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NYGWPB.745.006
18 Mar 1745:12 (113)
A Letter from a Gentleman in Connecticut, to his Friend at
New York . . . I could wish a College established in any
other Colony; and to prevent persecution of any kind from
entering into it, a student should be what religion he
thought best, provided it was not such a one whose principal
foundation would be the destruction of the civil power; let
the clergy (if it would be proper to admit any in the
College) be under the direction of lay managers; because
priests of all kinds, persecute with the greatest rigour all
those that differ from them; there should be particular
masters for all the liberal arts and sciences; every
student should have the liberty, if he thought proper, to be
taught musick, dancing and fencing, for which there should
be proper masters in the town where the College is erected:
I would have men made not only wiser but better; . . .
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