July, 1763, two months after his graduation, admitted a Tutor in the Latin School. But the following May found him acquainting the Trustees that " his affairs require him to leave their service." He was succeeded by John Andrews, of the Senior Class, who in later years became the head of the institution; he, in turn, applied to the Trustees in July, 1765, "and obtained leave to remove to take charge of a school at Lancaster." Dungan, his classmate, a tutor in the English school, succeeded him in the Latin School. Robert Eaton, recommended by " Mr. Powell the Master of the School at Burlington whom he had served as a Latin assistant," was chosen in February, 1764, in the place made vacant by Lang. Mr. Peters had examined this young man and reported that " he had but in part examined him as to his Learning and Ability to teach which were not extraordinary, yet it appeared to him that he had the fundamentals of the Languages and a good improveable Capacity."
But in the following August he was relieved, " they having no farther occasion for his services.[1] We find a Mr. Anderson Tutor in the Latin School, but his place was filled in June, 1766, by Thomas Read of the class of that year. John Montgomery, of the class of 1766, became the following year Tutor in the Latin School.
The Mathematical School since the death of Mr. Grew in 1759 had been but inefficiently mastered. In March, 1760, Dr. Peters
acquainted the Trustees that he had examined the Mathematical School in which there are twenty Boys who belong to that school and no other; and besides these he found Numbers of Boys from the Latin and English Schools who came there to be taught to write, that he thinks the Business being too much for Mr Pratt to go thro', the Boys cannot be sufficiently instructed, and desires the Trustees will think of giving him some assistant. On the endorsement of the Provost, Samuel Campbell, an Usher in the Charity School since August, 1759, "who wrote a very good hand," was appointed, " he teaching the Boys to write one hour and an half in the Latin School and the same
- ↑ Minutes 13 March, 21 August, 1764.
