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Sixth. As to the Boys' Charity School, we think many of them are taken in too young, and many of them kept too long, and also that their Number has exceeded the original Intention, and many Persons, who are not entitled to charity, send their children to that School ; all of which we are of opinion should be regulated. The beginnings were now made to sever the College from the Charity Schools, which latter had been so popular a feature of the institution at its inception. But at the next meeting, on 9 October, Messrs. Coxe and Strettell reported : they had perused the Minutes and consulted some of the Members concerned in the original plan of this Institution and are of opinion that it was part of the said plan to educate thirty poor girls besides having a school for poor boys, [and the Trustees agreed] that the Girls' school should be continued & limited to that Number and that no girls be admitted into it for the future otherwise than by a special order of the Trustees at their usual meetings. But it is judged convenient to remove the Girls' School as soon as possible to a proper Distance from the College . But the Charity Schools could only be maintained by the public generosity ; Mr. Whitefield's sermon in the previous October, which drew a handsome sum, was supplemented on 10 April following by the performance in the College Hall of a solemn Entertainment of Music, under the Direction of Mr Bremner, interspersed with Orations by some of the young Students. The whole was conducted with great Order and Decorum, to the satisfaction of a polite and numerous audience ; by which near one Hundred and Thirty Pounds was raised for the Benefit of the Charity Schools belonging to the said College. 1 The Trustees agreed to the committee's recommendations relative to the CEconomy and Management of the New Build- ings, subject to such Amendments and Regulations as future Circumstances might render necessary, and they appointed Mr, Ebenezer Kinnersley, Steward. Apublic announcementof the readiness of the Buildings for oc- cupants, for the waiting scholars were not at once attracted to them r was made in the Pennsylvania Gazette of 3 1 January, following : College of Philadelphia January 31, 1765 It having been represented some years ago, to the Trustees of the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia, that many per- sons, at a Distance from the City, would more willingly send their Children. ^Pennsylvania Gazette, 1 8 April, 1765.