurgy, and receives special instruction accordingly.

The general courses of the third year are-applied mathematics, the art of mining, analytical chemistry, metallurgy, technical chemistry, drawing, practical exercises in mining and metallurgy, geology, with practical exercises, and fossil geology.

The courses of the fourth year are-machinery of mines, theory and practice, mining jurisprudence, examination of minerals, analytical chemistry, and practical exercises of mining and metallurgy. During this year, the pupils who intend devoting themselves specially to mining attend solely to practice in that branch, and thus also with the metallurgists. The particular operation in which they engage is regulated by the lectures, that the practice of each operation may be acquired at the same time with its theory.

In relation to the amount of study to be pursued, the government pupils are divided into three classes, those who aim at entire qualification for the corps, and, who, on graduating at the school, go to the university for one year, and those who intend to connect themselves with the department of metallurgy.

Among the apparatus for carrying out these courses is an admirable collection of models of machines and of mines. The collection of minerals and geological specimens is large, and besides that of the school, the students have the use of the cabinet of the celebrated Werner, which is kept detached from the other as a memorial of that great man. The library and reading-room, the collection of physical and chemical apparatus, and the arrangements for the study of analytical chemistry, and the assay of minerals and ores, are all suitable to their several objects. The course of assaying with the blow-pipe has become quite celebrated.

The lectures are continued from October to July, with holidays of from one to two weeks at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide. During the summer vacations, the regular pupils make excursions into the other mining districts of Saxony, and even into foreign countries, for their improvement in mining, geology, &c., and are expected to keep a journal of their tours. The short vacations are employed at the school in practical exercises and in literary compositions, unless leave of absence is obtained. There is also one day of each week on which there are no lessons, (Monday,) to allow the pupils to take part both in the mining and smelting operations of the district of Freyberg.

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There are eight professors and five teachers attached to the school, whom the different departments are divided according to the following plan, in which the number of lectures per week is also noted :-One professor has charge of the three departments of general and technical chemistry and of metallurgy, lecturing on the first, five hours; on the second, three hours; and on the third, three hours. The professor of theoretical and practical mineralogy lectures on the theory for students of the first and second courses, each three times a week; gives a repetition of one hour, and practical exercises two hours per week. The professor of geology and crystallography lectures on the first, five hours, and on the second, two hours per week. The professor of physics and fossil geology lectures on the first, four hours, and on the second, two hours per week. The professor