Chapter V

Summary

The further progress of the Academy, and the arrangements as to the Professors and system of instruction is clearly shewn in the following letter from the Superintendent:–

MR. MILES TO LORD BURGHERSH.

“May 30.

“My Lord,

“I ought to apologize for having so long delayed to write to your Lordship; but I thought it most advisable not to write, not only till the admission of such extra students as were to board and lodge in the establishment, but till all the professors which would be necessary for both classes of pupils were in attendance, when I should be able to furnish your Lordship with a more minute account of the various arrangements, and of the mode in which the business in general goes on in the Institution. I believe our secretary has already laid before you the number and names both of the extra students and those on the foundation [see pages 40 and 44], so that it will not be necessary for me to forward another list. I enclose the names of the professors now employed in my department of the academy, and which are all that the present number of boys will require; and your Lordship will perceive, from the division of time, the hours each professor attends, and it will be requisite for me only to state the number of boys that are placed respectively under each professor.