APPENDIX. REGULATIONS RELATING TO ADMISSION. No Student shall be admitted before the completion of his fifteenth year. There shall be an Examination, on the Friday nearest to the first of October, of all Students entering with a view to graduation in the University of London; on which occasion they shall be required to produce Certificates of moral and orderly conduct from their previous Teachers. They shall be examined in the following subjects: Classics.-Two books of Xenophon. Two books of Virgil. One book of the Odes of Horace. Cicero's Treatises de Senectute and de Amicitiâ. Outlines of English History and General Geography.To questions on these subjects, the Students shall be required to give written answers in clear and correct English. Mathematics.-The ordinary Rules of Arithmetic. Vulgar and Decimal Fractions. Extraction of the Square Root. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Algebraical Quantities. Arithmetical and Geometrical Progression. Simple Equations. The First Book of Euclid. This Examination shall be conducted by the Professors of Classics and Mathematics, in the presence of the other Professors. CLASSIFICATION OF STUDENTS. Students shall be divided into Two Classes: 1. Those who submit themselves to the whole of the regular course of Study, laid down for such as intend to graduate in the University of London : 2.-Those who attend only some particular classes, and who may be examined or not, as they choose. No Student shall be admitted into the first of these Classes, until he has complied with the preliminary examination; but Students may be admitted into the second class at any period of the Session, on paying the required fees. COURSE OF STUDY. The Classes of the First Year will be occupied in preparing for matriculation at the University of London; those of the Second and Third Years, in preparing for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Undergraduates, who are aiming to matriculate with Honours, may enter the classes of the second or third year. There will, also, be Special Classes for more advanced Students, who are aiming at the higher honours of the London Degrees. Prizes will be awarded at the close of each Session to those Students who distinguish themselves the most in each branch of study. EXAMINATIONS, &c. There shall be two Public Examinations, one in the middle of the Session; and the other at the close, in the last week of June. The Vacation shall extend from the last week in June to the first week in October. There shall also be a recess of one week at Christmas. FEES. For the entire Course................ £25 0 0 per Session. History of Literature...... Or the whole................£5 5 0 per Session. 5. Mental and Moral Philosophy. Mental Philosophy Moral and Political Philosophy........... Or the whole....£5 5 0 per Session. 2 2 " The Fees for Special Classes will be the subject of future arrangement. Further particulars may be learned on application to the following Members of the Committee: SAMUEL ROBINSON, Esq., Dukinfield. J. ASPINALL TURNER, Esq., Cross Street, Manchester. ROBERT WORTHINGTON, Esq., 8 Princess Street, Manchester. JAMES HEYWOOD, Esq., Acresfield, near Manchester. · Or the Secretaries : Rev. WILLIAM GASKELL, M.A., Dover Street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock. T. Forrest, Printer, Manchester. INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSES (Eng) DELIVERED IN MANCHESTER NEW COLLEGE, AT THE OPENING OF THE SESSION OF 1840. 1. CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL THEOLOGY.-REV. R. WALLACE. 2. PASTORAL THEOLOGY, AND THE HEBREW, CHALDEE, AND SYRIAC LANGUAGES.-REV. J. G. ROBBERDS. 3. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.-REV. J. J. TAYLER, B. A. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT; AND J. GREEN, NEWGATE STREET. PREFACE. The circumstances in which Manchester New College originated, as well as those which have attended and marked its progress, are detailed, in the first of the three following Lectures, with a sufficient degree of minuteness, to enable the reader to judge of the importance of the objects contemplated in its institution, and of the results which it has accomplished, during a period of more than half a century. Those objects were, to provide a complete and systematic course of studies for the sacred ministry amongst Dissenters, and a course of liberal education for young men destined for the learned professions, and for commercial and civil life. Experience has shewn, that these objects are not incompatible; but it is to the former that the attention of the public is, in this address, more particularly called. To the Christian divine a charge is entrusted, involving interests of unspeakable magnitude and importance; and qualifications of the highest order are requisite, for an efficient performance of its duties. The demand for a higher standard of theological attainments has risen with the increasing intelligence of the age; but much remains to be effected, if we would see our pulpits occupied by a class of men, fitted by education, as well as by talent, zeal and piety, to undertake the office of public religious instructers. One of the ends sought by the Trustees of the Manchester New College, in its reconstruction, has been to enlarge its means of usefulness in this respect, by ensuring to the young men, who are intended for the Christian Ministry, increased facilities for perfecting themselves in the several branches |