tural science, of general literature, of law, and of medicine.
1. Department of the Arts and Sciences.—This department consists of three parts, the college, the academy or grammar schools, and the charity schools.
The college is under the immediate government of a faculty, composed of four professors and a tutor, to whom, beside the business of instruction, are committed the duties of administering the general discipline of the seminary, and of representing to the trustees, in semi-annual reports, the exact condition both of the collegiate and academical classes.[1]
- ↑ Some alterations have been made in the arrangement of the faculty of arts since the year 1827. The four professorships remain as before; but an assistant professorship has been added. The office of tutor, referred to in the text, was also made an assistant professorship, which has, however, been recently abolished. In 1827, when this memoir was written, the members of the faculty were Rev. Frederick Beasley, D. D., provost and professor of natural philosophy; Robert M. Patterson, M. vice-provost and professor of natural philosophy; James G. Thompson, professor of languages; and Garret Van Gelder, tutor. The professorship of mathematics, which was then vacant, was soon afterwards supplied by the election of Robert Adrain, LL. D. It is well known that, since the period above mentioned, great changes have taken place in the faculty, so that not one of those who then occupied chairs is now connected with the institution. The faculty of arts at present consists of the following members:—
- Rev. William H. De Lancey, D. D., acting Professor of Moral Philosophy, and acting Provost of the University;
- Robert Adrain, LL. D., Professor of Mathematics and Vice-provost of the University;
- Rev. Samuel B. Wylie, D. D., Professor of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Languages;
- Alexander Dallas Bache, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry;
- Henry Reed, Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy.
him that it has not degenerated. We may, indeed, be proud as Philadelphians, that our city has been able to afford so many distinguished names as are to be found in the catalogue of those who have at different times directed the affairs of the college and university. The office of treasurer and secretary is now occupied by James C. Biddle, who succeeded Joseph Reed, late recorder of the city.—January, 1834.
