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" was well recommended for a good French Master." Later, we find in the Minutes of 8 January, 1763, The Rev Mr Rothenbuller, Minister of the Calvinist Church in this city having been desired by some of the scholars to teach them the French Language, applied for Liberty to make use of one of the Rooms of the Academy for that Purpose, which was granted him, so as he did not interfere with any of the School hours. And on 20 May, 1766, Dr Smith records : Mr Paul Fook was chosen Professor of the French and Spanish Tongues in this College, by the vote of fourteen Trustees, immediately after the Commencement. The Provost's division of the studies in the Academy and the College he defines for us in his curriculum of 1754. The former embraced the professorship " of English and Oratory with one Assistant and a Writing Master," and the professorship of Mathematics. The College embraced the three Philosophy Schools under the Provost and Vice Provost, and the Latin and Greek School under the " Professor of Languages, three Tutors, a Writing Master, &c." In the course of the twelve years following this, these proper divisions may not have been fully conformed to, the Provost being twice absent in England. Dr. Ewing taking the Provost's lectures in his second absence as he did in the first, brought him to a larger acquaintance with the pupils and the institution, and in the Professorship of Natural Philosophy, which he was given in February, 1762, he continued fifteen years, as his assistance to the College classes had been made necessary by his merits of learning and teaching. The maintenance of the schools in the Academy was essential to a supply of proper material for the classes in the College ; the former were more closely under the concern of the Trustees, the latter were under the supervision of Smith, Alison and Ewing. To sustain the College life, that of the Academy must be nurtured in order to supply a trained constituency for the former. There were no schools in the city or neighborhood who contributed any boy to the College lectures ; those schools who furnished such were in the adjoining counties or in Mary- land ; hence the importance, indeed the necessity, of furnishing